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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...

From the Foreword by Ali Bongo:

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 ...

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

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.

Very rare set of original games making use of the Joker card, invented by Angelo John Lewis and published under his stage name. You will find games for one and two players.

Goodall, London, 1907; 48 pages.

4. Preface
5. Technical Terms used in Patience Games
   GAMES FOR ONE PLAYER
6. Odd and Even
9. The Stepping-Stones
12. Whist Patience
14. Baccarat Patience
17. The Double X Ray
20. The Scorpion
23. The Chessboard
25. The Seven Squares
29. The Captive Queens
31. The Railway Junction
33. Patchwork Patience
37. The Four Bridges
40. Peg Out
    GAMES FOR TWO PLAYERS
42. The Race
45. The Flower Show

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...

• CONJURING TRICKS
  • The Certain Guesser
  • The Disappearing coin
  • Money Makes Money
  • A Good Variation
  • The Magic Coin Box
  • Catching the Falling Pile
  • The Flexible Watch
  • Coin and Bottle Trick
  • Needle Dart
  • The Magic Double Ring
  • The Magic Ribbon
  • The Burnt Handkerchief
  • The Vanishing Ball
  • The Wand and Ring Trick
  • Swallowing the Knife
  • The Vanishing Coin
• EASY CARD TRICKS
  • Telling a Selected Card
  • A Wonderful Discovery
  • The Twenty-one Card Trick
  • Naming all the Cards in the Pack
  • Forcing the Choice
  • The Chosen Card
  • Divination
  • Further Divination
  • The Seven Heap
  • Spelling the Cards
  • Changing...

This ebook is a study of the classic Italian card games: Scopa, Quindici, Briscola, and Tresette. The author's interest in playing cards dates back to childhood, his grandparents, his family … they loved to play cards; so does he.

In addition to rules, you will find beginner to advanced playing strategies and Ferri's method for secretly signaling your partner as to what cards you hold. This is based on the system he learned from one of his early influences - the great John Scarne.

In addition to be being one of the greatest manipulator of playing cards and perhaps the greatest card mechanic of...

Learn 63 fun and stimulating patience games from this book. A deck of cards, a flat surface and you are ready to challenge and entertain yourself. This is a translation from the German book Illustriertes Buch der Patiencen.

5th Edition, Routledge, London, 1904; 123 pages.

1. Introduction
7. The Wish
9. The Star
11. Hope
11. The Amazons
13. The Harvest
14. Royal Marriage
16. Quadrille
17. Caesar
18. Nestor
20. Hidden Cards
22. The Dial (No. 1)
24. The Dial (No. 2)
25. Elevens (No. 1)
26. Elevens (No. 2)
27. Robert
28. The Pyramid
29. The Five Court Cards
31. The Talkative
32. The Four Seasons
34. Thirteens
35. The Fairest (No. 1)
39. The Fairest (No. 2) ...

Instructions for games, magic tricks, model building, giving shows, and more.

• Games Of Skill
  • Draughts
    • Laws Of The Game
    • Games For Practice
    • Concluding Observations
  • Dominoes
  • Chess
    • The Chess-Board And Chessmen
    • Value And Moves Of The Pieces
    • Laws Of Chess
    • Technical Terms Used In Chess
    • Opening The Game
    • Games For Practice
    • General Observations
    • Conclusion
  • Morrice
  • Fox And Geese
• Conjuring
  • Legerdemain And Simple Deceptions
  • To Lift A Bottle With A Straw
  • The Tobacco Pipe Jug Stand
  • To Break A Stick Placed On Two Glasses
  • The Bottle Conjuror
  • The Mysterious Wafers
  • Advantageous...

Based on actual crimes and mysteries investigated at Scotland Yard.

This is a fun read if you like short problems of deduction and observation. While most of them are not locked room problems, there are two of them in this collection, #34 and #88. One of them states that on an express train, a girl was found dead in a third-class compartment. Her head was badly injured. A violent blow had caused her death. The train had not stopped during the journey and the girl had occupied the compartment alone all the way.

Magicians will be able to solve some of the mysteries more easily because they...

These are ideas that you can use as Social Director, Emcee, Host or Hostess for parties and other group activities. The games are primarily designed for adults, but some can certainly be adopted for children, too.

1st edition 1972, 1st digital edition 2013, 72 pages.

• 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

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...

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 was the first widely popular American collection of patience games or solitaire with cards.

1883. Dick and Fitzgerald; 154 pages.

7. Explanation of Technical Terms
11. Auld Lang Syne
11. Tam O' Shanter
12. Napoleon's Favorite
15. The Four Seasons
16. Simplicity
19. The Gathering of the Clans
23. Napoleon at St. Helena
24. The Fifteen Puzzle
27. The Calculation
28. The Surprise Party
31. The Four Kings
35. The Clock
39. The Garden
40. The Contra-Dance
43. The Queen's Audience
44. The Betrothal
47. The Phalanx
51. The Idle Year
52. The Reinforcements
55. The Chameleon
56. The Reserve
59. La Belle Lucie
60. The Shamrocks
60. The House in the Wood
60. The House...

Steinitz having elevated chess to a science starts out very systematical and explains movement, mode of capture and the value of the various pieces. The bulk of the book is an analysis of six openings: The Ruy Lopez, Double Ruy Lopez, The Scotch Gambit, The Two Knight's Defence, Petroff's Defence and Philidor's Defence. He concludes with all 17 games played in the match Steinitz - Tchigorin, Havana 1889, which was won by Steinitz.

Steinitz also started to write part 2.

1st edition 1889; 237 pages.

Teeko was the most successful game Scarne invented. There were many Teeko clubs and tournaments in the US and abroad. Even Orson Welles was an avid Teeko player. Despite its initial success and clever game design, Teeko has fallen out of favor and only a small fan community remains and plays Teeko today.

Teeko reminds me on the game 4-in-a-row since winning patterns are four in a row horizontally, vertically or diagonally, as well as four pieces in a square. But since pieces can be moved after the initial placement phase, it borrows from checkers and chess. It is also quite similar to the...

Following on from the success of his Rubik Remembered DVD, this is Mark’s brand new ebook: Rubik Notes.

The Notes contain Mark’s full solution for Rubik’s Cube (His version of the Layer Method, originally devised by Rubik-Guru David Singmaster. You can achieve solve times below one minute with this method.) and are fully colour-illustrated to make learning as direct as possible. The solution is completely self-contained and you don’t need to own the Rubik Remembered DVD or indeed anything else to learn to solve Rubik’s Cube – everything is right here in the Notes.

If however...

Over 550 Declarer play tips you can take to the bank.

Acclaimed bridge expert Eddie Kantar offers valuable warm-up tips along with card combinations and safety plays. This ebook focuses on the "play of the hand". Its non-controversial tips were written for almost any player beneath "expert" who genuinely desires to improve his or her game. After reading this book, you will start making more contracts and you will be convinced your bidding has been improved - and you may be right.

1st edition 2002; this electronic edition 2006; 168 pages.

This is a new completely revised 3rd edition of Kantar's classic. This ebook is not meant for beginners, nor is it aimed at experts - it is directed at players somewhere between these extremes who would like to improve their game substantially. Bonus tips remind you to count tricks, not points when preempting, and that the player who makes a preemptive bid is not the player who takes the sacrifice. You will also learn such valuable tips as how to be aggressive in the bidding with fitting hands.

You will learn a whooping 540 tips and the card symbols are set in color to make reading even more...

This is a completely revised edition of Kantar's 1994 bestseller. The best defensive tips you will ever find are in this ebook.

• Don't compound a crime. If you, or more likely your partner, have made an error, do not lose your cool. Many contracts can still be beaten after one defensive error, seldom after TWO.
• The speed of the play may be a clue to declarer's problem. When playing a 4-3 trump fit, play usually slows to a crawl.
• Do not take your eye off the ball by focusing all of the attention on one suit to the exclusion of the entire hand.
• When declarer leads a side suit from dummmy...

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