Lamb, Geoffrey: Pencil and Paper Tricks ©1977 Thomas Nelson Inc., Pub, Nashville, NY Hardcover, 80 pages ISBN: 0840765657

Comments: Illustrations ©1977 Thomas Nelson, Inc. A collection of mostly arithmetic tricks & puzzles, with a few others thrown in as well.

Contents (from book ToC):

9 About This Book
11 Exactly One Hundred: arithmetic puzzle
12 Seeing by Magic: math trick
15 Link the Letters: word puzzle
16 Going Around in Circles: puzzle
18 Space Travel: circle card trick, matches selection
21 Take the Dollar: magician always wins this game
24 Color Guessing: crayon color divination
26 Rearrange the Figures: another arithmetic puzzle
28 Face Up or Face Down?: Magician predicts if book will be face up or down
32 Foursquare Magic: magician instantly knows total of four blocked numbers
34 Strange Headlines: clever headline gag
37 Lucky Number: a number puzzle
39 Squares and Triangle: draw figure in one continuous line
40 The Mystic Year: number puzzle/predicton with year 1647
43 Tricky Triangle: triangle number puzzle/prediction
46 What's Missing?: magician determines missing number
49 Upside Down: figure turns upside down when rolled with pencil
50 Crystal Calculation: year calculation prediction
53 Mirror, Mirror. Tell Me True!: mirror reading gag
55 Pebbles and Rubies: a circle puzzle
58 Hold It!: spectator can't catch dropped paper
60 Quick Left: arithmetic gag
62 Magic Charm: magician locates "magic charm" card thought of
65 Against the Odds: another magician wins the game
67 Lightning Calculator: number addition prediction
71 Artful Answers: two math puzzles
82 Girls and Boys: magician determines boy or girl written on torn papers
74 Multiplying by Magic: a crazy math story
78 The Lost-Letter Mystery: a math & letter mystery