Hey, magician Rich Ferguson here today and
I'm going to be teaching you how to win some
money with straws.
Bar bets are one of my favorite things because
they're kind of like a magic trick, they're
kind of like a play on words, they're kind
of like a stunt, they're kind of like a puzzle,
it's all the things mixed together, and you
win free drinks with them.
So let me share you five really cool bar bets
utilizing this simple tool.
In this first bar bet you're going to bet
your victim or your friend 5 bucks, a beer,
whatever it is, that you can pick up this
bottle with just a straw or pick up a wine
glass or some other kind in glass with the
straw.
So pick up the glass just bend the straw about
the distance up the mouth a spec more, put
the straw inside the mouth, and you'll notice
that as you pull up, it's going to catch right
there, and it's trapped, it can't come out.
So that's how you lift up a glass.
You could do different types of glasses there
goes, but it's preferable to have a glass
that has a little bit of a lip or if the glass
tapers in at the top.
If it tapers outwards, it has no lift that
little roll up glass and will be pretty impossible.
So that's how you pick up a glass.
Here's how I pick up a bottle.
You can do the same kind of thing.
You're going to bend the straw you're going
to put it inside, you're going to find that
sweet spot about right there before the straw
opens up.
Their it goes now it's locked in and you can
lift up this entire bottle with just the straw
In this next bet what you're going to do is
pull off the paper a straw you're going to
push it down so it's really, really compact
just like this.
You put this crumpled up piece of paper on
the table and you're going to say, "Only using
a straw, can you get this to expand and be
at least 2-3 times bigger but without touching
it with the straw?"
So they're going to try to blow on it, do
these different types things, but here's the
real secret.
You're going to get a little bit a water inside
of your straw and without touching the paper,
you're going to drip a little bit of water
onto the paper and it's like a little science
project.
You're going to get this little snake to appear.
You drip water and it grows and grows and
that's how you get the paper to reopen up
using a straw without touching it.
In this next bar get you're going to bet somebody
that they cannot get the contents of this
bottle into this glass without pouring it
and only using this straw.
Here's the secret to that.
You can phrase this any way you want but here's
what you're going to end up doing.
You're going to put a straw into the bottle
with it bent out.
I like using the bendy straws because they
don't crease.
You can use a regular straw but sometimes
when you bend them they actually cut of the
flow of the liquid so this is a little bit
easier for this demonstration.
And we're going to do once they fail is show
how easy it really is by putting your mouth
over the outsider this and blowing in which
is going to push the ball in the air into
the bottle and force the liquid out the straw.
It looks like this.
And that is how easy you can get the liquid
from this bottle to this glass only using
the straw and not pouring it.
This next bar bet's going to drive people
crazy.
You bet that they cannot get this quarter
to spin on the table only using the straw.
Now you can set up any parameters you want
because when you learn the secret you'll see
that it's using the straw to blow air through
it.
You can allow them to touch the quarter with
the straw, to try to flick it up if you want,
you can limit it to you can't touch this quarter
with the straw, you could do anything you
want.
But here's the actual secret to get the quarter
to spin.
You're going to come in with the straw at
about a 45 degree angle near the edge of the
quarter and you're going to blow.
The blow is going to cause air to go under
the quarter, make this vibrate and you're
going to slowly tilt your angle to where you
can push air on the side of the quarter to
get to actually spin.
There it goes, well, it hit the edge again.
There it goes!
We got a nice spinner.
In this next bar bet, you're going to bet
somebody that they cannot maintain the shape
this goal post by only moving two straws end
up with the glass outside of the goal.
So, what's interesting about this is people
going to move the straws around but they don't
think in a the spatial way that's required
for this trick to work.
Because you demonstrate that the glass has
to be outside, it doesn't actually have to
be outside here.
So what you're actually going to do is leave
the glass.
You're going to move one, two.
And so you've recreated the goal post but
in a different location and upside down so
people aren't likely to think of both of those
things by shifting something a half of a distance
and also reversing the direction of the goal
and you've accomplished what you said.
Your glass is outside the goal and you've
maintained the goal shape by only moving two
straws
Well, I'm intrigued at how many tricks you
can do with the straw and how many bets you
can win when using such a simple tool as this.
They're around everywhere.
Hope you enjoy those.
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I'd also like to point out that some of these
tricks are coming from my book "Tricks to
Pick up Chicks."
This is not what it sounds like.
This is not a seduction book.
This is simply a book that's a play on words.
It's bar bets and icebreakers, party tricks,
really simple things, some magic tricks, a
lot of humor, so if you're looking for a very
simple trick for someone who's not really
in the magic that wants basic tricks, this
is a great book for that.
And I look forward to sharing more videos
with you guys.
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subscribe, I'll talk to you soon.
This next one's kind of evil, it's one of
my favorites to do at bars, especially when
the person discovers it on their own and you
just kind of sit back and laugh.
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