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DIAMOND JIM TYLER
DIE HARD
BET: Wager that someone cannot balance a pair of dice,
side by side, atop a single die.
Someone can actually watch you do this and witness
the pair of dice atop the single die, but yet if they try it,
one or both dice will typically fall off.
SECRET: Secretly moisten your fingertip with water or
saliva and stick the dice together. For the best results I
have found it is best to wet the 2, 4 or 6 side of a die because each of these numbers has no middle spot or pip.
Once I’ve secretly moistened the 2, 4 or 6 side of the
die I’ll place it next to the 2, 4 or 6 side of another die
temporarily bonding them together. Now it is a simple
matter to balance them both atop the single die.
roll a pair of dice one million times that each number
will come up 16.666 percent of the time? Also when
playing craps that the number seven, thought to be
lucky, also comes up 16.666 percent of the time. The
“Number of the Beast” carries on into infinity in both
cases just like the Roman emperor Claudius’ descent
into Hades for being a gambler who was cursed to
shake a bottomless dice cup for eternity. Now if you
round off the number after the decimal point it is 667
which is actually “The Neighbor of the Beast”.
What’s clever is that one can disassemble your example
and not be able to reconstruct it; that is if you used a
small amount of moisture. As soon as they pull the dice
apart the moisture evaporates.
Cards are sometimes called the Devil’s playthings but
dice are said to be just as evil. Did you know that if you
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