Match-Stick Magic

Puzzles, games and conjuring tricks - all done with simple matches. Get a matchbox or book of matches and entertain an entire table of guests or just a single person on the bar.

With an introduction by David Devant.

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part I: Puzzles
  • Introduction
  • Dividing The Inheritance
  • Boy Scouts' Bridge
  • Doubling The Area
  • Twin Triangle Puzzle
  • Four Triangle Puzzle
  • Nothing To Remain
  • Shakespearean Quotation
  • Match Manufacture
  • Removing The Middle
  • Evens To Odd
  • Tantalising Addition
  • Alternative Method Of Presentation
  • Easy Multiplication
  • Subtle Subtraction
  • Singular Subtraction
  • Twenty-Five From Six
  • Six-Five Puzzle
  • Half Of Twelve
  • Four Formation
  • Three And A Half Dozen
  • Ten From Nine
  • Matchstick On The Plate
  • Counting The Cross
  • Five By Count
  • Matchstick Catch
  • One-Square Puzzle
  • Two-Square Puzzle
  • Three-Square Puzzle
  • Five To Three
  • Five To Four
  • Six-Square Puzzle
  • Six From Six Leaves Two
  • Seven-Square Puzzle
  • Eight From Fifteen
  • Eight-Square Puzzle
  • Nine-Square Puzzle
  • Nine Squares To Five
  • Outlining The Squares
  • Geometrical Nine
  • The "Diangle" Puzzle
  • Five-Diamond Puzzle
  • Another Five-Diamond Puzzle
  • Squares And Triangles
  • More Squares And Triangles
  • Five-Triangle Puzzle
  • Counting The Squares
  • Four In Line
  • "One Shall Be Left"
  • German Prisoners' Hut
• Part II: Scientific And Constructional Experiments
  • Introduction
  • Three-Way Bridge
  • Four-Way Bridge
  • All Together
  • Which End First?
  • Firework Frame
  • Lifting The Tripod
  • The Animated Matchsticks
  • Removing The Support
  • The Unsupported Bridge
  • The Intersecting Point
  • Middle Measurement
  • Upright Elongation
  • Tracing The Course
  • Length Versus Breadth
  • Judging The Distance
  • Unsquaring The Square
  • Transformed Star
  • Releasing The Coin
  • Matchstick Capillarism
  • Shooting Stars
• Part III: Table Games
  • Introduction
  • Spots And Squares
  • Matchstick Board Game
  • No Pairs Allowed
  • Escaping From Germany
  • Three In Line
  • Four-Way Game
  • Five-Line Game
  • The Twenty Game
  • Black Versus White
  • Transferring In Twos
  • Matchstick Circle Transfer
  • Crossing The Points
  • Boxes
  • Straights And Crosses
  • Fifteen Matchstick Game
  • Majority Matchstick Game
  • Matchstick Models
  • The Farmer's Four Donkeys
• Part IV: Conjuring
  • Introduction
  • Broken Matchstick Restored
  • "You May Smoke, Gentlemen"
  • Matter Through Matter
  • Matchstick Magnetism
  • Easy Magic
  • The Vanishing Matchstick
  • Inexplicable Matchstick Vanish
  • The Inseparable Three
  • Balloon And String
  • Can You Count Ten?
  • Interlocking Matchsticks
  • Elijah's Matchbox
  • Edge Dropping
  • Mesmerized Matchsticks
  • Matchstick Divination
  • Always On Top
  • Travelling By Wireless