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6 Bets You Can Always Win Thanks to Science Lift your foot. The Bet: Bet your friend that he or she can't stand with her her left shoulder, side and foot against a wall and lift his or her right foot without moving away from the wall. ... Draw a perfect circle. ... Coin Balancing.

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Challenge your friends!

If you don't have the brawns for arm wrestling, outwit your friends with your brain...and science! Use these six bets and challenges to prove yourself, and maybe even earn a little money. The bets are things that look simple to do, but are impossible, and the challenges are tasks that look hard, but have a simple trick to them.

1. Lift your foot

The Bet: Bet your friend that he or she can’t stand with her her left shoulder, side and foot against a wall and lift his or her right foot without moving away from the wall. The Science: When you lift your leg, your body has to lean slightly the other way to keep you balanced. Since the wall is in the way, your friend won’t be able to do it without falling over.

2. Draw a perfect circle

The Challenge: See who can draw the most perfect circle without using anything other than a pen and piece of paper. The Trick: Place the knuckle of your pinky finger where you want the center of the circle to be and lightly touch the pen to the paper. Then, keeping your knuckle and pen where they are, slowly turn the piece of paper.

3. Coin Balancing

The Challenge: Place a playing card over one side of the rim of a glass of water and challenge your friend to balance a coin on the outer side of it. The card will always fall off under the weight of the coin. The Trick: Fill the glass up to the very top with water first. The surface tension will be enough to keep the card flat as you balance a single coin on the other side.

SEE ALSO: How to Cut a Möbius Strip Through Your Bagel

4. Superglued Fingers

The Bet: Have your friends place their two palms together and then bend their middle fingers inwards. Bet them that they won’t be able to “unstick” their ring fingers. The Science: The tendons in your ring and middle fingers are connected, which means that you can’t move your ring finger if your middle one is folded down. You can also do the same trick by placing one hand, palm-down, on a table with the middle finger bent under. You won’t be able to move your ring finger.

5. Double Straws

The Bet: Bet your friend that he or she won’t be able to drink out of a glass using two straws, one that ends inside the glass and one that ends outside it. Blocking a straw with your tongue is considered cheating. The Science: Normally when you drink through a straw, your mouth becomes like a vacuum pump—if the air pressure in your mouth is lower than the air pressure in the atmosphere, the air will push down on the drink and push it up the straw. However, since your friend also has a straw leading outside the drink, it makes it impossible to form a vacuum.

6. Paper Blowing

The Bet: Place a small ball of paper in front of a bottle lying down on a table. Bet your friend that he or she won’t be able to blow the ball into the mouth of the bottle. The Science: When you blow towards the bottle, you increase the air pressure inside it, which leads to air flowing out. This air pushes the ball of paper away from the opening.

Hat Tip: Quirkology and V. Cobb and K. Darling

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The short answer – a lot. A $2 exacta with second-place finisher Epicenter paid $4,101.20.

sports.yahoo.com - Payouts for 2022 Kentucky Derby following stunning win by Rich Strike

Rich Strike did the improbable, coming in as a late replacement for Ethereal Road and racing out to a first-place finish Saturday in the 148th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Trained by Eric Reed and owned by Richard Dawson, Rich Strike overcame 80-1 odds to take the top spot in the Run for the Roses. So, how much did he win his bettors? The short answer – a lot. A $2 exacta with second-place finisher Epicenter paid $4,101.20. A $1 trifecta paid $14,870.70, and the $1 superfecta paid a cool $321,500.10.

Here's a full listing of payouts:

Rich Strike

(Based on a $2 bet)

Win: $163.60

Place: $74.20

Show: $29.40

Epicenter

(Based on a $2 bet)

Win: N/A

Place: $7.40

Show: $5.20

Zandon

(Based on a $2 bet)

Win: N/A

Place: N/A

Show: $5.60

Jockey Sonny Leon clasps his hands and looks skyward after Rich Strike won the 148th Kentucky Derby. More: Rich Strike's stunning Kentucky Derby win is the ultimate palate cleanser for a troubled sport | Opinion

Payouts on the finishing combos

Exacta: 21-3, $4,101.20 (Based on a $2 bet)

Trifecta: 21-3-10, $14,870.70 (Based on a $1 bet)

Superfecta: 21-3-10-13, $321,500.10 (Based on a $1 bet)

Top 5 Kentucky Derby winners payouts

Winner: $1,860,000

2nd: $600,000

3rd: $300,000

4th: $150,000

5th: $90,000

Here are the rest of today's payouts based on wager type:

$0.50 Trifecta (21-3-10) $7,435.35

$0.50 Pick 3 (3-10-21) $1,612.20

$0.50 Pick 4 (9/3,8/10/13) $25,834.75

$0.50 Pick 5 (5-9-3, 8-10-21) $247,215.65

$1.00 Double (10-21) $1,364.90

$1.00 Super High Five (21-3-10-13-1) $741.018.90

$0.20 Pick 6 Jackpot (5, 7-5-9-3, 8-10-21) $161,630.86

This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: 2022 Kentucky Derby payouts: Rich Strike wins at Churchill Downs

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