g the same privilege at the other end; and you guarantee he
will be compelled to take the last match no matter how he may vary the
number he takes.

The secret is to remove four matches each time between you. For
instance, if your opponent takes three you take one; if he takes two you
take two; if he takes one you take three and so on. It is obvious if
four matches are taken six times one match will be left on the table,
which your opponent must take.

A SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTATION

Lay five matches on the table and request a member of the company to
form a well-known quotation from Shakespeare by the addition of three
more matches (Fig. 14). "But," some one will say, "how does KINI
represent a Shakespearean quotation?" Your reply is obvious: "Can't you
see KINI is 'a little more than kin, but rather less than kind'?"

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Fig. 14.

NUMERAL

Place five matches on the table and challenge any one to make them into
thirteen without breaking any of them, and then, without moving them, to
make eight by the use of a card. The solution will be found in Fig. 15.

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Fig. 15.

To make eight, hide the lower half of the row from sight, and it of
course shows viii.

SIX AND FIVE MAKE NINE

Place six matches on the table and request a person to add five more in
such a manner as to make nine. The solution is shown in Fig. 16.

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Fig. 16.

THE ARTFUL SCHOOLBOYS

At a certain school were four long dormitories, built in the form of a
square, in which thirty-two boys occupied beds, as shown by matches in
Fig. 17.

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Fig. 17.

By this arrangement the master, in going his rounds at night, counted
twelve