The Easiest Cryptography Game

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3 жыл бұрын

How is it possible to roll dice to randomly choose 12 squares out of a grid of 144 and reveal a hidden message in the correct order? It’s not only possible, it’s actually guaranteed.
But why stop at 12 x 12? Why can’t you hide an entire book in an array of colored squares, and have a friend randomly select them until he’s re-written the entire book perfectly, start to finish? If you had enough time and space, that’s guaranteed to work, too.
First we have to have that grid of colored squares and write down all 144 (x, y) coordinates. Then roll our dice -- or you can have a friend just choose a square -- and mark that with an X. Remove all the squares above, below, and to the left and right of the choice. Then keep choosing and removing until there’s only one square left, which is your final selection.
Flip them over and you’ve got whatever message you secretly hid within the grid, and it’ll work every single time. They call it magic, but it’s really not.
Magic squares started as simple quirks of addition, and over the last 2,500 years they’ve evolved to create complex patterns of numbers, operations, and even letters. China and India were fascinated by mathematical magic squares, and the famous SATOR square of letters has been found all over Europe. But the most fascinating basic magic square might be tucked away in the corner of a 16th century German engraving.
Over centuries we’ve learned the patterns and properties of magic squares, ranging from brain teasers and riddles to… well, the presence of Birkhoff-von Neumann decomposition within the magic.
Demonstrate a magic trick? Ask someone to marry you? Re-write the entire Harry Potter series? It’s all possible with the manipulation of recreational mathematics.
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@Xandawesome 3 жыл бұрын

The trick was immediately obvious, but the magic square talk was interesting. My only question is... Where's the relation?

@2ndEditionBryce 3 жыл бұрын

They are both squares. :D

@sk8rdman 3 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly. What does this trivial trick have to do with magic squares?

@MCLooyverse 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, same. I'm not sure what the point here was.

@firasdimashki5548 3 жыл бұрын

same here

@clobre_ 3 жыл бұрын

@ragnkja 3 жыл бұрын

The moment you removed the rest of the row and column I started to suspect that all the rows were the same.

@abjoern 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's what I thought too

@nikhar8275 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah that was so lame but the explaination about Magic Square and stuff was fascinating.

@abjoern 3 жыл бұрын

Big agree

@EvanSawyer4 3 жыл бұрын

I thought about it but also thought, that can't be it. Oh how wrong I was.

@MrJed87 3 жыл бұрын

@Luís Andrade No, repeating the message on every line is what makes it work. Magic squares honestly have nothing to do with that at all.

@Lolmonster777 3 жыл бұрын

When he revealed the message, I was like how do we know the columns aren’t all the same letter? Since we know one and only one tile is chosen from each column. But it turns out i was right. That was the point.

@Dragonatrix 3 жыл бұрын

Not just that, but arranging the cards at the end in the already predetermined order. If they were placed in the order they were randomly generated, or selected by Person B or whatever, and then that always spelt out a message as well that'd be interesting. But also, y'know, impossible.

@axoluna 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it was a fairly simple trick. Didn’t really need the whole Magic Square discussion to understand it, although it was interesting

@yanarnia 3 жыл бұрын

That’s what I thought as well. Glad I’m not the only one who thought that way. I figured that would be the easiest way to guarantee that message always showing up

@user-oz3os9bt3g 3 жыл бұрын

If the columns weren't removed there would/might be the same letter of the message twice

@wistfulgraph 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I thought the same thing.

@rustycage 3 жыл бұрын

You took those eggs like a champ

@pizzaboiler 3 жыл бұрын

He really did

@crunchybanana6489 3 жыл бұрын

He really did

@samuelmckillop1676 3 жыл бұрын

He really did

@devjain2319 3 жыл бұрын

He really did

@chixenlegjo 3 жыл бұрын

He really did

@WillMauer 3 жыл бұрын

Plot Twist: This video is a social experiment on how much editing and eloquence matters for making the content more interesting than it really is.

@brianbarrett2487 3 жыл бұрын

Or filtering out how many of your viewers are pretentious douchers

@karlboud88 3 жыл бұрын

@@brianbarrett2487 Right? Wrong! No one is pretending to be smarter than everyone else because they "solved" the trick, because there was no trick to solve, it was just plain bad, their opinions and criticism weren't meant to be douchy

@Syt0n 3 жыл бұрын

I really hope it is, the magic square history was actually pretty entretaining, but had nothing to do with the whole point of the video. Definitely the most nonsense video they've ever made.

@OrangeNOrange 2 жыл бұрын

What how'd you know

@elidagdagan2780 Жыл бұрын

Well that just takes the fun out of it 😢

@saintarj4552 3 жыл бұрын

the explanation was way more complex than the actual way he did it

@unclecreepy4185 3 жыл бұрын

Right, he kept talking and talking and I was expecting him to change subjects. He’s the kind of guy that spends 10 minutes explaining the “got your nose” trick by doing an anatomy of the feet lesson.

@BryanLeeWilliams 3 жыл бұрын

I am utterly confused by the setup maybe and how it relates to the magic square. I can not duplicate the results. For the message to read correctly every row has to be the same. What am I missing?

@saintarj4552 3 жыл бұрын

@@BryanLeeWilliams if you message is “hello” you just have hello in 5 rows and then you just pick one note from each column and the only possible result is to get Hello at the end

@unclecreepy4185 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, every row has to be the same message. It literally has nothing to do with magic squares.

@fiusionmaster3241 Жыл бұрын

Yeah lol

@xereeto 3 жыл бұрын

I... don't see what this has to do with magic squares.

@YarnDuckGet 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@_nikdo 3 жыл бұрын

same

@IsaBella-ir4rf 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@Todija 3 жыл бұрын

same

@prim16 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@KaiKunstmann 3 жыл бұрын

Name 12 distinct numbers between 1 and 12 inclusive, and then we put them in order to reveal their hidden function: counting from 1 to 12.

@pantlooner9601 3 жыл бұрын

I think decimals goin to ruin ya day

@fulana_de_tal 3 жыл бұрын

@@pantlooner9601 just specify that U = N

@NinjaXavier2 3 жыл бұрын

@@pantlooner9601 i think the fact that they did not specify if negative numbers between 1-12 count

@bensorrentino778 2 жыл бұрын

@@NinjaXavier2 there are no negative numbers between 1 and 12

@swordfishxd- 2 жыл бұрын

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12. The nth term of the sequence is the n-1th term plus one

@DrSnap23 3 жыл бұрын

The only random thing in this video is Kevin chugging raw eggs

@Jeb.07 3 жыл бұрын

This feels silly. Given that the horizontal doesn’t matter, you’re just making people “select” a bunch of units. And the fact that they all are only moved down to the bottom at the end, makes it incredibly obvious what’s going on.

@hephaestus8266 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I fail to see the point of the explanation entirely.

@nothingnothing1799 3 жыл бұрын

The removal of the horizontal cards, does 2 things, it guarantees different each card is at a different y level, and slightly obfuscates the trick, I saw through the trick before he removed the second row, tho kinda hoped the horizontal cards being removed was adding complexity, I couldn't think of a way this could reliably be done but in the beginning he claimed, there was 1 way this could be messed up, so I was hoping someone smarter then me had figured out a way to do exactly that

@campfire75 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly this was a terrible puzzle

@ZekeBittersweet Жыл бұрын

I'm gonna try this on the kids I work with in afterschool care lol

@Rukalin 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm gonna say this video's a miss. The trick was so obvious that, admittedly, I thought that couldn't be it and the magic square excursion had nothing to do with it.

@doicaretho6851 2 жыл бұрын

Well then it fooled you anyway

@myname-rz4zk 3 жыл бұрын

I worked out the trick as soon as you moved the letters down to the same level. A young child might think this is cool but anyone above the age of 10 surely knows how it works

@syrialak101 3 жыл бұрын

I can confirm. I am above the age of 10. I didn't understand it until he explained it.

@lk2704 3 жыл бұрын

nice amount of likes

@lk2704 3 жыл бұрын

@@syrialak101 I am 17, I didn't understand it even after he explained it

@larsatticus6807 3 жыл бұрын

@@lk2704 Every column has the same sentence. Since you remove the row and column of each square you pick, when you're done you have one letter in each column, which is a complete row since they're all the same.

@MrJed87 3 жыл бұрын

My 9 year old guessed right how it worked as soon as he moved them down to flip them.

@Brandman88 3 жыл бұрын

Man I thoughts that's how it was gunna happen but I was really hoping it wouldn't be that simple and there would be something much more beautiful and complex going on in the background

@david_ga8490 3 жыл бұрын

Sameee

@1997oreosFTW 3 жыл бұрын

Perhaps a version more akin to magic squares would be having 12! distinct messages, and so in that version every row would be nonsense, but anything other than that would be valid. Seems more doable in English language with a lower number (maybe 4!, where it produces 4! Distinct words), but regardless it sounds more satisfying than this illusion of choice

@snork_games 3 жыл бұрын

This is a better idea for sure

@Lernos1 3 жыл бұрын

I don't see how this would work. If you have a magic square of words: SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS Randomness can easily pick stuff like SETRO or TONPS which is utter gibberish. Magic squares have nothing to do with this trick.

@1997oreosFTW 3 жыл бұрын

@@Lernos1 your magic square example isn't a magic square example though lol, I gave a 3x3 example of what I mean, but yes I agree the trick shown in the video doesn't have much to do with magic squares that's why I commented this

@QuantumScratcher 2 жыл бұрын

why did i think factorial of 12

@youmaybebusy 3 жыл бұрын

"Hm, well you could just write the same message over and over again but I wonder what the actual trick is. ... oh." I guess not EVERY video can be mind blowing, or else we would be completely atomized :D

@FoodIsCrack 3 жыл бұрын

i feel like this video was supposed to be a short but he got told he had to make a 10 minute video

@kasuha 3 жыл бұрын

You don't even need to remove cards in the row you rolled, the column is enough.

@Daro-Wolfe 3 жыл бұрын

You remove the rows to disguise what you are really doing

@user-hv8jv2rp2m 3 жыл бұрын

@legend644 3 жыл бұрын

I suppose the trick is a bit less mesmorising if you end up with an entire column after n-1 choices instead of just the final 1 letter that got isolated

@car-keys 3 жыл бұрын

that magic square tangent had nothing to do with the puzzle huh

@max_208 3 жыл бұрын

uh, doesn't have anything to do with magic squares, does it ? you're just keeping one card from each row and if the rows are full of the same letter then yeah duh you're going to have the same sentence

@TECHN01200 3 жыл бұрын

Is this an out of season April fool's joke?

@cultsulth 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe I don't get it correctly but it seems extremely obvious no? When he did it with his word "Right?Wrong!" I immediatly knew what was going on... and I'm no genius.

@pekuja 3 жыл бұрын

I have a simpler version of this game: Just arrange 12 cards in a row, and then randomly pick cards until you've picked 12 unique cards. Then reveal the magical random message! That's essentially the same game. In the version in the video you choose out of 12 columns and 12 rows, but the choice of row doesn't matter since it's just the same row duplicated 12 times.

@francescof3267 3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree, the choice of the column is totally useless

@yepee1 3 жыл бұрын

When you realize the message is just repeated over and over, there is no opportunity for you to get a 'wrong' character. You are just selecting a random character in the sequence, then removing all occurrences of that specific character. Honestly, the game would work even if you didn't clear each row, just the columns.

@ObitoSigma 3 жыл бұрын

@@hahafreepremium3990 Think you got it mixed up. If you clear the columns, then you remove all the duplicates. And since each row is the same, the choice of row for each column does not matter.

@PlotTwists 3 жыл бұрын

How is it supposed to amaze if it's the same word on each line? it's obvious that the word would be the one to appear at the end

@hsmptg 3 жыл бұрын

Repeating each "wanted letter" along each column does not do the same??? Why all the "random dice circus"?

@dylanvellut 3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't even call that a trick... sure it is a good set up to surprise people, like a gender reveal, but it's not hard to figure out. it has nothing to do with a magic square either... feel disappointed

@chriswebster24 2 жыл бұрын

That’s a good idea. I’m gonna use this trick the next time I change my gender. Ha ha I’m jk obviously you can’t change that sort of thing. That would be ridiculous.

@DavidCaddock 3 жыл бұрын

Should have had two different color D12's

@JohnSmith-qq7fm 3 жыл бұрын

Kinda difficult to determine which is x and which is y if they're identical

@drewnolde2674 3 жыл бұрын

@@JohnSmith-qq7fm it seems like after the roll, the one on the left will be the choice for X and the one on the right will be the choice for Y. It also doesn’t matter. You could take either one and the result wouldn’t change. It’s supposed to be random.

@JigawattMusic 3 жыл бұрын

@@drewnolde2674 very difficult

@lk2704 3 жыл бұрын

Back to the old video formats, loving it

@mohammadazad8350 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah , I ignored all the new ones

@AxxLAfriku 3 жыл бұрын

KAKAKAKAKAKAK this is wonderful! PRANK! IT is terrible! I looked in the mirror and saw something UNPRETTY: my face. KAKAKAKAKAKA! But I am happy agayn because I have TWO HOT GIRLFRIENDS and I use them to get vi*ws on my hilarious v*deos! KAKAKAKAK!!! Good day, dear lk

@aashsyed1277 3 жыл бұрын

@@mohammadazad8350 are you a muslim????????

@nikolaevkatesla3823 3 жыл бұрын

@@mohammadazad8350 yeah me same They were pretty low effort

@Stowneyo 3 жыл бұрын

@@aashsyed1277 does that matter somehow?

@foobar8157 3 жыл бұрын

Not so impressing if your counterpart finds out what on all of the cards.

@foxtemple1952 3 жыл бұрын

I thought it would be something mindblowing, but turns out it was just the lame hypothesis that instantly crossed my mind when you told me how it would work

@TheKingNier 3 жыл бұрын

It's just a trick. What does this have to do with magic squares?

@bobiboulon 3 жыл бұрын

7:05 You're going to have to explain what you mean by that. Because adding the 9 numbers of those squares doesn't give 34. And how could it be when a 2 by 2 square _inside it_ already has a sum equal to 34?

@moncef2733 3 жыл бұрын

The 4 edges of the square

@bobiboulon 3 жыл бұрын

@@moncef2733 Oh, indeed! Thx. :)

@moncef2733 3 жыл бұрын

@@bobiboulon you'rr welcome ^^

@nikitaplotnikov931 3 жыл бұрын

6:58 rectangles already have rows and columns in them. Also doesn't work

@moncef2733 3 жыл бұрын

@@nikitaplotnikov931 I just said you need to take the 4 EDGES of any shape -_-

@aaron6627 3 жыл бұрын

couldn't someone ask to see the cards you remove and put 2 and 2 together? it's like having 52 of the same card in a deck and magically guessing right

@Leron... 3 жыл бұрын

You have no idea how badly I wanted that 80's action montage to include a clip of Kevin using Balloon-Kevin as a speed-punching bag.

@silentobserver3433 3 жыл бұрын

I thought this was going to talk about a simple version of fountain codes, that are actually able to decode a correct message out of absolutely random subset of encoded data, but instead it was this. Oh well

@alejrandom6592 3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking hamming codes or something

@silentobserver3433 3 жыл бұрын

@@alejrandom6592 Hamming codes are similar, but they're designed to correct errors (flipped bits) in the message, not fill in the missing parts, like fountain codes

@alejrandom6592 3 жыл бұрын

@@silentobserver3433 Interesting, I'll google about it ;)

@vlastasusak5673 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, magic squares, that's really cool, wonder how it could be applied here. Can't wait until he explains it, so I can comment that he could have just made each column out of a single letter in order, since the removal method leaves one square per column exactly and... Oh.

@BIayne 3 жыл бұрын

This trick was, as so many commenters have pointed out, was very lame and had nothing to do with magic squares..

@telnobynoyator_6183 3 жыл бұрын

"the explanation lies deep within the mysteries of the universe, you just have to duplicate the word on every row in the most intuitive way possible"

@leuco2048 3 жыл бұрын

There are a lot of mistakes in this video, is this some sort of experiment to prove, idk, people's capacity to identify errors or something like that? Like this has to be part of something else right? Maybe something that has to do with expectetions and outcomes?

@david_ga8490 3 жыл бұрын

You are right

@ttt5020 3 жыл бұрын

gotta be. look at the X at 7:12, how could he mess that up if not on purpose?

@lawrencecalablaster568 3 жыл бұрын

What does the dice trick have to do with magic squares?

@MrEel-dc4kh 3 жыл бұрын

Many people are hating on this because the solution is so obvious, but I like it because of the eggs

@red_roy 3 жыл бұрын

I think i have become too overpowered In the beginning of the vid, I thought that you could just repeat the line horizontally and they will ultimately get the same line

@EthanSimmons06 2 жыл бұрын

I instantly suspected that it was just the same message on every column as soon as he rolled the first dice, I didn't expect the trick to be so easy and so obvious but I guess it was

@dreaminginnoother 3 жыл бұрын

It was clear what was going on in the first 2 rolls. Stupidly simple. I get it was an excuse to talk about more interesting stuff, but I feel bad for anyone impressed by his display.

@tymek9691 3 жыл бұрын

That montage was amazing

@pepe7904 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone knows the song title?

@johnathankohlhepp624 3 жыл бұрын

@@pepe7904 Barrie Gledden - Heart Break (Optimus Prime Vs. Gundam)

@pepe7904 3 жыл бұрын

@@johnathankohlhepp624 thanks

@Tyminator502 3 жыл бұрын

7:12 was that last point on the horizontal x a mistake?

@mohammadazad8350 3 жыл бұрын

yes

@Confluence358 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah should include 13, not 2.

@KKomalShashank 3 жыл бұрын

No random game is random, Kevin. Everything is either deterministic or non-deterministic.

@comrendu 3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was gonna be like a sentence where each of the 12 cards in a column gives a different word or set of words but still fits in with the rest.

@RADZIO895 3 жыл бұрын

Now that I'm in uni these videos aren't as enjoyable as they used to be when I was in middleschool :/ It's just predictable and almost obvious when u have some basic math intuition

@ThePenisMan 3 жыл бұрын

This one in specific didn’t even have math, it’s just picking a unique number between 1 and 12 twelve times to get a sequence of 1 to 12 Look at every other comment here, this video in particular was just an extra dip in quality. You don’t even have to be in elementary to shrug this one off

@lunarkomet 3 жыл бұрын

You sure you're in university? There's no math here, only tricks for gullible people

@aegerman6317 3 жыл бұрын

This is nothing like the other math videos lmao you being in university has nothing to do with it

@carameldotzip 3 жыл бұрын

That would make sense, but this vid in particular had a super obvious “secret” for how it worked. I still don’t understand how this is even a variation of magic squares. This would be predictable to anyone paying good attention.

@Bengiamino 3 жыл бұрын

He just half assed the first part of the video. He actually talks about magic squares in the second half

@hsmptg 3 жыл бұрын

07:11 Wrong drawing of the "Horizontal X"!!!

@mohammadazad8350 3 жыл бұрын

ikr

@coffeebean2 3 жыл бұрын

So you're telling me that rolling dice can solve the Zodiac Killer's letters?

@Big-A 3 жыл бұрын

huh

@Rabbit-the-One 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, and they did, after factoring for spelling errors. Infographics did a video on it

@8-P 3 жыл бұрын

The last letter was just recently deciphered, there is a blog post on wolfram alpha

@clancat 3 жыл бұрын

I thought that this was the puzzle that papyrus gives you in undertale.

@katakana1 3 жыл бұрын

"Just write out the same message on every row" My goodness, what an idea. Why didn't I think of that?

@tmrogers87 3 жыл бұрын

Brutal that you had to re-record!

@yesbro9644 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine putting this game on a teasure and the word you put is deez nuts

@firal556 3 жыл бұрын

After multiple fails, we finally see this video. Thank you!

@MelindadelosSantos 3 жыл бұрын

I’m amazed that I actually understood this. Thanks!

@Shazistic 3 жыл бұрын

Humans invented the atom bomb but no mouse would construct a mousetrap -Albert Einstein

@Logicallymath 3 жыл бұрын

nice to see you back on this format

@nohumanisagod 3 жыл бұрын

Its like giving a Player repeativly The choice out of 5 cards to chosse, but all the cards are the same. And the magicly a word appears? Its realy Not that complex, you can maybe fool some younger kids but thats where it stops.

@johnathankohlhepp624 3 жыл бұрын

Montage song is: Barrie Gledden - Heart Break (Optimus Prime Vs. Gundam)

@dante1602 3 жыл бұрын

Aaaaaaaand that was the comment I was looking for. Thanks a bunch for that !

@romilrh 3 жыл бұрын

"This is a variation on the Magic Square! They're both squares! And magic!"

@CharlesKhan 3 жыл бұрын

That’s a big set of D12 dice ya got there!

@Linck192 3 жыл бұрын

I think you could get a number from 1 to 12 with a d6, if each number in the d6 represents one pair of numbers from 1 to 12. For example, rolling a one means 1 or 2, rolling a 2 means 3 or 4, rolling a 6 means 11 or 12. Then you roll another d6 to get which number in the pair. Above 3 is the second number, and the rest is the first number. Example: You roll a 3 and a 5. Number 3 corresponds to the 5 or 6 pair, then number 5 is above 3 so it's the 6.

@jvcmarc 3 жыл бұрын

as long as you can tell the two d6 apart if they're the same color, how would you decide which one tells the pair, and which one tells which one if the pair?

@philipsuskin6843 3 жыл бұрын

@@jvcmarc roll them one at a time?

@yashpandey4490 3 жыл бұрын

Whenever he says"right?" I am like "No,WRONG"

@molestingmoss5883 3 жыл бұрын

It's kinda like the infinte paradox where you take the diagonal and change the value to make the entry unique

@KevinSheppard 3 жыл бұрын

That dice rolling exercise looks tedious. I appreciate how hard you work on these videos 👍🏼

@Gamesaucer 3 жыл бұрын

Those dice are amazing. Like for real though, I want a set of those. All my dice are way smaller than that (except a d6 that's bigger but that one's too heavy to actually roll with)

@dranium312 3 жыл бұрын

7:20 There are some mistakes about the 34 1. Numbers 2. Rows and colummns, diagonals - 34 3. Outside squares - 34 4. Center square - 34 5. Corners - 34 6. Inner rectangles - 68 (34x2 because its #4 + my exampe #13) 7. Diagonal rhombusses - 34 8. 3x3 blocks - 69, 72, 81, 84 (from left to right and up todown) 9. Vertical "X" - 34 10. Horizontal "X" - 34 11. Trapezoids - 51 12. Squaews that dont use the corners - 34 But there is another way to get to 34 13. (3+2) + (15+14) OR (5+9) + (8+12) The basic rule seems to be to use 4 numbers which will give you geometric forms or a kind of mirage reflection. #11 is giving at least the same numbers like #5 but #8 is complete out of position and i couldnt find any connection to 34. Edit: #13 was meant when he draw #6 #8 you just take the corners #11 just the edges (3+13 and 4+14) The rule is always to take the 4 numbers or in bigger geometric forms the 4 corners

@aegerman6317 3 жыл бұрын

Your #13 is what he actually meant by the inner rectangles, I don’t know why it’s not just called the inner edges or something. But yeah I can’t figure out #8 at all

@ashleycao523 3 жыл бұрын

He makes it a bit vague but it’s always 4 numbers which are the 4 corners of the shapes. #8 gives you 34 if you just sum the 4 corners of the squares

@dranium312 3 жыл бұрын

@@ashleycao523 Ok so that makes #11 following the same rule - i was just thinking too simple and ignore that he specially marked it with points before he connected

@SaltyFrank1990 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, I could've predicted the lyrics from that metal song from a thousand milles away

@MrWocnam 2 жыл бұрын

That 80's montage caught me so off guard, I laughed for a solid 3 minutes.

@goodlookingcorpse 2 жыл бұрын

I can see how you made sure you'd get the message, but now how you ensured it was in the correct order.

@wolfelkan8183 3 жыл бұрын

5:55 and if you ask a high school student, they might tell you that's a meaningless distinction.

@Roinkki 3 жыл бұрын

This one was pretty easy to figure out compared to some of your other videos!

@cerjmedia 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it might be a lame trick, but like he said, it's somewhat decent for a marriage proposal if the other person doesn't realize what's going. Yes, it might be easy to figure what's happening if that's what you're actively trying to do, but it's just vague enough to get someone who's not paying the most amount of attention to completely get surprised by it.

@kurzackd 2 жыл бұрын

This was obvious from the start what the secret was gonna be and it has NOTHING to do with Magic Squares lol

@snakeorbreak6258 3 жыл бұрын

"A dog is not a hand tool." *You're just not trying hard enough.*

@ShaileshDagar 3 жыл бұрын

Kevin is sitting in a RED ROOM BLUE ROOM.

@masaguchi46 3 жыл бұрын

Wait so each column had the same exact letter? At first I thought the color of the paper corresponded to a unique letter.

@Rabbit-the-One 3 жыл бұрын

Those D12 are HUGE

@SVmino53 3 жыл бұрын

Now I'm trying to make a 4x4 square where you do the same thing, but you get a different word for each combination

@19Szabolcs91 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, at least that is interesting.

@jasonsmith13th 3 жыл бұрын

When we gonna get a new episode of mindblow? We are overdue for one.

@thenailsageofgeo4975 3 жыл бұрын

The potential for Rick roles this could provide

@selin_theinsann 3 жыл бұрын

Wait so there ain't no real magic?! Every single one of the papers already has the word on it!? Oh man, I was really hoping to see a real magic thing

@alejrandom6592 3 жыл бұрын

No such thing as real magic but I get ur point

@peak-contextless4861 3 жыл бұрын

Watching VSauce2 is like watching a scientist explain everything in the universe as a 3 year old.

3 жыл бұрын

Happy anniversary curiosity box! Hopefully at 10 year there will be all 10 in one big box. I would definitely buy it. (because I mis a few. 😉)

@rosearachnid879 3 жыл бұрын

The real magic trick was that you managed to survive salmonella

@cube4923 3 жыл бұрын

For 3 by 3 magic squares, this is kind of unrelated but no matter what, the center is 5, the edges are odd, and the corners are even. If you follow that rule, it’s really simple to solve them.

@rocketiermaster7498 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone else hear Micheal's amazing dubbing over the rock song? I'm pretty sure it's the same one from that, at least

@RedOctober_ 3 жыл бұрын

"wing-ed" you are shakespeare my dude

@owenbaebler2419 3 жыл бұрын

Before I have seen the result - I’m guessing that all the columns or rows are the same letter for each

@Icalasari 3 жыл бұрын

So used an easy trick then used magic squares to obfuscate the trick Clever, very clever

@VillagerJeff 3 жыл бұрын

The internal 3x3 blocks are not 34. This is especially true since each one has a subset that is one of the quadrants and the quadrants are 34.

@miguelangelmartinezcasado8935 3 жыл бұрын

I think he means the corners of those 3x3. At the beggining I thought like you but now I've checked. 16+ 2+9+7 is 34, as well as 3+13+6+12

@ironsimonx4221 3 жыл бұрын

@@miguelangelmartinezcasado8935 thanks I was thinking the same way

@xlorrix-6320 3 жыл бұрын

guys i get this video was not perfect but nobody can always make mindblowing videos

@katetoolate234 3 жыл бұрын

Ah I saw this trick play out in the Masters of Illusion DS game I have. Neat! (It felt like a "oh duh!" moment when I figured out the "magic" behind it, though. 😄)

@Michael-yq4nz 3 жыл бұрын

I'm beginning to understand undertale...

@Resin_Kingdom 3 жыл бұрын

The only thing I took from this video is that he is definitely a dnd fan

@anthonyhaber9204 3 жыл бұрын

Just found out where my years of school math really are usefull

@Yupppi 2 жыл бұрын

It's not the arrangement of letters for message and making it a perfect row, it's the ability to figure out a game that let's you naturally choose one from each.

@brodykrusemark5444 3 жыл бұрын

Do you even have to take out the horizontal row, as long as you take out the vertical row of the square you chose and that the words you wrote underneath are horizontal and are slid down in the end like your example?

@Keldor314 3 жыл бұрын

Misdirection. It makes it just a little bit less obvious that you're picking exactly one card from each column.

@rasowa2958 2 жыл бұрын

1:05 Yes, we can use two normal 6-side dice. Just treat one of the dice as ODD = 0, EVEN = 6. Now all numbers 1-12 have the same chance.

@rockman7perez 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly how would that work? I understand that one of the dice would represent the odd numbers from 1 to 12 and the other one the even numbers, and then the dice are rolled, but do you sum up the two numbers?