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INTRODUCTION

INDOOR GAMES

Twirl the Trencher

Cross Questions and Crooked Answers

Oranges and Lemons

Musical Chairs or Going to Jerusalem

The Traveler's Alphabet

The Family Coach

Drop the Handkerchief

Magic Music

Buzz

"I Apprenticed My Son."

Cat and Mouse

The Sea King

Buff Says "Baff"

Blind Man's Buff

Puss in the Corner

The Postman

The Dwarf

How, When, and Where

Old Soldier

Bob Major

Dumb Crambo

Trades

The Schoolmaster

Rule of Contrary

Simon Says

The Bird-Catcher

French Roll

The Garden Gate

CHARADES

The "Band-Box" Charade

The Game of Cat

Living Pictures

Acting Proverbs

Shouting Proverbs

Proverbs

The Adventurers

Postman's Knock

"Our Old Grannie Doesn't Like Tea."

"I Love My Love with an A."

Consequences

Earth, Air, Fire, and Water

Crambo

Lost and Found

"Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?"

Hunt the Slipper

Flying

The Blind Man's Wand

Judge and Jury

"Hands Up!"

Lodgings to Let

Hunt the Ring

The Stool of Repentance

The Feather

The Game of Conversation

The Gallery of Statues

The Huntsman

Hot Boiled Beans and Bacon

"My Master Bids You Do as I Do."

Red Cap and Blue Cap

It

Acting Rhymes

Man and Object

The Jolly Miller

Ruth and Jacob

Checkers

Dominoes

Green Gravel

Fives and Threes

PAPER AND PENCIL GAMES

Birds, Beasts, and Fishes

Noughts and Crosses

"Tit, Tat, Toe"

CARD GAMES

Speculation

All Fours

Snap

Snip, Snap, Snorum

Old Maid

Pope Joan

"I Suspect You"

Beggar My Neighbor

RIDDLES

Thought Reading

The Cushion Dance

The Farmyard

"I Point"

Diamond Ring

The Forbidden Letter

Grand Mufti

Magic Writing

Flowers

Fox and Geese

"I Sell My Bat, I Sell My Ball"

"What's My Thought Like?"

Cat's Cradle

Personations

Frog in the Middle

Giant

Cock Fighting

Games with the Alphabet

Honey Pots

The Spelling Game

"Draw a Pail of Water."

Questions and Answers

Duck Under the Water

Wonderment

"Mother, Mother, the Pot Boils Over"

The Ants and the Grasshopper

The Magic Whistle

A Running Maze

The Coach and Four

Malaga Raisins

Sally Water

Pigeon-House Game

Oats and Beans and Barley

Bingo

Lubin Loo

The Little Lady

"Birds Fly"

I Say Stoop

Flag Race

Squirrel and Nut

Racing and Counting Scores

School-room Basket Ball

Last Man

Changing Seats

Huckle, Buckle, Beanstalk

Blackboard Relay

Hide the Thimble

Suggestive Breathing Work

The Fox Chase

Poison

Slap-Jack

Crow's Race

Riding the Bicycle

Cat and Rat

Jumping the Rope

Teacher

Bird-Catcher

Tag Me, or Heads Up

An Eraser Game

Circle Ball

Seat Tag—A School-room Game

Dead Ball

Preliminary Ball

Dodge

Third Man

Fox and Chickens

Eraser Relay

School-room Tag

The Serpentine Maze

Teacher and Class

Blackboard Relay

Tag the Wall Relay

Slow Poke (Indoors)

TRICKS AND PUZZLES

The Dancing Egg

The Magic Thread

The Swimming Needles

The Bridge of Knives

To Balance a Coffee-Cup on the Point of a Knife

The Obstinate Cork

Six and Five Make Nine

The Vanishing Dime

To Light a Snowball with a Match

The Dancing Pea

The Balancing Spoon

The Force of a Water-Drop

The Sentinel Egg

The Coin Trick

The Wonderful Pendulum

The Revolving Pins

The Mysterious Ball

The Man with His Head the Wrong Way

To Find an Object While Blindfolded

Chinese Shadows

Hand Shadows

The Game of Shadows

Think of a Number

Living Shadows

To Guess the Two Ends of a Line of Dominoes

To Tell the Age of Any Person