Magic Music 16
  Magic Thread 111
  Magic Whistle 92
  Magic Writing 79
  Malaga Raisins 93
  Man and Object 54
  Man With His Head the Wrong Way 117
  Mother, Mother, the Pot Boils Over 89
  My Master Bids You Do as I Do 52
  Mysterious Ball 117
  Noughts and Crosses 61
  Oats and Beans and Barley 95
  Obstinate Cork 112
  Old Maid 66
  Old Soldier 22
  Oranges and Lemons 12
  Our Old Grannie Doesn’t Like Tea 42
  Paper and Pencil Games 61
  Personations 83
  Pigeon House Game 95
  Poison 103
  Pope Joan 67
  Postman 20
  Postman’s Knock 42
  Preliminary Ball 107
  Proverbs 38
  Puss in the Corner 20
  Questions and Answers 88
  Racing and Counting Scores 101
  Red Cap and Blue Cap 53
  Revolving Pins 116
  Riddles 69
  Riding the Bicycle 104
  Rule of Contrary 26
  Running Maze 92
  Ruth and Jacob 56
  Sally Water 94
  Schoolmaster 25
  School Room Basket Ball 101
  School Room Tag 108
  Sea King 17
  Seat Tag 106
  Sentinel Drop 115
  Serpentine Maze 110
  Shadows 118
  Shouting Proverbs 38
  Simon Says 26
  Six and Five Make Nine 113
  Slap Jack 104
  Slow Poke 110
  Snap 65
  Snip, Snap, Snorum 66
  Speculation 63
  Spelling Game 86
  Stool of Repentance 49
  Squirrel and Nut 101
  Suggestive Breathing Work 103
  Swimming Needles 111
  Tag Me or Heads Up 105
  Tag the Wall Relay 110
  Teacher 105
  Teacher and Class 109
  Think of a Number 119
  Third Man 107
  Thought Reading 70
  Tit, Tat, Toe 61
  To Balance a Coffee Cup 112
  To Guess Two Ends of a Line of Dominoes 120
  To Tell the Age of Any Person 120
  Trades 61
  Travelers’ Alphabet 14
  Tricks and Puzzles 110
  Twirl the Trencher 11
  Vanishing Dime 113
  What’s My Thought Like? 81
  Wonderment 89

INTRODUCTION

“Let the child imbibe in the full spirit of play.  There is nothing like it to keep him on the path of health, right thinking and mind development.”

That is the guiding purpose of the author.  The reader will find in this book a collection of old and present day games.  The student of Play has long realized that there are no new games, that all our games of today are built on the old timers.

The purpose of My Book of Indoor Games is to furnish amusement, entertainment and to be the means of sociability.  So very often the question comes up—­“What shall we do?” In many cases this book serves only as a reminder, the games and parlor tricks are well known but cannot be recalled at the critical moment.  A combination, such as this, of the best of the old-fashioned games and a carefully compiled list of the games of today will furnish much help to the young in their search of entertainment and amusement.