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Magic Home
01. Square Trick
02. Walking Man
03. Straw + Bottle Trick
04. Miracle Match
05. Weeping Coin
06. Match + Penny Trick
07. Balancing Handkerchief
08. Matchless Matchbox
09. String + Ice-Cube
10. Amazing Sugar Cube
11. Dollar Bill + Bottle
12. Magician’s Assistant
13. Last Match
14. Magic Crayon
15. Altering Glass Trick
16. Magic Coin
17. Glass + Match Trick
18. Triangle Trick
19. Matchstick Trick
20. Mastermind
21. Match Box Trick
22. Vanishing Coin
23. Match-Eating
24. Singing Fork
25. Unbroken Line
26. Hanging Cup
27. Three Glasses
28. Seven Coins
29. Obedient Coin
30. Two Dickie Birds
31. Rising Water
32. Mind-Reading Trick
33. Bill + Bottle Trick
34. Two Corners
35. Five Plus Six
36. Pyramid Trick
37. String Trick
38. Fire Under Water Trick
39. Glass + Plate Trick
40. Magic Purse
41. Random House
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| The Last Match |
In this game, can you figure out how to make sure that your opponent always picks the last match?
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Arrange fifteen matches side by side on a table. Tell one of your friends that you can always make him pick up the last match, each of you alternating in picking up one, two or three matches at a time. It doesn't matter who starts.
Materials: Fifteen matches.
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The secret of this trick is to make certain to leave five matches on the table for your opponent the third time around. Then, no matter how many matches he picks up, he will lose the game. For instance, if he picks up one, you take three, leaving the last one for him. Or if he picks up two, you take two. If he picks up three, you take one. In each case, the last match is left for him.
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Following are two of the several combinations you can use to arrive at the point of leaving the five matches for your opponent.
Opponent You 15M
(3 1 (11
Take (2 2 Leaving ( 7
(1 1 ( 5
Or
(1 2 (12
Take (2 1 Leaving ( 9
(3 1 ( 5
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