Faro Concepts Authored by Murray Bonfeld Selfpublished, 1977 (Spiralbound), 56 pages (26 entries)

(typed in by Denis Behr)

Creator	Title of Routine or Sleight	Comment	Page	Categories
Murray Bonfeld	Novel Faro Relationships	introducing mathematical language and some properties - Basic Terminology and Operations - For A 52 Card Deck Only - For A 51 Card Deck Only	2	Cards / Sleights  / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities
Alex Elmsley	In and Out Terminology	context	2	Cards / Sleights  / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / General Comments
Murray Bonfeld	Faro Functions	further notations and properties	8	Cards / Sleights  / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities
Murray Bonfeld	Even Number Of Cards	relationships for decks with 2n cards	8	Cards / Sleights  / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities
Murray Bonfeld	Faro Shuffle Recycling Table	required number of in and out shuffles listed for a deck with 2-52 cards, context	10	Cards / Sleights  / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities
Murray Bonfeld	Up And Down Faro System	turning one half over before faro shuffling them together and how it affects the recycling properties	11	Cards / Sleights  / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities
Murray Bonfeld	Unit Shuffles	see also Karl Fulves' The Theoretical Faro	11	Cards / Sleights  / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities
Murray Bonfeld	Multiples Of Four	relationships for decks with 4n cards	12	Cards / Sleights  / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities
Murray Bonfeld	Odd Numbers Of Cards	relationships for decks with 2n-1 cards	13	Cards / Sleights  / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities
Murray Bonfeld	Unit Restorations	see also Karl Fulves' The Theoretical Faro	16	Cards / Sleights  / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities
Murray Bonfeld	The 32-Card Deck: An Analysis	20 properties and relationships for a deck with 32 cards, some things also hold for a deck with 2n cards	18	Cards / Sleights  / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities
Murray Bonfeld	The Principle of Internal Shuffling	following groups and belts within a 52-card deck and how they behave under variations of in- and out-shuffles, see also Karl Fulves' Primitive Cycles, Other Forms Of The Transposition - Controlling 16 Cards Among 52 - Controlling 10 Cards Among 52 - Controlling 8 Cards Among 52 - Inshuffle Groups - Odd Deck Technique	27	Cards / Sleights  / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities
Murray Bonfeld	Placement For Thirds	faro shuffle that distributes a group 3 cards apart, e.g. the spades then lie SxxSxxSxx..., not a perfect tripe faro	31	Cards / Sleights  / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Faro Oddities	Cards / Sleights  / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Faro Stacking	Cards / Sleights  / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / In the Hands	Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Faro Placement
Murray Bonfeld	Sympathetic Perception	5 (mental) selections, deck shuffled and dealt into 3 piles, all selections end up in one pile	32	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / limited Choice	Cards / Effect Themes / Sympathetic Effects / Miscellaneous
Murray Bonfeld	Thirteen Reverse	spades are ordered but distributed in deck, their order is reversed with faro shuffles	33	Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Card Control
Murray Bonfeld	Shuffled Interchange	2 spade cards are named, their position in the deck is transposed with faros	34	Cards / Effect Themes / "Number Effects" / Two Cards change position	Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Card Control
Murray Bonfeld	Any Card, Any Number - The First System	shuffling card from position x to the top in odd deck, modified in-faro for even deck that ignored bottom card, reverse method for Alex Elmsley's Binary Translocation No.1, see also William Zavis' Beginning Again	41	Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Faro Placement	Cards / Sleights  / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities
Murray Bonfeld	Any Card, Any Number - The Second System	bringing a card from position x to y with faro shuffling, odd deck, with even deck modified in-faro is required that ignores top card, generalization of Alex Elmsley's Binary Translocations	42	Cards / Effect Themes / "Number Effects" / Any Card at Any Number	Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Faro Placement	Cards / Sleights  / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities
Murray Bonfeld & Alex Elmsley	Principles and Routines	applications for Alex Elmsley's Penelope's Principle	48	Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Faro Placement	Cards / Sleights  / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities
Murray Bonfeld	Cut Coincidence	selection is found at number specified by amount of cut-off cards, Penelope's Principle, faro	48	Cards / Effect Themes / "Number Effects" / Card is found at total of Cut-Off Packet or thought-of/chosen Number
Murray Bonfeld	More Power Of Thought	stay stack, faro, Penelope's Principle	48	Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Power of Thought - Theme	Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck strategies / Stay Stack
Murray Bonfeld	Column Correspondence	faro, Penelope's Principle	49	Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Power of Thought - Theme
Karl Fulves & Alex Elmsley	Penelope's Principle as a Force	faro, context	49	Cards / Sleights  / Force / Count Forces
Murray Bonfeld	Caught Card #1001	faro, Penelope's Principle	50	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Simple Sandwich
Murray Bonfeld	Double Coincidence	finding mates ala Power of Thought, then the other 2 mates as well, faro, Penelope's Principle, full deck stack	50	Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Power of Thought - Theme	Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck strategies / Full Stack
Murray Bonfeld	More Theorems	relationships when faros are combined with cuts in even deck - Cuts And Faros Combined - Shuffle Theorems	52	Cards / Sleights  / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities

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