Magic Tricks for Grown-Ups Learn the tricks in this book and you can impress your family, friends, and colleagues with a little impromptu magic wherever you happen to be. Each trick is clearly explained using step-by-step illustrations, and accompanied by advice from a master magician on preparation, presentation, and performance. Amaze your audience with a display of slick tricks such as The Flying Paper Clip, Psychic Coins, The Napkin Kidnap, and The Rip-Roaring Rip-Off. You won't need a shiny costume or speacial props, just ordinary, everyday objects and the right occasion.

Magic Tricks for Grownups

Humor & Entertainment

Tremaine, Jon.

Humor

Thomas Dunne Books

Backgammon

Puzzles & Games

Parragon Publishing

Perform magic tricks; baffle your audience; astonish your friends; magically simple!

The amazing book of magic & card tricks

Barnes&Noble Books

Here's a great idea for keeping kids quiet while having fun on long car trips and other boredom-inducing situations. This miniaturized game will also help kids develop and improve their chess-playing skills. The game kit has heavy board portfolio-style covers that open to present an attached, spiral-bound rule book and player's guide. The kit's inside back cover is a chessboard with a metallic interior designed to hold magnetic playing pieces in place. The magnet-tipped pieces come in a box attached to the kit's inside spine. The attached rule book also presents tips on strategies for winning that will keep beginning players interested and encourage them to sharpen their skill.

Chess: A Beginner's Guide (Mini Magnetic Games)

Children's Books

Activities, Crafts & Games

B E S Pub Co

Instant Magic: With Amazing Magic Drawer

Kids learn to fashion delightful paper images of frogs, birds, flowers, a spaceship, and lots more with this marvelous beginner's book of origami instruction. Forty-eight pages of step-by-step directions are clearly illustrated with color diagrams that show how to fold paper into all sorts of clever shapes. Attached to the inside-back cover is a sturdy pocket packed with 40 sheets of special origami paper. When kids pull out the drawer that's built into the book's spine they'll find a set of six colored pencils and 12 wobbly eyes they can use to decorate their finished origami creations. Here's a great beginner's guide and an easy way to enjoy the ancient Japanese art of paper folding.

Origami Fun

Arts, Music & Photography

Hours of fun are in store for kids who test their shape-recognition, pattern-design, and problem-solving skills with this collection of tangram puzzles. A 48-page color-illustrated book presents approximately 150 tangram puzzles plus a summary of rules for solving them and a brief history of tangrams, starting with their origin in China approximately 200 years ago. Included with the book are five sets of magnetic tangrams of varied sizes, colors, and shapes, plus a board with a metallic interior that kids can use to set up their designs and solve the puzzles. A clear vinyl pocket that's bound into the book contains the magnetic board and the seven classic Chinese tangram tiles. Many additional smaller tiles are contained in a drawer that slides out from the book's sturdy spine.Book Details:Format: Activity BookPublication Date: 1/16/2009Pages: 48

Magnetic Tangrams: Explore the World of Tangram Pictures

A professional magician demonstrates the power of sleight-of-hand, using words and pictures that teach progressively more difficult--but also more amazing--coin and card tricks. Step-by-step illustrations show successive hand movements for each trick, and the accompanying text advises on methods for practicing and perfecting each of these amazing illusions. Tricks are arranged in groups, with tabs on page edges to separate and categorize successively more complex groups. With each trick, author Jon Tremaine divides his description into two parts: What you are supposed to do and What you actually do. Aspiring young magicians who open this book will discover the secrets of a polished professional, supplemented with a large measure of advice and encouragement. Approximately 40 amazing tricks in total.

Amazing Magic Tricks

From the Back Cover Origami-the art of paper folding-originated in Japan nearly a thousand years ago and continues to fascinate the young and old alike. At the heart of origami's enduring popularity is its simplicity. With skill and care a beautiful item can be created out of a single piece of paper without the need for expensive tools, or even scissors, staples and glue.

Creative Origami

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

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Practical Jokes

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