Nick Trost (Nicholas Kenneth Trost)

Nick Trost's Subtle Card Creations Vol.6

H&R Magic Books (2017)

Hardcover with Dustcover

USA | eng

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Genre

Conjuring

Subject

Magic tricks

Plot

Trost, Nick; Charles Randall: Subtle Card Creations Volume 6
©2017, Charlie Randall, H&R Magic Books
Hardcover, w/dj, 237 pages

Comments: "This is the sixth volume in this series of easy-to-do, subtle card effects from master card creator Nick Trost. As in the rest of the books in this series, the card magic is based on subtle moves and principles rather than difficult sleight of hand."

Contents (From book ToC):

xiii Foreword
xv Introduction to Volume 6

1351 59 Unique Card Effects
1351 Blackjack to Poker
1353 From Cribbage to Poker
1354 The Jacks Come Back
1357 The Ambitious Five

1361 60 Amazing Coincidences
1361 Double Match
1362 A Cutting Discovery
1364 Triple Match-Up
1365 Figure Seven
1367 Matching Card Routine

1371 61 Court Card Capers
1371 King-Queen Routine
1374 Very Happy Couples
1375 A Family Combination
1376 Another Family Combination
1380 Matching Families
1381 Free-Cut Marriages Revisited
1383 Royal Roundup Revisited

1385 62 Blackjack Bafflers
1385 Gemini Twins Blackjacks
1387 Two Perfect Blackjacks
1388 Instant Blackjacks
1389 Quadruple Blackjack
1391 Fair Cuts Blackjack
1393 Countdown to Blackjacks
1394 Pontoon in Purgatory Repeated

1397 63 Poker Puzzlers
1397 Texas Hold’em Poker Deal
1400 First Draw Revisited
1402 Ten Card Poker with Gilbreath
1404 Brag-Pokcr Deal
1405 The Curse of Scotland
1406 Pseudo-CATO Poker Deal
1408 A Poker Routine
1411 Pat-Hand Poker Deal

1415 64 The Four Aces
1415 Curious Aces
1417 The Magnetic Aces—Another Version
1418 Ken Beale’s Cards and Dice

1421 65 Diabolical Divinations
1421 Addition to Scarne’s $1000 Card Trick
1422 Under the Table—Trost Version
1424 Second Version
1425 Another Red-Black Routine
1427 ESP + Math and Suit Discernment

1431 66 Gambling Tricks
1431 The Devil’s Elevator—Revisited
1433 Three Jacks Routine
1434 Remote Control Euchre
1435 The Casino Deal
1439 The Cribbage Deal
1443 Gin Hand
1444 Trost’s Blackjack-Poker Routine
1447 Poker-Gin
1448 Five-Handed Exchange Rummy
1451 Gilbreath Rides Again1

1455 67 Revealments
1455 Mathematical Location
1457 Down and Under Lie Detector
1459 The Oracle Lie Speller
1461 Do You Play Poker?
1463 Clubs Arc Forever
1464 Clubbed Again
1466 The Eliminator Revisited

1470 68 Gilbreath Plays Poker - Part 3
1470 The Dead Man’s Hand
1471 All-Fair Flip-Flop Flush
1472 Blackjack Version
1473 Deuce Flush
1475 Cutting to a Flush
1477 Luck vs Skill
1478 CATO Flush
1480 Hot Flush Revisited
1481 The Sleeve Holdout
1483 The Cincinnati Kid Poker Deal
1484 Cheating the Cheat
1486 Bottom Deal Gilbreath
1487 Gilbreath Meets Subconscious Poker
1489 Gilbreath Meets Subconscious Poker Again
1492 Foursome Poker
1494 Poker and Rummy Routine
1496 Do As I Do Blackjack and Poker III
1498 Do As I Do Blackjack and Poker IV
1501 Do As I Do Blackjack and Poker V
1503 Double Duke Bottom Deal
1505 Doc Holliday Poker Deal
1507 Four Pat Hands
1511 Three-Phase Poker Routine

1517 69 Pasteboard Predictions
1517 Predicting One of Seven
1518 Prediction Plus
1520 Hummer’s Royal Delight
1521 Predicting Color Pairs and Repeat
1523 Gilding the Lily
1525 Matrix Poker Revisited
1528 A Red-Black Routine

1534 70 Triple Dealing Effects
1534 Triple-Spelling Revelation
1536 The Black Queens Prediction
1536 Sevens Up!
1537 Triple Dealing the Aces
1538 The Fifth Card
1539 The Ambitious Duo
1541 Second Version
1542 All-Red Triple Deal
1543 The Seven (or Eight) of Diamonds Trick
1544 Triple Dealing a Straight Flush
1545 Second Version
1546 Triple Dealing Any Hand Called For
1548 More Elaborate Version
1549 Triple Dealing a Phone Number

1551 71 ESP Card Tests
1551 Carter’s ESP Fooler
1553 ESP Prediction and Coincidence
1554 ESP Double Prediction
1555 Another ESP Double Prediction
1557 ESP Spelldown
1558 Baffling ESP Discovery
1559 Five-Star Finale I
1561 Second Version
1561 Five-Star Finale II
1563 Five-Star Finale III
1564 Five-Star Finale IV
1565 The ESP Magic Thrust
1567 ESP Oracle
1568 ESP Parity Prophet
1569 An ESP Reading
1571 ESP Plot
1572 The Power of ESP
1574 ESP Dealflipdrop
1576 Five-Way Matching
1579 ESP Cards and Coins Routine
1586 Future Shock and ESP + Math
1587 Do As I Do ESP

Details

First Edition	Yes

Personal

Owner	Bryan-Keith Taylor
Location	Magic Library (Home)
Index	5560
Added Date	Feb 21, 2022 04:40:53
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