My Book of Indoor Games
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Chapters (307)
- My Book of Indoor Games
- Clarence Squareman
- (1916) With full page illustrations from photographs loaned by The Chicago Park Commission
- INDEX OF INDOOR GAMES
- INTRODUCTION
- INDOOR GAMES
- Twirl the Trencher
- Cross Questions and Crooked Answers
- Oranges and Lemons
- Musical Chairs or Going to Jerusalem
- The Traveler's Alphabet
- The Family Coach
- Drop the Handkerchief
- Magic Music
- Buzz
- "I Apprenticed My Son."
- Cat and Mouse
- The Sea King
- Buff Says "Baff"
- Blind Man's Buff
- Puss in the Corner
- The Postman
- The Dwarf
- How, When, and Where
- Old Soldier
- Bob Major
- Dumb Crambo
- Trades
- The Schoolmaster
- Rule of Contrary
- Simon Says
- The Bird-Catcher
- French Roll
- The Garden Gate
- CHARADES
- The "Band-Box" Charade
- Scene 1: A Street
- BAND
- BOX Scene 2: A Room
- The Game of Cat
- Living Pictures
- Acting Proverbs
- Shouting Proverbs
- Proverbs
- The Adventurers
- Postman's Knock
- "Our Old Grannie Doesn't Like Tea."
- "I Love My Love with an A."
- Consequences
- Earth, Air, Fire, and Water
- Crambo
- Lost and Found
- "Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?"
- Hunt the Slipper
- Flying
- The Blind Man's Wand
- Judge and Jury
- "Hands Up!"
- Lodgings to Let
- Hunt the Ring
- The Stool of Repentance
- The Feather
- The Game of Conversation
- The Gallery of Statues
- The Huntsman
- Hot Boiled Beans and Bacon
- "My Master Bids You Do as I Do."
- Red Cap and Blue Cap
- It
- Acting Rhymes
- Man and Object
- The Jolly Miller
- Ruth and Jacob
- Checkers
- Dominoes
- Green Gravel
- Fives and Threes
- PAPER AND PENCIL GAMES
- Birds, Beasts, and Fishes
- Noughts and Crosses
- "Tit, Tat, Toe"
- CARD GAMES
- Speculation
- All Fours
- Snap
- Snip, Snap, Snorum
- Old Maid
- Pope Joan
- "I Suspect You"
- Beggar My Neighbor
- RIDDLES
- Thought Reading
- The Cushion Dance
- The Farmyard
- "I Point"
- Diamond Ring
- The Forbidden Letter
- Grand Mufti
- Magic Writing
- Flowers
- Fox and Geese
- "I Sell My Bat, I Sell My Ball"
- "What's My Thought Like?"
- Cat's Cradle
- Personations
- Frog in the Middle
- Giant
- Cock Fighting
- Games with the Alphabet
- Honey Pots
- The Spelling Game
- "Draw a Pail of Water."
- Questions and Answers
- Duck Under the Water
- Wonderment
- "Mother, Mother, the Pot Boils Over"
- The Ants and the Grasshopper
- The Magic Whistle
- A Running Maze
- The Coach and Four
- Malaga Raisins
- Sally Water
- Pigeon-House Game
- Oats and Beans and Barley
- Bingo
- Lubin Loo
- The Little Lady
- "Birds Fly"
- I Say Stoop
- Flag Race
- Squirrel and Nut
- Racing and Counting Scores
- School-room Basket Ball
- Last Man
- Changing Seats
- Huckle, Buckle, Beanstalk
- Blackboard Relay
- Hide the Thimble
- Suggestive Breathing Work
- The Fox Chase
- Poison
- Slap-Jack
- Crow's Race
- Riding the Bicycle
- Cat and Rat
- Jumping the Rope
- Teacher
- Bird-Catcher
- Tag Me, or Heads Up
- An Eraser Game
- Circle Ball
- Seat Tag—A School-room Game
- Dead Ball
- Preliminary Ball
- Dodge
- Third Man
- Fox and Chickens
- Eraser Relay
- School-room Tag
- The Serpentine Maze
- Teacher and Class
- Blackboard Relay
- Tag the Wall Relay
- Slow Poke (Indoors)
- TRICKS AND PUZZLES
- The Dancing Egg
- The Magic Thread
- The Swimming Needles
- The Bridge of Knives
- To Balance a Coffee-Cup on the Point of a Knife
- The Obstinate Cork
- Six and Five Make Nine
- The Vanishing Dime
- To Light a Snowball with a Match
- The Dancing Pea
- The Balancing Spoon
- The Force of a Water-Drop
- The Sentinel Egg
- The Coin Trick
- The Wonderful Pendulum
- The Revolving Pins
- The Mysterious Ball
- The Man with His Head the Wrong Way
- To Find an Object While Blindfolded
- Chinese Shadows
- Hand Shadows
- The Game of Shadows
- Think of a Number
- Living Shadows
- To Guess the Two Ends of a Line of Dominoes
- To Tell the Age of Any Person
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