2018
Written by Ryan Murray
Work of Ryan Murray
73 pages (Paperback), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with photographs
Language: English
31 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page Categories
Ryan Murray Acknowledgements
ii
Ryan Murray Introduction
vii
Ryan Murray Prologue: The Faro Shuffle
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Ryan Murray Properties of the faro shuffle
  • Cycling Order
  • Controlling a Card to any Position
x
Ryan Murray Technique preliminary remarks
xiii
Ryan Murray The In-Hands Faro
xiv
Ryan Murray Making the In-Hands Faro Look Natural
xvii
Ryan Murray The Tabled Faro
xviii
Ryan Murray Checking the Weave
xxi
Ryan Murray Further Variations
xxiii
Ryan Murray The Lopsided Weave about weaving unequal halves, introduction
1
Ryan Murray Weave in Thirds shuffling one third into the rest in an AABAAB pattern
  • In the Hands
  • On the Table
Related to 2
Ryan Murray Weave in Fourth shuffling one fourth into the rest in an AAABAAAB pattern
5
Ryan Murray Bizarre Weave shuffling one part into the rest in an ABABBABABB pattern
6
Ryan Murray The Double Weave introduction to faro shuffling twice with secret fine incomplete faro condition
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Ryan Murray Double Faro faro shuffling in pairs with deck in fine incomplete faro condition
  • In-Hands Double Faro
  • Tabled Double Faro
  • Direction of Weaving
  • One-Handed Tabled Double Faro
  • One-Handed In-Hands Double Faro
8
Setting Up Fine Incomplete Faro Condition with strip-out shuffle action
10
Ryan Murray Weave Count using fine incomplete faro condition to quickly riffle count to numbers
15
Ryan Murray Triple Faro and Beyond theoretical extension of Double Faro
16
Ryan Murray Facilitated Weave in Thirds another method for shuffling one third into the rest in an AABAAB pattern
Related to 16
Ryan Murray Double Weave in Thirds using the Double Faro idea after a Weave in Thirds
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Ryan Murray Related Technique and Applications chapter intro
19
Ryan Murray Separation in Thirds getting every third card to outjog during spring
Inspired by
  • "Anti-Faro" (Christian Engblom)
20
Ryan Murray The K-Shuffle technique for getting ABCABC... pattern, also for four or five groups
Related to 20
Ryan Murray The Perfect Riffle Shuffle
  • Perfect Riffle Shuffle in Thirds (AABAAB pattern)
  • Facilitated Perfect Riffle Shuffle in Thirds
  • Perfect Riffle Shuffle in Pairs (double faro)
22
Ryan Murray Inverted Rising Card incomplete faro shuffle, deck but in case and shaken, all cards drop down except selection, using Double Faro
  • A Slicker Method
  • Alternate Ending (remaining card is not selection but indicates it)
Variations 25
Ryan Murray Ace Production same but four Aces remain sticking out
Inspired by 33
Ryan Murray Stacking
  • Six Hands (using Weave in Thirds)
  • Five Hands (using Bizarre Weave)
  • Nine Hands (using Weave in Thirds)
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Ryan Murray Ultra Memoria three cards chosen from thirds that are shuffled together by performer, apparently memorized, numbers of first two named, third selection found to be previously cased card, using Triple Faro
  • Arranging the Set-up (from new deck order)
Related to 36
Ryan Murray Final Thoughts
47
Ryan Murray Appendix: References
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Data entered by Denis Behr.