Thanksgiving dinner might be over for another year, but you’ve got a fridge full of leftovers that says friends and family will be stopping by for another meal today. And if you’re worried your famous pumpkin pie isn’t going to be enough to impress them, Richard Wiseman is back with another collection of super simple party stunts that are sure to leave people amazed and bewildered—even if they’re not drunk.
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The beauty of math and numbers and formulas and equations and so forth is that they can work without you ever understanding how the hell they work. What seems like complete randomness is actually just a math problem! Like this slick trick with a deck of cards. Take twenty or so cards and flip over five cards face side up and randomly insert them back into the rest of the deck. Shuffle it up all you want, split the deck in two and you can get the same exact amount of face up cards in each card pile.
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Who doesn’t love free money? Nobody, that’s who. And while technically Richard Wiseman’s latest collection of guaranteed bets will cost you friendships, relationships, and maybe even your job, the satisfaction of one-upping everyone you know makes it still totally worth it.
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There’s no such thing as free money, and while this series of clever bets will all but guarantee you some easy cash, it will probably come at the cost of a few friendships.
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Need an excuse to go play with matches
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If you haven’t already alienated all your friends, coworkers, and enemies by conning them out of their hard-earned dignity
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Gambling might be risky, but not if you know you’re going to win. Then it’s just free money. If that sounds up your alley, conman extraordinaire Richard Wiseman has yet another set
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There’s nothing quite like taking advantage of the drunk, or the stupid, or the drunk and stupid. And these bets are, if not the best way to do that, at least one of the most amusing. Weird-trick extraordinaire Richard Wiseman is back with another collection of “bar” bets you can’t lose, and they’re just as technically-something-you-might-get-away-with as ever. More »
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