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THIS collection of games, tricks, and pastimes is the result of many years’ effort to find the most clever and practical diversions and entertainments suitable for the home. Each trick has been tested by the editor, and each sport introduced has received most careful considera...
Also see if you can write your name backward—that is, begin at the last stroke and go back to the first—and as a last trick try to write your name upside down. That is not at al...
6. Part 6You are now able to produce the five cards you have named beforehand, viz.: four of spades, seven of hearts, ace of diamonds, queen of hearts and eight of clubs. The effect upon...
7. Part 7For example, we will suppose the three was the card thought of, and the six was the card touched. Six added to 10 makes 16. Then request the player to commence counting the card...
4. Part 4When all this has been explained, the guesser leaves the room. The leader then arranges the party in a circle, seating alternately a boy with a girl, if possible, and explaining...
3. Part 3=Deceptive Heights.= (_a_) Ask a person, or several persons, to point out with a finger or walking-cane, on a wall, above a table, about what he supposes to be the height of an...
2. Part 2=Naming a Card.= This trick can be shown at any time and at any place where two performers are together and desire to show a little skill to amuse their friends. The idea in the...
1. Part 1THIS collection of games, tricks, and pastimes is the result of many years’ effort to find the most clever and practical diversions and entertainments suitable for the home. Eac...
8. Part 8=Jack-o’-Lanterns.= The effect of these may be heightened by sticking pins through pumpkin seeds and placing them in the comers of the eyes for the irises and into the mouth for...