Effect: Surprise your friends by telling them you have X-ray vision
Need: a group of people, 5 bottle caps, 5 coins, one drink, one napkin, and a secret helper.
Method: Watch as Brian successfully determines which bottle cap is missing a coin. But in reality someone is secretly helping Brian by using a code known to both of them.
Depending where the helper places his drink on the napkin, Brian will know the correct answer!
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Posted by rabidbadger on 07/14/2008 at 05:21:40 pm in Scam School
pheobo. Fun post . and welcome to rev3!
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Posted by pheobo on 07/14/2008 at 04:47:28 pm in Scam School
I used this one with a friend this weekend at a table with three good looking ladies (before I ruined the good run by forgetting how to do a "beatable" puzzle. Once I revealed it (and of course got my drink credit signed off on) One of the girls came up to me and said she wanted to be part of my next trick... O boy, did I have several tricks for her to be a part of. I thumb cuffed her with a pint. Fortunately she wasn't the prettiest one :-). This is a true story from Argentina at th Unico bar in San Isidro. :-)
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Posted by Minton on 07/13/2008 at 08:32:52 pm in Scam School
I have used this trick before, I do a small variation on it, and use my beer as a "Xray" and look through it at the bottle caps, adds another dimension to the trick
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Posted by Guytheninja on 07/10/2008 at 08:08:07 pm in Scam School
"1. I never did (not directly, anyway). I stood where his drink would be plainly visible right behind the bottlecaps.
2. Remember: this is your game. You run the show, and you dictate the rules.
If you get someone wanting to screw things up at every turn, it just means that you haven't groomed them properly. In the case of mixing the bottlecaps, just make sure you say "rearrange them in this formation in any order you like." If you turn around and they've put them in a line, then repeat the instructions... slower this time (like maybe Mr. Jerk is just a little soft in the head). The other marks will often turn on him, encouraging him to just shut up and follow directions (after all, they want a show, too)."
Yea, I'm still not sure about this scam. You need to print a disclaimer each episode that says:
"These scams may be hazardous to your health if tried in a 'dried blood on the ceiling' bar". (Its a technical term care of Lewis Grizzard). See exhibit A below :D.
Blues Brothers (Rawhide) Compilation -- at Bob's Country Bunker
*link*
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Posted by scottmckechnie on 07/10/2008 at 06:13:05 pm in Scam School
Great Episode, as always Brian.
I've done something similar to this, using six random cards around a 7. because on as most people would know, a 7 has 3 diamonds or whatever on each side and one in the middle. you can use the same technique.
X X
XXX
X X
So you get your accomplise to tap each of the cards after the person you're gagging has pointed to one while your back was turned. One your accomplise gets to the seven in the middle, you see which icon(I don't remember what to call them, lol.) your accomplise touches. that is the card corresponding to the one that the "gag'ee" chose.
Enough of my shenanigans. Big Fan, btw.
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Posted by shwooddotcom on 07/10/2008 at 05:20:40 pm in Scam School
"It seems like a lot of things could have gone wrong.
1. For instance, I never saw you look at that PBR can. I'm sure if I had tried this, someone would have noticed me looking at the can.
2. Also, for the third act in this scam, what if they had arranged the bottle caps in a way where the accomplice could not have given you the answer?
Like:
x x x x x versus
x x
_x
x x"
1. I never did (not directly, anyway). I stood where his drink would be plainly visible right behind the bottlecaps.
2. Remember: this is your game. You run the show, and you dictate the rules.
If you get someone wanting to screw things up at every turn, it just means that you haven't groomed them properly. In the case of mixing the bottlecaps, just make sure you say "rearrange them in this formation in any order you like." If you turn around and they've put them in a line, then repeat the instructions... slower this time (like maybe Mr. Jerk is just a little soft in the head). The other marks will often turn on him, encouraging him to just shut up and follow directions (after all, they want a show, too).
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Posted by nextgenxbox on 07/10/2008 at 04:22:11 pm in Scam School
"
Like:
x x x x x versus
x x
_x
x x"
That's why you tell them. "If you want, you can switch the locations of the caps.... the middle one switched with this corner one, etc."
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Posted by Guytheninja on 07/10/2008 at 04:10:34 pm in Scam School
" might have been just a *teensy* *tiny* tipoff. :D
In all seriousness, this one totally fooled all three of these guys. When you're actually there, there's just no reason to suspect the random other folks at the bar."
It seems like a lot of things could have gone wrong.
1. For instance, I never saw you look at that PBR can. I'm sure if I had tried this, someone would have noticed me looking at the can.
2. Also, for the third act in this scam, what if they had arranged the bottle caps in a way where the accomplice could not have given you the answer?
Like:
x x x x x versus
x x
_x
x x
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Posted by shwooddotcom on 07/10/2008 at 03:40:50 pm in Scam School
"Since I have Brian's book I knew the trick, but what I noticed was the cameraman was being "overly efficient" at framing the PBR guy.
I think most people who spotted the scam were reacting to the subliminal idea the camera was telling you, "Watch this guy here.""
Right on target. Stuff was framed so you could watch the accomplice during the performance, which likely clues the viewer in. Plus, the fact that the episode was titled "code drink" might have been just a *teensy* *tiny* tipoff. :D
In all seriousness, this one totally fooled all three of these guys. When you're actually there, there's just no reason to suspect the random other folks at the bar.
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Posted by Murphy1d on 07/10/2008 at 03:00:03 pm in Scam School
Since I have Brian's book I knew the trick, but what I noticed was the cameraman was being "overly efficient" at framing the PBR guy.
I think most people who spotted the scam were reacting to the subliminal idea the camera was telling you, "Watch this guy here."
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