I'll Bet You Can't

HERE THEY ARE

Here they are at last. Easy challenge tricks, expressly for the person who wants to pull a match, coin or handkerchief out of his pocket and befuddle his friends. Each trick meets the test: It works with ordinary things anywhere, and it dicks with all kinds of Victims.

Challenge tricks, the latest popular pastime, offer something special in magic. Everybody loves tricks, and a magician draws a crowd anywhere. But when everybody can play too, there's four or five times as much fun. That's why this book is different. "I'll bet you can't," "Can you do this or that?," "Do as I do," "Deal as I deal"—each is a challenge that gives the other fellow a chance to try.

Your challenge looks so easy, the Victim falls hard, and then finds himself in the middle of a real puzzle. Sometimes you give him a break. You let him blow himself silly in THE CARD THAT WON'T, or tangle with a beautiful woman in THE GOOD PARTY TIE-UP—and then show him the simple secret. But most of the time, like all good magicians, you keep your secrets and he goes right on puzzling.

Your props are in everyone's pockets and purses: just plain matches (safety matches are best) ; or cigarettes, cards or string; sometimes a handkerchief or pencil and paper. Your occasion is practically anywhere, with anyone—at home, in booths, at par- ties, even in the middle of business deals.

The KNOW HOW is yours for the taking. You can learn each trick easily in a few minutes. And then you have it, always at hand, ready to liven things up wherever you go!