Faro Controls

103 entries in Cards / Sleights / Controls / Multiple Card Controls / Faro Controls
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Edward Marlo Faro Aces aces placed thirteen cards apart, brought back together via faro shuffle
 		1947
Marlo In Spades
16
Edward Marlo Faro as a Control how to control a card at known position to top with faro shuffles, with subsections:
  • Less Than 52
  • With Two Cards
  • For 2 Cards at Undetermined Positions
Inspired by 1958
Faro Notes
2
Edward Marlo The Left Over Faro Shuffle partial faro as an ace multiple control
 		1958
Faro Notes
14
Edward Marlo Placement Shuffle placing Aces thirteen cards apart, with stacking application
 		1958
Faro Notes
18
Edward Marlo Control of the Aces four card control using faro shuffles, different versions
 		1958
Faro Notes
19
Edward Marlo Seventh Fooler two cards
 		1958
Faro Notes
54
Edward Marlo Faro Fooler #10 three cards
 		1958
Faro Notes
60
Edward Marlo The 17th Location two cards
 		1958
Faro Notes
67
Edward Marlo The 13th Location three selections
 		1958
Faro Notes
68
Edward Marlo The Faro Shuffle Shift bringing cards together with faro shuffle
 		1961
The Multiple Shift
28
Edward Marlo Estimation Faro bringing cards together with faro shuffle, not 100%
 		1961
The Multiple Shift
30
Dai Vernon Vernon's Aces Aces separated in four piles, brought together to top via faro
Related toVariations 1962
Close-up Card Magic
162
Edward Marlo Faro Divider Controls
  • For Two Cards
  • For Three Cards
 		1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
2
Edward Marlo No Key - Faro Aces without key cards and counting
Related to 1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
5
Edward Marlo Key - Faro Aces setting aces as keys for a multiple control
Related to 1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
8
Neal Elias, Edward Marlo Packet Handling for Faro Fooler #12 two separated face up cards come together to sandwich selection, two more methods, see also page 13 for further handling details:
  • Regarding Three Selections and Crimp Card
  • On Packet Handling
  • The No Key Card Triple Selection Discovery
Related to 1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
12
Edward Marlo Marlo's Double Discovery two locator cards discover two chosen cards, faro
 		1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
16
Edward Marlo Marlo Faro Control - Two Card Faro Control using a locator card
 		1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
24
Edward Marlo Three Card Faro Control using a locator card
 		1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
24
Edward Marlo Four Card Faro Control using a locator card
Related to 1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
25
Edward Marlo Five Card Faro Control using a locator card
 		1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
25
Edward Marlo Six Card Faro Control using a locator card
 		1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
26
Edward Marlo Seven Card Faro Control using a locator card (doesn't work? see following version for eight cards)
 		1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
27
Edward Marlo Eight Card Faro Control using a locator card
 		1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
27
Edward Marlo Nine and Ten Card Faro Control using a locator card
 		1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
27
Edward Marlo Double Peek Matching full stack
 		1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
33
Edward Marlo Faro Double Control openly controlling aces while secretly controlling other cards (e.g. kings)
 		1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
36
Edward Marlo Triple Faro Control openly controlling aces while secretly controlling two more sets of four-of-a-kinds
 		1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
39
Edward Marlo Marlo's Four Card Miracle four selections, faro control, cut to the Aces with selections
 		1964
Faro Controlled Miracles
47
Edward Marlo Incomplete Double Peek Control two cards, one after the other
Related to 1968
Faro Fantasy
17
Harry Lorayne Half a Faro Onward three cards peeked from Incomplete Faro Condition, random cards turned over, they sandwich selections after faro
Related to 1969
HEX!
30
Edward Marlo The L-C-M Control three cards, odd pack, straddle faros
Related to Spring 1970
Hierophant (Issue 3)
143
Harry Lorayne Multiple Incomplete Faro Control counting while riffling
 		1971
Reputation-Makers
136
Roy Walton Two-Card Faro Control impromptu, placing selections so they come together with faro shuffle
 		1971
On the Clock Effect
14
Dai Vernon, Dr. Jacob Daley Vernon - Daley Four Pile Ace Deal No. 108, Aces lost in four packets, brought together again with a faro and a riffle shuffle
Related to 1972
Jacob Daley's Notebooks
32
Gene Finnell Flip Cut - 2 center section cut out and reversed, key glimpsed, then a faro brings previous center card next to key
 		1973
Gene Finnell's Card Magic
34
Gene Finnell Free Cut Principle Variations with two cards
 		1973
Gene Finnell's Card Magic
59
Edward Marlo Miracle Faro Reverse two peeked at cards reverse themselves one at a time
 		1974
The Unexpected Card Book
81
Martin A. Nash Vernash's Aces faros and Free Cut Principle, see p. 443 for additional crediting
Related toVariations 1975
Ever So Sleightly
70
Darwin Ortiz Combination Aces free cut principle, faros
Inspired byRelated toVariations 1975
Afterthoughts
77
Roger Smith The IF Cover Up Control #2 key card placed in break in originally lower half of IF peek, faro brings it next to selection
  • Handling A
  • Handling B
  • Handling B - A Variation (two selections)
 		1975
The Faro Sorcery Trilogy — Number 1
3
Roger Smith The Simple IF Double Control two cards peeked, faroed section pulled from center
 		1975
The Faro Sorcery Trilogy — Number 1
12
Edward Marlo Two & Three Card Control using Secret Incomplete Faro Condition
 		1976
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 1
301
Edward Marlo Multiple Packet Faro Control three cards
 		1976
Kabbala — Volume 3 (Vol. 3 No. 2)
20
Edward Marlo Faro Fantastiques 49 card deck, several spectatators shuffle packets and remember card, selections appear in one poker hand, three presentations
 		1979
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 3
359
Edward Marlo The 49 Control five cards
 		1979
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 3
363
Edward Marlo Effect two cards, using double automatic placement
 		1979
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 3
364
Roy Walton The Caretaker face-up card in deck is spelled to find selection, incomplete riffle shuffle control
Inspired byAlso published here 1979
That Certain Something...
4
Jon Racherbaumer, Edward Marlo Easy Way Faro Fooler three card control
 		1981
The Lost Pages of the Kabbala
62
Roy Walton The Caretaker face-up card in deck is spelled to find selection, incomplete riffle shuffle control
Also published here 1981
The Complete Walton — Volume 1
168
Edward Marlo The L-C-M Control three cards, odd pack, straddle faros
Related to 1983
Marlo without Tears
272
Robert Gardner Multiple Control, Inc.
Oct. 1983
Apocalypse (Vol. 6 No. 10)
833
Two Card Peek incomplete faro, control
 		1984
Fork Full of Appetizers — Book 2
3
Edward Marlo 53 Cards Won't Do three card peeked from incomplete faro position found by three sandwiches, secretly preserves order
Related to 1986
Thirty Five Years Later
47
Edward Marlo New Approach I.F. Control nine approaches, one or two selections, sometimes using twenty-six memorized cards
Related to 1988
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 6
154
Larry Jennings Double Shake-Out two peeked at cards (incomplete faro condition) slide out when deck is shaken
 		1988
The Cardwright
169
Edward Marlo Incomplete Faro Double Control two cards peeked simultaneously
 		1988
M.I.N.T. — Volume I
12
Edward Marlo Incomplete Double Control
1988
M.I.N.T. — Volume I
118
Edward Marlo Incomplete Faro - Multiple Peeks with multiple breaks in lower half
  • Incomplete Double Peek
  • Incomplete Triple
Related toAlso published here
  • The New Tops, Jan. 1965
 1988
M.I.N.T. — Volume I
123
Robert Gardner Twice Nice Incomplete Faro
 		Mar. 1989
Apocalypse (Vol. 12 No. 3)
1611
John Quine Slider Aces concept, faro a packet into the deck and push it through, being in control of cards, for a Cutting the Aces routine
Inspired by Feb. 1989
The Minotaur (Vol. 1 No. 1)
7
Harry Lorayne, Edward Marlo Without A Clue finding out name of cards peeked at in incomplete faro condition by glimpsing cards in bottom half, full stack
Related to 1990
Trend Setters
44
Harry Lorayne Without A Clue, Impromptu finding out positions of two peeked at cards in incomplete faro condition via bottom half
 		1990
Trend Setters
52
Michael Powers Incomplete Four Way four card location, using Riffle Shuffle Control with Incomplete Faro Condition
Variations 1990
Top Secret Stuff
74
Steve Beam A Match Made in Zebulon (A Suburb of Knightdale) two selection found at same position when deck is cut in half
Inspired byAlso published here 1991
The Trapdoor — Volume Two (Issue 41)
731
Edward Marlo Triple Faro Control openly controlling aces while secretly controlling two more sets of four-of-a-kinds
Also published here June 1992
The Olram File (Issue 12)
10
Vanni Bossi Variations to the "Dr. Nuzzo Peek" fine secret incomplete faro condition to facilitate counting
  • First Variation (challenge location, red-black separation)
  • Second Variation (same with odd-even)
Inspired by 1992
Escorial 1992 — The Marlo Year
12
Alex Elmsley The Fan and Weave Controls two handlings of an ingenious control:
  • The Fan and Weave Control
  • The Fan and Weave Double Control
Related toVariations 1994
The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2
335
Alex Elmsley Fan and Weave Control to any Position extension with two cards
Inspired by 1994
The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2
442
Steve Beam A Match Made in Zebulon two selection found at same position when deck is cut in half
Inspired byAlso published here 1995
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 2
96
Tom Craven Bounce Controll II after incomplete faro peek
 		1995
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 2
192
Edward Marlo The Incomplete Faro
  • Incomplete-Faro Double Control
 		Apr. 1996
Magic (Vol. 5 No. 8)
80
Doug Edwards In/Out Impossibility Faro sandwich
Related to 1997
Doug Edwards Packs a Wallop!
151
Edward Marlo Crimp and Faro Control
Also published here
  • MUM, 1957, part of "Dunbury Delusion"
 1997
Solomon's Mind
160
Bruce Cervon Two-Card Control
1998
Hard-Boiled Mysteries
123
Bruce Cervon Ace Finder for four cards
 		1998
Hard-Boiled Mysteries
150
Edward Marlo Triple Faro Control openly controlling Aces while secretly controlling two more sets of four-of-a-kinds
Also published here Jan. 1999
Magic (Vol. 8 No. 5)
84
Simon Aronson Faro 18/35 Restacking as an Alternative False Shuffle Use out faros to keep stack in Queenspell
Related to 2001
Try the Impossible
18
Harry Lorayne So Is This! faro
 		2001
Personal Collection
477
Darwin Ortiz Combination Cull free cut principle, faros
Inspired byVariations 2002
Scams & Fantasies with Cards
14
Karl Fulves Riffle Shuffle Control RSC
one or two cards chosen from incomplete riffle shuffle
 		2003
Card Conspiracy — Vol. 2
85
David Solomon Does Anyone Faro Shuffle? two cards chosen and fairly replaced, performer cuts to both with faro shuffles in between
Also published here 2003
Freebie 4
15
Jerry Sadowitz Three Card Control crimp and faro, inspired by Finnell's Free Cut Principle
Related to 2004
Cut Controls
25
Juan Tamariz Telescopic Coincidence with back turned, performer stops two spectators at selections while dealing through cards
 		2004
Mnemonica
228
Arturo de Ascanio, Frank Garcia A Hunger for Dreaming shown to Ascanio by Garcia, packet cut off and counted, packet shuffled in rest and left outjogged, card chosen from this condition, then original number counted down
Related to 2006
The Magic of Ascanio — Studies of Card Magic
307
Harry Riser Sunken Riser out-of-hands selection, then control with faro
Inspired byVariationsAlso published here
  • MUM, Nov. 2000
 2006
Secrets of an Escamoteur
93
Harry Riser The Impossible Faro Shuffle Card Control
Inspired byAlso published here
  • MUM, Jan. 2002
 2006
Secrets of an Escamoteur
95
Harry Riser Greek Connection greek break version
Related toAlso published here
  • MUM, Feb. 2002
 2006
Secrets of an Escamoteur
98
Harry Riser The Double Shot Location two card location with odd-backed Joker, break work and faro
VariationsAlso published here
  • MUM, May 1995
 2006
Secrets of an Escamoteur
116
Harry Riser Yours, Mine, and Ours three card control, faro
Inspired byRelated to 2006
Secrets of an Escamoteur
118
Bruce Cervon 2 Card Control Control two cards to top with incomplete faro
 		2007
Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks — Volume 1
7
Bruce Cervon Double Incomplete control and mini effect
 		2007
Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks — Volume 1
17
David Solomon Does Anyone Faro Shuffle? two cards chosen and fairly replaced, performer cuts to both with faro shuffles in between
Also published here 2007
The Wisdom of Solomon
139
Tom Gagnon Faroed Spread Pass with deck in Incomplete Faro Condition
  • Two Card Control
Inspired by 2011
Avant-Cards
11
Darwin Ortiz, Paul Griffin Ideas for "Vernon's Aces"
Related to 2012
Lessons in Card Mastery
216
Gabi Pareras Hombre de Soñar ("Una versión de carta al número") card at number, using incomplete faro and cut packet
  • Desarrollo y ejecución
  • Consideraciones finales
    • Sobre los espectadores
    • Sobre el procedimiento
  • Mecánica de la faro
  • Una importante variación
  • Sobre el número y la carta
  • Sobre la naturalidad
 		2012
Arturo de Ascanio - la depuración constante de lo mismo
117
Incomplete Faro Peek one half stacked to get position of selection
 		2016
In Order to Amaze
73
Pepe Lirrojo Asamblea Total Aces separated in four piles, brought together to top via faro, deck is arranged by quartets as climax
Inspired by 2016
Panpharos
30
Edward Marlo Incomplete Faro Control
2017
A New Angle
80
Michael Feldman The Complete Faro Control doing Marlo's Incomplete Faro Control with tapered deck from squared condition
 		2017
A New Angle
84
Yves Carbonnier Melchisédech fifteen minute card act, selections are found, quartet changes into other, gun trick, card to lemon
 		2019
Grand Livre de Cartomagie
166
Michael Powers Incomplete Two Way using Riffle Shuffle Control with Incomplete Faro Condition
Inspired byRelated to 2019
Tesseract
228
Tony Cabral Lessons in Dishonesty
  • First Lesson: Card Memory
  • Second Lesson: Card Control (combination cull)
  • Third Lesson: Full Deck Control (bridge deal into suits)
Inspired by 2019
Things to do in Denver when you're dead
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