1. SMOKE ON THE WATER

Ingredients: 1 glass, a matchbook, six quarters, and an ashtray with water.

Objective: Get a free drink.

Situation: Bet your friends one drink that you can get the water out of the ashtray using only the ingredients mentioned and without moving or tilting the ashtray.

Solution: Make sure ashtray is filled with at most a quarter inch of water. Stack the quarters in the center of the ashtray so the top two quarters are above the water. Place four unlit matches on top of the quarters. Light the matches and immediately cover the flame and quarters with the glass. The water will be drawn into the glass. Collect your bets.

2. THE WISH IN A BOTTLE

Ingredients: 1 newly emptied bottle of Grand Marnier, a matchbook, a cork, a straw, and a sword cocktail pick.

Objective: To play with fire while making a wish.

Situation: Get your friends to make a wish. Tell them if the sword sticks in the ceiling then their wish will come true.

Solution: Take a newly emptied Grand Marnier bottle and put a cork in it. Place the bottle under hot water for about 10 minutes. While the bottle is heating, take a straw and bend it in half. Take you sword pick and stick it through the fold in the straw. The straw should be folded back over the handle of the sword pick.

When the bottle is ready. Carefully remove the cork so the heated gas in the bottle does not escape. Quickly put the straw and the sword in the bottle with the tip of the sword pick pointing out the opening of the bottle. Make a wish and drop a match in the bottle.

Warning: There will be a large flame and the straw and the sword pick will be forced out the bottle. KEEP your face and others away from the opening. If the straw sticks in the ceiling then your wish comes true. If the straw does not stick, tell someone to buy you a drink for your troubles. If you do not get a flame, you have to buy everyone else drinks.

3. BLOW THE BOTTLE

Ingredients: 1 empty beer bottle, and a small piece of napkin.

Objective: Get a free drink.

Situation: Hold an empty beer bottle horizontally. (Make sure inside of neck is dry.) Tear off a small piece of napkin, wad it up into a small ball. Place the napkin wad just inside the lip of the bottle. Hold the bottle in front of someone’s face, and bet them a drink that they can not blow the napkin into the bottle.

Solution: Bernoulli principle states that moving air has lower pressure than still air. Therefore, when your friend blows, the still air in the bottle will push the napkin out of the bottle, right back at the face of the blower.

Note: The harder they blow, the faster the napkin will come out. If you get a really gullible person, you can have them try again for a chance at another drink.
You should be able to milk them for at least 3 or 4.