Publisher Description

The Porcelain Throne, set at the heart of the smallest room and witness to our dark business, can also be the seat of reflection and self-improvement. With that aim, this book contains more than one hundred dilatory games, tricks, puzzles, projects and pranks.Learn to make toilet roll tube gargoyles and an origami dragon, gain deep knowledge of toilet roll telekinesis, and discover the secret of the vanishing toothbrush trick. Many more amusing diversions and exciting challenges jostle for your attention to see you through those long bathroom visits.

Author Biography

Michael grew up in North Wales. After reading English Language and Literature at Manchester University, he trained at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and enjoyed five years as an internationally unknown professional actor and musical director. He followed this with five years in publishing before becoming a bestselling author of popular non-fiction, gift books and humour for adults and children. Currently he has over eighty titles in print, published by a wide range of industry-leaders, on topics as diverse as world history, quirky science, international etiquette and self development to dream interpretation, brain boosting and virulent diseases. He lives on the Somerset Levels with his wife, two teenagers and a Golden Retriever called Doug.

Table of Contents

• 1: Origami dragon
• 2: Prince of princess?
• 3: Poisoned pies
• 4: Coat of arms
• 5: Bathroom tiles
• 6: Matchsticks & toilet roll
• 7: Three privies
• 8: Make a musket from a balloon & a toilet roll tube
• 9: Three moral conundrums
• 10: Desert island
• 11: Toilet haiku
• 12: Loyalty quiz
• 13: Three slaves bet
• 14: Burning island
• 15: Guinevere's grandmother
• 16: Doodle your own cistern sigil
• 17: Seven arrows
• 18: How long is this jousting tilt?
• 19: How many drops of wine?
• 20: Make your own bathroom skittles
• 21: Pimp my throne
• 22: Make a badass crown from toilet paper rolls
• 23: Tyrant quiz
• 24: Three moral conundrums
• 25: Toilet roll tube statement jewellery
• 26: Make a house banner
• 27: Bathroom tiles II
• 28: Walking on water
• 29: Weighing bears
• 30: Circle of skulls
• 31: Unbreakable toilet paper trick
• 32: Soap sculpture
• 33: Toilet roll telekinesis trick
• 34: Exercises for effective eliminations
• 35: Winter-summer quiz
• 36: Toilet roll tube snowflakes
• 37: Poo-jitsu - how to fend off attack while on the throne
• 38: Bowl reading
• 39: Boat ladder
• 40: Bullion heist
• 41: King or queen?
• 42: Climb through a toilet roll tube
• 43: Impossible toilet roll tube trick
• 44: Make toilet paper dreadlocks
• 45: Three toilet roll pranks
• 46: Toilet paper doodling
• 47: Raven dividers
• 48: Axe men duo
• 49: Doublet puzzles
• 50: Custard cream & toothpaste prank
• 51: Baby oil toilet seat
• 52: Seven paradoxes
• 53: Conquering the world
• 54: Border crossing smuggler
• 55: Make an owl caller from a toilet roll tube
• 56: Improvement noun grid
• 57: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
• 58: Make a wedding rice shooter from a toilet roll tube
• 59: Ten cool uses for a bar of soap
• 60: Boolean logic puzzles
• 61: Winter is coming
• 62: Murder in the desert
• 63: The inheritance race
• 64: Make a toilet roll tube crossbow
• 65: Tie a rope around the world
• 66: Throne wars
• 67: Drop a toilet roll, amaze your friends, confound your enemies
• 68: Leave a toilet roll bow
• 69: Bath sponge balls trick
• 70: Make toilet roll tube gargoyles
• 71: Royal box
• 72: Seven warriors
• 73: Ravine teaser
• 74: The missing sword
• 75: Toilet paper sabotage
• 76: Square shield
• 77: What are the next two numbers in the sequence?
• 78: Make ivory soap meringue
• 79: Six soap cubes
• 80: Lion and the unicorn
• 81: Cheap lodging
• 82: Prince Rupert's cube
• 83: Make a toilet paper rose
• 84: Confucius say
• 85: Knight boots
• 86: Four doors
• 87: Vanishing toothbrush trick
• 88: Make chain mail with pop tabs
• 89: Levitate a sheet of toilet paper
• 90: L-shaped inheritance
• 91: Falconry puzzle
• 92: Missing fish
• 93: Condemned to death
• 94: Would you rather?

Long Description

The Porcelain Throne, set at the heart of the smallest room and witness to our dark business, can also be the seat of reflection and self-improvement. With that aim, this book contains more than one hundred dilatory games, tricks, puzzles, projects and pranks.Learn to make toilet roll tube gargoyles and an origami dragon, gain deep knowledge of toilet roll telekinesis, and discover the secret of the vanishing toothbrush trick. Many more amusing diversions and exciting challenges jostle for your attention to see you through those long bathroom visits.

Promotional "Headline"

The only book of games you will ever need for your own personal throne room (or privy).

Description for Sales People

Game of Thrones beat The Sopranos last year to become HBO's most-watched show. Its rise in popularity soared by 4 million viewers last year to nudge the 19 million mark on all formats. Series five broke Sky Atlantic's record viewing figures.

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