Category: Magic Puzzles

What’s Unusual about This Number?

1961.

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Can You Make 4 Triangles with Only 6 Straws?

Are you up for a challenge?  Get 6 straws.  (Pencils that are all the same size, or toothpicks will also work.)  Can you make 4 triangles–without bending or cutting any of the straws?

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Drinking Water–Through the Table?

Set a cup of water on the table.  Cover it with a sheet of newspaper.  Claim that you can drink the water without touching the newspaper!  Sounds impossible?  Here’s how: Read more »

A Drinking Water Betcha

A glass of water is on the table.  “I am going to go out of the room”, you explain, “and I’ll bet the water will be gone before I walk back in.”  Would you take this bet? Read more »

Can You Balance the Reindeer?

Santa needs your help!   The 4 sides below–top, bottom, right, and left–each have 6 reindeer.  Santa wants to move the 4 reindeer in the middle pen to the outer pens–and still have 6 reindeer on each side.  Is this possible?  Can you advise him how?

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