Subtle Card Creations — Volume 8

2020
Written by Nick Trost
Work of Nick Trost
215 pages (Hardcover), published by H&R Magic Books
Illustrated with drawings by Tony Dunn
Language: English
135 entries
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Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page Categories
Paul Gordon Foreword
xiii
Nick Trost Introduction to Volume 8
xv
Chapter 83 - Select Card Secrets
1799
Nick Trost Queens to Royal Flush Queens change to Royal Flush
 		1799
Nick Trost Pinochle-Blackjack-Poker two pairs of Duplicates change to blackjacks, then four Aces
  • Elevator Finish
Inspired by 1801
Nick Trost The Amazing Aces, My Version four Sevens and four Aces in piles on table, two Sevens put on top of deck followed by two Aces, yet Aces are on table and all four Sevens on top of deck
Inspired by
  • "The Amazing Aces" (S. Leo Horowitz, ungaffed version of Charles Jordan's "The Spirit Aces")
Related to 		1803
Nick Trost Playing the Aces four Aces found by counting to two numbers, LaGerould's Countdown Force
Inspired by 1805
Nick Trost Four Some
Inspired by 1806
Nick Trost Climax for James' Four Ace Assembly other cards in the assembly turn out to be Jacks, Queens and Kings
Inspired by 1808
Nick Trost The Sympathetic Nines piles and selections are made, all are Nines which match amount of a packet of cards, 10-20 force, number is also predicted on a piece of paper
Inspired byRelated to 1809
Nick Trost Another "Even Money" with packet
Inspired by 1812
Chapter 84 - Coincidences
1815
Nick Trost Three-Told LaGerould's Backward Countdown Force leads to three matching pairs
Inspired by
  • A Reading" (John Mendoza, The Mendoza Series of Personal Instruction, 1979)
 1815
Nick Trost Three Matches Pairs spectator puts three cards in deck during dealing, next to mates
Inspired by 1818
Brother John Hamman Flip-Flop Force variation of Cut Deeper Force
Also published here 1818
Nick Trost Four-Way Coincidence four cards chosen with Flip-Flop Force, they match four prediction cards
Inspired by 1819
Lin Searles "So Simple" Force
1820
Nick Trost Lost and Found Jacks Jacks are buried and found again with counting procedure
Inspired by 1821
Nick Trost Birth Year re-deal force after riffle shuffle to find four cards that make up the birth year of the spectator
 		1823
Nick Trost Black Jack Coincidence two black Jacks are chosen in packet with LaGerould's Countdown Force, they are the only black cards
 		1824
Nick Trost Lucky Sevens I spectator helps in finding four Sevens
Inspired by 1825
Nick Trost Lucky Sevens II spectator helps in finding four Sevens
Inspired by
  • "7-Up!" (Jon Tremaine, The Amazing Book of Card Tricks, 1994)
 1826
Nick Trost Lucky Sevens III spectator locates Sevens, two of them locate a Royal Flush
 		1827
Nick Trost Lucky Sevens IV spectator locates Sevens, two of them locate a straight flush
 		1830
Nick Trost Deal-Flip-Drop Swindle two ten-card packets match, DealFlipDropCut
Inspired by
  • "You Do As Each Other Do!" (Paul Gordon, Card Conjuring, 2006)
Related to 		1833
Chapter 85 - Court Card Capers
1835
Nick Trost Unhappy Couples four off-suited King-Queen pairs, they become matching suits with help of Jack of Hearts
Variations 1835
Nick Trost "Splitup" - My Version nine-card assembly with all picture cards, eliminating the two turnover passes
Inspired by 1837
Nick Trost Another Version of "Splitup" with all picture cards
Inspired by 1839
Nick Trost Court Card Combination
  • Phase One - Gathering of the Court Cards
  • Phase Two - Happy Families (court cards are mixed and eventually unite)
Inspired byRelated to 1841
Chapter 86 - Further Poker Puzzlers
1845
Nick Trost The Dead Man's Hand Again poker hand changes into five Jacks
 		1845
Nick Trost Climax 10-Hand Poker Deal two phases, Aces lost and dealt for ten players, then repeat deal with royal flush
Inspired by 1846
Nick Trost Do You Play Poker? three packets cut, center packet dealt into five piles, four Nines are on top and royal flush on bottom
Inspired byRelated to 1849
Nick Trost Running Up a Straight bottom dealing a straight, then stacking the straight into one hand and Kings into another
Inspired by 1850
Nick Trost LaGerould's Poker Puzzler straight flush found with LaGerould's Countdown Force, one honest riffle shuffle
 		1852
Nick Trost Poker in Purgatory LaGerould's Countdown Force used to form two poker hands, performer has royal flush
Inspired by
  • "Pontoon in Purgatory" (Stephen Tucker, Abra 2486, Sep. 18, 1993)
Variations 		1854
Nick Trost Climax Ten-Card Poker Deal performer wins three times with ten-card packet, then spectator shuffles deck and still loses
  • Phase One
  • Phase Two
  • Phase Three
  • Phase Four
  • Alternate Phase Four
Inspired byRelated to 1856
Chapter 87 - Gambling Tricks
1859
Nick Trost Three Jacks Routine
1859
Nick Trost Euchre-Poker Deal after a riffle shuffle, four hands are dealt, they are average, it is dealt again and performer wins
 		1861
Nick Trost Poker and Rummy Deal I starts with riffle shuffle
  • Poker
  • Rummy
Variations 1862
Nick Trost Pseudo-CATO Rummy Deal riffle shuffle, performer removes fourteen cards, Pseudo-CATO procedure (turning over groups of three cards), performer wins with run of seven diamonds
 		1864
Nick Trost Pseudo-CATO Gin Deal after one riffle shuffle, performer gets winning hand in gin, Pseudo-CATO mix (turning over groups of three cards)
Related to 1865
Nick Trost Another Six-Handed Exchange Rummy rummy, after each card is dealt, the performer's cards are exchanged with one of the other player's, performer still wins
Inspired by 1867
Chapter 88 - Divinations
1871
Nick Trost Scarne's $1,000 Card Trick - Another Idea deck shuffled face-up/face-down, performer cuts and it is counted how many more cards are face up in one group than the other, it matches a number decided upon by spectator earlier
Related to 1871
Nick Trost Hummer Red-Black Combination
  • Part One (two cards selected from twenty-card packet, face-up/face-down mix, selections end up as odd-colored ones)
  • Part Two (performer separates packet under the table with same number of face-up and -down cards)
  • Part Three (performer separates colors)
 		1872
Eddie Joseph Joseph Slop Shuffle false slop shuffle, see also p. 1878
 		1875
Nick Trost Coordinated Colors
  • Phase One - Color by Touch (small packet shuffled face-up/face-down, performer names number of reds and blacks and sorts them)
  • Phase Two - Color Scheme (cards mixed face up/down, spectator separates face up/down, as well as red/black)
Inspired by 1876
Chapter 89 - Predictions
1881
Nick Trost Prediction and Phone Number prediction card is counted to with backwards-counting force, next cards make up the phone number
 		1881
Nick Trost Matrix Plus Paradox
  • Matrix Force
  • Paradox Papers
Inspired by 1882
Nick Trost Catch-22 piles made and a number arrived on, it is 22, then again, that number is also predicted
Related to 1885
Nick Trost Chapter 90 - Gilbreath Plays Poker - Part 5 intro
 		1887
Nick Trost Cheater's Delight riffle shuffle, simple re-deal with full house or four-of-a-kind for dealer
Inspired by
  • "Poker in the Eye" (Paul Zenon, Street Magic, 2005)
 1889
Nick Trost Hot Flush - A New Version straight flush production with cut deeper (Flip-Flop) force, starts with honest riffle shuffle
Inspired by 1890
Nick Trost Sandwiched Straight Flush after riffle shuffle and face-up/face-down shuffle, five sandwiched cards turn out to be a straight flush
Inspired by
  • "Dazzler Mark One Million" (Paul Gordon, Pack Up Your Cards 3, 2005)
 1890
Nick Trost My Lucky Day starts with honest riffle shuffle, fifteen-card packet made from three royal flushes, one card chosen, performer finds the four cards to complete the royal flush
Inspired by 1892
Nick Trost Straight Flush ten cards are shuffled face up and face down and then divided in two packets, one consists of a straight flush, paritiy, adding an honest riffle shuffle at the start
Inspired by 1894
Nick Trost Designated Wild Card adding an honest riffle shuffle
Inspired by 1896
Nick Trost Double Duck Poker after riffle shuffle a card is placed aside and a packet used for down-under procedure in pairs, at the end a straight flush shows up
Inspired by 1897
Nick Trost Another Remote Control Poker Straight Flush shows up at the end of a cato and tapestry rolling procedure
Inspired by 1898
Nick Trost Fair Cuts Straight Flush face-to-face cuts, eventually a straight flush shows up
Inspired by 1900
Nick Trost From Brag to Poker Straight Straight Flush dealt to performer, riffle shuffling added to beginning
Inspired by 1901
Nick Trost Filling a Straight Flush Again re-deal force after riffle shuffle into four piles, top cards and a prediction card complete a straight flush
Inspired by
  • "Threes and Fours" (Peter Eldin, The Magic Handbook, 1985)
 1902
Nick Trost Twenty-Card Poker III four poker hands are made from twenty-card packet with unusual procedure, Müller/Avis Dealing Procedure, now with straight flush and riffle shuffle at the beginning
Inspired by 1903
Nick Trost Spectator's Straight Flush card stabbed in deck, cards next to it are a straight flush, starts with riffle shuffle
Inspired by 1905
Nick Trost Parity Straight Flush I cards dealt in pairs, one turned over, again dealt in pairs, cards on both side of reversed card make up a straight flush, starts with riffle shuffle
Inspired by 1907
Nick Trost Cutting to a Straight Flush I with a straight flush and honest riffle shuffle at the start, Jamie Kurtz
Inspired byRelated to 1908
Nick Trost Cutting to a Straight Flush II deck riffle shuffled, card noted, deck cut into five piles, bottom cards are shown, they then change to a straight flush
Inspired by 1910
Nick Trost You Do As I Do Straight Flush riffle shuffle, then a card is removed, four cards cut to together with spectator, a straight flush is produced that way with the initial card
 		1912
Nick Trost Marlo Cuts to a Straight Flush riffle shuffle, then a card removed, four more cards found with cutting procedure, straight flush
Related to 1913
Nick Trost Head-to-Head Straight Flush ten cards after honest riffle shuffle of deck, performer receives straight flush
Inspired by 1915
Nick Trost Wild Bill's Crooked Dealing Dead man's hand dealt after honest riffle shuffle
Inspired by
  • "Dead Man's Hand Routine" (Charlie McCreath, The Linking Ring, Aug. 1949)
 1917
Nick Trost The Olram Poker Deal deck riffle shuffled, poker hands dealt, straight flush for performer
Inspired by 1919
Nick Trost A Double-Duke Stack deck riffle shuffled, stack demonstration with Queens, then straight flush dealt
Inspired by
  • "Faster Than TSOL Poker Stack" (Paul Gordon, Pack Up Your Cards 1, 2005)
 1920
Howard Wurst Howard Wurst on Scarne's Shuffle Systems brief
Also published here 1921
Nick Trost Chapter 91 - Still More Triple Dealing Effects credit information and intro
 		1923
Nick Trost Together at Last two 7-12 dice thrown to arrive at a total, number dealt three times in half-deck, top two cards are selections
Inspired by
  • "The Unified Cards" (Jerry Lucas, Championship Card Tricks, 1973)
 1925
Nick Trost Triple Prediction two 7-12 dice thrown to arrive at a total, number dealt three times in half-deck, top three cards predicted
 		1926
Nick Trost The Nineteenth Card card selected with cross-sum counting procedure and found by counting down to sum of top and bottom number of a 7-12 die
 		1927
Nick Trost Joker Prediction deck riffle shuffled and cut in half, two 7-12 dice thrown to arrive at a total, number dealt three times in half-deck, top card matches prediction (Joker)
Related to 1927
Nick Trost ESP Triple Deal ESP deck riffle shuffled and cut in half, two 7-12 dice thrown to arrive at a total, number dealt three times in half-deck, top card matches prediction
Related to 1928
Nick Trost Mates selection is spelled three times in half the deck, mate comes to top
Inspired by 1929
Nick Trost The Two Black Jacks
  • Phase One (black Jacks lost, the appear again around a selection)
  • Phase Two (all three cards lost and found back on top after triple dealing)
Inspired by 1930
Nick Trost Triple Synchronicity three selections are matched, triple dealing with numbers rolled with two 7-12 dice
Inspired by
  • "Synchronicity" (Marc Paul, The British Close-Up Magic Symposion: The First Decade, 2001)
 1932
Nick Trost Delayed Royal Flush three Aces found with Triple Dealing procedure with numbers rolled with two 7-12 dice, then a Five which is used to count to last Ace, royal flush kicker
Inspired by 1933
Nick Trost Straight-Away Triple Deal two halves shuffled, two straight flushes found with Triple Dealing procedure with numbers rolled with two 7-12 dice
Inspired by 1935
Chapter 92 - More ESP Tests
1937
Nick Trost ESP Double Revelation two cards remembered with counting procedure in two halves which are then shuffle face-up/face-down, performer located both cards in the spread
Inspired by
  • Bernard Bilis routine from DVD
 1937
Nick Trost Triple ESP Mystery three ESP cards mated via re-dealing packet
Inspired by 1939
Nick Trost Espitome Revisited two sets of five cards, matching
Inspired by 1940
Nick Trost ESP Ten-Card Brainwave only odd symbol in ten-card packet is chosen
  • Phase One
  • Phase Two
 		1942
Nick Trost ESP Magnetic Attraction down-under deal procedure with ESP deck to end up with five matching symbols
Inspired by
  • "A Trick for Paul Gordon" (Roy Walton, Card Conjuring, 2006)
 1943
Nick Trost ESP Shuffle-Bored
Inspired by 1944
Nick Trost ESP Oracull matching with ESP cards
Inspired by 1947
Nick Trost ESP Matchical Mix two Cards, two Piles, same position - selection and mate
Inspired by 1948
Nick Trost Succubi, Revisited one card reversed in twenty-five cards ESP deck, then cards dealt into five hands, hand with reversed card is all the same symbol and others mixed
Inspired by 1949
Nick Trost Double Coincidence by Design performer matches two chosen cards from two ten-card piles
Inspired by
  • "Interior Designs" (Roy Walton, New Pentagram, Aug. 1986)
 1950
Nick Trost Self-Duplicating ESP Cards two ten-card packets of ESP cards are divided, added again with mixing procedure, and end up in the same order
Inspired by 1951
Nick Trost Aradia Revisted ESP card pocketed and two spectators both draw five cards from two tabled packets and remember the top symbol, all three divined
Inspired by 1953
Nick Trost ESP 7-13 card removed, two piles of chosen size from seven to thirteen cards are removed, down-under deal, spectator's and performer's remaining cards predicted
Inspired by 1955
Chapter 93 - Cards and Die-ceptions
1957
Nick Trost Three Dice and a Selected Card card chosen by rolling two diece and noting card at this position, performer repositions card under table, three dice shaken and selection found at total of five hidden sides of stacked three-dice tower
Inspired by 1957
Nick Trost Jackpot, Revisited four Jacks found with four rolled dice
Inspired by
  • "Jackpot" (Michael DeMarco, Precursor, June 1999)
 1958
Nick Trost Fate Doubled four Aces found by counting down to numbers rolled with dice
Inspired byVariations 1959
Nick Trost Fate with Dice and Cards Royal Flush found by counting down to numbers rolled with dice
  • Straight Flush Version (with riffle shuffle)
  • ESP Card Version
Inspired by 1961
Nick Trost Dealing with Dice four dice rolled and piles dealt according to numbers, in the end the four Aces are on bottom of piles
  • Straight Flush Version (with riffle shuffle)
Inspired by 1964
Nick Trost Mathematical Straight Flush with four dice and counting the spectator locates a straight flush after a riffle shuffle
Inspired by 1966
Nick Trost Dice Decider Straight Flush five packets are counted off according to five thrown dice, dice are turned with number one up and all packets have a straight flush, starts with riffle shuffle
Inspired by 1968
Nick Trost Destiny Dice two numbers from one to twelve chosen with dice, chosen values lie at reversed chosen numbers, at added number is a prediction card
Inspired by 1969
Nick Trost The Odds Against - Revised sixteen-card packet mated via dice counting
Inspired by 1971
Nick Trost Ken Beale's Cards and Dice II number chosen with dice throw, card at that position removed, added to number, five cards that form a royal flush are found that way
Inspired by 1973
Nick Trost Solomon's Cards and Dice two pairs of dice thrown, both numbers counted to, the cards there match the total, both numbers added, card at that number matches a prediction
Inspired by 1975
Chapter 94 - More Pinochle Puzzlers
1977
Nick Trost Face-to-Face Pinochle three cards are mated, uses Pinochle deck
Inspired by 1977
Nick Trost Revolving Euchre five cards chosen bei both spectator and performer who wins in Euchre, uses Pinochle deck
Inspired by 1979
Nick Trost Symba Wonda Pinochle spectator selects five cards from partial Pinochle deck, they are all royal flushes, monge shuffle
Inspired by 1980
Nick Trost Poker Exchange cards are exchanged between the players, performer ends up with five-of-a-kind, uses Pinochle deck
Inspired by 1981
Chapter 95 - More Miracles with Cards
1983
Nick Trost Moracle Straight Flush packet cut off and reduced to one card via reverse faros, this card and the four cards on top of discard piles make up a straight flush, starts with honest shuffle
Inspired by 1983
Nick Trost Guesstimation and a Royal Flush Kicker "I have as many cards as you, plus...", Royal Flush kicker
Inspired byRelated to 1985
Nick Trost Calc-ulation two cards chosen, their sum matches the number of cards in a cut-off packet
Related to 1987
Nick Trost Predicting the Draw deck is riffle shuffled in halves by spectator, divided into four packets, poker hands are drawn from the top of those packets which are predicted
Inspired byRelated to 1988
Appendix: Sleights and Subtleties
1993
Simon Aronson, Nick Trost Aronson Mark-a-Place Move handling of Aronson's move
Inspired by 1993
Nick Trost Bottom Stock Control handling of Erdnase's move
Inspired by 1995
Nick Trost Diminishing Count Rising Crime type count, handling from End Grip, credit information
 		1996
Harry Lorayne Equalizer Shuffle face-up/face-down shuffle procedure
Related to 1998
G. W. Hunter G. W. Hunter Shuffle
1999
Nick Trost Gilbreath Prinziple explanation and comments
 		2000
Terry LaGerould, Nick Trost LaGerould Countdown Force with credit information
 		2001
Jay Ose Ose Cut triple cut to table
Also published here 2001
Bill Simon Simon Prophecy Move
2002
Data entered by Denis Behr, August 2025.