Abacus Volume 3 (September 1994 - August 1995)
by Al E. Smith

Number 1 (September 1994)

• SiFoFoFa (2)
• Riffs: That's Sawn it!
• Twisters Under The Skin / Walt Lees
• That Puzzles Me
• Doc Eason
• Restaurant Reservations
• Totat / Peter Duffie
• Blackpool Blockbuster / Stephen Tucker, Brian Glover
• Bristol Ditties
• Downtown Stories
• Glidram / Abe Akers
• Pincers
• Liquid Ice
• Tricks That Work Dept
• Expulsion or Excommunication
• Still Turning / Paul Hallas
• Forces For Courses
• Block Spread Force

Number 2 (October 1994)

• Ballots
• Riffs: Nor Borrower Be
• Touriste Trade
• Tranquil Trap / Peter Duffie
• Wishing On A Strat
• The Impossible Dream
• Wass Not Was
• Words
• The Last Resort?
• Return to Discrepancy City / Rod Ethtie
• Lost and Found / Abe Akers
• Play it Again
• King Done Come / Adam Bell
• In Passing / Sam Lith
• Edwardian Style / Ed Ward
• Downtown Stories
• Fees Again
• Quadrincidence
• Manx For the Memory

Number 3 (November 1994)

• Hardly Complete
• Riffs
• Downtown Stories
• They Do It With Mirrors / Walt Lees
• Bargain Or Barloss?
• Bob's Your Uncle's Card / Alan Francis
• Faro Hate
• September Song
• Drawn In The USA
• The Infallible Detection / Bob Driebeek
• Seconds Away / Ed Ward
• ReBeCCCa / Rod Ethtie
• Quote Unquote and Quote
• Me Too
• Factual Attraction
• The Automatic Self
• The Manual Self
• Earnestly Being Important / Ken Speckle

Number 4 (December 1994)

• Staying the Course
• Riffs
• Is What You See What You Get?
• The Flight of the Missionaries / Peter Duffie
• Swindle Pass
• Going Going ...
• Plots and Plans and Royal Scams
• Ringing In The Sheaves
• Roll Up! Roll Up! Chance of a Lifetime!
• Into the Distance
• It Never Rains ...
• The Jog-Top Change / Melvin LeHair
• Quicksandwich / Melvin LeHair
• Repeating Sandwich
• Yes Or No
• Bob's Bit
• Tranquil Trapper
• Potat / Paul Hallas

Number 5 (January 1995)

• Straight From the Pen of the Master Card Worker
• Riffs
• It Couldn't Happen Today
• Hell Or Well
• Great Scot! / Alan Francis
• Dashing White Parchment Department
• Move It
• Talonitis Or What a Sorcerer
• A Sleight Frost
• Auld Lang Syne of the Times
• Oh No It Isn't!
• Raffia At The Back
• Oops
• Oops Again
• Utility Poker / Les Johnson
• Close-Up On Close-Up / Tony Griffith
• Overworked Poker / R. Paul Wilson
• The Others Of Invention / Walt Lees
• Photat / Paul Hallas

Number 6 (February 1995)

• Back On Course
• Riffs
• Carter's Fooler / Peter Duffie
• Another Thought On Staystack / Peter Duffie
• Nostalgia Unleashed
• Who Cares?
• Bit Of a Dickens
• Between the Salt Water
• Not a Review
• Tidings Of ...
• Aftermas
• Overworked Poker Reworked
• Slop Shuffle
• The Multiple Top Change (1)
• Clowning Around
• Illogical But Unique / Simon Dixon
• Railway Cuttings

Number 7 (March 1995)

• Another Course
• Riffs
• C.O. Williams Meets Francis Carlyle / Peter Duffie
• Close-Up On Close-Up / Tony Griffith
• Scot Too! / Alan Francis
• Scot Free! / Alan Francis
• Strongish Magic
• Treble Top / Shaun McCree
• Telly
• Bell of Confusion
• Ready Steady Go! / Paul Hallas
• Cute Ace / Ken Speckle
• Bolton Wonderers

Number 8 (April 1995)

• Of Course What Else?
• Riffs
• Swindlacious / Peter Duffie
• Your Starter For ... / Alan Francis
• Magic Club Quiz Night Could Change Your Life / Anthony Owen Talks to a New Member
• Stacking the Deck II / Walt Lees
• Ruminations
• Forward In Time
• Her and There
• Be Prepared Or Not / Roger Barons
• Who?
• Left Hand Right / Ken Speckle
• Mated Triumph / Brian Glover
• My Favourite Force / Jack Jansen
• Summertime Hues

Number 9 (May 1995)

• Arma Nag
• Riffs
• Transport Ma Non Impromptu / Alan Francis
• The Gimmick
• Magic Access / Tony Griffith
• Mark Time
• Snapped
• Don't Pay the Ferryman
• Photat / Paul Hallas
• The View From Stephen Tucker / Stephen Tucker
• Jack's Attic / Jack Jansen
• Three Tops / Ken Speckle
• A Musing
• Problem? What Problem?
• Beyond Belief
• Books and Stuff

Number 10 (June 1995)

• The Only Course?
• Riffs
• Brisk Collectors / Peter Duffie
• Si's (Plus) Fours / Alan Francis
• Bill's Secret / Jack Jansen
• Not So Brill
• Low Bids
• Kandinsky Park
• Photat / Paul Hallas
• The British Close-Up Magic Symposium - The Book
• Featnotes
• Down The Pub / Walt Lees
• WYSIWYG ... Sometimes
• Edcomment
• Here and There
• Threnody: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Number 11 (July 1995)

• Riffs
• Forces Favourite / Ed Ward
• A Fistful Of Wallets
• Don't Avoid the Crush
• Poll Position
• Imogen / George McBride
• The Leicester Shuffle
• Too Much Of a Good Thing Dept.
• Last of the Romantics
• Wellington
• Troika Queens / Melvin LeHair
• Barr None
• Cape Cod Conclave / Paul Hallas

Number 12 (August 1995)

• Still On Course
• Riffs
• Duffie's Double Deal
• The Maze Connection / Peter Duffie
• Triple Trauma / Peter Duffie
• Here and There
• WYSIWYG ... Sometimes (II)
• Unbelievable But True Dept
• The Day Of the Traffics
• Truly Missed
• Open See Same
• Stone Me
• Trick Boxes
• Aces For Connie Sewers
• Aces For Connoisseurs Revisited / Brian Glover
• Wata Wata Everywhere
• Trashcan Man
• End Of the Road

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