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ROUND OR PARLOUR GAMES.

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Acting Proverbs 9
Acting Rhymes 9
Adjectives 10
Adventurers, The 10
Æsop's Mission 11
Alphabet Games 11
Artists' Menagerie, The 12
Baby Elephant, The 12
Bird-catcher, The 13
Blind man's Buff 13
Blind Postman 13
Blowing out the Candle 13
Bouts RimÉs 14
"Brother, I'm Bobbed" 14
"Buff says 'Baff'" 14
Buff with the Wand 15
Capping Verses 15
Charades 15
Clairvoyant 17
Comic Concert, The 18
Consequences 18
Conveyances 19
Crambo 19
Cross Questions and Crooked Answers 20
"Cupid is Coming" 20
Cushion Dance, The 20
Definitions 21
Dumb Crambo 21
Dwarf 21
Elements, The 22
Farmyard, The 22
Feather, The 22
Finding the Ring 22
Flying 23
Forfeits 23
Giant 28
Giraffe, The 28
Grand Mufti, The 28
Hands 28
"He can do little who can't do this" 29
Hiss and Clap 29
"Hot Boiled Beans" 29
Hot Cockles 29
House Furnishers 29
"How do you like your Neighbour?" 30
"How, When, and Where?" 30
Hunt the Ring 30
Hunt the Slipper 30
Hunt the Whistle 31
"I Apprenticed my Son" 31
"I Love my Love" 31
"Jack's Alive" 31
Jolly Miller, The 32
Judge and Jury 32
Magic Answer, The 32
Magical Music 33
Magic Hats, The 33
Magic Wand, The 33
"The Minister's Cat" 34
Mixed-up Poetry 34
Musical Chair 35
"My Master has sent me unto you" 35
Nouns and Questions 35
Object Game, The 35
Old Soldier, The 36
Oranges and Lemons 36
Original Sketches 37
"Our Old Grannie doesn't like Tea" 37
Pairs 37
Person and Object 37
Pork-Butcher, The 38
Postman's Knock 38
Proverbs 38
Quaker's Meeting, The 38
Resting Wand, The 39
Retsch's Outlines 39
Reviewers, The 40
Rhymes 40
Rule of Contrary 41
Russian Gossip 41
Schoolmaster, The 41
Shadow Buff 41
Shouting Proverbs 42
"Simon says" 42
Spanish Merchant, The 42
Spanish Nobleman, The 42
Spelling Bee 43
Spoon Music 43
Stage Coach, The 44
Stool of Repentance 44
Tableaux Vivants 45
Telescope Giant, The 46
Think of a Number 46
This and That 46
Throwing Light 47
Toilet 47
Trades, The 48
Traveller's Alphabet, The 48
Twenty Questions 49
Two Hats, The 49
"What am I Doing?" 49
"What is my Thought like?" 49
Who was he? 50
Wild Beast Show, The 50
"Yes or No?" 50

TOY GAMES AND TOY-MAKING.

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Æolian Harp 52
Animated Serpent 52
Annulette 53
Apple Mill 53
Apple Woman 53
Bandilor 54
Battledore and Shuttlecock 54
Bell and Hammer 54
Bird Whistles 54
Birds, Beasts, and Fishes 54
Bombardment 54
Bottle Imps 54
Brother Jonathan 55
Camera (Miniature) 55
Cannonade 55
Carpet Croquet 56
Castle Bagatelle 56
Common Whistle 56
Crack Loo 56
Cup and Ball 56
Cupolette 56
Cut-water 57
Dancing Highlander 57
Dancing Pea 57
Dart and Target 58
Dartelle 58
Decimal Game 58
Demon Bottle 58
Drawing-room Archery 59
Dutch Racquets 59
Enfield Skittles 59
Flying Cones 59
French and English 60
Gas Balloons 60
German Balls 60
German Billiards 61
Hat Measurement 61
Homeward Bound 61
Hydraulic Dancer 61
Immovable Card 61
Indian Skittle Pool 61
Jack-in-the-Box 62
Japanese Fan 62
Jerk Straws 62
Le Diable 62
Magic Fan 62
Magic Figure 64
Magic Flute 64
Magician of Morocco 64
Magnetic Swan 65
Magnetic Wand 65
Magnifying Pinhole 66
Mechanical Bucephalus 66
Microscope (Toy) 66
Mocking Call 67
Moorish Fort 67
Navette 67
Nine pins 68
Noughts and Crosses 68
Obedient Soldier 68
Palada 68
Paper Bellows 69
Paper Boat 69
Paper Boxes 70
Paper Chinese Junk 70
Paper Dart 72
Paper Hat (Pyramidal) 72
Paper Parachute 72
Paper Purses 73
Parlour Bowls 74
Parlour Croquet 74
Parlour Quoits 74
Patchesi; or, Homeward Bound 75
Pegasus in Flight 75
Pith Dancer 76
Prancing Horse 76
Prophet 76
Puff and Dart 77
Push Pin 78
Puzzle-wit 78
Quintain 78
Quiz 78
Race Game 78
Racquets (Drawing-Room) 79
Revolving Ring 79
Ringolette 80
Ring the Bull 80
Royal Star 80
Schimmel 81
Shovel Board 82
Skittle Cannonade 83
Slate Games 84
Spillikins or Spelicans 85
Squails 86
Squeaker 86
Steady Tar 87
Summer Ice 87
Sybil 87
Table Croquet 87
Targetta 87
Teetotum 88
Tit-tat-to 88
Tournament 88
Trails 88
Trouble Wit 88
Wonderful Trumpet 88

MECHANICAL PUZZLES.

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Balanced Pail, The 90
Balanced Stick, The 90
Bridge of Knives, The 91
Square and Circle Puzzle, The 91
Carpenter's Puzzle, The 91
Divided Farm, The 92
Vertical Line Puzzle, The 92
String and Balls Puzzle, The 92
Puzzling Rings, The 93
Balls and Rings Puzzle, The 93
Staff Puzzle, The 94
Victoria Puzzle, The 94
Artillery Puzzle, The 94
Six Rows Puzzle, The 94
Six-Square Puzzle, The 94
Magic Octagon, The 94
Accommodating Square, The 94
Magic Cross, The 95
To Take a Man's Waistcoat off without Removing his Coat 95
To Break a Stone with a Blow of the Fist 96
The Key, the Heart, and the Dart 96
Prisoners' Release Puzzle, The 96
Hampton Court Maze 96

ARITHMETICAL PUZZLES.

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American Puzzles, "15" and "34" 97
Magic Nine, The; or, Puzzle of Fifteen, The 98
Magic Thirty-six, The; or, Puzzle of One Hundred and Eleven, The 98
Magic Hundred, The; or, Puzzle of Five Hundred and Five, The 99
Twenty-four Monks, The 99
To take One from Nineteen so that the Remainder shall be Twenty 100
Famous Forty-five, The 100
Costermonger's Puzzle, The 100
Progression of Numbers, The 101
How a Number thought of or otherwise indicated may be told 102
Magical Addition 103
Clever Lawyer, The 104
A New Way of Multiplying by 9 104
To Reward the Favourites and Show no Favouritism 105
Dishonest Servants, The 105
Lord Dundreary's Finger Puzzle 105
Uniform Results of Multiplication 105
To Ascertain a Square Number at a Glance 106
To Distinguish Coins by Arithmetical Calculation 106
Properties of Numbers 106

CARD GAMES.

PARLOUR MAGIC.

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Conjuring 151
Simple Deceptions and Minor Tricks 152
Card Tricks and Combinations 153
Conjuring with and without Special Apparatus 167
Clairvoyance or Second Sight 178
Ventriloquism and Polyphony 180

FIRESIDE FUN.

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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 203
Extractions 204
Transpositions 204
Definitions 205
Inversions 206
Hidden Words 206
Numbered Charades 208
Letter and Figure Charades 210
Verbal Charades 211
Acrostics 211
Enigmas 213
Alphabetical Puzzles 215
Guessing Stories 216
Mental Scenes 217

CASSELL'S

Book of In-door Amusements.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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