All the ones he chose to remove were the ones I was going to choose next.

If anyone is still confused about it, the cards were paid actors

My stupid ass thought that I need to move 5 times when he said "5" 💀

I'll see everyone in 8 years when KZfaq recommends this too us all again

man, I thought I was sooo smart when I just decided to go back and fourth between two spaces the whole game. somehow he still won...

Okay so apparently I'm so predictable that a random guy knew what I was gonna do 8 years in the future?

I like the flashing of the happy note subtlety showing you the end result

how this works: imagine you mark each square with a number. 1 being the top right, 2 being the top middle, 3 being the top left, and so on. When you are on an odd-numbered space, moving an even number of spaces guarantees you're still on an odd numbered space, and moving an odd number of spaces puts you on an even space. so moving an even number of spaces will keep whether it's an odd or even space, and moving an odd number of spaces will switch it from odd to even and vice versa. Therefore, as long as they can keep track of whether you're on an odd or even space, they can always safely remove one from the opposite guaranteeing you won't be on that space. From there it's just a matter of making sure all the remaining squares stay connected.

Hah he did'nt predict that I was not playing this whole time

The most annoying thing for me is that I always knew which square he will remove next but I couldn't reach it

Well he didn't predict that I'd mess up so as far as Im concerned I won.

Whenever I'm about to go to bed, sometimes I'll play this video right before. I don't know why, but it always comforts me and makes me sleepy

he only got one of his predictions wrong once, but that’s because i didn’t follow the instructions in an effort to be unpredictable.

bet he didn’t predict this would be in our recommendations in 7 years

If anyone is curious on why this works, it's to do with even and odd numbers. If you replay the video and try to fail the test, you literally cant, because to get to a place that he will remove, you would need either an even or odd number of turns. if its even, then he will count to an odd number of turns, and if its odd, then he will count to an even number of terms.

Bro, I landed on the house the second before he removed it

Everyone saying that he wasn't right Me sweating in predictable

my brain: *thinks its smart because it’s playing with two fingers* this guy: *gets both fingers correctly*

I’m so unpredictable that I didn’t even understand the instructions👍

NGL I thought it was to see how long I could last before he got the one I was on so I predicted his moves

*only 2 left* the guy: "move one more time" me: "no."

guy: don't move diagonally me: moves diagonally "bet he didn't predict that"

I'm so unpredictable i messed up with the instrucyions💀

He took off my post-it note when he removed the 3 arrows there .

Worst part is that the one card he took away each round was my destination, but I couldn't quite reach it

Okay next: *predict when my dad comes back*

this works because the specific square you're on doesn't matter, just its parity if you label all the corner squares and the center square as "odd" and the edge squares as "even", each move you make, you're going from odd to even or even to odd so really, only the number of moves matters if it's an even number of moves, you're on the same parity as you were before, and if it's odd, you're on the opposite parity

i come back here every few years and he always gets me

FUCKIN HELL IT GOT ME AGAIN AFTER 3 YEARS I'VE TRAINED

I was like "he's not gonna get me, I'm moving way too randomly" and then I landed on the happy face.

I'm completely impredictable...makes me feel like i didn't follow the instructions

he didnt predict even a single option of mine

Hahaha jokes on him he didn’t predict I wasn’t playing the whole time

Me:breaks the rules and goes diagonally Also me: still ends up on the happy face

This isn't about predictability, it's about numbers. Notice he always stops on an odd number. The one he takes away would always require you to take an even number of moves from the one you were on last time he stopped. The symbols are irrelevant. He just boxes you in by removing the ones an even number from the last stop until you only have one option.

OMG IM IN LOVO WITH THIS TIPE OF VIDEOS

When you don't follow the instructions and he stills predicts what you land on

Oh my god I'm so stupid i thought i was winning everytime he removes a post it and my finger isn't on it.

Wow in my recommended 11 years later this is a piece of history that shall be passed down in the recommended for years to come

bro I landed on the unhappy face

Plot twist: it isn’t prediction or maths, this is a live video and he has a camera behind you

It's less about "predictability" and more about mathematical possibility, but that's still pretty fun.

Imagine a super hero movie where the villain just pulls stuff like this on the hero.

He predicted all of my moves lol

Him: Make one last move now. Me: *Closes youtube* Him: An outstanding move

this guy: *gots it right* Me: *cold sweats*

I started watching this channel and I think I like it

I was just moving it every direction so that i could cover every paper XD

No one: Me: tries to play it sMaRt, going back and forth between the same sheets so he won’t get it right Also me: *fails*

3 people in the comments: - he got it right - people who cant follow basic instructions - liars

Bro must be choosing it by inky pinky ponky ...... 💀

Bro didn’t predict that i could move up down in the same 2 squares😂

He didn't predict me, I just knew where he wanted me to go.

jokes on you i didnt put my finger on the screen, who's predictable now

As annoying motivators keep forcing me to think outside the box, I'm outside of those pictures now, moving around behind him.

When he said "I PrEdiCT u are NOt oN ThE wAvEy LiNE"I was on it💀

Crush : "I like bad boys" Me : *goes diagonal*

FIRST TIME MY MOVEMENTS WEREN’T PREDICTED

bro the entire time i thought when he took one away it meant im unpredictable

Math: exists People who say they beat him: *No*

Chill y'all it's his style of doing a face reveal.

It’s simple, on any odd move you can’t be on the edge or the centre of the square and on any even move you are forced to be on the edge or the centre.

Damn you're so spot on👑

After reading the comments I feel like I'm the only person who he actually predicted where my finger would be

My math teacher laughed so hard then gave a 15m speech on how this works

I was doing back and forth style and i was laughing everytime he pick some square thats so far from what I've chosen 😂😂😂

He couldn't predict my last move

Bet he didn't predict I would go diagonally

Me: *tries to be as unpredictable as possible* This guy: "math says no."

Well, you couldn't guess it until the last moment. But this taught me something. If you can eliminate all possible possibilities it becomes possible to predict the opponent.

Me who didn't get the rules of the game and went to waves: * Ultra Instinct theme starts playing*

Everyone: predictions My phone screen: I don't know what your doing, but could you *not*

Everyone: "everyone is saying he got it wrong" Also everyone: "but he got mine right" *confused noises*

I knew this would get recommended to me after 10 years

i predicted him trying to predict me but i still couldn't win

I already know this trick. Imagine the board as a checkered board. If the start is black and you move an odd number of times, you will always be on a white square. So you eliminate a black square and so on and so on

I moved diagonally on the first move. Bet he didn't predict that.

it recomended me after 11 years and i crack the pridiction

YA GOT ME. Let's see if I still make the same choices when I randomly stumble on this video in a few years...

"Your finger is on the happy face" Me using my cursor: I am 4 parallel universes ahead of you

I'm so unpredictable I didn't even follow his instructions

I tried my hardest to survive but I realized at the end your supposed to try to get eliminated 💀

Me high asf: *proceeds to move my finger outside the screen because there is no rule stating that it is illegal

This isn't about psychology. This is about mathematics.

Its all about maths,he's literally backing you into a corner by eliminating squares.And the alternating odd and even numbers made you chose what the possibilities are.Nonetheless,amazing trick.

I went diagonally just to fuck with him.

At around 01:03, the smiley face flashes in the video for a split second. It might've influenced the decision of millions of people.

Guy: Make one last move now Me: *_moves diagonally_*

Judging by the comment section, the actual topic of the video must be: “How good are you at following simple instructions?”

I had to restart because after he moved the sticky note I was like "hehe I can still move up into the blank spot" but then was like ah no I'm not supposed to do that lol

I moved diagonally and won. He didn’t predict I wasn’t gonna listen

You're not predictable, the squares he eliminated are mathematically impossible to reach

It's literally impossible to be on the ones he eliminates without breaking the rules, it's not that you are predictable, it is that he is a manipulative villain.

nah he predicted me fr aint gonna lie W man

The fact I was on the wavy line thinking just because I was close to the end he was going to get it.

You’re an elite if you’ve seen this 8 years ago and came across this in your recommendations now

the sad part about this video is when you watch it you have to wait ages to watch it again so you can’t remember what he did

My finger was indeed on the arrows

This is good math, it's impossible to go on the house at the start and it basically forces you not to be there by using math. Incredible.

He said to move Up, Down, Left and Right, so I move outside the box and wander around in the empty space.