Halloween treats to delight all ages! What would your child want to get from trick or treating?
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posted by loquat
on Oct 5, 2012 -
40 answers
Help me figure out this trick from some drunk guy at the taqueria. He asked me to pick a number from 1 to 4. He had a stack of handwritten cards with him, and he took one out and put it on the table in front of me. He asked me to say what number it was, and I answered 3. He flipped the card over, and there was a handwritten 3 on it!! It was just the one card, I didn't see multiple layers where he could have hidden the other options. He did this again with another person, successfully. How did he do this? What am I missing here? Was he just lucky?
posted by Xere
on Apr 7, 2011 -
19 answers
Are most cats willing to stand up on their back legs for treats they love, if they're also willing to "sit up"? If this one doesn't, is that grounds to worry about his joints?
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posted by amtho
on Apr 25, 2010 -
28 answers
Why are my eyes messing with me?! Why do I see something that's
not there? Or why don't I see something that
is there? Specific details inside.
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posted by Kippersoft
on Jan 19, 2010 -
9 answers
Why does this trick work? Turn your palm face up. To turn your palm face down you must twist your wrist, right? But if you do six simple moves you can turn your palm face down without twisting your wrist. The trick appears at the beginning of this
talk by Lennart Green but can also be done
backwards.
posted by twoleftfeet
on Oct 31, 2009 -
24 answers
I like to watch a lot of streaming video especially for sports games. I usually use the Google Chrome browser. But some sites' media players say they only work with Firefox or IE and won't even give me the chance of trying it out in Chrome. Is there a way to trick the sites into thinking Chrome is really one of the approved browsers? Or is there really some fundamental difference that makes the players break in Chrome?
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posted by bluefly
on Jul 5, 2009 -
2 answers
How can I recharge my nearly-completely-drained car battery so that it will work long enough to drive it to get crushed? I'm hoping to avoid buying a brand new battery just to have it crushed.
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posted by brenton
on Jun 8, 2009 -
30 answers
Almost ten years ago, I saw a "mentalist" perform a trick on the spot after a show. I've never been able to figure out how he did it. Magic aficionados - how might one make a small object move without touching it?
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posted by theantikitty
on Dec 29, 2008 -
19 answers
What was the most memorable Halloween treat you ever received when going door to door as a kid? Looking for creative or unique things to give out during Halloween.
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posted by ShootTheMoon
on Oct 22, 2008 -
59 answers
When I was a kid (in the early 70s), this baffling "riddle" was all the rage in the schoolyard: A: "Guess what?" B: "What?" A: "THAT'S what!" I thought this was a quirky but of Southern Indiana nonsense, but my wife -- who hails from Alabama -- also remembers it from her youth. What does it mean? What's its origin?
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posted by grumblebee
on Sep 9, 2008 -
53 answers
I need a wittier command for the dog trick "lick your chops," and the only alternative I can think of is "wipe your nose." Obviously I need your help!
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posted by HotToddy
on Aug 23, 2008 -
16 answers
Help me find a video I saw a couple of months ago: It's a clip of a foreign tv show where the host asks a bunch of random people to write their names, and afterwards he gives them each a private envelope that describes the that individual's personality. Everyone says that their envelope is amazingly accurate. In the end, he asks each person to switch envelopes with one another, and they all see that the same thing is written in every envelope.
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posted by carpyful
on Jun 13, 2008 -
10 answers
You know the playground trick whereby four of you can "levitate" a fifth person using just your fingertips (you first hold your hands over his head and count to 20)? How does that work, then?
posted by bonaldi
on Nov 21, 2007 -
20 answers
What's it called when a bass guitarist goes all the way up, then down, then up the fret on one string?
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posted by ostranenie
on May 16, 2007 -
14 answers
how do I make myself take more pictures? I post daily to my blog using my digital camera, problem is I want to motivate myself to use my 35mm camera.
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posted by henryis
on Jan 15, 2007 -
29 answers
How did actor/magician Harry Anderson's
"Needle Through the Arm" magic trick work?
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posted by jca
on Jul 11, 2006 -
7 answers
Teach me a card trick. Inspired by a recent post on card tricks, I'd like to learn a simple but reasonably impressive trick with which to pester children at family gatherings etc.
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posted by bystander
on May 15, 2006 -
17 answers
How can my step-mom tell if a standard issue
Bicylce playing card is a face card or not by looking at only the back of the card?
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posted by TheAnswer
on Dec 11, 2005 -
37 answers
