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Trick, Games and puzzles with Matches
Illustrations by Norman Dreyer
BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION
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I was sitting in the PX during the war (World War II, that is), drinking beer with a friend. He laid a handful of matches on the table.
“Let’s play a game,” he said, “We’ll take turns removing either one or two matches from the pile. The one who picks up the last match buys the beer.”
I bought beer for the rest of the evening. It was my introduction to match tricks. Because I am an inveterate collector of such things, I put my friend’s game in my notebook. From time to time I added others.
Then one day, I found that I had almost a hundred of them. I asked Mr. Cirker of Dover Publications if he would be interested in publishing them, He said he would, And here they are.
Most of the tricks herein do not depend upon matches being matches. They can be done with toothpicks, soda straws, or even broomsticks, in fact, I recommend that parents give their children burned matches.
Some of the tricks are so simple that you will feel like kicking yourself when you see the solution. Others can only be described as elegant, The complete solution of at least one (No. 18) requires the knowledge of elementary number theory. Solutions to the puzzles are given at the end.
I hope you enjoy working these puzzles as much as I enjoyed collecting them.
Good luck !
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Maxey Brooke
Illustrations by Norman Dreyer
BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION
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I was sitting in the PX during the war (World War II, that is), drinking beer with a friend. He laid a handful of matches on the table.
“Let’s play a game,” he said, “We’ll take turns removing either one or two matches from the pile. The one who picks up the last match buys the beer.”
I bought beer for the rest of the evening. It was my introduction to match tricks. Because I am an inveterate collector of such things, I put my friend’s game in my notebook. From time to time I added others.
Then one day, I found that I had almost a hundred of them. I asked Mr. Cirker of Dover Publications if he would be interested in publishing them, He said he would, And here they are.
Most of the tricks herein do not depend upon matches being matches. They can be done with toothpicks, soda straws, or even broomsticks, in fact, I recommend that parents give their children burned matches.
Some of the tricks are so simple that you will feel like kicking yourself when you see the solution. Others can only be described as elegant, The complete solution of at least one (No. 18) requires the knowledge of elementary number theory. Solutions to the puzzles are given at the end.
I hope you enjoy working these puzzles as much as I enjoyed collecting them.
Good luck !
_________________________
If you wanna readmore the book, you can download the book in digital version from link below :
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