Match IC
by Martin Gardner

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A collection of impromptu tricks and stunts involving matches. To save space and to avoid trivial details, the descriptions have been made as brief as possible and all finer points of presentation and patter have been left to the ingenuity of the reader.

The main categories are wooden matches, paper matches, tricks & jokes & catches, and puzzles.

WOODEN MATCHES
1. Magnetized Matches
2. Escapo
3. Striking En Passant
4. Match Box Monte
5. Match And Handkerchief
6. Another Method
7. Still Another Method
8. And Still Another
9. Electric Match
10. Invisible Hair
11. Blowing Through The Sleeves
12. Vanishing Penny
13. Fly Apart Matches
14. Odd And Even
15. Tramps And Geese
16. Which Hand?
17. Penetrating Matches
18. Three Heaps
19. Three Match Heads
20. Match That Lights Twice
21. Musical Fork
22. Acrobatic Box
23. Matches Through The Table
24. Mysterious Mark
25. Contrary Match Box
PAPER MATCHES
1. Light From The Wrong End
2. Smoke From Nowhere
3. Folder And String
4. Reappearing Matches
5. Divination
6. Parlor Mind Reading
7. One To Ten
8. Removable Heads
9. Mentalists Only
TRICKS, JOKES, CATCHES
1. Blowing Through A Tumbler
2. Iron Match
3. Lighted Match From Box
4. Smash It
5. Match Munition
6. No Light
7. Humming Match
8. Strength Tester
9. Burned Fingers
10. Walking Match
11. Vanishing Matches
12. Pop Up
13. Match Head Submarines
14. Prolonged Kiss
15. Light For Two
16. Roly Poly Box
17. Kiddie Kar
18. Trick Cigar
19. Rising Match Box
20. Automatic Light
21. Oversize
22. Striking Safety Matches Without The Box
23. Cover Change
24. Chin Penetration
PUZZLES
1. Perfect Square
2. Equation
3. Star
4. What Happens
5. Drop It
6. Crosses
7. Match, Tumblers, And Salt Shaker
8. Linked Hands
9. Puzzle Lift
10. Puzzle Split
11. Three Match Puzzle
12. Easy When You Know

1st edtion 1935; 29 pages
word count: 7219 which is equivalent to 28 standard pages of text

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