Eldin, Peter: The Trickster's Handbook ©1976 Peter Eldin, Fontana Paperbacks, Armada, London Softcover, perfect-bound, 5.5x8.5", 128 pages ©1982 Imprint

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Comments: Drawings by Roger Smith. "200 tricks, jokes and stunts to fool your friends"

Contents (from book):

7 Pretty Sneaky: challenges and "betcha's"
8 Inside Out
8 Keyhole Kate
9 Handy Hint
9 Crazy Count
9 Hunt the Thimble
10 Sweet Magic
10 Vanishing Sweet
10 Under the Hat
11 Dotty
11 Button Up
12 Paris In the Spring
12 It's Impossible
12 Foot and Forearm
13 Knot Impossible
13 Keep It Dry
14 Paragraph Puzzler
14 The Vanishing Day
15 It Doesn't Count
15 Sticky Book
16 Test Your Reactions
16 Catch Question
16 A Year Apart
17 Breath of Magic
17 Upside Down Word
18 Another Upside Down Word
18 Upside Down Word That Isn't
19 Without Moving My Lips
19 Cutting the String
20 String 'em Along
20 Parallel Puzzler
21 Cork and Coin Conundrum
21 Torn Trousers
21 Thread Pull, Leg Pull
22 Wet Feet
22 Tipsy Walker
23 What Is It?
23 The Mysterious Label
24 Jumping Hat
24 Jumping Money
25 Nut Case
25 Initiation Ceremony
26 Coin Stuck

27 Tests of Strength and Balance: more challenges
28 Test of Strength: with a phone book
28 Muscle Power
29 Escape Impossible
29 Fingertip Control
29 Impossible Lift
30 Confusing Circle
30 Ball Balance
31 Blow the Man Down
31 Book Blow
32 Butterfingers: with two corks
32 Straw of Strength: lifting a bottle with a straw
33 A Nift Trick: with a coin and a card
33 Slide Rule: experiment with a ruler
33 Elur Edils: another
34 Hands Up: physical stunt
34 Test Again Ten: strength test
35 Twice as Strong: another
35 Flip: stunt with a book
36 Amazing Balance: with a pencil and penknife
36 Coat Hangar Coin Spin
37 Straw Lift: puzzle challenge
37 You Can't Do This: a challenge that can't be done
38 Balancing Tumbler: on a card
38 Card Turnover: card challenge
39 Coin Balance
39 The Spinner: a spinning cigarette paper
40 Ping Pong Pyramid: juggling trick
40 Cork and Forks: balancing act
41 Flying Newspaper: strength test
41 Finger Fun: physical challenge
42 Cutlery Matchic: balancing stunt

43 It Must be Matchic: tricks and puzzles with matches
44 Match Piles: performer predicts how many matches left
45 Star Performer: challenge
45 Unbreakable Matchbox: strength test
46 Well Matched: balancing stunt
46 Straight Drop: drop box to land on its end
47 Match Up: know which side a matcbox will land on
47 Animated Matches: jumping matches
48 Which End? Heads or tails
48 Turn It Over: challenge
49 Match Stand: balancing trick
49 Multiplying Matches: matches double in number in a box
50 Anti-Magnetic Matches: matches magically separate
50 Safet Pin Penetration: match penetrates a safety pin
51 An Odd Trick: challenge
51 Anti Gravity Matches: matches fall out of box only on command
52 Rising Match: comedy matchbox
52 Matched Bet: match heads or tails bet
53 Match Snap: break a match with just two fingers
53 Jack in the Match: gag matchbook
54 Matches From NoWhere: empty matchbox becomes full
54 Match Balance: balancing stunt
55 The Floater: a match floats
55 Match Spread: magic design in water
56 Odd or Even?: automatic math trick with matches
56 Come Together Matches: variation on Match Spread
57 The Rattler: a Monte game with match boxes
58 Indestructable Match: broken and restored in a handkerchief

59 Fantastic Feats With Food and Drink
60 Egg Stand 1: balance an egg on end
60 Egg Stand 2: another version
61 Glow Worm: sugar cubes glow
61 Fruity Fangs: a gag
62 Eggstraordinary: egg changes color in wate
62 Iceberg Elevation: lift an ice cube out of water with just a string
63 Salt Cellar Suspension: lifing a salk shaker
63 Egg Spinner: spinning an egg like a top
64 Thanks for the Drink: two cup water drinking challenge
64 Fortune-Telling Banana: using a feature of bananas
65 Floating Sausage: optical illusion
65 Floating Egg: make an egg float
66 Bottling an Egg: how to fit an egg in a bottle
66 Another Egg in Another Bottle
67 Bottle Fruit: an apple in a bottle
68 Apple Catch: clever stunt with an apple and a nut
69 Personal Fruit: personalizing fruit as it grows
69 How to Eat a Candle: a fake one
70 Fantastic Fruit: gag with fruit varieties
70 Banana Split: a banana is already cut when peeled
71 Sliced Apple: similar approach with an apple
72 The Ghost is Thirsty: drinking water challenge
73 Drink It Up: another water drinking challenge
74 Coffee Break: coffee and water separation

75 Miracles of Mindreading
76 Sleight of Foot: gag
76 No!: comedy prediction
77 The Very Same Word: another
78 Muscle Reading: number prediction using an accomplice
79 That's It: another two person revelation
80 That's It Again: another version
80 Heads Or Tails: with an accomplice
81 Your Card: find selection using a key card
82 Psychic Vision: comedy blindfold
83 Extra Sensory Perception: performer finds all the selected cards amongst many in a box
84 Magic Addition: math magic
84 Cups of Mystery: magician knows under which bottle cap is the coin
86 Magic Breath: revelation in a glass
87 It Must Be Mindreading: age determination
88 Think of a Number: another math revelation
88 The Mystic Nine: outcome of which of three piles of cards predicted
88 Booked Thoughts: book test
89 The Three of Diamonds: prediction
90 Psychological Number - 1: prediction doesn't always work
90 Psychological Number - 2: another
91 Psychological Flower: another
91 Psychological Colour: yet another
91 Coloured Thoughts: magician determines color of a crayon
92 Coincidence: magician finds the selected coin amongst others in a box

93 Magic That Baffles
94 Funnel Fun: challenge to blow out a candle
95 Hole In the Hand: optical illusion
95 Coin and Bottle: challenge
96 Cork Control: cork floats in center of glass
96 Flexible Pencil: optical illusion
97 The Appearing Knot: with a handkerchief
97 Key Vanish: usng a pull
98 Brush Off: physical stunt with a coin
98 Double Quantity: filling a glass twice
99 Rainbow Production: experiment
99 Coin Count: puzzle
100 Pencil Power: pencil clings to fingers
100 The Magnetised Pencil: another version
101 Curious Curves: optical illusion
101 AntiGravity Balloon: static electricity
102 Stretching a Handkerchief: illusion
103 The Flying Coin: smaller coin under a larger out of a glass
103 Clip Link: stunt with paperclips and a bill or paper
104 Aristotle's Ilusion: a touch illusion
104 Amazing Arithmetic - 1: symmetric addition & subtraction patterns
105 Amazing Arithmetic - 2: symmetric addition & subtraction patterns
105 Amazing Arithmetic - 3: symmetric addition & subtraction patterns
105 Amazing Arithmetic - 4: symmetric addition & subtraction patterns
106 Invulnerable Balloon: pins don't pop a balloon
106 Cunninc Coin: vanishing coin with accomplice
107 Pin Puzzler: performer removes a pin from a glass of water without getting wet
108 Al Tied Up: two handkerchiefs become magically tied
109 Ring on String: challenge
110 Give It a Scratch: challenge to remove coin under glass
110 The Walking Hairpin: walks along a ruler
111 The Watertight Sieve: water won't pass thru it
112 Coin Vanish: performed for a single spectator
113 The Topsy Turvy Pound: bill reverses itself when folded
113 Stringed Ring: challenge
114 Hovercard: an experiment in air pressure
115 It's a Hold Up: gag
115 A Weighty Problem: will the heavy paper fall faster than the light one?
116 Sleight of Hand: on coin joins another in the other hand when slapped to the table
117 One Hundred Wins: number game where you always win
118 Handkerchief Vanisher: for a small coin
118 Pinpointed: one safety pin passes through the other
119 Colur Changing Balloon: when it pops
120 Magic Ring: ring on string bound between the wrists
120 Vanishing Water: gag
121 Quick Knot: with a string
121 Portrait Painter: gag
122 Card Spring: card jumps from glass
123 Mad Maths: 100 plus 11 makes 199
124 In the Post: gag
124 Point The Other Way: arrow changes direction in a glass of water
125 Multiplying Money: in a magazine

126 Answers: to puzzles 16 and 32
128 Advertisement: for Captain Armada books