The Pain.
There may in this very large world still be one or even two people who have not heard of the way to hypnotize a person so that he will inevitably feel a pain (pane). The hypnotist makes several passes before the eyes of the subject, stares at him fixedly, presses his hands on the temple of the subject, leads him to a window, raps his hand very lightly on the glass, holds his fingers there, and then inquires solicitously, and yet triumphantly, “You feel a pane now, don’t you?”
The subject, who feels absolutely no discomfort or pain, says so freely, but he is corrected by the hypnotist who assures him that he certainly is feeling pane!
Teapot.
This game centers about words that have two meanings like “can.” It is used to best advantage with a small informal group. The leader starts it by saying “I teapot teapot peaches when I teapot get them,” and the neighbor to her right is to take up the conversation if she can think of the word in the place of which teapot was used. She guesses correctly so she says, “Most teapots are made of tin, but I teapot show you a teapot made of glass.” Her right-hand neighbor has not the slightest inkling of what word they are thinking about, so she is obliged to pass, and so it goes around the circle, anyone who passes being obliged to pay a forfeit. When each one has had a turn and it comes back to the leader she tells what word she had in mind, “can.”
Then she starts another one, this one perhaps, “see,” and as before, she omits the word “see” and uses “teapot” instead. For example, “I did teapot the teapot when a fearful storm was up, and I am sure that I shall never again teapot such a raging teapot.”
Sometimes the leader will call upon someone else to start a new word, and in each case, anyone who is unable to “catch on” pays a forfeit.
Magic Numbers.
Children love easy trick games which they may try out on each other. One of the easiest and simplest of these is one in which someone, a confederate of course, is sent out of the room while the others decide on some number under ten. Perhaps they decide on six. The outsider is called in and the leader remarks to him, “Fire Away,” and immediately he says, “You decided on six.”
The next time when they chose four for their number, the leader said to his confederate, “Do you think you can get it from looking at me?” and of course the confederate said, “Easily. It is four.”