Zodiastar: Match Tricks
©1941 Universal Publications, London, U.K.
Softcover, saddle-stitched, 4x6.5", 89 pages
Match Tricks
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Zodiastar: Match Tricks

Comments: Full Title is, "Fun With Matches and Matchboxes, Puzzles, Games, Tricks, Stunts, Etc."

Contents (source - image of contents page)

7 The Mysterious Matches
8 Strong Men Forward, Please
10 Gravity Defied by a Halfpenny
10 The Two Handkerchiefs
12 The Upright Match
14 The Trick Matchbox
15 Another Idea in Trick Boxes
17 The Double-purpose Matchbox
17 The Weighted Matchbox
19 The Matchbox Tower
20 A Jack-in-the-Box Matchbox
22 The Magic Matchbox
23 The Mysterious Matchbox
24 The Coin and the Bottle
25 Mr. Walker
26 Picking up the Matchbox
27 The Amazing Match Clock
28 The Broken Match
29 The Interlocking Match
30 The Locked Fingers
31 Hand on Head
31 Can You Tear Paper?
32 The Bridge of Sighs
33 Snapping a Match
34 The Wind Tunnel
36 Which Lights First?
36 Up Your Sleeve
38 The Cross Square Problem
39 The Half-Way Mark
39 The Bent Matches
39 The Half-way Mark
39 The Bent Matches
41 Which is the Longer?
41 Which is Which?
41 Eyes Wrong
42 The Pair of Squares
42 A Spelling Bee With Matches
43 Far, Farther, Farthest
45 The Matchbox Contest
46 Passing the Box
47 Noses Left and Noses Right
48 The Game of Boxes
49 The Coloured Triangles
50 Dead or Alive
51 The Middle Match
52 Match Picking
53 The Goose, The Fox and the Oats
54 The Arab and His Steeds
56 The Field With Trees
57 Two and a Half Dozen
57 A Pair
58 Which?
58 Form Fours
59 A More Difficult Form
59 Guarding the Square
59 A Desperate Encounter
60 Pairing Off
61 All in a Row
62 Six into Nine
62 Four into Ten
62 Nothing
63 A Play on the Words
63 Half of Eleven
63 One to Five
63 One From Nineteen
63 Four Goes into Three
64 More Squares
65 The Third Square
65 Juggling With Nine Squares
66 The Bridge
67 The Leaning Square
68 Triangles in Plenty
68 Another Square Problem
68 Trying Triangles
69 The Two-square Problem
69 Six Squares
70 Eight Squares
70 Pour Equal Triangles
70 Diamonds
71 The Farmer’s Farm
72 The Incomplete Rectangle
73 Four Triangles and Six Matches
74 Answers Commence



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