The Play Room by unknown

This is an interesting book with beautifully weird games, stunts, experiments, puzzles and magic, some of which I have not seen described anywhere else.

Play Room Games
Blind-Man's-Buff
How D'ye Like Your Neighbor?
One Old Ox Opening Oysters
Magic Music
Twirling The Plate
How Do You Like It? When Do You Like It? And Where Do You Like It?
What Is My Thought Like?
Cupid's Coming
Cross Questions And Crooked Answers
Consequences
I Love My Love With An A
Proverbs
The Emperor Of Morocco
Buff
The Family Coach
Earth, Air, And Water
Oranges And Lemons
Pigeons Fly
Red-Cap And Blue-Cap
Concert
Prussian Exercise
"My Lady's Toilet"
Yes And No
Copenhagen
The Fagots
Hunt The Hare
Thus Says The Grand Mufti
Hunt The Ring
Transpositions
Tasks For Redeeming Forfeits
The Interrupted Reply
Board And Slate Games
Loto
Tit-Tat-To
The Game Of Goose
Fox And Geese
Nine Men's Morris
Solitaire
The Decimal Game
Agon, Or The Queen's Guards
Table And Toy Games
Dominoes
Bagatelle
Russian Bagatelle
American Bagatelle
Brother Jonathan
Shovel-Board
Dibs, Or Knucklebones
Jack-Straws
The Water-Cutter
Cup And Ball
The Bandilor
Jack-Stones
Battledoor And Shuttlecock
Graces
Schimmel
Le Diable
Comic Diversions
The German Dwarf
The Kentucky Giant
The Elephant
The Decapitation
The Old Man's Face
How To Strike The Knuckles Without Hurting Them
Knocking The Head Against A Door
Hat Measurement
The Immovable Card
The Bottle Imp
Parlor Magic
Sleight Of Hand
The Travelled Balls
Palming Coin
The Magic Coin
To Bring Two Separate Coins Into One Hand
The Magic Handkerchief
The Domino Oracle
To Guess The Two Ends Of A Line Of Dominoes
Dominoes Seen And Counted Through All Obstacles
The Magical Knot
To Cause A Dime To Appear In A Glass
A Threaded Needle
Magic Money
The String And Corals
The Magnetized Cane
The Obedient Dime
The Hat And Quarter Trick
To Make A Dime Pass Through A Table
The Erratic Egg
The Magic Splice
The Needle And Thread Trick
The "Twenty Cent" Trick
Tricks Requiring Simple Apparatus
The Die Trick
The Pepper-Box Trick
To Pass Six Cents Through A Table
The Mysterious Coin
To Change A Dime To A Quarter
The Magic Cups
To Pass A Quarter Into A Ball Of Worsted
The Magic Canister
Eatable Candle-Ends
The Magic Rings
The Burned Handkerchief Restored
The Multiplied Money
The Lost Ring Found
Tricks With Cards
To Make The Pass
The Nerve Trick
The Knaves And The Constable
The Turn-Over Feat
To Tell A Card Thought Of Blindfold
The Shuffled Seven
To Name The Position Of A Card
The Three Packets
Like With Like, Or How To Keep A Hotel
The Four Knaves
The Mystic Courts Of Zoroaster
The Chosen One Of Forty-Eight Discovered
To Make Another Person Draw The Cards You Call For
To Call For Any Card In The Pack
To Discern One Or More Drawn Cards
To Tell Through A Wine-Glass What Cards Have Been Turned
The Window Trick
Scientific Recreations
Chemical Amusements
Sympathetic Inks
To Light A Candle Without Touching The Wick
Magic Milk
The Mimic Vesuvius
The Real Will-O'-The-Wisp
The Paper Oracle
The Mimic Gas-House
The Silver Tree
Alum Baskets
The Magic Bottle
The Faded Rose Restored
The Protean Liquid
The Changeable Ribbon
The Chemical Chameleon
Musical Flame
Optical Amusements
The Camera Obscura
The Magic Lantern
The Phantasmagoria
Dissolving Views
How To Raise A Ghost
How To See Through A Philadelphia Brick
The Cosmorama
To Imitate A Mirage
The Thaumatrope
Two-Fold Reflection
Pneumatic Amusements
The Magic Tumbler
The Weight Of The Air Proved By A Pair Of Bellows
The Revolving Serpent
To Put A Lighted Candle Under Water
To Place Water In A Drinking-Glass Upside Down
Amusements In Mechanics
Experiment Of The Law Of Motion
Balancing
The Balanced Turk
The Balanced Pail
The Balanced Coin
The Spanish Dancer
The Mechanical Bucephalus
The Revolving Image
The Bridge Of Knives
The Parlor Boomerang
The Complacent Vizier
Arithmetical Amusements
Aphorisms Of Number
To Find A Number Thought Of
To Discover Two Or More Numbers That A Person Has Thought Of
How Many Counters Have I In My Hands?
The Three Travellers
The Money Game
The Philosopher's Pupils
The Certain Game
The Dice Guessed Unseen
The Famous Forty-Five
The Astonished Farmer
The Expunged Figure
The Mysterious Addition
The Remainder
The Three Jealous Husbands
The Arithmetical Mouse-Trap
Puzzles
1. - The Card-Chain Puzzle
2. - The Square And Circle Puzzle
3. - The Magic Octagon
4. - The Board And Ball
5. - The Cabinet-Maker's Puzzle
6. - The Protean Puzzle
7. - The Button Puzzle
8. - The Heart And Ball Puzzle
9. - The String And Balls Puzzle
10. - Puzzle Purse
11. - The Twelve-Cornered Star
12. - Cutting Out A Cross
13. - The Circle Puzzle
14. - The Card Puzzle
15. - Three-Square Puzzle
16. - The Cylinder Puzzle
17. - The Florist's Puzzle
18. - Roman Cross-Puzzle
19. - The Fountain Puzzle
20. - The Double-Headed Puzzle
21. - The Cardboard Puzzle
22. - The Perplexed Carpenter
23. - The Triangle Puzzle
24. - The Carpenter's Puzzle
25. - The Nine Digits
26. - The Accommodating Square
27. - The Three Rabbits
Answers To Puzzles
1. - Answer To Card-Chain Puzzle
2. - Answer To Square And Circle Puzzle
3. - Answer To The Magic Octagon
4. - Answer To Board And Ball Puzzle
5. - Answer To The Cabinet-Maker's Puzzle
6. - Answer To The Protean Puzzle
7. - Answer To The Button Puzzle
8. - Answer To Heart And Ball Puzzle
9. - Answer To The String And Balls Puzzle
10. - Answer To Purse Puzzle
11. - Answer To Twelve-Cornered Star
12. - Answer To Cutting Out A Cross-Puzzle
13. - Answer To The Circle Puzzle
14. - Answer To The Card Puzzle
15. - Answer To The Three-Square Puzzle
16. - Answer To The Cylinder Puzzle
17. - Answer To Florist's Puzzle
18. - Answer To Roman Cross Puzzle
19. - Answer To Fountain Puzzle
20. - Answer To Double-Headed Puzzle
21. - Answer To Cardboard Puzzle
22. - Answer To Perplexed Carpenter
23. - Answer To Triangle Puzzle
24. - Answer To The Carpenter's Puzzle
25. - Answer To The Nine Digits
26. - Answer To The Accommodating Square
27. - Answer To The Three Rabbits
1st edition 1866, 131 pages; PDF 153 pages.
word count: 56784 which is equivalent to 227 standard pages of text