63 entries in Cards / Sleights / Controls / Multiple Card Controls / Faro Controls / Normal Faro
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 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 2
Edward Marlo The Left Over Faro Shuffle partial faro as an ace multiple control
1958 14
Edward Marlo Placement Shuffle placing Aces thirteen cards apart, with stacking application
1958 18
Edward Marlo Control of the Aces four card control using faro shuffles, different versions
1958 19
Edward Marlo Seventh Fooler two cards
1958 54
Edward Marlo Faro Fooler #10 three cards
1958 60
Edward Marlo The 17th Location two cards
1958 67
Edward Marlo The 13th Location three selections
1958 68
Edward Marlo The Faro Shuffle Shift bringing cards together with faro shuffle
1961 28
Edward Marlo Estimation Faro bringing cards together with faro shuffle, not 100%
1961 30
Dai Vernon Vernon's Aces Aces separated in four piles, brought together to top via faro
Related toVariations 1962 162
Edward Marlo Faro Divider Controls
  • For Two Cards
  • For Three Cards
1964 2
Edward Marlo No Key - Faro Aces without key cards and counting
Related to 1964 5
Edward Marlo Key - Faro Aces setting aces as keys for a multiple control
Related to 1964 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 12
Edward Marlo Marlo's Double Discovery two locator cards discover two chosen cards, faro
1964 16
Edward Marlo Marlo Faro Control - Two Card Faro Control using a locator card
1964 24
Edward Marlo Three Card Faro Control using a locator card
1964 24
Edward Marlo Four Card Faro Control using a locator card
Related to 1964 25
Edward Marlo Five Card Faro Control using a locator card
1964 25
Edward Marlo Six Card Faro Control using a locator card
1964 26
Edward Marlo Seven Card Faro Control using a locator card (doesn't work? see following version for eight cards)
1964 27
Edward Marlo Eight Card Faro Control using a locator card
1964 27
Edward Marlo Nine and Ten Card Faro Control using a locator card
1964 27
Edward Marlo Faro Double Control openly controlling aces while secretly controlling other cards (e.g. kings)
1964 36
Edward Marlo Triple Faro Control openly controlling aces while secretly controlling two more sets of four-of-a-kinds
1964 39
Edward Marlo Marlo's Four Card Miracle four selections, faro control, cut to the Aces with selections
1964 47
Edward Marlo The L-C-M Control three cards, odd pack, straddle faros
Related to Spring 1970
Hierophant (Issue 3)
143
Roy Walton Two-Card Faro Control impromptu, placing selections so they come together with faro shuffle
1971 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 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 34
Gene Finnell Free Cut Principle Variations with two cards
1973 59
Martin A. Nash Vernash's Aces faros and Free Cut Principle, see p. 443 for additional crediting
Related toVariations 1975 70
Darwin Ortiz Combination Aces free cut principle, faros
Inspired byRelated toVariations 1975 77
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 359
Edward Marlo The 49 Control five cards
1979 363
Edward Marlo Effect two cards, using double automatic placement
1979 364
Jon Racherbaumer, Edward Marlo Easy Way Faro Fooler three card control
1981 62
Edward Marlo The L-C-M Control three cards, odd pack, straddle faros
Related to 1983 272
Robert Gardner Twice Nice Incomplete Faro
Mar. 1989
Apocalypse (Vol. 12 No. 3)
1611
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
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 335
Alex Elmsley Fan and Weave Control to any Position extension with two cards
Inspired by 1994 442
Edward Marlo Crimp and Faro Control
Also published here
  • MUM, 1957, part of "Dunbury Delusion"
1997 160
Bruce Cervon Ace Finder for four cards
1998 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 18
Harry Lorayne So Is This! faro
2001 477
Darwin Ortiz Combination Cull free cut principle, faros
Inspired byVariations 2002 14
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 15
Jerry Sadowitz Three Card Control crimp and faro, inspired by Finnell's Free Cut Principle
Related to 2004 25
Harry Riser Sunken Riser out-of-hands selection, then control with faro
Inspired byVariationsAlso published here
  • MUM, Nov. 2000
2006 93
Harry Riser The Impossible Faro Shuffle Card Control
Inspired byAlso published here
  • MUM, Jan. 2002
2006 95
Harry Riser Greek Connection greek break version
Related toAlso published here
  • MUM, Feb. 2002
2006 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 116
Harry Riser Yours, Mine, and Ours three card control, faro
Inspired byRelated to 2006 118
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 139
Darwin Ortiz, Paul Griffin Ideas for "Vernon's Aces"
Related to 2012 216
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 30
Michael Feldman The Complete Faro Control doing Marlo's Incomplete Faro Control with tapered deck from squared condition
2017 84
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 1