You will find here card tricks, cheating exposes, card games, and gambling stories.
A later expanded version of this book was published under the title Gamblers' Tricks With Cards Exposed and Explained.
- Chapter I
- Invention Of Cards
- Mysterious Trick Of Thirty Six Cards; Telling The Card You Look At Without Seeing The Pack.
- To Tell A Card Thought Of
- Three Jacks As Thieves, Caught By A King As A Policeman
- To Burn A Card And Fin'd It In A Watch
- How To Shift Cards
- The Four Associates
- To Make A Card Jump Out Of The Pack
- How To Change Cards To Pictures
- Chapter II
- All Fours
- Deceptions Used In The Game Of All Fours
- How To Hold Four Kings In Your Hand And By Words Seem To Change Them Into Four Aces And Afterward To Make Them All Blank Cards
- Chapter III
- Dog Loo, Or The Way They Play It On Red River
- A Trick Played By The Peter Funk Brokers Of New Orleans
- How To Nail A Card To The Wall By A Pistol Shot
- The Way To Change A Card By Words
- To Make A Card Which A Person Has Drawn Dance On A Wall
- To Change A Card Locked Up In A Box
- To Tell The Names Of All The Cards In The Pack, Before You See Them
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Gamblers' Pretended Witchcraft Exposed, Or The Way To Tell The Card You Think Of
- The Forced Card Trick Exposed
- Bending, Shifting, Turning, Stealing, &c
- The Three Jacks "In A Horn"
- The Game Of Thimbles, Alias Little Joker, Or The Best Two In Three
- The Trick Of Thirty-One, Or The Fascinating Game Or Trick Invented And Played By Dr. Bennett, Alias Charles James Fox, Of England
- Dropping The Pigeon
- Chapter VI
- Eucre
- The Ten Duplicate Cards
- Tricks In Horse-Racing, Or The Gourd Game As Played In Kentucky
- How To Make The Card Chosen Catch In A Man's Teeth
- Jack Tar's Prayer Book, Or The Pack Of Cards
- Chapter VII
- Peter Funks
- The Old Grandmother's Trick - Pug Ugly, Or The Man That Told Ages
- The Card In The Egg
- The Charmed Twelve
- To Tell The Card Thought Of In A Circle Of Ten
- Chapter VIII
- Examples In Three-Handed Poker
- Two-Handed Poker
- Cutting, Shuffling, Dealing, Stealing, &c., &c.
- "Signs," Or "Itoms"
- Table With The Hollow Leg, &c.
- Spring Tables, Pulleys, &c.; Theor Biters Bit
- General Remarks
- Pop-Gun Trick With Cards
- Chapter IX
- The Game Of Thimbles
- Patch-Coat: The Gentleman's Game, Or, Diamond Cut Diamond
- The Mysterious Wafers
- Advantageous Wager
- Gambling Law Of Kentucky
1st edition 1850, 96 pages; PDF 53 pages.
word count: 28872 which is equivalent to 115 standard pages of text