This detailed book on one of magic's most popular close up features concentrates on the great entertainment possibilities of the game. All the clever and subtle moves are explained with plenty of illustrations. It shows you how professional operators make excellent use of manipulation with both pea and shells. This information is given in a series of thirteen articles of description and illustration. Then in a series of ten lessons, you are taught how to practice and master the various passes, manipulations, fake moves, and sucker dodges so you can do them with finesse and skill. Following this, you have a series of 33 exhibition routines, three special starting routines, and a trick routine with coins that will prove a real hit in the hands of any magician. There is also a chapter on the history of the Three Shell Game and one on shills and sharpers, both of which are not only interesting, but provide patter material when you use your Three Shell Game as entertainment for the public. A sixty-page book with 47 illustrations. Probably the best on the subject.