The Assassin's Teapot Is Weird

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I don't know about you, but I see this as being able to use magic tricks at kids birthday parties. One kid wants juice, one wants water, use the same pot. Blow their little minds.

Here's a tip: While your enemy is distracted looking the cool demonstration of the teapot, you hit him with a bat.

I want one of these, just so I can ask my guests whether they want coffee or tea and serve both from the same pot. Seems like it would be a good party trick.

If you don't want to accidentally consume some of the poison, make sure the poison is poured in the bottom space of the teapot. I see that the the liquid from the top portion does mix a little at the tip with the bottom portion

Pro-tip for assassins: First pour yourself the non-poisoned drink. You don't want any poison residue left on the spout to get mixed in your drink.

I want an assassins tea pot literally for the sake of tea AND milk being in together and being all “oh, you want some milk with your tea? Sure” grabs same tea pot that tea poured from

Me: “…wait I forgot what hole the poison is” The person I’m trying to poison: what…? Wait a minute

It would be much better if you only had a small secret chamber and one murder hole to cover up. Needing to fill the teapot through the murderholes makes it super awkward to use, it would work much better if you just had a tiny container for the poison and just mixed it in to the bulkier liquid as required, with most of it just being a regular teapot with the detachable lid and everything. Plus, this way it doubles as an actual teapot you can just use whenever.

Me, the worst assassin: "Wait, which hole was for the drink without poison?"

"Don't worry about the poison, there is no poison." This is how I start all my tea parties.

This is especially interesting because one of my travel mugs doesn't allow me to actually drink my tea. The liquid gets stuck at the mouth of the lid because there's no tiny air hole on the lid (like my other travel mugs have). Unintentional & undesired magic trick 😆

this is the most intriguing exploration and demonstration of science i have ever seen on youtube besides the backyard scientist. you are an amazing speaker and at explaining things

Oh, riiiight. The teapot. The teapot for Kuzco, the teapot chosen especially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco's teapot. That teapot?

First Day As Assassin: "How did he die?" "He Blocked The Wrong Hole"

If this guy was my teacher back in the day, I would've learned a lot more. This guy is fascinating.

Here's a fun one. I have a pair of reusable water bottles that I used to use for drinking soda. However, when I first started using them for such, the soda keep going up the straws to squirt out the spouts. I found out that the lids had vents with rubber stoppers that acted like a one-way valve meant to allow air while keeping the liquid from spilling out. This was probably added to make the bottles spill-proof but it was causing the gases in my soda to be trapped and force the soda up the straws and out the spouts. I've since remove the rubber stoppers but I've also switched to using the bottles for water like they were meant to. I can image that if I had found a way to seal both the vents and the spouts with soda in them, the bottles would either explode or become pressurized like a normal soda bottle.

As a mathematician, cannot tell you how much I appreciate you acknowledging the null drink.

One of the times where “oops wrong hole” could literally kill someone

That phonecall at 0:50 was so bad it was good. Impressive. Quality video as always! 👌