CONTENTS.

ROUND OR PARLOUR GAMES.

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Acting Proverbs[9]
Acting Rhymes[9]
Adjectives[10]
Adventurers, The[10]
Æsop's Mission[11]
Alphabet Games[11]
Artists' Menagerie, The[12]
Baby Elephant, The[12]
Bird-catcher, The[13]
Blind man's Buff[13]
Blind Postman[13]
Blowing out the Candle[13]
Bouts Rimés[14]
"Brother, I'm Bobbed"[14]
"Buff says 'Baff'"[14]
Buff with the Wand[15]
Capping Verses[15]
Charades[15]
Clairvoyant[17]
Comic Concert, The[18]
Consequences[18]
Conveyances[19]
Crambo[19]
Cross Questions and Crooked Answers[20]
"Cupid is Coming"[20]
Cushion Dance, The[20]
Definitions[21]
Dumb Crambo[21]
Dwarf[21]
Elements, The[22]
Farmyard, The[22]
Feather, The[22]
Finding the Ring[22]
Flying[23]
Forfeits[23]
Giant[28]
Giraffe, The[28]
Grand Mufti, The[28]
Hands[28]
"He can do little who can't do this"[29]
Hiss and Clap[29]
"Hot Boiled Beans"[29]
Hot Cockles[29]
House Furnishers[29]
"How do you like your Neighbour?"[30]
"How, When, and Where?"[30]
Hunt the Ring[30]
Hunt the Slipper[30]
Hunt the Whistle[31]
"I Apprenticed my Son"[31]
"I Love my Love"[31]
"Jack's Alive"[31]
Jolly Miller, The[32]
Judge and Jury[32]
Magic Answer, The[32]
Magical Music[33]
Magic Hats, The[33]
Magic Wand, The[33]
"The Minister's Cat"[34]
Mixed-up Poetry[34]
Musical Chair[35]
"My Master has sent me unto you"[35]
Nouns and Questions[35]
Object Game, The[35]
Old Soldier, The[36]
Oranges and Lemons[36]
Original Sketches[37]
"Our Old Grannie doesn't like Tea"[37]
Pairs[37]
Person and Object[37]
Pork-Butcher, The[38]
Postman's Knock[38]
Proverbs[38]
Quaker's Meeting, The[38]
Resting Wand, The[39]
Retsch's Outlines[39]
Reviewers, The[40]
Rhymes[40]
Rule of Contrary[41]
Russian Gossip[41]
Schoolmaster, The[41]
Shadow Buff[41]
Shouting Proverbs[42]
"Simon says"[42]
Spanish Merchant, The[42]
Spanish Nobleman, The[42]
Spelling Bee[43]
Spoon Music[43]
Stage Coach, The[44]
Stool of Repentance[44]
Tableaux Vivants[45]
Telescope Giant, The[46]
Think of a Number[46]
This and That[46]
Throwing Light[47]
Toilet[47]
Trades, The[48]
Traveller's Alphabet, The[48]
Twenty Questions[49]
Two Hats, The[49]
"What am I Doing?"[49]
"What is my Thought like?"[49]
Who was he?[50]
Wild Beast Show, The[50]
"Yes or No?"[50]

TOY GAMES AND TOY-MAKING.

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Æolian Harp[52]
Animated Serpent[52]
Annulette[53]
Apple Mill[53]
Apple Woman[53]
Bandilor[54]
Battledore and Shuttlecock[54]
Bell and Hammer[54]
Bird Whistles[54]
Birds, Beasts, and Fishes[54]
Bombardment[54]
Bottle Imps[54]
Brother Jonathan[55]
Camera (Miniature)[55]
Cannonade[55]
Carpet Croquet[56]
Castle Bagatelle[56]
Common Whistle[56]
Crack Loo[56]
Cup and Ball[56]
Cupolette[56]
Cut-water[57]
Dancing Highlander[57]
Dancing Pea[57]
Dart and Target[58]
Dartelle[58]
Decimal Game[58]
Demon Bottle[58]
Drawing-room Archery[59]
Dutch Racquets[59]
Enfield Skittles[59]
Flying Cones[59]
French and English[60]
Gas Balloons[60]
German Balls[60]
German Billiards[61]
Hat Measurement[61]
Homeward Bound[61]
Hydraulic Dancer[61]
Immovable Card[61]
Indian Skittle Pool[61]
Jack-in-the-Box[62]
Japanese Fan[62]
Jerk Straws[62]
Le Diable[62]
Magic Fan[62]
Magic Figure[64]
Magic Flute[64]
Magician of Morocco[64]
Magnetic Swan[65]
Magnetic Wand[65]
Magnifying Pinhole[66]
Mechanical Bucephalus[66]
Microscope (Toy)[66]
Mocking Call[67]
Moorish Fort[67]
Navette[67]
Nine pins[68]
Noughts and Crosses[68]
Obedient Soldier[68]
Palada[68]
Paper Bellows[69]
Paper Boat[69]
Paper Boxes[70]
Paper Chinese Junk[70]
Paper Dart[72]
Paper Hat (Pyramidal)[72]
Paper Parachute[72]
Paper Purses[73]
Parlour Bowls[74]
Parlour Croquet[74]
Parlour Quoits[74]
Patchesi; or, Homeward Bound[75]
Pegasus in Flight[75]
Pith Dancer[76]
Prancing Horse[76]
Prophet[76]
Puff and Dart[77]
Push Pin[78]
Puzzle-wit[78]
Quintain[78]
Quiz[78]
Race Game[78]
Racquets (Drawing-Room)[79]
Revolving Ring[79]
Ringolette[80]
Ring the Bull[80]
Royal Star[80]
Schimmel[81]
Shovel Board[82]
Skittle Cannonade[83]
Slate Games[84]
Spillikins or Spelicans[85]
Squails[86]
Squeaker[86]
Steady Tar[87]
Summer Ice[87]
Sybil[87]
Table Croquet[87]
Targetta[87]
Teetotum[88]
Tit-tat-to[88]
Tournament[88]
Trails[88]
Trouble Wit[88]
Wonderful Trumpet[88]

MECHANICAL PUZZLES.

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Balanced Pail, The[90]
Balanced Stick, The[90]
Bridge of Knives, The[91]
Square and Circle Puzzle, The[91]
Carpenter's Puzzle, The[91]
Divided Farm, The[92]
Vertical Line Puzzle, The[92]
String and Balls Puzzle, The[92]
Puzzling Rings, The[93]
Balls and Rings Puzzle, The[93]
Staff Puzzle, The[94]
Victoria Puzzle, The[94]
Artillery Puzzle, The[94]
Six Rows Puzzle, The[94]
Six-Square Puzzle, The[94]
Magic Octagon, The[94]
Accommodating Square, The[94]
Magic Cross, The[95]
To Take a Man's Waistcoat off without Removing his Coat[95]
To Break a Stone with a Blow of the Fist[96]
The Key, the Heart, and the Dart[96]
Prisoners' Release Puzzle, The[96]
Hampton Court Maze[96]

ARITHMETICAL PUZZLES.

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American Puzzles, "15" and "34"[97]
Magic Nine, The; or, Puzzle of Fifteen, The[98]
Magic Thirty-six, The; or, Puzzle of One Hundred and Eleven, The[98]
Magic Hundred, The; or, Puzzle of Five Hundred and Five, The[99]
Twenty-four Monks, The[99]
To take One from Nineteen so that the Remainder shall be Twenty[100]
Famous Forty-five, The[100]
Costermonger's Puzzle, The[100]
Progression of Numbers, The[101]
How a Number thought of or otherwise indicated may be told[102]
Magical Addition[103]
Clever Lawyer, The[104]
A New Way of Multiplying by 9[104]
To Reward the Favourites and Show no Favouritism[105]
Dishonest Servants, The[105]
Lord Dundreary's Finger Puzzle[105]
Uniform Results of Multiplication[105]
To Ascertain a Square Number at a Glance[106]
To Distinguish Coins by Arithmetical Calculation[106]
Properties of Numbers[106]

CARD GAMES.

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Long Whist[107]
Short Whist[115]
Piquet[116]
Euchre[118]
Vingt-un[120]
Speculation[121]
Napoleon[122]
Cribbage[122]
Ranter go Round[125]
Écarté[126]
Loo[128]
Cassino[129]
Put[131]
Matrimony[131]
All Fours[132]
Poker[134]
Snip-Snap-Snorum[136]
Commerce[137]
Sift Smoke[138]
Lottery[138]
Quince[139]
Pope Joan[139]
Spinado[140]
Old Maid[141]
Spade and Gardener[142]
Happy Families[142]
Bézique[143]
Snap[144]
Zetema[145]
French Vingt-un, or Albert Smith[148]
Beggar my Neighbour[149]
Catch the Ten[149]
Cheat[150]
Truth[150]

PARLOUR MAGIC.

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Conjuring[151]
Simple Deceptions and Minor Tricks[152]
Card Tricks and Combinations[153]
Conjuring with and without Special Apparatus[167]
Clairvoyance or Second Sight[178]
Ventriloquism and Polyphony[180]

FIRESIDE FUN.

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Decapitations[185]
Curtailments and Retailings[186]
Anagrams[189]
Word Squares[191]
Birds, Fruits, and Flowers Enigmatically Expressed[192]
Rebuses[193]
Arithmorems[194]
Diamond Puzzles and Word Puzzles of Various Shapes[196]
Cryptography[197]
Chronograms[198]
Logograms[200]
Metagrams[202]
Word Capping[203]
Paragrams[203]
Extractions[204]
Transpositions[204]
Definitions[205]
Inversions[206]
Hidden Words[206]
Numbered Charades[208]
Letter and Figure Charades[210]
Verbal Charades[211]
Acrostics[211]
Enigmas[213]
Alphabetical Puzzles[215]
Guessing Stories[216]
Mental Scenes[217]

CASSELL'S

Book of In-door Amusements.