Works best with champagne corks but wine corks work as well.

Place each cork into the area between your forfinger and thumb (if your palms are facing down the corks should be verticle with the fat mushroom side up.)

The puzzle is to grab the corks with the thumb and forfinger of the opposite hand (both at the same time) and remove them without interlinking them. Once you know how it is done...it pays to demonstrate that they link like a chain link and that is the wrong way.

The solution is to twist your hands so the thumbs both touch the bottom of the cork at the same time. Wrap your forfinger around to the top and the corks pull away.

The best thing about this trick is you can still do it while your drunk. In fact that is the best time to bring it out as it drives the puzzlers crazy that a drunk guy can do it.

Greg Aubin