CONTENTS

[SIMPLE CARD TRICKS]

[An Easy Method of Finding a Selected Card]9
[To Bring a Chosen Card from the Bottom of the Pack at any Number Requested]10
[A Chosen Card Shaken through a Handkerchief]10
[A Selected Card found in a Lighted Cigarette]12
[A Sticking Card]13
[Two Selected Cards Caught in the Air]13
[An Easy but Puzzling Trick]14
[Travelling Cards]14
[To Name all the Cards in the Pack]16
[A New Method]16
[The Sense of Touch]17
[Where is the Ace?]18
[To Make a Person Name a Card which You have Yourself Selected]19
[The Clock]21
[How to Guess Cards Thought of]22
[An Ingenious Card Trick]23
[To Name a Card which Some One has Thought of]25
[The Rejected Recruits—a Laughable Trick]26
[A Novel Card Effect]26
[An Artful Card Force]28
[Another Easy Card Force]28
[A Simple but Puzzling Card Trick]29

[SIMPLE COIN TRICKS]

[How to Detect a Marked Coin]30
[A Penetrative Shilling]30
[Another Simple Trick]31
[A Coin to Disappear from Your Cheek and Reappear at Your Elbow]32
[Two Vanished Half-Crowns]33
[A Divination]33
[An Effective but Simple Trick]34
[Changing Apple and Coins]35
[An Obedient Sixpence]36
[Coin and Glass]36
[A Simple Experiment with Four Shillings]38
[Puzzle of Ten Halfpence]39
[How to Increase Your Wealth]39
[A Neat Coin Trick]40
[A Subtle Impromptu Effect with a Coin]41
[An Original Coin Swindle]42
[A Cross]43

[SIMPLE TRICKS WITH HANDKERCHIEFS, RINGS, CANDLES, ETC.]

[A Knot that Cannot be Drawn Tight]44
[To Tie an Instantaneous Knot in a Handkerchief]45
[Half a Burnt Message Found Restored in a Candle]46
[Two Good Ring Tricks]47

[SIMPLE ARITHMETICAL PROBLEMS]

[To Ascertain a Number Thought of]49
[How to Name a Number which has been Erased]51
[A Lesson in the Correct Formation of a Figure]52
[Four Nines Problem]53
[An Answer to a Sum Given in Advance]53
[An Arithmetical Puzzle]54
[An Arithmetical Mystery]55
[How to Tell Her Age]55
[A Race in Addition]56
[To Predict the Hour Your Friend Intends to Rise on the Following Morning]57

[MATCH PUZZLES]

[Experiment with Ten Matches]59
[The Magic Nine]60
[Triangles with Matches]61
[Match Squares]61
[Your Opponent must Take the Last Match]62
[A Shakespearean Quotation]63
[Numeral]63
[Six and Five Make Nine]63
[The Artful Schoolboys]64
[What are Matches Made of?]66
[A Sheep Pen]66
[Post and Rail Puzzle]67

[SIMPLE MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS]

[A Good After-Dinner Trick]68
[To Remove a Serviette Ring from a Tape Held on the Thumbs of Another Person]70
[An Experiment in Gravity]71
[A Scissors Feat]71
[Another Trick with a Pair of Scissors]72
[An Indestructible Cigarette Paper]73
[To Cut an Apple in Two with Your Finger]74
[A Trick with Dominoes]74
[An Escape]75
[Cigarette Papers and Serviettes]76
[Four Cigarette Papers]77
[A Hindoo Swindle]77
[The Elusive Match—a Capital Impromptu Trick]79