The Assassin's Teapot Is Weird

The Assassin's Teapot belongs to a family of similar trick vessels (Think A Drink, Any Drink Called For, Inexhaustible Bottle, The Magic Kettle). They all rely on surface tension and atmospheric pressure to work.

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[SteveMould]

There's nothing like curling up with a hot mug of null and scrolling through YouTube.

[namenamington]

"Don't worry about the poison, there is no poison."

This is how I start all my tea parties.

[emmanuelcamilorojasrodrigu]

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

[FreeBroccoli]

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.

[endorwitch]

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

[harshmeena]

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

[Lucienchol]

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

[Canine-playground]

Me: “…wait I forgot what hole the poison is”

The person I’m trying to poison: what…? Wait a minute

[Thundawich]

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.

[Dth]

Optimist: "The glass is half full".
Pessimist: "The glass is half empty."
Steve: "The glass contains 50% water and 50% N U L L D R I N K"

[Rae.Harper]

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*

[rynoX]

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

[LordMayorOfDairyBell]

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.

[dakotas]

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

[SpaghettiMaker]

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.

[bradleykee]

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

[helloemilymills]

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 😆

[sawyerstern]

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

[daianad]

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

[DigitalAndInnovation]

4:40 THANK YOU- I remember in middle school the science teacher talking about cold air pushing the warm air up- then one day the head of the science department was subbing and a student said "hot air doesn't rise- it is pushed up" and the 'sub' goes "sure- but does the hot air not rise." Same thing with people getting hung up on cold objects "transferring cold" in the conduction sense- fine but it is a relative term- but when talking about convection it is back to the same deal with the "rising" air.