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Cassell’s Book of In-door Amusements

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Round or Parlour Games
  3. 3Acting Proverbs
  4. 4Acting Rhymes
  5. 5Adjectives
  6. 6The Adventurers
  7. 7Æsop’s Mission
  8. 8Alphabet Games
  9. 9The Artists’ Menagerie
  10. 10The Baby Elephant
  11. 11The Bird-Catcher
  12. 12Blind Man’s Buff
  13. 13Blind Postman
  14. 14Blowing Out the Candle
  15. 15Bouts Rimés
  16. 16“Brother, I’m Bobbed”
  17. 17“Buff Says ‘Baff.’”
  18. 18Buff With the Wand
  19. 19Capping Verses
  20. 20Charades
  21. 21Word “Go-Bang,” to Be Represented in Three Scenes
  22. 22Clairvoyant
  23. 23The Comic Concert
  24. 24Consequences
  25. 25Conveyances
  26. 26Crambo
  27. 27Cross Questions and Crooked Answers
  28. 28“Cupid Is Coming”
  29. 29The Cushion Dance
  30. 30Definitions
  31. 31Dumb Crambo
  32. 32Dwarf
  33. 33The Elements
  34. 34The Farmyard
  35. 35The Feather
  36. 36Finding the Ring
  37. 37Flying
  38. 38Forfeits
  39. 39Giant
  40. 40The Giraffe
  41. 41The Grand Mufti
  42. 42Hands
  43. 43“He Can Do Little Who Can’t Do This”
  44. 44Hiss and Clap
  45. 45“Hot Boiled Beans”
  46. 46Hot Cockles
  47. 47House Furnishers
  48. 48“How Do You Like Your Neighbour?”
  49. 49“How, When, and Where?”
  50. 50Hunt the Ring
  51. 51Hunt the Slipper
  52. 52Hunt the Whistle
  53. 53“I Apprenticed My Son”
  54. 54“I Love My Love”
  55. 55“Jack’s Alive”
  56. 56The Jolly Miller
  57. 57Judge and Jury
  58. 58The Magic Answer
  59. 59Magical Music
  60. 60The Magic Hats
  61. 61The Magic Wand
  62. 62“The Minister’s Cat”
  63. 63Mixed-Up Poetry
  64. 64Musical Chair
  65. 65“My Master Has Sent Me Unto You”
  66. 66Nouns and Questions — The Object Game
  67. 67The Old Soldier
  68. 68Oranges and Lemons
  69. 69Original Sketches
  70. 70“Our Old Grannie Doesn’t Like Tea”
  71. 71Pairs
  72. 72Person and Object
  73. 73The Pork-Butcher
  74. 74Postman’s Knock
  75. 75Proverbs
  76. 76The Quaker’s Meeting
  77. 77The Resting Wand
  78. 78Retsch’s Outlines
  79. 79The Reviewers
  80. 80Rhymes
  81. 81Rule of Contrary
  82. 82Russian Gossip
  83. 83The Schoolmaster
  84. 84Shadow Buff
  85. 85Shouting Proverbs
  86. 86“Simon Says”
  87. 87The Spanish Merchant
  88. 88The Spanish Nobleman
  89. 89Spelling Bee
  90. 90Spoon Music
  91. 91The Stage Coach
  92. 92Stool of Repentance
  93. 93Tableaux Vivants
  94. 94The Telescopic Giant
  95. 95Think of a Number
  96. 96This and That
  97. 97Throwing Light
  98. 98Toilet
  99. 99The Trades
  100. 100The Traveller’s Alphabet
  101. 101Twenty Questions
  102. 102The Two Hats
  103. 103“What Am I Doing?”
  104. 104“What Is My Thought Like?”
  105. 105Who Was He?
  106. 106The Wild Beast Show
  107. 107“Yes or No?”
  108. 108Toy Games and Toy-Making
  109. 109Æolian Harp
  110. 110Animated Serpent
  111. 111Annulette — Apple Mill
  112. 112Apple Woman
  113. 113Bandilor
  114. 114Battledore and Shuttlecock
  115. 115Bell and Hammer — Bird Whistles
  116. 116Birds, Beasts, and Fishes · Bombardment — Bottle Imps
  117. 117Brother Jonathan
  118. 118Camera (Miniature)
  119. 119Cannonade
  120. 120Carpet Croquet · Castle Bagatelle — Common Whistle
  121. 121Crack Loo — Cup and Ball
  122. 122Cupolette
  123. 123Cut-Water
  124. 124Dancing Highlander
  125. 125Dancing Pea
  126. 126Dart and Target
  127. 127Dartelle
  128. 128Decimal Game
  129. 129Demon Bottle
  130. 130Drawing-Room Archery — Dutch Racquets
  131. 131Enfield Skittles
  132. 132Flying Cones
  133. 133French and English — Gas Balloons
  134. 134German Balls
  135. 135German Billiards
  136. 136Hat Measurement
  137. 137Homeward Bound — Hydraulic Dancer
  138. 138Immovable Card
  139. 139Indian Skittle Pool — Jack-in-the-Box
  140. 140Japanese Fan — Jerk Straws
  141. 141Le Diable — Magic Fan
  142. 142Magic Figure
  143. 143Magic Flute
  144. 144Magician of Morocco
  145. 145Magnetic Swan
  146. 146Magnetic Wand
  147. 147Magnifying Pinhole · Mechanical Bucephalus — Microscope (Toy)
  148. 148Mocking Call
  149. 149Moorish Fort
  150. 150Navette
  151. 151Nine Pins
  152. 152Noughts and Crosses — Obedient Soldier
  153. 153Palada
  154. 154Paper Toys
  155. 155Parlour Bowls
  156. 156Parlour Croquet
  157. 157Parlour Quoits
  158. 158Patchesi, or Homeward Bound
  159. 159Pegasus in Flight
  160. 160Pith Dancer
  161. 161Prancing Horse — Prophet
  162. 162Puff and Dart
  163. 163Push Pin
  164. 164Puzzle-Wit — Quintain
  165. 165Quiz — Race Game
  166. 166Racquets (Drawing-Room)
  167. 167Revolving Ring
  168. 168Ringolette — Ring the Bull
  169. 169Royal Star
  170. 170Schimmel
  171. 171Shovel Board
  172. 172Skittle Cannonade
  173. 173Slate Games
  174. 174Spillikins or Spelicans
  175. 175Squails
  176. 176Squeaker
  177. 177Steady Tar
  178. 178Summer Ice
  179. 179Sybil · Table Croquet — Targetta
  180. 180Teetotum
  181. 181Tit-Tat-to — Tournament
  182. 182Trails · Trouble Wit — Wonderful Trumpet
  183. 183Mechanical Puzzles
  184. 184Balancing Puzzles
  185. 185The Square and Circle Puzzle
  186. 186The Carpenter’s Puzzle
  187. 187The Divided Farm
  188. 188The Vertical Line Puzzle
  189. 189The String and Balls Puzzle
  190. 190The Puzzling Rings
  191. 191The Staff Puzzle, the Victoria Puzzle, and the Artillery Puzzle
  192. 192The Six Rows Puzzle
  193. 193The Six Square Puzzle
  194. 194The Magic Octagon
  195. 195The Accommodating Square
  196. 196The Magic Cross
  197. 197To Take a Man’s Waistcoat Off Without Removing His Coat
  198. 198To Break a Stone With a Blow of the Fist
  199. 199The Key, the Heart, and the Dart
  200. 200The Prisoners’ Release Puzzle
  201. 201Hampton Court Maze
  202. 202Arithmetical Puzzles
  203. 203American Puzzles “15” and “34,”
  204. 204The Magic Nine, or the Puzzle of Fifteen
  205. 205The Magic Thirty-Six, or Puzzle of One Hundred and Eleven
  206. 206The Magic Hundred, or the Puzzle of Five Hundred and Five
  207. 207The Twenty-Four Monks
  208. 208To Take One From Nineteen, So That the Remainder Shall Be Twenty
  209. 209The Famous Forty-Five
  210. 210The Costermonger’s Puzzle
  211. 211The Progression of Numbers
  212. 212How a Number Thought of or Otherwise Indicated May Be Told
  213. 213Magical Addition
  214. 214The Clever Lawyer
  215. 215A New Way of Multiplying by 9
  216. 216To Reward the Favourites, and Show No Favouritism
  217. 217The Dishonest Servants
  218. 218Lord Dundreary’s Finger Puzzle to Count Eleven Fingers on the Two H…
  219. 219To Ascertain a Square Number at a Glance
  220. 220To Distinguish Coins by Arithmetical Calculation
  221. 221Properties of Numbers
  222. 222Card Games
  223. 223Long Whist
  224. 224Short Whist
  225. 225Piquet
  226. 226Euchre
  227. 227Vingt-Un
  228. 228Speculation
  229. 229Napoleon
  230. 230Cribbage
  231. 231Ranter Go Round
  232. 232Écarté
  233. 233Loo
  234. 234Cassino
  235. 235Put
  236. 236Matrimony
  237. 237All Fours
  238. 238Poker
  239. 239Snip-Snap-Snorum
  240. 240Commerce
  241. 241Sift Smoke
  242. 242Lottery
  243. 243Quince
  244. 244Pope Joan
  245. 245Spinado
  246. 246Old Maid
  247. 247Spade and Gardener
  248. 248Happy Families
  249. 249Bézique
  250. 250Snap
  251. 251Zetema
  252. 252French Vingt-Un, or Albert Smith
  253. 253Beggar My Neighbour
  254. 254Catch the Ten
  255. 255Cheat
  256. 256Truth
  257. 257Parlour Magic
  258. 258Simple Deceptions and Minor Tricks
  259. 259Card Tricks and Combinations
  260. 260Conjuring With and Without Special Apparatus
  261. 261Clairvoyance or Second Sight
  262. 262Ventriloquism and Polyphony
  263. 263Fireside Fun
  264. 264Decapitations
  265. 265Curtailments and Retailings
  266. 266Anagrams
  267. 267Word Squares
  268. 268Birds, Fruits, and Flowers Enigmatically Expressed
  269. 269Rebuses
  270. 270Arithmorems
  271. 271Diamond Puzzles and Word Puzzles of Various Shapes
  272. 272Cryptography
  273. 273Chronograms
  274. 274Logograms
  275. 275Metagrams
  276. 276Word Capping
  277. 277Paragrams
  278. 278Extractions
  279. 279Transpositions
  280. 280Definitions
  281. 281Inversions
  282. 282Hidden Words
  283. 283Numbered Charades
  284. 284Letter or Figure Charades
  285. 285Verbal Charades
  286. 286Acrostics
  287. 287Enigmas
  288. 288Alphabetical Puzzles
  289. 289Guessing Stories
  290. 290Mental Scenes

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