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| More Conjuring | |
| Author | Hercat |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Dean & Son Ltd. |
| Publication Date | 1912 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 79 |
More Conjuring, Simple Tricks for Social Gatherings, by Hercat contains effects which no apparatus is required and little sleight-of-hand is needed in the performance of them. [1]
It contains one of the first published version in English of the Clock Trick.
Contents
SIMPLE CARD TRICKS
- Page 09: An Easy Method of Finding a Selected Card
- Page 10: To Bring a Chosen Card from the Bottom of the Pack at any Number Requested
- Page 10: A Chosen Card Shaken through a Handkerchief
- Page 12: A Selected Card found in a Lighted Cigarette
- Page 13: A Sticking Card
- Page 13: Two Selected Cards Caught in the Air
- Page 14: An Easy but Puzzling Trick
- Page 14: Travelling Cards
- Page 16: To Name all the Cards in the Pack
- Page 16: A New Method
- Page 17: The Sense of Touch
- Page 18: Where is the Ace?
- Page 19: To Make a Person Name a Card which You have Yourself Selected
- Page 21: The Clock
- Page 22: How to Guess Cards Thought of
- Page 23: An Ingenious Card Trick
- Page 25: To Name a Card which Some One has Thought of
- Page 26: The Rejected Recruits—a Laughable Trick
- Page 26: A Novel Card Effect
- Page 28: An Artful Card Force
- Page 28: Another Easy Card Force
- Page 29: A Simple but Puzzling Card Trick
SIMPLE COIN TRICKS
- How to Detect a Marked Coin 30
- A Penetrative Shilling 30
- Another Simple Trick 31
- A Coin to Disappear from Your Cheek and Reappear at Your Elbow 32
- Two Vanished Half-Crowns 33
- A Divination 33
- An Effective but Simple Trick 34
- Changing Apple and Coins 35
- An Obedient Sixpence 36
- Coin and Glass 36
- A Simple Experiment with Four Shillings 38
- Puzzle of Ten Halfpence 39
- How to Increase Your Wealth 39
- A Neat Coin Trick 40
- A Subtle Impromptu Effect with a Coin 41
- An Original Coin Swindle 42
- A Cross 43
SIMPLE TRICKS WITH HANDKERCHIEFS, RINGS, CANDLES, ETC.
- A Knot that Cannot be Drawn Tight 44
- To Tie an Instantaneous Knot in a Handkerchief 45
- Half a Burnt Message Found Restored in a Candle 46
- Two Good Ring Tricks 47
SIMPLE ARITHMETICAL PROBLEMS
- To Ascertain a Number Thought of 49
- How to Name a Number which has been Erased 51
- A Lesson in the Correct Formation of a Figure 52
- Four Nines Problem 53
- An Answer to a Sum Given in Advance 53
- An Arithmetical Puzzle 54
- An Arithmetical Mystery 55
- How to Tell Her Age 55
- A Race in Addition 56
- To Predict the Hour Your Friend Intends to Rise on the Following Morning 57
MATCH PUZZLES
- Experiment with Ten Matches 59
- The Magic Nine 60
- Triangles with Matches 61
- Match Squares 61
- Your Opponent must Take the Last Match 62
- A Shakespearean Quotation 63
- Numeral 63
- Six and Five Make Nine 63
- The Artful Schoolboys 64
- What are Matches Made of? 66
- A Sheep Pen 66
- Post and Rail Puzzle 67
- SIMPLE MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
- A Good After-Dinner Trick 68
- To Remove a Serviette Ring from a Tape Held on the Thumbs of Another Person 70
- An Experiment in Gravity 71
- A Scissors Feat 71
- Another Trick with a Pair of Scissors 72
- An Indestructible Cigarette Paper 73
- To Cut an Apple in Two with Your Finger 74
- A Trick with Dominoes 74
- An Escape 75
- Cigarette Papers and Serviettes 76
- Four Cigarette Papers 77
- A Hindoo Swindle 77
- The Elusive Match—a Capital Impromptu Trick 79