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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
- Magnetized Matches
- Escapo
- Striking En Passant
- Match Box Monte
- Match And Handkerchief
- Another Method
- Still Another Method
- And Still Another
- Electric Match
- Invisible Hair
- Blowing Through The Sleeves
- Vanishing Penny
- Fly Apart Matches
- Odd And Even
- Tramps And Geese
- Which Hand?
- Penetrating Matches
- Three Heaps
- Three Match Heads
- Match That Lights Twice
- Musical Fork
- Acrobatic Box
- Matches Through The Table
- Mysterious Mark
- Contrary Match Box
- PAPER MATCHES
- Light From The Wrong End
- Smoke From Nowhere
- Folder And String
- Reappearing Matches
- Divination
- Parlor Mind Reading
- One To Ten
- Removable Heads
- Mentalists Only
- TRICKS, JOKES, CATCHES
- Blowing Through A Tumbler
- Iron Match
- Lighted Match From Box
- Smash It
- Match Munition
- No Light
- Humming Match
- Strength Tester
- Burned Fingers
- Walking Match
- Vanishing Matches
- Pop Up
- Match Head Submarines
- Prolonged Kiss
- Light For Two
- Roly Poly Box
- Kiddie Kar
- Trick Cigar
- Rising Match Box
- Automatic Light
- Oversize
- Striking Safety Matches Without The Box
- Cover Change
- Chin Penetration
- PUZZLES
- Perfect Square
- Equation
- Star
- What Happens
- Drop It
- Crosses
- Match, Tumblers, And Salt Shaker
- Linked Hands
- Puzzle Lift
- Puzzle Split
- Three Match Puzzle
- Easy When You Know
1st edtion 1935; 29 pages
word count: 7219 which is equivalent to 28 standard pages of text