Games

A nicely produced collection of mostly puzzles, brainteasers, and some which could be performed as magic tricks. In total there are 36 problems. Solutions are provided for all of them.

1st edition 1896, 12 pages of problems, 2 pages of answers.

If you want to do more than just poker deals, consider adding this fascinating routine of bridge table magic to your act. This title has been long out of print, and now it's back and better than ever for a new generation of audiences and performers.

After a game of bridge, your audience is already in a card mood. That's the perfect time to introduce this compelling routine where one miracle flows seamlessly into the next.

From the introduction by Howard P. Albright

This is a collection of many wonderful puzzles and riddles. The title stems from the fact that the first part of the book features a series of puzzles based on the characters from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

• INTRODUCTION
• THE CANTERBURY PUZZLES
  • 1. - The Reve's Puzzle
  • 2. - The Pardoner's Puzzle
  • 3. - The Miller's Puzzle
  • 4. - The Knight's Puzzle
  • 5. - The Wife of Bath's Riddles
  • 6. - The Host's Puzzle
  • 7. - The Clerk of Oxenford's Puzzle
  • 8. - The Tapiser's Puzzle
  • 9. - The Carpenter's Puzzle
  • 10. - The Puzzle of the Squire's Yeoman
  • 11. - The Nuns Puzzle
  • 12. - The Merchant's...

A vast collection of the latest and best conundrums gathered from all sources. Including four hundred riddles, questions in science, mathematical and practical puzzles, acrostics, etc.

• Introduction
• Conundrums
• Aphorisms
• Riddles
• Biographical Riddles
• Bible Riddles
• Golden Texts From Shakespeare
• Kissing Riddles
• Questions In Science
• Puzzles In Spelling
• Gymnastics For The Tongue
• Mathematical And Practical Puzzles
• Lying Figures
• Lame Logic
• Musical Catechism
• Palindromes
• Acrostic
• Squaring A Word
• A Curiosity
• A Poem By Twenty Poets
• Playing With Puns
• A Reading Puzzle

This is a puzzle ebook featuring numerous picture riddles and quizzes including Say-What-You-See, name the character parts and Murder Mystery Haiku Riddles.

What is a logic picture puzzle? Is it a test of higher intelligence or is it a game of skill and wits to see who's smarter; reader or the writer? This ebook will test all your senses and challenge you to constantly pay attention. If you can always think laterally, you will probably work out some of the tricks and principles that are in play.

1st edition 2015, PDF 32 pages, full color.

Softcover stapled in good condition. Published 1983 by Barclay Bridge Supplies. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Softcover in good condition. Published 2002 by Griffin Publishing. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Softcover in good condition. Published 2002 by Griffin Publishing. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Softcover in good condition. Published 1994 by Griffin Publishing. For details on the content see the digital edition.

A great little trick/bet you can learn in just a few minutes and you are always ready to stump someone. The effect can be done with cards, matches or coins. The twelve objects are laid out in three horizontal rows. The object of the game is that the person left with the last item to pick up loses the game. You only play this game with one person at a time. The rules are simple. The player can only take from one row at a time. Take as many as you wish from either the first, second or third row, but you cannot pick from different rows until your next turn. Either you or the spectator can start...

This is an interesting book with beautifully weird games, stunts, experiments, puzzles and magic, some of which I have not seen described anywhere else.

• Play Room Games
  • Blind-Man's-Buff
  • How D'ye Like Your Neighbor?
  • One Old Ox Opening Oysters
  • Magic Music
  • Twirling The Plate
  • How Do You Like It? When Do You Like It? And Where Do You Like It?
  • What Is My Thought Like?
  • Cupid's Coming
  • Cross Questions And Crooked Answers
  • Consequences
  • I Love My Love With An A
  • Proverbs
  • The Emperor Of Morocco
  • Buff
  • The Family Coach
  • Earth, Air, And Water
  • Oranges And Lemons
  • Pigeons Fly
  • Red-Cap And Blue-Cap ...

From the Foreword by Ali Bongo:

• Very Relevant Info
• Why 2/1 Game Forcing is Better
• Setting the Scene
• Opener's Rebids
• Summary of Opener's Rebids
• Responder's Rebids
• Summary of Responder's Rebids
• Opener's Third Bid
• Handling Interference
• Fast Arrival
• Serious 3NT
• Opener's Jump Rebids
• 1D - 2C Game Forcing
• Let's Play 20 Questions
• Ordering Direct from Marty

PDF 24 pages

The sequel to the bridge book of the year 1996.

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION - THE MAKING OF A SEQUEL
• CHAPTER 1 - POINTS SCHMOINTS! REVISITED
  • Mastering Points Schmoints!
  • The Return of The Rule of 20
  • Arlene Counts 'Em Up
  • Do Experts Apply The Rule of 20?
• CHAPTER 2 - SIZING UP THE HAND
  • The Truth About Honors
  • The Real Truth About Distribution
  • Take a Second Look
  • Quick Tricks - Out of Fashion?
  • She Does Not Go Both Ways
  • The Good, the Fair...
• CHAPTER 3 - RESPONDER TAKES CENTER STAGE
  • Predicting Responder's First Bid
  • Zeroing in on 1NT Forcing
  • Bergen Raises
  • Drury - Anything...

This is an unusual mix of contents including magic card tricks, card games and how gamblers cheat at those games, other swindles and scams, a section on dice and cheating at dice games, as well as moralizing against the evils of gambling.

Jonathan H. Green was a reformed gambler, who made a career exposing cheating via lectures, presentations and books.

An earlier shorter edition of this book was published under the title Games and Tricks with Cards.

If you are looking for an edited version and somewhat modernized rendition of this book you can find it here.

• Chapter I
  • Invention Of Cards
  • Mysterious Trick...

More brain teasers ranked by difficulty and with an optional clue to get you a step closer to the solution if you need it.

This is volume 2 in Max Ödlund's series of brain teasers and logic puzzles. (Volume 1 is Cranium Conundrums.) Each of the 80 puzzles has a difficulty ranging from 1 = easy to 5 = extremely difficult. Some problems are marked ’s’ for ’silly’. Puzzles in the 1-3 or s category are generally speaking solvable in a few minutes of thinking or a bit of scribbling and drawing on a piece of paper. Should you not find the solution then each puzzle has a clue on the following page. This...

The College Bridge Series is a multi-semester college bridge course designed around the requirements to successfully compete in the American Contract Bridge League "College Bowl" of tournament bridge. Participants must be between the ages of 17 and 25, and compete as teams in online trials with the top four teams eligible to compete for scholarships at the summer North American Bridge Championships (NABC). Semester 1 assumes no experience with card play, let alone bridge. Semester 2 brings students to modern team-based contract bridge competition using modern Standard American (SAYC+) techniques....

The College Bridge Series is a multi-semester college bridge course lesson plans designed around the requirements to successfully compete in the American Contract Bridge League "College Bowl" of tournament bridge. Participants must be between the ages of 17 and 25, and compete as teams in online trials with the top four teams eligible to compete for scholarships at the summer North American Bridge Championships (NABC).

This third course deconstructs and blends author Max Hardy's final two books on the 2/1 Game Force bidding system, helping transition bridge students from advanced Standard...

2nd semester contains only 11 prepared lessons, several of which can be assigned as homework reading. This allows instructors time to complete any unfinished work from 1st semester and still have extra time for integrating new members into the club, final prep for online College Bowl competition, etc. It should be noted that the rules for the competition have changed. You now have two chances (one each semester) to qualify, but they occur much earlier in the calendar year in fall and winter. Adapt and overcome.

Originally I had planned to integrate match point play and full 2/1 Game Force...

The College Bridge Series is a multi-semester college bridge course designed around the requirements to successfully compete in the American Contract Bridge League "College Bowl" of tournament bridge. Participants should be between the ages of 17 and 26, and compete as teams in online trials with the top four teams eligible to compete for scholarships at the summer North American Bridge Championships (NABC).

The course, designed, compiled and mostly written by Arizona bridge teacher and author Chris Hasney covers several semesters of classwork to introduce college students, faculty, and staff...

Want to know more about Jacoby Transfer Super Accepts? This excerpt from The Advanced American Bidding System may be helpful. What the heck, it's FREE. Give it a look.

One contract bridge teacher's notion of how to present a written tutorial on filling out a "Fat Free" ACBL convention card. Drawn from his series of bridge lessons for today's college students who've never played cards, let alone bridge.

1st edition 2016, 9 pages.

Both ebooks in this bundle are necessary for a full understanding of this advanced bidding system.

Expert American, Volume IV in The American Bridge Series, culminates the work begun in 1998 by bridge student Chris Hasney and expert player and system design theorist Dr. Gerald Pottier (Jerry). Volumes I and II, Basic and Intermediate American, covered the card game contract bridge from novice to duplicate tournament Flight C and B levels using Standard American bidding methods. Volume III, Advanced American, married those methods with others modified from other systems or newly designed by Dr. Pottier. It has been played successfully in tournaments in Flight A at the regional and national level. This work completes the task begun...

If you are an entertainer you will surely appreciate this little book. This original manuscript teaches you how to imitate a wide range of sounds using only your hands and your mouth. It is very difficult to find other books on this subject so this may be your only opportunity to learn this fun and entertaining art.

Although it is not exactly magic, the magician can incorporate one or more ideas within the book in his performance with a comic effect. In the right "hands" this act will be a riot.

The booklet is packed with many imitations to learn. You will be taught to produce the following...

This is a COMPLETE 3-in-1 training system that will sharpen your tactics, calculation and visualization skills.

Modern chess = DYNAMIC chess

Modern chess, thanks to our 'silicon friends' Fritz, Houdini, and company, have advanced to a level that is never seen before. Just have a look at today's GM games - full of tactical twists and turns, intense fight for the initiative, sacrifices for dynamic compensation, and mind-boggling complications in ALL phases of the game.

Gone Are The Days When You Can Single-Mindedly Follow An Abstract Plan And Win Games!

True, positional play and strategic...

Here I reveal EVERYTHING about Chess Strategy. Allowing you to take your play to the NEXT level.

Why do STRONGER players play better than the average club player?

Why is it that they WIN games and tournaments almost ALL the time...and some players can't even keep a positive score? The answer obviously is this:

Stronger players UNDERSTAND chess better!

No, they don't just calculate variations. Strong players don't just memorize opening lines. They don't just look for tactics every move. What set really strong players ahead of the pack is their DEEP and CLEAR UNDERSTANDING of the game....

This is your guide towards high chess achievements! You'll know WHAT and HOW you should train (+ the best training materials).

Why do Some Players Play BETTER Than Others?

Really, why? A lot of people play and study chess. However, only 1-3% of players have really good achievements (titles, prizes...). What is different about this successful minority from the rest? It is NOT a matter of talent. I have observed thousands of different players, and I can state it with confidence. Yes, you need to have chess talent for the highest chess achievements (over 2600-2700 rating). However, anyone...

Play an endgame stage like Capablanca, Smyslov, or Karpov and develop a really deep understanding for the game.

Do you want chess books to publish your games as examples of outstanding endgame play with a crystal clear style of playing? (somewhere between Capablanca and Karpov will be cool) With the course An Endgame Expert this will definitely become your reality!

How to win in modern chess?

Today everyone has access to huge chess databases. Everyone can learn plenty of opening lines and numerous 'typical' middlegame positions. Any chess player can prepare something against you using...

Planning is one of the MOST important skills in chess! Learn how to read the chessboard and plan like the PROs.

Do you want to reach the HIGHEST chess goals? Do you want to become not just a strong player, but an EXTREMELY strong one? Then use Your Winning Plan - the most direct way for a chess success!

What is the main factor of success in chess?

Chess is inherently a strategic game. That's why strategic skills are the most important thing in chess. They allow you to understand what you should do in any position. Chess players usually call it "a chess understanding". In fact it is...

Master the 5 Chess Weapons and learn how to defeat opponents that are 200 or even 300 rating points ahead of you.

Nowadays, you need to have some unique skills if you want to beat an experienced opponent. You need to have special knowledge which is not presented in chess books. Some strong players know these weapons, however they will never tell them to you. Nevertheless, now you can get this knowledge from the course How to Beat Titled Players.

This course should not have been created.

Actually, I wasn't going to share this information with a huge audience. I've had doubts about whether...

This contains the MOST essential principles of chess. Showing you how to think like a strong player step-by-step.

• Do you want to get the concrete guide on what and how exactly you should train to become a Grandmaster?
• Do you want to know how Grandmasters think during a game of chess?
• Do you want to know the secrets of the professional players' success?

Introduction

Every chess player wants to improve himself and make progress,...

While studying the opening courses, The GM's Openings Laboratory and The GM's Openings Laboratory 2, students sent me their questions. I've prepared a detailed answer to every query.

• In reply to questions about general opening rules, I've recorded a couple of video lessons (with additional rules and explanations).
• As for specific opening questions, I've added more *.pgn files (chess databases) with specific lines, analyses, instructive games, etc.

• You will get answers to most of your opening questions.
• It will help you to digest fully the opening rules...