The Bottle & Lighter Bar Trick Solution

Video Transcript

"In this clip I am going to show you the execution of the bottle and lighter trick. So here I am at the bar. I have my bottle and I have my lighter. I'm just going to set this up for you so you can see exactly what I mean. Place the lighter on the bar. Flip the bottle upside down and balance it so it stays just like that. You're going to try to challenge people at the bar by saying "I can remove this lighter without touching the bottle or making the bottle break." That is going to be kind of hard to believe for some people and if they want to try it on their own, more likely than not, they are going to try to be very slow about removing it. But when you do that, if you want to move it really slow, there goes the bottle. It doesn't work that way. So, I'm going to give my friend Rich here a try, setting it up. Rich: You know, just seeing that, I don't even believe it. So you're going to this lighter out without touching the bottle and the bottle is going to stand on the bar? Kristina: Correct Rich: Let's do it. Kristina: Give it a try. Rich: I betcha. So here's how you do the trick. You have it set up this way. You're going to take your fingers and start from the tip of the lighter and measure out so your fingers are pointed in. Make sure they are pointed in because they need to hit the lighter. You can't swing past the lighter. Have your thumbs down here. And the trick is to go very quickly. Don't go slow. Like I showed your earlier, if you go slow, you're sure to meet with failure. So here we go. And that's how it's done."