The trick is in the false premise. It is just applied mathematics, but by presenting it as a "predictability" puzzle many are instantly now focused on "proving" the socially valued trait of being original and unique via this demonstration, thus completely ignoring other logical factors in the test that could be contributing to the result. The misguiding premise puts all focus on the desire to outsmart and this in essence hides the secret of the trick until it is explained.... Without this distraction...people would likely figure it out more easily. I think that's apart of a master magician's plan. Use distractions to hide what might otherwise be obvious.
not true, if you move back and forth between certain squares like the ima and the arrows, if you did it right, you should land on the arrows as they're being removed
@@nori_6055 i did. i said that if you switch back and forth between certain squares, you can end up on the one he selects. it was a week ago, i dont remember exactly what i did
It's just a process of elimination. He removed squares that wasn't possible for you to be on anyways, and thus he was limiting your options and walking you to his own destination. Basically he was defining your path while making you believe you had a choice.
I’m guessing a lot of people don’t think to move back and forth between 2 pieces. All I wanted to be on was the face below start and it was taken off pretty quickly.
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Honestly this guy explained the trick pretty well. I did it before to one of my friends and struggled with explaining it to her but this is very well explained
It's quite easy, they are either on an odd square or an even one, so just take the opposite one in a way that doesn't isolate any squares, continue until there's only one left.
That makes sense and clearly it was never about being predictable, there's rules and patterns that have to be followed that will end with the same result Is only called predictable by hiding the patterns
Yeah the term predictable here is used in the same way as it is used when doing a magic trick where you predict what card someone will draw but you actually make it happen the way you want it to. So yeah no one is really under the impression that this is a real test of predictably
I came into this looking to be impressed, but as soon as you started explaining the rules, I'd already figured out the gimmick. This is only one step about those social media numbers games where someone predicts a number you've picked by asking you to complete a series of simple math equations.
@@dvsgkbdjhsuioxgb4082 you moved an even number of times using \/ then XD I am quite sure of that Any odd number of \/ will throw you off by one square away from the legal spots (if you did not diagonal at the last move btw lol) Wait lemme fix: You moved an even number of times using \/+ a normal move
Hilariously, I misunderstood the instructions, thinking I only needed to move one square within the time limit of his counting. Despite this, I still wound up on the final square.
LMAO this comment. Goddamn it made me laugh so hard now I'm farting right now and it Fucking smells like death. GOD DAMN DID I JUST FUCKING RELEASE THE 3 HORSE MEN. that Popeyes popcorn shrimp was good but iono if it was that good. Normally I just blow out the Fucking toilet. but this feels different...I think the doomsday clock just moved forward.
TheFinalAzcent there are no objectives, only rules. The rules are only set so that he can predict. What's the point of playing the game if there's only one outcome?
You have freedom, but by the end of it, you feel like you're being dragged around instead of moving around freely, this has more applications than just a fun little game. It can really be applied to psychology and behaviour/communication to achieve the same results.
He makes you think you have freedom, but the ones he removes are ones that are literally impossible to get to given the amount of moves for that round. The only way you can win is if you mess up and miscount and end up on a square you aren't supposed to be on
After the first three post-it notes was removed I was complaining because "he didn't give me enough moves (to get to the spot I wanted)" and then it took a split second to realise it was definitely a math thing, which is not my forte but could definitely recognise it, which makes me a little bit proud of myself ^^
I figured it out on the second move. I was confused because he said you aren’t on the “house” and I was like, “that’s not possible” and it clicked in my head
@@Zypher0 no, actually, recognise is the correct spelling of the English word in English. American English is an Americanised version of English, which makes it wrong by definition.
James knows where you are at all times. He knows this because he knows where you aren't. By subtracting where you are from where you aren't, or subtracting where you aren't from where you are, whichever is greater, he obtains a difference, or deviation. He uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the viewer from a position where they are, to a position where they aren't, and arriving to a position where they weren't, they now are. Consequently, the position that they are is now the position where they weren't, and it follows that the position that they were is now the position that they aren't. I would do more but this is too difficult and my brain hurts.
This is such an elegant mathematical trick, but I can’t help but feel bad for the people who simply cannot understand that it is IMPOSSIBLE to win this game. It is genuinely baffling seeing as many people tricking themselves into believing that they are unpredictable, this is not to actually test your predictability, it is more to demonstrate how cool patterns are. And the video even tells us exactly why it is impossible to win. I honestly can’t tell who are trolls and who are actual confused people. But if you are in doubt, watch the video to it’s entirety and listen to his explanation. It will make sense if you just listen.
I’d probably title this video. “How to make people think they’re playing a fair game” It’s actually interesting commentary as in an isolated setting where people were thrown into a game; they definitely wouldn’t be able to realize they were being strung along until it was too late/in too deep. I think the removal of two squares reveals your hand too quickly. You would either have to remove 3 squares after or keep removing 1 square at a time. The reason you would want to not make big moves in this game is because you would entice people to cheat early on. On face value, stripping the ability to move diagonally is an acceptable stipulation. You could even use a real life board where there are fences to prevent such movement but again you don’t want to tip off your player too early as even with a fence than they would no longer subconsciously be heeding it.
With the right presentation and maybe time pressure or misdirection people would just accept it and not ask any questions. Once the 2nd square got removed I asked myself "What if I was on that square?" And thus came to realize, that it was impossible. So yes, presentation is key
Pretty simple when you really think about it. I figured it was a simple case of process of elimination, after all you're the one determining how many squares we move and preventing diagonal movement, but it's still neat to hear about how it works. Without knowing the specifics of the trick it almost looks like magic.
Yh after a few rounds i was like, bugger this guy is gonna get me... and started to question how and then just by the end I realised the squares he was removing were mostly likely squares I could not get to becuase of the number of times he said to move-just didn't formulate the odd-even system he showed yet, but the theory was all there
@@jordanstanley3111 you can but it doesn't make a difference. If you try you will find that you still end up on an "even numbered square" or an "uneven numbered square" in his explanation he makes this very clear with the blue and yellow squares
First off, kudos for that intriguing mathematical magic trick! 🎩✨ I must say, every spot I picked seemed to be the "wrong" one according to your narrative, but isn't the beauty of math that it's a realm of infinite possibilities? Just like in a vast number landscape, I can wander back and forth, exploring every nook and cranny. After all, isn't every choice just as probable as the next in the grand scheme of things? And speaking of schemes, I couldn't help but notice: even in the absence of a square, surrounding squares can inherently define one. It's like the silent notes in a musical piece that give rhythm to the audible ones. The unseen, yet ever-present square! 🟩 Keep up the magical math content, and remember, every viewer's journey through your tricks is unique, and that's what makes it all the more enchanting! Cheers to more mathemagical adventures! 🌌🔢
@@spook6394 he never said you couldnt bounce between the same 2 squares. if you land on ima for the final 7, 1 ima-> waves. 2 waves -> ima 3 ima -> waves 4 waves ima. 5 ima -> smile 6 smile ima, 7 ima waves. theres infinite number of possibilities that you can end on and most of the time it works but its not 100%.
@@IvyDoomsdaywe can cut this trick to one dimension, just to show why what you said makes no sense. Start at number 9, you are allowed to move between numbers 1 and 15. Each time i name a number, you move either +1 or -1. Then, i will guess where you are not standing. Okay, so: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. You did not end up on any odd number. Simple as that, no matter how much you move back and forth, you will end up on even number. If you don't, please tell me how you did it. The prediction in the video works the same way, but in two dimensions, as you can move only from yellow to blue or from blue to yellow (from odd to even or from even to odd). Because of that, each time you are on the odd number he will remove even, and each time you are on the even number he will remove odd, until there are no more spaces left
It's funny that this had an incredibly intuitive explanation to me because of Mario Party. One of the Switch games (and maybe others in the series, I'm not sure) has a mode where you have a grid to move on in whichever directions you choose. You can't move diagonally and can't go back to the same square you were just on (i.e. you can't go from A to B to A again) but otherwise can move freely. One of the very common results of this ruleset is that you end up being one square away from the star because you need to use every one of your rolled moves. You can't roll a 10 and only use 9 moves. Therefore, if the star is an odd number of spaces from you, no even roll will get you where you want to go. This experience led me to instantly understand what was happening. A very clever game nonetheless.
@@zaek2144 - oh of course. Wasn't expecting any sort of niche support from an 8 year old comment, I just found it funny they put 'it' instead of just leaving the he/she. Either way, my legs hurt, I've been walking all day!
@@gwen_gets_got Ah, yep, they could have done that instead xD. Concerning the hurting legs, after a heavy day of exercise I usually go for a shower + nap/sleep to rest, although everyone has their modus operandi I guess
That’s actually crazy bro I was going in all sorts of random directions, going back forth between the same squares, and I still ultimately ended up right where he wanted me
@zakae6hdt7 He is correct, though. When you're limited to only lateral movements, you'll be switching from an odd numbered square to an even numbered square, or vice versa. So you start at position `0` which is an even numbered square, when you move once you'll either end up at position `1` or position `3`, both of which are odd numbered squares. Hence removing any even numbered square will guarantee that you're not on it, and it will help reduce the number of squares to eventually reach the one he wants you to be on. Move once more and you'll either be on position `2`, `4` or `6`. All of which are, once again, even numbered squares.
It's the mario party rule of having to roll the exact number to collect the star. There are limitations to where you could be based on the number rolled (or given in this case). It does make for a really cool trick.
Well, it freaking worked. I thought "I will just do it because I can" And then, what the heck happened? Exactly, I thought the IMA was going to win, but I decided to go to the face, and when he took off the IMA, lol, he predicted what I was going to do
I did not understand the rules of this game, but somehow I still ended up on the last square. I thought he was counting down how much time I had left to chose a square, but I wasn’t able to move more than one time. Lol
I was moving as he was calling out the numbers and still beat it. I obviously didn’t go back to the squares where he had removed sticky notes. I’m not sure what’s so impossible about it?
@@crashnebula7 if you think you "beat it" you obviously didn't play the game correctly. It's quite literally impossible to "win" if you follow the rules-
@@snifferrr Yeah i landed on the wavy lines and he took it off while i was on it and when i redo it it’s about 70% on the bottom left and about 30% not
Edit: i didn’t “fall” for the trick, and I like the guy’s explanation. Not trying to throw HIM under the bus. It’s the concept of using these kind of “tricks” (math tricks if you will) for what I am talking about. A lot of “psychologists”, “magicians” and “mentalists” love to “predict” what people can do, but it’s always in controlled environments using tricks like this. Always fun to see how so many want to feel smug by making others feel “ordinary”, “predictable”, “normal”, etc… Makes one wander about human nature and its predilection for stepping on others to rise up (or just feel better) even when there are other, just as obvious, paths.
I mean, the point of this video isn't to make anyone feel dumb, it's to show how subtle constraints can make an apparently normal seeming algorithm entirely deterministic. Though yes, some of the people who go into those careers can be some blend of narcissistic or sadistic... those types are drawn to positions of power.
You have a point but in reality the premise of the trick is "click bait", both online and in real life. It's all based off of essentially taunting people with the "I'm better than you" approach in order to get them to invest into a trick. So who's attempting to step on who? The magician or the audience? That's the better question.
The thing is that before he even started to count or to do anything , without knowing what is going to happen, i had already chosen this happy face randomly. And to my surprise , it ended up being the one that the guy "predicted" . Pretty cool
The only way to win this is by moving back to the one you were already on, I moved back to the middle and he removed it, if I you just keep going he removed them in an order that you can’t win
My mind immediately went "it's got something to do with odd and even numbers" cuz I couldn't get back into my little corner with the number of moves he counted and he eliminated the corner that I wanted on the first movement set But I can't be bothered to figure it out exactly on my own right now... so that's just the first intuition I had Edit: just continued watching and... well that was even more spot on than I expected, it really was just that not an addition on the specific numbers huh
Of course you can "predict" how someone will very likely behave in a given controlled scenario when you act as an omniscient observer who arbitrarily dictates the options available and not to participants in the given scenario -- you're essentially having the participants play-out a game with which you've pre-scripted its conclusion, leaving the participants little chance to beat the house like in gambling.
How does this have so many likes. The player has no chance to beat the game because he literally explains why this trick works every single time. There is no "prediction". There is only one square that anyone can end up on if they follow the rules. He EXPLAINS this. Why is everyone giving their own explanation
@@derickd6150 I landed on the little wave symbol, and he said I probably wasn't on there and removed the sticky note. Maybe I didn't follow the rules correctly but all I did was move back and forth on the wave option and I landed there lol.
@@ZverseZ Yeah you couldn't have cause he explains why this must always work afterwards. He never removes blue when you could be on a blue, it's not hard to see that that must be the case. So if you didn't end up where he says then you must have made an error. I have tried many many times and I always get where he says no matter what I try
@@derickd6150 I got in the wavy square too It because if u just move on 2 different squares for the first part then when u move on the same 2 squares for the second part. The odd blue paper will turn even because when u add 2 odd numbers it turns even so that’s how u ‘beat’ the game
@@petrapinter349 im having a really hard time grasping what your idea is here, I've even tried doing what you suggest but the trick still works, so are you actually certain you're not doing it wrong? Because the maths still works so i'm not entirely sure why you're convinced you've beaten it.
He didn't say anything about the playing field shrinking as you go beforehand, so I just ignored when he removed them since it wasn't an established part of the rules. Ended up in the upper right square at the end.
I love how it ended for me I'm tired so I tought we were allowed to do diagonals. I did it more than 50% of the time. Still worked perfectly. I am the most predictable man on earth
not if you moved diagonally and in straight line interchangably, if you did only one or the other then the trick could be performed but would need to be slightly reworked.@@cyanideonfire5924
If you keep track of all the squares you could possibly be on you quickly realize its a parity problem. By taking away some squares that are off-parity each round, you cut it down in the end to only one option remaining.
@@moniquestewart2282 Then you made a mistake. To make this easier I'll mark the squares like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - You start on the "start" square (1) - He tells you to move right or down (2, 4) - He takes away the start square which ↑ you're obviously not on - Now each time he says a number you move up right left or down (2, 4) 1: (3, 5, 7) 2: (2, 4, 6, 8) 3: (3, 5, 7, 9) 4: (2, 4, 6, 8) 5: (3, 5, 7, 9) notice each step alternates between you being on an even number and on an odd number - He now takes away the 6 (which we're not on as you can see) (3, 5, 7, 9) 1: (2, 4, 8) *evens 2: (3, 5, 7, 9) *odds ... 9: (2, 4, 8) - Following the pattern above an odd number will give us the remaining even squares. If you need further confirmation try writing it out yourself. - He now takes away the 9 and the 3 (again, both odds and we're on evens so this is correct) - He counts to 5 giving us the opposite parity, we should be on odds. The remaining odds are: (5, 7) - He takes away 2 and 4 (Since we're on odds this is correct) - He counts to 7 giving us the opposite parity again, we should be on evens. 8 is the only remaining even number so we are guaranteed to be on 8. - He takes away the 7, leaving only 5 as the remaining odd number. - He tells you to move one more, We were guaranteed to be on 8, so that is no longer a possibility. He takes that away and there is only one square left, the one he says we're on.
This reminds me of the end of Return to Zork where you have to play a chess-like game called Survivor, where the goal is to force the other player into being unable to move. It was played on a grid, and one player would move like a chess Knight (two steps forward, one step sidweays), the other could teleport to any unoccupied spot on the board. The kicker was that any time YOU move, that spot disappears and can no longer be landed on. So the trick was to completely ignore the other guy and focus solely on plotting out your moves such that you would end up on one of only two unoccupied squares, thus winning the game because the enemy can't move.
I was blown away. Thinking I was smarter I moved out the 3x3 grid and on tiles that was already removed, as he never said it wasn't allowed and managed to land on an unremoved tile each time. You should've seen my face when I landed in the last tile at the end. Makes perfect sense now that I know the solution but still.
Originally you think there are 9 spots you could be on until your told to start at a specific spot and remove 1 space. So you might as well of started with 8 spots for you to be on and always count up to an odd number for this trick to work. It's like Super Mario Party on the gold map where you could move on any space but since it's either odd or even you'll ether land on the star space or not.
The way I beat this was just go back and forth from square to square. He said you can’t go diagonally but up, down, right, left. He didn’t mention anything about going back and forth or not choosing the square tour where originally on
The reason why he didn't say you can't move back and forth is because you can, and if you won even with this strategy, you did something wrong. If you listened to his explanation, that's still mathematically impossible to win by going back and forth. For example, if you're starting on a "yellow" square and they say to move a odd amount of moves such as 7, no matter what you do, such as moving back and forth, you are mathematically guaranteed to end up on a "blue" square. If they say to go an even number of moves, such as 4, you are mathematically guaranteed to end up on another "yellow" square. So, if you won, you cheated, possibly on accident or not.
The way this works is you'll always land up on the same square. The game puts in place rules that inevitably lead to one outcome. You're just not familiar with the hidden mechanics when you're doing it.
The real unpredictability is when you move your finger to the left of the start square. He never said that it was against abiding by the rules when you placed your finger on a position outside the boundaries of the square. To add up, he even claims that the only move you cannot commit is to move diagonally, meaning it was possible for you to move to the left of the square and outside the grid of squares without ever having to get caught.
basically logic, even if you're in the wrong square he'll bring you into the final square, also I got into the last square too because I liked the smile face :D
I thought about the same thing and started moving my finger across imaginary out of bounds squares and funniest thing is that even though i moved my finger out of bounds i still ended up on the smiley face square
@@samradnivaidya6969 you've got in wrong guys, it's absolutely impossible unless you cheat, if you do cheat at the beggining you could then for example finish on the circle (after the second pair of moves), but impossible) lines (third pair), IMA (forth), and then play until you exit on the lines (fifth)
I wish you could have seen my mischievous grin upon narrowly avoiding this lol After hearing that you could guess which one i'd pick i immediately picked one at random, and ended up with the face in bottom left. At every turn i did all i could to remain on that one, but at the end i had no choice but to move to the other, at which point you revealed it. That was quite fun
@@dakotataylor993 I wouldn't call it an equation. The dude just always gives you an odd number, whether that's 1 or 999 it doesn't matter. This causes you to switch between odd and even squares every time you finish all your moves. He removes the even when you're on odd and vice versa and funnels you to a square. Any square he wants. I don't know how you'd be able to represent that in an equation. I'm really not a fan of the whole "alternating colours" explanation he gives. It explains the trick but doesn't explain why you switch between colours.
That's true. You'll have to add some stipulation to prevent this. The simplest/least revealing one is probably to only allow an odd or even number of moves when you're down to three. Or you can give them a free move and hope they switch at some point from odd to even or vice versa.
This is flawed, you gave me the choice to move up, down, left or right, I moved left on your face. You didn't say in the rules I must stay on a sticky note :P
kinda worked this out by the second move, you're using the number of moves to eliminate choices, not sure how that has anything to do with predictability but it's a neat trick
Not sure if the video guy even thought this but you could argue the predictability could be that people are trying to outsmart the game and fail to notice there was something else behind?
I understood immediately that I could seperate the squares into diagonal groups, and represent alternating groups as odd or even. Very simple, surprised some people are stumped by it.
It’s pretty easy to tell that based on the amount of moves you give that it is impossible to end up on one of the outliers so you take it away and always leave space for one more so you can take that away…
No. No you can’t. The math literally prevents this, its just going from yes you’re on a blue one to you’re on a yellow one, even if you’re specifically trying to go to the one he is going to remove next, you can’t.
Are u dumb 😭😭😭 when u backtrack ur literally still following the pattern it doesn’t matter which way💀 like going from yellow to blue, then *backtrack* to yellow , *backtrack again* then it’s blue again. It’s still yellow/blue/yellow/blue
When you control the moves it's not predictability, just manipulation and yeah, a neat little trick with math just like using equations to guess a number someone else thought of
I was on the wavy lines when he took them away lol Edit: I guess I should've maybe done it with the original linked video? Because here, he never said you couldn't go back, just not diagonally. So I didn't end up where he wanted the first time, OR with the colored example.
He never said I wasn’t allowed to go back to a spot that he had picked up. He never actually said that by removing the picture that he was actually removing that as an option, so I wound up on blanks every time after the first turn.
Now this could be useful for game design where you want your player to think they have free choice, but ensuring they always end up at the same ending.
So remove freedom from people but make them think they are free? Sounds too real to me. How about we don’t master that concept as a species. That would be great.
Fun fact, if you start with the top left square at 1,1, the square to the right being 1,2 and the square below being 2,1, you can determine if a square is yellow if both numbers are odd or if both numbers are even.
I'm not predictable. I moved left at the start and ended up on his forehead. By the end, I was on his nose.
MrID36 I landed on his eye.
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made me laugh. thanks!
Cheater.
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What’s funny is that every time he took out a square, it was the exact square I was trying to get to
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Bruh same
My squares all got picked up😭
Same! I was so sad he kept taking my favourites! 🤣
Same
This doesn’t measure how predictable one is, but is simply a trick of arithmetic.
The trick is in the false premise. It is just applied mathematics, but by presenting it as a "predictability" puzzle many are instantly now focused on "proving" the socially valued trait of being original and unique via this demonstration, thus completely ignoring other logical factors in the test that could be contributing to the result. The misguiding premise puts all focus on the desire to outsmart and this in essence hides the secret of the trick until it is explained.... Without this distraction...people would likely figure it out more easily.
I think that's apart of a master magician's plan. Use distractions to hide what might otherwise be obvious.
Hello guy who commented yesterday on a 9 year old video
@@EliiKlee Hehe, I’m kinda late.
@@locrianphantom3547 aren't we all?
I mean he says that in the video so I'm not sure why you felt the need to point that out
It’s not about being predictable, it’s about maths. The conditions he gives make it impossible for us to end on the squares he removes.
not true, if you move back and forth between certain squares like the ima and the arrows, if you did it right, you should land on the arrows as they're being removed
@@patricklowe2064Nah, i don’t think so
@@nori_6055 ik because i did it
@@patricklowe2064 then please tell me your Solution, because I can’t see it
@@nori_6055 i did. i said that if you switch back and forth between certain squares, you can end up on the one he selects. it was a week ago, i dont remember exactly what i did
It's just a process of elimination. He removed squares that wasn't possible for you to be on anyways, and thus he was limiting your options and walking you to his own destination. Basically he was defining your path while making you believe you had a choice.
ohhhhhhhh
Free will explained
horrifying way to put it
that is both cool and really scary
Yea but you can move any way but not diagonally... You can literally go to the square your not supposed to be on in some circumstances.
That's very true. An even number of moves is just as predictable.
Nice singing, banana.
He’s the person in the video
he narrowed the options by taking the spots i could've chosen :/
Its also predictable when its the only things you can technically do unless you dont listen
Its still pretty cool im not hating or anything
But these are just stupid unpredictable Maths ever like complete bulls*** what a nuissance & useless weird type Math shit
Cool trick. Realized I was playing a no-win game after the third “move” and decided to go for a trip diagonally. Fun times.
Where can I obtain this power
I went back up to start on my second move, I didn’t play against the rules and still beat the trick
@@wyattmab but you can’t move to a space that has the note removed, so you did break the rules.
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@@michaelg8841 never said you couldn't. There wasn't a reason for him to remove the sticky notes in the first place.
I’m guessing a lot of people don’t think to move back and forth between 2 pieces. All I wanted to be on was the face below start and it was taken off pretty quickly.
I did actually and ended up on a square he removed while i was on it. i guess he lost this time
Exactly what I did. I only came to the comments to see who else didn't do as "predicted" lol
At a certian point, it doesnt matter. I played three times. Neat trick
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You probably miscounted. This trick is mathematically guaranteed to work.@@ValeKasutaja
The real magic trick is how he got the post it notes to float in front of him. True magic.
Glass.
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@@Water8500 its clearly due to a ritual sacrifice, idiot
@@Water8500 you didn't get the joke
@@hsrmikki3201 Didn't laugh.
@@Water8500
the joke
your head
Honestly this guy explained the trick pretty well. I did it before to one of my friends and struggled with explaining it to her but this is very well explained
She friend zone you.
@@SoItGoes5 After that trick she definitely did😹
@@SoItGoes5 What does that have to do with anything, wtf?
It's quite easy, they are either on an odd square or an even one, so just take the opposite one in a way that doesn't isolate any squares, continue until there's only one left.
He is a mathematicians after all. You can see him on Numberphile.
That makes sense and clearly it was never about being predictable, there's rules and patterns that have to be followed that will end with the same result
Is only called predictable by hiding the patterns
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Yeah the term predictable here is used in the same way as it is used when doing a magic trick where you predict what card someone will draw but you actually make it happen the way you want it to. So yeah no one is really under the impression that this is a real test of predictably
Although I finished up on an other one
I came into this looking to be impressed, but as soon as you started explaining the rules, I'd already figured out the gimmick. This is only one step about those social media numbers games where someone predicts a number you've picked by asking you to complete a series of simple math equations.
I was trying to be unpredictable by starting from bottom right against the rules and he still guessed right 💀
I was moving like this \/ because i didnt understand rules and still he guessed it xd
@@dvsgkbdjhsuioxgb4082 you moved an even number of times using \/ then XD I am quite sure of that
Any odd number of \/ will throw you off by one square away from the legal spots (if you did not diagonal at the last move btw lol)
Wait lemme fix:
You moved an even number of times using \/+ a normal move
FR
💀
As long as you started from an yellow square he would end up being right
Hilariously, I misunderstood the instructions, thinking I only needed to move one square within the time limit of his counting. Despite this, I still wound up on the final square.
ofc, since 1 is a odd number
me too xd
LMAO this comment. Goddamn it made me laugh so hard now I'm farting right now and it Fucking smells like death. GOD DAMN DID I JUST FUCKING RELEASE THE 3 HORSE MEN. that Popeyes popcorn shrimp was good but iono if it was that good. Normally I just blow out the Fucking toilet. but this feels different...I think the doomsday clock just moved forward.
@@Eric-jk3oi LMFAOO WHAT???
@@Eric-jk3oi "holy shit"
Interesting how people say they "won" by not landing on the predicted square.
+McDucky lol won, yes, you won the "you doing it wrong" trophy XD
Nekogami-Crystal i cheated. Rules are meant to create order out of chaos. But without chaos there would be no rules, so i had to cheat.
what's the point of cheating, if cheating makes you fail the puzzle?
TheFinalAzcent there are no objectives, only rules. The rules are only set so that he can predict. What's the point of playing the game if there's only one outcome?
Every game, choice or anything at all has one outcome. There is no true chaos.
You have freedom, but by the end of it, you feel like you're being dragged around instead of moving around freely, this has more applications than just a fun little game. It can really be applied to psychology and behaviour/communication to achieve the same results.
He makes you think you have freedom, but the ones he removes are ones that are literally impossible to get to given the amount of moves for that round. The only way you can win is if you mess up and miscount and end up on a square you aren't supposed to be on
It's more math than psychology...
I'm more impressed at how he can make the papers float in the air
Glass?😂
he just keeps throwing magic at us
@@Bulletcss joke went over you head?
@@Bulletcss we cant make jokes now eh?
OMG isn't that obvious? Its CGI XD
After the first three post-it notes was removed I was complaining because "he didn't give me enough moves (to get to the spot I wanted)" and then it took a split second to realise it was definitely a math thing, which is not my forte but could definitely recognise it, which makes me a little bit proud of myself ^^
I wanted the 3 wavy lines😭😭
I figured it out on the second move. I was confused because he said you aren’t on the “house” and I was like, “that’s not possible” and it clicked in my head
Recognize* :)
The thing with the counting was a maths thing? No way.
@@Zypher0 no, actually, recognise is the correct spelling of the English word in English. American English is an Americanised version of English, which makes it wrong by definition.
i love that it's been almost *a decade* from this video being published and we still see it on our home page
same
lol i love the profile pic
amity’s
@@weirdadi6781 YES, i believe in amity blight supremacy and nothing can change my mind🛐🛐
it now is and i just saw it on my home page
James knows where you are at all times. He knows this because he knows where you aren't. By subtracting where you are from where you aren't, or subtracting where you aren't from where you are, whichever is greater, he obtains a difference, or deviation. He uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the viewer from a position where they are, to a position where they aren't, and arriving to a position where they weren't, they now are. Consequently, the position that they are is now the position where they weren't, and it follows that the position that they were is now the position that they aren't.
I would do more but this is too difficult and my brain hurts.
The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows it cuz it knows where it isnt....
We have no free will 😭😭
This is such an elegant mathematical trick, but I can’t help but feel bad for the people who simply cannot understand that it is IMPOSSIBLE to win this game. It is genuinely baffling seeing as many people tricking themselves into believing that they are unpredictable, this is not to actually test your predictability, it is more to demonstrate how cool patterns are. And the video even tells us exactly why it is impossible to win. I honestly can’t tell who are trolls and who are actual confused people. But if you are in doubt, watch the video to it’s entirety and listen to his explanation. It will make sense if you just listen.
It actually is! I ended up on the very last one that he took away- the middle bottom one. I don’t remember how I did it, but I did.
if you go to the crossed out o on the first turn then go down 3 times down then 1 to the right and then up you will beat him
@@kirills8070 you can't go down 3 times, there are only 3 rows
@@EmF95573 you just made a mistake. it's an algorithm, there's nothing to beat.
@@nikvalinskysorry i meant 2
I’d probably title this video. “How to make people think they’re playing a fair game”
It’s actually interesting commentary as in an isolated setting where people were thrown into a game; they definitely wouldn’t be able to realize they were being strung along until it was too late/in too deep. I think the removal of two squares reveals your hand too quickly. You would either have to remove 3 squares after or keep removing 1 square at a time. The reason you would want to not make big moves in this game is because you would entice people to cheat early on. On face value, stripping the ability to move diagonally is an acceptable stipulation. You could even use a real life board where there are fences to prevent such movement but again you don’t want to tip off your player too early as even with a fence than they would no longer subconsciously be heeding it.
That comment got big fast
With the right presentation and maybe time pressure or misdirection people would just accept it and not ask any questions. Once the 2nd square got removed I asked myself "What if I was on that square?" And thus came to realize, that it was impossible. So yes, presentation is key
U high bro?
Kongming pp
Pretty simple when you really think about it. I figured it was a simple case of process of elimination, after all you're the one determining how many squares we move and preventing diagonal movement, but it's still neat to hear about how it works. Without knowing the specifics of the trick it almost looks like magic.
Yh after a few rounds i was like, bugger this guy is gonna get me... and started to question how and then just by the end I realised the squares he was removing were mostly likely squares I could not get to becuase of the number of times he said to move-just didn't formulate the odd-even system he showed yet, but the theory was all there
You can move back and forth never said you couldnt
@@jordanstanley3111 yeah but even if you did you still have to end up in the same place
@@jordanstanley3111 you can but it doesn't make a difference. If you try you will find that you still end up on an "even numbered square" or an "uneven numbered square" in his explanation he makes this very clear with the blue and yellow squares
it doesnt actually work. His prediction that I could follow his counting was immeasurably incorrect.
First off, kudos for that intriguing mathematical magic trick! 🎩✨ I must say, every spot I picked seemed to be the "wrong" one according to your narrative, but isn't the beauty of math that it's a realm of infinite possibilities? Just like in a vast number landscape, I can wander back and forth, exploring every nook and cranny. After all, isn't every choice just as probable as the next in the grand scheme of things?
And speaking of schemes, I couldn't help but notice: even in the absence of a square, surrounding squares can inherently define one. It's like the silent notes in a musical piece that give rhythm to the audible ones. The unseen, yet ever-present square! 🟩
Keep up the magical math content, and remember, every viewer's journey through your tricks is unique, and that's what makes it all the more enchanting!
Cheers to more mathemagical adventures! 🌌🔢
It can’t be wrong because it’s pure logic. You must have followed the instructions wrong lol.
@@spook6394 he never said you couldnt bounce between the same 2 squares. if you land on ima for the final 7, 1 ima-> waves. 2 waves -> ima 3 ima -> waves 4 waves ima. 5 ima -> smile 6 smile ima, 7 ima waves. theres infinite number of possibilities that you can end on and most of the time it works but its not 100%.
You did something wrong it's the exact same math for winning tick tack toe but in reverse.
@@IvyDoomsdaywe can cut this trick to one dimension, just to show why what you said makes no sense. Start at number 9, you are allowed to move between numbers 1 and 15. Each time i name a number, you move either +1 or -1. Then, i will guess where you are not standing. Okay, so:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7. You did not end up on any odd number. Simple as that, no matter how much you move back and forth, you will end up on even number. If you don't, please tell me how you did it.
The prediction in the video works the same way, but in two dimensions, as you can move only from yellow to blue or from blue to yellow (from odd to even or from even to odd). Because of that, each time you are on the odd number he will remove even, and each time you are on the even number he will remove odd, until there are no more spaces left
@@Romashka_Sov my brother in christ its been 2 months. im not reading all that garbage. i literally did it stfu.
I was skeptical about the original clip and after a few watches I could see what the trick was. Glad to see a video that explains why the trick works
Lol
It's funny that this had an incredibly intuitive explanation to me because of Mario Party.
One of the Switch games (and maybe others in the series, I'm not sure) has a mode where you have a grid to move on in whichever directions you choose. You can't move diagonally and can't go back to the same square you were just on (i.e. you can't go from A to B to A again) but otherwise can move freely.
One of the very common results of this ruleset is that you end up being one square away from the star because you need to use every one of your rolled moves. You can't roll a 10 and only use 9 moves. Therefore, if the star is an odd number of spaces from you, no even roll will get you where you want to go. This experience led me to instantly understand what was happening.
A very clever game nonetheless.
For me it was that Professor Layton game, a million variations of this puzzle exist in it. it is a puzzle game.
precisely what I was thinking
Anyone who claims, he/she/it fooled the math has messed up and unwilling to admit.
I was unpredictable, I simply didn't listen to his instructions. He didnt see _that_ coming
I like how instead of throwing in a /they, Jenovéfa decided to go the 'it' route. Weeeeird.
@@gwen_gets_got To be fair, their comment was posted 8 years ago
@@zaek2144 - oh of course. Wasn't expecting any sort of niche support from an 8 year old comment, I just found it funny they put 'it' instead of just leaving the he/she. Either way, my legs hurt, I've been walking all day!
@@gwen_gets_got Ah, yep, they could have done that instead xD.
Concerning the hurting legs, after a heavy day of exercise I usually go for a shower + nap/sleep to rest, although everyone has their modus operandi I guess
His trick failed. He didn’t predict that I would cheat
That’s actually crazy bro I was going in all sorts of random directions, going back forth between the same squares, and I still ultimately ended up right where he wanted me
He's removing the notes where you can't end up at with the amount of moves he gave you.
@zakae6hdt7 sure youtube user zakae6hdt7 i am trembling in my boots
@zakae6hdt7 He is correct, though. When you're limited to only lateral movements, you'll be switching from an odd numbered square to an even numbered square, or vice versa. So you start at position `0` which is an even numbered square, when you move once you'll either end up at position `1` or position `3`, both of which are odd numbered squares. Hence removing any even numbered square will guarantee that you're not on it, and it will help reduce the number of squares to eventually reach the one he wants you to be on. Move once more and you'll either be on position `2`, `4` or `6`. All of which are, once again, even numbered squares.
@zakae6hdt7 i dont understand people like you 😔
@zakae6hdt7 ok
It's the mario party rule of having to roll the exact number to collect the star. There are limitations to where you could be based on the number rolled (or given in this case). It does make for a really cool trick.
When someone starts paying me to make these videos I'll buy a microphone.
plz keep making videos on ur channel, loved the mastermind vid
so you bought a microphone?
@@pinguluk1 Imagine not being able to reach enough audience to pay for your videos yourself :(
damn the first reply is only 9 days old while thr commebt is 9 years old
Someone still commenting to 9 year old comment
I was on the arrow :) they didn't say I couldn't move to a square I was at previously, only that I couldn't move diagonal.
Well, it freaking worked. I thought "I will just do it because I can"
And then, what the heck happened?
Exactly, I thought the IMA was going to win, but I decided to go to the face, and when he took off the IMA, lol, he predicted what I was going to do
👍👍👍😘😘😘
I did not understand the rules of this game, but somehow I still ended up on the last square. I thought he was counting down how much time I had left to chose a square, but I wasn’t able to move more than one time. Lol
I was moving as he was calling out the numbers and still beat it. I obviously didn’t go back to the squares where he had removed sticky notes. I’m not sure what’s so impossible about it?
@@crashnebula7 if you think you "beat it" you obviously didn't play the game correctly. It's quite literally impossible to "win" if you follow the rules-
@@NanaHL yeah, i ended up on the one before the smiley face but lack the ego to claim i somehow beat it. not sure where i went wrong tho
@@snifferrr Yeah i landed on the wavy lines and he took it off while i was on it and when i redo it it’s about 70% on the bottom left and about 30% not
@@crashnebula7 You did something wrong then lmao, if you did it right it'd be very easy to say how you did it/be able to repeat it
Edit: i didn’t “fall” for the trick, and I like the guy’s explanation. Not trying to throw HIM under the bus. It’s the concept of using these kind of “tricks” (math tricks if you will) for what I am talking about.
A lot of “psychologists”, “magicians” and “mentalists” love to “predict” what people can do, but it’s always in controlled environments using tricks like this.
Always fun to see how so many want to feel smug by making others feel “ordinary”, “predictable”, “normal”, etc…
Makes one wander about human nature and its predilection for stepping on others to rise up (or just feel better) even when there are other, just as obvious, paths.
I mean, the point of this video isn't to make anyone feel dumb, it's to show how subtle constraints can make an apparently normal seeming algorithm entirely deterministic.
Though yes, some of the people who go into those careers can be some blend of narcissistic or sadistic... those types are drawn to positions of power.
Bros mad bc he fell for the trick
I just fell asleep tbh
You have a point but in reality the premise of the trick is "click bait", both online and in real life. It's all based off of essentially taunting people with the "I'm better than you" approach in order to get them to invest into a trick. So who's attempting to step on who? The magician or the audience? That's the better question.
@@oEXTRA hnnn
Look at your face, your grin, how happy you are to make this video.
it doesnt even trick me anymore.
its just logical.
I remember seeing Penn and Teller do this trick on TV once when I was a kid. It blew my mind!
Didn't even notice this wasn't the singingbanana channel. XD
this was very cool, and a great explanation that people could understand!
I thought he messed up but I guess that’s cause my subtitles were on and I couldn’t use volume. And youtube subtitles sometimes break
You are right, RUclips. After 10 years it's perfect time for me to watch exactly this video.
Only few are praising the boy in the video... He explained the things so well.... Kudos to him🙌
The thing is that before he even started to count or to do anything , without knowing what is going to happen, i had already chosen this happy face randomly. And to my surprise , it ended up being the one that the guy "predicted" . Pretty cool
Lol literally same
Me too 😅
Same here 😭
Haha same. I picked the happy face before the game started
You're a great teacher. Your explanations are very clear.
Thanks!
The only way to win this is by moving back to the one you were already on, I moved back to the middle and he removed it, if I you just keep going he removed them in an order that you can’t win
Thanks Eric! Always nice to hear from you.
Yes
My mind immediately went "it's got something to do with odd and even numbers" cuz I couldn't get back into my little corner with the number of moves he counted and he eliminated the corner that I wanted on the first movement set
But I can't be bothered to figure it out exactly on my own right now... so that's just the first intuition I had
Edit: just continued watching and... well that was even more spot on than I expected, it really was just that not an addition on the specific numbers huh
Of course you can "predict" how someone will very likely behave in a given controlled scenario when you act as an omniscient observer who arbitrarily dictates the options available and not to participants in the given scenario -- you're essentially having the participants play-out a game with which you've pre-scripted its conclusion, leaving the participants little chance to beat the house like in gambling.
How does this have so many likes. The player has no chance to beat the game because he literally explains why this trick works every single time. There is no "prediction". There is only one square that anyone can end up on if they follow the rules. He EXPLAINS this. Why is everyone giving their own explanation
@@derickd6150 I landed on the little wave symbol, and he said I probably wasn't on there and removed the sticky note. Maybe I didn't follow the rules correctly but all I did was move back and forth on the wave option and I landed there lol.
@@ZverseZ Yeah you couldn't have cause he explains why this must always work afterwards. He never removes blue when you could be on a blue, it's not hard to see that that must be the case. So if you didn't end up where he says then you must have made an error. I have tried many many times and I always get where he says no matter what I try
@@derickd6150 I got in the wavy square too
It because if u just move on 2 different squares for the first part then when u move on the same 2 squares for the second part. The odd blue paper will turn even because when u add 2 odd numbers it turns even so that’s how u ‘beat’ the game
@@petrapinter349 im having a really hard time grasping what your idea is here, I've even tried doing what you suggest but the trick still works, so are you actually certain you're not doing it wrong? Because the maths still works so i'm not entirely sure why you're convinced you've beaten it.
He didn't say anything about the playing field shrinking as you go beforehand, so I just ignored when he removed them since it wasn't an established part of the rules. Ended up in the upper right square at the end.
his enthusiasm on this topic was the best part about this video 💖💖
The way he smiles at the end of the sequence
I love how it ended for me
I'm tired so I tought we were allowed to do diagonals. I did it more than 50% of the time.
Still worked perfectly. I am the most predictable man on earth
And my logic here was "I want to end on the happy smiley face"
If you moved diagonally an even number of times I guess it'd still be the same result.
not if you moved diagonally and in straight line interchangably, if you did only one or the other then the trick could be performed but would need to be slightly reworked.@@cyanideonfire5924
Same, I didn’t land anywhere where he took off the squares..
I thought I was winning, to be honest.
@@cyanideonfire5924well depends
If you keep track of all the squares you could possibly be on you quickly realize its a parity problem.
By taking away some squares that are off-parity each round, you cut it down in the end to only one option remaining.
Uh I was on v and you took away v
@@moniquestewart2282 Then you made a mistake.
To make this easier I'll mark the squares like this:
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
- You start on the "start" square (1)
- He tells you to move right or down (2, 4)
- He takes away the start square which ↑ you're obviously not on
- Now each time he says a number you move up right left or down
(2, 4)
1: (3, 5, 7)
2: (2, 4, 6, 8)
3: (3, 5, 7, 9)
4: (2, 4, 6, 8)
5: (3, 5, 7, 9)
notice each step alternates between you being on an even number and on an odd number
- He now takes away the 6 (which we're not on as you can see)
(3, 5, 7, 9)
1: (2, 4, 8) *evens
2: (3, 5, 7, 9) *odds
...
9: (2, 4, 8) - Following the pattern above an odd number will give us the remaining even squares. If you need further confirmation try writing it out yourself.
- He now takes away the 9 and the 3 (again, both odds and we're on evens so this is correct)
- He counts to 5 giving us the opposite parity, we should be on odds. The remaining odds are:
(5, 7)
- He takes away 2 and 4 (Since we're on odds this is correct)
- He counts to 7 giving us the opposite parity again, we should be on evens.
8 is the only remaining even number so we are guaranteed to be on 8.
- He takes away the 7, leaving only 5 as the remaining odd number.
- He tells you to move one more, We were guaranteed to be on 8, so that is no longer a possibility. He takes that away and there is only one square left, the one he says we're on.
@Night Fox imma be honest I'm not reading all that but im glad to know i made a mistake
@@oystersaucee_ okay lol, thats fair
11 years later, it's still very refreshing.
I started moving and before I realized it, I hit the like and subscribe button. Truly amazing.
Hahahhaha
Don’t know how this is making me predictable when it’s the only piece I can’t physically reach I mean you give me limitations xD
Fax
i noticed this on the first move after the corner piece got taken, crazy how much shit i just scrolled through to find this hahahah
Every time he said “I don’t think you are on this one” I was on that one
Lmao fr
Then you did it wrong which is weird because the instructions are very clear and basic
@@GreenWithersRUclipsI did it right and I managed to get to the wave, I beated him
Same :|
SAME
Every time I re--watch this video I choose a different sheet and the video changes along with it aswell. Every time , hes good.
This reminds me of the end of Return to Zork where you have to play a chess-like game called Survivor, where the goal is to force the other player into being unable to move. It was played on a grid, and one player would move like a chess Knight (two steps forward, one step sidweays), the other could teleport to any unoccupied spot on the board. The kicker was that any time YOU move, that spot disappears and can no longer be landed on. So the trick was to completely ignore the other guy and focus solely on plotting out your moves such that you would end up on one of only two unoccupied squares, thus winning the game because the enemy can't move.
I was blown away. Thinking I was smarter I moved out the 3x3 grid and on tiles that was already removed, as he never said it wasn't allowed and managed to land on an unremoved tile each time. You should've seen my face when I landed in the last tile at the end. Makes perfect sense now that I know the solution but still.
I had an idea it was something like this, but it was the impressive and simple answer which surprised me the most.
This isn't a video of how testing our predictability. It's a life lesson to tell us that we don't get to make choices all the time.
Originally you think there are 9 spots you could be on until your told to start at a specific spot and remove 1 space. So you might as well of started with 8 spots for you to be on and always count up to an odd number for this trick to work.
It's like Super Mario Party on the gold map where you could move on any space but since it's either odd or even you'll ether land on the star space or not.
Why is it so many here that can't count or move during each counting?
Are they used to slower counting or what?
This is one of those things that you know the inner workings of but can't fully comprehend it.
took me 5 tries, but i finally got him. that was fun
The way I beat this was just go back and forth from square to square. He said you can’t go diagonally but up, down, right, left. He didn’t mention anything about going back and forth or not choosing the square tour where originally on
I got out on the second round
i ended up randomly on the house first try lol
This doesn’t work, if you found yourself on a square he removed due to the method you described then you either miscounted or violated the rules.
The reason why he didn't say you can't move back and forth is because you can, and if you won even with this strategy, you did something wrong. If you listened to his explanation, that's still mathematically impossible to win by going back and forth. For example, if you're starting on a "yellow" square and they say to move a odd amount of moves such as 7, no matter what you do, such as moving back and forth, you are mathematically guaranteed to end up on a "blue" square. If they say to go an even number of moves, such as 4, you are mathematically guaranteed to end up on another "yellow" square. So, if you won, you cheated, possibly on accident or not.
You did it incorrectly
This didn't work on me because I kept moving back and forth between squares. As far as I can see I didn't break any of the rules, did I?
That's exactly what i did aswell
I even moved back to squares I was previously standing on and this worked on me. I think that was rather lucky though
It's not luck at all
@@ozarkvolt Yeah youre right it still works, pretty cool :D
The way this works is you'll always land up on the same square. The game puts in place rules that inevitably lead to one outcome. You're just not familiar with the hidden mechanics when you're doing it.
The real unpredictability is when you move your finger to the left of the start square. He never said that it was against abiding by the rules when you placed your finger on a position outside the boundaries of the square. To add up, he even claims that the only move you cannot commit is to move diagonally, meaning it was possible for you to move to the left of the square and outside the grid of squares without ever having to get caught.
it's obvious you only move on squares, no need to try to be special
@@WaldoCampos1 its a joke, chill
basically logic, even if you're in the wrong square he'll bring you into the final square, also I got into the last square too because I liked the smile face :D
I thought about the same thing and started moving my finger across imaginary out of bounds squares and funniest thing is that even though i moved my finger out of bounds i still ended up on the smiley face square
@@WaldoCampos1 I was waiting until someone would actually listen to this
I managed to get out on one of them, don’t know exactly how but I got out on the squiggly lines. I probably just counted wrong though👌
SAME SAME!!! THE SQUIGLY LINESS!!! I JUST DID THATT RIGHT NOW AND IMMEDIATELY RAN TO THE COMMENTS TO SEE IF I WAS THE ONLY ONEEE
@@samradnivaidya6969 you've got in wrong guys, it's absolutely impossible unless you cheat, if you do cheat at the beggining you could then for example finish on the circle (after the second pair of moves), but impossible) lines (third pair), IMA (forth), and then play until you exit on the lines (fifth)
Same!
you are the strange variable
the small inaccuracy that exists between numbers
@@IceHeartAlpha got me blushing and shit🤭🥺
I wish you could have seen my mischievous grin upon narrowly avoiding this lol
After hearing that you could guess which one i'd pick i immediately picked one at random, and ended up with the face in bottom left. At every turn i did all i could to remain on that one, but at the end i had no choice but to move to the other, at which point you revealed it. That was quite fun
Well it only works as intended if you follow the rules as it’s just an equation
@@dakotataylor993 I wouldn't call it an equation. The dude just always gives you an odd number, whether that's 1 or 999 it doesn't matter. This causes you to switch between odd and even squares every time you finish all your moves. He removes the even when you're on odd and vice versa and funnels you to a square. Any square he wants. I don't know how you'd be able to represent that in an equation.
I'm really not a fan of the whole "alternating colours" explanation he gives. It explains the trick but doesn't explain why you switch between colours.
This video was 100% worth watching
"How predictable are you"
Me clicking off without watching video: Parry this you filthy casual
That's true. You'll have to add some stipulation to prevent this. The simplest/least revealing one is probably to only allow an odd or even number of moves when you're down to three. Or you can give them a free move and hope they switch at some point from odd to even or vice versa.
This ruclips.net/video/wtbcaWnybzs/видео.html .
I just kept moving up and down….didn’t think that was predictable 😂
This is flawed, you gave me the choice to move up, down, left or right, I moved left on your face. You didn't say in the rules I must stay on a sticky note :P
Hey guys I found the party animal
I'm unpredictable. I opened the video, closed it, opened it again and commented without watching it, or am I going to watch it right now?
kinda worked this out by the second move, you're using the number of moves to eliminate choices, not sure how that has anything to do with predictability but it's a neat trick
Not sure if the video guy even thought this but you could argue the predictability could be that people are trying to outsmart the game and fail to notice there was something else behind?
@@goldenpony822 As a red herring, yeah I can see that
I ended on IMA. Idk how I got there but I did. The anticipation when he was in the last two cards was REAL tho 😭
Same haha
I thought I tricked his matrix, guess I was not alone! 😁
you did it wrong then
@@lukitensen u a hater then
@@Maro2x no he’s correct they did it wrong. It’s not mathematically possible
It actually surprised me quite a lot when he correctly guessed which card I was on.
bc it doesn't work like that
The surprise surprised me. The food sated me. The drink quenched my thirst.
@@ralek592 😭 call them out damn
I understood immediately that I could seperate the squares into diagonal groups, and represent alternating groups as odd or even. Very simple, surprised some people are stumped by it.
It’s pretty easy to tell that based on the amount of moves you give that it is impossible to end up on one of the outliers so you take it away and always leave space for one more so you can take that away…
Fun fact! You can just focus on a couple squares at a time, and beat him at his own game! None of the rules said that you couldn't backtrack
Yeah... That's how I "won". Back tracking XD
No. No you can’t. The math literally prevents this, its just going from yes you’re on a blue one to you’re on a yellow one, even if you’re specifically trying to go to the one he is going to remove next, you can’t.
You can’t though. It’s mathematically impossible.
Are u dumb 😭😭😭 when u backtrack ur literally still following the pattern it doesn’t matter which way💀 like going from yellow to blue, then *backtrack* to yellow , *backtrack again* then it’s blue again. It’s still yellow/blue/yellow/blue
@@Danny0lsen liar
This was posted 10 years ago and I've only just been reccomend it... was absolutely brilliant
I feel powerful because my square was eliminated
You should feel weak for being numerically challenged 😢
As a chess player, it was fairly easy to see what you were doing but I still appreciate this video. Great explanation!
Chess doesn't correlate to what this video features. Touch grass.
It does. It’s a checkerboard pattern in this puzzle as well as the chessboard
Has nothing to do with Chess.@@SolomonMagnus819
solomon thinks hes some grandmaster🤦. touch grass
@@erykkostrzewa19
everytime he said "I'm guessing you're not here" I was there 😭😭😭
then you did it wrong
He didn't predict that I skipped the whole video and saw what he was doing which makes me unpredicrable😎.
When I saw the thumbnail, I thought that I need to choose one square. And that was EXACTLY that one
Thank you for the video you are good at teaching and explaining mr grime
I was like if he starts giving me options of mappings depending on where I am going to the output of the mapping, then this is probably rigged.
When you control the moves it's not predictability, just manipulation and yeah, a neat little trick with math just like using equations to guess a number someone else thought of
dude MY SQUARE
YOU REMOVED MY SQUARE
I ended up on the square right before the final square. But it was still pretty spot on.
Good stuff Jim! Subscribed.
I was on the wavy lines when he took them away lol
Edit: I guess I should've maybe done it with the original linked video? Because here, he never said you couldn't go back, just not diagonally. So I didn't end up where he wanted the first time, OR with the colored example.
You just did it wrong.. that's all. You may go back and it doesn't matter.
He never said I wasn’t allowed to go back to a spot that he had picked up. He never actually said that by removing the picture that he was actually removing that as an option, so I wound up on blanks every time after the first turn.
@@FanRoosterTeeth bro what
@@FanRoosterTeethwhy play the fuckin game if you can just hop onto non existent tiles
Now this could be useful for game design where you want your player to think they have free choice, but ensuring they always end up at the same ending.
Sounds like the “game” of real life
So remove freedom from people but make them think they are free? Sounds too real to me. How about we don’t master that concept as a species. That would be great.
Tip for lazy people: use your mouse as your finger.
I did not think of that.
thats what i did
Tip for really lazy people: Use your imagination to hold a square
I played as if the grid was always the same even when he removed stickies. As such I ended on a2 of the grid.
Fun fact, if you start with the top left square at 1,1, the square to the right being 1,2 and the square below being 2,1, you can determine if a square is yellow if both numbers are odd or if both numbers are even.
I went back and forth and this way broke his assumption of where I would go.