Book:Anonymous/Cassell's Book of In-Door Amusements, Card Games and Fireside Fun

Subject Matter

 * Mathematical Recreations

Contents

 * PREFACE


 * ROUND OR PARLOUR GAMES


 * Acting Proverbs
 * Acting Rhymes
 * Adjectives
 * Adventurers, The
 * Æsop's Mission
 * Alphabet Games
 * Artists' Menagerie, The
 * Baby Elephant, The
 * Bird-catcher, The
 * Blind man's Buff
 * Blind Postman
 * Blowing out the Candle
 * Bouts Rimés
 * "Brother, I'm Bobbed"
 * "Buff says 'Baff'"
 * Buff with the Wand
 * Capping Verses
 * Charades
 * Clairvoyant
 * Comic Concert, The
 * Consequences
 * Conveyances
 * Crambo
 * Cross Questions and Crooked Answers
 * "Cupid is Coming"
 * Cushion Dance, The
 * Definitions
 * Dumb Crambo
 * Dwarf
 * Elements, The
 * Farmyard, The
 * Feather, The
 * Finding the Ring
 * Flying
 * Forfeits
 * Giant
 * Giraffe, The
 * Grand Mufti, The
 * Hands
 * "He can do little who can't do this"
 * Hiss and Clap
 * "Hot Boiled Beans"
 * Hot Cockles
 * House Furnishers
 * "How do you like your Neighbour?"
 * "How, When, and Where?"
 * Hunt the Ring
 * Hunt the Slipper
 * Hunt the Whistle
 * "I Apprenticed my Son"
 * "I Love my Love"
 * "Jack's Alive"
 * Jolly Miller, The
 * Judge and Jury
 * Magic Answer, The
 * Magical Music
 * Magic Hats, The
 * Magic Wand, The
 * "The Minister's Cat"
 * Mixed-up Poetry
 * Musical Chair
 * "My Master has sent me unto you"
 * Nouns and Questions
 * Object Game, The
 * Old Soldier, The
 * Oranges and Lemons
 * Original Sketches
 * "Our Old Grannie doesn't like Tea"
 * Pairs
 * Person and Object
 * Pork-Butcher, The
 * Postman's Knock
 * Proverbs
 * Quaker's Meeting, The
 * Resting Wand, The
 * Retsch's Outlines
 * Reviewers, The
 * Rhymes
 * Rule of Contrary
 * Russian Gossip
 * Schoolmaster, The
 * Shadow Buff
 * Shouting Proverbs
 * "Simon says"
 * Spanish Merchant, The
 * Spanish Nobleman, The
 * Spelling Bee
 * Spoon Music
 * Stage Coach, The
 * Stool of Repentance
 * Tableaux Vivants
 * Telescope Giant, The
 * Think of a Number
 * This and That
 * Throwing Light
 * Toilet
 * Trades, The
 * Traveller's Alphabet, The
 * Twenty Questions
 * Two Hats, The
 * "What am I Doing?"
 * "What is my Thought like?"
 * Who was he?
 * Wild Beast Show, The
 * "Yes or No?"


 * TOY GAMES AND TOY-MAKING


 * Æolian Harp
 * Animated Serpent
 * Annulette
 * Apple Mill
 * Apple Woman
 * Bandilor
 * Battledore and Shuttlecock
 * Bell and Hammer
 * Bird Whistles
 * Birds, Beasts, and Fishes
 * Bombardment
 * Bottle Imps
 * Brother Jonathan
 * Camera (Miniature)
 * Cannonade
 * Carpet Croquet
 * Castle Bagatelle
 * Common Whistle
 * Crack Loo
 * Cup and Ball
 * Cupolette
 * Cut-water
 * Dancing Highlander
 * Dancing Pea
 * Dart and Target
 * Dartelle
 * Decimal Game
 * Demon Bottle
 * Drawing-room Archery
 * Dutch Racquets
 * Enfield Skittles
 * Flying Cones
 * French and English
 * Gas Balloons
 * German Balls
 * German Billiards
 * Hat Measurement
 * Homeward Bound
 * Hydraulic Dancer
 * Immovable Card
 * Indian Skittle Pool
 * Jack-in-the-Box
 * Japanese Fan
 * Jerk Straws
 * Le Diable
 * Magic Fan
 * Magic Figure
 * Magic Flute
 * Magician of Morocco
 * Magnetic Swan
 * Magnetic Wand
 * Magnifying Pinhole
 * Mechanical Bucephalus
 * Microscope (Toy)
 * Mocking Call
 * Moorish Fort
 * Navette
 * Nine pins
 * Noughts and Crosses
 * Obedient Soldier
 * Palada
 * Paper Bellows
 * Paper Boat
 * Paper Boxes
 * Paper Chinese Junk
 * Paper Dart
 * Paper Hat (Pyramidal)
 * Paper Parachute
 * Paper Purses
 * Parlour Bowls
 * Parlour Croquet
 * Parlour Quoits
 * Patchesi; or, Homeward Bound
 * Pegasus in Flight
 * Pith Dancer
 * Prancing Horse
 * Prophet
 * Puff and Dart
 * Push Pin
 * Puzzle-wit
 * Quintain
 * Quiz
 * Race Game
 * Racquets (Drawing-Room)
 * Revolving Ring
 * Ringolette
 * Ring the Bull
 * Royal Star
 * Schimmel
 * Shovel Board
 * Skittle Cannonade
 * Slate Games
 * Spillikins or Spelicans
 * Squails
 * Squeaker
 * Steady Tar
 * Summer Ice
 * Sybil
 * Table Croquet
 * Targetta
 * Teetotum
 * Tit-tat-to
 * Tournament
 * Trails
 * Trouble Wit
 * Wonderful Trumpet


 * MECHANICAL PUZZLES


 * Balanced Pail, The
 * Balanced Stick, The
 * Bridge of Knives, The
 * Square and Circle Puzzle, The
 * Carpenter's Puzzle, The
 * Divided Farm, The
 * Vertical Line Puzzle, The
 * String and Balls Puzzle, The
 * Puzzling Rings, The
 * Balls and Rings Puzzle, The
 * Staff Puzzle, The
 * Victoria Puzzle, The
 * Artillery Puzzle, The
 * Six Rows Puzzle, The
 * Six-Square Puzzle, The
 * Magic Octagon, The
 * Accommodating Square, The
 * Magic Cross, The
 * To Take a Man's Waistcoat off without Removing his Coat
 * To Break a Stone with a Blow of the Fist
 * The Key, the Heart, and the Dart
 * Prisoners' Release Puzzle, The
 * Hampton Court Maze


 * ARITHMETICAL PUZZLES


 * American Puzzles, "15" and "34"
 * Magic Nine, The; or, Puzzle of Fifteen, The
 * Magic Thirty-six, The; or, Puzzle of One Hundred and Eleven, The
 * Magic Hundred, The; or, Puzzle of Five Hundred and Five, The
 * Twenty-four Monks, The
 * To take One from Nineteen so that the Remainder shall be Twenty
 * Famous Forty-five, The
 * Costermonger's Puzzle, The
 * Progression of Numbers, The
 * How a Number thought of or otherwise indicated may be told
 * Magical Addition
 * Clever Lawyer, The
 * A New Way of Multiplying by 9
 * To Reward the Favourites and Show no Favouritism
 * Dishonest Servants, The
 * Lord Dundreary's Finger Puzzle
 * Uniform Results of Multiplication
 * To Ascertain a Square Number at a Glance
 * To Distinguish Coins by Arithmetical Calculation
 * Properties of Numbers


 * CARD GAMES


 * Long Whist
 * Short Whist
 * Piquet
 * Euchre
 * Vingt-un
 * Speculation
 * Napoleon
 * Cribbage
 * Ranter go Round
 * Écarté
 * Loo
 * Cassino
 * Put
 * Matrimony
 * All Fours
 * Poker
 * Snip-Snap-Snorum
 * Commerce
 * Sift Smoke
 * Lottery
 * Quince
 * Pope Joan
 * Spinado
 * Old Maid
 * Spade and Gardener
 * Happy Families
 * Bézique
 * Snap
 * Zetema
 * French Vingt-un, or Albert Smith
 * Beggar my Neighbour
 * Catch the Ten
 * Cheat
 * Truth


 * PARLOUR MAGIC


 * Conjuring
 * Simple Deceptions and Minor Tricks
 * Card Tricks and Combinations
 * Conjuring with and without Special Apparatus
 * Clairvoyance or Second Sight
 * Ventriloquism and Polyphony


 * FIRESIDE FUN


 * Decapitations
 * Curtailments and Retailings
 * Anagrams
 * Word Squares
 * Birds, Fruits, and Flowers Enigmatically Expressed
 * Rebuses
 * Arithmorems
 * Diamond Puzzles and Word Puzzles of Various Shapes
 * Cryptography
 * Chronograms
 * Logograms
 * Metagrams
 * Word Capping
 * Paragrams
 * Extractions
 * Transpositions
 * Definitions
 * Inversions
 * Hidden Words
 * Numbered Charades
 * Letter and Figure Charades
 * Verbal Charades
 * Acrostics
 * Enigmas
 * Alphabetical Puzzles
 * Guessing Stories
 * Mental Scenes

Critical View
I confess that I feel nostalgia for those times.