Comments on: Clever sucker-bets

By: Freddie Freelance

Freddie Freelance — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:17:00 +0000

Learned that trick in a book of sucker bets I read as a kid back in the ’70s.

By: jandr2729

jandr2729 — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:20:00 +0000

It’s oven cleaner! Which you tell your friend right after spitting back in the glass.

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:20:00 +0000

Have you been to a bar lately? It’s amazing how stupid some people are… In bars.

By: Alissa Mower Clough

Alissa Mower Clough — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:57:00 +0000

The cork trick is a specialty of Antonio Mendez (superspy).
He most notably performed it to calm the Americans caught in Iran.

Also, for all you Borges fans, this *might* be the Rite of the Phoenix … though the text calls for wax in some way…

By: Yep

Yep — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:55:00 +0000

Battery trick also works well with corks… preferably freshly pulled ones.

By: Kimmo

Kimmo — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:21:00 +0000

That one about reversing the triangle of coins would have failed against me before I saw this.

Surely I’m not alone; that one’s piss-easy, right?

By: SamSam

SamSam — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:17:00 +0000

I really like the last one. Not certain how to get into that situation, though — how to get the friend to put down the money. I guess you show them how easy it is for them to balance one glass on one hand, and then bet them £20 they can’t balance a glass on each hand.

By: Beanolini

Beanolini — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:26:00 +0000

I remember seeing the mouth solution on Paul Daniels' TV show in the 80s.

By: Candice

Candice — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 05:47:00 +0000

10 bets you will never lose as long as you don’t try them on the millions of people who have now seen or will soon see this video.

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:46:00 +0000

I can win each of these bets by screaming, “You $%@!ing monster! You ruined my evening!” and slapping the ponce in the face at the end of each act.

By: taras

taras — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:37:00 +0000

Looks like orange squash, a sort of sickly chemical cordial popular among children in the UK.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2010/sep/07/consider-squash-cordial

By: dagfooyo

dagfooyo — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:33:00 +0000

If I was the “sucker” on three of the middle tricks (move three coins to flip the triangle, add a line to make six and move five to make nine) I would’ve totally won the bet as I’ve seen variants of all of these. I’m sure many other people have as well. I wouldn’t call that a bet you would surely win. The battery trick and the spit into the glass trick, now, are very clever.

By: rezmuff

rezmuff — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:44:00 +0000

These are fun to watch, but if anyone ever tried to bet me on something like this, I’d just assume they had some kind of trick up their sleeve and take a pass on it.

By: A. P. Liolios

A. P. Liolios — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:52:00 +0000

methinks an even better way to win the bet is to spit INTO the glass of the other person…

By: mintyy

mintyy — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:47:00 +0000

Don’t forget Poolhall Junkies’ beer/shot trick!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMKdW-iX12w

By: invictus

invictus — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:20:00 +0000

1) Looks reminiscent of Mountain Dew, though not quite right. But that may be due to lighting.
2) You should experiment and report back.

By: theophrastvs

theophrastvs — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:08:00 +0000

blastit… this was originally a reply to Mr Hibiki above, but then Disqus booted me out and in again …sorry about that

the British equivalent of standard Gatorade™ perhaps? (possibly called ‘Badgerassist’)

By: Charlie B

Charlie B — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:06:00 +0000

I just did the battery one about six times, and the relationship between the length of the batteries and the size of your hands seems to be critically important. Don’t use something too long, or your index finger won’t reach.

By: Dan Hibiki

Dan Hibiki — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:46:00 +0000

1) what the hell is that neon liquid?
2) will this work with any currency, or does it need to have a picture of a lady on it?

By: Nylund

Nylund — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:26:00 +0000

If I ever did any of these to a friend, I’d feel really guilty. If I did it to a non-friend, I’d be scared of getting punched.

By: Robert Baruch

Robert Baruch — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:18:00 +0000

The three-pieces napkin featured in a book I read as a kid. Their solution was to hold the middle piece in your mouth, then pull!