14 Bets You Will ALWAYS Win!
14.
Breaking Matchstick- For this simple trick, simply ask your friends to place their hand
flat out.
Then put a matchstick across their second finger with their pointer and ring finger
covering the ends.
Now dare them to break the matchstick by pushing it down with their pointer and ring finger
only.
As much as they’ll try to force it, they won’t be able to break the matchstick, and
you’ll win the challenge.
The idea to any real lever is the distance between the matchstick and the knuckles.
By arranging the match towards the fingertips makes it almost impossible to break due to
a mechanical advantage.
13.
Marker Lid Blow Out- Stick a pen cap, preferably a marker lid inside the neck of the bottle.
Have the pen or marker top pointing towards the bottom of the glass bottle.
Now ask someone you know if they can blow the lid further into the bottle.
When they attempt this, the marker cap will come flying out instead.
Why?
Well because as you blow the air into the glass bottle, the air actually moves around
the pen lid instead and pushes air in the cylinder.
It’s the air leaving the bottle that pushes out the pen top.
Kind of cool right?
12.
Head’s Up- Professor Richard Wiseman of the Public Understanding of Psychology at
the University of Hertford shire has written a few dozen psychology books that include
several tricks or bets that will always rule in your favor, including this one.
Start by placing your hand, palm side down flat on the top of your head.
Now bet your buddy that they will not be able to lift your hand off your head.
As hard as they try, they won’t be able to at all.
According to Wiseman, when your friend is trying to lift your forearm, they will also
be raising your upper arm.
Since your upper arm is attached to the rest of your body, they are actually trying to
lift your entire body weight without realizing it.
Not only is this trick candid, but it’s fun to watch your friend pry off your arms,
making them think you have superhuman strength.
11.
A Bookmark- Taking two books of the same size, take them and intertwine the pages together.
Now dare someone you know to pull the two books apart by just holding the spines and
pulling as hard as they can.
Even with all their might, they won’t be able to do so.
Each page of the books contains friction against a page under it and above it.
Most pages in paperback books are rough and with the combined surface area of all the
pages creates copious amounts of frictions.
So this makes it a difficult task to pull the two books apart by just your hand.
10.
Double Straws- Using a glass of water and two straws, challenge your friend that they
won’t be able to drink out of the glass using the straws.
Place one straw in the glass and the other straw on the outside of the glass.
Once they try to drink through it, they won’t be able to and blocking a straw with the tip
of the tongue is considered cheating.
Now generally when you drink through a straw, your mouth acts like a vacuum.
The air pressure inside your mouth is much lower than the air pressure in the air around
you.
The air will thrust down on the drink and push it up the straw when you drink it.
But since your friend has the straw outside of the drink, there is no force making it
impossible to create a vacuum.
9.
Count your Pennies- During dinner time, gather around ten cents and a wine glass.
Pour a wine glass to the rim and ask someone how many pennies you can drop into the wine
cup before the liquid inside starts to overflow and run down the side.
Naturally, most people will guess around one to three coins.
But surprisingly, you can actually drop in at least ten pennies inside the glass cup
without spilling a drop of liquid!
On the surface are water molecules that stick together firmly.
The surface tension is so strong that when you drop in the coins, the displaced water
will create a dome over the rim as the water stretches!
Quite interesting!
8.
Superglued Fingers- For this easy bet, have a pal stick their two palms together and then
put their middle fingers facing in.
Have them try to unstick their ring fingers.
They will struggle to do so and won’t be able to.
The science behind this is that the tendons in your middle and ring fingers are connected.
So if you try to remove your ring finger while your middle finger is folded down, you won’t
be able to move it.
You can also do this method by placing their hand palm down on a flat surface.
Make sure their middle finger is bent under.
As hard as they may try, they won’t be able to move their ring finger either.
7.
Microscopic Eye- If you’re feeling a little daring and bold, find a blunt needle and some
thread and a friend who is willing to bet against you that they can’t place 25 thread
strands through the eye of the needle in just thirty seconds!
Now, most people already have trouble trying to put one thread through a needle, but there
is an easy way to do this.
To win against your friend, thread the needle on the center of the thread.
Tie a knot in the thread about one inch from your eye.
Then weave the circle of the thread through the eye over and over.
Now the circle of the thread should be easy to maneuver through the eye, and it drags
more the thread.
Watch your friend be amazed and confused as to how you did this trick!
Surely, they might be willing to learn how you did it!
6.
Fully Charged Batteries- Even though there’s nothing special about empty batteries, you
can use them for this quick little trick before tossing them in the trash.
Using a full battery and the empty battery, dare a friend to try and guess which battery
is full and which is empty without putting it into any appliance.
To win this bet, all you need to do is simply drop the batteries on a table.
Now both batteries will bounce.
However, the empty one will bounce much higher than the full battery.
The inside of a new battery contains a layer of zinc coiled around a brass middle core.
As the battery is used, the zinc slowly changed to zinc oxide.
The link between the two particles turns into springs, and it’s that flexibility that
gives the empty battery its higher bounce.
5.
Rock, Paper, Scissors- Many people think that playing rock, paper, scissors is a game all
about chance.
But expert RPS players who have participated in RPS tournaments and leagues reveal several
tactics and tricks that could help you win.
The strategy for playing RPS all depends on the other player's skills.Based on reported
proportions by the World RPS Society, rock is the most popular choice, followed by paper
and then scissors.
Usually, naive players don’t like repeating the same throw more than once, and rock is
a throw that is mainly favored by male players.
So if you’re playing against an inexperienced male friend, it’s best to use paper to beat
rock.
It is likely believed that women will choose scissors, but since there aren’t enough
women in RPS tournaments to confirm, this remains as a theory.
According to the RPS Society, the counter strategy is to pick whatever sign the double
sign would beat.
For example, if your other player chooses rock, you want to pick scissors for the next
round given the opponent would choose paper.
In most of these tournaments, experienced players used pattern recognition to win which
takes a lot of time to practice, but in quick instances, just remember that scissors are
the least thrown and men will pick rocks.
Both are reasons to pick paper for a one shot match!
4.
The Great Spaghetti Test- Who said you weren’t allowed to play with your food?
Use a spaghetti strand while cooking to demonstrate this little trick to win a bet!
Using a single spaghetti strand ask someone to hold the ends of a piece of uncooked noodle
and dare then to bend it so that it will break in only two pieces.
Chances are they will always break in in multiple pieces.
This is because the first break causes a fast moving shock that emits along the two newly
formed noodle pieces resulting in additional breaks.
So even if they are careful to try only to make it break into two pieces, they will be
unsuccessful.
3.
Static Cling- If you’re bored at home and have nothing to do, challenge a buddy of yours
using a straw and glass bottle to make the straw spin around without blowing or touching
it.
It’ll be fun to watch them in this attempt but to win this bet all you need is this little
trick.
First rub the straw on your shirt creating a static of electricity.
Then afterward, balance the straw on the top of the bottle and carefully hold your finger
to the straw.
The voltage static will make the straw spin around and voila!
Some people might call it cheating, but you did follow the rules by not touching it or
blowing on it!
2.
Penny balancing- For this bet, all you need is a playing card, a penny and a glass of
water.
Have a friend place the game card on one side of the rim over the rim and have your friend
try to balance the penny on the outer side.
Doing so, the card will always fall off under the weight of the money.
Now the trick with this bet is to pour water into the glass cup first.
The surface tension of the water will be just enough to keep the playing card lying flat
while they’re trying to balance the penny on the other side.
Pretty neat little trick you can use to bet with your friends at a party or just for laughs!
1.
Unpoppable balloon- If you have a balloon lying around and about twenty thumbtacks nearby,
you can use them for this next bet.
Challenge your buddy and see if they can place an inflated balloon on the thumbtack,s needle
facing up without bursting the balloon.
It’s pretty evident that the balloon will burst right?
Well to win the bet, here’s what you have to do.
When you are pushing the balloon onto a bunch of thumbtacks, the same force is evenly applied
across all of the thumbtack tips.
This makes it, so there isn’t enough pressure of one single thumbtack to puncture the balloon!
Not only will you win this bet but they’ll be amazed at how you did it without popping
the balloon.