Page, Patrick: Card Games & Tricks ©1982 Macdonald And Co., London Softcover, perfect-bound, 5.5x8.5", 64 pages

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Comments: Illustrated by Ron Hayward. Part of the Whizz Kids book series.

Contents:

4 A Popular Pastime
6 Cards Through The Ages
8 Card Techniques
8 - The Riffle Shuffle
9 - The Overhand Shuffle
9 - Cutting the Deck
9 - Dealing

10 Card Games
10 Snap
11 The Memory Game
12 Put and Take
13 Pairs
14 Donkey
16 Old Maid
18 Speedy Solitaire
19 Auld Lang Syne
20 Simple Rummy
22 War
24 Twenty-Nine
25 Rolling Stone
26 Animals
28 Simple Fan Tan
30 Switch
32 Highland Fling

34 Tricks With Ordinary Cards
34 Four Burglars
36 An Old Trick New Dressing
38 Divination
39 21 Card Trick
40 Telepathic Powers
42 Overhand Shuffle Control
43 A Spelling Revelation
44 Card Reading Extraordinary
45 Red and Blacks

46 Tricks With Special Cards
46 2 from 5 Leaves??: three cards vanish
48 The Dissolving Card: card vanish in a glass
50 Juggling Trick: balancing cards
52 One-way Deck: and a presentation
54 Fortune Telling: making up a story based on card values and suits
58 Passé Passé Cards: card transposition
59 The Soldier's Bible: story routine

60 Reference Section
60 Glossary
61 Books
62 Shops/Suppliers/Societies

63 Index