The Nikola Card System

A New Power For Magicians (1984 reprint used)

1927
Written by Louis Nikola
Work of Louis Nikola
72 pages (Stapled), published by The Supreme Magic Company
No illustrations
Language: English
36 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
Edwin Hooper Publisher's Foreword
4
Louis Nikola The Nikola Card System
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Louis Nikola Argument
  • History of memorized/stacked decks in magic
  • Basic description of some features of the Nikola system
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Louis Nikola Curriculum Detailed mnemonic system to help memorize the Nikola Stack, plus some basic analysis of the arrangement:
  • WHIST OR BRIDGE
  • SPELLING BEE
  • POKER
  • NAP
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Louis Nikola "Stop" Riffle, say stop anytime, magician can tell how many cards are riffled off
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Louis Nikola Cards By Weight Can tell number of cards in the packet by its weight
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Louis Nikola Weighing Chosen Cards Can divine chosen card by weighing its pips
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Louis Nikola The Sense of Touch Divine chosen card by touch alone
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Louis Nikola Human Magnetism Rising Card, make chosen card rise out of deck
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Louis Nikola Locating Card chosen and lost, magician divines card and position in deck after shuffles and cuts
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Louis Nikola Spelling spell to three different cards consecutively (named by magician)
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Louis Nikola To Spell Any Card Called For
VariationsAlso published here 30
Louis Nikola Thought Anticipated Any Card at Any Number
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Louis Nikola Unconscious Thought Transmission Random card chosen and sealed in envelope. Audience members name suit and value to form a card, which matches the card in the envelope
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Louis Nikola Wizard's Whist Four spectators each given four cards, each think of one card out of the four. Deck reshuffled and dealt into four bridge hands, magician can divine the selections
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Louis Nikola All Trumps Produce all thirteen hearts for a perfect Bridge hand, linked to Wizard's Whist
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Louis Nikola To Name The Pack In Order, Without Looking At It, Either From The Bottom or From The Top Deck shuffled halfway through
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Louis Nikola The Spelling Bee Ace to King spelled out from the top (Jack miscalled as King)
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Louis Nikola The Game of Poker Everyone gets good hands, you get Royal Flush in Hearts
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Louis Nikola The Game of "NAP"
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Louis Nikola To Name The Position Of Any Card Called For
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Louis Nikola To Name The Card Occupying Any Given Position
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Louis Nikola To Pick Out Any Card Called For Behind The Back
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Louis Nikola To Pick Out A Card Chosen And Replaced
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Louis Nikola To Produce Cards Called For From the Pocket
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Louis Nikola To Name The Bottom Cards Of A Number Of Heaps By Looking At The Top Cards
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Louis Nikola A Subtle Game Cards in four spectator's hands are slowly eliminated until only their selection remans in their hands
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Charlier The Charlier Shuffle
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The Overhand Shuffle
  • A. (top card retained by shuffling it to the bottom and back)
  • B. (top and bottom cards retained, starts with slip shuffle both times)
  • C. (bottom card retained with slip shuffle)
  • D. (running single cards for placements)
  • E. (jog shuffle to retain top stock)
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F. To retain the whole deck in order
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Riffling False riffle shuffle, in the hands and on the table
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Louis Nikola Forcing Anecdotes and comments on forcing cards
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Forcing By Numbers Spectator names any number, magician counts down to that number, card at that number is the forced card
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To Exchange Packs Methods to switch decks
  • Card clip
  • Done in context of a trick, behind the back
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Louis Nikola The Telepathogram Magician divines thought of card, and writing appears on paper that divines position of card in the deck
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Louis Nikola The Flight Card to Impossible Location At Any Number: Card vanishes from inside an envelope to be found in a deck sealed also in another envelope, at a location named by the spectator
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Data entered by Harapan Ong, March 2018.