Book of riddles and five hundred home amusements : containing a choice and curious collection of riddles, charades, enigmas, rebuses, anagrams, transpositions, conundrums, amusing puzzles, queer sleights, recreations in arithmetic, fireside games, and natural magic, embracing entertaining amusements in magnetism, chemistry, second sight, and simple recreations in science for family and social pastime (1863)
Frikell, Wiljalba, 1818-1903, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York : Dick & Fitzgerald · leaf 94
Fig. 32. Pass loop a up through ring No. 2 and over No. 1, then passloop b over rings 1 and 2 up through No. 2, and over No. 1, asbefore; when the same may be easily drawn through rings 8, 1, u. MISCETJ.ANEOUS CURIOUS EXPERIMENTS. 87 Again pass loop c through ring No. 7 over 8, draw it up… … Fra. 33. Fig. 34. To Place Seven Counters upon an Eight-Pointed Star.Draw a star with eight points (see Fig. 35), which points areconnected together by the lines A D, D G, G B, B E, E H, H C,C F, F A. Provide yourself with eight counters, nunabered from
Riddles · Amusements
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