Bar Trick #1:
Olive in Brandy Snifter
Ingredients: 1 olive, 1 brandy snifter.
Objective: Put olive in brandy snifter.
Situation: You can not touch the olive with your body
(hands,mouth,etc.) You can not scoop the olive with the snifter.
You can not roll olive off of bar into snifter.
Solution: With the olive on the bar, place the brandy snifter over
the olive so that the open end of the snifter is surrounding the
olive. Slowly rotate the brandy snifter around the olive. The olive
will roll around the inside walls of the snifter (centrifugal
force). Once the olive is spinning around the middle of the
snifter, flip the snifter upright and place on the bar. Collect
your winnings!
Hints: Practice this bar trick before placing any bets. The olive
has a tendency to come out of the snifter when flipping upright.
After a little practice, you will be a pro.
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Bar Trick #2:
Embarrass Your Friends
Ingredients: 1 bar napkin, 1 pen/pencil.
Objective: Embarrass your friends and others.
Situation: On a bar napkin, write down the following:
I AM WE TODD
IT
I AM SOFA KING WE TODD IT
Ask your friends to continue reading out loud until they
understand. Continue to find new victims. Added bonus: Old victims
will laugh at new victims.
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Bar Trick #3:
The Race!
Ingredients: 3 shot of _______, and 3 pints of beer.
Objective: Get a free round of drinks.
Situation: Tell your victim that you will drink your 3 pints of
beer faster than they can drink their three small shots of
_______.
Players rules: You can not touch the other players glass or
shot.
Solution: Start drinking your beer. Your victim will take their
first shot. As soon as you finish drinking your first beer. Place
your empty pint over your victim's third shot. Take your time and
enjoy your free drinks. Your victim can not touch your glass, see
above rule. You win!
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Bar Trick #4:
The Old "Two quarters trick?"
Ingredients: 2 quarters, and one victim.
Objective: To get a free drink.
Situation: On the bar, place two quarters heads up. Ask your
victim, "What do you see?" The usual answer is, "Two heads!" or
"Two quarters." Slowly start nodding your head in agreement and
with your palm up, point to the two quarters and say, "I see two
pennies, hey, if I'm wrong will you buy me a drink." Pressure them
for a reply, most people will say, "sure." At this point say, "I'm
wrong." Enjoy your free drink.
Added Bonus: When the drink is empty, find a new victim.
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Bar Trick #5:
The Fifty Cent Drink
Ingredients: 1 Victim with a fresh drink, 1 cocktail napkin, 2
quarters.
Objective: To get a cheap drink.
Situation: Take victims drink and remove any straws or umbrellas.
Cover victims drink with the cocktail napkin. Tell your victim, "I
bet you fifty cents that without touching the glass or the napkin
or any straws, etc., I can drink that entire drink." Push the two
quarters towards the victim while betting, point to the glass and
the napkin. Continue to say, "I won't touch anything!" Bring up the
point about possibly putting a straw through the napkin and say
again, "I won't touch anything!"
Solution: When they give up, slowly take off the napkin and enjoy
the drink as you push the fifty cents to the victim. Be sure to
tell the victim they won and give them their fifty cents. The $4.00
drink just cost you fifty cents! Enjoy your cheap drink!
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Bar Trick #6:
Salt & Pepper (by Kevin O'dell)
Ingredients: 1 victim, 1 salt packet, 1 pepper packet, and 1 small
plastic comb.
Objective: To get a free drink.
Situation: Make a small hill of salt on the bar, about the size of
a quarter. Then sprinkle a small amount of pepper on top of the
salt. Bet your victim one drink that they can not get the pepper
off, without disturbing the salt.
Solution: Take your plastic comb and comb your hair a few times.
Then hold the comb over the salt & pepper. The static
electricity will suck the pepper off the salt.
Notes: This trick will only work when the humidity levels are
low.
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Bar Trick #7:
Sugar Cubes (by Kevin O'dell)
Ingredients: 1 victim, 2 sugar cubes, 1 lighter, and 1 ash
tray.
Objective: To get a free drink.
Situation: Hand someone a sugar cube and a lighter. Bet them a
drink that they can not light the sugar cube on fire. They will try
to light it on fire by putting the flame under it. They will get
the cube to smoke, char and smolder, but it will not catch on
fire.
Solution: Rub your sugar cube in an ashtray to get some ashes on
it. Hold the flame to the sugar cube, it should light right
up.
Notes: Practice this a few times before you start placing
bets.
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Bar Trick #8:
Ice Cubes (by Kevin O'dell)
Ingredients: 1 victim, 2 ice cubes, some salt, and 2 pieces of
human hair (about 6 to 8 inches long).
Objective: To get a free drink.
Situation: Bet someone they can not pick up an ice cube with one
piece of human hair. The average person will try to twist and tie
the hair around the ice cube. Others will try to just lift it up.
However, they will not be able to get the ice cube off the
bar.
Solution: Place the ice cube on the bar, take a strand of human
hair and place it across the top of the ice cube. Then, take a
little salt and sprinkle it on top of the hair and ice cube. The
salt will cause the ice cube to re-freeze around the hair. In a few
seconds, you will be able to gently lift the ice cube off of the
bar.
Note: Practice this a few times before you start placing
bets.
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Bar Trick #9:
The Switch
Ingredients: 2 identical shot glasses, 1 non-porous piece of paper
(playing card, over-sized match book, etc.) water, and your choice
of alcohol (bourgon, scotch, etc.)
Objective: Challenge your friends.
Situation: Fill one shot glass with water and the other with, lets
say, bourbon. The challenge is to get the bourbon in the glass that
has the water, and the water in the glass that has the bourbon
without using any other containers including your mouth (or anyone
else's mouth).
Solution: Place the non-porous piece of paper (playing card) on top
of the shot of water. Turn the card and water shot upside down
carefully. The paper will stay attached to the shot on its own
accord. Now, place the water shot glass and card on the shot of
bourbon. Slowly and carefully pull the paper out just far enough to
make a very small opening between the two glasses. Water, being
heavier than alcohol will flow to the bourbon glass and displace
the bourbon into the water glass. You have just made the switch. If
you are truly skilled at this bar trick, you will be able to
replace the paper between the two shot glasses and remove the
bourbon and put it back on the bar.
Note: Make sure the opening between the glasses is very small. A
large opening will cause the water and alcohol to
mix.
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Bar Trick #10:
Smoke On The Water
Ingredients: 1 glass, a matchbook, six quarters, and an ashtray
with water.
Objective: Get a free drink.
Situation: Bet your friends one drink that you can get the water
out of the ashtray using only the ingredients mentioned and without
moving or tilting the ashtray.
Solution: Make sure ashtray is filled with at most a quarter inch
of water. Stack the quarters in the center of the ashtray so the
top two quarters are above the water. Place four unlit matches on
top of the quarters. Light the matches and immediately cover the
flame and quarters with the glass. The water will be drawn into the
glass. Collect your bets.
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Bar Trick #11:
The Wish in a Bottle
Ingredients: 1 newly emptied bottle of Grand Marnier, a matchbook,
a cork, a screw, and a sword cocktail pick.
Objective: To play with fire while making a wish.
Situation: Get your friends to make a wish. Tell them if the sword
sticks in the ceiling then their wish will come true.
Solution: Take a newly emptied Grand Marnier bottle and put a cork
in it. Place the bottle under hot water for about 10 minutes. While
the bottle is heating, take a straw and bend it in half. Take your
sword pick and stick it through the fold in the straw. The straw
should be folded back over the handle of the sword pick. When the
bottle is ready, carefully remove the cork so the heated gas in the
bottle does not escape. Quickly put the straw and the sword in the
bottle with the tip of the sword pick pointing out of the bottle.
Make a wish and drop a match in the bottle. Warning: There will be
a large flame and the straw and the sword pick will be forced out
of the bottle. KEEP your face and others away from the opening. If
the straw sticks in the ceiling then your wish comes true. If the
straw does not stick, tell someone to buy you a drink for your
troubles. If you do not get a flame, you have to buy everyone else
drinks.
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