Product Description

100 way to Win a Tenner is a comprehensive guide to scams and swindles that will make you a winner every time. Unlike magic tricks, these bets and stunts use everyday objects and require no skill - just a lot of front! Within minutes you too can be the life and the scourge of the party. This is a complete insider's guide into the tricks of the trade enabling you to win at cards, pool, pub quizzes and anywhere else where there is an opportunity to prosper!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52384 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

About the Author
Paul Zenon, the original Fun Loving Criminal is the UK's leading comedy magician, with dozens of TV credits to his name including three one-man "street magic" specials screened by Channel 4. Paul has appeared in around thirty countries and in every conceivable location; from the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas to the hold of an aircraft carrier in the Adriatic, from the London Palladium to a clearing in the jungles of Belize, and from The Magic Castle in Hollywood to the back of a truck in a Bosnian war zone.

Customer Reviews

Have fun with your mates (while they still talk to you)
Excellent book for winding your mates up. In fairness your not gonna win a tenner everytime you do one of these "tricks" BUT you will find it easy to con a few quid out of people with these cleverley worded bets and stunts etc. This book is layed out in different catagories (for example stunts you can pull in a pub/club enviroment) I must admit if you DID try and con a tenner out of someone some of these stunts may just earn you a thick lip for your pure cheek but between friends (or if your with a bunch of friends) then you SHOULD get away with a lot of these.

Well worth the money, but you must be careful who you try to "Win" your tenner from.

I hope his review was informative for you.

Not a Con!
OK, this is a book. But not your normal list of ‘smartypants things you can do’ kind of book, oh dear me no! Through the pages of this work of art, you will meet and greet various unnamed punters who are always going to lose a tenner a time for their further education in the Art of Scams etc. You will also meet Sid ‘The Kid’, cautious Jim, Mike, Smartarse Stan, great Uncle Harold, Bob the Belly, Gazza & Dave, Typhoon Ted the Pool expert, Keith and Einstein the Quiz Champions, Marilyn, cute but not too bright, Mickey, Fred the Football Freak, Dave & Baz, Gemma, and The Hulk – muscle bound and not quite as bright as Marilyn.
Split into five sections, the book takes you on a tour of the finest scams, rigged bets and general cheating available. At the same time it’s like a succession of good nights out at the pub and almost reads like a novel.
Out of the 100 scams, I’d already heard of no more than a couple which means I either live an honest and sober life or I was ready to be scammed! If nothing else, this book will show you how easy it is to lose a tenner (or more!) to subtle psychology and clever wordings. Buy it, read it, memorise it.
Excellent value for money: worth far more than the cover price!

The book itself is the biggest scam
It should be entitled '101 Ways to Win a Tenner', as the book itself costs 9.99. You may think it is worth a gamble to pay the 10 quid, as you will potentially learn another 100 ways to get it back, but you would be wrong. You would be the sucker (like I was) for having spent the money.

Out of the '100 ways', there is only one genuine scam (number 20) in the book.

The rest of the book is comprised of the following:-
a) puzzles - such as well-known matchstick ones. (One of which - number 70 - gives a wrong answer. Arrange six matches to give as many triangles as possible. The solution given is to make a 3D tetrahedron, giving four triangles. Whereas a more obvious 'Star of David' would produce six.)
b) Some 'stunts', a couple of which are interesting (but these can be found easily by doing a quick search on the Internet), but many are well known (such as not being able to touch your toes (or pick up a tenner, as changed to in the book) whilst standing with your back to a wall.)
c) Annoying word-play. For example, 'I bet you a tenner you can't pick this matchbox off the top of this glass in twenty seconds with two matches' - the catch being the glass is turned upside down, so you claim that they picked the matchbox off the 'bottom', not the 'top'. Ha! Ha! Unfortunately a high proportion of the '100 ways' are of this nature.

The 'amusing' characters within in this book, are nothing of the sort, and are merely there for padding.

With the exception of the previously mentioned #20, none of these '100 ways' are good enough to actually win a tenner, without making yourself look like an annoying pedantic (for the word-play) or a skin-flint.

The few interesting stunts are just that, interesting stunts. You should not be effectively charging a tenner to show a cheap stunt.

If you follow these methods (and insist on receiving 'tenners' for your efforts), you will soon lose your friends, and get an 'annoying' label.

The quotes on the book cover refer to the magician himself, and not to his book. That alone should be a warning.

I feel so conned about this book, that I felt compelled to write this review - my first time on Amazon - to warn others.

I would have given this book 'zero stars' if that option were available.

Please don't be the next to 'lose' a tenner.