Rigney, Francis J: Cub Scout Magic ©1960 1st Edition, B.S.A. New Jersey Hardcover, 145 pages Rigney, Francis J: A Beginner's Book of Magic ©1960 Devin-Adair Co., CT Hardcover, w/dj, 145 pages

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Comments: Also released in a general public edition as A Beginner's Book of Magic; The Do It Yourself Book of Tricks, Magic, and Stunts, published by the Devin-Adair Company, Connecticut.

Contents (Updated Jan 2018)

1 Tricks and Puzzles With Matches
2 Five Squares to Four
2 Four Squares to Three
2 Four Squares to Three
2 Five Squares to Four
3 Removing Matches - Nine Squares to Five Squares
3 Match Puzzle Contests
3 Four Squared to Two
3 Six Triangles to Three Triangles
3 Six Triangles to Four
4 Making Squares and Triangles
4 Two Matches, One Square
5 Arithmetic With Matches
5 Six Matches With Five Added
5 Four Matches With Five Added
5 Addition and Subtraction
5 Multiplication
5 Division by Subtraction
5 Subtraction Game For Two Players
6 Arithmetic and Spelling
6 - Ten Matches
6 - Eleven Matches
6 Down to Up
6 -Thirteen Matches
6 - Eight Matches
6 A Little to a Lot
6 - Sixteen Matches
6 - Eleven Matches
6 Smaller is Bigger
6 - Twenty Two Matches
6 - Twenty One Matches
7 Weights and Measures
7 - Twenty Three Matches
7 - Twelve Matches
7 - Twenty Three Matches
7 - Twenty Matches
7 - Thirteen Matches
7 - Eleven Matches
7 Walking Matches

8 Sugar Tricks
8 Feeling Sugar Wages: with an assistant in the know
9 Lump Sugar Slammed From its Paper Wrapper and Through Your Hand
10 Telling the Turn and Spelling the Turner
11 Crossed Lines: on the palm
11 Double Crossing: a variation
12 Sugar Through a Handkerchief
13 Funny Counting
14 More Funny Counting
14 Ten-Lump Placing: puzzle
15 Nine-Lump Placing: puzzle
15 Sugar-Lump Catching: stunt
15 Lump Jumping: puzzle
16 Turning the Dots: puzzle
16 Who Ate the Lump?: with an assistant
16 A Joke Vanish

17 Checker Tricks, Puzzles and Games
17 Ring the Change: puzzle
18 Moving Colors: puzzle
19 One Double Move and All Change: puzzle
20 Triangle Turnabout: puzzle
21 Three in a Row: puzzle
23 The Eight-Pointer Puzzle
24 Must Not Moving: puzzle
24 Square Play: game
25 Can You Do?: puzzle
26 The Same Colors Together in Four Moves: puzzle
27 Checker Jumping Puzzle
28 More Moves
29 Pickup - Last Man Loses

30 Money Magic
30 Stacking and Placing Coins: coins end up heads and tails in order
31 Big Through Little: large coin through small hole in paper
31 For a Spin: stunt
32 Coin Through Handkerchief
33 The Disappearing Coin: with confederate
34 The Invisible Flying Coin: another version
35 Touched Coin Comes Through Handkerchief
36 Coin Through Handkerchief or Napkin on Table
37 Coin Through Three Napkins - And
41 Passing Coin From One Folded Napkin to Another
43 Coin From Napkin Into a Bun
44 Coin Vanishes From Handkerchief Held By Assistant From Your Audience
45 Coin Vanishes From Folded Paper: coin fold, with variations
48 Coin Through a Drinking Glass and Plate

51 Party Stunts
51 The Clip-Joining Stunt: linking paper clips
52 The Blow-Up Cap: mirror stunt
53 Giving a Lift: physical stunt
53 Magic Red Pencil: mirror trick
53 Magic Red Addition: math version
54 Upside Down in Mirror: another mirror stunt
54 The Ticking Clock: a drawn clock "ticks"
54 Red And Black Do a Fast Dance: two pencils jump about
55 The Magnetized Pencil: seems to stick to your hand
56 Cup Moving: puzzle
57 Cup Turning: another

58 Mind Reading
59 Telling the Color of a Tag: magician knows which of three tags was chosen
59 Telling the Color of a Crayon: in a cap over your head
60 Telling Ribbon Color: magician tells which color ribbon behind his back
61 Another Way to Prepare the Ribbons
62 Telling a Color Without Touching or Seeing It: using an assistant
62 Telling the Color or Colors of a Marble: sort of behind your back
63 Telling a Written Color: with a confederate
63 Telling Written Numbers: with a confederate
64 Finding Paper With Name of Chosen Color: center tear principle
64 Clock Figuring: telling clock values using math
65 Telling a Word That a Person is Thinking: a book test using a dollar bill and a confederate
67 Mind Reading at a Home Party: a two person code
69 Mind Reading for Laughs: some comedy object revelations

72 Rope and String Tricks
72 The Underhand Overhand Knot
74 The "Is Not" Knot
75 Another Disappearing Knot
76 Can You Make It Knot
77 Threading the Loop
77 Speed Knots
78 Another Quick One
79 The Twin Knots
80 Lots of Knots
81 Tied, Freed, Tied: a quick escape with wrists tied
82 A Prisoner Escape Without Untying Knots: with two spectator's tied together
84 Ropes Through Your Waist: penetration
87 Tied Rope Through Your Neck
88 Rope Loop Through Your Neck: another version
89 Double Looped Cord Through Finger - First Method
90 Double Looped Cord Through Finger - Second Method
91 Looped String Through Your Hand
92 Looped String Through a Buttonhole
93 Loop From Finger of Helper
94 Loop and Vest Trick: clever rope escape
95 Loop and Scissors Trick: scissors removed from rope looped through handles
96 Double-Cut Cord Restored: cut and restored
97 String and Straw Cut: string through a straw is cut but only the straw is damaged
98 A Surprise Cutting of Loop Knots: a knot is cut from a rope but the rope is made whole
100 Surprise Separation of Tied Ropes
102 Stringing a Friend: magician's two strings for a single string while spectator's does not
103 Stringing an Audience: a version involving more spectators

104 String and Ring Tricks
104 To Get a Ring Off a String of Many Knots  - First Method
105 To Get a Ring Off a String of Many Knots  - Second Method
106 Taking a Ring Off a Twice-Knotted String
107 The Ring Put Back: a follow up
108 Taking a Ring Off a Looped String
109 To Take a Ring Off a Loop Held By Three People
109 String and Many Rings: clever candy trick
111 Cardboard Rings and String
112 Putting a Big Ring on a String Tied to Your Wrists
113 Magnetic Pencils and Ring: finger ring rises on a pencil

114 Handkerchief and Napkin Tricks
114 Fast Knot
115 Throwing a Knot
115 The Vanishing Knot
116 Rabbit From a Handkerchief: a rabbit puppet
117 Handkerchief Puppet No. 1: simple
118 Handkerchief Puppet No. 2: Hank the Dancer
119 The Egg Layer: multiple eggs appear from a handkerchief into a hat
121 Mending a Match by Magic: broken and restored match
122 The Handkerchief Puzzle
123 Handkerchief Through Your Leg
124 Where is Joe: a napkin rolling puzzle