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Pub trick: Pints on Hands
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You put two notes or coins of whatever currency onto the bar. Get a friend to place his hands flat on each one. Get two full pints (preferably his/hers) and balance them onto your friends hands. If he can get the money without spilling the pints he can keep it!
How does he do it?!
How does he do it?!
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Remember it is a trick!!!Answer
He can't! Sorry if anyone was thinking too long, but you just leave him/her there, with two pints on their hands. They won't be able to move without spilling the pints!Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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I have a way! IF he has great balance, he can still lift the pints up. Then, quickly, he slams his hand against the side of the bar and hopes it slides over without spillng.
why not just pick one pint up with your mouth/teeth and place it on the bar, then use your free hand to lift the other pint?
Another way to get around it ... you never said the hand had to be palm-side down, you just said flat. Lay your hand flat PALM-SIDE up, and when the beers are placed, you just grasp them in your hand. (You might need a big hand or experience carrying multiple drinks!)
have a straw placed in one pint..take ur time and drink..but then once youve drank it..u spill nothing and remove the other pint with ur hand
That was so unfair!!! I was like thinkin & stuff!!! They shouldn't publish these kind of practicle jokes! :-(
i saw that on tv 50 gratest magic tricks
you mean that's actually considered magic?
There are a few obvious loopholes in this "trick". First of all, it doesn't say in the rules that you can't get someone else to help (duh). If not that, all you have to do is pick one up with your teeth, get the money underneath mug #1, put it back down, then lift mug #2 with your now free hand and get the money underneath that.
Hopefully you won't come across someone with exceptional balance. It's possible (wickedly difficult but it can be done) to slowly lift up one hand, use that hand to pick up the glass on the other hand from the top, then use the now free hand to grab the glass sitting on the moving hand. Give it some practice and you could get quite a few free drinks out of it!
Good work.
OK no one said you can't use a straw, but it would be an amazing coincidence if you did this to a friend who happened to have a straw in their wouth at a time.
If you do this to someone, you would be surprised how hard it is to find someone to help!
Ever try picking up a full pint glass with your teeth?? Not a mug, a full pint glass.
And, if someone can do the balance thing, they deserve the money and drinks!
If you do this to someone, you would be surprised how hard it is to find someone to help!
Ever try picking up a full pint glass with your teeth?? Not a mug, a full pint glass.
And, if someone can do the balance thing, they deserve the money and drinks!
I think that this puzzle is just a way to get people talking about different ways they can do it (points?). Well, I fell for it too! :-) I like the teeth one. I think that one would work.
That one was just plain nonsense. It's obvious that there are many wasy he could have done it without spilling the liquid. He could have used his teeth or he could have asked someone to hold the pints for him, etc.
This struck me as meaningless...
This struck me as meaningless...
You could also pick up a glass by pressing the top of it between your chin and neck, but all of the ways would be hard. If you are surrounded by friendly people who would help you, this trick would be no problem. I like this one!
You could also pick up a glass by pressing the top of it between your chin and neck, but all of the ways would be hard. If you are surrounded by friendly people who would help you, this trick would be no problem. I like this one!
You could also pick up a glass by pressing the top of it between your chin and neck, but all of the ways would be hard. If you are surrounded by friendly people who would help you, this trick would be no problem. I like this one!
You could also pick up a glass by pressing the top of it between your chin and neck, but all of the ways would be hard. If you are surrounded by friendly people who would help you, this trick would be no problem. I like this one!
I think you got your point across spaztic... :-)
Ummm, you wanna know what I thought.. you don't? Oh well, here goes anyway. Your wording was "If he can get the money without spilling the pints he can keep it!". If he has his hands on the money, guess what I reckon he has the money and he hasn't even had to move. You say he hasn't actually 'got the money', I say he's a lot closer to it than you .
He could slightly lift up each palm and use his tongue to slide each coin into his mouth.
or he could position himself so that his legs were brought up from underneath the bar. now just his behind is on the stool. he could link his big toe of each foot into the pint mug holder and lift up. if you take yoga you could manage this.
Hehe Johnny, re: your first comment... "and that would be how you coin a phrase?" ARF ARF ARF.
it never the hnds were placed palm side down, did it???
its still possible ...It's still possible.. unless said friend already had a few pints in his/her belly of course : )
they could bend their head down and drink by lapping it up with their tongue or pick it up with their teeth and drink it.
He could have placed his hands palm side up on the coins. He then cups his hands around the mugs and lifts them to his mouth, drinks the beer, and collects his reward.
Who cares if its not a brainteaser - it sounds like a great trick & i can't wait to try it on some drunks!
you say "oi, barkeep, can you put a straw in this glass..."
then you drink it...
then you drink it...
why doesnt he just drink it?
If there is not an answer then this is surely not a teaser. To be a brain teaser it should have an answer to the question set
unfortunately,cathal I have to agree with dutchy. can it even be a teaser if it has no answer? It does sound like a good bar trick, but I wouldn't put more than a dollar under someones hands for this trick, thats for sure.
No, the answer is that there isn't one.
Oops, spilled the pints into my mouth. Time for the favorites list!!!
I managed it. I put my mouth against the pint glass on my left hand and pressed really hard and lifted it up to my mouth. The pressure was enough to hold it in place. Then did the same with the other glass, easy!
The question asks How does he do it? Doesn't that imply that he didn't spill it and that he did get the money?
cant you just use your other hand to take the pints?
BORIN' BORIN' BORIN'
What an evil little trick! (Too bad MY friends don't hang out in pubs... heh heh heh)
He could drink the pints...
That's mean!
pick up the glasses with his teeth set down then with the free hand pick up the other one and sip away and keep the money. DUH!
I love folks theorizing on this and then pronouncing it "easy" without actually trying out their theory.
1. Those who say "put your palms facing up". If I'm the one making the wager, I'm going to say "sorry bud, turn your hands over". So you won't even get that chance.
2. Those of you that are fans of the "using your teeth" method. If you can pick up a glass tumbler full of beer with your teeth, you can use your winnings to get your chipped teeth recapped afterwards!
3. If you are steady enough to pick up your hands either with or without using assorted body parts to aid you, then you've richly earned those few dollars and entertained a bar crowd in the process.
This is a very good teaser!
1. Those who say "put your palms facing up". If I'm the one making the wager, I'm going to say "sorry bud, turn your hands over". So you won't even get that chance.
2. Those of you that are fans of the "using your teeth" method. If you can pick up a glass tumbler full of beer with your teeth, you can use your winnings to get your chipped teeth recapped afterwards!
3. If you are steady enough to pick up your hands either with or without using assorted body parts to aid you, then you've richly earned those few dollars and entertained a bar crowd in the process.
This is a very good teaser!
But it is easy: you still haven't ruled out drinking the pints. Just hold the rim between your lips then raise your hand to tip the glass (which is stabilized by your mouth). Drink the pint completely, and then tip the glass off sideways onto the bar (as you can't spill an empty glass). Use the free hand to remove (and drink) the other pint.
He/she could ask someone else to pick up the pints
It specifically asks "How does he do it?!" Well, that makes no since. Not doing it is how he does it?
It's very simple really, to solve this trick. Simply ask someone in the bar to pick up the pints for you, and the money's yours.
Its a bar, there HAS to be people in there sometime or another.
Its a bar, there HAS to be people in there sometime or another.
If "He can't" is an acceptable answer to a teaser, then about 50% of all the trick teasers on this site have the same answer.
I normally do not respond to comments made so long ago, but after I finished picking myself up from the floor from laughing, I have to comment on Calmsavior's comment above: "cant you just use your other hand to take the pints?" He has a bloody pint on two hands... what other hand does he have?
He can place his hands flat on the bar on top of the money. Hence, he's "gotten his hands on" that money, so he's then free to spill whatever volume of poison he wishes and keep the cash.
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