Abacus Volume 7 (September 1998 - August 1999)
by Al E. Smith

Number 1 (September 1998)

• Riffs
• Sandspell / Norm Little
• The Sheffield Solution / Roger Curzon
• Parish Or Perish / Ian Surl
• Travis Perkins Assembly Day of Magic Sunday 5th July
• Paul Gordon Performs Miracles?
• Bob Loomis writes ...
• The One-Way Widow / Phil Goldstein
• The Devious One-Way Widow
• The Final Frontier
• How Odd
• A Cinema Ticket Magically Changes to Match One Selected by a Spectator / Paul Hallas

Number 2 (October 1998)

• Riffs
• Primarily Odd / P. S. Hale
• FredstackEd
• Gaffs and Ungaffs
• Class and Classrooms / Granville Rhodes
• Pair Off / William Denbob
• News & Blues
• Populace / Peter Duffie
• Big Stuff
• Abacus Talks To Louis Martelle
• Magic In The Act
• A Matter of Principle: The Gilbreath Principle

Number 3 (November 1998)

• Riffs
• Still Cromatic / Paul Hallas
• Thotdeck / Stephen Tucker
• Time Zone / Les Johnson
• Makingwaves
• Menus & Maps: Street Life
• Routes & Roads: Know Business

Number 4 (December 1998)

• Riffs
• A Case of Yes and No / Miles Michael
• The Straggler / Peter Duffie
• CongratulACEions / Dave Wyton
• Play Up and Play the Game
• Channing Pillock / Walt Lees
• Pay Up and Pay the Game
• The Good The Bad & The Skeggy
• Pay As You Enter
• A Matter Of Principle: Sugar Sugar
• Abacus Talks To Paul Hallas
• Max Maven Rites

Number 5 (January 1999)

• Riffs
• Bookends ... Old Friends: Roger's Thesaurus
• The Buying Game
• What Can't Speak Can't Lie
• "D" For Dealers Day 6th June
• Spellfire / Martin Gale
• Phantomesque / Peter Duffie
• Done Up Like A Dog's Dinner / Stephen Tucker

Number 6 (February 1999)

• Riffs
• Millenium Buggery / Walt Lees
• Archival Antipodes / Brian Glover
• Miniskill / Ken Speckle
• Thanxmas
• More Telly
• Kaneology / Marty Kane
• Gong Ho Ho
• Oh What a Circus
• Where's The Gain Dept
• Solomon's Mind: The Card Mysteries of David Solomon
• The Free Cut Principle

Number 7 (March 1999)

• Riffs
• Ups and Downs / Peter Duffie
• Formula One And On / Reinhard Müller
• Max Maven Rites
• The Buying Game: Pen-Ultimate
• Speak Up Speak Out
• Decktamental
• Elmsley Account
• Events and Overtaking
• CBC Extract
• Amateur Champion
• A Tome With Leveridge
• The Trying Game
• Invisible Die Location / Paul Hallas
• No School Like An Old School: Card College
• Streetlife: Rebels Without a Causeway
• School's Out: Card College

Number 8 (April 1999)

• Riffs
• Mathe-Matchical Mix / Marty Kane
• Max Maven Rights
• Open Travaillers / Walt Lees
• Marty Kane's Widow: The Story So Far ...
• Blackpool Close-Up
• Oops Dept
• Final Reminder
• Blackpool From a Distance / Gary Hall
• Back to School: Card College
• The Famous Jack of Spades Trick / Aldo Colombini
• Not only is it degrading, it's not art

Number 9 (May 1999)

• Riffs
• Card College Graduation Day
• Lady Luck / Stephen Tucker
• The Youngeste Day
• Jiminy / Roy Johnson
• Wot-A-Lot
• Learning Tricks?
• A Lead For The Monkey / Paul Hallas
• Thirty Seven Years Later / Peter Duffie
• Mindful Mentalism
• Piano
• More Telly

Number 10 (June 1999)

• Riffs
• The Scrying Game
• The Things They Say Dept
• Full Pack Computer / Keith Downs
• This Must Be It II / Paul Gordon
• Peter ... Who?
• The Legendary Kabbala: Jon Racherbaumer
• Young Buggers
• Leg-Ends? Or Old Boots
• Gizmo Smallpiece / Stephen Tucker

Number 11 (July 1999)

• Riffs
• Max Maven's Videomind
• Something Old Something Blue
• Spellfire II / Peter Duffie
• The Buying Game: 21 Card Tricks
• Sympo-Dear
• Snowflakes / Jack Jansen
• Derby Daze & Bolton Wondering
• Late Review: Merlin's Coin Safe
• Jennings '67 by Richard Kaufman
• Nitpicking & Similar
• Leeds

Number 12 (August 1999)

• Riffs
• The Shadow Knows / Moss Pundey
• Interesting Times / Steve Davies
• This & That
• Lowdown / Phil Goldstein
• Dickiebirdland / Will Thorpe
• Roger Crosthwaite writes ...
• Day of Magic Sunday 4th July
• The Devil's Jaythings / William O'Connor
• The Invisible Men
• A Chip Off The Old Block / Alan Gardiner
• Fourcast / Aldo Colombini
• The Cheating Gambler / Paul Hallas
• Passing Fancy

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