Why do card tricks work? How can magicians do astonishing feats of mathematics mentally? Why do stage mind-reading tricks work? As a rule we simply accept these tricks as magic, we seldom recogniz...
"There will never be a greater book in magic." -John Fisher Martin Gardner is one of the most respected and creative magical thinkers of all time. His book “Encyclopedia of Impromptu M...
Surefire Tricks to Amaze your Friends A barber in Chicago says he'd rather cut the hair of ten red-headed men than the hair of one brown-haired man. Can you guess why? Ask Professor Picanumba, a mas...
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Martin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and published more than seventy books on topics as diverse as magic, philosophy, religion, pseudoscie...