Resolving the Conundrum of the Mermin Device

In 1981, Mermin published a now famous paper titled, "Bringing home the atomic world: Quantum mysteries for anybody." Therein, he presented the 'Mermin device' that illustrates the conundrum of entanglement per the spin singlet state for the "general reader." He then challenged the "physicist reader" to explain the way the device works "in terms meaningful to a general reader struggling with the dilemma raised by the device." In this paper, I show how the conservation of angular momentum on average answers that challenge, but still leaves a mystery for those who seek hidden variables or 'causal influences' behind this otherwise straightforward conservation principle.