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Mental Magic by Martin Gardner

Mental Magic

Surefire Tricks to Amaze Your Friends

Martin Gardner

Dover Publications · Print & ebook · January 14, 2010

A barber in Chicago says he'd rather cut the hair of ten red-headed men than the hair of one brown-haired man.

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Professor Picanumba presents word and number challenges, with solutions and illustrations included.
Themes
Riddles and puzzles, Mental magic tricks, Word and number challenges
Genres
Magic Tricks, Puzzles, Word Games

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About this book

A barber in Chicago says he'd rather cut the hair of ten red-headed men than the hair of one brown-haired man. Can you guess why? Ask Professor Picanumba, a master of riddles who carries dozens of surefire tricks up his sleeve. He'll show you how to astonish your friends and family by predicting the answers to 88 word and number challenges. These tricks require only simple props — a deck of cards or a couple of pairs of dice, a calculator, and a pencil and paper.

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With or without an audience, these foolproof feats of mental magic offer hours of amusement. Solutions appear at the end, with 64 illustrations in between. Author Martin Gardner has written more than 70 books on subjects from science and math to poetry and religion. Well known for the mathematical games that appeared in Scientific American for decades and for his "Trick of the Month" column in Physics Teacher magazine, Gardner has had a lifelong passion for magic tricks and puzzles.

Professor Picanumba

Professor Picanumba presents word and number challenges, with solutions and illustrations included.

Come here for

  • Word and number challenges presented as mental-magic tricks
  • Simple-prop tricks using cards, dice, a calculator, or pencil and paper

Expect

  • Tricks that can be performed with or without an audience
  • Solutions at the end; 64 illustrations throughout

Where it sits

Puzzles81%
Word Games47%
Magic Tricks45%

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Publisher categories

  • Card Games
  • Magic Tricks
  • Math
Authors
Martin Gardner
Publisher
Dover Publications
Published
January 14, 2010
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Riddles and puzzles · Mental magic tricks · Word and number challenges
Reading lane
Card Games