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Is there a way to prevent your sodas from spilling?


Last updated: around 2005
Level 2 update on Oct 27, 2008 (added sentence to bottom)

Type:              Trick
Reliability:       4.5 stars - Very high
Ease of learning:  4.5 stars - Very easy
Time saving:       3 stars - No effect
Usefulness:        5 stars - Extremely useful
Difficulty:        4.5 stars - Very easy
Overall:           4.5 stars - Excellent


Did you just buy a soda in a bottle, opened it and it leaked through the top? There is a way to prevent spilling so that mop of yours [or the store's] doesn't need to be taken out because of soda spills. Here's how:

  1. When you first buy a 20-ounce soda [any soda in a bottle, not as effective on cans], don't open it right away.
  2. When you want to take a drink, open the lid just enough that you can hear the pressurized gases escape but don't continue.
  3. If you see the bubbles rise up rapidly, quickly close the lid. This prevents the bubbles from rising up any more.
  4. Once the bubbles go back down, open it again and check. Continue this until the bubbles don't go up any more [which shouldn't be any more than 3 rounds of this].
  5. If the bubbles remain down, then open it completely and have your drink.


This trick works, even after you shake it a little [or a lot too!], just be careful and make sure your reaction time is quick enough though, because it can sometimes be quite sudden. To improve your chances more, if the rate of bubbles coming from the bottom accelerates very quickly, close it as it's likely to suddenly churn up. There is a 100% chance that this'll always work [unless you forget to apply this or have too slow of a reaction time or get distracted while doing it], so you don't have to worry about it failing.

Now that you have read the trick to it, you can put the mop away and never have to worry too much about any spills or messes [just be careful that you don't tip it over, otherwise out comes that trusty little mop again!].

Submitted by Bilbo on the 3DGS forums, "another way to stop bottles or cans fizzing up is to tap the on the top 4 or 5 times, works best with cans but also works with bottles and stops the drink from tasting flat from losing all its 'fizz'". Currently, this hasn't been tested by me.

Since January of 2004, I haven't had a single soda, not even a sip. Sodas are not good things to have. Sure I drink out of cans that look exactly like soda cans, it's a juice drink with just 8 calories (versus 130 or so) making it a much better choice than a soda.

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