The Hardest Easy Game

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  • Опубликовано: 4 янв 2025

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  • @Vsauce2
    @Vsauce2  5 лет назад +5020

    Just some clarification about only having 3 possible moves in the A, B, and C scenario -- yes, there’s also a fourth move (the L down the left side from the top corner), but it just mirrors the situation we have in A and B. By simply reflecting the L vertically, we open ourselves up to another immediate loss as orange places a horizontal L on the second row and kills our chance to make another move.
    Also, in move B, de Bono assumed that we would notice that Player 1 also moved the neutral piece from the top toward the bottom (since it can go in any of the open spots), which opens up a spot for Player 2 to go down the right half of the board. The neutral piece can’t be moved by orange *before* the L is moved, so that neutral piece had to have been moved by pink after Player 1 moved their L.
    Thanks for diving deep into these details -- and showing what strategic thinking is all about.
    P.S. -- Whether or not I put my pants back on for the rest of the video is up to you to decide.

    • @ketsu1503
      @ketsu1503 5 лет назад +68

      he didn't have his pants on i guess

    • @reverse5461
      @reverse5461 5 лет назад +48

      The breeze is gonna hit you in the nuts if you don't put that antibacterial silver tx2 fabric pants back on

    • @lukeahandsa
      @lukeahandsa 5 лет назад +22

      take the L

    • @kyden1329
      @kyden1329 5 лет назад +28

      but according to the rules, or what i understood, is that you could move the coin after you moved the L piece. And the coins seems like half the game. In your 'possible moves' you didn't move the coin at all, which would balance your enemie's possibilities..

    • @JSephH76
      @JSephH76 5 лет назад +11

      @@kyden1329 Yeah you can open up a whole ton of possibilities further than those he listed. I don't know if I'm just misunderstanding something or if he really did miss some options. For instance if you flipped your piece into the unlisted 4th possible move and then moved the lower neutral coin into any position on the board then you can extend the game out at least one more move. I don't know why he left out the options that would extend the game. I also don't get why in situation B pink would intentionally move the neutral piece into a position that would cause him to lose the game and at the same time not show positions in A that would have pink move the neutral piece into an advantageous position. There is just a whole bunch wrong with those scenarios

  • @jerry3790
    @jerry3790 5 лет назад +8136

    So he did most of the video not wearing any pants?

    • @demerion
      @demerion 5 лет назад +421

      How can you heart this comment and not reply?! :P

    • @goomy9966
      @goomy9966 5 лет назад +212

      Tell us kevin TELL US

    • @mrorion4794
      @mrorion4794 5 лет назад +37

      He just showed some pants while talking about the sponsor

    • @lpsfoxstar8454
      @lpsfoxstar8454 5 лет назад +19

      @@demerion fair enough. there, i did it XD

    • @ZenoDLC
      @ZenoDLC 5 лет назад +13

      Does he need to?

  • @racool911
    @racool911 5 лет назад +9229

    This just seems like a simpler version of chess and a more complicated version of tic tac toe

    • @zythex4385
      @zythex4385 5 лет назад +422

      I think it's more like both + tetris

    • @tcg1_qc
      @tcg1_qc 5 лет назад +535

      @@zythex4385 You guys have the exact same profile picture but with a different letter

    • @zythex4385
      @zythex4385 5 лет назад +136

      @@tcg1_qc shh

    • @zythex4385
      @zythex4385 5 лет назад +73

      @@ream1622 no, why would you do that?

    • @TheCrash480
      @TheCrash480 5 лет назад +102

      @@zythex4385 Because swapping accounts to reply to your own comment is laaaame.

  • @__M.K.
    @__M.K. 3 года назад +1978

    This actually seems like a fun game
    Now I just need friends to play it with

    • @ElectroTiger
      @ElectroTiger 3 года назад +17

      Same

    • @bpdoijfd
      @bpdoijfd 3 года назад +8

      Me three

    • @milkylights2
      @milkylights2 3 года назад +6

      damnit

    • @msiio
      @msiio 3 года назад +24

      That's....... The hardest part

    • @_fnt_8628
      @_fnt_8628 3 года назад +5

      No strategic principles works with that one

  • @ketsu1503
    @ketsu1503 5 лет назад +2234

    "the hardest easy game"
    My brain: aight imma head out....

    • @danielabay8872
      @danielabay8872 5 лет назад +10

      grammar is out of here too

    • @latoon4194
      @latoon4194 5 лет назад +3

      ketsu ] Easiest*

    • @ketsu1503
      @ketsu1503 5 лет назад +3

      @@danielabay8872 lol sry

    • @ketsu1503
      @ketsu1503 5 лет назад +1

      @@ZeroSleap well then... I guess its back

    • @ZeroSleap
      @ZeroSleap 5 лет назад +1

      Actually...it's the Hardest easy game there's a difference...

  • @andreabarone4964
    @andreabarone4964 5 лет назад +1650

    1:50 my calculator when I try to divide by 0

    • @mysterymeat4197
      @mysterymeat4197 4 года назад +21

      Hahaahhahahahahahahahzaha

    • @LeventK
      @LeventK 4 года назад +7

      ROFL

    • @Havron
      @Havron 4 года назад +4

      7 0 7

    • @andreabarone4964
      @andreabarone4964 4 года назад +1

      @Z-Games Pro i liked it

    • @LeventK
      @LeventK 4 года назад +1

      @@andreabarone4964 hey dude you ruined it

  • @leonelpowers5979
    @leonelpowers5979 3 года назад +91

    Beating the AI in this game was a lot more cathartic than what I thought and had a lot more of me flipping the bird at the thing that I would had imagine.

  • @zanr6943
    @zanr6943 5 лет назад +1431

    "Avoid L's and manifest W"
    But of course, no Luigi more Waluigi

  • @shepherd3718
    @shepherd3718 4 года назад +7168

    I can't stop thinking about why his left side is red and his right blue

    • @user-mw8hu5be7n
      @user-mw8hu5be7n 4 года назад +320

      THREE FRICKIN D

    • @Nova38797
      @Nova38797 4 года назад +419

      Todoroki

    • @user-mw8hu5be7n
      @user-mw8hu5be7n 4 года назад +238

      5upernova ah yes I see you are a (preferred pronoun) of culture as well

    • @rycedj3319
      @rycedj3319 4 года назад +76

      Maybe to give us a seizure

    • @GSFigure
      @GSFigure 4 года назад +162

      Choose the left side or right side of Vsauce. Like those pills in The Matrix.

  • @Kaepsele337
    @Kaepsele337 2 года назад +34

    Most of this video applies to all deterministic perfect information games, like chess, go, checkers, nine mens morris, tafl, connect 4 etc. (Although some of them can't go on forever). What makes this game special is that it strikes the balance where it's not obvious how to play correctly, but you can master it in a couple of days, where the other games can take a lifetime to master.

  • @ukatofarticus9046
    @ukatofarticus9046 5 лет назад +2332

    Nobody:
    Kevin: hey wanna play some B O N E L E S S C H E S S

    • @kherii.
      @kherii. 5 лет назад +6

      Ukato Farticus yes please

    • @digitalbarks5705
      @digitalbarks5705 5 лет назад +15

      B O N E L E S S P I Z Z A

    • @DickKick
      @DickKick 5 лет назад +9

      🅱️ O N E L E S S

    • @alphastar12
      @alphastar12 4 года назад +1

      700th like

    • @pandydoesstuff5817
      @pandydoesstuff5817 4 года назад +5

      nah man, I wanna play 🅱️ O N E L E S S M O N O P O L Y

  • @tristanjones7623
    @tristanjones7623 5 лет назад +366

    Little known fact -
    Kevin sleeps with his SnapBack on. It never leaves his head not even to shower.

    • @zedex1226
      @zedex1226 5 лет назад +2

      Taking the top stop for weirdest never-nude variant.

    • @blvckgoogle
      @blvckgoogle 5 лет назад +4

      Sorry, but Snapback staying on during s*x

    • @kherii.
      @kherii. 5 лет назад +2

      Sam Samovich wait, even better
      Kevin: sorry babe but the SnapBack staying on my head when it’s sexy time

  • @bluehoodie_gamer6867
    @bluehoodie_gamer6867 3 года назад +83

    4:36 counter-move b is an impossible move as in order for orange to play it they'd need to move the neutral piece before playing which is against the rules

    • @irrelevant_noob
      @irrelevant_noob 2 года назад +12

      Guess you didn't read the pinned comment before writing this? :-)

  • @conairehorgan2456
    @conairehorgan2456 5 лет назад +2084

    Don’t let this distract you from the fact that Lightning McQueen blew a 3 lap lead in the piston cup

    • @immaparrot2824
      @immaparrot2824 5 лет назад +74

      If the cows are laying down the fish ain’t bitin I won’t. Comments like these make me remember everything.

    • @BernieYoda
      @BernieYoda 5 лет назад +95

      Or the 1,7 sec pit stop by Guido

    • @alejrandom6592
      @alejrandom6592 5 лет назад

      oh

    • @stillrabit73
      @stillrabit73 5 лет назад +47

      He did what In his cup?

    • @bw-leftturnracing7779
      @bw-leftturnracing7779 5 лет назад +8

      He actually blew a 1 lap lead

  • @bmgsplushworld8205
    @bmgsplushworld8205 3 года назад +38

    I was recently at a camp for the disabled and I played this with my cabin mate, we had lots of fun playing such a simple game, though we changed the rules so the penny could only move to open spaces connected to eachother and not boxed off areas

  • @ThrottleKitty
    @ThrottleKitty 5 лет назад +636

    "You can't place them at an angle to win!"
    *Places them at an angle to turn his L into a W*

  • @littolicce
    @littolicce 5 лет назад +3566

    I thought I was the easiest game.
    Everyone plays me.

  • @sha_663
    @sha_663 Год назад +5

    I like the fatal weak neutral & strong mindset.
    It really reflects how "just being reliable enough" can have you win through a competitor's mistake.
    Rarely need to play the risk because just not exposing yourself is already on the winning side.
    Only when both sides are in the skill level of not losing through mistakes, strong moves even start to matter.
    Man i love that.

    • @sha_663
      @sha_663 Год назад

      Thanks for reading.
      The idea is: On an even playing field of experience, if you spend time only learning neutrals of playing it safe, you only need to focus on 1/3 rd of the game but win 99.5% of the time, constantly beating opponents who will make mistakes.
      Because the winning move is a ~1/200 chance for someone to unknowingly play to then develop into an unbeatable turn order.
      Only when both players mastered "not losing by mistake", the winning move even matters to learn because only then, weak moves are a guaranteed loss and only neutral moves eventually lose by chance (expecting a true neutral game to go on for a long time until one plays a winner by chance.
      (See chess, where low elosconstantly make mistakes and expose themselves, better elo ending in more draws and high elo confidently going for high risk moves, sacrificing high value pieces.
      Makes sense?
      More of a metaphor on how focusing on not making mistakes can put you ahead of ~99%
      Lmk if i'm completely wrong there

  • @MrMitchbow
    @MrMitchbow 5 лет назад +1460

    “This game takes 5 days to master”
    Oh yea? Watch me do it in 12 minutes & 52 seconds

    • @crimzonshooter
      @crimzonshooter 5 лет назад +45

      Mastered it in about 5 minutes, with a 2 move win

    • @jadenjohnson8389
      @jadenjohnson8389 5 лет назад +24

      Speed runner?

    • @crimzonshooter
      @crimzonshooter 5 лет назад +40

      @@jadenjohnson8389 nah, just good with AI abuse

    • @Lucvs169
      @Lucvs169 5 лет назад +29

      @@crimzonshooter gotta be honest i just did random stuff and won in 15 secs with 2 moves lmao

    • @Sir-Taco
      @Sir-Taco 4 года назад +1

      # lakewood20 lol

  • @Goastyy
    @Goastyy 4 года назад +500

    V-sauce: *tries to show the pants*
    V-sauce: lemme take it off real quick
    V-sauce: *literally sitting on a chair without pants*

    • @FoxSlyme
      @FoxSlyme 3 года назад +6

      When? I missed that moment

    • @ducky0nqu4ck94
      @ducky0nqu4ck94 3 года назад +5

      Show the timestamp

    • @KoyasuNoBara
      @KoyasuNoBara 2 года назад +4

      That's weird, this is the second comment on this video I've seen regarding whether he's wearing pants or not after taking them off, but he never took them off?

    • @SG2048-meta
      @SG2048-meta Год назад +6

      @@KoyasuNoBara there is a comment saying that the video is 12 minutes 52 seconds long, but actually it is shorter. I feel like the pants section is gone for some reason

  • @robfielding100
    @robfielding100 3 года назад +11

    I bought this about 30 years ago. My mathematics students loved playing this.

  • @Navoii.
    @Navoii. 5 лет назад +132

    Vsauce2 out of context:
    GET THESE PANTS now back to our game

  • @ravrav6433
    @ravrav6433 5 лет назад +818

    new rule: if you win its required to say “take the L”

    • @joaorodrigues1477
      @joaorodrigues1477 5 лет назад +28

      The game is 3 rounds total, the player who loses takes one of the L's, and puts it on their forehead. There are only two L's in the game and at the 3rd loss, the winning player just does the "Take The L" on them.

    • @awesomeninja1311
      @awesomeninja1311 4 года назад +5

      No if u lose u have to take the l

    • @databaseinformacion4373
      @databaseinformacion4373 4 года назад

      @Zoie Pogoreski i think is a joke

  • @rubyblockmc
    @rubyblockmc 2 месяца назад +1

    11:10 is the BEST way to demonstrate how 2 negatives can make a positive

  • @shadowbread6616
    @shadowbread6616 5 лет назад +454

    "You can't take forever. You have to make a move." A certain skeleton with a hoodie and single glowing eye would like to have a word with you.

    • @lev7509
      @lev7509 4 года назад +15

      Undertale fandom is everywhere... and I'm part of it!
      BTW nice joke, I can *see* you are a Mann/Frau of culture like me.

    • @altayklc9047
      @altayklc9047 4 года назад +5

      well you gotta save some time to sleep

    • @darktaro9249
      @darktaro9249 4 года назад +3

      Sans couldn't take/wait forever either, eventually the player would outsmart the game, unless the game itself is meant to be endless, but there are many limiting factors to an indefinite game

    • @joythecat1950
      @joythecat1950 4 года назад

      No matter what video i click I cant run away from the undertale I mean i am not complaining XD

    • @aidenhanson884
      @aidenhanson884 4 года назад +4

      Heh.

  • @latioshunter
    @latioshunter 4 года назад +1183

    Me: loses
    My friend: do it
    Me: but-
    My friend: take the L.
    Me:*eats my piece*
    Lol jk, I dont have friends.

  • @gemmamalo96
    @gemmamalo96 3 года назад +43

    played against the AI, won first try, never playing again so i can convince myself i'm a prodigy

    • @sylver369
      @sylver369 Год назад +2

      I'm trying to figure out how people are playing an on paper game with AI...

    • @drmonkeys852
      @drmonkeys852 Год назад

      @@sylver369 Just click the first link in the description

    • @twbvqc
      @twbvqc 11 месяцев назад

      agreed

  • @tzisorey
    @tzisorey 5 лет назад +703

    "The possibilities here are endless"
    No they're not. You said yourself, there's only 2296 possible board states ;)

    • @Figgy20000
      @Figgy20000 5 лет назад +65

      Which funny enough makes this game ridiculously easy to solve even for humans. We can easily memorize 2296 positions and just play perfect every time.

    • @tzisorey
      @tzisorey 5 лет назад +17

      @@Figgy20000 I'm a little hazy about whether that number is before, or after, taking various reflection and rotation symmetries into a account - but you're probably right, yes.

    • @karlik4861
      @karlik4861 5 лет назад +1

      smh vsouce 2 i biased

    • @Ceelvain
      @Ceelvain 5 лет назад +14

      @@Figgy20000 Most people won't memorize that many moves because it would take a lot of time. You'd better just play it a lot and get a feel for it. You'd end up categorizing the moves intuitively.
      I'd personnally just write an AI for it.
      Either specific to the game that just memorize for me all the positions. Or based on reinforcement learning, a method that would, by playing a lot, come up with an evaluation function that tells how strong a move is. This last one is my obsession of the last few month.

    • @Figgy20000
      @Figgy20000 5 лет назад +26

      @@Ceelvain Rubix Cubers and top Chess GMs have easily memorized more positions than actually exist in this entire game.
      If someone were to throw a million dollar prize pool at this thing next Saturday I'd bet you we'd have at least 50 100% perfect human players entering that same weekend.

  • @angelolouis3253
    @angelolouis3253 5 лет назад +232

    Teacher: The test is easy.
    THE TEST:

    • @Cat-ki3hy
      @Cat-ki3hy 3 года назад +1

      It's supposed to be the easiest game possible

    • @cjfdnqkn4374
      @cjfdnqkn4374 3 года назад +1

      The test: Make a strategy that is guaranteed to win the L Game

  • @LocalMaple
    @LocalMaple 3 года назад +13

    5:10 My guess:
    Nestle your L against Orange’s long end, and move the corner neutral one space inward.
    You will control half the board, the opponent’s L will be forced to flip, and Orange will have 3 edges along the side-a more vulnerable position as shown before. But I don’t know how they’d move the coins.

  • @jacobswind4497
    @jacobswind4497 5 лет назад +282

    “Let me just take off my pants” -Kevin 2019

  • @LastEmblem
    @LastEmblem 5 лет назад +109

    5:29 Counter-move B is invalid according to the rule that you can't move the neutral piece before the L-piece move is completed.

    • @shuvisenpai651
      @shuvisenpai651 5 лет назад +5

      Yep, I noticed that while it was in scene as well...

    • @pasijutaulietuviuesas9174
      @pasijutaulietuviuesas9174 5 лет назад +23

      It is valid. The pink player flipped his piece and then moved the neutral piece from 1x3 to 3x1. Then the orange player puts his orange piece to where the neutral piece was. That's also the only move where the pink player moved the neutral piece for some reason.

    • @jacekniedzielski9837
      @jacekniedzielski9837 5 лет назад +8

      So he is saying that its the pink player that moved the coin?
      The pink player does his move in "my possible moves"

    • @jacekniedzielski9837
      @jacekniedzielski9837 5 лет назад

      (I think)

    • @LastEmblem
      @LastEmblem 5 лет назад +8

      @@pasijutaulietuviuesas9174 Pink did not move the neutral piece, look again. The finalized board after Pink's move, which was just an L-flip, shows no movement of the neutral piece. Unless Kevin made an error in setting it up, but either way it wouldn't make sense for pink to move the neutral to (3,1) anyway, it wouldn't benefit them. It's one of the fatal moves they could make.

  • @TenToTu
    @TenToTu 4 года назад +6

    3:47 i need to know the name of this song

  • @PeepsMichael
    @PeepsMichael 5 лет назад +335

    0:14 Me looking at the food at home when mom doesn’t want to take me to McDonald’s.

    • @ketsu1503
      @ketsu1503 5 лет назад +7

      😂

    • @scrap5051
      @scrap5051 5 лет назад +6

      its funny cause its so relatable!

    • @F3zyX
      @F3zyX 5 лет назад

      LMFAOO

    • @warGasmshit
      @warGasmshit 5 лет назад

      also, me when realizing your generation is doomed, zoomers couldn't survive a day in the forest like your forefathers had to or alone for that matter

    • @cristiandior2805
      @cristiandior2805 5 лет назад +11

      @@warGasmshit
      ok boomer

  • @luxariaheart
    @luxariaheart 5 лет назад +179

    3:34 don’t you mean,
    “you can’t go anywhere... Ls?”
    okay bye now

  • @georgecharles941
    @georgecharles941 2 года назад +3

    when this game first came out in the early 1960's, I had one...and I came across it in my backgammon game. It was always one of my favorite games.

  • @pdpauldelaney
    @pdpauldelaney 5 лет назад +23

    Your videos are brilliant Kevin, I hope that it’s providing a good life for you and your family.

  • @DTheAustralian
    @DTheAustralian 5 лет назад +351

    Damn, didn’t know Tetris was THAT hard.

    • @wesguyer4182
      @wesguyer4182 5 лет назад +4

      Giorno killed polpo, shouldn't you be dead

    • @wesguyer4182
      @wesguyer4182 5 лет назад +2

      Black Sabbath I mean

    • @DTheAustralian
      @DTheAustralian 5 лет назад +2

      Wes Guyer
      You can’t kill a shadow dude

    • @wesguyer4182
      @wesguyer4182 5 лет назад +1

      @@DTheAustralian well you can kill the user so the shadow dude dies

    • @moldyshoess
      @moldyshoess 5 лет назад +4

      how'd you master typing upside down? is it possible to learn this power?

  • @mordet2
    @mordet2 Год назад +4

    3:14 there are 4 possible moves. The forth being a simple left-right mirror

  • @OP_eLaniM
    @OP_eLaniM 5 лет назад +211

    The simplest game
    Michael: Or is it?

  • @oliviavillarr
    @oliviavillarr 5 лет назад +160

    Playing...
    Kevin:
    Me: Nevermind, it's my turn now

  • @TheUnknownsShow
    @TheUnknownsShow Год назад +1

    4:53
    Isn't the B countermove here illegal based on the rules explained before? Assuming pink didn't move the penny from the top row before orange's turn, orange should not have been able to place the L the way it did, because the penny can't be moved until after the L is moved.

  • @Staggedtree
    @Staggedtree 5 лет назад +293

    The lighting makes him look like he got painted in red and blue

    • @tracy9610
      @tracy9610 5 лет назад +3

      Jack Howard -
      I was thinking that the whole way through.

    • @matthewmchenry2889
      @matthewmchenry2889 5 лет назад +36

      Nah, it's just his facepaint making the lighting look weird.

    • @catfood2
      @catfood2 5 лет назад +1

      I cant unsee it

    • @Speedpunk650
      @Speedpunk650 5 лет назад +1

      the lighting makes him look like Nerd City

    • @julius_trifinity
      @julius_trifinity 5 лет назад +2

      Who told you he isn't painted in red and blue?

  • @KaliTakumi
    @KaliTakumi 5 лет назад +87

    I knew "take the L" was going to be said at some point in this video

  • @Seb_Kowalke
    @Seb_Kowalke 3 года назад +16

    I just played it for the first time, and came up with a simpler way to play it, and possibly even guarantee an infinite draw.
    Every corner square gets a score of 0. Every outside square that isn't a corner gets a score of 1. Every inside square gets a score of 2. Maximize your score with every move, then think about what neutral piece move would take away your opponent's highest score position, while not allowing him a higher score position by moving said neutral piece.

  • @namansingla2975
    @namansingla2975 4 года назад +112

    5:34
    The B position isn't even possible because for that you'll have to move the neutral spot first and then make the move.
    That is ILLEGAL

  • @Notester82
    @Notester82 5 лет назад +38

    8:13 Everybody gangsta until Kevin gets a Perfect Clear in Tetris

    • @stanleydodds9
      @stanleydodds9 5 лет назад +1

      Not to mention all those L-spins he was doing

    • @jimothyjimothy1
      @jimothyjimothy1 5 лет назад

      tf is a perfect clear?

    • @stanleydodds9
      @stanleydodds9 5 лет назад +1

      @@jimothyjimothy1 when you clear your entire stack; in this case it was with a tetris too.

    • @Notester82
      @Notester82 5 лет назад

      @@jimothyjimothy1 Exactly what Stanley Dodds said, plus the reference just came to me since a standard Tetris board is 10 tiles wide, if that helps clear things up!

    • @cookiecyborg24
      @cookiecyborg24 5 лет назад +1

      In modern tetris games, There is a cycle which gives you every piece every 7 pieces. Players used this to make up "starter setups". There also is a "perfect clear setup", which gives you a not guaranteed, but high chance to get a perfect clear withing the first 10 (11 with the "hold" option) tetriminos.

  • @GenericCatboy
    @GenericCatboy 3 года назад

    Yo I’d never seen any of your videos before and I’ve just walked out even more of a nerd than I used to be. Thanks

  • @outside8312
    @outside8312 5 лет назад +126

    Kevin used to be my least favourite Vsauce ( no offense ) but these days it's by far the best Vsauce!

    • @shortyshawty
      @shortyshawty 5 лет назад +8

      Outside it’s bc it’s actually posts
      Also I love him :3

    • @Caligula1488
      @Caligula1488 5 лет назад +4

      D!NG*

    • @linuxstreamer8910
      @linuxstreamer8910 5 лет назад +6

      i love vsauce 1 and 3 but i'm to poor for youtube red

    • @narusferree6506
      @narusferree6506 5 лет назад +4

      Well, Michael's stuff been paywalled until recently, and once you notice Jake's pausing every sentence, he's hard to listen to, so....

    • @xogdo5260
      @xogdo5260 5 лет назад +4

      @@linuxstreamer8910 It's all free until the end of the year

  • @waterain7774
    @waterain7774 5 лет назад +27

    Them: calculating every movment , possible out com-
    Me who has been starving for 5 days: *alright* *mate,* *take* *your* *time*

    • @Figgy20000
      @Figgy20000 5 лет назад +1

      Me who has memorized all 2296 positions: Yeah this game isn't so "impossible"

    • @geradosolusyon511
      @geradosolusyon511 4 года назад

      @@Figgy20000 but it does train your brain

  • @daniguay88
    @daniguay88 3 года назад +1

    Nobody:
    Not even a single soul:
    Vsauce2's next video: How tetris links with the creation of the universe

  • @thechair6519
    @thechair6519 4 года назад +46

    0:59 me opening my "homework" folder

    • @hypenheimer
      @hypenheimer 3 года назад

      ?

    • @hypenheimer
      @hypenheimer 3 года назад

      How does this have anything to do with storing the y'know in a normal looking folder

    • @thechair6519
      @thechair6519 3 года назад

      wait i dont remember commenting this on this exact video

  • @Majestic469
    @Majestic469 5 лет назад +17

    Wtf this is actually an amazing game! Why isn’t it more popular?

  • @miztahrayeproductions2942
    @miztahrayeproductions2942 3 года назад +2

    This brings whole new meaning to "Taking an L" when someone loses.

  • @itsyaboimike9010
    @itsyaboimike9010 5 лет назад +29

    When is the anime of the L game coming out

  • @STANNco
    @STANNco 5 лет назад +66

    The more i look at his face, the more it looks like red and blue facepaint. I know it's lighting but, it messes with me

  • @lucamengo8853
    @lucamengo8853 Год назад

    Bro I opened this video while seshing just for fun, and damn boy this is is opened my eyes. My life makes sense now.

  • @mitchelob111
    @mitchelob111 5 лет назад +48

    When I get my midterms back:
    “It’s game over.”

  • @davidtran5812
    @davidtran5812 5 лет назад +8

    I’ve shown you to my teacher and she’s now obssesed with your channel :D

  • @meroaso4932
    @meroaso4932 4 года назад

    Man you are the best don't you DARE stop ☺️

  • @georgios_5342
    @georgios_5342 5 лет назад +24

    Wait, I've had the L game as a board game for 10 years, ever since I was 5 years old!

  • @koala.symphony
    @koala.symphony 5 лет назад +8

    It’s incredibly satisfying to me that the tetrominoes are colored properly according to the way they’re colored in tetris.

    • @weegee9616
      @weegee9616 5 лет назад +1

      Isn't the other L blue?

    • @fortunes11
      @fortunes11 4 года назад

      ferre feys yes

    • @calvyno_the_dumbass
      @calvyno_the_dumbass 4 года назад

      Me: sees it one shade to dark
      Also me: “pic of link cooking meal for Gordon Ramsay”

  • @_Kabir_
    @_Kabir_ 3 года назад +1

    The title: “Hardest easy game”
    My Brain: ⏭↩️◀️↖️⬅️↖️🔼◀️⏮↙️↪️⏫↩️➡️🔂▶️🔁⏮🔄🔄⏮⤴️ what

  • @AustinJASMR
    @AustinJASMR 4 года назад +52

    "This game is super hard to master."
    Chess master: "Wanna bet?"

  • @YesNO-bn3pq
    @YesNO-bn3pq 5 лет назад +26

    Vsauce: You have a dad and a mom right?
    Vsauce: WRONG

  • @elindauer
    @elindauer Год назад

    This is an insightful description of the beautiful chaos in chess and life.

  • @garythesnail8863
    @garythesnail8863 4 года назад +33

    This guy could talk about literally anything and still be interesting

  • @badasschannel-c9u
    @badasschannel-c9u 5 лет назад +49

    Vsause: is alive
    Everyone: braincell time

  • @jessewilson8676
    @jessewilson8676 Год назад +2

    4:53 option “B” is incorrect you cannot make that move without removing neutral piece first.

  • @thejellybeangamer3284
    @thejellybeangamer3284 5 лет назад +194

    Nobody:
    Not a soul:
    *Knight*

  • @KaotikKreator
    @KaotikKreator 4 года назад +25

    5:30
    Counter Move B breaks the rules. How did that neutral piece get moved in the first place?

    • @jefferyrandall8030
      @jefferyrandall8030 4 года назад +1

      Like he said, the neutral piece can be moved only after you move your “L”

    • @radekz.7164
      @radekz.7164 3 года назад +1

      I wonder about the same and dont know

  • @ariesyana
    @ariesyana 4 года назад +2

    Title: "The Hardest Easy Game"
    Me: *VISIBLE CONFUSION*

  • @nishantchatterjee3049
    @nishantchatterjee3049 5 лет назад +69

    "I'm just going to take of my pants..."
    -Vsauce2, 2019

  • @wysysaczkrwi2312
    @wysysaczkrwi2312 5 лет назад +14

    You're interrupting me studying for my math test

    • @saltypupper17
      @saltypupper17 5 лет назад +3

      Jajaja pathetic.
      He's interrupting me for my art test

    • @benjamincortes9409
      @benjamincortes9409 5 лет назад +2

      He is secretly helping you on your test

    • @gman235
      @gman235 5 лет назад

      He is interrupting my studying for my spanish test

  • @sporebliss
    @sporebliss 3 года назад

    Thanks for this cool game, Vivec!

  • @stutiarya
    @stutiarya 4 года назад +110

    So nobody is talking about the weird lighting on his face that looks like face paint.

    • @stephaniaworthington4129
      @stephaniaworthington4129 4 года назад +4

      I think has face paint for his face and the lighting for his arms

    • @volt7958
      @volt7958 4 года назад +1

      Is no one gonna talk about how the L game doesn't work on android:(

    • @sansdusttale7224
      @sansdusttale7224 4 года назад +2

      It is nintendo switch

    • @databaseinformacion4373
      @databaseinformacion4373 4 года назад

      @@volt7958 f#

    • @GrifoStelle
      @GrifoStelle 3 года назад

      @Zoie Pogoreski but the colors move as he moves around
      2:59 see how the lights switch as he furrows his eye brows and returns after. The blue is on his right and the red is on his left.
      In the end as he explains the importance of planning ahead and making those Ls Ws, the W turns purple in the lights.
      Pretty sure this was planned for specifically that moment

  • @monikaosmenda3269
    @monikaosmenda3269 4 года назад +139

    see yall in 6 years when this is in everybody's recommended

  • @that_one_fool1230
    @that_one_fool1230 3 года назад

    Thanks!

  • @thatoneleaf9895
    @thatoneleaf9895 4 года назад +4

    The VSauces: Overcomplicating things to make them more interesting I learn

  • @christopherdiedrich40
    @christopherdiedrich40 3 года назад +9

    I specifically have a hard time with these spatial tests. This was the part of my IQ test that brought my score way down lol

  • @adamsiu6914
    @adamsiu6914 3 года назад +1

    At 4:40, isn't orange unable to move that L because the neutral piece has to be moved after?

  • @marissasmith2827
    @marissasmith2827 5 лет назад +10

    When he made the 2 L's a W...
    I felt that.

  • @NoobMicesters
    @NoobMicesters 3 года назад +5

    1:22 1 year later i still dont know if that was an intentional double meaning
    Of lose and play the l game

  • @vampir.moment
    @vampir.moment 3 года назад +1

    “Hey Josh”
    “Yeah?”
    “Wanna play the HARDEST EASY game?”
    “👁👄👁”

  • @itsatalex3059
    @itsatalex3059 5 лет назад +24

    This just sounds like a really simple chess. Trap their L(king), strategize how each move will affect the next, and you have to think in advance

  • @Alex_MB
    @Alex_MB 5 лет назад +10

    5 day course about this game: *exists*
    vsauce: im about to end this Man whole career

    • @siyacer
      @siyacer 5 лет назад

      What?

    • @Alex_MB
      @Alex_MB 5 лет назад

      @@siyacer what?!

  • @Suuupi1
    @Suuupi1 Год назад

    Maybe im wrong, but wouldt at 3:16 be 1 more optione? I could flip pink to the left, so that the first 3 squares of column 1 and the third square at column 2 wold be taken by the L block. I would still lose to a counter move, but there is at least the option.

  • @Lip22Gloss
    @Lip22Gloss 5 лет назад +40

    I haven't watched vsauce in so long! I'm so excited to see this video 😍

  • @LeonardEisen
    @LeonardEisen 5 лет назад +11

    If I’m not mistaken, the “Counter Move for B that he offers at 05:30 would have required the opposing player/viewer to move the neutral piece before moving their L which is not a legal move.

  • @chrisandrew7577
    @chrisandrew7577 2 года назад

    My brain recognizes, deconstructs, analyzes and predicts patterns constantly, this game is like a rubiks cube in my mind. I'm gonna play.

  • @bukachell
    @bukachell 5 лет назад +6

    "Let me just take of my pants."
    -Kevin 2019

  • @doritos5447
    @doritos5447 3 года назад +15

    1:44 my secret strategy to always win at battleship

  • @mandolinic
    @mandolinic Год назад

    I bought that book when I was a student in the early 1970s. One of the important lessons it taught me was that when solving a problem, you don't have to use everything that's provided; a lesson that has proved invaluable ever since, particularly when solving jigsaws 😂😂😂

  • @sidhaantnagpal586
    @sidhaantnagpal586 5 лет назад +39

    This is so much like chess! Easy to learn but really difficult to master!

    • @Blankult
      @Blankult 5 лет назад +3

      Yes, but actually no

    • @jeremyharwell7070
      @jeremyharwell7070 5 лет назад

      Also tic-tac-toe.

    • @laikaperraespacial6025
      @laikaperraespacial6025 5 лет назад

      Yeag

    • @rdooski
      @rdooski 5 лет назад +1

      @@jeremyharwell7070 Tic-tac-toe is closer to Monopoly than it is to this.

    • @oledakaajel
      @oledakaajel 5 лет назад +4

      @@jeremyharwell7070 tic tac toe always ends in a draw for any slightly experienced players. Stopped being fun when I was 12

  • @jewelxiat
    @jewelxiat 5 лет назад +17

    Broke: this just seems like a simpler Chess
    Woke: C H E C K E R S?

    • @charleswillhite5375
      @charleswillhite5375 3 года назад +1

      Two people playing checkers perfectly every time will have the same outcome every time.

  • @TheRetroEngine
    @TheRetroEngine 2 года назад

    Late to the party, but isn't a STRONG move at 6:11 move pink down one then fill single space made with the neutral?

  • @Speedy4417
    @Speedy4417 4 года назад +3

    “What you like to eat?”
    “Y O U R S O N”

  • @tylerbuck9347
    @tylerbuck9347 3 года назад +4

    This game brings a whole new meaning to "hold this L''

  • @InformationEngineer59
    @InformationEngineer59 Год назад

    I love your lighting

  • @friedrichdergroe6361
    @friedrichdergroe6361 4 года назад +30

    4:10 you had 4 possible moves, you could just flip the L piece so it looks like an L