Chapter 22 22. Street coin guessing trick

Let me tell you about a very wicked thing that Tokuko and I did together.In the words of Dezi: We two are wicked with smoke. This matter also has to start with a gamble.This game is about guessing coins.Speaking of coin guessing, everyone may be familiar with it. Around 1997, there were many street scams of coin guessing. Coin-guessing street tricks generally work like this, a group of 3 to 5 people, one person is in charge of fiddling with coins to let everyone guess where the coins are, and two people are responsible for acting as child care passers-by to deposit money.Of course, what they bet on.Two other people looked out.They will choose to set up stalls in places with a lot of people, such as near the market, in front of the hospital and so on.First, spread a piece of red paper or kraft paper on the ground, and put two cylindrical objects (there are also three, we write two for the convenience of description, the reason is the same).These cylindrical things are the kind of plastic cups that are sawn off at both ends. I have also seen the kind made of rubber grippers, anyway, they are connected up and down.Use a paper shell to cut the lid just enough to cover the upper opening, then throw a coin on the paper, and cover the two cups with the lid (the bottom of the cup is sawed off and covered with a lid, and the lid can be opened at any time Check it), use very slow motion to cover the coin, and then ask you to guess which cover the coin is in.

You obviously saw the coin go into the cup on the left, but you bet the money and opened the lid, only to find that the coin magically appeared in the cup on the right.You must not accept it.Because the dealer's movements are too slow, too slow, so slow that you believe that your eyes are absolutely right.But if you bet again, you still lose.Why? In fact, this scam is very simple, you will not win any bet. Take red paper on the ground as an example.The crooks cut two pieces of red paper and glued them to the lower opening of the cylinder, completely covering the lower opening, thus forming a cup.A coin is placed in one of the cups with the number facing up.Cover the cup with a cardboard casing so you can't see the coins inside.Throw a coin onto the red paper on the ground, making sure that it also faces up.For the convenience of description, let's divide the left and right hand cups, and put the coin on the right cup.

First, cover the coin with the cup on the right, then remove the paper cover to show you that the coin is indeed covered.But the coin you see is not the one covered, but the coin already in the cup.Since the bottom is all red paper, you would think that the cup has no mouth.In this way, your eyes deceived yourself, thinking that the red paper at the bottom of the cup was the red paper on the ground, but it was not.Then toss the coin and put it in the left cup. He asks you to look at the cup and shows that the coin is in the left cup. Then he closes the lid and asks you to guess. Of course you guess that there is a coin in the left cup.

In fact, you guessed it right, the coin on the ground is indeed under the left cup, I mean the bottom.But the liar would not move the cup at this time. He opened the paper cover, and there was nothing inside. In fact, the coin was under the red paper at the bottom of the cup.All you see is the contents of the glass.Indeed nothing.The red paper on the bottom will make you think that the cup is indeed through.So you lose. Some people know that others become fast.You may think it is a magic trick, and you will say that there are no coins in the two cups.The liar will open the lid of the cup on the right at this time.You will see that the one dollar coin is indeed in the right cup.And this coin is the one you were shown just now.If he lifts the cup he'll reveal himself, but he's not such a foolish liar.

So whether you guess left or right, you lose.The trick is: open the lid to show you or lift the cup to show you. I've seen street scams from these guys at the hospital gates.A man from the country may be accompanying his family to see a doctor, and when he goes out to see a circle of people, he joins in.After watching for a while, he found that everyone was winning, so he also bet 100 yuan, because he felt that he was very accurate.But he didn't know that it was all the trustees who won the money.Of course, what awaits him is loss. But he refused to accept it, and continued to bet with money, and the nurses also booed and encouraged him to see which cup he was in.He loses wherever he bets, but he always refuses to accept it, and the more he bets, the bigger he bets.I understand his psychology, he just wanted to get back his capital and stopped playing, but he lost more than 18,000 yuan all the time.The liar saw that he had cheated the money, but he had no money to continue betting, so he left in a hurry.That money may have been money from his relatives for medical treatment.After the swindlers left, he squatted there with a sad expression and smoked, pulling his hair while smoking, unwilling to leave for a long time.

People say: Poor people must have something to hate.He is pitiful, but he is also hateful.Because he was cheated, there is also one word: greed.Where is there such a thing as a pie in the sky?If you don't have the fluke mentality of getting something for nothing, who would dare to grab his 18,000 yuan?All I can do is sigh for him - hope his family isn't suffering an emergency.