Mental Magic: Surefire Tricks to Amaze Your Friends (Dover Children's Activity Books)

A barber in Chicago states he prefer to reduce the hair of 10 red-headed guys than the hair of one brown-haired man. Can you suppose why?Ask Professor Picanumba, a master of riddles who carries lots of surefire dress up his sleeve. He'll show you the best ways to amaze your family and friends by predicting the answers to 88 word as well as number obstacles. These methods call for simply simple props-- a deck of cards or a number of pairs of dice, a calculator, as well as a pencil as well as paper. With or without an audience, these foolproof tasks of mental magic offer hrs of enjoyment. Solutions show up at the end, with 64 illustrations in between.Author Martin Gardner has actually composed greater than 70 publications on subjects from science as well as math to verse as well as religion. Populared for the algebraic games that appeared in Scientific American for years as well as for his"Trick of the Month "column in Physics Instructor publication, Gardner has actually had a lifelong enthusiasm for magic methods as well as puzzles.