Scam School Season 1, Episode 28: Mind Control Scam

The Human Chimney

From nowhere, you produce billows of smoke out of your mouth...it's like you've manufactured smoke in your lungs!

The Puzzle

Effect: a hard-as-balls puzzle, that will drive everyone nuts and win you some free booze!

Bang Your Head

Effect: Your friend beats his head on the bar repeatedly, to everyone's delight.

The Mirror

For this effect we've dressed up a straight-up old school bar scam. Here's the simple presentation for the classic "you do as I do" effect: Bet a friend he can't copy everything you do.

How to Stick Your Friends to the Bar

This clever trick uses a pint of beer and two willing thumbs to handcuff your friend (or enemy) to the bar, while you take his keys, wallet, girlfriend and more.

The Lift

Effect: Defying all laws of leverage, you summon a ridiculous amount of strength.

The Race

Effect: Bet your friend that you can drink 2 pints of beer before he can drink two shots of his favorite liquor.

Nim

Effect: Play a game with your friend that you can always win.

6 min

The Jack-O-Lantern

Placing a lit match inside your mouth, you do a very convincing impression of a grinning jack-o-lantern...all without burning yourself.

6 min

Circumference vs. Height

This episode tests your visual perception. Which is more? The circumference of the rim of a pint glass, or the height of the pint glass from the bottom to the top?

5 min

Static Charge Match

Effect: Despite being an insulator, Brian is able to charge a match with static electricity which then causes another match to jump into the air.

7 min

Straw Teepee Puzzle

Effect: Amaze fellow bar patrons by picking up two straws using only one other straw.

5 min

Cigarette Out On Tongue

This one's like a playground dare gone too far...

6 min

Special Edition: Brian's Bizarre New York Magic Show (1)

Brian opened for the live Diggnation show in New York, and we have it here for those who missed it!

12 min

Special Edition: Brian's Bizarre New York Magic Show (2)

This is the second and final half of Brian's opening act for Diggnation in NY.

15 min

Scam Hot Chicks at the Bar

A guaranteed, never fail way to get the hottest girls at the bar to talk with you for at least 20 minutes.

9 min

Code Drink

Effect: Surprise your friends by telling them you have X-ray vision

8 min

BUSTED! 6 Matches and 4 Triangles puzzle

Watch the Master finally get beat at his own game!

7 min

The Amazing Whiskey/Water Trick

Apply high school physics to amaze your friends and win free drinks.

8 min

Quicksilver Matches

It's Magic 101. Can you mimic the master?

8 min

Clever Match Trick Scores Free Drinks

All you need is a match, two pint glasses and a quarter, and you'll be drinking free all night!

8 min

Fast and Loose

This game goes by a bunch of names: "fast and loose," "pricking the garter," "the endless chain," "the strap..." The object is simple: a chain is laid in a figure-eight configuration. One of the holes is the true center of the chain and will hold "fast," while the other will not hold, and is instead "loose".

9 min

The Ash

Effect: Let an entire cigarette burn without the ash falling.

10 min

From the Forums

This week Brian steps out of the bar, and into the Revision3 studios to deliver an episode straight from the Forums!

7 min

The Key Card

Effect: This card trick is quite possible responsible for more free beers than any other in history. It's not just a magic trick, it's a cleverly-laid trap guaranteed to win you a frosty cold one.

8 min

The Equation

A stumper of a puzzle‚ using only 4th grade math.

8 min

Cheesy Beer Gags

As you know by now, we here at Scam School pride ourselves on giving you only the very best bar scams. Today we break our streak, and instead present you with four stupid beer gags.

8 min

Dan Martin's Match Trick

A new take on an old-time match trick

9 min

Controlled Cards

We've taught you how to scam, swindle, and steal... but we have yet to give you any actual talent. That all changes in this episode. We're going to teach you not only how to control a card to the bottom of the deck, but how to use that talent for a sweet little card trick.

10 min

How to Predict the Future!

What's better than a card trick? Predicting the FREAKING FUTURE, which is exactly what you'll do in this scam. We call it Pigment Prediction.

10 min

The 11 cent slide to TWICE as many free drinks!

If you liked the four-quarter puzzle from Episode 2 (appropriately named, "The Puzzle"), you're going to LOVE the 11-Cent Slide. It's every bit as diabolical and unsolvable as the 4-quarter puzzle, but it has an added twist that should net you TWICE the beers of any other puzzle.

10 min

From the Forums - Part 2!

This week Brian is back in the Revision 3 studios another "From the Forums episode"!

8 min

It's In the Bank

This week we've got another puzzle with a setup that sounds absolutely impossible.

7 min

Stick It To 'Em with The Funnel

We present the atomic bomb of sucker gags: The Funnel!

6 min

Are You Dead or Alive?

As a conversation starter, Brian shows you how to use two toothpicks to detect a pulse.

7 min

You're Always a Winner with Advance Nim

Memorize a few configs and you'll hold the key to another unbeatable game and loads of free drinks!

12 min

A Few Pennies for a Beer!

No matter what the setup, the very best scams are the ones that let the mark think they're on top, only to get punked in the end. That's what makes the penny prediction so great!

10 min

How to Stick a Nail Up Your Nose

Remember Brian sticking a 4-inch nail up his nose? This time he shows you how it works!

12 min

Money, a Short Con and Crime = Short Change

This episode, we're turning to the dark side and learning actual CRIME. Remember, the following is for INFORMATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY!

6 min

Scam Hot Ladies at the Bar (Part 2)!

A while back, we taught you the importance of using easy, beatable puzzles to keep girls talking to you at the bar. Our Holiday gift to you is another set of "getting the girl" routines!

11 min