 | Faro & Riffle Technique with the 3 Supplements Authored by Karl Fulves Selfpublished, 1969/1970 (Spiralbound), 90 pages (86 entries) | (typed in by Denis Behr) |
| Creator | Title of Routine or Sleight | Comment | Page | CARC | Categories | |||
| Karl Fulves | Faro Transforms | discussing properties of the faro to exchange two cards within the deck and to recycle the order | 2 |  | Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities | |||
| Karl Fulves | Faro Rings | notation to illustrate behavior of cards during faro shuffles, see also Addenda on page 60 | 2 | | Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities | |||
| Karl Fulves | Position Determination | following a card's position during in and out faros | 3 | | Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities | |||
| Karl Fulves | The Triple Faro Ring | 4 | | Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities | ||||
| Karl Fulves | Definition of Terms | for faro transforms, Example 1-6 | 5 | | Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / General Comments | |||
| Karl Fulves | General Transform Characteristics | discussing how the order is affected through faro shuffling in a 2n deck 1. Reversibility 2. The Recycling Corollary 3. Commutative Property 4. Additive Property 5. Position Equivalency 6. Substitutions 7. Non-Symmetric Transforms | 7 | | Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities | |||
| Karl Fulves | The Fourth-Order Deck | discussing transpositions of 2 cards within the deck | 12 | | Cards / Effect Themes / "Number Effects" / Two Cards change position | Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities | ||
| Karl Fulves | Other Forms Of The Transposition | transpositions of 3 or more cards within the deck with some examples (2n cards in a deck), Examples 7-10, see also Primitive Cycles, Murray Bonfeld's The Principle Of Internal Shuffling | 12 | | Cards / Effect Themes / "Number Effects" / Two Cards change position | |||
| Karl Fulves | Three Way Transposition | note | 15 | | Cards / Effect Themes / "Number Effects" / Two Cards change position | Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities | ||
| Karl Fulves | Fractional Transforms | note | 15 | | Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities | Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Partial Faro | ||
| Karl Fulves | The Recycling Problem | "The general solution is somewhat more involved and will not be discussed here." | 16 | | Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities | |||
| Karl Fulves | Gray Codes | definition, see also Addenda on page 60 | 17 | | Cards / Principles / Gray Code | |||
| Karl Fulves | Coding The Deck | - Coding The Faces - Coding The Backs - Coding The Spectators | 17 | | Cards / Principles / Gray Code | |||
| Karl Fulves | Example 11 | selection from packet, shuffled, value of top card used to count down to selection, gray code and faro | 18 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Face up Card is used to count down and find selection | Cards / Principles / Gray Code | ||
| Karl Fulves | Example 12 | selection from packet, shuffled, value of selection used to count down to selection, gray code and faro | 18 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Location / One Card Location | Cards / Principles / Gray Code | ||
| Karl Fulves | Example 13 | 2 spectators note cards in a packet, after some questions and shuffling they are on the top, gray code and faro | 19 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Multiple Location Routine | Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling & Lie Detector Effects / Lie Detector | Cards / Principles / Gray Code | |
| Karl Fulves | Example 14 | 2 spectators note cards in a packet, after some questions and shuffling they are on the top, gray code and faro | 20 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Multiple Location Routine | Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling & Lie Detector Effects / Lie Detector | Cards / Principles / Gray Code | |
| Karl Fulves | Example 15 | blank card is inserted in card packet, it becomes a card according to spectator's wishes (more or less), gray code and faro, see also William Zavis' full-deck version Beginning Again | 21 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Printing & "Unprinting" | Cards / Principles / Gray Code | ||
| Karl Fulves | Example 16 | 32 cards, any card specified in stages (color, suit, value...) comes to top after some faro shuffling, gray code and faro | 22 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Card Control | Cards / Principles / Gray Code | ||
| Karl Fulves | Gray Stak | combining gray code and stay stack in a deck with 8 cards, in the application a selection is divined, see also Addenda on page 60, for 16- and 32-Card Arrangements see Earl Keyser's Reflected Gray Stack | 23 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Divination / Miscellaneous | Cards / Principles / Gray Code | Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck strategies / Stay Stack | |
| Karl Fulves | Riffle Shuffle Techniques | commentary on Reflected Set-Ups, Interlocking Stacks, ... in combination with riffle shuffle | 24 | | Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / General Comments | Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck strategies / Partial Stack | Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Full Stack | |
| Karl Fulves | Interlocking Stacks | in the example a pile is riffle shuffled and packets of 4 cards each distributed, one knows something about matching values in the packets, see also Addenda on page 60 | 25 | | Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Full Stack | Cards / Effect Themes / Divination / Miscellaneous | ||
| Karl Fulves | Interface Technique - Example 17 | spectator shuffles deck and deals cards out in blocks of 4, suit of face card of any packet and value of next packet's top card are combined to represent a card, this is predicted | 26 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Off-beat Predictions | Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Full Stack | ||
| Karl Fulves | A Note On Four-Card Cycles | 27 | | Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Full Stack | ||||
| Karl Fulves | Halving The Prediction | presentation idea for Interlocking Stacks, see also following item | 27 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Off-beat Predictions | Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Full Stack | ||
| Karl Fulves | Prophet's Loss | cards shuffles and dealt off in groups of 5, words are written on backs that combine e.g. to "The next matching cards will be jacks" and in the next pile of 5 cards this is verified, repeated | 28 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Off-beat Predictions | Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Full Stack | ||
| Karl Fulves | Marked Improvement | cards shuffled and dealt in groups of 5, marks on back of cards of one pile tell what's in the next pile | 31 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Miscellaneous | Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Full Stack | ||
| Karl Fulves | Application To Self-Centering Stacks | 32 | | Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Full Stack | ||||
| Karl Fulves | Displacement Techniques | on the definition of "riffle shuffle" | 33 | | Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / General Comments | |||
| Karl Fulves | Joker Poker | joker is inserted in 15-card packet which is then dealt out, hand with joker has a pair and wins | 33 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / You just get the winning Hand... | |||
| Karl Fulves | Like Seeks Like | 2 cards next to each other are turned over, packet dealt out, cards next to reversed cards are of the same value | 34 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Mates / Mates | Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Miscellaneous | ||
| Karl Fulves | Finders | 3 cards next to each other are turned over, packet dealt out, cards next to reversed cards are of the same value | 35 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Miscellaneous | |||
| Karl Fulves | Out Of Hand | 2 cards are removed from packet, rest dealt out, suits of selections and suits in piles have some coincidences | 35 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Miscellaneous | |||
| Karl Fulves | Torn Corner Control | push-through failure with a card that has a corner openly torn off | 37 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Push-Through Failure | |||
| Karl Fulves | Layman's Lace-Thru | crude Zarrow type shuffle, as an exposé move | 39 | | Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / False / Zarrow type Shuffles | |||
| Karl Fulves | Center Control | see also simplified Mechanical Card Controls, Bruce Cervon's handling Pivot Revelation | 40 | | Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / Tabled | Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Flashy Location | ||
| Karl Fulves | Double Control | deck riffle shuffled, not squared, halves separated again and one selection is protruding from both halves, see also Carmen D'Amico's single card version, Jack Carpenter's Four At Once | 42 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Flashy Location | Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / Tabled | ||
| Karl Fulves | Locating The Aces | tabled ace production with riffle shuffle revelations | 43 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Four of a kind Effects / Production / One by One | |||
| Karl Fulves | The Triple Faro - Shuffle Definitions | theoretical, since no technique is given | 45 | | Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Faro Oddities | |||
| Karl Fulves | Reverse Triple Faro | 45 | | Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Antifaro / Reverse Faro | ||||
| Karl Fulves | The 3n Deck | properties related to the Triple Faro | 46 | | Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities | |||
| Karl Fulves | Recycling The 3n Deck | with the Triple Faro | 47 | | Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities | |||
| Karl Fulves | Inverse Shuffles | properties of the Triple Faro | 47 | | Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities | |||
| Karl Fulves | Riffle/Reverse Notes | combination of riffle shuffle and reverse faro, related to Gilbreath Principle, see Riffle/Reverse | 48 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Miscellaneous | Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Full Stack | Cards / Principles / Gilbreath Principle & Applications | |
| Karl Fulves | Black Magic Notes | effect about matching pairs of red and black, related to Gilbreath Principle, see Black Magic, see also Addenda on page 60 | 49 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Miscellaneous | Cards / Principles / Gilbreath Principle & Applications | ||
| Karl Fulves | New Light on Black Magic | face-up/face-down shuffled deck, effect with matching pairs of face-down and face-up cards with several phases | 50 | | Cards / Principles / Gilbreath Principle & Applications | |||
| Karl Fulves | Mechanical Card Controls | simplifying the Center Control with stripper cards or cards with corner torn off | 52 | | Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / Tabled | Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper | ||
| Karl Fulves | Adjacencies | problem of bringing 2 cards at random position together with faro shuffles | 53 | | Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities | |||
| Karl Fulves | The Partial Faro | selection procedure with faros that places a key card next to selection | 53 | | Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Faro Oddities | Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Partial Faro | Cards / Principles / Key Card Principles / Key Card Placements | |
| Karl Fulves | As A Vanish | placing sticky card next to selection with faro, also rough-smooth method | 53 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Single Card | Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards | Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Rough and Smooth Decks | |
| Karl Fulves | As A Force | card is selected and shuffled in deck, spectator should now also remember card next to his selection which is forced and can have different back | 54 | | Cards / Sleights / Force / Mathematical Forces | Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Single Card / Back | ||
| Karl Fulves | As A Stop Trick | comedy presentation, on a card is written when spectator should stop | 55 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stop Trick | Cards / Effect Themes / Location / "Funny" Locations (whatever that means...) | ||
| Karl Fulves | The Gray Liar | questions about selection are asked, at the end top card has text written on it that says when spectator lied and where the selection is, faro, see also Addenda on page 60, Roy Walton's version Flip Flop | 56 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling & Lie Detector Effects / Lie Detector | Cards / Principles / Gray Code | ||
| Karl Fulves | An Odd Gray Coincidence | 2 packets from different decks, question and faro shuffling procedure before coincidence | 57 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Power of Thought - Theme | Cards / Principles / Gray Code | Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck strategies / Stay Stack | |
| Karl Fulves | Unit Control | 2 5-card packets with different backs are put together, 3 faros, one card from top 5 cards is now in bottom section and vice versa | 58 | | Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Faro Oddities | |||
| Karl Fulves | Unit Transpo | 2 5-card packets with different backs are put together after a selection is made from each, 3 faros, selections are in odd-backed piles now | 58 | | Cards / Effect Themes / "Number Effects" / Two Cards change position | |||
| Karl Fulves | Trans-Script | 2 signatures change position, with odd-backed duplicates, faro, see also Addenda on page 60 | 58 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Signature Effects | |||
| Karl Fulves | Block Transfer | historical information, context | 61 | | Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / Transfers & Displacements | |||
| William Zavis | Beginning Again | odd-backed blank card is inserted in deck, it becomes a card according to spectator's wishes, gray code and faro, full-deck version of Karl Fulves' In The Beginning and Example 15, see also Murray Bonfeld's Any Card, Any Number - The First System, Earl Keyser's Faro Again | 62 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Printing & "Unprinting" | Cards / Principles / Gray Code | ||
| Karl Fulves | At The 17th | in small packet 2 selections are located with an odd-backed joker that transforms in a 3-spot, then 4-spot, faro | 63 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Face up Card is used to count down and find selection | Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Single Card / Front | ||
| Roy Walton | Flip Flop | simplified version of Karl Fulves' The Gray Liar with reverse faros | 64 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling & Lie Detector Effects / Lie Detector | Cards / Principles / Gray Code | ||
| Karl Fulves | The Interrogation Technique | packet of blank cards is faro shuffled, one printed card is then seen which matches what the spectator wanted (color, odd/even,...), see also Interrogating the Deck | 66 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Printing & "Unprinting" | Cards / Principles / Gray Code | ||
| Karl Fulves | Triumff | 67 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Effect Variations | ||||
| Roy Walton | The Abacus Card Trick | 4 cards chosen, gray code on one way backs | 69 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge multiple Card Location | Cards / Effect Themes / Divination / Miscellaneous | Cards / Principles / Gray Code | Cards / Principles / One Way / Miscellaneous |
| Karl Fulves | Accountable | some mathematics of the riffle shuffle | 71 | | Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / General Comments | |||
| Robert E. Neale | Infernal Machine | "programmed" card packet, exactly wrong in coming up with desired card | 72 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Divination / Miscellaneous | |||
| Karl Fulves | The Block Transfer | general comments | 74 | | Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / Transfers & Displacements | |||
| Karl Fulves | Setting Up The Move | with block transfer, similar to Retaining Top Stock | 74 | | Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / False / Partial | Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / Transfers & Displacements | ||
| Karl Fulves | The Negative Transfer | to get rid of top cards | 75 | | Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / Transfers & Displacements | |||
| Karl Fulves | A Note On The Proceedings | comment on block transfer described before | 76 | | Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / Transfers & Displacements | |||
| Karl Fulves | Top Card Cover | block transfer variation | 76 | | Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / Transfers & Displacements | |||
| Karl Fulves | The Double Transfer | shifting blocks in both directions simultaneously | 77 | | Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / Transfers & Displacements | |||
| Karl Fulves | The Stripper Deck | commentary | 78 | | Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper | |||
| Karl Fulves | General Considerations | handling the stripper deck to control cards with tabled riffle shuffles - Control To The Top - Control To The Bottom | 78 | | Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper | Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Shuffle Controls | ||
| Karl Fulves & Theodore Annemann | The Annotated Annemann | reversing a selection in one-way or stripper deck | 79 | | Cards / Principles / One Way / Miscellaneous | Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper | ||
| Karl Fulves | Combination Control | controlling 2 selections in stripper deck with tabled riffle shuffles | 80 | | Cards / Sleights / Controls / Multiple Card Controls / Shuffle Controls | Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper | ||
| Karl Fulves | Auto-Stack | stripper deck application for stacking | 82 | | Cards / Sleights / Stacking / Stacking without Shuffling | Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper | ||
| Karl Fulves | Octogonal Aces | aces shuffled reversed in deck, cut to again, stripper deck | 82 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Magician cuts to the Aces | Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper | ||
| Unknown | Tabled Slip Cut | context | 83 | | Cards / Sleights / Cuts / Slip Cut | |||
| Karl Fulves | What - No Reversal? | stripper deck throw offs | 84 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Magicians Only Gags | Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Locations / Miscellaneous | Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper | |
| Karl Fulves | Sidebars | stripper deck throw off, faro | 85 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Location / One Card Location | Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper | ||
| Karl Fulves | Stripper-Teckel | selection and mate are found, fair procedure, stripper deck | 86 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Mates / Mates | Cards / Effect Themes / Location / One Card Location | Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper | |
| Karl Fulves | Small World | stripper deck | 87 | | Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / by Spectator / Out of this World & Variants | Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper | ||
| Karl Fulves | Theoretical Strippers | special cut, negative transfer (block transfer) as application | 88 | | Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper | Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / Transfers & Displacements | ||
| Karl Fulves | Pure Theory | thoughts on generalized stripper principle | 89 | | Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper | |||
| Karl Fulves | A Note On Handling | handling a stripper deck | 90 | | Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Stripper | |||