$5(2 customer ratings) ★★★★★
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
- Concert
- Prussian Exercise
- "My Lady's Toilet"
- Yes And No
- Copenhagen
- The Fagots
- Hunt The Hare
- Thus Says The Grand Mufti
- Hunt The Ring
- Transpositions
- Tasks For Redeeming Forfeits
- The Interrupted Reply
- Board And Slate Games
- Loto
- Tit-Tat-To
- The Game Of Goose
- Fox And Geese
- Nine Men's Morris
- Solitaire
- The Decimal Game
- Agon, Or The Queen's Guards
- Table And Toy Games
- Dominoes
- Bagatelle
- Russian Bagatelle
- American Bagatelle
- Brother Jonathan
- Shovel-Board
- Dibs, Or Knucklebones
- Jack-Straws
- The Water-Cutter
- Cup And Ball
- The Bandilor
- Jack-Stones
- Battledoor And Shuttlecock
- Graces
- Schimmel
- Le Diable
- Comic Diversions
- The German Dwarf
- The Kentucky Giant
- The Elephant
- The Decapitation
- The Old Man's Face
- How To Strike The Knuckles Without Hurting Them
- Knocking The Head Against A Door
- Hat Measurement
- The Immovable Card
- The Bottle Imp
- Parlor Magic
- Sleight Of Hand
- The Travelled Balls
- Palming Coin
- The Magic Coin
- To Bring Two Separate Coins Into One Hand
- The Magic Handkerchief
- The Domino Oracle
- To Guess The Two Ends Of A Line Of Dominoes
- Dominoes Seen And Counted Through All Obstacles
- The Magical Knot
- To Cause A Dime To Appear In A Glass
- A Threaded Needle
- Magic Money
- The String And Corals
- The Magnetized Cane
- The Obedient Dime
- The Hat And Quarter Trick
- To Make A Dime Pass Through A Table
- The Erratic Egg
- The Magic Splice
- The Needle And Thread Trick
- The "Twenty Cent" Trick
- Tricks Requiring Simple Apparatus
- The Die Trick
- The Pepper-Box Trick
- To Pass Six Cents Through A Table
- The Mysterious Coin
- To Change A Dime To A Quarter
- The Magic Cups
- To Pass A Quarter Into A Ball Of Worsted
- The Magic Canister
- Eatable Candle-Ends
- The Magic Rings
- The Burned Handkerchief Restored
- The Multiplied Money
- The Lost Ring Found
- Tricks With Cards
- To Make The Pass
- The Nerve Trick
- The Knaves And The Constable
- The Turn-Over Feat
- To Tell A Card Thought Of Blindfold
- The Shuffled Seven
- To Name The Position Of A Card
- The Three Packets
- Like With Like, Or How To Keep A Hotel
- The Four Knaves
- The Mystic Courts Of Zoroaster
- The Chosen One Of Forty-Eight Discovered
- To Make Another Person Draw The Cards You Call For
- To Call For Any Card In The Pack
- To Discern One Or More Drawn Cards
- To Tell Through A Wine-Glass What Cards Have Been Turned
- The Window Trick
- Scientific Recreations
- Chemical Amusements
- Sympathetic Inks
- To Light A Candle Without Touching The Wick
- Magic Milk
- The Mimic Vesuvius
- The Real Will-O'-The-Wisp
- The Paper Oracle
- The Mimic Gas-House
- The Silver Tree
- Alum Baskets
- The Magic Bottle
- The Faded Rose Restored
- The Protean Liquid
- The Changeable Ribbon
- The Chemical Chameleon
- Musical Flame
- Optical Amusements
- The Camera Obscura
- The Magic Lantern
- The Phantasmagoria
- Dissolving Views
- How To Raise A Ghost
- How To See Through A Philadelphia Brick
- The Cosmorama
- To Imitate A Mirage
- The Thaumatrope
- Two-Fold Reflection
- Pneumatic Amusements
- The Magic Tumbler
- The Weight Of The Air Proved By A Pair Of Bellows
- The Revolving Serpent
- To Put A Lighted Candle Under Water
- To Place Water In A Drinking-Glass Upside Down
- Amusements In Mechanics
- Experiment Of The Law Of Motion
- Balancing
- The Balanced Turk
- The Balanced Pail
- The Balanced Coin
- The Spanish Dancer
- The Mechanical Bucephalus
- The Revolving Image
- The Bridge Of Knives
- The Parlor Boomerang
- The Complacent Vizier
- Arithmetical Amusements
- Aphorisms Of Number
- To Find A Number Thought Of
- To Discover Two Or More Numbers That A Person Has Thought Of
- How Many Counters Have I In My Hands?
- The Three Travellers
- The Money Game
- The Philosopher's Pupils
- The Certain Game
- The Dice Guessed Unseen
- The Famous Forty-Five
- The Astonished Farmer
- The Expunged Figure
- The Mysterious Addition
- The Remainder
- The Three Jealous Husbands
- The Arithmetical Mouse-Trap
- Puzzles
- 1. - The Card-Chain Puzzle
- 2. - The Square And Circle Puzzle
- 3. - The Magic Octagon
- 4. - The Board And Ball
- 5. - The Cabinet-Maker's Puzzle
- 6. - The Protean Puzzle
- 7. - The Button Puzzle
- 8. - The Heart And Ball Puzzle
- 9. - The String And Balls Puzzle
- 10. - Puzzle Purse
- 11. - The Twelve-Cornered Star
- 12. - Cutting Out A Cross
- 13. - The Circle Puzzle
- 14. - The Card Puzzle
- 15. - Three-Square Puzzle
- 16. - The Cylinder Puzzle
- 17. - The Florist's Puzzle
- 18. - Roman Cross-Puzzle
- 19. - The Fountain Puzzle
- 20. - The Double-Headed Puzzle
- 21. - The Cardboard Puzzle
- 22. - The Perplexed Carpenter
- 23. - The Triangle Puzzle
- 24. - The Carpenter's Puzzle
- 25. - The Nine Digits
- 26. - The Accommodating Square
- 27. - The Three Rabbits
- Answers To Puzzles
- 1. - Answer To Card-Chain Puzzle
- 2. - Answer To Square And Circle Puzzle
- 3. - Answer To The Magic Octagon
- 4. - Answer To Board And Ball Puzzle
- 5. - Answer To The Cabinet-Maker's Puzzle
- 6. - Answer To The Protean Puzzle
- 7. - Answer To The Button Puzzle
- 8. - Answer To Heart And Ball Puzzle
- 9. - Answer To The String And Balls Puzzle
- 10. - Answer To Purse Puzzle
- 11. - Answer To Twelve-Cornered Star
- 12. - Answer To Cutting Out A Cross-Puzzle
- 13. - Answer To The Circle Puzzle
- 14. - Answer To The Card Puzzle
- 15. - Answer To The Three-Square Puzzle
- 16. - Answer To The Cylinder Puzzle
- 17. - Answer To Florist's Puzzle
- 18. - Answer To Roman Cross Puzzle
- 19. - Answer To Fountain Puzzle
- 20. - Answer To Double-Headed Puzzle
- 21. - Answer To Cardboard Puzzle
- 22. - Answer To Perplexed Carpenter
- 23. - Answer To Triangle Puzzle
- 24. - Answer To The Carpenter's Puzzle
- 25. - Answer To The Nine Digits
- 26. - Answer To The Accommodating Square
- 27. - Answer To The Three Rabbits
1st edition 1866, 131 pages; PDF 153 pages.
word count: 56784 which is equivalent to 227 standard pages of text