Abacus Volume 8 (September 1999 - August 2000)
by Al E. Smith

Number 1 (September 1999)

• Riffs
• Photat / Paul Hallas
• Wronged
• Spell My Number or Watch The Paint Dry / Stephen Tucker
• The Magic of Ken Hawes
• prelude / Ken Speckle
• Roger's Real Gone Aces
• Collected Card Notes by Justin Higham
• Max Maven Rites
• What Every Close-Up Competitor Wants
• Music Is Magic
• Mallory Towers

Number 2 (October 1999)

• Riffs
• Dear Al
• Which Trials? / William O'Connor
• Pass the Salt
• Nothing Changes Dept
• It's a Point of View / Dave Wyton
• Ban the Crimp / Joe McKay
• Peter Duffie Rights
• Tricks They Never Play On the Radio: Intooit
• Edcomment
• Review: Chad Long Lecture Video

Number 3 (November 1999)

• Riffs
• Twice Removed / Aldo Colombini
• The Six Day Pour
• Scumbag Alert
• Cause and Effect by Paul Gordon
• Virtual Credibility
• Higham's Hokus / Justin Higham
• Hell Raising Poker Players / Marty Kane

Number 4 (December 1999)

• Riffs
• Reality of Llanduono / Kenneth Sharples
• Backtoback / Tony Griffith
• Bob Loomis writes ...
• Notorio
• Nerdex / Ken Speckle
• Durham's Century

Number 5 (January 2000)

• Riffs
• Face Off / Steve Beam
• Reservations: Endeavour to Persevere
• Props & Swops
• The 6th British Close-Up Symposium Book
• It's From An Old Familiar Whore
• Spectrum / Louis Martelle
• Sadowizard / Randolph Crankel
• Read Me Seemore / Abel Marker

Number 6 (February 2000)

• Riffs
• Heads and Tails / Walt Lees
• Angels in Disguise / Greg Nicholson
• Matrix / James Ashford
• Arcardia by Roger Crosthwaite
• Arcadia Mixture
• Magic: the ever vanishing art

Number 7 (March 2000)

• Riffs
• Let's List Again / Charles Sydney
• If It's Not This It's / Kenneth Sharples
• Pocket to Pocket
• Backtrack & Packtrack
• This Just In Dept
• Passe Parthree / Aldo Colombini
• Rigged RE Jigged / Jonothon Fordash

Number 8 (April 2000)

• Riffs
• Sleight of Bland / Walt Lees
• Blank Score / Neil Pointer
• Toys and Noise
• Dept Of Emetics
• A Mat Less Ordinary / Stephen Tucker
• Durhambassador
• Roger Crosthwaite writes ...
• The Himber Wallet Book by Harry Lorayne

Number 9 (May 2000)

• Riffs
• Only Joking? or Magicians Behaving Sadly / Walt Lees
• Rhythm Of The Rain
• Abacus at Peterborough
• Speckleation Dept
• Reading Room
• Whatever Next Dept
• This Chalming Man
• Inspiral Cardpets
• The Great Detective / Peter Duffie
• And the Winner is ...

Number 10 (June 2000)

• Riffs
• Highs and Lows
• My Thoughts On Cabaret
• 100% Recyclable: Blufette
• Dear Me-Mail
• Friday Nite at the Puzzleadium
• Winners All
• Leeds
• Direct Disappearance
• Merging Birth
• Rolled Gold / Jack Jansen
• Bluff / Diamond

Number 11 (July 2000)

• Riffs
• One of Four / Paul Hallas
• Spot the Shine
• The Marshallcy
• FISM
• Missing Houdini / Jay Gordon
• 2001: A Sympoddysey
• Hysterical Oddments
• You Can Count On Them / Aldo Colombini
• Honour among Deceivers
• Street Cred

Number 12 (August 2000)

• Riffs
• Without a Dare in the World / Peter Duffie
• FISM
• Philo Sopherstone
• Oddznsodz
• Bugs in the System
• Close-Up: The Real Real Work?
• BMS Auction 2000
• The Patter of Tiny Counts / Ken de Cource
• Ecaldo / Abe Akers
• A slightly different approach to the Riffle Force

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