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10 Clever Bets You’ll (Almost) Never Lose

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Quirkology’s Richard Wiseman is back with another roundup of devious little pub tricks.

As with previous installments in this series (see here, here, and here), some of these “bets” are liable to get you clobbered (looking at you, #10), but most of them are actually pretty clever. The jumping rubber band trick is a topological problem that leaves me scratching my head every time I see it, and Curry’s triangle paradox is a classic.

https://gizmodo.com/another-ten-bets-youll-almost-never-lose-1326636505

https://gizmodo.com/ten-more-bets-youll-almost-never-lose-5983386

https://gizmodo.com/ten-bets-youll-almost-never-lose-5959731

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