The Pythagoras Cup — The World’s Oldest Prank Still Practiced Today

The Pythagoras cup spills your drink if you become too greedy

Peter Preskar
Short History
Published in
3 min readMar 25, 2022

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A modern-day version of the Pythagorean cup
A modern-day version of the Pythagoras cup (Image: Quora/@Ira Serge)

The Pythagoras cup, called also the Greedy cup and the Cup of justice, looks like a normal cup, but with one notable difference. If you fill it up too much, it will spill its content on you.

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