The Match Bar Trick
This next clip is called the match bet. Here again we have another optical illusion trick where something is not always what it seems. I'm going to take 12 matches and make four squares. So you think I have four squares to be set up with how in the world am I going to make it into only three squares still using the same amount of matches. There are a lot of rules to this trick so listen close. You have four squares with 12 matches. Then you can only move three matchest to make three squares instead of four. You cannot bend the matches, you cannot break the matches and you cannot overlap the matches so stop trying that and you have to use all 12 in the final three boxes so stay tuned and we are going to show you how even though this is a tricky trick it is very simple and it can make peoples' jaws drop.
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The Match Bar Trick Solution
In this clip we are going to have Richy take a stab at it. So here I have the matches set up just like I explained to you earlier. Twelve matches setup into four boxes. Now I have have my friend Rich here who is a give a stab at trying to make these four boxes into three boxes. Have at it. Remember no breaking no bending no overlapping and all twelve matches have to be used in the final product. Alright let me get this straight I am moving three matches and trying to put them back in the this scenario somehow to make four boxes into three. Right. Why do I always get stuck with these? Alright I am going to give it a shot. You know I could be at this all day. I am just not a very good puzzle person so I am going to have to say i give up. How is it done? Well as you can see here there are three black matches which I color coded to help you see. All I have to do is move the three that are black. I am going to move it around to here and move that to there. So now you have one, two, three boxes instead of the four that we originally had. It's a very simple maneuver to go from four to three and you're going to baffle so many people who are going to try for hours to do what you did in just one minute.
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