Odhams Press: Complete Home Entertainer ©1948 Odhams Press, London Hardcover, w/dj, 512 pages

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Comments: Mostly games and entertainments, but also includes a few sections on magic. Contributor list includes Nicolas Bentley, H.M. Brock, Doreen Debenham, Joyce Dennys, Stanley Herbert, Jack Matthew, G. McKerrow, George Morrow, Charles Russel, Steven Spurrier, and Gilbert Wilkinson.

Contents (from book, detailed contents only for the magic sections)

5 Getting Together: getting things started
12 Action Games: almost 40 games like Charades, Alibi, etc.
41 Word Games for the Fireside: about 24 games like Animal Orchestra, Forbideden Words, etc.
65 Games With Pencil and Paper: 20 games like Word Spinning, Compiling Crosswords, etc.
85 Party Stunts and Jokes: 9 items
95 Word Puzzles: 14 puzzles Like Word Squares, Ringed Words, etc.
95 One-Minute Teasers: 10 word puzzles
116 Fun With Intelligence Tests: solve the riddles
127 Potted Personalities: Riddles in Rhymes to identify famous persons
137 Character Quizzes: find out what kind person you are
145 The Amateur Detectives Case-Book: 10 crime stories to solve
189 Brain Twisters and Torturers: more problems so solve
207 Family, Craft of Things to Make: buildings from matchboxes, a dartboard, paper folds, etc.
225 Songs for Home and Party: with sheet music and lyrics

249 Simple Conjuring
250 Eggs From Nowhere: multiple eggs produced from a handkerchief, but they all vanish
252 Mystery Matchbox: coin goes instanly inside multiple layers of boxes
253 The Knotted Flages: magician removes the selected flag separated from two others though all were knotted together
254 The Magic Curtain Ring: ring removal from string
255 The Enchanted Fag: a rising cigarette in a bottle
257 Table Lifting: a table is seemingly lifted with one hand
258 The X-Ray Eyes: magician reads the words in sealed envelopes
259 The Poisoned Water: using a comedy funnel
261 The Vanishing Tumbler: using a handkerchief
262 The Coloured Sands Illusion: red, white and blue sands are mixed and then separated
263 The Electric Pen: sticks to the hand

265 Card Wizardry
265 How to Discover a Selected Card: three methods
266 Caught In a Shower: selection grabbed as cards are tossed
267 The Four Kings: Kings reassemble after being separated in the deck
268 Drinks All Round: a bectha card revelation
269 To Discover Six or More Selected Cards
270 A Second-Sight Effect: magician names cards as they are removed from behind his back
271 To Name the Top Cards of Four Heaps
272 Spell It: each card of a packet of 13 is spelled to it's name
273 To Snatch the Right Card From Someone's Breast-Pocket
274 To Discover The Total Number of Spots On the Bottom of Three Heaps
275 The Changing Cards: in two hats
275 More Second Sight: with a confederate
276 Spirit Writing: ashes rubbed on the arm reveal a card selection

278 Scientific Magic
278 Starry Candle: using powdered aluminum
279 Water Into Wine: color changing liquid
279 This Time With Nine Glasses: more chemical magic
280 The Bloody Hand: magician leaves a red imprint on a muslin cloth
280 Washing Clean Hands Dirty: using tannic acid
282 How to Bully Eggs: eggs swim or sink on command
283 Pharaoh's Serpents: chemical effect
283 Invisible Inks
284 Smoke into Tumblers: using hydrochloric acid
285 Spirit Union Jack: a quick spray on a card creates the Union Jack
286 Fire-Eating Vegetarian: eating burning bananas and raisins
286 Blushing Lady: making a photograph blush

287 Fun With Matches, String and Coins
287 Take a Piece of String: challenge to knot the string without letting go of the ends
288 The Loop in the Scissors: puzzle to remove the scissors from a string
288 The Buttonhole Illusion: string seems to penetrate a buttonhole
289 Farmer Bedsock's Problem: puzzle using match sticks
289 The Ten Squares: puzzle with coins
289 The Thirty-Six Coins: another coin puzzle
290 The Four Pairs: 8 coin puzzle
290 Match Jumping: similar puzzle with match sticks
290 Shillings and Ha'Pence: another coin moving puzzle
291 The Numbered Circles: another coin puzzle
291 The Draughts-Board Problem: with coins
292 The Ring of Pennies: make a new shape with three moves
292 The Bridge of Matches: balancing a wineglass
292 Three Coin Arrangements: three problems
293 The Balancing Penny: stunt with a glass
293 The Moving Halfpennies: puzzle
293 Four Piles of Matches: puzzle
294 Design for Twelve Coins: another coin puzzle on a draughts board
294 Three From Fifteen: match puzzle
294 The Long-Tailed Q: performer know where the counting stops

295 Card Games and How to Play Them
295 Whist
303 Contact Bridge
321 Poker
327 Booby
331 Solo Whist
340 Piquet
346 Cribbage
354 Black Maria
357 Rummy
360 Vingt-Et-Un - Pontoon
361 Chase the Ace
363 Newmarket
364 Rockaway
366 Pip-Pip
367 Cheat
369 Varieties of Patience: 7 games of solitaire

379 Board and Table Games
379 Chess
389 Draughts
397 Shove-Ha'Penny
399 Darts
402 Dominoes
406 Table Tennis

407 Picnic and Garden Games: over 10 outdoor games
423 The Children's Fun Book: 94 puzzles and games such as Crook's Code, Anagrams, Misquotations, ect.

469 Solutions and Answers: to page 512