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The Wizard's Brain Teaser

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In the old South when people claimed they could own other people, there lived a slave named John, who could outsmart anybody for miles around. He was always making bets, and he never made a bet he didn't win. This only made people more eager to bet with him. Everyone, including Colonel Blake, wanted to say that he'd been the first to outsmart John. "I'll bet you" John said to him one day, "That I can stand at one end of your parlor and throw a raw egg all the way across the room and onto the fireplace mantel without breaking the egg. I'll bet you fifty dollars, all the money I have." The colonel quickly agreed to the bet. He was certain nobody could throw a raw egg without having it break. "I'll even give you a dozen tries," he told John. The first egg John threw smashed on the edge of the mantel. The second hit the candlestick sitting on top. The third egg smashed and smeared the painting above the mantel,but the colonel just laughed. He was happy cause he was going to be able to say he was the first to be able to outsmart John on a bet. John threw all twelve eggs, but not one landed without breaking. "Looks as if I won the bet," said Colonel Blake with a bragging smile. "Yes," said John. "Sure looks that way." He paid him the fifty dollars, but when John went to bed that night, he still had fifty dollars from winning the bet. Where did it come from?

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