The Number Illusion You Won't Believe
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4 жыл бұрынSometimes 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
@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
@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
@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.
@wildraheim4302 11 ай бұрын
Vsauce2: "you dident land on the 12." me, who got 12: *WRONG!*
@bobgrey6137 21 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).
@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 9 ай бұрын
When a magic trick starts to feel more like homework 😆
@ppilihplul 9 ай бұрын
When your ten parallel universes ahead, because you spelled your letter in a different language
@notexist9726 2 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
@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
@jmanj3917 10 ай бұрын
12:15 Nope; Not this guy! I'm still chuckling over the original "weiner...dog" joke...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.
@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
@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.
@goldenorb1210 Жыл бұрын
"but i do know, that you are not on the 2" Anyone who landed on that: YIPPEE
@saljaf79 15 күн бұрын
Why am I yelling at my phone saying “ITS TWOOO”
@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
@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
@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.
@igalbitan5096 8 ай бұрын
0:12 - Is this a glass with "Gojira" (French Metal music group) logo on it?
@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
@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
@MorpheousXO 5 ай бұрын
Yeah, I remember watching David Copperfield's show where he did this on tv as kid. Was super wowed that young.
@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.
@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
@ZacharyDial 5 ай бұрын
0:11 that Gojira glass didn't escape my attention. 👀
@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
@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
@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
@BritanniaMaps2048 11 ай бұрын
4:25 Jokes on you, I was on the three
@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.
@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
@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
@duniaprasta06 7 ай бұрын
Me: * lands on 10 * Kevin: * removes 10 *
@ritedjmorsli6727 6 ай бұрын
You : you chosed the 6 ! Me : I didn't know i chosed the 6 .
@_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 8 ай бұрын
Bro doesn’t need to even do his trick fully
@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
@brianarbenz7206 Жыл бұрын
KEVIN: Pick a card, any card. ME: Alright, Stan Musial.
@MattStylesDJ 6 ай бұрын
I remember one of Copperfield's TV specials, when I was a kid, and doing this trick. I was freaked out!
@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
@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
@jackmartin8631 26 күн бұрын
Jokes on you I started with 1.5
@electronic_dude4970 8 ай бұрын
He doesn’t realize the only thing I thought of this whole time was bananas
@LD-dt1sk 3 жыл бұрын
“If your secret number is seven...” *Breathing intensifies*
@Blastehh 3 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
@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.
@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?
@mcharnley7013 Жыл бұрын
Me: lands on 4 You: removes 4 Same with 10
@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
@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
@GM-dx3dq 7 ай бұрын
Hahaha good one! Now with Polish clock! I'll make it easier and name all numbers. 1 - jeden 2 - dwa 3 - trzy 4 - cztery 5 - pięć 6 - sześć 7 - siedem 8 - osiem 9 - dziewięć 10 - dziesięć 11 - jedenaście 12 - dwanaście Show me magic (sry the math) once more :D
@eye3273 6 ай бұрын
Me: lands on the ten Him:removes the ten
@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.
@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.
@starrekt2037 5 ай бұрын
4:18 THAT IS MY NUMBER LOL
@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
@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
@stylishgaby 4 жыл бұрын
"If you picked seven..." WELL uh i get called out like this ? Before the magic trick starts ? Well damn.
@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
@paulcooper1046 5 ай бұрын
Tossing the kangaroo algorithm aside in that manner was classically comedic...🙂
@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
11
@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
@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
@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
@KaidorCampbell 6 күн бұрын
Jokes on you.Guess what?Because I picked one and ended up on one again 😂 🧑🏫 👇
@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
@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
@helpulkerwin3240 Жыл бұрын
Vsauce2: If your secret number is sev- Me: How did u know my secret Number?!?!?!?! It's real
@THE-UNMANNED-OVEN 3 ай бұрын
Little did he realize that I didn’t pick a number
@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
@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
@gideonplays814 25 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
@Hi_0_0_ 4 ай бұрын
Haha Vsauce you did count for my brain to be off when you where telling the rules
@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 😂
@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
@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
@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?
@doggoex5153 4 жыл бұрын
Kevin: Do you have friends? Me: Yes Kevin: WRONG!!! Me: how did you know ;-;
@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.
@randomaccount593 4 ай бұрын
When he took my number away: Welp today I learned that i cannot count or spell.
@heyitzdove Жыл бұрын
I've seen these so many times that I don't even try to work around the system anymore lol.
@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"
@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
@zainhassan6907 Жыл бұрын
Merlin's beard that's bloody brilliant!
@KaidorCampbell 6 күн бұрын
I pressed the wrong number.I ended up on nine
@agentofthetrees2161 2 жыл бұрын
I have never felt such power as being able to tell where the trick was going after step one
@thelearningcreator7makesmu614 10 ай бұрын
ikr
@ij940 5 ай бұрын
Yeeeee same :D
@rustybiscuits2453 4 жыл бұрын
"You're not on twelve" I'm pretty sure I am
@theanarchist9733 4 жыл бұрын
same
@Lanix-kv2rz 4 жыл бұрын
same
@lilymaestreasurechest8997 4 жыл бұрын
same
@warrenpetersen8073 4 жыл бұрын
Same
@Toonarmy12 4 жыл бұрын
Same
@tonik1222 Жыл бұрын
"if you've picked 7 ... if you've picked 11 ..." Damn it! I picked 11 only after thinking that 7 is easier to guess, so I shouldn't pick it :D
@soulshattersaegis842 Жыл бұрын
is it the eight? No you're not on the eight. Me who was on the eight:
@anahidiaz1648 2 жыл бұрын
Me: **lands on the 2** Him: **removes the 2** I guess doing it in my mother-tongue is like cheating lol
@grantmourning189 2 жыл бұрын
I chose 2 also and he pulled it off the board.
@ayesha_eggdog 2 жыл бұрын
i landed on 4
@xavierrobeson4163 2 жыл бұрын
@@ayesha_eggdog same
@xS0l47 2 жыл бұрын
I landed on 3 then he removed it
@firestorm7431 2 жыл бұрын
landed on 9
@gamerdomain6618 3 жыл бұрын
I picked seven to start with and then the example of seven being used made my eyes widen.
@randomjapsi 3 жыл бұрын
me too smoge
@christopherlow2577 3 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
@spencerburgess9181 5 ай бұрын
Shit, I just realised I can’t count, he took my number away😂