Olive Snifter

Olive Snifter
Number	130
Broadcast Date	September 8th, 2010
Episode Length	11:53
Hosts	Brian Brushwood

This week, it's a super-simple puzzle that STILL fry's 'em every time.

Revision3 Summary

The Setup: place 2 napkins a decent length apart (even better, have them on different tables!). Grab a brandy snifter and an olive.

The Challenge: without touching or moving the landing pads, use the snifter to pick up the olive from launchpad A, and safely deposit him onto launchpad B. No touching anything except the snifter, and the olive must take off from the one pad, and land on the other.

The Work: there's virtually no chance that they can scoop up the olive without moving the launchpad... unless you hold the snifter upside down and start rolling it in a circle with your hand. This will keep momentum on the olive moving in a circle, and allow you lift the olive off the ground without ever turning the snifter right side up!

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Next Week

Join us next week because we are going to have a very special martial arts expert, who’s going to teach us how to stop an attack by injuring his pride.

Fun Facts

• Filmed at City Tavern
• After the credits Brian gets iced by Chris, one of the participants in this episode.

Links

• Show Notes on Revision3

Preceded by: "Use Misdirection to Pull Off True Sleight of Hand!"

Olive Snifter

Followed by: "Cheat your friends at a fair coin toss!"