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

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

Published $\text {1881}$, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co

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.

Cited by

• 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles