My Book of Indoor Games
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, My Book of Indoor Games, by Clarence Squareman
E-text prepared by Clare Boothby, David Newman, William Flis, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
My Book of Indoor Games
by
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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