Description

Puzzles, games and conjuring tricks – all done with simple matches. Get a matchbox or book of matches and entertain an entire table of guests or just a single person on the bar.

With an introduction by David Devant.

ForewordIntroductionPart I: PuzzlesIntroductionDividing The InheritanceBoy Scouts’ BridgeDoubling The AreaTwin Triangle PuzzleFour Triangle PuzzleNothing To RemainShakespearean QuotationMatch ManufactureRemoving The MiddleEvens To OddTantalising AdditionAlternative Method Of PresentationEasy MultiplicationSubtle SubtractionSingular SubtractionTwenty-Five From SixSix-Five PuzzleHalf Of TwelveFour FormationThree And A Half DozenTen From NineMatchstick On The PlateCounting The CrossFive by CountMatchstick CatchOne-Square PuzzleTwo-Square PuzzleThree-Square PuzzleFive To ThreeFive To FourSix-Square PuzzleSix From Six Leaves TwoSeven-Square PuzzleEight From FifteenEight-Square PuzzleNine-Square PuzzleNine Squares To FiveOutlining The SquaresGeometrical NineThe “Diangle” PuzzleFive-Diamond PuzzleAnother Five-Diamond PuzzleSquares And TrianglesMore Squares And TrianglesFive-Triangle PuzzleCounting The SquaresFour In Line”One Shall Be Left”German Prisoners’ HutPart II: Scientific And Constructional ExperimentsIntroductionThree-Way BridgeFour-Way BridgeAll TogetherWhich End First?Firework FrameLifting The TripodThe Animated MatchsticksRemoving The SupportThe Unsupported BridgeThe Intersecting PointMiddle MeasurementUpright ElongationTracing The CourseLength Versus BreadthJudging The DistanceUnsquaring The SquareTransformed StarReleasing The CoinMatchstick CapillarismShooting StarsPart III: Table GamesIntroductionSpots And SquaresMatchstick Board GameNo Pairs AllowedEscaping From GermanyThree In LineFour-Way GameFive-Line GameThe Twenty GameBlack Versus WhiteTransferring In TwosMatchstick Circle TransferCrossing The PointsBoxesStraights And CrossesFifteen Matchstick GameMajority Matchstick GameMatchstick ModelsThe Farmer’s Four DonkeysPart IV: ConjuringIntroductionBroken Matchstick Restored”You May Smoke, Gentlemen”Matter Through MatterMatchstick MagnetismEasy MagicThe Vanishing MatchstickInexplicable Matchstick VanishThe Inseparable ThreeBalloon And StringCan You Count Ten?Interlocking MatchsticksElijah’s MatchboxEdge DroppingMesmerized MatchsticksMatchstick DivinationAlways On TopTravelling by Wireless1st edition 1921, 124 pages, 1st digital edition 2013, 85 pages.
word count: 20836 which is equivalent to 83 standard pages of text