It's In the Bank
Thursday, November 6th, 2008 running time 07:22
This week we've got another puzzle with a setup that sounds absolutely impossible.
THE SETUP: Fold a toothpick in half, making a "V" shape, and place it on top of the mouth of a beer bottle. Next Place a dime on top of the folded toothpick, and offer the following question:
How do you get the dime into the beer bottle, without touching the bottle, toothpick, or dime...without letting the toothpick fall off the top of the bottle, and without shaking the table?
THE ANSWER: Don't be surprised if your mark just flat-out doesn't believe this one is possible...the restrictions are so tight, it seems there's no way to pull it off, but the solution is unbelievably elegant:
Just drip a couple of drops of water (or any other drink) onto the fold in the toothpick. The water will cause the wood to expand, opening the toothpick and allowing the dime to drop right in.
Highlights
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0:05, 5:11, 5:24, 5:31, 0:05, 5:11, 5:24, 5:31
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5:16, 5:16
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Roosevelt
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1:15, 1:15
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bloodlines
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2:19, 2:19
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0:05, 5:11, 5:24, 5:31, 0:05, 5:11, 5:24, 5:31
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5:16, 5:16
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Roosevelt
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1:15, 1:15
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bloodlines
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2:19, 2:19
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" War. This upset a -- school brought to you by Netflix. "
" Michelle win every night of pub crawl -- school the only show dedicated social engineering at the bar and on the street as a host dry brush with and tonight's puzzle has the most elegant solution I can possibly imagine. It's something called. In the bank."
" Brian. -- Austin sweets we'll play little puzzle game here. -- That you want to biding -- different means it'll cost you only -- beer and I think that's not -- three do you guys and a three to one odds in your favor if you win and I'm still up for."
" Three years that if I win he goes to chip in just anyone EDB revere rides. Aren't in the game are gonna play we got a beer bottle. And we have the treasure is there. There's there's -- Roosevelt Truman."
" Does anyone -- If -- eleventh I and a hot in the opera could. We've got a time -- then we got the treasure under aged ten cents I -- on the set up a blockade."
" seen one of the means. Area. Percent of the blockade. Preventing. This time. We're going in the bank right barely gotten."
" You got the president's not the other things next blocking the way down -- you want to get the treasure ears and down into the banks. But the typical have to stay exhausted they can't cloth. You can't have been the times he can't execute it -- you can't touch the box. You can't bang the table. And that's about it that you want this down and get down and out taxes and that's right."
" forgot what president."
" Yeah."
" We can't -- saying yeah -- yeah."
" Tactics I don't know bloodlines devoured."
" I get a moderately good. I haven't had -- news delicate business. Look at what like hospital in the elevator. I think that kind of precarious situation yeah. It. -- sort of yeah itself. Now again. And as sentinels and how it's gonna."
" Only truth here."
" I like is actually got a really elegant solution on the UBS's -- her breathe. He doesn't."
" Lots of -- magic happens Seles -- there. -- it started stand."
" There was. -- Okay yeah because yeah. Well yeah. That's winning he's got -- bad -- that they -- they got they. -- yeah yeah and I just."
" I was much as I love the solution to this puzzle they're completely -- situations that might screw you out of a free beer editing the people's land on the table and catching a lucky -- that. Blowing on it catching a lucky draft are recommend that you do this -- just for fun. Ask any questions about these are scams eligible for that supports revision3.com. Slash games -- Or if you want to suggest your favorite bars game -- directly at -- revision3.com. Next episode we're gonna do so little bit environmental legal and had a charge a cell phone also the energy of running -- until then. I'm headed back at a bar."
" I'll tell you it was not a scam and you theater company. Netflix dot com with net -- read over 90000 titles online including lots of Blu-ray titles with free shipping both ways to your home."
" They don't have over forty shipping centers it's almost all deliveries have been just one business day."
" The Netflix plans start report always idealized sense that the new member you get a no risk to."
" Two week free trial membership check it out at www. Netflix dot com slash stands -- remember to type in WWW when using this code."
" One plus. As soon as soon as equals bar."
" that is. That is -- IKEA. Yeah."
" Tell me just say it doesn't it's. -- And I. I know why does all of this situation now -- good good good this."
" It's. -- in your hometown that you can get live updates about -- school meet -- follow my tour schedule and join live online practice sessions by following me Brian -- on twitter head over to twitter.com slash word and click on the follow button. That's this HW OOD can't wait to hear from you guys."
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Started discussion: November 6, 2008 @ 9:17am GMT
Episode 34 - It's In the Bank [Discussion]
This week we've got another puzzle with a setup that sounds absolutely impossible.
Watch or download the episode here!
Minton
8 months ago
another great epsiode, and the bonus material shows the importance of setting up the trick properly, those guys got Brian on 2 tricks because he didn't lay down the ground rules properly. This is a great ice breaking trick...can be used to set up the groundwork for some free drinks down the road. Keep them coming
hogiewan
8 months ago
meh
episode was okay - bonus was the only interesting bit. If a puzzle or trick is best for just a warmup, you should say so at the beginning.
idiotonuni
8 months ago
Great trick
Is it just me or is there a pattern of promising almost impossible tricks at the end of shows then never showing them? Maybe its this shows trademark.KruM
8 months ago
My first thought was to light the toothpick on fire.
A nice blazing money bank, with the added feature of theft protection. ;)
A nice blazing money bank, with the added feature of theft protection. ;)
rabidbadger
8 months ago
In reply to KruM:
My first thought was to light the toothpick on fire.
A nice blazing money bank, with the added feature of theft protection. ;)
A nice blazing money bank, with the added feature of theft protection. ;)
THAT is genius!
And to be honest, I was hoping brian would explain how it worked, Is it really just the extra weight of a tiny bit of liquid? That don't make sense...
ixi wixi
8 months ago
In reply to rabidbadger:
THAT is genius!
And to be honest, I was hoping brian would explain how it worked, Is it really just the extra weight of a tiny bit of liquid? That don't make sense...
And to be honest, I was hoping brian would explain how it worked, Is it really just the extra weight of a tiny bit of liquid? That don't make sense...
you drip it on the break in the toothpick, the wood absorbs the liquid and expands, which "opens" the toothpick dropping the dime into the bottle
Minton
8 months ago
In reply to idiotonuni:
Is it just me or is there a pattern of promising almost impossible tricks at the end of shows then never showing them? Maybe its this shows trademark.
That is just Brian being Brian, there have been some really obscure things promised in the next epsiode, somewhere on here is a thread where he took some suggestions
therage800
8 months ago
In reply to Minton:
That is just Brian being Brian, there have been some really obscure things promised in the next epsiode, somewhere on here is a thread where he took some suggestions
Yeah, it's just a joke. Often times they sound like something you'd see on Mcgeiver... That is if anyone would actually see McGeiver :p








