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Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
George G. Kaplan The "Stop!" Fan Discovery timing fan force
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1948 69
Edward Marlo The Cull Palm spread culled cards are palmed right away, or directly from peek
Related to 1956 25
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 Restacking Pack stack whose value distribution is not affected by faro shuffles
Related toVariations 1994 309
Darwin Ortiz Hard Target two selections found by red jacks
Related toAlso published here 2012 55
John Lovick (reviewer) The Devil's Staircase by Greg Chapman Mar. 2015
Genii (Vol. 78 No. 3)
80
Greg Chapman Introduction
2020 9
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
Greg Chapman Faro Fooler - controlling a card to the top with one shuffle and cut two handlings, with crimp at known position, selection replaced during dropping piles on table
  • Fooler No. 1
  • Fooler No. 2
2020 32
Greg Chapman To Bring Cards Together (e.g. 4-of-a-kind to top, middle)
2020 36
Greg Chapman The Faro Shuffle and the Stacked Deck short comment on quartets and Si Stebbins
2020 36
Greg Chapman To Bring Multiple Cards to Specific Positions short note
2020 36
Greg Chapman Anti-Faro comment
2020 36
Greg Chapman In-Faro Calculations: Calculating the new position for any card after each in-faro
2020 37
Greg Chapman 51-Card Faro allowing cuts
2020 38
Greg Chapman The Morphing Stack on using the different faro states of a stack for different routines
Related to
  • Greg Chapman, The Devil's Staircase, 2014
2020 39
Greg Chapman A Difficult Sleight
2020 41
Greg Chapman Faro Shuffle Philosophy
2020 41
Greg Chapman More Faro Descriptions, Theory, Techniques and Routines a few faro references
2020 43
Greg Chapman Searchers Undone faros bring sandwich cards together in stages
Related to 2020 45
Greg Chapman One Card Missing (Version 2) spectator removes any card, after a few faros the performer looks through the cards and names missing card
Inspired by
  • "One Card Missing" (Greg Chapman, Details of Deception, 2017)
2020 49
Greg Chapman Preface
2021 9
Greg Chapman Introduction
2021 13
Greg Chapman Stack Work some general comments
  • Memorized Deck
  • Partial Stack
  • Stack Number versus Position
  • Memorized Deck versus Stacked Deck
  • Stack-friendly
  • Stack-dependent
  • Stack-independent
  • Home
  • Crimp
  • Work
    • Top and Bottom
    • 13, 26, 39, 52 (quartiles)
    • 18 and 35 (thirds)
    • 10, 20, 30, 40, 50
    • Eight Belt Positions
    • Work Without Additional Preparation
    • Edge Marks
  • Architecture of Deception
  • Getting Started the Right Way
2021 17
Greg Chapman Hidden Secrets some more general comments on basic stack concepts
  • Next/Previous Card
  • Card to Stack Number
  • Stack Number to Card
  • Visualizing Groups
  • Open Index
  • Counting up or Down - Adding or Subtracting
  • Two Chains
  • Broken Sequence
  • Missing Card
  • Odd Card Out
  • Belonging to a Group
  • Number of Cards
  • Highest/Lowest Card
  • Next/Previous Card as a Locator
  • Double-key
  • Burn A Card
  • Distance from Bottom
2021 27
Greg Chapman Card Divination spectator cuts deck and deals a few cards, remembers the card at this position, performer divines it, application of "Counting up or Down"
2021 30
Greg Chapman Card Location spectator cuts deck, removes a few from the top and shuffles those, remembers top card and loses pile in deck, application of "Two Chains"
2021 30
Greg Chapman On Practice practice tips for memorized deck work
  • A Common Obstacle
  • The Hard Stuff
  • Variables
    • Short-term Memorization
    • Peeking in Real Time
    • Delayed Recall
  • Drills
  • Basic Drills With A Shuffled Deck
  • Basic Drills With A Deck in Memorized Order
  • Advanced Drills
  • Strategies for Memorization Under Fire
  • Four-Way Cut Exercise
2021 35
Greg Chapman Stop Location selection is lost, spectator deals the cards and performer calls stop at selection
2021 36
Greg Chapman On Conditions thoughts on conditions in the context of memorized deck work
  • Disproving Other Methods
  • Chaos and Order
  • Layering Methods
  • Hands-off Conditions
  • Safety Measures
2021 45
Greg Chapman Crimp Cut Peek spectator selects card with cutting procedure on the table, performer names card, almost hands-off
2021 53
Greg Chapman Three Packet Displacement cutting procedure to remove a card which can be identified by performer
Variations 2021 55
Greg Chapman An Application selection is lost, spectator deals the cards and performer calls stop at selection, using Three Packet Displacement
Inspired by 2021 57
Greg Chapman Free Range Force forcing a card in a specific range in the deck with the Three Packet Displacement procedure, prediction application
Inspired by 2021 59
Greg Chapman Gesture Peek top card thumbed onto table and pushed forward with left hand, new top card glimpsed during push
2021 60
Greg Chapman Card Box Shiner mirror surface stuck to bottom of case so it reflects bottom card of deck set onto case
2021 60
Greg Chapman Packet Tilt Peek - Top right hand cuts packet off deck, top card of that packet is glimpsed
2021 61
Greg Chapman Cull Steal spread cull, with optional palm out into cop position
Related to 2021 61
Greg Chapman Cull Steal - Applications with a Mem-deck
  • Open Index
  • Emergencies
2021 64
Greg Chapman In-the-hands Shiner palmed mirror
2021 66
Greg Chapman Fan Force Revelation Kaplan Fan Force for peeked or named card
Related to 2021 66
Greg Chapman Architettura II preview comments
2021 69
Scott Baird Central Intelligence "a progressive searchers routine", faro shuffles between each phase
Related toVariations Oct. 2022
The Hermit (Vol. 1 No. 10)
442
Greg Chapman Snap Transposition red Jacks sandwich a black Jack, other black Jack in spectator's hand, red and black Jacks transpose
Also published here
  • MAGIC, June 2010
2022 954