Description
This is a lovely collection of simple tricks, puzzles, brain teasers and other similar items. Each one is explained with text and an illustration.
- INTRODUCTION
- Tricks With Matches
- Strike Safety Matches Without Box
- Levitation of a Match Box
- The Leaning Match
- A Light That Failed
- Which End Burns First?
- Balancing a Match
- The Mystic Matches
- A Puzzle With Matches
- A Square by Moving One Match
- Self-Serving Match Box
- Tricks With Coins
- Mysterious Sounding Money
- The Changed Coins in Hand
- Chosen Coin Picked Out
- Coin Appears in Empty Box
- A Puzzle With a Coin
- Coin Balanced on Tumbler
- To See Both Sides of a Coin at Once
- Disappearing Coin in Box
- Coin Dissolves Into Air
- Tricks With Cards
- The Rejected Soldiers
- Telling Cards from Backs
- The Three Aces
- Finding a Selected Card
- Separated Cards – Joined
- The Leaping Calling Card
- Tricks With Tumblers
- Tumbler From Pocket
- Magnetizing a Tumbler
- Balanced Glass of Water
- The Tuneful Tumbler
- Spiritualistic Glass of Water
- Tricks with Paper and Pencil
- Disappearing Bit of Paper
- A Divination
- A Feat of Strength
- The Magic Paper Bands
- Magnetized Paper
- Tricks with String and Elastic
- Jumping Rubber Band
- Finger and String
- Disappearing Elastic
- Tricks with Cigars and Cigarettes
- Adhering Cigarette
- Anti-Gravity Cigarette
- The Magic Cigar Band
- The Magnetized Cigar or Cigarette
- Find a Marked Cigarette Paper
- Tricks With Numbers
- To Find a Total of Secret Figures
- Rapid Addition to Make 100
- Tricks with Dice and Dominoes
- The Magnetized Dice
- To Foretell the End Numbers in a Game of Dominoes
- Miscellaneous Tricks
- Hypnotizing an Apple
- Illuminating Lump Sugar
- Here’s a Magical Sex Indicator
- Mysterious Spots on a Knife
- To Tell if Number on Dollar Bill Is Odd or Even
- The Changing Postage Stamp
- Changing an Orange to an Apple
1st edition 1921, 29 pages; PDF 39 pages.
word count: 6320 which is equivalent to 25 standard pages of text
