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Match-Stick Magic
by Will Blyth

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Match-Stick Magic by Will Blyth

Puzzles, games and conjuring tricks - all done with simple matches. Get a matchbox or book of matches and entertain an entire table of guests or just a single person on the bar.

With an introduction by David Devant.

  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Puzzles
    • Introduction
    • Dividing The Inheritance
    • Boy Scouts' Bridge
    • Doubling The Area
    • Twin Triangle Puzzle
    • Four Triangle Puzzle
    • Nothing To Remain
    • Shakespearean Quotation
    • Match Manufacture
    • Removing The Middle
    • Evens To Odd
    • Tantalising Addition
    • Alternative Method Of Presentation
    • Easy Multiplication
    • Subtle Subtraction
    • Singular Subtraction
    • Twenty-Five From Six
    • Six-Five Puzzle
    • Half Of Twelve
    • Four Formation
    • Three And A Half Dozen
    • Ten From Nine
    • Matchstick On The Plate
    • Counting The Cross
    • Five By Count
    • Matchstick Catch
    • One-Square Puzzle
    • Two-Square Puzzle
    • Three-Square Puzzle
    • Five To Three
    • Five To Four
    • Six-Square Puzzle
    • Six From Six Leaves Two
    • Seven-Square Puzzle
    • Eight From Fifteen
    • Eight-Square Puzzle
    • Nine-Square Puzzle
    • Nine Squares To Five
    • Outlining The Squares
    • Geometrical Nine
    • The "Diangle" Puzzle
    • Five-Diamond Puzzle
    • Another Five-Diamond Puzzle
    • Squares And Triangles
    • More Squares And Triangles
    • Five-Triangle Puzzle
    • Counting The Squares
    • Four In Line
    • "One Shall Be Left"
    • German Prisoners' Hut
  • Part II: Scientific And Constructional Experiments
    • Introduction
    • Three-Way Bridge
    • Four-Way Bridge
    • All Together
    • Which End First?
    • Firework Frame
    • Lifting The Tripod
    • The Animated Matchsticks
    • Removing The Support
    • The Unsupported Bridge
    • The Intersecting Point
    • Middle Measurement
    • Upright Elongation
    • Tracing The Course
    • Length Versus Breadth
    • Judging The Distance
    • Unsquaring The Square
    • Transformed Star
    • Releasing The Coin
    • Matchstick Capillarism
    • Shooting Stars
  • Part III: Table Games
    • Introduction
    • Spots And Squares
    • Matchstick Board Game
    • No Pairs Allowed
    • Escaping From Germany
    • Three In Line
    • Four-Way Game
    • Five-Line Game
    • The Twenty Game
    • Black Versus White
    • Transferring In Twos
    • Matchstick Circle Transfer
    • Crossing The Points
    • Boxes
    • Straights And Crosses
    • Fifteen Matchstick Game
    • Majority Matchstick Game
    • Matchstick Models
    • The Farmer's Four Donkeys
  • Part IV: Conjuring
    • Introduction
    • Broken Matchstick Restored
    • "You May Smoke, Gentlemen"
    • Matter Through Matter
    • Matchstick Magnetism
    • Easy Magic
    • The Vanishing Matchstick
    • Inexplicable Matchstick Vanish
    • The Inseparable Three
    • Balloon And String
    • Can You Count Ten?
    • Interlocking Matchsticks
    • Elijah's Matchbox
    • Edge Dropping
    • Mesmerized Matchsticks
    • Matchstick Divination
    • Always On Top
    • Travelling By Wireless
1st edition 1921, 124 pages, 1st digital edition 2013, 85 pages.
word count: 20836 which is equivalent to 83 standard pages of text