$10(2 customer ratings) ★★★★★
This is a wonderful book covering several classic math based tricks, such as magic squares, day for any date (calendar calculations), and also several uncommon ones. It also includes the first publication of the Fitch Cheney Five Card Trick under the effect name "Telephone Stud".
- Preface
- I Cryptesthesia
- II The Magic Square
- III Mnemonics With Figures
- IV Spelling The Cards
- V Bank Night With Seven Cards
- VI Some Odd Formulas
- VII New Dresses For Old Tricks
- VIII Fakerithmetic
- IX Multiplying On The Fingers
- X Mind Reading At The Blackboard
- XI Match Puzzle
- XII Spelling Thoughts
- XIII Casting Out The Nines
- XIV Telephone Stud
- XV The Twenty Card Trick
- XVI Ne Plus Ultra Lightning Multiplier
- XVII The Calendar On The Tip Of Your Tongue
- XVIII The Hemeroscope
- XIX Calendar Reform
- XX Miscellanies
1st edition 1950, 83 pages; 1st digital edition 2018, 67 pages.
word count: 18448 which is equivalent to 73 standard pages of text
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