The Book of Games; With Directions How to Play Them (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of twine; 4, number of playing-cards in a pack, from which several have been taken; 5, height of a pole; 6, number of seeds in an orange; 7, quantity of water in a pail; 8, number of pins in a pin-cushion; 9, age of a cat (or dog or baby); 10, how long a piece of candle will burn; 11, denomination of a postage-stamp turned face downward; 12, photographs of famous people whose names are better known than their faces. Missing Letters Materials Required: As many pencils and written or type-written lists as there are players; a prize. This is an English game, played by our cousins over the water. Here it is, imported and Americanized. The players take seats in a circle, and a pencil is given to each one, with a sheet of paper on which has been written or type-written, preferably the latter, a list like the following: MISSING LETTERS (X represents the missing Utters) 1. Max (first in every home). 2. Lxxe (couldn't live without it). Missing Letters 5 3. Xxe (the more you take from it the larger it gets). 4. Xoox (it's all over the house). 5. Loxx (found in the suburbs). 6. Araxt (gives a cold, cures a cold, and pays the doctor). 7. Xeaxty (desirable for unattractive women). 8. Xrxxs (that for which women spend too much money). 9. Lxnxs (near to every maiden's heart). 10. Txaxsxbxtxnxixtxoxaxlxnxsx (longest word in the English language). It will readily be seen that there are several possible answers to each word, but the real key is as follows: ..-1. Mat. 4. Roof. ' 7. Realty. / 2. Life. 5. Lots. 8. Dress. 3. Hole. 6. Draft. 9. Lungs. 10. Transubstantiationableness. The players are requested to write the answers as they guess them against the words in their lists, and one of their number, either the host or a leader cho...