Match Ic by Martin Gardner

A collection of impromptu tricks and stunts involving matches. To save space and to avoid trivial details, the descriptions have been made as brief as possible and all finer points of presentation and patter have been left to the ingenuity of the reader.

The main categories are wooden matches, paper matches, tricks & jokes & catches, and puzzles.

WOODEN MATCHES
1. Magnetized Matches
2. Escapo
3. Striking En Passant
4. Match Box Monte
5. Match And Handkerchief
6. Another Method
7. Still Another Method
8. And Still Another
9. Electric Match
10. Invisible Hair
11. Blowing Through The Sleeves
12. Vanishing Penny
13. Fly Apart Matches
14. Odd And Even
15. Tramps And Geese
16. Which Hand?
17. Penetrating Matches
18. Three Heaps
19. Three Match Heads
20. Match That Lights Twice
21. Musical Fork
22. Acrobatic Box
23. Matches Through The Table
24. Mysterious Mark
25. Contrary Match Box

    PAPER MATCHES

26. Light From The Wrong End
27. Smoke From Nowhere
28. Folder And String
29. Reappearing Matches
30. Divination
31. Parlor Mind Reading
32. One To Ten
33. Removable Heads
34. Mentalists Only

    TRICKS, JOKES, CATCHES

35. Blowing Through A Tumbler
36. Iron Match
37. Lighted Match From Box
38. Smash It
39. Match Munition
40. No Light
41. Humming Match
42. Strength Tester
43. Burned Fingers
44. Walking Match
45. Vanishing Matches
46. Pop Up
47. Match Head Submarines
48. Prolonged Kiss
49. Light For Two
50. Roly Poly Box
51. Kiddie Kar
52. Trick Cigar
53. Rising Match Box
54. Automatic Light
55. Oversize
56. Striking Safety Matches Without The Box
57. Cover Change
58. Chin Penetration

    PUZZLES

59. Perfect Square
60. Equation
61. Star
62. What Happens
63. Drop It
64. Crosses
65. Match, Tumblers, And Salt Shaker
66. Linked Hands
67. Puzzle Lift
68. Puzzle Split
69. Three Match Puzzle
70. Easy When You Know

1st edtion 1935; 29 pages
word count: 7219 which is equivalent to 28 standard pages of text