Nick Trost (n. 1935-m. 2008) è stato un prolifico autore di opuscoli e creatore di giochi di prestigio con le carte.

Trost (fa rima con toast si appassionò per la prima volta alla magia quando aveva sette o otto anni, dopo aver assistito a uno spettacolo di magia messo in scena dai membri dell’IBM Ring 3 a Troy, Ohio. Incontrò poi Bob Lewis di Dayton, Ohio, che accese il suo vivo interesse per la magia con le carte.

Laureato alla Ohio State University, prestò servizio come soldato semplice nell’esercito degli Stati Uniti nel 1957.

Trost scrisse e curò una rubrica sulla magia con le carte su The New Tops da maggio 1961 a dicembre 1994.

Realizzò una Hocus Pocus Parade in Linking Ring , Vol. 34, No. 12 (febbraio 1955) e ricevette il premio per l’originalità di un effetto di carta alla Convention IBM di Pittsburgh, PA, quello stesso anno.

Trost morì di cancro al cervello, dopo aver ricevuto la diagnosi all’inizio del 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)
• Klip Joint (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)
• Kannibal Kards (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)
• 4-Gone Conclusion (1991)
• Cardsecret No. 3 Hight-Card Poker (1992)
• Blind-Sight (1992)
• Lie Detector (1992)
• Rouge-et-Noir (1992)
• O-Aces (1992)
• Nick Trost’s Passe-Passe (1993)
• Psychic Power (1993)
• Geo-Metric (1993)
• Jokers Wild (1993)
• Destiny Deck (1993)
• E.S.P. Macho (1993)
• Where Is It? (1993)
• Quadraplex (1993)
• Super Showdown (1997)

Bibliography

• Nick’s Table Trix (1956)
• Cardman’s Secrets, Vol. I (1964)
• Cardman’s Secrets, Vol. II (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)
• Nick Trost’s Subtle Card Creations, Vol. 5 (2015)
• Nick Trost’s Subtle Card Creations, Vol. 6 (2017)
• Nick Trost’s Subtle Card Creations, Vol. 7 (2019)
• Nick Trost’s Subtle Card Creations, Vol. 8 (2021)
• Nick Trost’s Subtle Card Creations, Vol. 9 (2023)

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. 36, No. 11, January 1957, page 84
• 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
• The Linking Ring, Vol. 45, No. 11, November 1965, page 64
• The Linking Ring, Vol. 47, No. 01, January 1967, page 52
• 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
• M-U-M, Vol. 98, No. 7, December 2008, Broken Wands, Nicholas K. “Nick” Trost Died, page 30