The Number Illusion You Won't Believe

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Sometimes math is so beautifully tricky, and presented in such a subtle way, that it’s virtually indistinguishable from magic. Welcome to The Kruskal Count.
David Copperfield is probably the most famous living magician/illusionist, and he’s made use of the Kruskal Count to convince millions of people worldwide that he harbors amazing predictive powers. Does he? Well… yes and no.
At the core of his mathematical mind reading is physicist Martin Kruskal’s discovery that certain counting games are really a sequence of chains that can intersect and eventually become one single chain. Using that knowledge of well-concealed probability, it’s easy to perform a mind-blowing demonstration that appears to be pure magic.
But it doesn’t always work, because that’s the way probability goes. Sometimes it’s perfect, sometimes it isn’t. By examining the Kruskal Count as a magic trick and also through its original card-based format, we’ll see that magic can be math… and math can be magic.
Play “The Kruskal Count Card Trick” simulator by Alex Frieden and Ravi Montenegro: faculty.uml.edu/rmontenegro/re...
** SOURCES **
David Copperfield Vacation Destination Trick: • Magic of David Copperf...
“The Kruskal Count,” Lavarius, Rains, Vanderbei, October 2001. arxiv.org/pdf/math/0110143.pdf
Mathematical Card Tricks: “It’s probably magic,” American Mathematical Society: www.ams.org/publicoutreach/fea...
“How Long Does It Take To Catch A Wild Kangaroo?” by Ravi Montenegro and Prasad Tetali:
arxiv.org/pdf/0812.0789.pdf
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@Vsauce2 4 жыл бұрын

Two Things: ONE. Thanks again to NordVPN for sponsoring this video and supporting my fake wizard beard addiction. Get 70% off NordVPN plus and additional month free: nordvpn.com/vsauce2 and use coupon code: vsauce2 TWO: Something WEIRD happened in my first Kruskal Count card game. Did you notice? TELL ME NOW. Also, don't eat cat food. Bye.

@loolka2029 4 жыл бұрын

Heeeeey

@topzgooner4857 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah how

@benjieweisberg1617 4 жыл бұрын

You never drank your choccy milk

@danieljupton 4 жыл бұрын

All of the sequences in the first card trick lead to the same 9

@Forriedude 4 жыл бұрын

I got 6 on the first card one.

@eva-maria7066 4 жыл бұрын

Jokes on you, apparently I can't spell nor count.

@hel2727 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah buddy go

@MatthewArangatta 4 жыл бұрын

Apparently i can't either lol

@devinb1806 4 жыл бұрын

I started at twelve and got to 3, ELIMINATED

@gingaid5217 4 жыл бұрын

you cna count

@jakevancecastaneda3748 4 жыл бұрын

Same I was on the 5

@milkynessa8099 4 жыл бұрын

The best magic trick: Pick a number, then multiply that number by 0. Your number is 0.

@valiyar7541 4 жыл бұрын

this is how most equation tricks go but their just longer equations

@botelladeaguamediollena4885 4 жыл бұрын

Kira Apprentice Are you dumb?

@BepiBoBep 4 жыл бұрын

Oh shoot this works! I thought it was fake!

@jamalhoss 4 жыл бұрын

oH MY GOD HOW DId YOu GUESS ThaT

@zxapbat 4 жыл бұрын

What are you a magician

@plant554 Жыл бұрын

-are you on 8? -yes -NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@zaksaturday1693 Жыл бұрын

An interesting thing you should've brought up is how if we changed the face card's value from 5 to say, 1 or 2, it'd improve the odds for chains to intersect because of the smaller jumps

@TierZoo 4 жыл бұрын

Well I'm convinced Kevin is a psychic. You didn't even need to predict my number you already knew I was thinking about memes and pizza rolls.

@tacocow6122 4 жыл бұрын

TierZoo hi

@musaisbald1642 4 жыл бұрын

Lol what tierzoo

@Demonetizedh8re 4 жыл бұрын

Time to rank all of Kevin's "characters" and their abilities

@isaak1232 4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@yashp1nth 4 жыл бұрын

tierzoo upload more pleeasee

@Chaooo 4 жыл бұрын

"If your secret number is 7..." We don't even need to proceed with the trick, you already guessed it before it even began... God damnit...

@phoenixstormjr.1018 4 жыл бұрын

I always pick 2 numbers when they say that to throw them off. He got me there to. He got 7 11.

@treng9349 4 жыл бұрын

@@phoenixstormjr.1018 Same bruh

@rubenscavalcanti8886 4 жыл бұрын

Happened to me also, twice. On 11 and then on 6

@mujackanims3098 4 жыл бұрын

Rubens Cavalcanti same

@anandsuralkar2947 4 жыл бұрын

Same

@tuxedobob2 Жыл бұрын

The card trick works (usually) because the face cards are assigned a value of 5, which is the average of the number cards, aside from 10, which is simply double 5. On average, you move 5 spaces, and the longer the sequence, the closer you converge on this average.

@Steve-mg8tc Жыл бұрын

As soon as you started to explain the rules of the card game I paused the video and wrote random numbers for the first row. I then constructed an order of cards after the first 10 which will let me predict the card that you land on 100% of the time. I later realized that I’m pretty sure all the cards were supposed to be randomly placed and that he only discovered how likely it is for you to land on the same card.

@oggyoggy1299 6 ай бұрын

Okay

@yoursleepparalysisdemon1828 4 жыл бұрын

“If your secret number is 7” Me: *panik* “Then you move 5 times” Me: *kalm*

@MichuKPK 4 жыл бұрын

Ngl it was exactly my reaction lol

@TNoxx 4 жыл бұрын

Same Xd

@andrehyacintheromain6482 4 жыл бұрын

Same

@Hero95166 4 жыл бұрын

so u spell "calm" with a "k"

@georgeconteos9084 4 жыл бұрын

Same lol

@heartdyedpurple 4 жыл бұрын

“I will guess your number” “Psh yeah right” *explaining the rules, very first example* “if you picked seven, for instance.” Damn he’s good

@in5aneguy597 4 жыл бұрын

if i remember correctly from 1 to 10 7 will get chosed the most

@andrewrice1174 4 жыл бұрын

Sameeeee

@phoenixstormjr.1018 4 жыл бұрын

I picked 2 numbers to throw him off. He got me. He really is psychic and doesnt know it.

@Veegs. 4 жыл бұрын

In5aNeGuY Yes i know to never pick 7 when someone’s doing the guessing thing lolol

@corvidaedalus 4 жыл бұрын

I originally was gonna choose six, then five, but I thought that they were too obvious and went with seven. Big mistake.

@jmanj3917 10 ай бұрын

12:15 Nope; Not this guy! I'm still chuckling over the original "weiner...dog" joke...lol

@igalbitan5096 7 ай бұрын

0:12 - Is this a glass with "Gojira" (French Metal music group) logo on it?

@user-mz7cn9hq8v 4 жыл бұрын

"Pick one" Me: ok *picks 1*

@krityamari3454 4 жыл бұрын

Богдан Седин lol same

@ijcj73 4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@mbdg6810 4 жыл бұрын

Samee

@aswedishdude3518 4 жыл бұрын

Same

@Neuzie 4 жыл бұрын

lol :p

@MumboJ 4 жыл бұрын

Kevin: "Do you live in a country?" Me: "Yes." Kevin: "WRONG!!!"

@LaFootball99 4 жыл бұрын

hahahahah XDDD!!!

@pokemonprojektczandrockruf2388 4 жыл бұрын

Oh no he found out about us aliens we must hide

@patsore3698 4 жыл бұрын

I'm living in the ranch

@sigmailoveyou7351 4 жыл бұрын

I live in a priso-I mean house!

@theg-maxtoxtricity2709 4 жыл бұрын

You actually live on an ARCHIPELAGO! Or an ISLAND!

@seekerofthemutablebalance5228 8 ай бұрын

When a magic trick starts to feel more like homework 😆

@bobgrey6137 13 күн бұрын

So, when you first did the deck of dog cards, ALL (100%) of the first 10 cards lead to the same 9 on the last row. While mathematically, only 85% will lead to the same final card on average, this particular set was just right for every single one of the first 10 to match up. Cards 1 and 5 go to card 10, which then go to card 11 (King on second row) along with cards 3 ajd 6, which all go to card 16 (10 on second row). Card 2 goes to 7, which goes to 10 and links up with cards 1 and 5. 4 goes to 8 which goes to 13 (first 6 on second row) and then to card 19 (3 on second row) along with card 9 (10 on first row). So, by now, everyone is on card 16 (10 on second row) or 19 (3 on second row). 16 goes to 26 while 19 goes to 22, which goes to 24, which goes to 30, so now everyone is on the third row at 8 (card 26) or 4 (card 30). Next step for both chains leads to card 34 (a 9 in the 4th row) which leads to card 43 (first 5 on last row) which leads to that final 9 (card 48).

@EndMii619 3 жыл бұрын

"If you picked seven" Not even 10 seconds into the trick and he knows my number...

@usernametaken017 3 жыл бұрын

Seven is the best number tbh

@axelarien8862 3 жыл бұрын

@@usernametaken017 yep

@axelarien8862 3 жыл бұрын

Lol first thing i pick os seven too

@ilias-4252 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@pcjr07 3 жыл бұрын

Me too

@christiandevey3898 4 жыл бұрын

For those who have difficulty spelling 1. One 2. Two 3. Three 4. Four 5. Five 6. Six 7. Seven 8. Eight 9. Nine 10. Ten 11. Eleven 12. Twelve

@helper_bot 4 жыл бұрын

is this the reason why spelling bee is still a real contest

@parrazarre1773 4 жыл бұрын

Thx

@friren_elf 4 жыл бұрын

Спасибо

@glowingspacecow8980 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks this is so helpful!

@khalidh5933 4 жыл бұрын

My faith in humanity is disappearing.

@HerbstaMagus 7 ай бұрын

Maybe it is because I am a physicist that minored in math but this trick seemed instantly obvious as soon as you started setting it up. Cool that the numbers happened to work out that way though.

@ppilihplul 9 ай бұрын

When your ten parallel universes ahead, because you spelled your letter in a different language

@notexist9726 Ай бұрын

What is unverse ahead? You only know one you are in.

@dogeyes7498 4 жыл бұрын

Vsauce: eats a donut taken out from the toilet. Vsauce2: eats cat food.

@adhamwashere5320 4 жыл бұрын

It's Jake's turn now

@ferociousmaliciousghost 4 жыл бұрын

Vsauce 3 JoJo part 5 addition.

@IMunchOnCats 4 жыл бұрын

Kevin has also eaten slightly under cooked cow brain, and has drunk water from a toilet.

@TheDow 4 жыл бұрын

Eat your cereal

@loodlebop 4 жыл бұрын

Except it was never in a toilet

@Jay-nh6um 4 жыл бұрын

Vsauce: So you're at... SIX! Me at 8⅝: *confused screaming*

@ethanb2698 4 жыл бұрын

I think I messed up I was at 3

@isabelbogdan4202 4 жыл бұрын

I was at the 7. Because I spelled in German. He didn't say not to do that😌

@fakepillow1 4 жыл бұрын

Me at 4 1/8: *confused confusion*

@bamboo6819 4 жыл бұрын

@@ethanb2698 me 2

@darklion3582 4 жыл бұрын

me 10

@saljaf79 7 күн бұрын

Why am I yelling at my phone saying “ITS TWOOO”

@MorpheousXO 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, I remember watching David Copperfield's show where he did this on tv as kid. Was super wowed that young.

@kek6403 4 жыл бұрын

"If you're on 3.." *Sweating*

@SolomonCooper_Misakis_son 4 жыл бұрын

relatable moment xd lol

@BlitzoTheYoutuber 4 жыл бұрын

i was on 4

@Suran107 4 жыл бұрын

Me too and this didn't work for me..

@zxapbat 4 жыл бұрын

I was on 3

@Not_a_Femboy._. 3 ай бұрын

@@Suran107 then you probably can't count lol

@lewmy230 4 жыл бұрын

The longer Michael’s beard is the crazier he is. Kevin has done the same

@matgrill9085 4 жыл бұрын

"I'm in my mom's basement" reminded me of "I'm in my parents basement"

@sandychen1381 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@mikerusche3119 7 ай бұрын

There's an old board game named Bonkers that has chains like this. You build the board as you play and you learn pretty quickly that you can link anywhere into the chain to get to its endpoint.

@wildraheim4302 10 ай бұрын

Vsauce2: "you dident land on the 12." me, who got 12: *WRONG!*

@signarmikkelsen2033 4 жыл бұрын

Vsause: you are on the three? No no no, you are not on the three Me: just looking at my number being thrown out of the number group

@werrywit 4 жыл бұрын

Signar Mikkelsen You didn't pass math did you

@hugofontes5708 4 жыл бұрын

@@werrywit maybe they passed in another language

@arielespoir8612 4 жыл бұрын

@@hugofontes5708 And the Chinese only has to move one space at a time. Nice.

@MrSlimeOfSlime 4 жыл бұрын

I thought pi, I WIN

@smartgamerplayz5782 4 жыл бұрын

SAME

@mariuspazera9580 4 жыл бұрын

*Stops on eight* "I guess I have done everything correctly" "You are SURELY not on the number eight!" "Now hold on..."

@timepisces 4 жыл бұрын

this happened to me too 😪

@markconigliaro 4 жыл бұрын

Go back to 1:29 and pay attention.

@julias.l.7666 4 жыл бұрын

same

@yaroslavsky 4 жыл бұрын

@@markconigliaro Dude, there are 4 letters in four. That puts you back at 4. Using the number of letters in the "new number" that puts you at 8.

@DreamLogic26 4 жыл бұрын

@@yaroslavsky yes, but then he says do it *again* , which puts you then to 1, which is, as he explained, the magic number

@otbaht Жыл бұрын

I had already done the math on the first one to realize how fast they would line up once. Although at first I thought it was going to be counting based on where our number started which made me think it would take more time.

@brainbrightenation449 9 ай бұрын

In computer science, this forms a forest graph. A forest graph consists of multiple tree graphs. The trick always works if and only if the starting numbers are all on the same tree.

@andydawg3132 4 жыл бұрын

Kevin: "Let's say your number was 7" Me: *gasps* "The beard is magical"

@Speirylcodm 4 жыл бұрын

welp mine was seven so yea

@gamingworld8355 4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@bakedtortilla3338 4 жыл бұрын

Same

@zhipeizhou5582 4 жыл бұрын

MINE WAS 7

@_ham4127 4 жыл бұрын

seven gang

@ultimatebrainrot4674 3 жыл бұрын

Him: YOURE ON THE 6 Me, on the 7: Welp what did I do wrong now...

@sanketmanna8653 3 жыл бұрын

Same happened to me😅...

@toponlinestuff4947 3 жыл бұрын

Meet too

@crislejo1410 3 жыл бұрын

Me too

@toponlinestuff4947 3 жыл бұрын

Sike that's the wrong number """Oooooohhhhhhhhhoohohhohoohoh""""

@therealthatcatstabe360 3 жыл бұрын

You simply have more value in numbers

@erfarkrasnobay 7 ай бұрын

Problems with such tricks is that you attempt to do at the beggining, that them are language dependent, but you could calculate chain for different languages and improve trick to guess viewer language/country

@BritanniaMaps2048 11 ай бұрын

4:25 Jokes on you, I was on the three

@GoogleAccount-pi9ct 4 жыл бұрын

Me: picks 7 Him: If you're secret number is seven, let's say Ne: visibly freaked out

@revenant5876 4 жыл бұрын

Same

@gamingworld8355 4 жыл бұрын

Sane here

@ericksanchez855 4 жыл бұрын

We all suffered the same fate

@atmu2871 4 жыл бұрын

Your*

@supercool1312 4 жыл бұрын

Aron Fekete same

@andre-arthur 3 жыл бұрын

"If you picked eleven" Me (picked 11): he's doing the job for me. How nice.

@lilanirudh 3 жыл бұрын

I'm the 69th liker of your comment... N I C E :-)

@wackyanimations3326 3 жыл бұрын

i picked seven haha

@samymehni1382 3 жыл бұрын

but if u start at four it's doing this : 3 then 8 but he remove 8, so if you want to do at 7 now. You land on the 3 and I have no idea what im doing wrong here

@jvariant8445 3 жыл бұрын

That was creepy!!

@gokublackgaming5944 3 жыл бұрын

@@samymehni1382 dont count the 12, he said start from 12 not with 12.. put your finger at 12 and start moving to 1 2 3 . . and if you picked 4(f o u r) you go from 1(f) 2(o) 3(u) 4(r)..... dont count at 12... start count when you are at 1 ok

@goldenorb1210 Жыл бұрын

"but i do know, that you are not on the 2" Anyone who landed on that: YIPPEE

@MattStylesDJ 5 ай бұрын

I remember one of Copperfield's TV specials, when I was a kid, and doing this trick. I was freaked out!

@realefrain7179 3 жыл бұрын

That awkward moment when he takes your number away

@chill6337 3 жыл бұрын

That awkward moment when you realise you messed up, but dont know where TwT

@dustybrown4599 3 жыл бұрын

When you realize you can't count?

@artiompostnikov5917 3 жыл бұрын

when you realise that you cannot spell XD

@cash759 3 жыл бұрын

Oof

@caelstucky5096 3 жыл бұрын

if you start with 6 it doesnt work

@ffb8691 4 жыл бұрын

Him: choose a number Me: seven is my lucky number Him: for example, if you choose seven

@ethan25107 4 жыл бұрын

i started on 4 and ended up on 12

@sceptileswampert5449 4 жыл бұрын

That is why I did not choose seven

@Zinc_Nitrogen 4 жыл бұрын

I debated about choosing seven or five I chose seven he used that as an example then landed on five WTF

@jeanmayani5105 4 жыл бұрын

dude i chose 7 too!!!

@justaburrito819 4 жыл бұрын

He didn’t have my lucky 13

@jackmartin8631 18 күн бұрын

Jokes on you I started with 1.5

@ZacharyDial 5 ай бұрын

0:11 that Gojira glass didn't escape my attention. 👀

@shaunperson8852 4 жыл бұрын

“you're not on three” Its either I am on thre or I forgot how to count

@th3ta 4 жыл бұрын

U chosed 10?

@imafishtruehiro6264 4 жыл бұрын

@kabirmaurya1227 4 жыл бұрын

Replys are dumb. See how he wrote 3.(I actually can't spell 3)

@trentondorfmeier9280 4 жыл бұрын

Same

@bn1__ 4 жыл бұрын

Same i got it

@LD-dt1sk 3 жыл бұрын

“If your secret number is seven...” *Breathing intensifies*

@Blastehh 2 жыл бұрын

exactly my thought too

@NganNguyen-sl2zy 2 жыл бұрын

He got us

@Galaxy_World 2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@sashaherriott5129 2 жыл бұрын

I always pick 7 for things, so this time I picked 3...... coincidence ?

@chinmaynagar 2 жыл бұрын

same

@gideonplays814 17 күн бұрын

You didn’t specify it had to be a natural, you just said “1 to 12” so I picked 12.5. Landed on 8. Checkmate

@JohnSteed777 7 ай бұрын

I tried this - and believe me, out of twenty times, only once it worked; TRUE! Why does this work for others and only once for myself?

@MetallicReg 4 жыл бұрын

Joke's on you - I spelled in an other language.

@Antonmihai2202 4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@arketim7938 4 жыл бұрын

Me too What language did you count in?

@zafari_with_z7750 4 жыл бұрын

I did in norwegian and ended on 12

@Ehtomit 4 жыл бұрын

@@arketim7938 French personally

@spetsnazvevo3075 4 жыл бұрын

great minds think alike

@_Agosto_ 4 жыл бұрын

1:37 "if your secret number is 7" *starts sweating*

@danielchoucinofigueiras1733 4 жыл бұрын

same dude, he's just too good

@uncomfortablecat 4 жыл бұрын

@@danielchoucinofigueiras1733 same.

@Slinx92OLD 4 жыл бұрын

Same, i picked 7 too

@RunningWythScissors 4 жыл бұрын

I also picked 7...

@Zombrine-de7wb 7 ай бұрын

Bro doesn’t need to even do his trick fully

@jtjs6096 Жыл бұрын

I want to say a few things, no matter what number you pick at the start, you will land on 3, 4, 5, or 6. 3 goes to 8 , 4 goes to 8, 5 goes to 9, and 6 goes to 9 so after the second round you will be on 8 or 9, but after the 3rd round you will only be on 1. Then to 4, but removes it. I'm not sure if that was going to happen but, it did, how many people now see this? Ok, I did something wrong or did it 4 times instead of 3 or something

@mwzngd1679 10 ай бұрын

I feel like people saying "he removed the number I was on" were doing it wrong

@panzeriv7462 4 жыл бұрын

Merlin: You aren't on 10..... me: but I am o- Merlin: *You aren't on 10.....*

@njlentzxc 4 жыл бұрын

Same

@cortster12 4 жыл бұрын

You can't count then~

@tjmasterov 4 жыл бұрын

Same!

@tjmasterov 4 жыл бұрын

Bose-Einstein You are being mean

@Phenet 4 жыл бұрын

Same

@cizneerob 2 жыл бұрын

Me: Clicks play Merlin: “I know everything about what you do and think” Me: *takes hearty swig of chocolate milk* Merlin: “…with my chocolate milk” Me: *closing computer* “well this video has been fun”

@daletaylor330 2 жыл бұрын

You were way off I started with the 5

@magnum2907 2 жыл бұрын

@@daletaylor330 .

@decobacolov10000 2 жыл бұрын

@@daletaylor330 what

@agooddoctorfan651 2 жыл бұрын

Haha

@Lifeless_Asian 2 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@PixalonGC Жыл бұрын

After the first time I went around the clock I realised you will ALWAYS get 1.

@user-yk9cd8io1g 3 күн бұрын

All the numbers you choose will end up on 1.

@rzeka 4 жыл бұрын

Official vsauces: Michael Jake Kevin Ethan and Hila Merlin

@aaaqui__9761 4 жыл бұрын

And Ian

@davoodoh3137 4 жыл бұрын

Aren't Ethan and hola from h3h3

@EthanTheGamer77 4 жыл бұрын

I'm not a vsauce Although I am ethan

@MrHerhor67 3 жыл бұрын

Just spell the numbers in any language other than english... Mind size: *MEGA*

@williammartin8873 3 жыл бұрын

When I pick 1 and u say that and I think of french so uno

@williammartin8873 3 жыл бұрын

Wait a minute

@therealthatcatstabe360 3 жыл бұрын

@@williammartin8873 **laughing emoji**

@SentientPotato3 3 жыл бұрын

i know this is a joke buuuuuuuut not quite, for example "nine" has four letters and in german it's "neun" which also has four letters and also in french where it is "neuf". Same with "six" and "sechs" wait a minute-

@orress3816 3 жыл бұрын

@@SentientPotato3 well, "nine" has four letters and in russian it's "девять", which has six letters; "eight" has five letters and in russian it's "восемь", which has six letters; "seven" has five letters and in russian it's "семь", which has 4 letters... So if you spell the numbers in russian, you'll always end up on a different number than in english.

@mike1024. 7 ай бұрын

Everybody was on 1 when you started removing numbers. The trick is simple: all the numbers 1-12 consist of 3-6 letters, so after the first step, everybody is in 3-6. With your next step, we have 3->8, 4->8, 5->9, 6->9, so now everybody is on 8 or 9. Finally, with your third push, everybody is on 1, so the final step of the trick follows smoothly as long as the user didn't make a mistake. Edit: I guess you explained it but I enjoyed explaining it first. :-P

@ikusA74 Жыл бұрын

Oh wow. SO impressive. Three point three got me on the ten.

@demekagamine 3 жыл бұрын

Kevin: "If you picked 7" Me: *panicked hyperventilating*

@Melecie 3 жыл бұрын

to be fair people tend to pick 7 more often than other numbers

@demekagamine 3 жыл бұрын

@@Melecie are there studies or something?

@demekagamine 3 жыл бұрын

@@soullessangel207 ah thank you for the reply. I havent watched that lad in years so also thanks for reminding me about him.

@uberd3323 3 жыл бұрын

7 is a holy number that we all subconciously love. Thats why slot machines have triple 7's give the biggest payout.

@demekagamine 3 жыл бұрын

I try to respect others beliefs, but 7 being a "holy number" definitely wasnt an answer I was looking for.

@Doomroar 4 жыл бұрын

"Magic works 100% of the time" Hear that DM? Vsauce Kevin guarantees it! now stop asking me to roll spell casts.

@justsomeguy_yt3425 4 жыл бұрын

Too bad

@BayBerry1337 4 жыл бұрын

Make a concentration check

@brianarbenz7206 Жыл бұрын

KEVIN: Pick a card, any card. ME: Alright, Stan Musial.

@TankTheDragon 9 ай бұрын

"You're wherever you are, and I'm in my mom's basement, right? WRONG!! Well, I am in my mom's basement..." Wait, then where am I?

@arthuruppiano3211 4 жыл бұрын

"Do you live in a country? Yes. You do." People in Antarctica: "Am I a joke to you?"

@sigmailoveyou7351 4 жыл бұрын

Arthur Uppiano you can’t actually permanently live in Antarctica. Sure, maybe science, but not actually reside there.

@michaelsouthern2398 4 жыл бұрын

Antarctica is a country and continent right.... well so it Australia so I don’t get it? What’s the argument here???

@momothepro1232 4 жыл бұрын

Technically Antarctica was separated in to pieces due to colonization

@Zeytrixx 4 жыл бұрын

Okay, Vsauce2 is a professional wizard now. I am proud of him.

@Tfin 4 жыл бұрын

Doesn't do what's on the tin. Never once guessed the number *I picked.* Just sent me along to another number and told me that one.

@paulcooper1046 5 ай бұрын

Tossing the kangaroo algorithm aside in that manner was classically comedic...🙂

@danielrhouck 6 ай бұрын

12:16 It might only work five in six times on average, but I think that means five times out of six, no matter which card you pick, you all agree. That certainly was the case here; everyone lands on the six of hearts in the third row and from there itʼs the same.

@stylishgaby 4 жыл бұрын

"If you picked seven..." WELL uh i get called out like this ? Before the magic trick starts ? Well damn.

@ojie285 4 жыл бұрын

Everyone saying they beat him: Me actually getting 6: what

@currypenguin 4 жыл бұрын

I got 7 lol

@ItsLogic 4 жыл бұрын

You always get 6 unless you did the math wrong.

@trystanmadfouni8329 4 жыл бұрын

@@ItsLogic Every number you choose at the start has 3-5 letters, those three outcomes all lead back to the one in the end, everybody then takes the same steps and ends up on 6.

@syahmifaris2047 4 жыл бұрын

I got 6

@seeminglyatom9988 4 жыл бұрын

Nelson Lantican ik

@electronic_dude4970 7 ай бұрын

He doesn’t realize the only thing I thought of this whole time was bananas

@ritedjmorsli6727 6 ай бұрын

You : you chosed the 6 ! Me : I didn't know i chosed the 6 .

@styrocupp 4 жыл бұрын

“ i know that you’re not on the 2 either... or the 4... or the 8” Me being on the 8: 😔

@Asto1215 4 жыл бұрын

Also me on 4

@joanoliveira186 4 жыл бұрын

I choose 6, and was on 4 too

@POLITENEss 4 жыл бұрын

I chose 8 And ended on three

@PatrickHemmes 4 жыл бұрын

Joan me to

@ednafielzinha7699 4 жыл бұрын

I was in the 8 too

@marbleracingstudios9552 3 жыл бұрын

“If your secret number is seven” Me: *Sweats nervously*

@Doopen 3 жыл бұрын

i also picked seven first and it lands on 5 *and 75 is my favorite number*

@santhosh_se5476 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@angelx9475 3 жыл бұрын

XD same happened here

@f0kes32 3 жыл бұрын

7 is most popular number

@somedudeontheinternet5213 3 жыл бұрын

I picked seven than 11 and he guessed those to first

@THE-UNMANNED-OVEN 3 ай бұрын

Little did he realize that I didn’t pick a number

@heyitzdove Жыл бұрын

I've seen these so many times that I don't even try to work around the system anymore lol.

@shivam2singh 4 жыл бұрын

Me: picks number 7 Kevin: "Suppose you pick number 7....." Me: aaaaaaaaaaa

@Antinomy-lr9yw 4 жыл бұрын

Same

@externise3777 4 жыл бұрын

Same

@overestimatedforesight 4 жыл бұрын

"Now clear your mind of its usual thoughts. Memes, pizza rolls, energy drinks." OK WOW YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO MAKE IT PERSONAL

@Steph737 Жыл бұрын

I started with the number 7. The trick is so cool!

@tntdude999 Жыл бұрын

Vsuace: You're not on the 2 me: yes Vsuace: You're not on the 4 me: yes Vsuace: You're not on the 12 me: i was on 12

@mamatasingh1255 3 жыл бұрын

Showing this to my family members is easier than explain the trick.

@samyogadhikari8557 3 жыл бұрын

absolutely😂

@samyogadhikari8557 3 жыл бұрын

@Emily Moore 🤣

@justincatlett9354 3 жыл бұрын

Why on earth would you want to explain the trick. I'm going to use this in D&D puzzles for my players and blow their minds

@adrin181 3 жыл бұрын

this is really the featured comment?

@asparagus7014 3 жыл бұрын

Just say "it's magic"

@Mauripsu 4 жыл бұрын

"Spell the number" Me, a non-English viewer: *Giorno's theme plays*

@lunaticnomad0 4 жыл бұрын

"8 okay lets count: S-E-K-İ-Z now I am on 5 lets count: B-E-Ş now I am on 8 lets count: S-E-K-İ-Z now I am on 1" The random number I choose joins the chain where english chain joins 1. If I try this with Turkish when I spin third time I would end up in 1 if I choose 4,6,7,8,9,11 or 12. 1,2,3,5 and 10 would end up in 8 and chains would perfectly follow each other with one move lag.

@umbraemilitos 4 жыл бұрын

Can you make the same type of game work in your native language

@Mauripsu 4 жыл бұрын

@@umbraemilitos Maybe with another number as the final number? I'd have to check

@umbraemilitos 4 жыл бұрын

@@Mauripsu You may need more or less than 12.

@sarpakn4848 4 жыл бұрын

1 = B-İ-R 2 = İ-K-İ 3 = ü-Ç 4 = D-Ö-R-T 5 = B-E-Ş 6 = A-L-T-I 7 = Y-E-D-İ 8 = S-E-K-İ-Z 9 = D-O-K-U-Z 10 = O-N 11 = O-N-B-İ-R 12 = O-N-İ-K-İ these are the spellings of the numbers do the math yourself.

@briansmith2990 7 ай бұрын

He said that no one could land on the 7 after spelling 2 numbers, but that's incorrect. If someone selected nine and six, which totals 7 letters, they WOULD land on the 7.

@Iris-mw8yz 3 ай бұрын

He: I know your number wasn't eight Meanwhile my number: 😢😢😢

@michellen5704 3 ай бұрын

It’s what you landed on not your starting number

@mrmarcello3277 4 жыл бұрын

Vsauce2: "If you picked seven, for instance, you would move..." Me: Oh, guess I won't need to count this one

@jgperes 4 жыл бұрын

I picked 7 aswell

@mcsroom8930 4 жыл бұрын

@@jgperes me too then l picked 4

@gamingworld8355 4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@zzadz02 4 жыл бұрын

A real magician would have predicted that I didn’t follow the rules set by you...

@randomthoughtstheories6681 4 жыл бұрын

Jona I’m not gonna like cause there’s literally no guaranteed way he can get anything then.

@alexcerullo3143 4 жыл бұрын

Random thoughts & theories cool but we didn’t ask

@Sheridantank 4 жыл бұрын

Alex Cerullo ironic how that’s like us not asking for your opinion yet here it is.

@alexcerullo3143 4 жыл бұрын

Brandon what’s ironic is that I said I didn’t ask and you still proceeded to reply

@Nekoooooooooify 4 жыл бұрын

haha so quirky

@scibanana3542 Жыл бұрын

"I'm lounging by the pool drinking chocolate milk right now" Actually, in my mind, you won't find chocolate of any sort unless it's in the "to be removed from existence" area

@WarChallenger Жыл бұрын

Nice taste in music! I noticed the Gojira logo on that cup.

@doggoex5153 4 жыл бұрын

Kevin: Do you have friends? Me: Yes Kevin: WRONG!!! Me: how did you know ;-;

@gamerdomain6618 2 жыл бұрын

I picked seven to start with and then the example of seven being used made my eyes widen.

@randomjapsi 2 жыл бұрын

me too smoge

@christopherlow2577 2 жыл бұрын

Same

@NightskySkyler 2 жыл бұрын

WHY DID ALL OF US CHOOSE SEVEN

@christopherlow2577 2 жыл бұрын

True why did we

@freya5842 2 жыл бұрын

me too

@randomaccount593 3 ай бұрын

When he took my number away: Welp today I learned that i cannot count or spell.

@ellymidfymanmadentt.kalaka1035 Жыл бұрын

Kevin: "This is a fun little trick you can use to mess with your little brother's mind" Me who's the little brother: Hah, pathetic

@Shadman.Sheikh 2 жыл бұрын

Me: ends on 12 He : I know everything about you..... continues removing 12 (None can understand me 🥺😢)

@deyangerasimov9485 2 жыл бұрын

Yup, sadly thus trick doesn't work in other languages rather than English

@tommytran4725 2 жыл бұрын

Me: choose 4 and land on 4 LOL

@areeshakhalid4629 2 жыл бұрын

Same i was on 12 too

@Shadman.Sheikh 2 жыл бұрын

@@areeshakhalid4629 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

@kelseyheath6912 2 жыл бұрын

Same dude i ended on 8 and he removed it 😂

@sky3_ow 4 жыл бұрын

"Spell your number" Laughs not in english

@namelessghoul615 4 жыл бұрын

Same😂

@Thegoodgamerpro72jdq 4 жыл бұрын

O-N-E

@SacsachCCABP 4 жыл бұрын

Spanish: Uno French: Un Chinese: e

@jarkki1017 4 жыл бұрын

Bfb_Pencil Finnish: yksi

@NilsS-ew8ph 4 жыл бұрын

@@jarkki1017 German: Eins

@dennyshei4849 4 күн бұрын

He took my number away... TWICE!

@duniaprasta06 7 ай бұрын

Me: * lands on 10 * Kevin: * removes 10 *

@bywiweit 3 жыл бұрын

Me spelling the numbers in German: Magic doesn’t work on me 😏

@orress3816 3 жыл бұрын

I spelled the numbers in russian and it didn't work on me either Edit: I also did that on purpose because I've seen a few videos on the same thing and I knew what he was going to do

@we-call-it-fall 3 жыл бұрын

yeah same in polish

@tylenoloverdose540 3 жыл бұрын

A German, a Russian and a Pole walk into a bar...

@Darkyryus_ 3 жыл бұрын

Spanish here... xD

@yuul7178 3 жыл бұрын

Same with Dutch lmaoo