Lay five matches on the table and request a member of the company to form a well-known quotation from Shakespeare by the addition of three more matches ([Fig. 14]). “But,” some one will say, “how does KINI represent a Shakespearean quotation?” Your reply is obvious: “Can’t you see KINI is ‘a little more than kin, but rather less than kind’?”
Fig. 14.
NUMERAL
Place five matches on the table and challenge any one to make them into thirteen without breaking any of them, and then, without moving them, to make eight by the use of a card. The solution will be found in [Fig. 15].
Fig. 15.
To make eight, hide the lower half of the row from sight, and it of course shows viii.
SIX AND FIVE MAKE NINE
Place six matches on the table and request a person to add five more in such a manner as to make nine. The solution is shown in [Fig. 16].