Nick Trost (Nicholas Kenneth Trost)

Nick Trost's Subtle Card Creations Vol. 8

H&R Magic Books (2020)

Hardcover with Dustcover

206 pages | USA | eng

Find sold listings on eBay

CLZ may be compensated
for purchases made

Genre

Conjuring

Subject

Magic tricks

Plot

Trost, Nick; Charlie Randall: Subtle Card Creations Volume 8
©2020 H&R Magic Books
Hardcover, w/dj, 206 pages

Comments:

Contents (From book ToC, page numbers continue in the series):

viii Foreword
xi Introduction to Volume 8

1799 83 Select Card Secrets
1799 Queens to Royal Flush
1801 Pinochle—Blackjack—Poker
1803 The Amazing Aces My Version
1805 Playing the Aces
1806 Four Some
1808 Climax for James’ Four Ace Assembly
1809 The Sympathetic Nines
1812 Another “Even Money”

1817 84 Coincidences
1817 Three-Told
1818 Three Matched Pairs
1819 Four-Way Coincidence
1821 Lost and Found Jacks
1823 Birth Year
1824 Black Jack Coincidence
1825 Lucky Sevens 1
1826 Lucky Sevens II
1827 Lucky Sevens III
1830 Lucky Sevens IV
1833 Deal-Flip-Drop Swindle

1835 85 Court Card Capers
1835 Unhappy Marriages
1837 “Splitup” — My Version
1839 Another Version of “Splitup”
1841 Court Card Combination

1845 86 Further Poker Puzzlers
1845 The Dead Man’s Hand Again
1846 Climax 10-Hand Poker Deal
1849 Do You Play Poker?
1850 Running Up a Straight
1852 LaGerould’s Poker Puzzler
1854 Poker in Purgatory
1856 Climax Ten-Card Poker Deal
1858 Alternate Phase Four

1859 87 Gambling Tricks
1859 Three Jacks Routine
1861 Euchre-Poker Deal
1862 Poker and Rummy Deal I
1864 Pseudo-CATO Rummy Deal
1865 Pseudo-CATO Gin Deal
1867 Another Six-Handed Exchange Rummy

1971 88 Divinations
1871 Scarne’s $1000 Card Trick - Another Idea
1872 Hummer Red-Black Combination
1876 Coordinated Colors

1881 89 Predictions
1881 Prediction and Phone Number
1882 Matrix Plus Paradox
1885 Catch-22

1889 90 Gilbreath Plays Poker - Part 5
1889 Cheater’s Delight
1890 Hot Flush—A New Version
1890 Sandwiched Straight Flush
1892 My Lucky Day
1894 Straight Flush
1986 Designated Wild Card
1897 Double Duck Poker
1898 Another Remote Control Poker
1900 Fair Cuts Straight Flush
1901 From Brag to Poker
1902 Filling a Straight Flush Again
1903 Twenty-Card Poker III
1905 Spectator’s Straight Flush
1907 Parity Straight Flush I
1908 Cutting to a Straight Flush I
1910 Cutting to a Straight Flush II
1912 You Do As I Do Straight Flush
1913 Mario Cuts to a Straight Flush
1915 Head-to-Head Straight Flush
1917 Wild Bill’s Crooked Dealing
1919 The Olram Poker Deal
1920 A Double-Duke Stack

1925 91 Still More Triple Dealing Effects
1925 Together at Last
1926 Triple Prediction
1927 The Nineteenth Card
1927 Joker Prediction
1928 ESP Triple Deal
1929 Mates
1930 The Two Black Jacks
1932 Triple Synchronicity
1933 Delayed Royal Flush
1935 Straight-Away Triple Deal
1937 ESP Double Revelation

1937 92 More ESP Tests
1937 Triple ESP Mystery
1939 Espitome Revisited
1942 ESP Ten-Card Brainwave
1943 ESP Magnetic Attraction
1944 ESP Shuffle-Bored
1947 ESP Oracull
1948 ESP Matchical Mix
1949 Succubi Revisited
1950 Double Coincidence by Design
1951 Self-Duplicating ESP Cards
1953 Aradia Revisited
1955 ESP 7-13

1957 93 Cards and Die-ceptions
1957 Three Dice and a Selected Card
1958 Jackpot Revisited
1959 Fate Doubled
1961 Fate with Dice and Cards
1963 - Straight Flush Version
1963 - ESP Card Version
1964 Dealing with Dice
1964 - Straight Flush Version
1966 Mathematical Straight Flush
1968 Dice Decider Straight Flush
1969 Destiny Dice
1971 The Odds Against—Revised
1973 Ken Beale’s Cards and Dice II
1975 Solomon’s Cards and Dice

1977 94 Still More Pinochle Puzzlers
1977 Face-to-Face Pinochle
1979 Revolving Euchre
1980 Symba Wonda Pinochle
1981 Poker Exchange

1983 95 More Miracles with Cards
1983 Moracle Straight Flush
1985 Guesstimation and a Royal Flush Kicker
1987 Calc-ulation
1988 Predicting the Draw

1993 Appendix
1993 Aronson Mark-A-Place
1995 Bottom Stock Control
1996 Diminishing Count
1998 Equalizer Shuffle
1999 G.W. Hunter Shuffle
2000 Gilbreath Principle
2001 LaGerould Countdown Force
2001 Ose Cut
2002 Simon Prophecy Move

Details

First Edition	Yes

Personal

Owner	Bryan-Keith Taylor
Location	Magic Library (Home)
Index	5556
Added Date	Feb 21, 2022 02:51:47
Modified Date	Apr 06, 2026 14:24:11

Value

Book Condition	Mint

Notes

Nick Trost (March 16, 1935 - October 23, 2008) was a prolific author of booklets and creator of packet card tricks.

Trost first became enthused about magic when he was seven or eight years old, after seeing a magic show staged by the members of IBM Ring 3 in Troy, Ohio. He then met Bob Lewis of Dayton, Ohio, who sparked his keen interest in card magic.

An alumnus of Ohio State University, he served as a private in the U.S. Army in 1957.

Trost wrote and edited a column on card magic in The New Tops from May 1961 until December 1994.

He had a Hocus Pocus Parade in Linking Ring, Vol. 34, No. 12 (February 1955) and received the award for Originality of a Card Effect at the IBM Convention in Pittsburgh, PA that same year.

Trost died of brain cancer after being diagnosed earlier in 2008.

Marketed Tricks
Nick's Expanding Cards (1952)
Card-O-Matic (1962)
Telespo (1963)
Half and Half (1964)
Challenge Poker Deal (1964)
Gambler's Dream (1964)
Abra-Card-Abra (1964)
Astrologic (1964)
Think of an Ace (1965)
X marks the Spot (1965)
Twisting the Ace (1966)
4 Flush! (1970)
Pizza Poker (1971)
Wild Deuce (1974)
The Deuce You Say! (1974)
Fool's Mate (1974)
Ace in the Hole (1974)
Showdown (1974)
Eight Card Brainwave (1974)
Fadeaway 4 (1974)
Jumbo Two-Way Split (1974)
Dealer's Choice (1975)
Australian Aces (1975)
Sixth-Thot (1975)
Mini-Maze (1976)
Un-Cards (1976)
Wacky Packet (1976)
Twisto Blanko (1976)
Road Runner (1976)
Double Cross (1976)
Half Wild (1977)
Horsin' Around (1978)
Bigfoot (1978)
Mississippi Monte (1979)
Oscar (1980)
Razzle-Dazzle (1981)
Fly Circus (1981)
Mexican Monte (1981)
Hockey-Poker (1981)
Blanko Wild Card (1981)
Pop-Eyed Poker (1981)
Super Split (1982)
Incredible! (1982)
Trick-Kards (1982)
Zenith Card Prediction (1983)
Rainbow Miracle (1984)
1-2-3-4 Trick (1986)
The Unknown Card (1987)
Marked Kards (1987)
Dream of the Hermit (1988)
Mississippi Poker (1989)
Quadraplex (1991)
Destiny Deck (1991)
Cardsecret No. 3 Hight-Card Poker (1992)
Blind-Sight (1992)
Super Showdown (1997)

Bibliography
Nick's Table Trix (1956)
Cardman's Secrets 1 & 2 (1964)
Nick's Quartet (1965)
E.S.P. Session with Nick Trost (1965)
Mental Card Miracles (1965)
Expert Gambling Tricks (1975)
Gambling Tricks with Cards I & II (1975)
Subtle Card Magic, Part One & Part Two (1976)
E.S.P. Card Magic, Folio No. 1 (1979)
Impromptu Card Magic, Folio No. 2 (1979)
Close-Up Mentalism, Folio No. 3 (1979)
Starke Effekte (German issue of Nick Trost Folios, 1995)
The Card Magic of Nick Trost (1997)
Nick Trost's Subtle Card Creations, Vol. 1 (2008)
Nick Trost's Subtle Card Creations, Vol. 2 (2009)
Nick Trost's Subtle Card Creations, Vol. 3 (2011)
Nick Trost's Subtle Card Creations, Vol. 4 (2013)

References
The Linking Ring, Vol. 34, No. 12, February 1955, Nick Trost by Don Tanner, page 21, THE NICK TROST HOCUS POCUS PARADE by Don Tanner, page 51
The Linking Ring, Vol. 37, No. 5, July 1957, Nick Trost Routines in Close-up, page 64
The Linking Ring, Vol. 45, No. 10, October 1965, Annemann Jinx Hocus Pocus Parade, NICK TROST, page 96
M-U-M, Vol. 97, No. 10, March 2008, Nick Trost by Jon Racherbaumer, page 60
The Linking Ring, Vol. 88, No. 12, December 2008, Broken Wand, Nicholas K. Trost, page 119