Tricks

These tricks are brought to you by the video “10 bets you’ll always win” by Quirkology on YouTube. He has a few of these videos.

Here are a few of my favorite bets he shows that you can always win, I have gathered my favorites from a few different videos of his. (I like to think of it as easy money)

1. Bet someone to put a straw horizontally on the top (the cap) of a bottle. Ask them to move the straw without touching the straw. Once they can’t figure out how to do it show them how it’s done. To do it before putting the straw on the cap rub it on your shirt to gain static electricity so that when you put your finger close to the straw it will gravitate toward your finger and follow it around the bottle.

2. Challenge a friend to put one straw inside a glass of liquid and another outside the glass. Have them put both in their mouth and tell them to suck the liquid out of the glass. They won’t be able to as long as one straw is outside of the glass.

3. Challenge someone to clasp there hand together into a fist and keep the ring fingers up and pressed together. Put a coin between the ring fingers. Tell them if they can pull the ring fingers apart without releasing the fist then them can keep the coin. Thing is, it’s impossible!

4. Place two glasses apart on a table. Challenge a friend to put a piece of paper across the two glasses and using only the paper keep a glass standing on the paper. When they give up, fold the paper tightly into an accordion type way, unfold a little and it will be more stable.

5. Put an ice cube into a drink. Ask someone to get the ice cube out with only using a string. To actually do it you have to lay a section of the string on the ice cube and pour salt onto this area. After a minute you can pull the ice cube out because the salt makes the ice stick to the string.

6. Put 4 matches into an “X” shape with all the ends touching. Challenge someone to move only one match and make a square. The answer is actually quite simple. To make a square move one match so it’s not touching in the center to make a tiny square were all the ends aren’t touching.

7. Have three boxes of matches on the table. Shake one with your left hand and show them that there are matches in the box because it rattles. Then shake the other two boxes with your right hand and they don’t rattle. Have them watch the boxes as you flip them around and change spots as they are watching. Have them choose which box has the matches. They will always be wrong because they are all empty, the rattling actually comes from the hidden box of matches that’s in your sleeve (wrapped around your wrist by a rubber band).

Hope you try some of these out! (525)