Swinford, Paul

Book

1971
Written by Paul Swinford
Work of Paul Swinford

64 pages (Paperback), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with drawings by Sid Lorraine
Language: English

33 entries

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Page	Categories
Karl Fulves*	Introduction			4	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / General Comments Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Paul Swinford	Foreword			6	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Paul Swinford	Spelling the Aces	faro		10	Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Four-of-a-Kind
Paul Swinford	Let's Pretend	two phase card location with humorous key card presentation, faro		11	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Funny Locations
Paul Swinford	Trilemma	combo with selection and number, 33 cards	Related to Trilemma (Paul Swinford, The Cardiste, 1969)	16	Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Divided Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / As a Climax
Paul Swinford	Swinford's Myth	14-15 force, faro, new deck order		17	Cards / Principles / Smith Myth Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Two Cards - Two Piles - Same Position / Power of Thought Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Number Forcing Stack
Paul Swinford	Quadrivium	new deck order, faro		19	Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Full Stack (DONT USE THIS) Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / Miscellaneous
Paul Swinford, Russell "Rusduck" Duck	The Stay Stack	information and applications		22	Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Stay Stack / Full Deck
Paul Swinford	Inventory	instantly naming missing card, stay stack		25	Cards / Effect Themes / Super-Senses / Memory / Naming missing card(s) Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Stay Stack / Full Deck
Paul Swinford	Predicto Pair	prediction of mates at named positions		27	Cards / Effect Themes / Mates / Mates Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Off-beat Predictions Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Stay Stack / Full Deck
Paul Swinford	When Brothers Meet			30	Cards / Effect Themes / Mates / Mates Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Stay Stack / Full Deck
Paul Swinford	Double Duper	spectator and magician turn over a card, mates		32	Cards / Effect Themes / Do as I Do / Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Mates Cards / Effect Themes / Mates / Mates Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Stay Stack / Full Deck
Paul Swinford	Against all Odds	two spectators choose cards, they're mates		34	Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Mates Cards / Effect Themes / Mates / Mates Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Stay Stack / Full Deck
Paul Swinford	Double Brothers	Joker finds mates of two selections	Related to The Double Brotherly Whammy (Paul Swinford, More Faro Fantasy, 1971) Variations The Double Brotherly Whammy (Paul Swinford, More Faro Fantasy, 1971)	35	Cards / Effect Themes / Mates / Mates Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Stay Stack / Full Deck
Paul Swinford	Duo Chango	selections change into their own mates		38	Cards / Effect Themes / Mates / Mates Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Multiple Cards Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Stay Stack / Full Deck
Dai Vernon	Reversal of Bottom Cards	using riffle shuffle		38	Cards / Sleights / Reverses / More for One Card or a few Cards / Active
Paul Swinford	The Match Game	spectator looses always		40	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Red-Black & Matching Games Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Spectator is the sucker Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Stay Stack / Full Deck
Paul Swinford	Pairs Foretold	three mates removed by spectator are predicted		42	Cards / Principles / Gilbreath Principle Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Multiple Card Prediction Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Prediction in form of Mates Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Stay Stack / Full Deck
Paul Swinford	Thought of Destruction	about when it's worth to destroy the stay stack		44	Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Stay Stack / Full Deck
Paul Swinford, Norman Gilbreath	Gilbreath Revisited	deck cut in three piles, one pile looked over, performer knows number of red and black cards in other piles, handling for Gilbreath's "Separating One Deck With One Shuffle" (Linking Ring, July 1958)		44	Cards / Principles / Gilbreath Principle Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Stay Stack / Full Deck
Paul Swinford	The Double Brotherly Whammy	two selections are together, CCCC	Inspired by The Double Whammy (Paul Swinford, Faro Fantasy, 1968) Double Brothers (Paul Swinford, More Faro Fantasy, 1971) Related to The Double Whammy (Paul Swinford, Faro Fantasy, 1968) Double Brothers (Paul Swinford, More Faro Fantasy, 1971)	45	Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Miscellaneous Numbers / Principles / Age Cards Principle
Edward Marlo	Marlo's Peek Deck	face-up/face-down faroed deck with secret incomplete faro condition		46	Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Faro Oddities Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Incomplete Faro Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Stay Stack / Full Deck
Paul Swinford	Presentation of Marlo's Peek Deck	spectator divines card		47	Cards / Principles / Instant Stooge Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / by Spectator Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Stay Stack / Full Deck
Paul Swinford	The Elmsley Touch		Inspired by Late Night Location (Alex Elmsley, Ibidem, 1957) also in: Late Night Location (The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2, 1994)	48	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Stay Stack / Full Deck
Paul Swinford	The Expanded Whammy	CCCC		51	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Any Card at Any Number Numbers / Principles / Age Cards Principle
	Small Packet Faro	one-handed fans		53	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / In the Hands
Paul Swinford	Oil Always Floats	card is shuffled to top via CCCC	Related to Work in Progress (Alex Elmsley, Ibidem, 1957) also in: Binary Translocations (The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2, 1994)	54	Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Faro Placement Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / free Choice (all 52 cards) Numbers / Principles / Age Cards Principle
Paul Swinford	Son of Faro Spell	CCCC		58	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / free Choice (all 52 cards) Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Miscellaneous / Set-up Numbers / Principles / Age Cards Principle
Paul Swinford	The Cabalistic Pair	not tossed, Joker is found between two chosen cards after faro shuffles, CCCC		59	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stabbing Routines / In the Deck Numbers / Principles / Age Cards Principle
Paul Swinford	Mindreading Cards	CCCC		61	Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous Numbers / Principles / Age Cards Principle
Paul Swinford	The Australian Calculator	CCCC		61	Cards / Principles / Elimination Procedures / Down-Under Deal Numbers / Principles / Age Cards Principle
Paul Swinford	Elmsley Revisited	CCCC	Inspired by Double Control (Alex Elmsley, Ibidem, 1958) also in: Double Control (The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2, 1994)	63	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / free Choice (all 52 cards) Numbers / Principles / Age Cards Principle
Paul Swinford	A Few Final Words			64	Articles / Intros & Epilogues

Data entered by Denis Behr, January 2004.

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