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This book contains illustrations showing some of the tricks described. The illustrations are available in the HTML version. In this text-only version they are replaced by the place-holder "[Illustration]", but in the section "Match Puzzles", some simple ASCII diagrams have bee...
With a needle and strong thread take a stitch of about half an inch in its side, leaving several inches of the thread hanging from where you puncture it. Reinserting the needle...
3. Part 3Procure two small apples exactly alike, and in the bottom of one scoop out a hole large enough to hold a pile of three sixpences. Make a conical cover out of cartridge paper lar...
4. Part 4Ask some one to start a sum in addition by writing the top line of four figures. We will suppose he writes 1912. You mentally subtract the 2 and place it before the 1, making 21...
2. Part 2"The card I am now feeling appears to be (say) the queen of spades." You then show the card held between your thumb and finger, at the same time glancing at the palmed card. Thr...
1. Part 1This book contains illustrations showing some of the tricks described. The illustrations are available in the HTML version. In this text-only version they are replaced by the pl...