12-Year-Old vs. The Unbeatable Game of NIM
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One of the oldest games versus one of the youngest people on Scam Nation. Can Josie beat NIM?
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"Bring you daughter to work day" are the best days at Scam Nation
Agreed!
The moment she is just so done with Brian's antics like "how dare you do this to me, your daughter" she's not mad, just frustrated
The last word any man wants to hear from a woman, regardless of age.
Bian's whole plot this summer was to teach Josie sleight of hand & tricks so she'd mess with the other kids when she goes back to school, get suspended, and then be able to stay safe at home. IT'S GENIUS!!!
If she gets to go back to school
I love that she is suspicious of her magician dad palming stuff or other magic trickery :P
Ikr
@poopsled
I guess she does speak from experience. :-)
@@drops2cents260 Lol
"I did a whole lot of reverse psychology in my mind right now" lmao. Josie is as funny as Brian. Hope you guys will do more videos together. Good luck.
The look on her face when Brian revealed the cheat means he can NEVER sleep soundly again! She is out for revenge now.
One day...
I'm confused...... which one is the 12-year old? 😂😂
LOL😂😂🤣🤣🤣
the one with the glasses ;)
@@DaveTugwell OK, thanks that helps......... hey....... wait a minute...... 🤔
@@Tekkerue any time you need help im your man
@@DaveTugwell lol
"Hope you didnt do sleight of hand", "I did not"....never trust a magician when he sais he didn't to anything.
Well said
Imagine all of the awfulness of dad jokes combined with power of magic!? Josie is always prepared for a bamboozle.
"We've never met before and I know nothing about you, correct?"
"There is no way I could have forced you to pick any particular card."
"This is real street magic. You and me, no accomplices. No camera tricks."
Lies, lies LIES! (and fun)
"Hope you didn't just do sleight of hand right now" - to be fair, he didn't lie. He didn't do any sleight of hand during that game since Josie went first, so all's good!
I think there was some sleight of hand at 2:55 though, though because there are still 17 matches when he took 1, and 18 matches are taken in that game. Was it 17? Eh, yes. That's a hard lie. And at 0:54 there are 16 matches, but 17 matches are taken in the game after it. Real shame though, because it's so much more impressive to win without sleight of hand. Still not sure if he played the first game fairly or if he tried to use sleight of hand and messed up because there were indeed only 16. Either way, he started and a total of 17 were drawn so it ended up a fair game.
She's becoming more and more suspicious of how fair everything really is. It's amazing!
thejordanbrooks we all know Brian is also totally training her as his protégé
Brian's the best dad!
"Here's how you scam alcohol at the bar. Now go play with matches."
:)
I like how she was totally about to re-count the matches at one point.
5:06 "So you recognized the moment that you were totally hosed"
Actually she didn't. That moment was at the beginning of the game.
Magicians and grifters are the only parents who celebrate when their child lies.
she is awesome and I'm wishing my daughter was here every day to pull this on her. You guys are amazing
During coronavirus, my daughter ARE here every day. I love them, but it is a lot. Fortunately, we now have access to a pool that is underutilized enough to be safe.
9:27 When your dad makes a dad joke.
I'd like to see the other Nim games with Josie. Advanced Nim is my favorite and is super easy to learn.
Edit : 123 246 111 145 2=piles. It's that easy.
ruclips.net/video/S2D22QvqzsE/видео.html
It's so satisfying to see her get better and better at seeing through the scams
I could see the gears turning in Josie's head as she was trying to figure out what the solution was
I learned NIM from you many, many years ago, and still "play" to this day.
Oh man, that evil stink-eye glare she gave you after you spilled the beans...
I love how she's not a sore loser, my siblings would be sore for days if I beat them like that!!
This has become the best channel on RUclips
Nim has always been my favorite scam school/nation videos. Im glad its made a comeback
This is a cool math game. There was actually a board game for Nim made in the 60's. Stand up Maths did a video explaining it.
ruclips.net/video/9KABcmczPdg/видео.html
"Whoomp! There It Is!" :-)
ruclips.net/video/S2D22QvqzsE/видео.html
Here is the advanced version too :)
Love it... You can see the gears turning as she tries to figure out how she keeps loosing. Then the look of smoldering betrayal as he lets her in on the secret. What a show!
Yo Shwood, I dig the evolution of your channel. You’ve always seemed like a good dude. Stay healthy and if you can tell me what the heck is wrong with the window switch on my 2006 Saab 9-3 I’d appreciate it. I know it’s not the motor, there’s gotta be a short somewhere but I’ll be danged if I can find it. Chris at the shop said the same thing, but he hates working on foreign cars. He also admitted that he’s not the best with electrical work and I said “hey, me neither, that’s why I’m seeing you” and he goes “why the hell’d you buy a Saab anyways?” And I told him it was a good deal. Yeah, I’ve paid a lot for suspension and brakes and such but that V6 with a turbo is worth it. “I still don’t do electrical” Chris tells me. How about it, Shwood, feel like fixing a window switch issue on a 2006 Saab 9-3?
Government: No school, do what you can at home.
Normal parents: I guess I can teach some basic maths and English.
Brian:......Wanna learn to hustle?
I was looking for this one, I rememberd this from the Scam School days but couldn‘t remember the name
i use to watch scam school in middle school and watching this now makes me feel so good inside i love these two
"You didn't add one to the mix, did you?" "I did. Shhh." 😂🤣😂🤣😂
When I was in 5th grade, I played this game a lot. I never learned the trick to it, but I did learn literally every move. As a high school senior, still before learning the math, I was assigned to program a computer to play the game. We were supposed to have the computer move at random. Instead, I came up with a complex sorting algorith to limit the number of possible scenarios and then hard programmed in the correct response to every scenario. My teacher looked at my code and said "I couldn't follow that, but I can't beat it, so I guess you get an A."
I have since learned the actual math, though honestly I forget it each time I learn it.
EDIT: This is not nim. It is a similar, but much simpler game. The math in this one is far easier.
It's possible to do the same thing for this game with a plastic frame and marbles - see ruclips.net/video/9KABcmczPdg/видео.html
As much as I love Murphy and you together, these episodes with your daughter are golden!
I knew it would be 4n+1 but I didn't think there'd be trickery involved. 😂
The magic here is the obvious affection between father and daughter. Brian's joy fooling his daughter and then teaching her the secret makes these videos great.
I wonder where she will be when real scammers try to make a fool of the pretty little blond girl? And how loudly a proud father will laugh when she shows her daddy what she took from them?
9:24
That is the look of pure hatred.
Can’t you just play without scamming and play with like 20 and just try to get the counters to 17,13,9,5 for you opponent to then go and you would win, or am I wrong
I remember coding an AI for this game using logic gates a few years ago after watching your video.
same
Back in 1999 for a high school computer science class I hard coded the other version of Nin, the one with 3 piles. You had to go first and play perfectly or the computer would win.
I have since learned the formula for that game. If I had known it at the time, my code would have been a lot simpler.
look up dr. nim. It's a board game of nim from the 60s.
@@cameronwebster6866 I believe Matt Parker made a video showing how Dr. Nim works.
@@cameronwebster6866 I saw the board game before I saw the scam school episode.
If you start with 17, you can keep picking match's and counting to make sure you pick the match number 12. With that, your opponent will have 5 on the table. You win always.
She pick 1- you pick 3- she loses;
She pick 2- you pick 2 - she loses;
She pick 3- you pick 1- she loses;
Another MAGIC father daughter moment!!
Honestly not even upset that these are basically recycled be old videos. I never thought of using these tricks with kids. It brings a whole new angle to it.
I can remember that you have same game but for cards.. And then there's a twist even after the mirorring is revealed.
This was another nice father and daughter video.
Thanks and more power
Shwood family!
4:59 LOL!!!
Best Duo ever I need this to continue
I was actually waiting for Brian on the last one to have a match tucked away to reverse the reverse
His reaction to her getting it is always awesome
Anyone else remember when he was even younger and he did the cigarette on the tongue tricks and stuff to strangers at bars etc
Is "assault with a mummified weapon" from a movie? Google was no help.
I first learned NIM in 1962 after watching the movie Last Year at Marienbad. The game was played several times throughout the film, but the solution was never given. I immediately saw the solution and have been frustrating people with it ever since.
I have been playing this game (for free drinks) for 2 decades. Never new it had a name, but the version I learned is slightly different.
Start with 15 things. As long as you leave the opponent with 14, 9, or 5 you will always win, and there is always a chance to leave them with those numbers within one to two turns and then always after.
No extras are ever needed to change the values.
You would make a great joker. Your laugh is perfect haha
this was great i knew all the tricks from the start but only because i built this game as a cell phone game
These are my favorite videos in you're daughters reaction alone!
Learned this in Intro to Game Theory back in college. A perfectly solved game where the first mover has absolute advantage. Shocking we played for money too...
Do you actually need to use the sleight of hand?
The goal with mirroring is to do it on a even or odd number of sticks. So wouldn't it work just as well if on your first draw you only made the total three instead of four to even out the number on the table and only from there on do the match-four technique?
Dude you and your daughter vids are so cute. Keep up the great content. Long time scam school fan
Hey, Brian! Just out of curiosity, when Josie suspected you of sleight of hand, were you actually adding matches?
If so, she wins by default.. just sayin.
He didn't do slight of hand... yet. The cheating is done at the first move of the game. Note his hand when he takes the first match, at 5:10 and 6:00. That's when he adds a match to the pile.
@@YourXavier Ohhh, awesome! Thanks!! Fair play then. Haha
This is totally like a game/scam a old guy taught me. 3 piles of quarters, a 3,5, and 7 pile. Each turn u can only take from one pile, 1,2,3 etc. or all. Last coin looses. I did get quite good at it. First player can always win if you know the patterns, learned the hard way. Watched the old guy at a bar beat a doctor 100 times in a row...lol Please make a video.
I like the both of you! You are an amazing team!
here i was thinking it was about doctor nim the marble game
It's the same game, just that one has a machine that always chooses the correct number of marbles so that you always lose.
uhm... why did this come AFTER the beer, wine and shot of strong alcohol challenges?
You think anyone plays Nim with a magician sober?
My favorite line my adult sister and I use as adults now. "Don't tell mom".
I was just scrolling through ur old videos cuz it has been a while since i watched them and i came across the mind control scam which i had forgotten..Just wanted to say that ur stuff is awesome
It's funny that I already knew this from and old episode of viking vickie. Although Lumperich never started (so that he never had to add an object) and it was about who takes a black casket at the end. But Vickie won in the end by adding an additional object he earned during the episode so that there were 18 objects. (The episode is called "Ein gewisser Herr Lumperich" in germany, it was the 7th episode of the second season or just episode 33).
In germany the game is called "Nimmspiel" or just "Nimm", which translates to "Take-game" or just "Take". Interesting to see that the name is basically the same in english speaking countries.
I picked up the patter half way through the third play through… never been too good at figuring it out… still haven’t finished the video… but I’m confident
You cheating bastard! 2 on the leg?!?!?!?! Lmao I was so close. Great video!
I realized mid way through that when Brian did it. He took the matching amount so that it would = 4 on a set of turns. Idk if this was purposeful or not.
5:00 it’s always adding up to 4 between their turns. Hmmm
Do you even need to add in extra ones if you go first? Couldn't you just make sure that you add one more to what you have to pick? I mean there's slight risk if your opponent always picks 1. Is the sleight of hand for adding the extra match in easier than a sleight of hand for grabbing more than one?
That’s usually how I do it
What a beautiful family.
Im waiting for brian to say "ok you be the scammer" and then double crosses her and drops even more matches in and still wins just to mess with her head.
His laugh cracks me up....
so it's basically question of:
do you wanna go first or do you wanna go first? :D
This is the 11 game. Counting up the numbers in increments of either 1,2,3 the person that says 11 loses
Before the explanation. If they take 1, we take 3, if they take 2, we take 2, if they take 3, we take 1. Its easy to see that it is the same as 4+4+4+4 =16 so 1 left over, but what if they do it to you?
this was hilarious and adorable at the same time.
9:49 ha knew it
Only 12 more responsible than Brian
Wow she is awesome. Also first time ever seeing a video within 15min of upload (especially since I am at school rn)
i suppose if you cant or dont want to do the sleight of hand, you can just take one in the beginning, and then somewhere down the line do a fake count (like the one Pete Boie taught once upon a time), taking one less than you say you are.
why the second match on the lap?
Josie.is the best version of this timeline.
Has anyone ever caught on to the change in the numbers present? I mean I have not paid attention to how Brian was counting while taking matches. Let alone paid attention of the changed number of matches…
So if you only add one marker why do you need two of the last three pocketed?
Ok. I'm at the 4:39 mark in the video. This is the first time I've ever thought that I knew the solution before it was revealed. My guess is he is just making it equal 4 every time he pulls matches?
I am surprised that Josie did not know this game already.... It is the ultimate father-daughter argument settler. (Best of three and whomever wins gets their way)
Not completely fool proof but when starting with 18 just make sure you get the total taken that turn to 5 if they start, that's effectively making it a seventeen start and that way the game is totally fair I believe, the only way to lose would be if they only take singles, which stops you from making the total 5.
If I'm completely wrong please tell me, I haven't tested it, it was only a thought.
its so adorable!!! modern rogue crossover?
That would be amazing and wholesome
they already did that
ruclips.net/video/3pjmBOpOB14/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/Q1xvAcL6nrc/видео.html
u can also do this
17
2 2
1 3
still end up at 9 but seems less obvious. works better with more at the start :D
also brian messes up. use a matchbox of 20. but have one from another box prepared.
This is why you don’t scam a mathematician as we can start adding rather quickly known something have changed
The game of 21 is basically the same game but its verbal and 4 more
This is awesome, and lol, i pity the poor sop that eventually gets scammed into carrying her books all year at college or something one day
I'm probably not going to have kids, so these videos give me paternal warm fuzzies. :-)
Josie!
She's 12 now, learning all these insane scams. Imagine what will happen years from now, like when she is in college.
College boys: Imma scam this girl
College boys: outscammed
Uncle Jason: detected the boys with his android power
Papa Brian : Breathe Fire
Classic solvable puzzle game
Can't this game be played with 18 matches from the start? If you go first, just take one, then begin the rounds of 4. If she goes first, add the first round to 5, then to 4 from there on out. That way no one could ever question a sleight of hand trick ;)
I know NIM from my math classes. They left out the palming, though!
2:27 She is getting smarter! WATCH OUT
11:19 than she could say I bring 1 (and not 3) to win
The Kraken brought me here.
I'm stumped again. Any ideas?
I never did NIM that way. My trick is that I would count in a binary like system and either keep the pile even or odd depending on who goes first.