Description, history, variations, suit systems, tricks, tips ... and more.
Excerpt from the foreword by Dr. Hans-Christian Solka:
Warning! This book is addictive! ... Even with Laurent Kubaski limiting his scope to the English-language variants of the Eight Kings stack, the sheer number of variations is staggering. This book tells the story of a classic card system over two centuries old—one that younger performers may have only heard whispered about, yet remains vibrantly alive today.
This is the definitive guide to the Eight Kings Stack, featuring a full description of the stack, its rich history dating back to 1536, and several original tricks.
1st edition 2026, PDF 71 pages.
Table of Contents
- Contents
- Foreword By Dr. Hans-Christian Solka
- Introduction
- How To Read This Book
- Definitions
- The Eight Kings Stack
- Eight Kings Stacks Overview
- Suit Systems
- Card To Position and Position To Card
- Bottom Card Glimpses
- Eight Kings vs Si Stebbins
- Setting Up The Stack
- A History Of Mnemonic Cyclical Stacks
- 1536 - Richard Hill’s Stack (Latin)
- 1775 - Edme Gilles Guyot’s Stack (Latin)
- 1805 - William Pinchbeck’s Eight Kings Stack
- 1857 - Wiljalba Frikell’s Eight Kings Stack
- 1876 - Professor Hoffmann’s Eight Kings Stack
- 1897 - Roterberg’s Eight Kings Stack
- 1902 - Erdnase’s Eight Kings Stack
- 1902 - Ellis Stanyon’s Five Kings Stack
- 1910 - Henry Hatton’s Four Benign Kings Stack
- 1912 - H. Syril Dusenbery’s Sixty-Fourth Regiment Stack
- 1913 - Ellis Stanyon’s Sixty-Fourth Regiment Stack
- 1931 - Annemann’s Setup Procedure
- 1934 - S. G. Simpson’s Suit System
- 1944 - John Mulholland’s Hungry Jackass Stack
- 1944 - George Sanderson’s Nine Jacks Stack
- 1945 - Harry Schwaberow’s Swabi Suit System
- 1947 - Stanley Collins’s Navy King Stack
- 1947 - A. Whitaker’s Ninety-Eight Kings Stack
- 1949 - Percy James’s Hungry Jack Stack
- 1956 - Ken Beale Setup Procedure
- 1966 - Peter Tappan’s Suit System
- 1967 - Charles Aste’s Suit System
- 1969 - Henning Nelms’s Suit System
- 1974 - Cicardi’s Setup Procedure
- 1977 - Bob Mason’s O-2-Matica Stack
- 1978 - George Sand’s Furry Kitten Stack
- 1979 - Geoffrey Lamb’s Eighteen Kings Stack
- 1980 - George Blake’s Suit System
- 1982 - Spud Kump’s Seven Knaves Stack
- 1986 - Tony Richard’s Five Sick Canines Stack
- 1990 - Simon Aronson’s Suit System
- 1990 - Docc Hilford’s Five Tree Stack
- 1992 - Harry Lorayne’s Stacks
- 1993 - Christian Chelman’s Nine Kings Stack
- 1995 - Lewis Jones’s King Jack Stack
- 2002 - Alexandre’s Suit System
- 2007 - Paul Lesso’s Gobolino Suit System
- 2010 - Doug Dyment’s Unfortunate Jock Stack
- 2010 - Roberto Giobbi’s Frivolous Stack
- 2010 - Robert Robinson’s Suit System
- 2010 - Harvey Berg’s Jack’s Sex Stack
- 2015 - Dr. Solka’s After Eight Kings Stack
- 2019 - Jonathan Friedman’s Jenny-Jenny Stack
- 2019 - Unknown Mentalist’s Dictum Stack
- 2024 - Matthew Wright’s Ninja Stack
- 2025 - Unknown Mentalist’s Anatomic Stack 2
- 2026 - Docc Hilford’s Mad Doctor Deck
- 20xx - More Mnemonic Sentences?
- Selected Tricks With A Cyclical Stack
- Coincidence
- The Impossible Trick
- Too Predictable
- Think Of A Card
- Under The Table
- Card Matching
- A Handful Of Cards
- 3 Packets - first variation
- 3 Packets - second variation
- Sequencing
- Appendix
- Overview Of English Mnemonic Sentences
- Overview Of Suit Systems
word count: 21489 which is equivalent to 85 standard pages of text
