Josie Learns the Secrets of ADVANCED NIM
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Josie learns the secrets of the ancient game, Nim!
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ya know these wholesome videos are like the best thing to come out of covid
I love how Josie is slowly developing her magician look
needs more spiky hair
Pretty cool, I’ve never seen that look before even with all the movies, singers, and styles that have come and gone.
@@PunkNDisorderlyGamer That's probably because it does not look good, to be gentle
@@ezekiel2002 That's simply a matter of a opinion laddy
@@KhaosDCrab Exactly, she seems to be adopting a more edgy look (for now) as things go on. And that's fine, people develop their own style as they get older. At first it was more Harry Potter, and now it's more Moaning Myrtle.
This version of NIM was taught to me by my 9th grade English teacher. Well, not just me, but the whole class. He was the Football team coach and all of the players took his class. Even the honors kids wanted his class. It was not easy by any means, but he kept everyone engaged and challenged to their individual skill level. EVERYone in there became a better student and earned their final grade, They might not have had the same skill level entering his class, nor would they have equal skill levels leaving it, but everyone learned something and their skill went up an equal amount. Best teacher I ever had.
He used NIM to engage the entire class in a challenge; the teacher verses everyone else with a wager. If we won. the entire class would get 1 extra grade level on the next test. If we lost, we had an extra question added. He placed the 3 5 7 in chalk marks up on the board, using the eraser to remove them. We lost I found out later that the test wasn't changed from the original because he was always fair, but we had no idea at the time of the wager. The teams quarterback then played him 1-on-1 for the next 20 minutes while the rest of us figured it out. One of the players who started class with a 3rd grade reading level figured it out first. That player, BTW, had a 9th grade level by the end of the year.
Greatest teacher ever!
This is truly an amazing story. This is what a teacher should be!
After a year of these videos I realized Josie is far more clever/smarter than me.
yikes
i mean he's been teaching her so many things, it's quite obvious that she would've gotten smarter imo
I can't wait to find out what Josie's equivalent to Brian's super spikes will be. Lol.
That long hair she has is only on the front, the back of her head is pretty short hair
Hey Shwoody, when you started scam school, did you ever imagine it turning into actual lessons for your daughter? Lol
This is now an empire of magicians cos Brian found worthy successor
The one lip color played tricks on my mind for minute xD it's a cool look my brain just couldn't figure it out for a second.
Does anyone know the point of the upper lip being black? Is that some sorta trend or something I'm unaware of?
I would have done it on he bottom lip.
It looks like a bad mustache
@@maximem.ste-marie3578 that's what I thought
@@maximem.ste-marie3578 I dunno, I think it looks kinda cool. It's certainly different.
@@thejango22 it is a bit of a trend. Not super mainstream but it’s still somewhat popular.
Josie is so smart. I love how she is stepping up and just defining her own persona. It's a lot to be a persona at that age. Stay safe. You got this, Josie.
I hope you keep Josie in your videos when the bars open back up. It's fun to watch her figure things out.
The lipstick on the upper lip looks so cool.
Kinda reminds me a little bit of kim possible.
But honestly i encourage individuality and as far as i can tell i havent seen anyone do it until now.
Not only does it fit her really well it looks unique and awesome
Josie looks like a character fom Kim Possible with that lipstick, though she's probably too young to remember that show.
That's the sitch
@@duncandixon6203 lol!!
I was thinking the whole time that she's like two steps away from a Shego cosplay.
She's too young to have seen Kim possible, much less remember it.
How old is she? Surely she can't be that young.
These two are like the greatest pair ever! So entertaining!
7:00 I love the way she looks here. She's really thinking it through.
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. This advanced version is similar to the one that is a theme in the movie.
This is one of those things that just leaves me with a big fat grin on my face. It’s like knowing some special secret that no one else knows. Time and time again watchinf Brian’s videos has given me this giddy feeling, started watching in junior high and now, in my early 30’s, I still love taking one of his games and trying it out at the bar after work :) And the best way to do these things: Don’t make a big show out of it. If you’re casual about it and downplay it, no one will even suspect you’re doing a trick and the effect will be even cooler. (I guess this is a standard magician’s principle, like how its not always good to show off card flourishes, because people will then be atuned to you being “good with cards” vs if you just handle them normally.) The Tic Tac Toe prediction got a great reaction the other night, mainly because I didn’t set it up like a magic trick, but just a game of tic tac toe and then suddenly brought out the reveal. Thanks again Brian!
Seven years back
You were so young Brian brushwood
Seeing those videos make me happy
Then the channel name is scam school 😂
There is also an algorithm that always wins, no matter how many start in each column. It is more complicated than just memorizing the winning scenarios.
If I remember correctly, you want to convert the numbers into binary, make it so all the piles XOR to 0, the exceptions being the cases of 1-1 and 1-1-1, which are easy enough to remember. Knowing that, you can even make it work for more piles, though I’ve found that it ultimately doesn’t add much to the game.
@@DwarvenHydra Correct! Martin Gardner explained the solution using the binary system in an issue of Scientific American years ago.
I tend to play it with a 1-3-5-7 board. I assume that to get the rule to work for any board, you have to learn about how Nim pairs work.
I’m assuming that’s also solved with relevant pole positions ?
Brian looks so proud at 1:50
Nim was one of my first coding projects in school. I felt very clever when I added the "Impossible" difficulty option, and the player couldn't win whether they went first or second.
When I saw the one lip color my immediate thought was that Brian had pranked her soda can or something.
@Raccoon he wouldn't dare she's sweet
@Raccoon If that were true it wouldn't just be 1 lip though 😂
Back in the 70s, when I was in High School, I had to write a computer program to play NIM. It was so cool.
Josie experimenting with her looks at a young age...I like it. She's definitely not scared to express herself.
1:40 Josie summerised the whole game
I'm really happy that this year gave you such an opportunity with your daughter! Now that's a silver lining.
*Secret Island of Dr Quandry flashbacks intensify*
Ah America or mainly Texas I don't really know but remembering numbers by remembering a gun is something that would probably only happen over there
I'd say anywhere in the middle column of the states (midwest, south) would be a safe bet for remembering that way. Nebraskan (bigger city, not rural) here, don't agree with willy-nilly "gunshop on the corner" stuff (definitely need *MUCH* stricter laws), but the whole culture (movies, friends, etc) definitely has an impact on our brains where guns are commonplace even if you've never even seen one in real life. "Cops and Robbers" is a very popular child's game (NERF guns FTW).
Alternatively, you could remember by "Primes", excluding 1 and 2 (ignoring debate whether those are primes anyway)
I want to point out that nim is known as misery or winner loses version. You actually take the last one to win normally.
You can remember 357 by NASHUA 357. The best gaffer tape of them all.
I learned a variation upon this from my Uncle Paul... I called the game "Pennies" but he called the game, "Doesn't that just **** you off?" lol.
The only difference in the rules was you could only take up to 5 from any 1 row (not 7).
In that variation, I figured it out pretty quickly, learned it better than he knew, and could beat him every time if I wanted to. lol.
Love this one. I still remember the card NIM scam school episode.
I love how this game works on a different level in German, because "nimm" is the imperative form of "take" :D
10:13 a silent sneeze? Lol
The game of nim actually inspired the concept of nimbers (yes nimbers, not numbers). Look it up if you want a more mathematical explanation as to why this trick works!
I also highly recommend "Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays" if you're into these types of games.
Teaching her how to be the most badass girl in her whole school (not just her grade)
She melted my heart.
Advanced nim is The Nim that I play, every time.
I played with a doctor and cannot win 7 5 3 at all but after all I figured out how to win and lose after some time, there are configurations that immediately will make you realize you are in winning/losing position
Also I don't ever figured too that 2 4 6 is also a thing
The usual way Nim games work is: you win by taking the last piece (in other words, the loser is the one that can't act). The game he proposed is the Miserè Nim, where you're playing to lose.
Nim is an impartial game, and Sprague-Grundy Theorem proves that you can know from the start configuration who is going to win.
The funny part of the game video is that Miserè games usually are harder to figure out a strategy than the normal game. The version with 3 Nim piles and predetermined pile sizes seems to have a memorized solution as shown, but you could use some math and be able to solve with any number of piles and any pile sizes (solving the Miserè Nim with multiple piles is way more annoying than the regular, though).
I thought the video would be about the general regular Nim game, not the Miserè, so I was curious to see how Brian would explain the logical operation "exclusive or" or the Grundy numbers, but it ended up being a memorized solution to a 3 pile Miserè game. It would be nice to point out that Nim is a mathematical game, there are theorems to prove the optimal strategies for games with any pile size and any number of piles, for both normal and Miserè.
Are there any situations where you'd use the 1-1-1 position? If you are about to get it, you can take 1 more from whatever pile yourr taking from and reach 1-1-0, two equal piles.
2 equal piles doesn't work when they are both 1 because then the other person takes one of them and you're stuck with the last one
I've watched this video several times and only just noticed the Glider emblem on Brian's shirt, where can I get one?!
Hey Brian big fan
Even tho these episodes are good
But i miss your old intro
Scam school the only show dedicated to social engineering at the bar and on the street👍
they can't do it on the bar and street anymore :(
It shall return, I have no doubt. Just gonna take a while. In the meantime, I'm imagining it changing to "At the bar, on the street, and at school". Josie is gonna end up pwning so many classmates.
During quarantine, Josie here did the intro. It was AMAZING.
This guy is either a very proud Uncle or a very proud Dad.
This is his middle daughter.
He’s just a family friend.
Thank you for this😭😭😭 my middle school science teacher always whooped the class with this but he never told us the name of the game so I never figured it out
you don't need to remember the positions. divide the matches in your head into groups of 4-2-1. As longs you keep the groups paired, you win
Holy I was shouting at my monitor seeing her take a whole group ahahahah
Nim! So that's what this is called. Only we use to ay with 5 colums. We played this so much eventually the game stops being a surprise we just know from the opening grab who wins
It’s fun to se Brian with Adam Savage hair stile 😋 I don’t know if you have been gone longe or if RUclips have been hiding you from me but good to see that you are well and happy 🙂
I love the videos with you and Josie it’s awesome and wholesome
Does anyone know, is it called NIM because NIM is WIN upside down? Like it's a WIN for the person in the know but NIM for the noobie?
I see what the Brushwoods picked up at the Chris Angel auction.
Spike your hair again or cut it lol ( everyone tell him spike it 😂)
Rows not columns, I love you dude!
Since when do you lose in NIM by taking the last one????
In season five of survivor they literally played nim. I was screaming what people should do
Josie you don't realise how funny you are young lady
I played this is middle school but we had no idea the name of the game or where it came from
Many years ago I learned this version of NIM but with 4 colums, with 7,5,3,1 sticks. Is basically the same. But in this case, the person who start, can't win. And because people usually prefer to start, I already won.
Yes, that is the version shown in the movie Last Year at Marienbad.
Wow Josie is growing up, got her beard already
Josie's going to be hell on wheels in college. :)
Scam Nation is so much better with Josie than at the bar.
Just came here to say Josie is awesome. That is all.
Josie doesn't really remember her first Nim lesson. I do. The focused glare of concentrated hatred she directed at her beloved father was nearly lethal.
Reminds me of my own daughter. Grown now. Sigh.
When bars open, drinks on Josie?
Got a like from me just for the wholesome statement about spending time with your daughter however this is a great video and it would have gotten a like from me anyway
Good Job Josie!
Curious, why did Josie say no to having learned nim? You an Josie both played nim back in last August, video titled 12-Year-Old vs. The Unbeatable Game of NIM
She says she remembered basic nim, but not advanced nim !
OH MY GOTH ! : )
I believe that he is leading her to be a mob lord "You Will take over that bar!!!"
"it's a famous gun" only in America
No one will be able to trick her for the rest of her life. Proper dadding here.
Love the new look, very dryad/elven!
What kind of Elves are you thinking of?
This should be called Scam School again
9:58 I don't like people saying in one sentence "equal piles", and in another sentence saying "even piles"!!
"thank god i'm a country boy"
But if you burn the last match, it's not a valid game piece, making HIM taking the last one after he's taking it. HA! Back door to the game! :)
Josie is awesome!
12 year old "takes over the bar". Haha
She's 13
Love me some HEB sparkling water. :)
Best game ever got to try this
11:20 Positions
111
123
145
246
2 Equal Rows
We def learned nim
I WAS RIGHT, THE VIDEO WAS TITLED "12-Year-Old vs. The Unbeatable Game of NIM" HAHAHA
fuck. nvm.
Straight outta Myst
Looks to me that Josie decided to become a goth girl, but didn't fully commit
lol the cool thing is to only color the top or bottom lip and chapstick the other.
welp im glad i missed that bullet! haha
1:38 Josie woke up
So when will Josie finally get spiky hair?
Love that I got clickbaited with the fake progress bar in the thumbnail
It's on me tho It's a good idea for getting clicks when it's most needed
Thanks to the Brushwood family, I feel like I finally understand...
The Secret of Nim.
1:54 it's better than Brian's
3:51 how Americans remember numbers
Just caught a clip used from this video in another video. ruclips.net/video/qNKA9Q60K10/видео.html
"The Secret of Nim" 2
Nimcredible!
I pitched the "Advanced Nim" (15 stones I called it) YEEEARS ago. I thought he'd never do it, cause once it's figured out you really can't play it anymore with that person since who ever goes first always wins.
who is josie
edit: nevermind ik now
Scammed Sophomore is a derogatory term.
I’m like number 718!!! Woo!
those be rows! not columns!
You've done this before