Bar bets

[TPL]

Just trying to prepare for the holiday party season. I'm looking for some good bar bet ideas. I know of a couple:

1. The same birthday bet: Bet someone that you can poll 30 people in the room and find 2 that were born on the same date (not including year). I believe the math works out that this works over 99% of the time. With these odds, I feel I can bet whatever amount I can pay off in the even that 0.5% outlier occurs.

2. 1,089: Have someone write down a 3-digit number, with no digits the same. Tell them to reverse the numbers, and if it's less than the original number, write it directly below. If it's more than the original number, write it directly above. Now, subtract. Ask them if the number is less than or more than 100. If it's less than, tell them to write a 0 in front. Now, they need to reverse those numbers and write it below this third number. Add. It will add up to 1,089.
Ex:
583
-385
=198
+891

=1,089

More of a math trick, really, but I figure if you wait to place the bet until after the math is done, there's bound to be a sucker that will see 1,089 and think I messed up and take the bet.

Any others?

TPL

[JustSomeJackass]

There is one I remember from a movie where the guy claims to be able to drink two 16 ounces glasses of beer before the other guy can drink one shotglass full of beer. Two rules: The first is that the other guy can not either of the guys 2 glasses and 2. the guy gets to drink his first glass of beer and set his glass down before the other guy can pick up his shotglass.

Guy leisurely drinks his first beer and then sets his glass on the table, upside down over the shotglass. Guy drinks his other beer and picks up the $$$.


If I tried to do the numbers one you mentioned with any of my friends...they would never be able to do the math correctly to see the trick work..partly because they would be drunk, and partly because they are morons.

JSJ

[imitation]

This is one of my favourites.

First find a couple of guys at the back of the bar and bet them $300 each you can piss on the bar tender and on the bar and all over the place and not only will he not be pissed of he'll be glad.

Then head to the bar, place down a pot glass and bet the bar tender $200 you can piss into the glass without spilling a single drop. Now take aim and piss everywhere, on the bar, on the bar tender, in the ice trays, I mean everywhere. Now the bar tender will be laughing, with your piss dribbling down his face. He'll be so glad when he takes your $200, you then procede to the back of the bar and collect of the 2 other guys.

Easiest $400 you will ever make from pissing on someone, excepting fetish porn movies.

HTH

[aron]

Take a shot glass, place a metal shaker upside down over it. Bet someone that you can drink the shot without touching the shaker.
You do some magic gestures and says viola.
When the person removes the shaker to prove you wrong you quickly down the shot... You never touched it.

Only problem is that people will never accept these kind of bets, they know there is something fishy about it, unless they are complete morons, and then you don't want the kind of beating you might be subject of.

A friendlier one is to bet someone a dollar that you cant drink his cocktail under some impossible conditions you make up (from ten yards, without movin and so on...)
After all, one dollar is a hell of a cheap cocktail.

-aron

[jakethebake]

Who cut off Samson's hair in the Bible? Answer below:

<font color="white"> Common answer is Delilah, but...Judges 16 19 - "She made him go to sleep on her lap and then called a man in to shave off the seven braids of his hair."</font>

[bogey]

man remind me never to go drinking with you, take these bets to a high school stats class, make your bar bets involve beer and/or making out with ugly chicks

[jakethebake]

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man remind me never to go drinking with you, take these bets to a high school stats class, make your bar bets involve beer and/or making out with ugly chicks

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Well I have won fat&amp;ugly contests in my youth...Everyone ante up $20. Pot to whoever takes home the fattest/ugliest chick.

[Tilty McTilterson]

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1. The same birthday bet: Bet someone that you can poll 30 people in the room and find 2 that were born on the same date (not including year). I believe the math works out that this works over 99% of the time. With these odds, I feel I can bet whatever amount I can pay off in the even that 0.5% outlier occurs.


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The chance that two people in a group of 30 have the same birthday is a lot higher than one might expect, but it's not 99%. I haven't done the math (and probably couldn't even if I wanted to) but according to Wikipedia:

"The birthday paradox states that if there are 23 people in a room then there is a slightly more than 50:50 chance that at least two of them will have the same birthday. For 60 or more people, the probability is greater than 99%. This is not a paradox in the sense of it leading to a logical contradiction; it is a paradox in the sense that it is a mathematical truth that contradicts common intuition. Most people estimate that the chance is much lower than 50:50"

[Rob Blackburn]

Bet someone that they can't eat 6 Saltines in 1 minute(or maybe it was 2 minutes), they are not allowed to have any kind of beverage to wash it down in the allotted time.

They dry your mouth out so much you can't get them down. I probably made a few hundred doing this at keg parties and bars during undergrad. There is always one mf-er who is the saltine eating champion of the world and wants to bet you, sometimes multiple times.

[maurile]

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Bet someone that they can't eat 6 Saltines in 1 minute(or maybe it was 2 minutes), they are not allowed to have any kind of beverage to wash it down in the allotted time.

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I was just going to post this. It's one minute.