Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Read this holiday poem and see if you can figure out what is unique about the structure of it.
Reading Tricks, Tricks | tmoore | 
December 19, 2011 11:06 pm | 
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Sugar is a popular ingredient around the holidays for baking. “Sugar” is also 1 of 2 words in the English language where the “s” is pronounced like “sh”. Can you name the other? Read more »
Reading Tricks, Tricks | jlefton | November 29, 2011 10:33 am | Comments (0)
Sharpen your skills and wake up that brain from its summer slumber in time to go back to school. Try out this crossword puzzle of opposites!
Fill in opposites to the above clues. Can you wind up with 4 words both horizontally & vertically?
Reading Tricks | tmoore | September 2, 2011 9:44 am | Comments (0)
What if you could spell the name of a thought of card and arrive at that card? That this trick works for any named card amazes me! Sound intriguing? Read more »
Reading Tricks | jlefton | July 30, 2011 3:29 pm | Comments (0)
Introduce your mind-reading assistant. Send your assistant out of the room and ask a spectator to point to any of the summer activities on the below chart. Call your assistant in and she magically reveals the activity the spectator selected!
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Impossible, you say? Read on. Read more »
Reading Tricks | jlefton | May 2, 2011 8:45 pm | Comments (0)
Can you solve this word puzzle?
C A T
_ _ _
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DOG
Start with CAT. Change 1 letter in each step, changing it to a different word. E.g. you can put CAB in the first row of blanks. Whatever you put, it must be a word. Can you get to DOG in just 3 steps?
Here is our solution. Did you get it? Read more »
Reading Tricks | jlefton | February 6, 2011 7:01 pm | Comments (0)
Santa needs your help! The 4 sides below–top, bottom, right, and left–each have 6 reindeer. Santa wants to move the 4 reindeer in the middle pen to the outer pens–and still have 6 reindeer on each side. Is this possible? Can you advise him how?
Magic Puzzles, Reading Tricks | jlefton | December 14, 2009 7:37 pm | Comments (0)
A murder was committed in the haunted mansion. The specator’s job is to determine which of the 12 rooms it happened in. “I understand”, you explain to the spectator, “that you are an excellent detective. Is that true?” The spectator makes a series of random moves on the above board, and winds up in one final room. It proves to be the room the murder was committed in, matching your prediction! Would you like to present this trick? Read more »
For Kids, Reading Tricks | jlefton | October 1, 2009 7:33 pm | Comments (0)
I have a special paper here that when you look at it, you will see upside down. Would you like to see it? You show it to them and they see upside down! Read more »
Gags, Reading Tricks | jlefton | 6:49 pm | Comments (0)
Ask someone to name any card. Then you call Mr. Wizard on the phone, and he tells the person their thought-of card! How? Read more »
General, Reading Tricks | jlefton | September 17, 2009 9:57 am | Comments (0)
