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Match IC
by Martin Gardner

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Match IC by Martin Gardner

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