> How does the foul-smelling substance prevent easily finding the prize cans? I don't get it. The fluid was used to artificially weight the can so people could

> How does the foul-smelling substance prevent easily finding the prize cans? I don't get it. The fluid was used to artificially weight the can so people couldn't easily detect. The foul smell was simply to prevent not-so-bright consumers from trying to drink the fluid. > Did that fluid actually touch the money? If not, why not make that fluid just also cola? The fluid was sealed in the can and segregated from the spring loaded payload (money or certificates). So, two chambers: one with fluid for weight decoy, and a second for the payload prize. As for why they didn't just use cola vice chlorinated water, it could have been a number of reasons (e.g. corossivity of cola on the sealed chamber material, cost at scale), but if I had to guess it was that the magican's we produced in a separate facility using separate tooling than the cola filled cans. I have no idea why I'm spending my time writing this, but I do appreciate the post as I vividly remember being enthralled with the prospect of money popping out of a coke can as a child and wanting to then rip-open the can to see how it worked. Though this never happened for me or any of my friends who were pretty avid coke drinkers back in the day :_(