A few years ago, I was a regular at Sunday brunch at a bar called The Blue Monkey about a mile from the Mid-South Alcoholic Supply World HQ.  I liked their $12 bottles of champagne, with orange juice set-ups for make-your-own mimosas.  One day I was sitting up there, drinking mimosas and watching whatever football game was on at the time.  It was a slow day and the bartender came over, and laid 9 cups in front of me, in 3 rows of 3.

“Do you have a penny?” she asked.  I did.

“I bet I can read your mind,” she told me.  “I’m going to turn my back, and I want you to hide the penny under one of the cups.  Tell me when I can turn around, and I bet I can guess which cup has the penny.”  So she turned her back and I hid the penny.  She turned around, thought for a second, and guessed the correct cup.

“Okay, she got lucky,” I commented to the guy sitting next to me drinking a beer.  “Let’s do it again.”  She turned her back a second time, and I hid the penny.  “No way she’ll get it twice in a row,” I told the guy on the next bar stool as he took a sip and set his glass down.  “The chances of that are 1 in 81.”  But she got it again.

I looked at the bar behind her.  She wasn’t in front of the mirror, so she couldn’t see what I was doing.  I made her move a couple of liquor bottles that I thought were casting a reflection.  But she got it again.  And again.  She even put on a blindfold and got it yet again.

How did she keep guessing where the penny was?  Answer tomorrow.  In the meantime, why not browse our collection of cocktail napkins?

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