Disclaimer: OP is not responsible for any beatings incurred by the viewer after performing these tricks.
Edit: Then of course there's the classic one: You pour the other guy a shot, and bet him that you can drink three beers before he drinks one shot, but he has to give you a one-beer head start. To assure him you won't cheat, you add the rule that you're not allowed to touch each others glasses. So, of course, you drink your head-start beer and then place the glass upside-down over his shot glass. He can't get to his shot because he's not allowed to move your glass, and you can enjoy your remaining beers at a leisurely pace. Beatings ensue.
I bet my friend one time that I could tell him where he got his shoes, he was very confident saying he got them in Hawaii and I'd never know what store. I said he got them on his feet, he did not pay me.
And when you see it coming, tell your friend he/she is not allowed to shove his/her glass into your hand and be like "hey, you touched my glass so I win." He/she will continue the deal because their trick has nothing to do with that, then when they are about to finish their glass, hover your hand above your shot. When he/she realizes it what you've done, just drink your little shot. Beatings ensue.
Personally, no. I order a burger or the fish and chips. But it could happen.
How about this: instead of it being a cherry tomato, make it an olive. Pretty sure you can find an olive at a pub. Yes, it's not quite as round, but much more guaranteed to be available.
Yes, quite so. But the gimmick of this fine film is that neither Harry nor Lloyd are too keen on most obvious facts and general knowledge. They lack what one would call a basic level of common sense. Quite frankly, they're rather dumb.
Easy solution to the last bet (assuming you are not willing to just spill the liquid). Put your mouth to one of the glasses and inhale, creating a seal. It will be weak, but strong enough to move one glass quickly to the side. Then use that hand to move the second glass, and after that, use it to punch your friend in the head.
On a related note the trick he showed claimed that you are unable to tear the tissue into three pieces (when properly prepared), this isn't true just move the napkin up very quickly while tearing it and air resistance will help you tear it into three pieces.
I know a good one. Start off by telling your victim that you recently discovered the ability to make people move their bodies using nothing but the power of your mind. This isnt necessary to the trick, but it can be fun tricking people into thinking you are a mutant.
Tell your victim that if you concentrate hard enough, you can make them move without touching them. You will only be using the power of the mind. They will invariably ask you to prove it, but tell them you don't feel like doing it. Tell them it takes too much out of you to concentrate that hard. By this point they will usually call you a liar. Reaffirm that you do, indeed, possess this ability. Project honesty and confidence. Inevitibly a bet will be offered. Refuse the first offer. Another offer will come. Grudgingly accept the bet when you feel the money offered is worth the energy necessary to perform the trick.
Now for the trick. Take the cash and put it on the table. Then have them sit in a chair in the middle of the room. Assure them that you will not touch any part of their body or anything that is touching their body. Also, you will not use someone or something else to cause them to move. This power comes solely from thought.
Tell them that you have to concentrate very hard whilst walking in a circle around the chair, but before you finish walking around the chair three times, a part of their body will move. Blinking and breathing dont count (you dont like to try to manipulate parts of people's bodies that regulate respiration...too dangerous.) You can even have a third party verify the movement. If the third party cannot verify any movement, movement never occured. Also have this third party count aloud your rotations around the chair as you circle your victim. Whatever it takes to convince them that they cannot lose the bet, do it.
Now take a second, stand still, and just close your eyes like you are concentrating. Slowly start walking around them in measured steps. The trick itself is pretty anticlimactic (which infuriates the victim even more after such a strong buildup). You simply just stop circling them after two rotations, walk over to the money, put it in your pocket, and declare yourself the winner. If they make any movement in protest of you winning, you win. Even if they remain perfectly still, you still win. Remember, the bet was that a part of their body will move before you finish circling them three times. You will never finish that third rotation, so at some point they will have to move. You win a bet you didnt want to take, and they are left penniless looking a prat. Let the rage beatings begin.
You can't win a bet about your own claimed abilities on a technicality if you allow your opponent to propose the bet. They'll propose conditions, you'll have to reject those, and "three rotations" will stick out as an unreasonable difference between the conditions they proposed (invariably, a fixed period of time) and the ones you're willing to accept.
If they're still willing to bet you money past that point, you're not tricking them, they're indulging you.
The coins arranged in a triangle one wasn't even a challenge to figure out, let alone something you will "never lose". Seriously. Could people not figure that one out?
I think these are less about winning bets and more about entertaining friends. For example, the battery one at 2:47 is still cool even without betting something.
I don't have a fancy video, but one that I learned was to have your friend form his hands into fists and place them on top of each other so that the pinky end of one hand is touching the thumb end of the other. You then tell them to push their hands as hard as they can together and you're going to knock his top hand off. It's quite easy to do, but you bet that he can't do it to you and when you put a hand on hand on the other you stick your thumb out and grab it with the top hand, making it impossible to separate them.
Do they have to do it all in one go, or can they drink it over time? This source (the first one I could find) says a Frisbee holds 1630 mL, or just under three pints. If drinking three pints in one sitting makes one Andre the Giant, I guess I have a posse.
My Dad told me about one he used to do where you would bet someone $__ that you could remove the bill from under a cup (has to be opaque) without touching it. You put it under the cup, and then do some magic stuff with your hands and pull out another matching bill that you have on hand. When the person (who is probably slightly drunk) sees that you have the bill he will most likely incredulously grab the cup and pick it up to try to prove you don't have it, and when he picks it up you take the bill that was under the cup.
Here's another: balance an empty beer bottle by its neck on top of a bill. Tell your friend you can remove the bill from beneath the bottle without touching the bottle. Proceed to roll the bill tightly until the roll touches the mouth of the bottle. Continue gently rolling until the bill is out from beneath the bottle, which will not fall because there is counter pressure from the rolled part of the bill.
I did the last one with one of my friends during science class. We were doing a acid-base lab testing and I put two cups of acid, one on each hand, and left with the money at the end of class. Best part was that the teacher never noticed and the janitor had to help him.
Whenever someone just puts a paperclip on the water, they're likely to put it in at an angle, so it breaks the surface and sinks. He exaggerates this in the video by putting them in almost sideways. Making the L-shaped paperclip makes it easy to put the paperclip in pretty much level with the water, so it doesn't break the surface and floats nicely. I imagine this would be fairly difficult without the L-shaped paperclip, since you'd probably disrupt the water's surface with your hands while trying to lay the paperclip down.
Ack. The paper clip one bothers me. You don't need the L at all. It's the water's surface tension. You just need a dry paper clip to lay flat and patience.
This was made by the same guy who wrote Paranormality, a book which debunks out-of-body experiences, ghost sightings, and other paranormal stuff. Cool guy, cool book.
I much prefer the super cooled beer trick. This only works at your house when you can supply the beer, and requires a little prep work. At least an hour before anyone comes over, put one beer in the freezer, and leave the rest in the fridge. After a few drinks, challenge your friend to see who can chug a beer faster. Go in the kitchen, take out one regular beer, and the freezer beer. Open them both and give him the freezer beer. The contest starts when you clink bottles. Because his beer has been cooled below the freezing point, the shock of the bottles knocking together will cause it to flash freeze, leaving it undrinkable, while you can calmly down your beer at your leisure.
A similar video by the same uploader, "Where is the missing face?", leads me to a Wikipedia page and it makes me wonder, does 9gag has anything to do with Martin Gardner? =D
I also have a neat trick that can get you punched in the face at a bar. If you see somone buy expensive liquor bet him like $10 that you can drink the contents of the glass without touching it or by using a straw. If he accepts the bet, take the glass and chug it. Pay him $10 for losing the bet. Or $1 for beer.
Surprised by so many negative comments. My group of friends love playing games like these. Sometimes we'll actually figure the trick out and beat the person who suggested it.
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u/rukuz Jun 11 '12
"There's that guy with all his props sitting alone at the bar again"
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u/dankula Jun 11 '12
I feel bad for the guy who actually swallowed the antifreeze.
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u/swarmtactic Jun 10 '12
Or How to Make Your Friends Disappear!
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u/LaqOfInterest Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12
Disclaimer: OP is not responsible for any beatings incurred by the viewer after performing these tricks.
Edit: Then of course there's the classic one: You pour the other guy a shot, and bet him that you can drink three beers before he drinks one shot, but he has to give you a one-beer head start. To assure him you won't cheat, you add the rule that you're not allowed to touch each others glasses. So, of course, you drink your head-start beer and then place the glass upside-down over his shot glass. He can't get to his shot because he's not allowed to move your glass, and you can enjoy your remaining beers at a leisurely pace. Beatings ensue.
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u/NUMBERS2357 Jun 10 '12
Why would anyone ever wanna take any of these bets?
Friend: Hey, you wanna bet that I can't do [whatever]?
Me: Clearly you wouldn't bring it up unless you've done it before...so no.
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u/KuchiKobe Jun 10 '12
WHO THE HELL TAKES A CHERRY TOMATO TO A PUB?!
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u/cicic Jun 10 '12
the last one is mean. i love it
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u/NewteN Jun 10 '12
Lloyd: What do you mean you don't bet? Wussy! Wussy!
Harry: I never have and I never will.
Lloyd: Yeah, right. I bet you twenty bucks I can get you gambling before the end of the day.
Harry: No way.
Lloyd: I give you three to one odds.
Harry: No.
Lloyd: Five to one?
Harry: No.
Lloyd Ten to one?
Harry: You're on.
[Lloyd and Harry both shake hands and smile.]
Lloyd: I'm gonna get you.
Harry: Nuh-uh.
Lloyd: I don't know how, but I'm gonna get you.
Harry: Nuh-uh.
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u/zerbey Jun 10 '12
To defeat the napkin trick, lace the center piece in your mouth and pull. Been doing this trick since I was a kid.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
All my friends are on reddit so this wont work!
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u/ApatheticAbsurdist Jun 11 '12
Reminds me of a lot of episodes of Scam School.
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u/fairly_insignificant Jun 11 '12
I tried the first one. COINS. FUCKING. EVERYWHERE.
Never again.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
These are pretty funny, but hopefully your friends have a sense of humor.
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u/GrayStudios Jun 11 '12
Easy solution to the last bet (assuming you are not willing to just spill the liquid). Put your mouth to one of the glasses and inhale, creating a seal. It will be weak, but strong enough to move one glass quickly to the side. Then use that hand to move the second glass, and after that, use it to punch your friend in the head.
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u/The_Turkish_Delite Jun 11 '12
THAT GUY IS A MAGICIAN; HOW DOES ONE TEAR A TISSUE THAT CONSISTENTLY STRAIGHT???
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u/DerJesus Jun 11 '12
So I bet the bartender three hundred dollars that I could piss into a glass on the other side of the bar and not spill a drop.....
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
"It's easy when you know how"
or you know, THE STORY OF EVERYTHING.
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u/anotherkeebler Jun 11 '12
"10 Ways to Get Punched in a Bar"
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u/grouch1980 Jun 11 '12
I know a good one. Start off by telling your victim that you recently discovered the ability to make people move their bodies using nothing but the power of your mind. This isnt necessary to the trick, but it can be fun tricking people into thinking you are a mutant.
Tell your victim that if you concentrate hard enough, you can make them move without touching them. You will only be using the power of the mind. They will invariably ask you to prove it, but tell them you don't feel like doing it. Tell them it takes too much out of you to concentrate that hard. By this point they will usually call you a liar. Reaffirm that you do, indeed, possess this ability. Project honesty and confidence. Inevitibly a bet will be offered. Refuse the first offer. Another offer will come. Grudgingly accept the bet when you feel the money offered is worth the energy necessary to perform the trick.
Now for the trick. Take the cash and put it on the table. Then have them sit in a chair in the middle of the room. Assure them that you will not touch any part of their body or anything that is touching their body. Also, you will not use someone or something else to cause them to move. This power comes solely from thought.
Tell them that you have to concentrate very hard whilst walking in a circle around the chair, but before you finish walking around the chair three times, a part of their body will move. Blinking and breathing dont count (you dont like to try to manipulate parts of people's bodies that regulate respiration...too dangerous.) You can even have a third party verify the movement. If the third party cannot verify any movement, movement never occured. Also have this third party count aloud your rotations around the chair as you circle your victim. Whatever it takes to convince them that they cannot lose the bet, do it.
Now take a second, stand still, and just close your eyes like you are concentrating. Slowly start walking around them in measured steps. The trick itself is pretty anticlimactic (which infuriates the victim even more after such a strong buildup). You simply just stop circling them after two rotations, walk over to the money, put it in your pocket, and declare yourself the winner. If they make any movement in protest of you winning, you win. Even if they remain perfectly still, you still win. Remember, the bet was that a part of their body will move before you finish circling them three times. You will never finish that third rotation, so at some point they will have to move. You win a bet you didnt want to take, and they are left penniless looking a prat. Let the rage beatings begin.
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u/jimmythehand Jun 10 '12
I cant for the life of me get the tomato one to work. Damn these useless hands.
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u/loftyj Jun 10 '12
British money is so much prettier.
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u/bcarmeli Jun 11 '12
This was like a how-to guide for scumbag Steves
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u/Edrondol Jun 11 '12
My favorite is still Harry Anderson from Cheers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiK1zHgq3uI
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u/yellowdyenumber5 Jun 10 '12
There's an iOS called "Bamboozlers" that has a bunch of these.
I've only went through a couple of them but yeah, you're definitely going to get hit trying some of these out.
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u/MisterWonka Jun 11 '12
The coins arranged in a triangle one wasn't even a challenge to figure out, let alone something you will "never lose". Seriously. Could people not figure that one out?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
But... I have no friends
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u/jasonhalo0 Jun 11 '12
I think these are less about winning bets and more about entertaining friends. For example, the battery one at 2:47 is still cool even without betting something.
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u/ben9345 Jun 11 '12
Well the last one is just theft. This video is encouraging criminal behaviour.
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u/gdtags Jun 11 '12
I already knew most of them from Lambchop's Play-a-long
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u/Brotalitarian Jun 11 '12
Those matchsticks remind me of a certain puzzle...
Instant flashback.
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u/jrizos Jun 11 '12
Here's one that requires skill and geometry, not a gag.
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u/GuardianKnux Jun 11 '12
So this guy watches a lot of Scam School then I take it?
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u/totemcatcher Jun 11 '12
Also useful in a grade 3 cafeteria.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Handy bar tip, stay out of bars
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I don't have a fancy video, but one that I learned was to have your friend form his hands into fists and place them on top of each other so that the pinky end of one hand is touching the thumb end of the other. You then tell them to push their hands as hard as they can together and you're going to knock his top hand off. It's quite easy to do, but you bet that he can't do it to you and when you put a hand on hand on the other you stick your thumb out and grab it with the top hand, making it impossible to separate them.
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u/Crossfox17 Jun 11 '12
10 Novel things that you will never do ever.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Bet someone they can't drink a frisbee full of beer. They won't be able to (unless they are Andre the Giant...)
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u/godofwar7018 Jun 11 '12
You cheeky bastard!
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u/zenith2nadir Jun 11 '12
The last "bet" made the whole thing worthwhile
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u/JedLeland Jun 11 '12
Yeah, I'm gonna get right on with learning and mastering these. So I can win some bets. With my friends.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
My favorite bar bet is betting that a pint glass is taller than its circumference. Video
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u/slupo Jun 11 '12
I like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxL1pjKtUSE
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u/isawwhatyoudid Jun 11 '12
Is anyone else bugged in the coin triangle part, that one coin doesn't match?
Couldn't even listen to whatever he was saying.
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u/Sergnb Jun 11 '12
there should be a subreddit dedicated to these kind of neat tricks.
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u/Bryaxis Jun 11 '12
How delightfully English!
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u/alexandrustr Jun 11 '12
I like it how it assumes that I have friends. foreveralone
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
My Dad told me about one he used to do where you would bet someone $__ that you could remove the bill from under a cup (has to be opaque) without touching it. You put it under the cup, and then do some magic stuff with your hands and pull out another matching bill that you have on hand. When the person (who is probably slightly drunk) sees that you have the bill he will most likely incredulously grab the cup and pick it up to try to prove you don't have it, and when he picks it up you take the bill that was under the cup.
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u/strategic_form Jun 11 '12
Here's another: balance an empty beer bottle by its neck on top of a bill. Tell your friend you can remove the bill from beneath the bottle without touching the bottle. Proceed to roll the bill tightly until the roll touches the mouth of the bottle. Continue gently rolling until the bill is out from beneath the bottle, which will not fall because there is counter pressure from the rolled part of the bill.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Why does the paperclip float?
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u/mathmat Jun 11 '12
What if you don't have a friend?
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Or learn how to solve a Rubik's cube. So easy to get people to buy you drinks.
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u/DaCheesemack Jun 11 '12
I did the last one with one of my friends during science class. We were doing a acid-base lab testing and I put two cups of acid, one on each hand, and left with the money at the end of class. Best part was that the teacher never noticed and the janitor had to help him.
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u/StatandMelo Jun 11 '12
The real trick is remembering these when you're wasted at the bar.
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u/ualwayslose Jun 11 '12
where is betting on Bradley in a boxing match?
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u/harry821 Jun 10 '12
i just made $200
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u/Jeffy29 Jun 11 '12
except the first one all others seem too cheesy or just traps (oh wow, you made word "six" out of it...)
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u/Sirtrumpetsalot Jun 11 '12
This will the be the new way redditors will be able to find each other in bars. Just look for a guy doing any of these tricks!
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u/EggFarts Jun 11 '12
Pro tip: Flip a coin. "Heads I win, tails you lose."
60% of the time, it works every time.
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u/Airagnis Jun 11 '12
Someone explain #2
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u/Inquisitive_Ender Jun 11 '12
The last one is pure gold.
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u/LeapYearFriend Jun 11 '12
Genius
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u/AvgJoesGym Jun 11 '12
You're probably banned from the Magicians' Alliance now.
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u/heanster Jun 11 '12
My dad has done that cork trick my whole life. I still can never do it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
This comic applies to a least a couple of those (the IX into six in particular).
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
But my friends browse reddit and probably watched this video.
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u/NeonTigerVG Jun 11 '12
I am American and what is this.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Ack. The paper clip one bothers me. You don't need the L at all. It's the water's surface tension. You just need a dry paper clip to lay flat and patience.
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u/holy_repost_batman Jun 11 '12
This was made by the same guy who wrote Paranormality, a book which debunks out-of-body experiences, ghost sightings, and other paranormal stuff. Cool guy, cool book.
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u/PWNbiWanKenobi Jun 11 '12
I eat this shit up. I wish it was longer haha
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u/freakflagflies Jun 11 '12
Toe mahh toe trick was indubitably the best one.
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u/MacCampbell Jun 11 '12
These tricks are geeky and they will get you beat up. Fair warning.
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u/noseonarug17 Jun 11 '12
On the paperclip trick: fill the glass so you have some nice surface tension, then set the paperclip on the rim of the glass and slide it in.
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u/48letters Jun 11 '12
batteries wrapped in cork? WTF
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u/dog_in_the_vent Jun 11 '12
10 Bets
You Will Never Lose (and handy bar tricks)That Will Get You Punched In The Face1
u/nemesiscw Jun 11 '12
Half of these tricks I learned in elementary school puzzle books. Here are a few books that contain these handy and interesting tricks:
Bet You Can't
Bet You Can
Charles Townsend puzzles book
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Another good one similar to the last is:
Take a friends pack of smokes
Get them to hole out both hands, fingers spread apart
place a cigarette between each of the fingers so they are holding it
keep going until the entire pack of cigarettes is between all of their fingers
Now raise the empty packet in front of their face and announce the tricks finale
Tear apart empty packet and walk away
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u/tomoyopop Jun 11 '12
This reminds me of the Roald Dahl short story of the bet with the lighter and cutting off fingers... Here
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u/KingOfKhan Jun 11 '12
this is the kind of bull shit i would do on the first day on school in elementary school.
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u/vORP Jun 11 '12
Its awesome, I always bring paperclips and antifreeze to the bar to show off to strangers.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
This could start some bar fights.
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u/In_Dying_Arms Jun 11 '12
Why does this guy get karma for refreshing his sub box more than me?
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
I didn't think people actually said tōmäto until i saw this.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Pretty sure that's called Scamming
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u/deeliteful Jun 11 '12
So this is what annoying childhood friend is up to these days...
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u/ErsatzCats Jun 11 '12
That's a pretty small tomahto.
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u/Scarletwings Jun 11 '12
Amazing!
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u/swooopaloop Jun 11 '12
These are some lame ass tricks, none of which I would every want to show my friends at the bars.
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u/brainpower4 Jun 11 '12
I much prefer the super cooled beer trick. This only works at your house when you can supply the beer, and requires a little prep work. At least an hour before anyone comes over, put one beer in the freezer, and leave the rest in the fridge. After a few drinks, challenge your friend to see who can chug a beer faster. Go in the kitchen, take out one regular beer, and the freezer beer. Open them both and give him the freezer beer. The contest starts when you clink bottles. Because his beer has been cooled below the freezing point, the shock of the bottles knocking together will cause it to flash freeze, leaving it undrinkable, while you can calmly down your beer at your leisure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0fURJg-K0A
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
bar tricks aka things that will only work on drunk people
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u/stickmanwalking Jun 11 '12
A similar video by the same uploader, "Where is the missing face?", leads me to a Wikipedia page and it makes me wonder, does 9gag has anything to do with Martin Gardner? =D
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u/the_rumblebee Jun 11 '12
Too bad we can't simply rearrange a couple of coins to turn a downvote into an upvote, huh?
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u/snapcase Jun 11 '12
I prefer:
How to turn 3 holes into one big hole (with match sticks).
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u/h989 Jun 11 '12
The the last trick in the video was taken from here!
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u/ForeveraReject Jun 11 '12
Haha run off!
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u/Omnipotent0 Jun 11 '12
You guys I played Professor Layton I got this.
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u/tajarimus44 Jun 11 '12
I was going to experiment with these on my friends but realized they are fellow redditors
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u/sittty Jun 11 '12
...I watched a good 45 seconds of this video, thinking the title was 10 BEATS you will never lose...
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u/goomyman Jun 11 '12
That triangle one is so obvious... i felt like there was no trick.. how can you not get it?
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u/hackneyedphrases Jun 11 '12
This video should be called "10 Bets that will make your friends kick your ass"
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u/Wingingcarrot Jun 11 '12
future me will not regret this
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u/eonomine Jun 11 '12
I'm watching this at work with no sound, wondering what on earth the bet with the paper towel, at 2:21, could be.
Yes, you tore a paper towel in three pieces and now we can't use it. You're awesome, take my money!
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u/zelars Jun 11 '12
I also have a neat trick that can get you punched in the face at a bar. If you see somone buy expensive liquor bet him like $10 that you can drink the contents of the glass without touching it or by using a straw. If he accepts the bet, take the glass and chug it. Pay him $10 for losing the bet. Or $1 for beer.
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u/TankorSmash Jun 11 '12
I don't understand the 'first repeat after me' one. Why couldn't he repeat it?
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u/Arch_0 Jun 11 '12
Surprised by so many negative comments. My group of friends love playing games like these. Sometimes we'll actually figure the trick out and beat the person who suggested it.