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I saw this one on the listserve, I think, several years ago.  I haven't tried it yet but always thought it would be good for an adult audience.  

Challenge each table to get water into a small glass from a saucer using only 4 quarters and a pack of matches (you can't move the saucer).  Let each table brainstorm and try their ideas. 

It is important that water in the saucer should be low enough that the top of the 4 stacked quarters would out of the water.  

A solution - If you lay some matches across the top quarter and light them and invert the glass (if I recall this was done in a bar with a shotglass) so that it covers the quarters, you will end up drawing the water into the glass.  


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Hello, all:

Every year during our gala we have a science moment, a five minute (ten tops) activity that 500 moderately inebriated and distracted people can undertake at their table with minimal instruction from the person standing at the podium.  That person would be...me.

We have done fine with this for the past several years, but as part of my research I am looking to the ASTC hive mind for ideas.  I know, I should have a whole repertoire of these things in my back pocket, but I am no Eddie Goldstein or Steve Spangler.  So I am cheating by asking my friends and colleagues...

Anything cool you have seen or done in similar settings?

See some of you at ASTC!

Best

Eric
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