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Matchstick Puzzles
The common wooden matchstick, with its brightly colored tip and sturdy box, has inspired tricks and puzzles ever since it was invented Here’s a collection of the most baffling matchstick puzzles of all time, from the six riddles of the nine squares to the astonishing effect of the matchstick telegraph. Can you build a bridge with just two matches? Can you balance matchstick equations? Can you calculate how many matches you would need to cover the distance from the earth to the moon? With a rating of easy, medium, or difficult for each puzzle and illustrations showing colorful matchbox covers from around the world, this fascinating potpourri of brain-benders will provide hours of amusement for young and old alike.
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Matchstick Men: A Novel About Grifters with Issues
The inspiration behind Ridley Scott’s new movie—starring Nicolas Cage and Sam Rockwell—by the acclaimed cult author of Anonymous Rex

Roy and Frankie are matchstick men—con artists. Partners in elegant crimes for years, they know each other like brothers and have perfected the rules of the game. Roy is the careful one, saves every penny. Frankie is the adventurous one, hungry for a big score. He wants Roy to join him in running a tricky game, but Roy is distracted by the discovery that he is the father of a punky teenage daughter from a brief marriage that ended years ago. The kid wants to get to know her father. She also wants to learn the family business. Novelist Eric Garcia takes readers into the fast and funny world of grifters with issues. Matchstick Men is a dazzling literary con game that will keep readers guessing until the last page..
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The Little Matchstick Girl (Classic Fairy Tales)

Fearful of returning home to a violent father without having sold enough matches for the day, the Little Match Girl remains on the street resigned to warming herself by lighting matches. With each match, she sees a vision—a warm stove, a table laden with hot food, a beautiful Christmas tree decorated with lights leading up to the sky, so high that one becomes a shooting star. According to her grandmother, each shooting star is a person who had recently passed on and is now heading to heaven. Her next strike brings a vision of her grandmother—the only person in the world who ever loved the Little Match Girl—who takes her away in her warm embrace to heaven. The classic ending is intact here and accompanied by gentle, sensitive illustrations—children will return to this stirring tale often to understand its tragedy and the valuable lessons within.

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Matchstick Fun Book
An engaging collection of activities that will entertain young readers for hours, The Matchstick Fun Book is much more than a traditional children's book. It will challenge and sometimes mystify children and will ultimately improve and sharpen their problem-solving skills.
Containing 47 brain-teasing puzzles, ranging from easy starter games to games first played in ancient Rome that can be solved by using matchsticks, through mysteries, puzzles, capers, and more, this book will keep children over the age of 11 entertained for hours at a time.
While having fun and reveling in the thrill of solving the puzzles and mysteries, children will also learn about the Loch Ness Monster, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Noah's Ark, Nostradamus, geometry and math.
Includes: - A fan-fold section which pulls out and gives answers to all puzzles
- A multicolored set of large, imitation matchsticks with a plastic pouch
- Complete rules for each puzzle
- Spiral-binding.
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