A guide to card tricks which work automatically because of the mathematical relationships within the card deck.

In the game you take the role of one of the ancient sorcerers and cast spells to try to defeat all of your opponents. Each turn, all of the players take part in the 4 phases: Draw, Declare, Cast, and Resolve.

Conjure up some magical fun! Bring together family and friends (or some enemies who won't be missed) and start throwing potions and casting spells - find a lab to gain more power. Protet yourself from spells with magic mirrors and from potions with overturned cauldrons. To be the winner, make sure you are the last player able to throw a potion or cast a spell. All the fun of playing with magic without the time it takes to learn the spells or gather...

"If you want to pretend you're shrinking, that's all right," said Treehorn's mother, "as long as you don't do it at the table." But Treehorn wasn’t pretending. He really was shrinking, and that didn’t make life easy for him as he became smaller by the moment. Treehorn’s teacher said, we don’t shrink in this class, and sent him to the Principal. Poor Treehorn spends an unhappy day and night until he discovers a magical game that helps him solve...

Bugs and Butterflies is the magical game played at Silverlake Fairy School. Lila dreams of being picked to play for her clan's team, and she has a good chance, too, until someone starts cheating.

"After finding her brother and saving the entire supernatural world, Amari Peters is convinced her first full summer as a Junior Agent will be a breeze. But between the fearsome new Head Minister's strict anti-magician agenda, fierce Junior Agent rivalries, and her brother Quinton's curse steadily worsening, Amari's plate is full. So when the secretive League of Magicians offers her a chance to stand up for magiciankind as its new leader, she declines....

"A magician appears able to banish chaos at will: a deck of cards arranged in order is shuffled apparently randomly by a member of the audience. Then, hey presto! The deck is suddenly put back in its original order! Magic tricks like this are easy to perform and have an interesting mathematical foundation. In this rich, colorfully illustrated volume, Ehrhard Behrends presents around 30 card tricks and number games that are easy to learn, with no prior...

Offers a guide to the fantasy realm of the video game franchise "Dragon Age," outlining the regions of Thedas with maps, its climate and geography, a timeline of events, and its religions, magic, races, institutions, and monsters, and other details about the world.