January is National Brain Teaser Month: The Ping Pong Ball Trick

January is National Brain Teaser Month and I love brain teasers!  Here’s what we are going to.  I’ll post a different brain teaser 3 times a week, if you think you know the answer, leave it in the comments.  I’d love to see how smart my readers are!

The answer to the previous brain teaser was the man in the poster was his son.  Did you get it?

Here’s today’s Brain Teaser

To entertain their customers, Walmart hires a famous magician who claims to be able to throw a ping-pong ball so that it would go a short distance, come to a complete stop, and then reverse itself. He also added that he would not bounce the ball off any object, or tie anything to it. How could he perform this trick?

Here’s the answer