Faro Concepts by Murray Bonfeld

This is primarily a mathematical treatment of the faro shuffle. It explores the principles and properties underlying the faro shuffle for decks with different numbers of cards. You will find some effects and routines as well. Foreword by Karl Fulves.

Novel Faro Relationships
Basic Terminology and Operations
For A 52 Card Deck Only
For A 51 Card Deck Only
Faro Functions
Even Numbers Of Cards
Up And Down Faro System
Unit Shuffles
Multiples Of Four
Odd Numbers Of Cards
Unit Restorations
The 32-Card Deck: An Analysis
The Principle of Internal Shuffling
Controlling 16 Cards Among 52
Controlling 10 Cards Among 52
Controlling 8 Cards Among 52
Placement of Thirds
Sympathetic Perception
Thirteen Reverse
Shuffled Interchange
Any Card, Any Number
The First System
The Second System
Special Cases
Principles And Routines
Cut Coincidence
More Power Of Thought
Column Correspondence
Caught Card #1001
Double Coincidence
More Theorems
Cuts And Faros Combined
Shuffle Theorems
1st edition 1977, 1st digital edition 2013, 56 pages.
word count: 17188 which is equivalent to 68 standard pages of text