Bar Trick #1: Olive in Brandy Snifter
Ingredients: 1 olive, 1 brandy snifter.
Objective: Put olive in brandy snifter.
Situation: You can not touch the olive with your body (hands,mouth,etc.) You can not scoop the olive with the snifter. You can not roll olive off of bar into snifter.
Solution: With the olive on the bar, place the brandy snifter over the olive so that the open end of the snifter is surrounding the olive. Slowly rotate the brandy snifter around the olive. The olive will roll around the inside walls of the snifter (centrifugal force). Once the olive is spinning around the middle of the snifter, flip the snifter upright and place on the bar. Collect your winnings!
Hints: Practice this bar trick before placing any bets. The olive has a tendency to come out of the snifter when flipping upright. After a little practice, you will be a pro.
Bar Trick #2: Embarrass Your Friends
Ingredients: 1 bar napkin, 1 pen/pencil.
Objective: Embarrass your friends and others.
Situation: On a bar napkin, write down the following:
I AM WE TODD IT
I AM SOFA KING WE TODD IT
Ask your friends to continue reading out loud until they understand. Continue to find new victims. Added bonus: Old victims will laugh at new victims.
Bar Trick #3: The Old "Two quarters trick?"
Ingredients: 2 quarters, and one victim.
Objective: To get a free drink.
Situation: On the bar, place two quarters heads up. Ask your victim, "What do you see?" The usual answer is, "Two heads!" or "Two quarters." Slowly start nodding your head in agreement and with your palm up, point to the two quarters and say, "I see two pennies, hey, if I'm wrong will you buy me a drink." Pressure them for a reply, most people will say, "sure." At this point say, "I'm wrong." Enjoy your free drink.
Added Bonus: When the drink is empty, find a new victim.
Bar Trick #4: The Fifty Cent Drink
Ingredients: 1 Victim with a fresh drink, 1 cocktail napkin, 2 quarters.
Objective: To get a cheap drink.
Situation: Take victims drink and remove any straws or umbrellas. Cover victims drink with the cocktail napkin. Tell your victim, "I bet you fifty cents that without touching the glass or the napkin or any straws, etc., I can drink that entire drink." Push the two quarters towards the victim while betting, point to the glass and the napkin. Continue to say, "I won't touch anything!" Bring up the point about possibly putting a straw through the napkin and say again, "I won't touch anything!"
Solution: When they give up, slowly take off the napkin and enjoy the drink as you push the fifty cents to the victim. Be sure to tell the victim they won and give them their fifty cents. The $4.00 drink just cost you fifty cents! Enjoy your cheap drink!
Bar Trick #5: The Switch
Ingredients: 2 identical shot glasses, 1 non-porous piece of paper (playing card, over-sized match book, etc.) water, and your choice of alcohol (bourgon, scotch, etc.)
Objective: Challenge your friends.
Situation: Fill one shot glass with water and the other with, lets say, bourbon. The challenge is to get the bourbon in the glass that has the water, and the water in the glass that has the bourbon without using any other containers including your mouth (or anyone else's mouth).
Solution: Place the non-porous piece of paper (playing card) on top of the shot of water. Turn the card and water shot upside down carefully. The paper will stay attached to the shot on its own accord. Now, place the water shot glass and card on the shot of bourbon. Slowly and carefully pull the paper out just far enough to make a very small opening between the two glasses. Water, being heavier than alcohol will flow to the bourbon glass and displace the bourbon into the water glass. You have just made the switch. If you are truly skilled at this bar trick, you will be able to replace the paper between the two shot glasses and remove the bourbon and put it back on the bar.
Note: Make sure the opening between the glasses is very small. A large opening will cause the water and alcohol to mix.
Bar Trick #6: Smoke On The Water
Ingredients: 1 glass, a matchbook, six quarters, and an ashtray with water.
Objective: Get a free drink.
Situation: Bet your friends one drink that you can get the water out of the ashtray using only the ingredients mentioned and without moving or tilting the ashtray.
Solution: Make sure ashtray is filled with at most a quarter inch of water. Stack the quarters in the center of the ashtray so the top two quarters are above the water. Place four unlit matches on top of the quarters. Light the matches and immediately cover the flame and quarters with the glass. The water will be drawn into the glass. Collect your bets.
Bar Trick #7: The Wish in a Bottle
Ingredients: 1 newly emptied bottle of Grand Marnier, a matchbook, a cork, a screw, and a sword cocktail pick.
Objective: To play with fire while making a wish.
Situation: Get your friends to make a wish. Tell them if the sword sticks in the ceiling then their wish will come true.
Solution: Take a newly emptied Grand Marnier bottle and put a cork in it. Place the bottle under hot water for about 10 minutes. While the bottle is heating, take a straw and bend it in half. Take your sword pick and stick it through the fold in the straw. The straw should be folded back over the handle of the sword pick. When the bottle is ready, carefully remove the cork so the heated gas in the bottle does not escape. Quickly put the straw and the sword in the bottle with the tip of the sword pick pointing out of the bottle. Make a wish and drop a match in the bottle. Warning: There will be a large flame and the straw and the sword pick will be forced out of the bottle. KEEP your face and others away from the opening. If the straw sticks in the ceiling then your wish comes true. If the straw does not stick, tell someone to buy you a drink for your troubles. If you do not get a flame, you have to buy everyone else drinks. |
