Nikola, Louis: The Nikola Card System ©1927 Harry Leat, England Softcover, 72 pages ©1937 Max Holden, NY ©1984 Supreme Magic, England

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Comments: "A new power for magicians". Nikola's card stack

Contents:

8 The Nikola Card System: introduction

9 Section I Argument: why the new system

13 Section II Curriculum: how the system works
16 Illustration
18 Acquire Facility In the Use
19 Whist or Bridge
19 Spelling Bee
20 Poker

22 Section 3 Utility
22 Stop: to apparently count the cards in riffling
23 Cards by Weight
23 Weighing Chosen Cards
24 The Sense of Touch
25 Human Magnetism
27 Locating
29 Spelling
30 To Spell Any Card Called For
31 Thought Anticipated
34 Unconscious Thought Transmission
36 Wizard's Whist
38 All Trumps
39 To Name the Pack in Order, Without Looking At It, Either From the Top or from the Bottom
41 To Pick Out Any Card Called For Behind the Back
41 To Pick Out a Card Chosen and Replaced
41 To Produce Cards Called For From the Pocket
43 To Name the Bottom Cards of a Number of Heaps By Looking at the Top Cards
44 A Subtle Game: the pack does not have to be pre-arranged

46 Section 4 Appendix
46 False Shuffling
46 - The Charlier Shuffle
47 - The Overhand Shuffle
48 - The Overhand Shuffle B
49 - Riffling
51 Forcing
52 Forcing By Numbers
53 To Exchange Packs
54 The Telepathogram: effect with two packs
62 The Flight: to make a chosen card held by spectator to fly to somewhere in the room

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