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Except for some clumsy matching issues with the balloons, I really enjoyed that. Thanks.
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Two thumbs up for that one! Bravo!
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A lot of work went into that.
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What do you do for a follow-up?
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They've already blown the fact that there are two sets of twins. I would have used this act for the finale, and used other illusions where the twins were used secretly for the earlier competitions.
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I have to agree with Mr. Kaufman on this one.
They took what was perhaps their greatest tool and element of surprise and used it in the first round.
That being said, I do look forward to their next performance.
They took what was perhaps their greatest tool and element of surprise and used it in the first round.
That being said, I do look forward to their next performance.
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They are experienced contestants in the "got talent" world, they know what they are doing and have follow-up acts.
Hiding the fact they are twins and revealing it later is a reductions idea as that final reveal would undo all the magic they had created previously and leave an audience bitter and disheartened.
Hiding the fact they are twins and revealing it later is a reductions idea as that final reveal would undo all the magic they had created previously and leave an audience bitter and disheartened.
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Steve Bryant wrote:What do you do for a follow-up?
Triplets?
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All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.
There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?
There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?
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performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.
There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?
Martin Gardner posed this same question (more or less) in his column in Scientific American in Apr, 1963, and reprinted it in The Unexpected Hanging.
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The act was entertaining.
Quintuplets with early transgender issues handled and one who runs the lighting?
Quintuplets with early transgender issues handled and one who runs the lighting?
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Bill Mullins wrote:performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.
There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?
Martin Gardner posed this same question (more or less) in his column in Scientific American in Apr, 1963, and reprinted it in The Unexpected Hanging.
It must be even older than that. I first read it when I was a kid at school. And that was way before 1963.
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performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.
There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?
Were they half-brothers?
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performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.
There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?
Is it because they were brothers to someone other than each other?
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Tom Moore wrote:... that final reveal would undo all the magic they had created previously and leave an audience bitter and disheartened.
There was a contestant with a cat act - and much fuss after when there turned out to be more than one cat in the named role.
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Jonathan Townsend wrote:Tom Moore wrote:... that final reveal would undo all the magic they had created previously and leave an audience bitter and disheartened.
There was a contestant with a cat act - and much fuss after when there turned out to be more than one cat in the named role.
Whoops - that was a dog. Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebri ... trope.html
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performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.
There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?
Were they dogs who joined the K9 corps?
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performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.
There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?
Simple. A married female gay couple, both pregnant with the same donator.
...or, did they maybe also have one brother who was pacifist?
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They were Marianists, like Brother John Hamman.
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erdnasephile wrote:performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.
There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?
Were they half-brothers?
Nope
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I.M. Magician wrote:performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.
There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?
Is it because they were brothers to someone other than each other?
Nope
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MagicbyAlfred wrote:performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.
There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?
Were they dogs who joined the K9 corps?
Nope
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Tom Stone wrote:performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.
There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?
Simple. A married female gay couple, both pregnant with the same donator.
...or, did they maybe also have one brother who was pacifist?
Dearie me! Certainly not!
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Brad Jeffers wrote:They were Marianists, like Brother John Hamman.
Nope.
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Uhh.. I think the answer was already given by a certain landmark.
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performer wrote:Tom Stone wrote:performer wrote:All this reminds me of an off topic question I had a lot of fun with when I was young. Call it a puzzle if you like.
There were two brothers who joined the army. They were both born on the same day on the same month and the same year within a very short time of each other. Minutes in fact. They had the same birthday and looked very similar to each other. But yet they were not twins. Can you explain why?
Simple. A married female gay couple, both pregnant with the same donator.
...or, did they maybe also have one brother who was pacifist?
Dearie me! Certainly not!
Well, both answers fully answer the puzzle as given. But neither gay parents nor triplets are accepted as viable solutions.
So it is not a puzzle to be solved with logic, but more like a guessing game akin to "I think of a number between one and a million, guess which one"?
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Jonathan Townsend wrote:...
Quintuplets with early transgender issues handled and one who runs the lighting?
@Tom, we've names for a few more including octuplets, or less including triplets.
Sextuplets taking turns doing the act?
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One or both were adopted?
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Jack Shalom wrote:Uhh.. I think the answer was already given by a certain landmark.
That is perhaps what made me think of it. However, I was hoping people wouldn't notice. And they haven't. And didn't. May I remind you of the old adage "silence is golden". I rather think you should emulate Mr Mullins in this matter who knows the secret but ain't telling.
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I.M. Magician wrote:One or both were adopted?
Nope. I should have mentioned that they had the same mother and same father. I knew I missed something out.
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Tom Stone wrote:performer wrote:Tom Stone wrote:Simple. A married female gay couple, both pregnant with the same donator.
...or, did they maybe also have one brother who was pacifist?
Dearie me! Certainly not!
Well, both answers fully answer the puzzle as given. But neither gay parents nor triplets are accepted as viable solutions.
So it is not a puzzle to be solved with logic, but more like a guessing game akin to "I think of a number between one and a million, guess which one"?
Nope on two counts. You have made two incorrect statements. It seems that Swedes are not as clever as I first thought.
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It would seem that if the two brothers belonged to a set of triplets, that would be at least a correct (if not the correct) solution to the puzzle.
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MagicbyAlfred wrote:It would seem that if the two brothers belonged to a set of triplets, that would be at least a correct (if not the correct) solution to the puzzle.
Correct!
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Tom Stone wrote:Well, both answers fully answer the puzzle as given. But neither gay parents nor triplets are accepted as viable solutions.
So it is not a puzzle to be solved with logic, but more like a guessing game akin to "I think of a number between one and a million, guess which one"?
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I must say that I am really a master of getting things off topic.
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BillMorrison wrote:Tom Stone wrote:Well, both answers fully answer the puzzle as given. But neither gay parents nor triplets are accepted as viable solutions.
So it is not a puzzle to be solved with logic, but more like a guessing game akin to "I think of a number between one and a million, guess which one"?
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performer wrote:I should have mentioned that they had the same mother and same father. I knew I missed something out.
That's a bit wonky, Sir! Half-brothers is a viable answer under the initially proposed puzzle as well.
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Jack Shalom wrote:Uhh.. I think the answer was already given by a certain landmark.
multiple births -
how many do you know about (for sure...) ?
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Good point. Running out of "A" material before the finale afflicts many of the magicians on these contest shows.
On a somewhat related note: although I really enjoy watching some of the great performances on television, I can't help but wonder if the increased magic presence of late is an overall positive for the layperson's perception of magic.
That is, it seems that the abundance of shows has allowed more mediocre performances than ever to be broadcast. Do these subpar acts just serve to confirm the bias on the part of the public that magicians are all the same "Meh" bunch? Or does the current abundance work for good, in that the public will begin to realize that like other artists, magicians vary widely in quality. Would the public then begin to not take every poor in-person magician as representative of the whole? Then again, can bad magic ever be for "good"?