That moment when a game is so balanced that the master exploiter's best exploit is to just play the game as intended by picking symbols that have synergies
Spiff doesn't really do exploit videos as much anymore. But he can't escape his own branding. Many times he will present simple synergistic strategies as exploits for a video.
@@Cryten0 fair point, with the way he was talking about the game it was very similar to how he talks in all his other exploit videos so thought he was talking about it as if he was doing an exploit
12:51 This could also be interpreted as: You’re not drinking the coffee… You’re destroying the coffee in front of the coffee loving collector, scaring him and forcing him to give you yet another spin
A rare example of Spiff just playing the game as intended. Once Spiff manages to trigger the Essence of Guillotine he'll be able to brag that he broke the game by getting too much money. Spiff: _plays on Endless mode_ Spiff: "The game just won't end!"
I hadn't even heard of the cat build. I'd only heard about the cultist build and the card suit build. But apparently the cat build blows both of them out of the water.
@@TitusRedwind any basic broken build: get a symbol that can be buffed by other symbols x times, get loads of those other symbols. If we have a base symbol worth 2 with 8 symbols around buffing it x2 it's gonna give you 512 coins. Now pick a symbol that has the highest base value (or one that can increase it permanently), pick any items and essences that buff it, items that make it easier to make symbols adjacent (protractor, telescope, swapper), some arrows and you're making millions+ each spin. Sun + flower is strong because sun has insane x5 buff and there are many items buffing flowers Cats are insane because there are multiple items and essences buffing them, including one that gives them x13 buff. Also item/essence buffs multiply each other so after 2 x13 essences your cats have x169 multiplier
I'm actually surprised he doesn't. The man is all about ridiculously high earnings in a variety of games. To sum, up, for anyone who doesn't know... the e[N] part of the number is roughly how many decimals you need to move from the first number, to know what your actual number is. If it's a positive number you move your decimal right, if it's a negative number, you move it left. one quick example is: 1.56 e6 == 1,560,000 whereas 1.56 e-6 == 0.00000156 This is a simplified version to help us normal plebs make sense of all the "powers of 10" math that goes on behind the scenes. (note: this is also in my main comment, but I figured it would be useful in this comment-chain as well. :)
Man, Spiff's reactions remind me so much of when I started playing this game. Now wait until he learns that you can actually FIGHT the landlord with money.
I don't know if its still in the game, but cats can generate septillions of gold eventually. Doubling, wild cards, beast masters, and telescope make it crazy.
It's crazy how the spiffing Brit is now synonymous with exploits I've seen clips on shorts of people just putting his thumbnails in when the word exploit is mentioned
Having played/broken this game in the past myself... the numbers really won't surprise me. I remember getting trillions per roll being very very possible with certain builds. Like Midas and Pirates but I remember that if you get all the cat items... cats get insane, basically become wildcards that then double their own value.
In France there's a rule of thumb that says "anything in Paris is twice as expensive as anywhere else in the country". In the UK, it's basically twice that much. When Spiff gets involved, it's beyond anyone's pay grades. Spiff is the black hole of finance: anything that comes close never comes out.
Surprised Spiff didn't find or show finding the guillotine item that auto loses the game for you when you get enough money. Would have been a great ending, but now we can all imagine it going on forever.
3 words. Black cat essence. Especially when you get the bug I got where popsicle and popsicle essence somehow give you hundreds of black cat essences because it is the latest essence I picked up. All before even unlocking essences of course thanks to dishwasher. That run made the strongest flower build look like a joke.
Spiff: "Which is kind of a bit more than the game intends you to make" Me: "umm... this is a Broken Build Simulator genre game, it very much intends you to find the most broken combos"
As the german translator for this game, I am happy you didn't manage to actually break it and simply enjoyed it loads! Thank you for showing more people this masterpiece!
I feel like the end of the video described spiffs youtube career in a nutshell. It started as a nice Hobbie for fun. Now Spiff is sitting around drinking tea every night shouting Money Money Money.
Hey Spiff, I would recommend you try vampire survivors for exploiting. It's a fun game all about becoming super powerful. One of my runs I got so much happening on screen that the game itself started chugging and I was able to walk straight through walls without a problem. If I could do that, imagine what the king of exploits and tea could do. Anyways, hope everyone has a good day.
Best way to understand the creature: its main body resides under the board, thus feeding its tendrils increases its size and strength. That's why it never loses its value, only increases each sacrifice.
As a member of Spiff's family I wish to declare that this is not a cult. Yorkshire Tea Gold powers us and it is the mightiest tea. Praise be Spiff, that is all
The best exploit is just don't spin, and since the rent is due in spins, just don't spin and you don't have to pay, and you now get the apartment for free
@@youri3808 powers are literally just multiplying though, regardless of unit (as george said, if it says e4 it just means there are 4 digits behind the dot in the number it represents), while 1e3 km is just 1000 km, 1e3 miles would be 1000 miles (it is often associated with the metric system cause it works very well together, since it's just another way to express orders of magnitude (1000 m=1 km=1e3 m (vice versa 1e-3 km=1 m)) :D
@@youri3808 also theoretically speaking everybody on earth is using the metric system, since the metric definitions are based on fundamentals (i.e. distance of light travelled in a vacuum in a specified time for meters, number of atomic decays in caesium for seconds and so on), while the official definition of a mile is 1,609.344 meters as of 1959 so even if they use imperial units, those values now are by definition based off of the metric equivalent
puedo decir que viví para ver a Spiffing brit elegir una taza de café. metas de vida. i can say i lived to see spiffing brit choose a cup of coffee. life goals.
We aren't a cult we are a group of happy unpaid interns. I'm always happy now that Spiff has put a chip in my brain to make me a more efficient worker praise Spiff
3:53 is where I noticed exactly what build he was doing It’s not really an exploit as much as it is a really powerful build. An even more broken build for when you unlock essences is: 13 cats, 6 hexes of the same type, 1 witch This enables you to grab many essences that multiply the value of the symbols, and one essence makes the cats initial value copy that of the highest adjacent symbol’s value
The coffee is not for drinking it's used as a projectile to throw at the landlord so you can scare them away for another quick spin. Since you don't want to throw you hot tea instead Right?
Do note a "guaranteed rarity" symbol pick persists with rerolls, so if you are bound to get a rare that pick there will also be a rare in any of the rerolls.
Considering Spiff did a rather small "exploit" (if you could even call it that), I would assume he's probably disappointed that that's all Spiff could manage.
I work in the gambling industry, I swear this is what my customers think happens right up until they say "I lost my rent money" to me, like it's somehow my fault.
Just a little information to pass along, when games use e, its shorthand scientific notation so 2.2e5 would be 2.2*10 to the 5th power (220000). In case anyone was curious (:
There's something about the phrase, "It's just escaped Early Access..." that is so incredibly correct... I don't know how else to describe it. But any game that is released after Early Access does feel like it somehow, against the odds, escaped.
Your interns need a raise Spiff, they're drinking so little Tea they feel correcting the Tea God is acceptable! Nah great work all round, your content is awesome and so is the team. Thanks for the hard work everyone, you bring smiles to people's faces for sure!
The build I've found most broken in this game is Miners, Dames, Ores, and Geologists. It works out quite similarly to this combo, but most of the gems themselves have very powerful synergies and can quickly get you absurd amounts of cash. It's also much faster than the not-a-cult strategy, since there are so many ores and gems in the game compared to just one type of cultist.
Also, for anyone trying to break Endless Mode in a similar way: Hold F to speed up animations, and if you turn off scientific notation in the settings the amount of money you're making makes a lot more sense
Brit: "This game is intended for us to have tenth and hundreds of coins, not thousands!" This game: have a special thing to kill you if you get a billion coins. Also this game: have a special counter for when this happens, so you won't lose count
This game should be expanded with the option to buy houses and become a landlord. (One day you'd collect more rent than expend on rent, called a sure win.)
*Who Knew Running A Cult would be so Profitable?*
Agreed
gambling woo
Agreed, Spiffing Brit.
Indeed
Everyone?
That moment when a game is so balanced that the master exploiter's best exploit is to just play the game as intended by picking symbols that have synergies
I know. I was pretty disappointed
It is a perfectly balanced game, after all.
It used to be chaotic, people were able to get millions, and even trillions of coins per spin
Spiff doesn't really do exploit videos as much anymore. But he can't escape his own branding. Many times he will present simple synergistic strategies as exploits for a video.
@@Cryten0 fair point, with the way he was talking about the game it was very similar to how he talks in all his other exploit videos so thought he was talking about it as if he was doing an exploit
I like how this isn't even an exploit, just Spiff enjoying a wonderful game
ngl I had a good time
Even with all his exploits he couldn’t become a home owner. Dystopian indeed.
I mean, he's on the first floor. Go further up and there are Essences that break the game further and a final boss...
After winning 10 times or beating floor 10 you kill the landlord and take ownership.
12:51
This could also be interpreted as:
You’re not drinking the coffee… You’re destroying the coffee in front of the coffee loving collector, scaring him and forcing him to give you yet another spin
A rare example of Spiff just playing the game as intended. Once Spiff manages to trigger the Essence of Guillotine he'll be able to brag that he broke the game by getting too much money.
Spiff: _plays on Endless mode_
Spiff: "The game just won't end!"
“More gold than the game thinks you should be generating”
I see The Spiffing Brit has not witnessed the greatness of The Cat Build
Sun's + flowers + telescope + wildcats + wildcards = billions of coins
@@tandy7076 Cat build can generate 10^10^10 pretty easily because of how absurd the x13 cats essence is.
I hadn't even heard of the cat build. I'd only heard about the cultist build and the card suit build.
But apparently the cat build blows both of them out of the water.
@@TitusRedwind hello Dylan
@@TitusRedwind any basic broken build: get a symbol that can be buffed by other symbols x times, get loads of those other symbols. If we have a base symbol worth 2 with 8 symbols around buffing it x2 it's gonna give you 512 coins.
Now pick a symbol that has the highest base value (or one that can increase it permanently), pick any items and essences that buff it, items that make it easier to make symbols adjacent (protractor, telescope, swapper), some arrows and you're making millions+ each spin.
Sun + flower is strong because sun has insane x5 buff and there are many items buffing flowers
Cats are insane because there are multiple items and essences buffing them, including one that gives them x13 buff. Also item/essence buffs multiply each other so after 2 x13 essences your cats have x169 multiplier
Spiff not understanding exponential notation is kinda hilarious.
Lmao i know I really thought he would've figured it out the first time it took out 11,000 and it said 1.1 e4
There is an option to turn off scientific notation but I guess if he doesn't know what it is, it doesn't help.
"1.8e4...That's like 40 grand!" x'D
I'm actually surprised he doesn't. The man is all about ridiculously high earnings in a variety of games.
To sum, up, for anyone who doesn't know... the e[N] part of the number is roughly how many decimals you need to move from the first number, to know what your actual number is. If it's a positive number you move your decimal right, if it's a negative number, you move it left.
one quick example is:
1.56 e6 == 1,560,000
whereas
1.56 e-6 == 0.00000156
This is a simplified version to help us normal plebs make sense of all the "powers of 10" math that goes on behind the scenes.
(note: this is also in my main comment, but I figured it would be useful in this comment-chain as well. :)
@@1WolfFan 🤓➡️♿
Game: underworld creatures
Spiff: money!
Game: coffee
Spiff: *H E R E S Y* !!!
At this rate, Spiff might even have money left over to heat his home AND buy groceries
too much dude
In a dystopian world where rent doubles every time you pay rent, Spiff becomes the landlord
Landlord: Please pay your rent it's 1.1e4.
Spiff: You owe me over 500,000. I'm your landlord now.
This has been one of my favourite game for the past year, hope you enjoy spiff!
"one of my favourite game" implies you had one favourite game this year and it's one of one
@@Makujah_ Luck be a landlord is just that good, what can I say
@@elliequeen6319 hehe
The landlord is probably just spiff from another dimension where he is a real estate owner instead of a professional game exploiter.
the battle of the professional exploiters
A Spiff from another dimension?! So is it a Coffee loving reverse-Spiff from Swindon?
@@nosama001 My brain just went straight for the innuendo. Hint: What colour is coffee, particularly without milk.
Man, Spiff's reactions remind me so much of when I started playing this game. Now wait until he learns that you can actually FIGHT the landlord with money.
I don't know if its still in the game, but cats can generate septillions of gold eventually. Doubling, wild cards, beast masters, and telescope make it crazy.
It's crazy how the spiffing Brit is now synonymous with exploits I've seen clips on shorts of people just putting his thumbnails in when the word exploit is mentioned
Having played/broken this game in the past myself... the numbers really won't surprise me. I remember getting trillions per roll being very very possible with certain builds. Like Midas and Pirates but I remember that if you get all the cat items... cats get insane, basically become wildcards that then double their own value.
I personally had lots of success after essences with amethysts, arrows, dames, and the rags
black cat essense my beloved
I like that time is measured in spins of the slot machine. This implies that if you never spin the machine, you never have to pay rent
sometimes the only winning move is to not play
I spammed through the intro and it just sounded like a compilation of spiff going hello ladies and gentlemen
In France there's a rule of thumb that says "anything in Paris is twice as expensive as anywhere else in the country". In the UK, it's basically twice that much. When Spiff gets involved, it's beyond anyone's pay grades. Spiff is the black hole of finance: anything that comes close never comes out.
Surprised Spiff didn't find or show finding the guillotine item that auto loses the game for you when you get enough money. Would have been a great ending, but now we can all imagine it going on forever.
That item is unlocked after 7 games
The guillotine was at 11:22
@@louiss138 he hasn't played this game enough to even unlock it lol
@@techno1561 oh okay :)
@@louiss138 That’s the regular Guillotine item. The one that kills you is the Guillotine essence.
Boys, don't tell him about flower builds! We cannot be sure what he would do with such raw power...
3 words. Black cat essence. Especially when you get the bug I got where popsicle and popsicle essence somehow give you hundreds of black cat essences because it is the latest essence I picked up. All before even unlocking essences of course thanks to dishwasher.
That run made the strongest flower build look like a joke.
Spiff: "Which is kind of a bit more than the game intends you to make"
Me: "umm... this is a Broken Build Simulator genre game, it very much intends you to find the most broken combos"
A game with scientific notation fully knows what it's in for
Yeah I was surprised Spiff played a game exactly as intended.
Not just as intended, but a relatively weak build compared to several other options.
I love these kind of videos where there's no exploit, just numbers and multipliers!
Awesome video! The e stands for exponent btw, so 1e4 means 1x10^4. so basically 10.000 :)
Watching Spiff try to interpret the scientific notation was the best part of the video for me.
This isn't a cult
Spiff: aha, 50k a spin, I've broken this game!
Me, an aliensrock viewer who watched him get 75 quintillion spins: oh, how quaint..
As the german translator for this game, I am happy you didn't manage to actually break it and simply enjoyed it loads!
Thank you for showing more people this masterpiece!
Right
I feel like the end of the video described spiffs youtube career in a nutshell. It started as a nice Hobbie for fun. Now Spiff is sitting around drinking tea every night shouting Money Money Money.
Spiffin brit plays the game exactly as intended: OMG A Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits!!!! LOL
Best part is that was exactly how the game is meant to be played, that wasn't an exploit that was by design
Just means it's a Perfectly Balanced Game, No Exploits Needed!
I think the game may expect you to do this if you get multiple pages of relics.
Hey Spiff, I would recommend you try vampire survivors for exploiting. It's a fun game all about becoming super powerful. One of my runs I got so much happening on screen that the game itself started chugging and I was able to walk straight through walls without a problem. If I could do that, imagine what the king of exploits and tea could do. Anyways, hope everyone has a good day.
Fun fact: by spinning the slot machine you’re cause major inflation
When Spiff said "shenanigans" I became giddy with impending delight
Best way to understand the creature: its main body resides under the board, thus feeding its tendrils increases its size and strength. That's why it never loses its value, only increases each sacrifice.
Unless I am wrong or it was updated out, don't multiple Creatures devour the same person/hex meaning you can use 1 to get multiple stacks?
I've been watching DangerouslyFunny do a series on this since early access. I always thought you two would make a great collaborative work.
As a member of Spiff's family I wish to declare that this is not a cult. Yorkshire Tea Gold powers us and it is the mightiest tea. Praise be Spiff, that is all
The best exploit is just don't spin, and since the rent is due in spins, just don't spin and you don't have to pay, and you now get the apartment for free
Damn, you dint completely break the game, not even close someone buffed a cat so much that it could make 75 quintillion in one spin
Right? This is a fairly normal floor 1 endless.
Yea
Spiff, you gotta learn your powers of 10, 1e4=10000. So, 1.8 e4 = 18k
He's gotten too used to imperial..
@@youri3808 It would be funny except UK changed to metric for a long time now.
@@harrytan5579 As long as they keep using miles I'm not convinced ;)
@@youri3808 powers are literally just multiplying though, regardless of unit (as george said, if it says e4 it just means there are 4 digits behind the dot in the number it represents), while 1e3 km is just 1000 km, 1e3 miles would be 1000 miles (it is often associated with the metric system cause it works very well together, since it's just another way to express orders of magnitude (1000 m=1 km=1e3 m (vice versa 1e-3 km=1 m)) :D
@@youri3808 also theoretically speaking everybody on earth is using the metric system, since the metric definitions are based on fundamentals (i.e. distance of light travelled in a vacuum in a specified time for meters, number of atomic decays in caesium for seconds and so on), while the official definition of a mile is 1,609.344 meters as of 1959
so even if they use imperial units, those values now are by definition based off of the metric equivalent
This is not a cult, this is in fact actually a genius playing a video game.
What a quality video, this is not a cult
I have no idea what the hell is going on with this game, but I love hearing Spiff explain it
is it wierd that i grab the exact tea he says every video
Running a cult is my favourite pastime, right after digging holes in my backyard.
Sus
0:10 you mean the uk right now?
too real
@@thespiffingbrit 😮💨
Wow you said it and got a response from Spiff
puedo decir que viví para ver a Spiffing brit elegir una taza de café. metas de vida.
i can say i lived to see spiffing brit choose a cup of coffee. life goals.
the thing I'm wondering about is who is filling the slot machine with millions of dollars
You and Let’s game it out, I think makes a great combo for one video.
This is not a cult
This is not a bad cult
This is not a cult
We aren't a cult we are a group of happy unpaid interns. I'm always happy now that Spiff has put a chip in my brain to make me a more efficient worker praise Spiff
It's OK Spiff, the game doesn't say you have to drink the coffee. In fact, it rewards you with an extra spin when you eventually destroy it!
Spiff sounds like having a good time playin as the developers intended. Is nice to just have fun
3:53 is where I noticed exactly what build he was doing
It’s not really an exploit as much as it is a really powerful build.
An even more broken build for when you unlock essences is:
13 cats, 6 hexes of the same type, 1 witch
This enables you to grab many essences that multiply the value of the symbols, and one essence makes the cats initial value copy that of the highest adjacent symbol’s value
I wonder what the actual mathematically best builds are... But yes. This is a pretty normal floor 1 run.
Most balanced game ever created
This game is so addictive!
So just like gambling?
I’ve been wanting for someone to completely break this game
The coffee is not for drinking it's used as a projectile to throw at the landlord so you can scare them away for another quick spin. Since you don't want to throw you hot tea instead Right?
Do note a "guaranteed rarity" symbol pick persists with rerolls, so if you are bound to get a rare that pick there will also be a rare in any of the rerolls.
"This is not a Cult." - Spiff 2023.
Ahh yes, a 23 minute Spiff video, now i can watch while drinking a J U G of tea instead of a cup, thank you indeed.
This game was an absolute ton of fun.
For anyone who doesn’t know, XeY, where X and Y and numbers means X*10^Y.
1.1e4 means 1.1*10^4, which is 11,000.
It's amazing that Spiff was able to make so much money without even being apart of a cult!
Perfectly balanced tea game play as always! Good thing this is not a cult.
I think I accidentally joined a cult
Good
I can only imagine the dread the game developers feel when their games makes it on to spiffs page lol
Considering Spiff did a rather small "exploit" (if you could even call it that), I would assume he's probably disappointed that that's all Spiff could manage.
I work in the gambling industry, I swear this is what my customers think happens right up until they say "I lost my rent money" to me, like it's somehow my fault.
THIS, IS NOT A CULT... Trust me, I'm a Doctor of Archaic Mythos and Ethos!
Oh my God, I managed to get the first like!
congrats
I managed to get the second like, how cool is that! Also, congrats!
0:33 I farted really hard and it smelled quite bad
@@starchlord9235 I did while reading this
I did while reading this
Excellent video, as always.
I'm glad the devs gave Spiff the opportunity to DESTROY a cup of coffee so it may never be drunk.
Easiest way to find bugs in your game is to tell Spiff to play the game and surely he'll find ways to broke the game
As someone who loves spiffs videos, I’m so happy to be part of this family, which is in no way a cult. Not a cult at all.
My brains melted just thinking about all those multipliers and rules. I love and hate mathematics at the same time. This is not a cult.
Been loving your videos for awhile glad you made it to this game. Hopefully you’ll come back to it once you get to level 25
I have never played this game and probably never will, but there is something so enjoyable about a perfectly optimized “deck”
I went to Britain this week. My first task was to buy yorkshire tea also gold verison.... Now I'm enjoying tea like a sir!
Wait until he hears about the bees and the flowers
DO NOT LET THIS MAN NEAR A CASINO
The "e" in that context means *10^ so 1.8e4 = 1.8*10^4 or roughly 18000 due to the fact that the game is rounding to 1.8.
I was waiting for him to do this game. One of my favorite chill mindless games
Just a little information to pass along, when games use e, its shorthand scientific notation so 2.2e5 would be 2.2*10 to the 5th power (220000). In case anyone was curious (:
There's something about the phrase, "It's just escaped Early Access..." that is so incredibly correct... I don't know how else to describe it. But any game that is released after Early Access does feel like it somehow, against the odds, escaped.
Your interns need a raise Spiff, they're drinking so little Tea they feel correcting the Tea God is acceptable!
Nah great work all round, your content is awesome and so is the team. Thanks for the hard work everyone, you bring smiles to people's faces for sure!
The build I've found most broken in this game is Miners, Dames, Ores, and Geologists. It works out quite similarly to this combo, but most of the gems themselves have very powerful synergies and can quickly get you absurd amounts of cash. It's also much faster than the not-a-cult strategy, since there are so many ores and gems in the game compared to just one type of cultist.
Also, for anyone trying to break Endless Mode in a similar way: Hold F to speed up animations, and if you turn off scientific notation in the settings the amount of money you're making makes a lot more sense
i know i'm late, but fyi miners are pretty bad, they clog up your deck with pearls and shiny rocks and other useless symbols
Have mercy this content is absolute gold. I am peaking in life and then come across this bafoonery like it's all just a crock.what a show. I love it
Tbh after watching Aliensrock play this, spiff’s amounts here look puny
Found this game for no reason and became addicted for hours. Had to move it off my desktop...
Spiff, proud coffee drinker
Just in case you were wondering: 1e4 means 1*10^4 = 10000. But the game seems to round the exact number to one significant digit.
I don't know about you but this is pure RUclips. I have nothing else to say besides RUclips everything about this.
Brit: "This game is intended for us to have tenth and hundreds of coins, not thousands!"
This game: have a special thing to kill you if you get a billion coins.
Also this game: have a special counter for when this happens, so you won't lose count
The Spiffing Brit got nothing on Northernlion's 1 Trillion spin
I was expecting the flower build which goes absolutely nuclear into the billions of billions
"we love tax evasion" - TIL spiffing brit was actually just Jimmy Carr
yeah i remember the arrows being good never thought about just filling the machine with cultists
This game should be expanded with the option to buy houses and become a landlord.
(One day you'd collect more rent than expend on rent, called a sure win.)
"we love tax evasion" sounding very American there spiff
Idea ‘spiff kills the capitalists’