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  • Place a note on the table and balance a bottle on top of it. Challenge your friends to remove

  • the note but without touching the bottle or knocking it over. To win the bet, knock on

  • the table and whip the note away when the bottle jumps into the air.

  • This bet involves a balloon, a glass and some matches. Challenge your friends to lift the

  • glass just using the balloon. To win the bet, carefully light a match, place it into the

  • glass and put the balloon on top of the glass. The match with burn up the oxygen, sucking

  • the balloon inside, and allowing you to pick up the glass.

  • This bet involves 2 straws. Fold one in half and cut the other into two. Now create a pyramid

  • by balancing the folded straw against one of the halves, and challenge your friends

  • to pick up the pyramid using the other half-straw. They will fail every time. To win the bet,

  • place the straw here, push forward against the folded straw, wait until the half straw

  • falls forward and then pick everything up.

  • Put a cherry tomato into a small glass and ask your friends to remove the tomato but

  • without touching or moving the glass. Simply blow down into the cherry and it will jump

  • out of the glass.

  • Arrange nine matches like this to create 3 equilateral triangles, and challenge your

  • friends to move 3 matches and create 4 equilateral triangles. To win the bet, move this match,

  • then this one and finally this one. Now you have created one, two, three and four triangles.

  • Remove the drawer from a matchbox, and open up the cover. Place the cover here, and the

  • drawer in front of it, and challenge your friends to move the drawer through the cover,

  • but without touching it or leaving this side of the table. When they give in, place your

  • hand in front of the drawer, blow against your hand, and the drawer will move under

  • the cover.

  • Time for a short break, and a picture of the quirkology goat.

  • Place a coin on a table heads up and cover it with a hat. Now tell your friends that

  • you can make the coin turn over but without touching the hat, and then tap the table.

  • Announce that the coin has flipped. When your friends pick up the hat to see if you are

  • right, simply turn over the coin!

  • This bet involves a bottle and a balloon. Place the balloon inside the bottle. Fold

  • the end of the balloon around the lip of the bottle, and challenge your friends to blow

  • up the balloon inside the bottle. They won't be able to do it.

  • Place a small coin on a table and put some larger coins on top of it. Challenge your

  • friends to remove the small coin but without touching, or disturbing, the larger coins.

  • To win the bet, quickly slide another small coin under the stack and the first small coin

  • will shoot out the other side.

  • Finally, your friends might try and catch you out with this bet involving a cake and

  • a small cup of icing sugar. They will challenge you to blow the candles out with your eyes

  • closed and then secretly place the cup in front of your face, so you end up covered

  • in icing sugar. So be warned, and don't take the bet!

Place a note on the table and balance a bottle on top of it. Challenge your friends to remove

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