Description
Ask Professor Picanumba, a master of riddles who carries dozens of surefire tricks up his sleeve. He’s going to show you methods to astonish your family and friends by predicting the answers to 88 word and number challenges. These tricks require only simple props — a deck of cards or a few pairs of dice, a calculator, and a pencil and paper. Without or with an audience, these foolproof feats of mental magic offer hours of amusement. Solutions appear on the end, with 64 illustrations in between.
Author Martin Gardner has written more than 70 books on subjects from science and math to poetry and religion. Widely recognized for the mathematical games that gave the impression in Scientific American for decades and for his “Trick of the Month” column in Physics Teacher magazine, Gardner has had a lifelong passion for magic tricks and puzzles.