Cassell's Book of In-door Amusements, Card Games, and Fireside Fun

by Various

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A
Acrostics, and double acrostics, [211]
Acting charades, [15]
Acting proverbs, [9]
Acting rhymes, [9]
Adjectives, a parlour game, [10]
Adventurers, The, a parlour game, [10]
Æsop's mission, [11]
Album, Animal; a talking picture-book, [52]
All fives, [134]
All fours, [132]
Alphabet games, [11]
Alphabetical puzzles, [215]
American puzzles "15" and "34," [97]
Anagrams, [189]
Animal album; a talking picture-book, [52]
Animated serpent, [52]
Annulette (see [Parlour Croquet])
Apple-mill, [53]
Apple-woman, a hand trick, [53]
Archery, Drawing-room, [59]
Arithmetical puzzles, [97] -[106];
American puzzles "15" and "34" ("Boss"), [97];
the magic nine, a puzzle of fifteen, [98];
the magic thirty-six, or puzzle of one hundred and eleven, ib.;
the magic hundred, or puzzle of five hundred and five, [99];
the twenty-four monks, ib.;
to take one from nineteen, so that the remainder shall be twenty, [100];
the famous forty-five, ib.;
the costermonger's puzzle, ib.;
the progression of numbers:—the horse-dealer's bargain, the sovereign and the sage, the pin in the hold of the Great Eastern steamship, [101];
how a number thought of may be told, [102];
magical addition, [103];
the clever lawyer, [104];
a new way of multiplying by 9, ib.;
to reward the favourites and show no favouritism, [105];
the dishonest servants, ib.;
Lord Dundreary's finger puzzle, to count eleven fingers on the two hands, [105];
uniform results of multiplication, ib.;
to ascertain a square number at a glance, [106];
to distinguish coins by arithmetical calculation, ib.;
properties of numbers, ib.
Arithmorems, [194]
Artists' menagerie, [12]
B
Baby elephant, [12]
Balancing puzzles:
demon bottle, [58];
magic figure, [64];
obedient soldier, [68];
Pegasus in flight, [75];
steady tar, [86];
the balanced pail, [90];
the balanced stick, ib.;
revolving coins and needles, ib.;
the bridge of knives, [91]
Balloons, Gas, [60]
Balls and rings (puzzle), [93]
Balls, German, [60]
Balls, Houdin's cups and balls tricks, [178]
Bandilor (toy), [54]
Battle, Mrs., her opinion of whist, [115]
Beggar my neighbour, [149]
Bell and hammer, [54]
Bellows, Paper, [69]
Bézique, [143]
Billiards, German, [61]
Bird-catcher, The, a parlour game, [13]
Birds, beasts, and fishes, a slate game, [54]
Birds, fruits, and flowers enigmatically expressed, [192]
Bird-whistles, [54]
Blind man's buff, [13]
Blind postman, [13]
Blowing out the candle, [13]
Boat, Paper, [70]
Bob Short's rules for whist, [110]
Bombardment, a round game, [54]
"Boss," the American puzzles "15" and "34," [97]
Bottle fountain, [153]
Bottle imps, [54]
Bouts rimés, [14]
Bowls, Parlour, [74]
Boxes, Paper, [70]
Bricks, Toy, [51]
"Brother, I'm bobbed," [14]
Brother Jonathan, [55]
Brough, Robert B., Logogram by, [201]
Bucephalus, Mechanical, [66]
"Buff says 'Baff,'" [14]
Buff with the wand, [15]
Byron, Lord, enigma on the letter H ascribed to him, [214];
another on the letter I, by Byron, ib.
C
Camera (miniature), [55]
Candle, Blowing out the, [13]
Candle-ends, Eatable, [152]
Canning, George, Charade by, [208]
Cannonade, or castle bagatelle, [55]
Capping verses, [15]
Card games, [107]-[150];
antiquity of card-playing, [107];
long whist, [107]-[15];
mode of playing, [108];
technical terms used, ib.;
Bob Short's rules: for first, second, and third hand, [110];
for all the players, ib.;
laws of the game, [111];
the rubber, ib.;
shuffling, [112];
first, second, third, and fourth hand, ib.;
memory, temper, patience, [114];
Mrs. Battle's opinion on whist, [115];
short whist, ib.;
dumby, or three-handed whist, [116];
double dumby, or two-handed whist, ib.;
piquet, ib.;
technical terms, ib.;
pique, repique, capot, [118];
euchre, ib.;
two-handed, three-handed, and four-handed, [119];
vingt-un, [120];
speculation, [121];
napoleon, [122];
cribbage, ib.;
three and four handed cribbage, [124];
ranter go round, [125];
écarté, [126];
technical terms, ib.;
mode of playing, [127];
loo, limited and unlimited, [128];
technical terms, [129];
cassino, ib.;
laws of the game, [130];
put, [131];
matrimony, ib.;
all fours, [132];
blind all fours, [133];
all fives, [134];
poker (stud poker, twenty-deck poker), ib.;
draw poker, ib.;
straight poker, [135];
whiskey poker, [136];
snip-snap-snorum, ib.;
commerce, [137];
sift smoke, [138];
lottery, ib.;
quince, [139];
Pope Joan, ib.;
spinado, [140];
old maid, [141];
spade and gardener, [142];
happy families, ib.;
bézique, [143];
technical terms, ib.;
bézique without a trump, [144];
snap, ib.;
zetema, [145];
table of scores, ib.;
marriages, tricks, [146];
French vingt-un, or Albert Smith, [148];
beggar my neighbour, [149];
catch the ten, ib.;
cheat, [150];
truth, ib.
Card, Immovable, [61]
Card tricks and combinations, [153]-[167];
sleight-of-hand, [153];
to palm a card, [154];
to make the pass, ib.;
to force a card, ib.;
to make a false shuffle, [155];
to sight a card, ib.;
the long card, ib.;
to guess a card thought of, [156];
to show the five cards five different persons have selected, ib.;
to tell the card thought of out of thirty-five exposed cards, [157];
when the number of cards is not fixed, ib.;
by arranging the cards in a circle, [158];
to name a card noted, ib.;
to guess the cards thought of by different persons, ib.;
to discover a card by touch or smell, [159];
to tell all the cards without seeing them, ib.;
the nerve trick, [160];
to make a person draw the cards called for, ib.;
to call for any card, ib.;
to discover what cards have been turned, [161];
to send a card through a solid table, ib.;
to tell the pairs, ib.;
the four kings, [162];
the turnover, ib.;
to ascertain the number of pips on unseen cards, [163];
like with like, [164];
to make a card come out of a pack, ib.;
to draw a particular card from a coat pocket, ib.;
to deal in rotation and in suits, ib.;
to catch a card from a pack thrown in the air, [165];
the four recruits, ib.;
the four confederates, ib.;
the transmutable cards, [166];
the two convertible aces, ib.;
to tell the number of cards by their weight, ib.;
to discover a card drawn by the throw of a die, [167]
Carpenter's puzzle, [91]
Carpet croquet, [56]
Cassino, [129]
Castle bagatelle, [55]
"Cat, The minister's," [34]
Catch the ten, [149]
Chair, Musical, [35]
Charades (see [Acting Charades], [Figure Charades], [Letter Charades], [Numbered Charades], [Verbal Charades])
Cheat, [150]
Chinese junk, Paper, [71]
Chronograms, [198]
Clairvoyance, or second sight, [178]-[180]
Clairvoyant, a parlour game, [17]
Clever lawyer, [104]
Coins distinguished by arithmetical calculation, [106]
Coins, Puzzles and tricks with, [90], [167]-[172]
Comic concert, [18]
Commerce, [137]
Common whistle, [56]
Comte, the French conjurer; his feats in ventriloquism, [184]
Concert, Comic, [18]
Conjuring, [151]-[180];
authorities:
works of Piesse, Hoffmann, and Cremer, [151];
"Memoirs of Robert Houdin," ib.;
"Patter," ib.;
magician's wand and magician's table, [152]
Conjuring: simple deceptions and minor tricks, [152]-[167];
eatable candle-ends, [152];
how to swallow a flame, ib.;
to pull a string through a button-hole, ib.;
the cut string restored, ib.;
the musical snail, [153];
to extract a cork from a bottle without touching the cork, ib.;
the bottle-fountain, ib.;
to place wine under a hat, and to drink it without touching the hat, ib.
Conjuring with and without special apparatus, [167]-[178];
the transposable money, [167];
the penetrative coin, ib.;
the phantom coin, [168];
the coin melted and restored, ib.;
the flying coins, [169];
the box, the halfpence, and the die, [170];
to pick a marked shilling out of a hat covered with a handkerchief, [171];
burning the handkerchief, [172];
the augmented coins, ib.;
to guess the two ends of a line of dominoes, [174];
to get a ring out of a handkerchief, [175];
Herr Frikell's gold-fish trick, [176];
Houdin's cups and balls, [177]
(and see [Card Tricks and Combinations])
Consequences, a parlour game, [18]
Conveyances, a parlour game, [19]
Costermonger's puzzle, [100]
Crack loo, [56]
Crambo, [19];
dumb crambo, [21]
"Crandall's toys," [51]
Cremer on conjuring, [151]
Cribbage, [152]
Croquet, Carpet, [56];
Parlour, [74]
Cross, Magic, [95]
Cross questions and crooked answers, [20]
Cryptography, [197]
Cup and ball, [56]
"Cupid is coming," [20]
Cupolette, [56]
Cups and balls, Houdin's tricks with, [177]
Cushion-dance, [20]
Cut-water, [57]
D
Dancer, Hydraulic, [61];
pith, [76]
Dancing Highlander, [57];
pea, [57]
Dart and target, [58]
(see [Puff and Dart])
Dart, Paper, [72]
Dartelle, [58]
Definitions (parlour game), [21];
(fireside game), [205]
Demon bottle, [58]
Diamond word-puzzles, [196]
D'Israeli, Isaac, his skill in anagrams, [189], [190]
Dominoes, Tricks with, [174]
Double acrostics, [212];
example written by her Majesty Queen Victoria, ib.
Drawing-room archery, [59]
Drawing-room racquets, [79]
Dumb crambo, [21]
Dumby (whist), [116]
Dundreary, Lord: puzzle to count eleven fingers on the two hands, [105]
Dutch racquets, [59]
Dwarf imitated, a parlour game, [21]

E
Ecarté, [126]
Elements, The, a parlour game, [22]
Elephant, Baby, [12]
Enfield skittles, [59]
Enigmas 192-[193];
example on the letter H, by Miss Katherine Fanshawe (ascribed to Lord Byron), [214];
on the letter I, by Lord Byron, ib.;
enigmas by Charles James Fox, ib.;
by Schiller, [215]
Euchre, [118]
Extractions of words, [204]
F
Fan, Japanese, [62]
Fan, Magic, [62]
Fanshawe, Miss Katherine, her enigma on the letter H (ascribed to Lord Byron), [214]
Farmyard, [22]
Feather, The, a parlour game, [22]
"Fifteen" (American puzzle), [97]
Figure charades, [210]
Finding the ring, [22]
Fireside fun, [185]-[189];
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, ib.;
extractions, [204];
transpositions, ib.;
definitions, [205];
inversions, [206];
hidden words, ib.;
numbered charades, [208];
charades by Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Mark Lemon, George Canning, ib.;
by Archbishop Whately, Charles James Fox, [209];
letter or figure charades, [210];
verbal charades, [211];
acrostics, ib.;
double acrostics, ib.;
example written by her Majesty Queen Victoria, [212];
enigmas, [213];
alphabetical puzzles, [215];
guessing stories, [216];
guessing mental scenes, [217]
Flowers and fruit enigmatically expressed, [192]
Flute, Magic, [64]
Flying, a parlour game, [23]
Flying cones, [59]
Forfeits, [23]
Fox, Charles James, Logogram by, [201];
charade, [209];
enigmas, [214]
French and English, a slate game, [60]
French vingt-un, [148]
Frikell, Herr, his gold-fish trick, [176]
G
Gas balloons, [60]
German balls, [60]
German billiards, [61]
German toy manufacturers, [89]
Giant imitated, a parlour game, [28]
Giant, Telescopic, [46]
Giraffe imitated, a parlour game, [28]
Gold-fish trick, [176]
Grand Mufti, The, [28]
Guessing mental scenes, [217]
Guessing proverbs, [38]
Guessing rhymes, [40]
Guessing stories, [216]
H
Hampton Court maze, [96]
Handkerchief, The burnt, [172]
Hands, a parlour game, [28]
Hat measurement, [61]
Hat, Paper, [72]
Hats, Magic, [33]
Hats, The two, [49]
"He can do little who can't do this," [29]
Hidden words, [206]
Highlander, Dancing, [57]
Hiss and clap, [29]
Hoffmann on conjuring, [151]
Homeward bound, [61]
Horse-dealer's bargain, The, [101]
Horses, Toy, [51]
Hot boiled beans, [29]
Hot cockles, [29]
Houdin, Robert, Memoirs of, [151];
his cups and balls tricks, [177];
his illustrations of clairvoyance, [178]
House furnishers, a parlour game, [29]
"How do you like your neighbour?" [30]
"How, when, and where?" [30]
Hundred, The magic, [99]
Hunt the ring, [30]
Hunt the slipper, [30]
Hunt the whistle, [31]
Hydraulic dancer, [61]
I
"I apprenticed my son," [31]
"I love my love," [31]
Immovable card, [61]
Indian skittle pool, [61]
Inversions of words, [206]
J
Jack-in-the-box, [62]
"Jack's alive," [31]
Japanese fan, [62]
Jerk straws, [62]
Jolly miller, [32]
Judge and jury, [32]
L
Le diable (flying cones), [60]
Lemon, Mark, Charade by, [208]
Letter charades, [210]
Logograms, [200];
specimens by Lord Macaulay and Charles James Fox, [200], [201];
by William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, [201];
by Robert B. Brough, ib.
Loo, Limited and unlimited, [128]
Lottery, [138]
M
Macaulay, Lord, Rebus and logogram by, [193], [200], [201]
Magic answer, [32]
Magic cross, [94]
Magic fan, [62]
Magic figure, [64]
Magic flute, [64]
Magic hats, [33]
Magic hundred, [99]
Magic nine, [98]
Magic octagon, [94]
Magic thirty-six, [99]
Magic wand, The, a parlour game, [33]
Magical music, [33]
Magician of Morocco, [64]
Magnetic swan, [65]
Magnetic wand, [65]
Magnifying pinhole, [66]
Matrimony, [131]
Maze at Hampton Court, [96]
Mechanical Bucephalus, [66]
Mechanical puzzles, [90]-[96];
balanced pail, [90];
the balanced stick, ib.;
revolving coins and needles, ib.;
the bridge of knives, [91];
the square and circle puzzle, ib.;
the carpenter's puzzle, ib.;
the divided farm, [92];
the vertical line puzzle, ib.;
the string and balls puzzle, ib.;
the seven-ring puzzle, [93];
balls and rings puzzle, ib.;
the staff puzzle, [94];
the Victoria puzzle, ib.;
the artillery puzzle, ib.;
the six rows puzzle, ib.;
the six square puzzle, ib.;
the magic octagon, ib.;
the accommodating square, ib.;
the magic cross, [95];
to take a man's waistcoat off without removing his coat, ib.;
to break a stone with a blow of the fist, [96];
the key, the heart, and the dart, ib.;
the prisoner's release puzzle, ib.;

Hampton Court maze, ib.
Menagerie, The artists', [12]
Mengen, Baron, on ventriloquism, [181]
Mental scenes, [217]
Metagrams, [202]
Microscope, Toy, [66]
"Minister's cat, The," [34]
Mixed-up poetry, [34]
Mocking call, [67]
Moorish fort, [67]
Morocco, Magician of, [64]
Music, Magical, [33]
Music, Spoon, [43]
Musical chair, [35]
Musical snail, [153]
"My master has sent me unto you," [35]
N
Napoleon, [122]
Navette, [67]
Nine pins, [68]
Nine, The magic, [98]
Nouns and questions, [35]
Numbered charades, [208]
Numbers, Progression and properties of (see [Arithmetical Puzzles])
O
Obedient soldier, [68]
Object game, [35]
Octagon, Magic, [94]
Old maid, [141]
Old soldier, [36]
Oranges and lemons, [36]
Original sketches, a parlour game, [37]
"Our old grannie doesn't like tea," [37]
P
Pairs, a parlour game, [37]
Palada, [68]
Parachute, Paper, [72]
Paragrams, [203]
Parlour bowls, [74]
Parlour croquet, [74]
Parlour games (see [Round or Parlour Games])
Parlour magic, [151]-[184];
conjuring: simple deceptions and minor tricks, [151]-[153];
card tricks and combinations, [153]-[167];
conjuring with or without special apparatus, [167]-[178];
clairvoyance, or second sight, [178]-[180];
ventriloquism and polyphony, [180]-[184]
Parlour quoits, [74]
Patchesi, [75]
Patter in conjuring, [151];
in ventriloquism, [181]
Pea, Dancing, [57]
Pegasus in flight, [75]
Person and object, a parlour game, [37]
Piesse on conjuring, [151]
Piquet, [116]
Pith dancer, [76]
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, Logogram by, [201]
Poetry, Mixed-up, [34]
Poker, [134]
Polyphony and ventriloquism, [180]-[184]
Pope Joan, [139]
Pork-butcher, The, a parlour game, [38]
Postman's knock, [38]
Praed, Winthrop Mackworth, Charade by, [208]
Prancing horse, [76]
Prisoners' release puzzle, [96]
Progression of numbers, [101]
Prophet, [76]
Proverbs, Acting, [9]
Proverbs, Guessing, [38]
Proverbs, Shouting, [42]
Puff and dart, [77]
Purses, Paper, [73]
Push-pin, [78]
Put, [131]
Puzzles (see [Alphabetical], [Arithmetical], [Balancing], [Mechanical], and [Word Puzzles])
Puzzle-wit, [78]
Q
Quaker's meeting, [38]
Quince, [139]
Quintain, [78]
Quiz, [54], [78]
Quoits, Parlour, [74]-[75]
R
Race game, [78]
Racquets, Drawing-room, [79]
Racquets, Dutch, [59]
Ranter go round, [125]
Resting wand, [39]
Retsch's outlines, a parlour game, [39]
Reviewers, The, a parlour game, [40]
Revolving ring, [79]
Rhymes, Acting, [9]
Rhymes, Bouts rimés, [14]
Rhymes, Guessing, [40]
Ring, Finding the, [22]
Ring, Hunt the, [30]
Ring the bull, [80]
Ringolette, [74]
Rings, Puzzles and tricks with, [93], [175]
Round or parlour games, [9]-[50];
acting proverbs, [9];
acting rhymes, ib.;
adjectives, [10];
the adventurers, ib.;
Æsop's mission, [11];
alphabet games, ib.;
the artists' menagerie, [12];
the baby elephant, ib.;
the bird-catcher, [13];
blind man's buff, ib.;
blind postman, ib.;
blowing out the candle, ib.;
bouts rimés, [14];
"brother, I'm bobbed," ib.;
"buff says 'baff,'" ib.;
buff with the wand, [15];
capping verses, ib.;
charades, ib.;
clairvoyant, [17];
the comic concert, [18];
consequences, ib.;
conveyances, [19];
crambo, ib.;
cross questions and crooked answers, [20];
"Cupid is coming," ib.;
the cushion dance, ib.;
definitions, [21];
dumb crambo, ib.;
dwarf, ib.;
the elements, [22];
the farmyard, ib.;
the feather, ib.;
finding the ring, ib.;
flying, [23];
forfeits, ib.;
giant, [28];
the giraffe, ib.;
the grand mufti, ib.;
hands, ib.;
"he can do little who can't do this," [29];
hiss and clap, ib.;
"hot boiled beans," ib.;
hot cockles, ib.;
house furnishers, ib.;
"how do you like your neighbour?" [30];
"how, when, and where?" ib.;
hunt the ring, ib.;
hunt the slipper, ib.;
hunt the whistle, [31];
"I apprenticed my son," ib.;
"I love my love," ib.;
"Jack's alive," ib.;
the jolly miller, [32];
judge and jury, ib.;
the magic answer, ib.;
magical music, [33];
the magic hats, ib.;
the magic wand, ib.;
"the minister's cat," [34];
mixed-up poetry, ib.;
musical chair, [35];
"my master has sent me unto you," ib.;
nouns and questions, ib.;
the object game, ib.;
the old soldier, [36];
oranges and lemons, ib.;
original sketches, [37];
"our old grannie doesn't like tea," ib.;
pairs, ib.;
person and object, ib.;
the pork-butcher, [38];
postman's knock, ib.;
proverbs, ib.;
the quaker's meeting, ib.;
the resting wand, [39];
Retsch's outlines, ib.;
the reviewers, [40];
rhymes, ib.;
rule of contrary, [41];
Russian gossip, ib.;
the schoolmaster, ib.;
shadow buff, ib.;
shouting proverbs, [42];
"Simon says," ib.;
the Spanish merchant, ib.;
the Spanish nobleman, ib.;
spelling bee, [43];
spoon music, ib.;
the stage coach, [44];
stool of repentance, ib.;
tableaux vivants, [45];
the telescopic giant, [46];
think of a number, ib.;
this and that, ib.;
throwing light, [47];
toilet, or trencher, ib.;
the trades, [48];
the traveller's alphabet, ib.;
twenty questions, [49];
the two hats, ib.;
"what am I doing?" ib.;
"what is my thought like?" ib.;
"who was he?" [50];
the wild beast show, ib.;
"yes or no?" ib.
Royal star, [80]
Rule of contrary, [41]
Russian gossip, [41]
S
Schiller, Enigma by, [215]
Schimmel, [81];
materials for the game;
mode of playing, ib.
Schoolmaster, a parlour game, [41]
Second sight, or clairvoyance, [178]-[180]
Serpent, Animated, [52]
Shadow buff, [41]
Shouting proverbs, [42]
Shovel board, [82]
Sift smoke, [138]
"Simon says," [42]
Skittle cannonade, [83]
Skittles, Enfield, [59]
Slate games, [84]
Sleight-of-hand, [154]
Slipper, Hunt the, [30]
Snail, Musical, [153]
Snip-snap-snorum, [136]
Sound (see [Ventriloquism and Polyphony])
Spanish merchant, [42]
Spanish nobleman, [42]
Speculation, [121]
Spelling bee, [43]
Spillikins or spelicans, [85]
Spinado, [140]
Spoon music, [43]
Squails, or trails, [86]
Squeaker, [86]
Stage coach, a parlour game, [44]
Steady Tar, [86], 87
Stool of repentance, [44]
Straws: jerk straws, [62]
Summer ice, [87]
Swan, Magnetic, [65]
Sybil, [76]
T
Tableaux vivants, [45]
Target and dart, [58]
Targetta, [87]
Teetotum, [88]
Think of a number, [46]
"Thirty-four" (American puzzle), [97]
Thirty-six, The magic, [99]
This and that, [46]
Throwing light, a parlour game, [47]
Tit-tat-to, [85]
Toilet, a parlour game, [47]
Toy games and toy-making, [51]-[89];
bricks and building materials, [51];
"Crandall's toys," animal album, or talking picture-book, [52];
Æolian harp, ib.;
animated serpent, ib.;
annulette, [53];
apple-mill, ib.;
apple-woman, ib.;
bandilor, or quiz, [54];
battledore and shuttlecock, ib.;
bell and hammer, or "schimmel," ib.;
bird-whistles, ib.;
birds, beasts, and fishes, ib.;
bombardment, ib.;
bottle imps, ib.;
Brother Jonathan, [55];
camera (miniature), ib.;
cannonade, or castle bagatelle, ib.;
carpet croquet, [56];
common whistle, ib.;
crack loo, ib.;
cup and ball, ib.;
cupolette, ib.;
cut-water, [57];
dancing Highlander, ib.;
dancing pea, ib.;
dart and target, [58];
dartelle, ib.;
decimal game, ib.;
demon bottle, ib.;
drawing-room archery, [59];
Dutch racquets, ib.;
Enfield skittles, ib.;
flying cones, ib.;
French and English, [60];
gas balloons, ib.;
German balls, ib.;
German billiards, [61];
hat measurement, ib.;
homeward bound, or "patchesi," ib.;
hydraulic dancers, ib.;
immovable card, ib.;
Indian skittle-pool, ib.;
Jack-in-the-box, [62];
Japanese fan, ib.;
jerk straws, ib.;
le diable, ib.;
magic fan, ib.;
magic figure, [64];
magic flute, ib.;
magician of Morocco, ib.;
magnetic swan, [65];
magnetic wand, ib.;
magnifying pinhole, [66];
mechanical Bucephalus, ib.;
microscope (toy), ib.;
mocking call, [67];
moorish fort, ib.;
navette, ib.;
nine pins, [68];
noughts and crosses, ib.;
obedient soldier, ib.;
palada, ib.;
paper toys: bellows, boat, boxes, Chinese junk, dart, hat, parachute, purses, [69]-[74];
parlour bowls, [74];
parlour croquet, ib.;
parlour quoits, ib.;
patchesi, or homeward bound, [75];
Pegasus in flight, ib.;
pith dancer, [76];
prancing horse, ib.;
prophet, or sibyl, ib.;
puff and dart, [77];
push-pin, [78];
puzzle-wit, ib.;
quintain, ib.;
quiz, ib.;
race game, ib.;
racquets (drawing-room), [79];
revolving ring, ib.;
ringolette, [80];
ring the bull, ib.;
royal star, ib.;
schimmel, or bell and hammer, [81];
shovel board, [82];
skittle cannonade, [83];
slate games, [84];
spillikins, or spelicans, [85];
squails, [86];
squeaker, ib.;
steady tar, [86], [87];
summer ice, [87];
sybil, ib.;
table croquet, ib.;
targetta, ib.;
teetotum, [88];
tit-tat-to, ib.;
tournament, ib.;
trails, ib.;
trouble wit, ib.;
wonderful trumpet, ib.;
German and Tyrolese manufacture of toys, [89]
Trades, a parlour game, [48]
Transpositions of words, [204]
Traveller's alphabet, [48]
Trencher, or toilet, a parlour game, [47]
Trouble wit, [62]
Trumpet, Wonderful, [88]
Truth, [150]
Twenty questions, [49]
Two hats, [49]
Tyrol, Manufacture of toys in the, [89]
V
Ventriloquism and polyphony, [180]-[184];
principles of the art, [180];
general instructions for practice, [183];
feats of Comte, the French conjurer, [184]
Verbal charades, [211]
Victoria, Queen, Double acrostic written by her Majesty, [212]
Vingt-un, [120]
W
Wand, Magic, a parlour game, [33]
Wand, Magnetic, [65]
Wand, The resting, [39]
"What am I doing?" [49]
"What is my thought like?" [49]
Whately, Archbishop, Charade by, [209]
Whist: long whist, [107]-[115];
short whist, [115]
Whistle, Common, [56]
Whistle, Hunt the, [31]
Whistles, Bird, [54]
"Who was he?" [50]
Wild beast show, [50]
Wonderful trumpet, [88]
Words and word puzzles: decapitations, [185];
curtailments and retailings, [186];
anagrams, [189];
word squares, [191];
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, ib.;
extractions, [204];
transpositions, ib.;
definitions, [205];
inversions, [206];
hidden words, ib.
Y
"Yes or no," [50]
Z
Zetema, [145]

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