Mathematics
Magic and Mistery

Martin Gardner

Table of Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER ONE: TRICKS WITH CARDS - PART I

  • The Curiosities of Peirce
  • The Five Poker Hands
  • TRICKS USING CARDS AS COUNTING UNITS
  • The Piano Trick
  • The Estimated Cut
  • TRICKS USING THE NUMERICAL VALUES
  • Findley's Four-card Trick
  • A Baffling Prediction
  • Henry Christ's Improvement
  • The Cyclic Number
  • The Missing Card
  • Jordan’s Method
  • TRICKS BASED ON DIVISION OF COLORS AND SUITS
  • Stewart James' Color Prediction
  • The Royal Pairs
  • TRICKS USING FRONT AND BACK
  • Matching the Colors
  • Hummer's Reversal Mystery
  • The Little Moonies

CHAPTER TWO: TRICKS WITH CARDS - PART II

  • O'Connor's Four-ace Trick
  • The Magic of Manhattan
  • Predicting the Shift
  • The Keystone Card Discovery
  • Two-pile Location
  • Spelling the Spades
  • Elmsley's Card Coincidence
  • Magic by Mail
  • Belchou’s Aces
  • The Tit-Tat-Toe Trick
  • Other Tricks of Interest

CHAPTER THREE: FROM GERGONNE TO GARGANTUA

  • Naming the Position of the Card
  • Bringing the Card to a Named Position
  • Walker's Method
  • Naming the Card
  • Relation to Ternary System
  • Gargantua's Ten-pile Problem

CHAPTER FOUR: MAGIC WITH COMMON OBJECTS

  • DICE
  • Guessing the Total
  • Frank Dodd's Prediction
  • Positional Notation Tricks
  • Hummer's Die Mystery
  • DOMINOES
  • The Break in the Chain
  • The Row of Thirteen
  • CALENDARS
  • Magic Squares
  • Gibson's Circled Dates
  • Stover's Prediction
  • Calendar Memorizing
  • WATCHES
  • Tapping the Hours
  • Die and Watch Mystery
  • DOLLAR BILLS
  • Heath's Bill Trick
  • MATCHES
  • The Three Heaps
  • Match Folder Mind-Reading
  • The Tramps and Chickens
  • The Purloined Objects
  • COINS
  • The Nine Mystery
  • Which Hand?
  • Heath's Variation
  • Heads or Tails?
  • CHECKERBOARDS
  • Hummer's Checker Trick
  • MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS
  • Hummer's Three-Object Divination
  • Yates' Four-Object Divination

CHAPTER FIVE: TOPOLOGICAL TOMFOOLERY

  • The Afghan Bands
  • HANDKERCHIEF TRICKS
  • Finger Escape
  • Tabor's Interlocked Handkerchiefs
  • Knotty Problems
  • STRING AND ROPE
  • Garter Tricks
  • The Giant's Garter
  • More String Tricks
  • CLOTHING
  • The Puzzling Loop
  • Reversing the Vest
  • Removing the Vest
  • RUBBER BANDS
  • The jumping Band
  • The Twisted Band

CHAPTER SIX: TRICKS WITH SPECIAL EQUIPMENT

  • Number Cards
  • Window Cards
  • Sam Loyd's Version
  • TAP TRICKS
  • Crazy Time
  • Heath's "Tappit"
  • Tap-a-Drink
  • Tap-an-Animal
  • The Riddle Card
  • DICE AND DOMINO TRICKS
  • Heath's "Di-Ciphering"
  • Sure-Shot Dice Box
  • Blyth's Domino Box
  • Blocks of India
  • Hummer Tricks

CHAPTER SEVEN: GEOMETRICAL VANISHES - PART I

  • The Line Paradox
  • Sam Loyd's Flag Puzzle
  • The Vanishing Face
  • "Get Off the Earth"
  • DeLand's Paradox
  • The Vanishing Rabbit
  • Stover's Variations

CHAPTER EIGHT: GEOMETRICAL VANISHES - PART II

  • The Checkerboard Paradox
  • Hooper's Paradox
  • Square Variation
  • Fibonacci Series
  • Langman's Version
  • Curry's Paradox
  • Curry Triangles
  • Four-piece Squares
  • Three-piece Squares
  • Two-piece Squares
  • Curved and 3-D Forms

CHAPTER NINE: MAGIC WITH PURE NUMBERS

  • Rapid Cube Root Extraction
  • Adding a Fibonacci Series
  • Predicting a Number
  • Curry's Version
  • Al Baker's Version
  • Divining a Number
  • The Mysteries of Nine
  • Digital Roots
  • Persistent Root
  • Guessing Someone's Age
  • An Addition Trick
  • A Multiplication Trick
  • The Mysteries of Seven
  • Predicting a Sum
  • Al Baker's "Numero"
  • Psychological Forces

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