Psychology of the Hand, Simplified: A Wonderful and Comprehensive Language Resides in the Hand of Each Individual, by Gertrude Ann Lindsay, American B & B Novelties, Baker & Bennett Co., NY. 1919.

This Pdf file is a scan of the 'pieces' of this unusual 'game'. It came in box (approximately 2" × 9" × 11") which was composed of a set of large and finely crafted cardboard constructs (roughly 7" × 8" to 8" × 9"). Included in the set were two small instruction booklets which have also been reproduced in their entirety. The large cardboard depictions of a right hand which were labelled as 'charts' (APOLLO CHART, JUPITER CHART, etc., describing a total of five different hand styles) were actually press-cut templates. These were apparently intended to be broken into parts for re-assembly according to the rules of the game as described in the booklets. In order to show the location of the score lines of the charts, both the front and the back of the plates were scanned and are shown herein. Each one of these five 'Charts' has a corresponding 'Hand' which served as a sort of game board for each player. There are a surprising number of interesting biblical quotations relating to cheiromancy which appear. Some of the assertions are novel and somewhat unorthodox. By way of criticism, it must be added that the treatment of the subject is rather glaringly over-simplified to the point of being incomplete. (For e.g., Venus and The Moon are not offered as basic 'Hand Types', which seems rather imbalanced to say the least. But perhaps Miss Lindsay's methods were intended to be applied to men only, and the Venusian and Lunar types -usually considered to be feminine- were accordingly omitted as somehow inappropriate. One wonders why this approach was adopted...). In any case, the art work has a definite charm belonging to its era. It can be admired as an attempt to render the subject more acceptable to the prejudices of the early twentieth century.

— Kerberos 51, 2-10-011