After Dinner Tricks by Walter Gibson

Description

This is a lovely collection of simple tricks, puzzles, brain teasers and other similar items. Each one is explained with text and an illustration.

• INTRODUCTION
• Tricks With Matches
  • Strike Safety Matches Without Box
  • Levitation of a Match Box
  • The Leaning Match
  • A Light That Failed
  • Which End Burns First?
  • Balancing a Match
  • The Mystic Matches
  • A Puzzle With Matches
  • A Square by Moving One Match
  • Self-Serving Match Box
• Tricks With Coins
  • Mysterious Sounding Money
  • The Changed Coins in Hand
  • Chosen Coin Picked Out
  • Coin Appears in Empty Box
  • A Puzzle With a Coin
  • Coin Balanced on Tumbler
  • To See Both Sides of a Coin at Once
  • Disappearing Coin in Box
  • Coin Dissolves Into Air
• Tricks With Cards
  • The Rejected Soldiers
  • Telling Cards from Backs
  • The Three Aces
  • Finding a Selected Card
  • Separated Cards