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Five plain bricks pulled a crowd of five hundred.
And the man carrying them never said a word.
In old New York, a man asked showman P.T. Barnum for money.
Barnum gave him a job. And five bricks.
Put four on corners. Walk between them, swapping the fifth. Answer nobody.
Half an hour later? Five hundred people were staring.
Then the clever part. Every hour, he walked into Barnum's museum.
A dozen people bought tickets, just to follow him.
Their tickets paid his wages, and more. Then police complained: too crowded!
Barnum's lesson: people can't pass a mystery. They pay to solve it.
Five bricks did it for Barnum. Your move? A jar.
This week: cover one jar, write "Guess what's inside," count who asks.
Source: Struggles and Triumphs, by P. T. Barnum (1869).