1,031 entries in Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Juan Tamariz The Antifaros dealing procedures for Single, Double, Triple, Quadruple and Quintuple Antifaro, later Antifaro-6 and -7 on page 96
Related to 1989/91 90
Juan Tamariz Justifying the Antifaros
1989/91 94
Juan Tamariz Gathering up the Quadruple-Antifaro
1989/91 95
Juan Tamariz General Rules for the Antifaro-3 in and out shuffle combinations
1989/91 100
David Williamson Phony Pharo using the "Phony Pharo"
June 1990
Apocalypse (Vol. 13 No. 6)
1794
John Quine Second Keeper Shuffle keeping card at second position during shuffles
Variations Dec. 1990
Apocalypse (Vol. 13 No. 12)
1865
Persi Diaconis Anti-Faro Generalization up-down-jog procedure with two, three, four cards at a time, no credit, for credit information see reference
Related to 1990 58
Faro Slough-Off
1990 140
Edward Marlo Angled Incomplete Faro secret IF condition
1990 1
Michael Powers Incomplete Four Way four card location, using Riffle Shuffle Control with Incomplete Faro Condition
Variations 1990 74
Jon Racherbaumer Figures versus Prefiguration sixteen cards, odd-backed card as climax
Inspired byVariations 1990 68
Jon Racherbaumer, Paul Diamond The Zen Two-Shooter bullet trick, repeat feature, credit information
Inspired by 1990 88
Chris Power Fernkontrolle card peeked in incomplete faro condition, upper half removed and performer knows position of selection
1990 33
Harry Lorayne Phonier Pharo
Nov. 1991
Apocalypse (Vol. 14 No. 11)
1997
Bill Kalush Phoniest Pharo
Nov. 1991
Apocalypse (Vol. 14 No. 11)
1998
Alex Elmsley Mathematics and Mentalism one of sixteen cards thought of with its position, during reverse faros the spectator says in which half his card is, selection ends up on top (and force card brought to original position)
Also published here 1991 378
Alex Elmsley Aces Up stacking with faro shuffle for any number from two to five
1991 395
Alex Elmsley Four Flusher stacking all four royal flushes one after the other, faro stacking
Variations 1991 399
Alex Elmsley, John Bannon False False Shuffle faro fan
Also published here 1991 27
Edward Marlo Tilt Faro Shuffle false faro shuffle, also applied to triumph plot
  • two-shuffle sequence
Also published here June 1991 1
Edward Marlo Friction-less Bottom Deal secret incomplete faro condition
Also published here June 1991 4
Alex Elmsley Jog Fan brief
Oct. 1991
The Olram File (Issue 10)
14
The Centrifuge Principle dealing a cyclical stack, see also following applications
Related toVariations 1991 3
Stewart James Constant Stack Principle
1991 3
Karl Fulves Rip-Apart Production faro shuffled cards ripped apart, selection remains outjogged from one half
1991 58
Dan Harlan Hot Spell the word "Magic" is produced with ABC cards, randomness in handling
Variations Dec. 1991
The Minotaur (Vol. 3 No. 4)
11
Jerry K. Hartman Faro-Fetched three selections lost in deck, Aces inserted into different parts of deck, deck given one shuffle, selections are between Aces
Also published here 1991 246
Jerry K. Hartman Order Restored one suit is reversed in deck and orders itself, updated ungaffed method
Related toVariations 1991 600
Al Smith The Fingertip Shuffle on selling the faro shuffle for lay people
1991 12
Al Smith Farostack
  • Confederace
  • Maximace
  • Kingfederaces
1991 15
Al Smith Smarloth multiple shift followed by faro stacking
1991 16
Peter Duffie Eleven Plus chosen pair of cards adds to eleven which is predicted, using dealing into two piles repeatedly (stay stack principle)
VariationsAlso published here 1991 17
Justin Higham Super Clairvoyant spectator thinks of any card, deals twice the value and drops rest on top, after a reverse faro, the performer knows the value and can fish
VariationsAlso published here June 1991
Technomagic (Issue Extra 4)
97
Richard Vollmer Talk To Me eight card Packet
Inspired by Feb. 1992
Apocalypse (Vol. 15 No. 2)
2031
John Quine Second Keeper Shuffle keeping card at second position during shuffles
Variations Mar. 1992
Apocalypse (Vol. 15 No. 3)
2044
Edward Marlo Greased Bottom Deal secret incomplete faro condition
Also published here 1992 176
Edward Marlo Card Stack Demo Kings openly stacked, Tens and Aces end up also, faro and overhand stacking, correction for reference
Related toAlso published here June 1992
The Olram File (Issue 12)
9
James Swain, Michael Skinner Dream Poker magician deals himself winning poker hand from spectator shuffled deck. Uses partial stack
1992 19
Karl Fulves A-B-C-D four piles, pile A dealt to A-B-C-D position, same with the others, problem about distribution after deal
Related to 1992 47
Dai Vernon Faro Slough-Off with cascade
1992 7
Aldo Colombini Crazy Horse two cards chosen from twenty-card packet, two packets eventually formed, one all red with black selection and vice versa
Inspired by
  • Ron Ferris
Also published here
  • Spaghetti Magic lecture notes
Dec. 1992
Profile (Issue 11)
1
Vanni Bossi A Faro Subtlety faro with corner-shorted cards, stacking application with fewer shuffles
1992 10
Jon Racherbaumer Piddlings & Pettifoggery - Revived and Revised on faro shuffling history, Karl Fulves vs Ed Marlo, credit information
Inspired by
  • Piddlings and Pettifoggery (published 1972)
Dec. 1992 1
Justin Higham False Shuffle Side-Faro False Shuffle, improved handling
Inspired by Mar. 1992
Tech-Notes (Issue 1)
6
Leo Boudreau The Mind's Eye: Faro Foolery faro shuffle with eight cards, two fans
July 1992
Vibrations (Vol. 15 No. 1)
10
Leo Boudreau The Mind's Eye: Faro Fooler - Part 2 properties of using Faro shuffle for eight cards, shuffling envelopes and other uses in mentalism
Aug. 1992
Vibrations (Vol. 15 No. 2)
6
Leo Boudreau The Mind's Eye: Faro Foolery 3 positioning objects using faro shuffles and binary code, example routine where bill is placed among one of eight envelopes, all are shuffled and seven burnt, bill remains
Sep. 1992
Vibrations (Vol. 15 No. 3)
10
Leo Boudreau The Mind's Eye: Fire and Ice Tarot card princess card trick, using faro shuffles
Oct. 1992
Vibrations (Vol. 15 No. 4)
10
Harry Lorayne Quick and Direct
Inspired by Mar. 1993
Apocalypse (Vol. 16 No. 3)
2187
Bill Kalush Almost Immediately card taken from fan is known instantly, faro fan
July 1993
Apocalypse (Vol. 16 No. 7)
2242
Edward Marlo, Lee Freed Lost Twenty-One Card Trick using reverse faros
Also published here 1993
The Olram File (Issue 14)
1
Edward Marlo Reverse-Count Backward Faro from sixteen-card packet, reverse faro elimination
1993
The Olram File (Issue 16)
1
Jon Racherbaumer, Edward Marlo Glimpse of Another Side credit discussion of "The Dr. Nuzzo Peek"
Related to 1993
The Olram File (Issue 16)
7
Jack Avis Eight Bytes Is Enough thought card revealed with eight-card-packet as computer
Inspired byAlso published here 1993 32
Faro Substitute dealing from both hands, non-faro faro
Nov. 1993
New Sorcerer (Vol. 1 No. 5)
15
Bob King Faro Strip-Out FSO, basically normal slough-off faro
1993 2
Dai Vernon Faro Slough-Off with cascade
1993 8
Mel Bennett Interspace Insert nine-card packet, spectator turns a pair over anywhere, performer places card between them behind back and names this card, with additional solution by Karl Fulves
Inspired by 1993
Rigmarole (Issue 3)
32
Jack Avis Eight Bites is Enough thought card revealed with eight-card-packet as computer
Inspired byAlso published here Dec. 1993
Profile (Issue 17)
11
David Harkey Chromacon fine incomplete faro shuffle, deck cased, deck taken out and shown all red (or black) except a selection
1993 22
David Harkey Chromacon Plus fine incomplete faro shuffle, deck cased, deck taken out and shown all red and then all black except a selection
1993 24
Jerry Mentzer Reverse Faro Substitute slop shuffle as reverse faro
1993 55
Peter Duffie A Far Out Faro Chart For Faro Fantasizers table in which can be seen which cards transpose in a single faro shuffle with packets from eight to fifty-two cards (like 18 <-> 35 in a full deck)
Inspired by
  • "Countdown to Purgatory" (Rod Ethtie, Al Smith's Abacus, Vol. 1 No. 11)
1993 11
Peter Duffie The Magic Shuffle three selections in fifteen-card packet
1993 12
Eddie Fechter Slide Revelation incomplete Faro, part slides forward and back to reveal selection
1993 64
Eddie Fechter Faro Pairs magician's gag, Faro with alternate pairs
1993 71
Eddie Fechter Small Number Faro Stack faro slough-off handling
Also published here 1993 231
Matthew Field The Final Secret Of Charles Jordan humorous table faro based on a strange illustration in the Jordan book
Inspired by
  • "A Shuffle Secret" (Charles Jordan’s Best Card Tricks, Karl Fulves, p. 114)
Apr. 1993
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 8)
59
Allan Ackerman The Faro Shuffle
1994 175
Alex Elmsley Deck Preparation for Faro Shuffles sanding corners
Related to 1994 295
Alex Elmsley Weave Corrections for Miscuts
  • Out-weave Correction
  • Out-weave Correction
  • In-weave Correction
  • In-weave Correction
Related to 1994 297
Alex Elmsley The Mathematics of the Weave Shuffle long article for "mathematicians" with the following subchapters
1994 302
Alex Elmsley Out- and In-Weaves definition of terms
1994 303
Alex Elmsley The Odd Pack and Weave
1994 304
Alex Elmsley Equivalent Odd Pack
1994 304
Alex Elmsley Returning a Pack to the Same Order mathematical discussion
1994 305
Alex Elmsley Solving the Shuffle Equation how to find out number of shuffles required to return pack to same order
1994 306
Alex Elmsley Stack Transformations how faro shuffles affect a stack
Related to 1994 307
Alex Elmsley Royal Flush Deal royal flush deal for any number of players, faro shuffling
1994 308
Alex Elmsley The Constant Stack
Related to 1994 309
Alex Elmsley The Restacking Pack stack whose value distribution is not affected by faro shuffles
Related toVariations 1994 309
Alex Elmsley Binary Translocations
  • 1) to bring top card to any position with faros
  • 2) to bring card to top with 2^x cards
  • 3) edge-marked deck with 2^x cards, bringing any card to top
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1994 311
Alex Elmsley Penelope's Principle bringing center card to position corresponding with number of cards in cut-off pile
Related toVariations 1994 313
Alex Elmsley Faro Fan
Variations 1994 341
Alex Elmsley The Obedient Faro shuffling a card to any position up to twenty with two shuffles, for magicians
1994 346
Alex Elmsley Card Position Formula After Dealing calculating position of any card in a packet of any size, after dealing cards out
Also published here 1994 404
T. Nelson Downs A Real Dovetail Shuffle observation that eight perfect (faro) shuffles restore order
1994 1084
T. Nelson Downs Four Perfect Riffle Shuffles to Restore Full-Deck Order no perfect faros, but blocks are released (riffle shuffle stacking type)
1994 1085
Butting Cards - Faro or Weave Shuffle brief description
1994 1124
Philip T. Goldstein Calcium calculation oddity with nine digits, done with nine cards
1994 74
Karl Fulves Cleaver performer removes red and black cards, performer forms two packets behind back with same number of reds and blacks each
1994 21
Karl Fulves Dextral Draw spectator thinks of card in five-card-packet
1994 53
Karl Fulves Red/Black Shuffles red-black order which unmixes with faro combination, posed as problem
1994 95
Marty Kane Simplex Lie Speller
Variations 1994
Facsimile (Issue 2)
32
Marty Kane Complex Simplex Lie Speller
1994
Facsimile (Issue 2)
32
Meir Yedid The Faro Flourish double cascade
Related to 1994 26
Meir Yedid Fake Faro Flourish riffling sound during unweaving
Related to 1994 29
Justin Higham Super Clairvoyant spectator thinks of any card, deals twice the value and drops rest on top, after a reverse faro, the performer knows the value and can fish
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1994 64
Ellison Poland Slough-Off Control (SOC) cuts and a faro shuffle, card remains in second position throughout repeated faros
Inspired byRelated to
  • "Faro Slough Offs" (Jimmy Nuzzo, New Tops, Dec. 1965)
1994 1
Gene Maze Slough-Off Control to Bottom
1994 3
Ellison Poland Slough-Off Mathematics how top few cards move during Slough-Off Control
1994 5
Aldo Colombini Zig Zag three selections match three prediction cards
1994 12
Peter Duffie Eleven Plus chosen pair of cards adds to eleven which is predicted, using dealing into two piles repeatedly (stay stack principle)
VariationsAlso published here 1995 170
Darwin Ortiz Darwin's Poker Deal travelling signatures
Inspired by 1995 159
Darwin Ortiz Pick-A-Card Poker with to-Royal-Flush-Transformation
Related to 1995 172
Darwin Ortiz The Cross faro stacking, transformation
Inspired byRelated to 1995 180
Harry Lorayne, John Quine My Second Keeper keeping card at second position during shuffles
Inspired byVariations Apr. 1995
Apocalypse (Vol. 18 No. 4)
2485
Karl Fulves The Even Riffle chapter 5 intro, on riffle faro (real riffling) stacking, center stacking
1995 33
Karl Fulves Faro Fallacy cutting in half easier than cutting at twenty-six
1995 36
Karl Fulves Even Riffling even riffle exercise
1995 36
Karl Fulves Unbalanced Packets even riffle exercise
1995 37
Karl Fulves Evenly Uneven comments on even riffle shuffling
1995 40
Karl Fulves Why It Doesn't Work commentary on even riffle shuffling
1995 44
Karl Fulves Timed Release partial table faro at top
1995 47
Karl Fulves Faro Riffle Shuffle
1995 92
Karl Fulves Under Tension
1995 94
Karl Fulves Perfect Riffle Shuffle actual riffle shuffle, includes banded deck exercise
1995 96
Karl Fulves Zarrow Faro Shuffle partial faro under cover blocks
Inspired byRelated to 1995 100
Edward Marlo Incomplete Faro Placement
1995 295
John Riggs Follow the Oil & Water halves behind a red and a black card, change color when riffled through, impromptu svengali
Related to 1995 68
Faro Shuffle brief
1995 90
Peter Duffie Incomplete Surprise two cards chosen, packet cut off and counted, then card chosen in incomplete faro condition, another card chosen by counting to original number, an indicator turns over with both selections on either side
Related to 1995 13
Claude Rix Subtilités avec Faro notes on faro an memorized deck
1995 111
Gene Castillon A Stitch In Nine spelling discovery with eighteen cards
  • A Two-Deck Version
Inspired byAlso published here
  • The Nine- Card Problem Recycled (treatise by Gene Castillon)
Dec. 1995
Magic (Vol. 5 No. 4)
70
Steve Bedwell Canopy Reverse reverse during faro cascade
Related to 1995 ca. 7
Paul LePaul The Gymnastic Ace Revelation
1995 ca. 14
Paul Harris Tuning Fork flourish revelation in incomplete faro condition
Also published here 1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 2 (Issue Close-up Fantasies 1 & 2)
217
Dr. James Nuzzo Faro Slough Off very often explained
Sep. 1996
Apocalypse (Vol. 19 No. 9)
2694
Dr. James Nuzzo Faro Slough Off
1996 58
Michael Close The Faro Shuffle
Also published here 1996 65
Edward Marlo, Bob Page, Dr. James Nuzzo Throw-Off Faro-Top Variation
1996 86
Edward Marlo Card Stack Demo Kings openly stacked, Tens and Aces end up also, faro and overhand stacking, correction from reference
  • Triple Faro Control
Related to 1996
Facsimile (Issue 4)
42
Edward Marlo Frictionless Bottom Deal
1996 65
Pablo Domenèch Carta Al Numero (La Pequeña Historia de un Juego) placing a card at a number using the Faro shuffle
Also published here
  • "La Pequeña Historia de un Juego" in "La Circular de la EMM" March, 1980. P. 102.
1996 97
Bob Driebeek Wie spät ist es? doing four reverse faros to form four piles, four top cards match with current time
Inspired by 1996 11
Michael Close The Faro Shuffle
Also published here Nov./Dec. 1996
The Magic Menu (Vol. 7 No. 38)
441
Edward Marlo The Incomplete Faro
  • Incomplete-Faro Double Control
Apr. 1996
Magic (Vol. 5 No. 8)
80
Justin Higham Super Clairvoyant spectator thinks of any card, deals twice the value and drops rest on top, after a reverse faro, the performer knows the value and can fish
VariationsAlso published here Jan. 1997
Apocalypse (Vol. 20 No. 1)
2741
Harry Lorayne Non-Faro Faro
Jan. 1997
Apocalypse (Vol. 20 No. 1)
2743
Nick Trost The Perfecto Bridge Deal duplicate Spades
Variations 1997 235
Peter Duffie Lie Stebbins Lie Detector effect with one selection, identity of cards determine if spectator is telling truth/lie (e.g. color, suit, value)
Related to 1997 51
Alex Elmsley Faro Fan
1997 21
Marty Kane Modern Day Moracle packet cut off and reduced to one card via reverse faros, this card is selection and four aces on top of discard piles, with two variations
Inspired byVariationsAlso published here 1997 1258
Doug Edwards One-Hand Table Faro
1997 99
R. Paul Wilson Incomplete Inslow pseudo Incomplete Faro Control, actually a riffle force
1997 15
Edward Marlo Tilt Faro Shuffle (Plus Triumph Effect) retains stack
  • two-shuffle sequence
Also published here Oct. 1997
Onyx (Issue 1)
1
Ken Simmons Dealing With the Aces Aces on top, two faro shuffles given, Aces are still on top, using Tilt Faro Shuffle
  • Second Method
Variations Oct. 1997
Onyx (Issue 1)
7
Edward Marlo, Don May Dealing With the Aces II Aces on top, two faro shuffles given, Aces are still on top, deck ends red-black separated
  • Second Method (Edward Marlo - Don May)
  • Third Method (Edward Marlo - Don May)
  • Fourth Method (Edward Marlo)
Inspired by Oct. 1997
Onyx (Issue 1)
10
Edward Marlo Marlo's Faro Variation any poker hand called for, using faro
Also published here 1997 103
Bruce Cervon, Earl Keyser The Faro Count determining the number of cards in an incomplete deck
Also published here 1998 121
Roberto Giobbi The Faro Shuffle
1998 681
The Partial Faro
1998 683
Edward Marlo, Robert Page The Faro Slough-off concrete application for the Partial Faro
1998 686
The Perfect Faro
1998 687
Edward Marlo The Incomplete Faro Control placing a noted card at a specific location
1998 689
Faro Types glossary of the most common faro shuffle types
  • The Partial Faro
  • The In-Faro
  • The Out-Faro
  • The Straddle Faro
  • The Incomplete Faro
1998 691
The Mathematical Basis of the Perfect Faro Shuffle
  • Mathematical Principles
1998 692
Peter Kane The Card Gun
1998 695
Karl Fulves Mumbles "The Second Layout", ten value pairs, joker put between any pair, this pair later divined, anti-faro version
Inspired by 1998 28
Steve Beam One-Handed Faro
1998 1442
Gavin Ross The Information Pack half deck is pushed through other half (incomplete faro) and turns over, full suit visible with selection missing, with variation by Peter Duffie
Inspired by 1998 94
Jack Avis Waterfall False Shuffle faro, then unweave noice sold as waterfall, also to get into Vernon's "No Sleight Triumph"
Related to 1998 44
Straddle Faro brief
1998 28
Harry Lorayne To A Startling End card predicted in Himber wallet, using Reverse Faro Ending
1998 164
Marty Kane Minor Moracle packet cut off and reduced to one card via reverse faros, this card is a Seven and other Sevens on top of discard piles
Inspired by July 1998
Onyx (Issue 4)
3
Jeff Busby Riffle Shuffle Convincer combination of tabled faro with Zarrow to apparently shuffle twice and have a fair squaring action (optionally by spectator) after the Zarrow with still incompletely squared deck
Inspired by
  • Jack McMillen concept from "L. W. False Shuffle" (William Larsen Sr., T. Page Wright, Genii, Feb. 1937)
Related to
1998 113
Jeff Busby About the Tabled Riffle Faro credit information and comments
Related to 1998 121
S. Brent Morris Faro Foolery intro
Feb. 1998
Magic (Vol. 7 No. 6)
72
S. Brent Morris How to Perform the Faro Shuffle
Feb. 1998
Magic (Vol. 7 No. 6)
72
S. Brent Morris Triple Faro Shuffle technique for getting ABCABC... pattern
Feb. 1998
Magic (Vol. 7 No. 6)
72
Roy Walton, Ramón Riobóo Hokem Poker 25-card deck can be dealt in as many piles as often as spectators want, yet performer receives royal flush and everyone has a good hand
  • Racherbaumer Addition (Jon Racherbaumer)
  • For Hard Core-Cases
  • HC-C Method
  • HC-C Racherbaumer Addition
Inspired by Apr. 1998
Magic (Vol. 7 No. 8)
78
IF Glimpse card at break glimpsed after incomplete faro peek during cascade, "shown to me by Gary Plants"
1998 7
Alex Elmsley Faro Fan
1998 27
Arturo de Ascanio Faro Shuffle Idea pushing together, wrong credit
1999 11
Patrick Page, Ken De Courcy Noughts and Crosses five cross and circle cards, behind back performer builds pairs
1999 10
Slough-Off Faro
1999 69
John J. Beck III, Paul McKenna, Jerry K. Hartman, Philip T. Goldstein Letters mentioning of Engblom's "Anti-Faro"
1999
The Fine Print (Issue 10)
316
Ellis Stanyon To Name a Card After Dealing Four Times No. 20, using the sixteen cards return to original order after four deals in two piles, position of a selection named
Related to 1999 92
Ellis Stanyon A Chart of the Arranged Pack No. 22, doing two deals backwards before performance and then dealing cards (as "shuffling") in performance and arriving back in stack, way home
1999 94
Roy Walton The Apprentice Matchmaker
Inspired byAlso published here Apr. 1999
Genii (Vol. 62 No. 4)
42
Philip T. Goldstein Con-Clue-Sion “Clue” game theme, spectators think of a person, weapon and room, envelopes are randomly eliminated until down to one and inside is the correct prediction of all three items
Inspired by 1999
Labyrinth (Issue 9)
8
Roger Klause Discrepancy Control step after peek, then faro shuffle, two cards will faro at step
Dec. 1999
Onyx (Issue 9)
11
Edward Marlo Stacking Attack Kings openly stacked, Tens and Aces end up also, faro and overhand stacking, correction from reference
Related toAlso published here Jan. 1999
Magic (Vol. 8 No. 5)
83
Roberto Giobbi Moracle at the end of a sucessful prediction, the four Aces appear, anti-faro sixteenth card principle
Inspired by 2000 921
Reverse Faro
2000 922
Karl Fulves Tips on the Perfect Riffle Shuffle
Related to
  • last ten minutes of Video Trix
2000 81
Joel Givens Handy Triumph Display in the hands triumph, false faro
Inspired by 2000 130
Peter Duffie Found by Coincidence spectator uses some cards of sixteen-card packet to find his selection with down-under deal, then reverse faros until down to one brings mate of the top card of another packet
Inspired by 2000 6
Barry Price The Faro Shuffle
  • What Is It That Attracts Magicians To The Faro Shuffle?
  • The Ins And Outs Of The Faro Shuffle
  • Caution, Please
2000 14
Barry Price An Easy Faro Palm
2000 17
Simon Aronson Euph-oracle (an Alternate Take) Elimination procedure to locate two selections, using Reverse Faros
Inspired by 2001 26
Simon Aronson Alternate Take Combination of UnDo Influence and Euph-oracle procedure
Inspired byVariations 2001 28
Simon Aronson More-or-Less-acle Euphoracle to locate four of a kind
2001 28
Karl Fulves Witch Hunt No. 26, twelve-card packet dealt into piles three times, Queens come together
2001 41
Karl Fulves Tomorrow's Card No. 47, eight cards shuffled face-up/face-down, number of reversed cards and their identity predicted
Inspired by
  • "Baby Hummer" (Charles Hudson, Linking Ring)
2001 67
Karl Fulves Cue Cards No. 55, spectator and performer remember card and its position in five-card packets, found by each other
2001 82
Harry Lorayne It's Not Easy To Lie card selected from nine-card packet with down/under deal, card from remaining eight cards thought-of, lie detector, original selection used to count down to find it
Inspired byVariationsAlso published here 2001 9
Harry Lorayne Greatest Card Handler Of All Aces lost in sixteen-card packet, then spelled out, two selections found as well
Related to 2001 133
Faro Slough-Off
2001 134
Harry Lorayne The Unique Peek Marlo's Incomplete-Faro Control, controlling to twenty-seventh position, spelling application
2001 169
Harry Lorayne Unique Peek #2 faro sandwich after incomplete faro control
2001 173
Harry Lorayne Unique Peek #3 locator card ends up between two selections via incomplete faro control
2001 175
Harry Lorayne Unique Peek #4 card found with Reverse Faro Ending
2001 177
Harry Lorayne Unique Peek #5 naming card selected from incomplete faro peek, or finding it or its mate
2001 179
Harry Lorayne "Killer" Bonus card found with Reverse Faro Ending
2001 183
Harry Lorayne My Second Keeper, Cont'd keeping card at second position during shuffles
  • card changes into selection
  • Reverse Faro Ending
  • counting down to selection
Inspired by 2001 199
Harry Lorayne, Doug Edwards Quick And Easy selection lost, spectator cuts deck in five heaps, top cards taken, Reverse Faro Ending to locate it
Also published here 2001 239
Harry Lorayne Pleasing Combination two card location with Reverse Faro Ending and down-under deal
Also published here 2001 349
Harry Lorayne Double Whammy spectator cuts off half the deck, counts the cards, adds digits and remembers cards at position, repeat phase
2001 399
Harry Lorayne Beyond Belief several anti-faros with about half the deck, Royal Flush and Twos produced
Inspired byVariations 2001 621
Harry Lorayne Beyond Belief Relief several anti-faros with about half the deck, Royal Flush and Twos produced, faro
Inspired by 2001 627
John Cornelius Peeping Tom glimpsing key card during faro cascade
Related to 2001 31
R. Paul Wilson Antipathy red and black cards riffle shuffled together and "unshuffled" again, using Engblom's Anti-Faro
2001 7
Brother John Hamman Shoo-Shoo Shuffle reverse faro in pairs
Feb. 2001
Genii (Vol. 64 No. 2)
41
Christian Engblom The Anti-Faro during in-the-hands spring
Also published here May 2001
Genii (Vol. 64 No. 5)
58
Alex Elmsley The Fan Weave small packet faro shuffle with two tricks
Also published here
  • The Magic Circular, Vol. 90 No. 963, March 1996
Oct. 2001
Genii (Vol. 64 No. 10)
67
Harry Lorayne It's Not Easy To Lie card selected from nine-card packet with down/under deal, card from remaining eight cards thought-of, lie detector, original selection used to count down to find it
Also published here Nov. 2001
Genii (Vol. 64 No. 11)
49
Jerry Andrus Un-gaffed Svengali principle when riffling through deck it is shown mixed or all red, all black, fine incomplete faro condition
Also published here Sep./Oct. 2001
Mr. Gadfly (Vol. 1 No. 3)
31
Jason Comeaux Strip Out Half Pass out-jogged faroed packet is openly stripped out of the deck and secretly turned over, described by Mark Aspiazu
Nov./Dec. 2001
Mr. Gadfly (Vol. 1 No. 4)
37
Eddie Fechter Small Number Faro Stack faro slough-off handling
Also published here Sep. 2001
Ego (Vol. 1 No. 4)
2
Doug Peters Alien Stack out-faro-invariant red/black stack, OOTW application
Related to Dec. 2001
Ego (Vol. 1 No. 7)
16
Darwin Ortiz Déjà vu Poker four hands are redealt after shuffling, faro, Royal Flush kicker
Inspired by 2002 11
Bob King Another Late-Night Session performer cuts to fairly lost selection, twenty-six duplicates, incomplete faro
Inspired by 2002 4
Jack Avis, Lewis Jones Starburst packet cut off and reduced to one card via reverse faros, this card predicted and four Aces on top of discard piles
Related to 2002 88
Marty Kane Modern Day Moracle packet cut off and reduced to one card via reverse faros, this card is selection and four aces on top of discard piles, with two variations
Also published here 2002 76
William Goodwin Secret Cased Faro Shuffle quick faro shuffle as deck is cased
Also published here June 2002
Magic (Vol. 11 No. 10)
83
Jon Racherbaumer Unlikely Triumvirate sixteen-card packet, spectator choses card and its position, it's divined, in repeat it is the only odd-backed card
Inspired byAlso published here Sep. 2002
Magic (Vol. 12 No. 1)
92
Pit Hartling Elimination - Faro Ordering removing cards so they can be ordered later with faro shuffles
2003 22
David Ben In-the-Hands Zarrow Shuffle tilt
2003 91
Faro Slough-Off brief
2003 1188
Marty Kane Divide and Conjure! after several full-deck reverse faros, only three cards remain, one settled upon, it is the selection
  • Full Deck Handling
  • Further Notions on Divide and Conjure! (2)
  • External Thoughts (Robin Robertson, Jerry K. Hartman, Peter Duffie)
  • The Trouble with Seven
  • Partial Deck Handlings
  • Full Deck Prearranged Handling (named card)
Inspired by
  • "The Devil and His Disciple" (Robert Neale, Life Death, and Other Card Tricks)
Related toVariations
2003 49
Iain Girdwood Unicycle Stack values recycle after one shuffle
  • The 16 Card Unicycle Stack
  • The 30 Card Unicycle Stack
Inspired by 2003 68
Peter Duffie, Robin Robertson Fate, Chance and Science using count-back force and anti-faro elimination process
Inspired by 2003 80
Luis Garcia Rito de Iniciación deck is shuffled several times and ends up in new deck order
2003 295
Steve Beam One-Hand Faro with Cascade ending
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here 2003 5
Harry Lorayne Gambler's Luck top seven cards taken, after three reverse faros three cards are discarded, the Aces remain, also with Royal Flush
Also published here Dec. 2003
Genii (Vol. 66 No. 12)
90
Edward Marlo Down-Jog Displacement oil and water context, secret antifaro for very small packet
Also published here May 2003
Magic (Vol. 12 No. 9)
68
William Eston Expertalk: William Eston on the False Faro Shuffle
Also published here Dec. 2003
Magic (Vol. 13 No. 4)
100
R. Paul Wilson The Non-Faro
2003 ca. 1
Lin Searles Moracle anti-faro discovery
2004 80
Wesley James Secretly Disordering the Deck
Inspired by 2004 127
Peter Kane Single Shot from incomplete faro
2004 123
César Fernández Lightning Divination thought card, number corresponding to value is removed from deck and card divined
Related to 2004 189
Camilo Vázquez A Grand Triumph cards shuffled face up into face down, three cards are turned over, all cards end up face down but three cards and in inverted Mnemonica
2004 139
Juan Tamariz A Predicted Triumph combination of "Face to Face" and "A Grand Triumph", selected cards are also predicted
2004 140
Juan Tamariz Royal Location divining card in memorized stack after doing out-faros
Inspired by 2004 142
Juan Tamariz A Special Idea: The Eight Mnemonicas
2004 151
Juan Tamariz Total Memory memory demonstration, order of cards can be named after several shuffles or deals
  • Version with Faros
  • Version with Deals (Antifaros)
spectator can note down any sequence with date and anytime in the future the performer will be able to recite the cards
Related to 2004 201
Juan Tamariz Telescopic Coincidence with back turned, performer stops two spectators at selections while dealing through cards
2004 228
Juan Tamariz The Antifaro Concept
  • 1. For a Fifty-Two-Card Deck
  • 2. For a Thirty-Two-Card Deck
  • 3. A Very Important Observation
Related to 2004 321
Tyler Wilson Sven Who? deck shown to be all black, then all red, selection is only blue-backed card, "no red card" comedy prediction, secret incomplete faro condition
Also published here 2005 40
Justin Higham False Shuffle Side-Faro False Shuffle
Also published here 2005 5
Eric Mead Implicate Order two though cards found with procedure that apparently mixes the cards
2006 108
Ron Bauer Slough-Off Faro
2006 20
Tyler Wilson Sven Who? deck shown to be all black, then all red, selection is only blue-backed card, "no red card" comedy prediction, secret incomplete faro condition
Also published here 2006 118
Harry Riser The Two-Thirds Deck Trick card cut to and cut buried, card found with reverse-faros
Also published here
  • MUM, Aug. 1987
2006 77
Harry Riser Chapter Three - In the Land of the Faro using only a single faro shuffle in faro tricks
2006 91
Harry Riser Faro Slough-Off Handling
2006 107
Edward Marlo Faro Jog setting up for Alex Elmsley's faro fan
Related to 2006 161
Harry Riser The Bottom Dealer Folds Ten through King of Spades lost, four hands dealt, some good hands with Royal Flush for performer, faros
Also published here
  • MUM, Oct. 2002
2006 169
P. Howard Lyons Faro Credit faro reference, "An-Adept" (1850)
2006 32
Jack Avis A Contrived Location selection made in unusual way from incomplete faro condition, also handlings with multiple out prediction and partial stack
2006 40
Jack Avis I Knew that Hacker card chosen from seven-card packet, located again, reverse-faros and down-under deal
Inspired by
  • "Basicdu" (Howard Adams, Mindspa)
2006 87
Jack Avis Magic Bullet Effect incomplete-faro shoot-out with odd-backed card
Inspired by 2006 93
Jack Avis The Weave and Waterfall Bottom Palm "A Simple Action Palm"
2006 184
Alex Gutierrez Double Cross twelve cards, thought of card is located after several anti-faros
2006 147
Giorgio Tarchini Back From Fishing
Inspired by 2006 161
Pit Hartling The Core named card remains after reverse-faro procedure until single card remains
Inspired byRelated toVariationsAlso published here 2006 166
Doug Canning Core Relation way to calculate second to last card when performing The Core
Inspired by 2006 169
Doug Canning Encore The Core with two selections
Inspired byRelated to 2006 169
Steve Beam Simple Logic using only red cards, two-phase prediction effect
  • The Sifter
2006 171
Roberto Giobbi, Richard Vollmer Seven
  • The Genii Session
selection in ten-card packet, packet dealt into two piles as often as spectator likes, selection ends up at seventh position, published for Gather for Gardner No. 7
Inspired by
  • "A Four-tunate Choice" (Gary Plants, Genii, Sep. 1997)
Variations
May 2006
Genii (Vol. 69 No. 5)
16
Edward Marlo Casual Faro Divider creating four packets of equal size
Also published here Aug. 2006
Antinomy (Vol. 2 No. 3)
15
Doug Edwards Faro Lap lapping card while cascading cards after faro shuffle
2006 30
Paul Gordon Half a Higham spectator thinks of any card, deals twice the value and drops rest on top, after a reverse faro, the performer knows the value and can fish, with half the deck
  • More Thoughts (without reverse faro)
Inspired by 2006 125
Paul Gordon What, Another Kick? packet reduced to one card via reverse faros, selection remains and mates are on top of discard piles
Inspired by
  • "What A Kick" series (Paul Gordon, Card Magic Companion)
Related to
2006 142
Paul Gordon When I Was Twenty-One
Inspired by
  • Jack Parker method
2006 146
Bruce Cervon Faro Fooler from NDO to NDO with two faros, double index cards
2007 32
Dai Vernon Black's stack four aces, kings and queens stacked for 6 hands, with faros
2007 35
Larry Jennings phoney faro
2007 43
Antifaro in Pairs
2007 20
Paul Gordon "Power"ful selected card and four Aces are found, anti-faro "programming"
Inspired byVariations 2007 102
Faro Slough-Off
2007 274
Peter Duffie, Robert E. Neale Cal-Q-Lator twelve card set-up
Related to 2007 297
Harry Lorayne, John Quine My Second Keeper keeping card at second position during faro shuffles
2007 455
Denis Behr Faro and Anti-Faro Combination
2007 50
Denis Behr, Erhard Liebenow Liebenow's Card Peeling location effect with faro flourish, applying stack
  • In-the-Hands Way
  • Home Match
Related to 2007 55
Roy Walton The Magic of Numbers five pairs of mates mixed (reverse faros), mated again with number cards and counting procedure
2007
Prolix (Issue 3)
174
David Solomon, Simon Aronson Building Math Principles card and its position in nine-card packet remembered, another card brought in, dealing into two packets, selection eventually located
Inspired by 2007 147
Stewart James Murder by Suggestion Using sum of two cards to determine a number, which corresponds to a list of body parts where a victim is to be stabbed, magician predicts the body part correctly
Also published here
  • Typewritten instructions, 1928
2007 8
Edward Marlo Faro Riffle Shuffle
Also published here 2007 42
Edward Marlo Greased Bottom Deal secret incomplete faro condition
Also published here 2007 107
Edward Marlo, Lee Freed Lost 21 Card Trick reverse faros
Also published here 2007 77
Paul Gordon When I Was 21
2007 82
Jerry Andrus Un-gaffed Svengali principle using incomplete Faro condition
Also published here 2007 71
Justin Higham Mini Faro Faroing Aces into deck in preparation for stacking later
2008 37
18/35 Principle
Related to 2008 48
Harry Lorayne Gambler's Luck top seven cards taken, after three reverse faros three cards are discarded, the Aces remain, also with Royal Flush or routine with two poker hands
Also published here July 2008
Genii (Vol. 71 No. 7)
28
Christian Engblom Anti-Faro springing cards from hand to hand
2008
El Manuscrito (Vol. 1 No. 5)
62
Edward Marlo Incomplete Faro Outer End Deal fine angled incomplete faro, frictionless bottom deal
Jan. 2008
Antinomy (Vol. 3 No. 4)
12
Allan Slaight Stranger Than That
  • Awfulves #1: two-card location with spelling
  • Awfulves #2: two-card location with down-under deal
Also published here 2008 110
Tyler Wilson Ah, Very Near Sloth Control gag method to get control of a card after an incomplete faro control
2008 18
Fred Robinson On the Perfect Faro Shuffle various tips
Also published here 2009 114
Jason England A Faro Trap one-by-one ace location from incomplete faro position
2009 11
Jon Racherbaumer Unlikely Triumvirate "Mathematician - Psychic - Magician"
sixteen-card packet, spectator choses card and its position, it's divined, in repeat it is the only odd-backed card
Inspired byAlso published here 2009 30
David Solomon, Jeff Siegfried Jamesway Poker reverse faro mixing, good hands are the result, two phases
Inspired by
  • "The Jamesway Poker Deal" (Stewart James, Linking Ring, Feb. 1948)
Also published here
2009 17
Straddle Faro
2009 48
Grace Ann Morgan Straddle Faro Glimpse
Related to 2009 55
Arie Vilner The False Faro Shuffle with bridge into jogged packets and passive strip-out
Related to 2009 64
David Solomon Sorting the Deck named card remains after multiple anti-faros
Inspired byRelated to 2010 282
Karl Fulves Cheating Is Easy quick two-hand stacking demonstration
2010
Prolix (Issue 7)
445
Román García Aplicaciones de la Mezcla Lateral ideas and handling for the faro fan
  • La mezcla lateral
  • La extirpación
2010 133
Román García Triunfo idea with the faro fan for Triumph
2010 144
Román García Todo Dorso idea with the faro fan for All Backs
2010 144
Reverse Faro in the hands, upjogging cards
2010 9
Woody Aragón Anti-Faro spectator cuts and performer deals
Also published here 2011 87
Woody Aragón Faro Shuffles and Factorial Dealing describes the relationship between the number of Faro shuffles needed when dealing cards into N number of piles
Related to 2011 253
Woody Aragón The Permanent Deck Principle describes stacks that retain order after Faro shuffles
Inspired by 2011 267
Woody Aragón Postcards audience shuffles postcards and chooses a postcard that matches prediction. the prediction also predicts order of the remaining postcards
2011 281
Woody Aragón Gilbert's Error Code chosen card is found in an "error code" created by the spectator
2011 297
Woody Aragón Wait! There's still more... a) Forcing a number
b) Letters, words
c) Treasure hunt
d) Red and Black
2011 301
Slough-Off Faro
2011 5
Harry Lorayne 6-Card Reverse Faro Ending, Plus extensions of Reverse Faro Ending (usually five cards) for six cards or more, cards turned over with anti-faro until one card is left face-down and it is selection
2011 20
Harry Lorayne Even Better Red/Black Shuffles
  • Faro Based Method (center pulled out)
  • Hindu-Shuffle Based Method (also as running cut)
2011 49
Patrick Page The Faro / Weave / Butt / Shuffle Si Stebbins to a deck where all pairs are toether
2011 115
Mel Bennett Royacle "A Royal Reunion"
Inspired by 2011
Xtra Credit (Issue 10)
67
Tom Gagnon Faroed Spread Pass with deck in Incomplete Faro Condition
  • Two Card Control
Inspired by 2011 11
Boris Wild The Gravity Shuffle false in-the-hands multiple cut with fake partial faro in the middle
June 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 6)
63
Jon Racherbaumer On the Slant
  • Incognito (David Eagleman, 2011)
  • No Ands, Ifs, or Butts (on the Tabled Faro, with actual riffling, Volitional Table Faro)
Sep. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 9)
13
Woody Aragón Mi Anti-Faro spectator cuts and performer deals
Also published here 2011
El Manuscrito (Vol. 4 No. 17)
497
Faro Fan
2011 61
Nick Trost Australian Poker gambling demo with packet of sixteen cards removed from the deck, story, credit information
Inspired by 2011 684
Nick Trost Shuffle Tracking twenty-five-card deck can be dealt in as many piles as often as spectators want, yet performer receives royal flush, two-phase routine
Inspired by 2011 697
Peter Duffie Psychologistic card chosen, packet used to determine suit, and values that add up to the position of selection, "based on a principle published by Phil Goldstein"
2011 16
Calculating Positions after One Faro memorized deck
2012 32
Gary Plants, Richard Vollmer, Roberto Giobbi Seven position of selection in small packet is predicted, anti faro principle
Inspired by
  • "A Four-tunate Choice" (Gary Plants, Genii, Sep. 1997)
2012 177
Persi Diaconis, Ron Graham A Look Inside Perfect Shuffles Describes the mathematics of perfect faro shuffles, how to stack the deck using in and out shuffles
2012 92
Persi Diaconis, Ron Graham All the Shuffles Are Related Explains how perfect faro shuffles, reverse faro shuffles, Monge shuffles, milk shuffles and down-under shuffles are related
2012 99
Karl Fulves Last Card Standing twelve cards from Ace to Queen, one named, every other card outjogged, named card is the last card sticking out after diminishing plunger procedure
2012
Prolix (Issue 10)
671
Karl Fulves Rise To The Occasion secretly outjogging more than one card in anti-faro
2012
Prolix (Issue 10)
672
Karl Fulves Background & History credit information on the diminishing plunger (pushing cards back and forth through the deck until one card remains)
2012
Prolix (Issue 10)
672
Christian Engblom The Anti-Faro during in-the-hands spring
Also published here Nov./Dec. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 11 & 12)
176
Max Nelson Super Duper Card gaffed card that is thick, double backer and has a rising card gaff built into it
  • Thick Card
  • Double Backer
  • Rising Card
  • The Card That Selects You (selection shoots out of deck)
  • Switch-a-Roo
  • Big Bullet (card shoots out from incomplete faro condition)
2012 10
Bruce Bernstein Eight Cards using eight cards, two phases
Inspired byAlso published here
  • Bruce Bernstein's "Eight Cards" in "1982 Lecture Notes".
2012 127
Jason Ladanye Red-Black Faro Shuffle red-black false riffle shuffle with faro
2013 88
Edward Marlo, Joshua Jay Faro Ribbon Spread Hideout
2013 103
Jason Ladanye The Big Stack performer stacks himself queen, someone else gets kings, queens change to aces
Inspired by 2013 181
Tom Gagnon Electrostatic Recall card pivots outwards from incomplete faro condition, pin through close-up mat as gimmick
Inspired by
  • "The Shooting Joker" (Peter Kane, Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. 20 No. 8)
Also published here
2013 108
John Bannon Chronic spectator remembers a card and its position, deck cut, some cards counted off and that packet used to locate selection with reverse faro elimination, "One plus One equals Two" location
2013 229
Simon Aronson Bluff Oracle always ends with bottom card
Inspired byVariations 2013 234
Alexander de Cova Geldscheine zu Karten stack of bills transforms into deck of playing cards, incomplete faro
Inspired by
  • Steve Dusheck method
Also published here
Sep. 2013 25
Tony Cabral Quads also "Four the Hard Way", performer deals peeked selection to himself multiple times, those apparent duplicates change into four Aces
Inspired by 2014 10
Juan Tamariz La Mezcla que no Mezcla from Anti-faro condition
2014 150
Simon Aronson Bluff Oracle Reverse Faro exploration, Oracle effect without math
Inspired by 2014 20
Simon Aronson Bluff Oracle - First Level (Tracking the Bottom Card) Reverse Faro elimination, keep track of bottom card
Related to 2014 22
Simon Aronson Bluff Oracle - Second Level (The Double Option) Reverse Faro elimination, keep track of bottom card, but allow you to control whether the target card is outjogged or injogged
Related toVariations 2014 23
Simon Aronson More Than One Target Using Double Option to keep track of two cards
Inspired by 2014 26
Simon Aronson Bluff Oracle - Counting Reverse Faro elimination, counting cards to determine number
2014 27
Abanico de Dorsos faro fan for All Backs
2014 107
Kiko Pastur Mezcla que No Mezcla Plus inspired by Tamariz' "Mezcla que no mezcla", various methods to get deck in anti-faro condition
  • Llevar las cartas a salida lateral
  • Pivotar las cartas
  • Falsa imbricación
  • Variante swing
2014 232
John Bannon Bluff Oracle Aces I Duplicating Lin Searles' Moracle effect without using the cards preset at the binary positions.
Inspired byRelated to 2015 50
John Bannon Bluff Oracle Aces II Duplicating Lin Searles' Moracle effect without using the cards preset at the binary positions.
Related to 2015 51
Steve Beam Rock Bottom Duplicating Lin Searles' Moracle effect without using the cards preset at the binary positions.
Inspired by
  • "Swindlaces" (Al Smith, LaBal, April 2011)
Related to
2015 52
Steve Beam Binary Bypass Move which allows one to accomplish the Moracle effect without stacking the deck.
  • Royal Mess
Inspired byRelated to 2015 56
Steve Beam The Neutralizer Audience shuffles the deck and magician reverses their shuffles, producing a great poker hand.
Inspired byVariations 2015 57
Steve Beam Royal Roundup Despite the audience shuffling the deck, the magician is able to reverse their shuffles and produce a royal flush.
Inspired by 2015 59
Steve Beam Mind-Reading Deck Magician uses a deck of cards to grade the quality of thought of a spectator. Ultimately, the deck turns blank.
2015 60
Steve Beam Bottom Feeder A move that allows you to accomplish the Moracle effect producing the cards on the bottom of the packets rather than the top.
Inspired byRelated to 2015 63
Steve Beam Moracool A "Moracle" effect which produces the four aces on top of the packets (for poker) and four jacks on the face (for blackjack).
Inspired byRelated to 2015 64
Steve Beam More Cool Moracool Procedure for producing poker hand using the reverse faro.
Related to 2015 64
Steve Beam End Notes Summation (with additional ideas) of Bypassing the Binary chapter.
  • Flashing Tops
  • Flashing Bottoms (The Moon Move)
2015 65
Mahdi Gilbert Dueling Pianos handling for the Piano Card Trick, bringing in a subtlety from Thieves & Sheep
Inspired by
  • "Piano Card Trick" (Uncredited, Stanyon's Magic, Aug. 1902)
Related to
2015 194
Larry Becker Reverse Faro
2015 36
Harry Lorayne Non-Faro Faro faro substitute by dealing
2015 78
Harry Lorayne Powerful Powers five cards found by making packets with anti-faros, also as Aces or Royal Flush revelation
Inspired byVariations 2015 127
Harry Lorayne Only Five Cards Reverse Faro Ending
2015 242
Karl Fulves Riffle Shuffle Control used as red-black separation
Inspired byRelated to 2015
Errata (Issue 1)
30
Alexander de Cova Geldscheine zu Karten stack of bills transforms into deck of playing cards, incomplete faro
Also published here 2015 224
Justin Higham Limited-Selection NoBo
Inspired by 2015 25
Pit Hartling The Core named card remains after reverse-faro procedure until single card remains
Related toAlso published here 2016 60
Incomplete Faro Peek one half stacked to get position of selection
2016 73
Juan Tamariz Triple Antifaro eight-packet deal
2016 213
Alex Elmsley Constant Stack
Related to 2016 243
Jon Racherbaumer Notes on Peek Decks
2016
Facsimile (Issue 5)
52
Pepe Lirrojo La Mezcla Faro . ¿Qué es la mezcla faro? (what is the faro shuffle?)
  • Origen de la mezcla faro (origin of the faro shuffle)
  • Tecnicismos de la mezcla faro (technical terms of the faro shuffle)
  • Clasificación según como se realiza mezcla faro
2016 8
Pepe Lirrojo Mezcla en las Manos in the hands faro
2016 10
Pepe Lirrojo Mezcla en la Mesa
2016 11
Pepe Lirrojo Mezcla a una sola Mano one-handed faro on the table, brief
2016 12
Pepe Lirrojo Mezcla por Riffleo perfecta brief, perfect riffle shuffle
2016 12
Pepe Lirrojo Trifaro brief, on the trifaro
2016 12
Pepe Lirrojo Antifaro en Mesa on the antifaro on the table
2016 13
Pepe Lirrojo Antifaro en Manos brief, on Christian Engblom's Antifaro
2016 13
Pepe Lirrojo Tipos de Mezcla Faro faro types
  • Faro Parcial (partial faro)
  • Faro Parcial con Residuo (partial faro with rest)
  • Faro Perfecta (perfect faro)
  • Modalidades de la Mezcla Faro Perfecta
  • Faro Interior (Faro In)
  • Faro Exterior (Faro Out)
  • Faro Encerrada (Straddle Faro)
  • Faro Incompleta (Incomplete Faro)
2016 13
Pepe Lirrojo Pick Up Stack con Faros pick-up stack and faro stacking
Inspired by 2016 27
Pepe Lirrojo A.C.A.A.N. Teórico
Inspired by 2016 47
Roy Walton The Apprentice Matchmaker
Also published here 2016 26
Michael Feldman The Complete Faro Control doing Marlo's Incomplete Faro Control with tapered deck from squared condition
2017 84
Bob Farmer, Tony Kardyro Treating the Cards with cashmere bouquet soap and teflon powder, also for faro shuffles
Related to 2017 56
Anti-Faro in Pairs
2017 24
Harry Lorayne Royal Power selected card and Royal Flush are found, antifaro "programming"
Inspired by 2017 31
Harry Lorayne Voice Print eight cards, programming, binary
Inspired by 2017 53
Harry Lorayne It's Not Easy To Lie eight cards, programming, binary
Inspired by 2017 57
Harry Lorayne Display Reversal incomplete faro position
Also published here 2017 111
Harry Lorayne Cal-Q-Lator with anti-faro programming
Related to 2017 115
Slough-Off Faro
2017 163
Harry Lorayne Eleven eleven-card packet, spectator thinks of one and its position, spectator has to move cards around before card is found
Related to 2017 183
Harry Lorayne Pleasing Combination two card location with Reverse Faro Ending and down-under deal
Also published here 2017 216
Harry Lorayne Eight/Great - Nine/Fine
  • one of eight-card packet remembered (force), found with CATO
  • one of nine-card packet remembered, found with reverse faros
2017 228
Patrick G. Redford Tools for the Arranged Stack brief notes
  • Secretly Counting to Cards Positions
  • False Shuffling & False Cutting
  • "Messy" Faro Shuffle Technique
  • Removing/Replacing Cards
  • Keeping the Stack Out of Phase
2017 60
Michał Kociołek Faro Shuffle references
2017 vii
John Hostler Shhh Bonus: Variation 9000 4&4, mixing sequence that retains a red-black-order
2018 62
Alex Elmsley Faro Fan
2018 104
Johnny Thompson Brainweave Force Deck faro fan
2018 105
Johnny Thompson With an Ordinary Deck three cards thought of from incomplete faro condition, divined
2018 175
Paul Vigil, Forcing from a Bank
  • faro fan, one of twenty cards thought of
  • secret incomplete faro peek
2018 177
Asi Wind Anti-Faro Handling of True Colors employing Christian Engblom's Anti-Faro
Related to 2018 41
Alex Elmsley Faro Fan
2018 65
David Solomon, Jeff Siegfried Jamesway Poker reverse faro mixing, good hands are the result, two phases
Also published here 2018 55
Alex Elmsley Faro Fan
2018 85
Edward Marlo Marlo's Throw-Off Faro
2018 143
Ryan Murray Prologue: The Faro Shuffle
2018 ix
Ryan Murray Properties of the faro shuffle
  • Cycling Order
  • Controlling a Card to any Position
2018 x
Ryan Murray Technique preliminary remarks
2018 xiii
Ryan Murray The In-Hands Faro
2018 xiv
Ryan Murray Making the In-Hands Faro Look Natural
2018 xvii
Ryan Murray The Tabled Faro
2018 xviii
Ryan Murray Checking the Weave
2018 xxi
Ryan Murray Further Variations
2018 xxiii
Ryan Murray The Lopsided Weave about weaving unequal halves, introduction
2018 1
Ryan Murray Weave in Thirds shuffling one third into the rest in an AABAAB pattern
  • In the Hands
  • On the Table
Related to 2018 2
Ryan Murray Weave in Fourth shuffling one fourth into the rest in an AAABAAAB pattern
2018 5
Ryan Murray Bizarre Weave shuffling one part into the rest in an ABABBABABB pattern
2018 6
Ryan Murray The Double Weave introduction to faro shuffling twice with secret fine incomplete faro condition
2018 7
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
2018 8
Setting Up Fine Incomplete Faro Condition with strip-out shuffle action
2018 10
Ryan Murray Weave Count using fine incomplete faro condition to quickly riffle count to numbers
2018 15
Ryan Murray Triple Faro and Beyond theoretical extension of Double Faro
2018 16
Ryan Murray Facilitated Weave in Thirds another method for shuffling one third into the rest in an AABAAB pattern
Related to 2018 16
Ryan Murray Double Weave in Thirds using the Double Faro idea after a Weave in Thirds
2018 17
Ryan Murray Related Technique and Applications chapter intro
2018 19
Ryan Murray Separation in Thirds getting every third card to outjog during spring
Inspired by
  • "Anti-Faro" (Christian Engblom)
2018 20
Ryan Murray The K-Shuffle technique for getting ABCABC... pattern, also for four or five groups
Related to 2018 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)
2018 22
Ryan Murray Stacking
  • Six Hands (using Weave in Thirds)
  • Five Hands (using Bizarre Weave)
  • Nine Hands (using Weave in Thirds)
2018 34
Ryan Murray Final Thoughts
2018 47
Harry Lorayne PPP - Powerful Powers Presentation five cards found by making packets with reverse faros, moracle
Inspired byVariations 2018 17
Harry Lorayne Quick And Easy selection lost, spectator cuts deck in five heaps, top cards taken, Reverse Faro Ending to locate it
Also published here 2018 66
Harry Lorayne Fake Faro partial, top and bottom not shuffled
2018 177
Harry Lorayne Magical Appearance twelve cards removed, after a few anti-faros in pairs with turnovers, the Aces are reversed
2018 240
Harry Lorayne Amazing Tracking moracle type effect to re-find royal flush
Inspired by 2018 243
Alex Elmsley Faro Fan
2019 22
Yves Carbonnier 3. La Carte Revolver gun trick
Inspired by
  • "The Shooting Joker" (Peter Kane, Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. 20 No. 8, April 1963)
2019 180
Tom Gagnon ZigZag Incomplete Faro Pass tabled light-reft spread pass with deck in incomplete faro condition
2019 131
Tom Gagnon Soaping the Faro
Inspired byRelated to 2019 339
Christian Engblom Anti-Faro very brief
2019 180
Michael Powers Natural Faro Slough Off with cascade
Related to 2019 135
Michael Powers Incomplete Two Way using Riffle Shuffle Control with Incomplete Faro Condition
Inspired byRelated to 2019 228
Harry Lorayne Non-Faro Faro Faro substitute
Also published here 2019 106
Patrick G. Redford Faro Techniques 52-Card Straddle Faro Technique
Slip Cut Combo
Redfish Shuffle
2019 164
Steve Forte Faro Stacking introduction
2020 256
Steve Forte Classification
  • off-the-table
  • top to bottom
  • bottom to top
  • riffle faro
2020 257
Steve Forte The Faro Process general comments and rules regarding faro stacking
2020 258
Steve Forte Off-the-table Faro Stack slough-off, hustler MG
2020 260
Steve Forte Bottom-to-top Stack tabled
2020 261
Steve Forte Basic Faro Stack partial faro into deck, extra cards removed afterwards
2020 262
The Faro System by hustler PMH, using "faro twist"
2020 263
faro twist by hustler PMH, table faro with break, after faro the break can be taken above or below the card that is faroed into the break
2020 264
Steve Forte Skip-Stack faro stacking for odd number of players
2020 267
Steve Forte Single Hole-card Hold' em Stack faro stacking for odd number of players, three-of-a-kind
2020 267
Steve Forte Riffle Faro only bottom half faroed, also while holding break
2020 268
Steve Forte Faro Review how to work out faro stacks and pre-faro stacks
2020 270
Steve Forte Faros and the Second Deal
2020 271
Steve Forte Summary
2020 276
Steve Forte New-Theory Brief fine incomplete faro
2020 346
Steve Forte faro stack on doing a simple faro stack for laypeople
2020 890
Steve Forte The 2-1-2-4 Faro Stack dealing the Aces after one faro for a five-handed game
2020 906
Steve Forte Balancer Faro Stack eon shuffle and one cut to stack the four Aces for hold 'em
2020 907
Steve Forte One-shuffle Stacks
  • one faro - four players - four aces
  • tap-tap stack
  • heads-up double-duke
  • dupes stack (duplicate Aces)
2020 915
Steve Forte Distribution Faro bottom cards of one half aired to space them out more in a single faro
2020 1029
Tony Cabral Two Routines - One: The Braue Poker Deal Redux faro stacking demo, spectator choses type of poker game
Inspired byAlso published here
  • “Cheats & Deceptions” column in M-U-M Magazine
2020 60
Ramón Riobóo Max Factor mathematics for dealing and re-dealing any amount of cards in several hands to end up in the same order
2020 153
Ramón Riobóo Going Deep three mentally selected cards are quickly found in a pile of thirteen cards
Variations 2020 156
Steve Beam Depth Finder multiple cards are mentally selected and found, with variation
  • Vertical Drop
Inspired by 2020 157
Steve Beam The Cognac Killer die is thrown and number used to deal hands, repeated and cards on top end up to be Aces etc.
2020 161
Reinhard Müller Forks and Power Outlets ten cards are used, every ninth is removed and performer ends with a Royal Flush
2020 205
Lewis Jones Personal Best cutting four packets, top cards equal birth year of spectator, with reverse faros
2020 271
Edward Marlo The Double Stack four Kings stacked with two faros, then Aces overhand stacked to eight hands as surprise, from unpublished notes
2020
Output (Issue 6)
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Greg Chapman Technique, Theory and Applications discussion of the faro shuffle
  • Quality and Condition of Cards
  • Regular Cut vs Traditional Cut Cards
  • Full and Partial Shuffle
  • In the Hands vs Tabled Faro
  • In-Faro vs Out-Faro
  • Straddle-Faro
  • How to Learn and Practice the Faro Shuffle
  • Top-down vs Bottom-up
2020 11
Greg Chapman How to execute a perfect shuffle - in-the-hands, top down
  • A Closer Look at Interlacing the Two Packets
  • Starting the Weave for In vs Out
2020 15
Greg Chapman How to execute a perfect shuffle - in-the-hands, bottom up
  • Bridging the Shuffle Flourish
2020 19
Greg Chapman Splitting 26/26 - How to split perfectly in half using estimation (in the hands)
2020 20
Greg Chapman Adjustments to Correct Estimation Errors without Elmsley mention
  • Adjustment - for one card too many in the top packet during an out-faro
  • Adjustment - for one card too few in the top packet during and out-faro
  • Adjustment - for one card too many in the top packet during an in-faro
  • Adjustment - for one card too few in the top packet during and in-faro
Related to 2020 21
Greg Chapman How to do a Perfect Tabled Faro no riffling
2020 22
Greg Chapman Eight Perfect Out-Faros
2020 25
Greg Chapman Fifty-two Perfect In-Faros
2020 25
Greg Chapman Splitting 26/26 - Stacked Deck and Key Card Peeks
2020 26
Greg Chapman Calculating the New Position for Any Card After Each Out-Faro
2020 27
Greg Chapman Out-Faro Charts
2020 28
Greg Chapman Six Belts
Related to 2020 29
Greg Chapman Fixed Floating Key Cards in a Stacked Deck 18-35 principle
    • High Card
    • Hold'em
  • Work in the Cards
  • Other Positions
2020 30