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Komentáře • 3,8K

  • @unlockingsnow8571
    @unlockingsnow8571 Před 5 lety +4540

    Everytime I play a board game I never can roll double sixes.
    But I bet ya as soon as my life’s on the line I instantly roll double sixes.

  • @cardinal8200
    @cardinal8200 Před 5 lety +1759

    How dare you make me learn math by baiting me with luxuries like money and death

    • @vesock1
      @vesock1 Před 5 lety +65

      The luxury of death? Oof

    • @ludipoint22
      @ludipoint22 Před 5 lety +55

      well, compared to math...

    • @twistedgwazi5727
      @twistedgwazi5727 Před 5 lety +14

      @@ludipoint22 No. Not really. But okay, if you think permanent darkness is better than the beauty of mathematics, than fine.

    • @keyboardbandit
      @keyboardbandit Před 5 lety +17

      can't afford to be dead mate

    • @ferretappreciator
      @ferretappreciator Před 5 lety +15

      GD MCB_Blazar the beauty lies in the lack of knowledge of life beyond death, or if there even is life beyond death, not the act of death itself. I personally think death is beautiful because it eventually comes for everyone indiscriminately. I take comfort in the fact that I’m not alone in my ignorance

  • @unwaveringdiscipline5489
    @unwaveringdiscipline5489 Před 4 lety +480

    It makes perfect sense if i walk out of a room with a mil i have over 90% to be robbed and murdered

  • @MrInstantRamen
    @MrInstantRamen Před 5 lety +4897

    They didn't say what kind of dice
    *Uses 120 sided dice*

  • @Taikamuna
    @Taikamuna Před 5 lety +3216

    But I still don't have a friend called Billy

    • @antlion6169
      @antlion6169 Před 5 lety +133

      I dont have a friend.

    • @Pehmizz
      @Pehmizz Před 5 lety +21

      Nyt loppu

    • @jacobg8640
      @jacobg8640 Před 5 lety +91

      SUSPEND REALITY

    • @PhrontDoor
      @PhrontDoor Před 5 lety +36

      You don't have a friend called Billy...
      any more.. (sniffles)...
      Poor Billy.

    • @trod146
      @trod146 Před 5 lety +4

      @@alexphan8493 okay emo kid, settle down

  • @DankMatter
    @DankMatter Před 5 lety +7589

    There is another death game that involves 6.
    Russian roulette

    • @secretmilo
      @secretmilo Před 5 lety +185

      @@okamizer0387 that- that's not a revolver... oh no....

    • @timothyhilditch
      @timothyhilditch Před 5 lety +23

      This guy uses like bots.

    • @chaos_omega
      @chaos_omega Před 5 lety +77

      You could potentially play Russian roulette with a non-revolver by not looking while you load it (or having someone who is not playing load it) with all blanks... but one. Also have multiple magazines ready, loaded randomly, to simulate the cylinder spin between plays. But... this is to much work for a game where you could potentially die. Forget I said anything... Hah.

    • @codyhanson1344
      @codyhanson1344 Před 5 lety +37

      Blanks can still kill you if you aim the gun close enough but having multiple magazines would still be a viable option, just have all of them empty except one. But yeah, too much work if you can get your hands on an actual revolver.

    • @six2make4
      @six2make4 Před 5 lety +55

      If you got a well oiled revolver and you let the drum roll to a stop by itself you should never be shot, simply due to the fact the weight of the bullet will make it so it's always at the bottom.

  • @CanadianOptionsTrader
    @CanadianOptionsTrader Před 5 lety +2707

    This game is not realistic at all. I don't even have a best friend.

    • @CaesarElie
      @CaesarElie Před 5 lety +7

      Hmm think about that

    • @heligon4674
      @heligon4674 Před 5 lety +23

      You don't need a friend tho

    • @Oscar-im2xi
      @Oscar-im2xi Před 5 lety +7

      This game is not realistic at all. I don’t even have a *best* friend.

    • @aeon1c555
      @aeon1c555 Před 5 lety +8

      I Was About To Reply R/Wooooosh

    • @masterfish4343
      @masterfish4343 Před 5 lety +20

      “ *SUSPEND REALITY* “

  • @garyjennison5879
    @garyjennison5879 Před 4 lety +294

    Plot Twist: The inflation from everyone on Earth winning a million dollars makes my money worthless.

    • @marklonergan3898
      @marklonergan3898 Před 4 lety +5

      Plot twist from your future. None of us can go anywhere to spend it even if it was worth something! 😁

    • @dumpeeplarfunny
      @dumpeeplarfunny Před 3 lety +3

      Democrats: "Um, 'inflation'? What's that?"

    • @dumpeeplarfunny
      @dumpeeplarfunny Před 3 lety

      @@frikker4704 The classic "shame someone for mentioning politics because it's never relevant even in economics" tactic.

    • @jamesleviathan8865
      @jamesleviathan8865 Před 2 lety +1

      Secondary plot twist, the game goes on for a lot of rounds and half the world dies plunging the world into chaos

    • @clarinetcat32
      @clarinetcat32 Před 2 lety +2

      @@jamesleviathan8865 Thanos has entered the chat

  • @StopChangingUsernamesYouTube

    "Hey bro, I just played this sick dice game!" "Ehhhhh. You're probably dead."

    • @pielson8151
      @pielson8151 Před 5 lety +2

      underrated comment xdd

    • @A7x_Forever
      @A7x_Forever Před 5 lety +12

      His bro be like:
      "I just played THAT dice game"
      "Wait you mean.. THAT dice game?"
      "Yup"
      ...
      "Exorcizamus te, omnis immundus spiritus, omnis satanica potestas, omnis incursio infernalis adversarii, omnis legio, omnis congregatio et secta Diabolica. Ergo Draco maledicte, ecclesiam tuam secura facias libertate servire. Te rogamus, audi nos."

    • @billybull7419
      @billybull7419 Před 5 lety +1

      Uh ki

    • @seanquinn4785
      @seanquinn4785 Před 5 lety

      300th like nice

    • @scarface51393
      @scarface51393 Před 5 lety

      Naniii?!

  • @TheFoolishSamurai
    @TheFoolishSamurai Před 5 lety +2377

    Moral of the Story: Bring weighted dice.

    • @JorgetePanete
      @JorgetePanete Před 5 lety +342

      to *d i e i n s t a n t l y*

    • @shinsha_
      @shinsha_ Před 5 lety +18

      @@JorgetePanete HAHA

    • @Beessoup
      @Beessoup Před 5 lety +61

      and save everyone if you get there soon enough

    • @KnekoKcat
      @KnekoKcat Před 5 lety +133

      This went from cheating, to suicide, to sacrifice real quick.

    • @memesthemaker8429
      @memesthemaker8429 Před 5 lety +5

      @@KnekoKcat Y a Y

  • @alexraiiiiiii
    @alexraiiiiiii Před 5 lety +833

    Why do people keep on disliking his videos(s)? In my opinion his content is great, and I enjoy a great and well written brainteaser. Although he usually recycles ideas and theories coming from old mathematicians, that's actually the point, he wants to revive these amazing theories but he wants to do it in a unique and unboring fashion. I think Kevin's work is marvelous.
    Keep up the great work!

    • @essorath5870
      @essorath5870 Před 4 lety +5

      fu***** Karen

    • @aslamawan4594
      @aslamawan4594 Před 4 lety +42

      @@essorath5870 OK, 9-year-old math hater, but why are you even watching this?!?

    • @jomillen5131
      @jomillen5131 Před 4 lety +20

      @Fredrick Emad lol I know 1st graders who were sitting at the edge of the school gate and middle fingering anyone who passes while calling them F-ing b*stards

    • @bruhhhhh2768
      @bruhhhhh2768 Před 4 lety +11

      Okay my problem with his content is that he is stating the obvious mathematics and using his voice and acting to make is more suspicious and interesting.

    • @dippydoco2868
      @dippydoco2868 Před 4 lety +47

      @@bruhhhhh2768 Damn your really lacking in awareness huh. Just because something is obvious to one person, does not mean it's obvious and or is not interesting to others.

  • @teraflonik
    @teraflonik Před 5 lety +252

    Your perspective is based on you lose/you win. Billys perspective is based on the fact that someone already lost

    • @infinite7815
      @infinite7815 Před 5 lety +10

      No its dumb billies perspective is there is a 90% chance you were in the last group. Whether they roll sixes or not. It makes no sense

    • @kenshinhimura9406
      @kenshinhimura9406 Před 5 lety +28

      ​@@infinite7815 The last round is the one that involves rolling double sixes, regardless of how many rounds were played.
      Now, let's assume that the game lasted 5 rounds, though the number of rounds is irrelevant; this can be proven with any number of rounds. First, we're going to calculate how many total people played. Round 1 had 1 player. Round 2 had 10 players(1*10=10). Round 3 had 100 players(1*10*10=100). Round 4 had 1,000 players(1*10*10*10=1,000). And lastly, round 5 had 10,000 players(1*10*10*10*10=10,000). That brings our total to 11,111 players(10,000+1,000+100+10+1=11,111).
      Next, we're going to calculate the percentage of players that made up the final round. Percentage is the partial amount (the number of players in the final round), divided by the total amount(the total number of players), and then multiplied by 100. As we saw above, the number of players in the final round was 10,000. If we divide that by the total number of players(11,111) then we get a quotient of 0.900009. Multiplied by 100, we get a percentage of 90.0009%. This means that there is in fact a 90% chance that you were in the final group.

    • @infinite7815
      @infinite7815 Před 5 lety +3

      @@kenshinhimura9406 you literally repeated what i said minus the fact i didnt realize the game went on infinitely until 6's were rolled.

    • @kenshinhimura9406
      @kenshinhimura9406 Před 5 lety

      @@infinite7815 ah my mistake, I misunderstood your comment then. I meant no insult.

    • @infinite7815
      @infinite7815 Před 5 lety

      @@kenshinhimura9406 no problem at all! didn't feel insulted was just confused hehe

  • @hastley64
    @hastley64 Před 5 lety +355

    "How does this makes sense?"
    "SUSPEND REALITY"

    • @DanTheStripe
      @DanTheStripe Před 5 lety +14

      It's a Vsauce video, you probably should have made that assumption from the start.

    • @TommoCarroll
      @TommoCarroll Před 5 lety +2

      Haha - whenever I’m making no sense in a conversation I’m now just going to say “SUSPEND REALITY, THEN IT WILL ALL MAKE SENSE” and just walk away. Sorted.

  • @PeepsMichael
    @PeepsMichael Před 5 lety +323

    If I were in that room with my best friend Billy, I would purposely roll 2 6’s because he outbid me on that $100 auction.

  • @OnSpray
    @OnSpray Před 3 lety +62

    kevin: SUSPEND REALITY
    also kevin: in the double dice game, reality doesn’t change

  • @AA-100
    @AA-100 Před 5 lety +256

    The only thing I'm debating here about Billy's perspective of the game is that the 90% probability is actually a conditional probability. That means it is the probability that you died *given* that you managed to play the game and was actually put in one of those rounds from Round 1 to Round n (where n is the last round where Double 6s were rolled).
    This eliminates all the posibilities that you were meant to be placed in a round higher than Round n, and thus not being able to play the game at all as the game had already ended.
    So in conclusion if you do choose to sign up to play this game, there is a very high chance (Practically 100% certainty) that you won't even get to play the game at all, as you will almost certainly be meant to be placed in a round from Round N to Round Infinity, as this game has infinite players

    • @stickman4768
      @stickman4768 Před 4 lety +3

      Jeez

    • @tomy3464
      @tomy3464 Před 4 lety +45

      The only problem with that is that your friend in this hypothetical knows that you did in fact play the game. Therefore, the condition has been met.

    • @AA-100
      @AA-100 Před 4 lety +17

      Yep, that is correct if the friend knows you played the game, and that's after the game has ended. But before the game starts, if you choose to sign up to play the game there is practically 100% chance you won't be one of those players in the game, as this game allows infinite players.

    • @nothayley
      @nothayley Před 4 lety +8

      But that 2.8% probability is also conditioned on you actually participating in the game.

    • @hizamianuar2272
      @hizamianuar2272 Před 3 lety +10

      The 97.2% chance to survive is also conditioned on your playing the game. If it wasn't, you would have a 100% chance to survive.
      The core of the issue is that the friend assumes that the game always runs for exactly N rounds, and then you are randomly placed into the people of those rounds. In this case, you would have a 90% chance of being placed in the round where everybody dies. However, this is not an accurate reflection of the actual game - since you have a 97.2% chance of surviving, you only have a 2.8% chance of being placed into the round where everybody dies.
      This fault can be emphasized when you realize you can apply Bob's logic while the game is ongoing. In a given round you know that you have a 97.2% chance of surviving. However, you also know that by the end of the game, 90% of the people playing will be dead, which suggests only a 10% chance of surviving, which is clearly incorrect.

  • @lawrencecalablaster568
    @lawrencecalablaster568 Před 5 lety +570

    Death by Boxcars at Midnight sounds like a good pulp crime novel.

    • @Paulog2003
      @Paulog2003 Před 5 lety +1

      @@stevenation4249 yessssss

    • @digdug4451
      @digdug4451 Před 5 lety +2

      @@stevenation4249 it does. Sounds like old P!ATD.

    • @thalassous
      @thalassous Před 5 lety +3

      Death by Boxcars Midnight is a sick band name.

    • @thespicemelange.1
      @thespicemelange.1 Před 5 lety +1

      Coincidentally, that's the name of my first band....

  • @lawrencecalablaster568
    @lawrencecalablaster568 Před 5 lety +1397

    That crystal skull is Billy, isn't it, Kevin?

    • @yolo-sy6zl
      @yolo-sy6zl Před 5 lety +24

      Oh dear god. Hamlet!!!

    • @aikslf
      @aikslf Před 5 lety +38

      Billy is the one who was dead all along...

    • @trod146
      @trod146 Před 5 lety +2

      @8R4ND0N 3LL1077 CRU23L1 what?

    • @threecheeseburrito
      @threecheeseburrito Před 5 lety +3

      @8R4ND0N 3LL1077 CRU23L1 Meh... Have you read the Midnight Crew webcomic? The main characters are kind of named after those sort of things like Boxcar. Or is it a different webcomic? I dunno.

    • @yugal.prakash
      @yugal.prakash Před 5 lety +3

      Poor Billy
      *R.I.P. in Peace*

  • @Yellow_Slug
    @Yellow_Slug Před 4 lety +143

    "Okay roll the dice."
    "Hehe, little do you know, I have a dexterity +5!" *rolls double sixes, but the dice magically reroll into a seventeen*
    "What the!?"

    • @shadowflame492
      @shadowflame492 Před 4 lety +2

      YES! someone who knows about DnD!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @Yellow_Slug
      @Yellow_Slug Před 4 lety +2

      Ethan Fung i was reading the essentials kit just now! (=

    • @aurorabyrd6104
      @aurorabyrd6104 Před 4 lety +7

      Yeah, but you still rolled double sixes. Roll for a new character bud.

    • @arcanesmemes
      @arcanesmemes Před 4 lety +2

      20 sided dice

    • @lesgoshooping6695
      @lesgoshooping6695 Před 3 lety

      @@shadowflame492 well yes but actually no. I play DnD but there are many other games with similar rules

  • @charliege
    @charliege Před 4 lety +56

    Well, from my DND experience, I'm safe. The real danger is if I had to roll double ones.

  • @colinkavanagh2291
    @colinkavanagh2291 Před 5 lety +1649

    1 million dollars would mean nothing after all the inflation.

    • @LegDayLas
      @LegDayLas Před 5 lety +144

      a game that requires more people then we have on earth, in which every single person gets 1million dollars.
      What could go wrong? I certainly don't see how inflation could be a factor in this ;D

    • @yopedip4048
      @yopedip4048 Před 5 lety +10

      r/whooooosh

    • @Andoxico
      @Andoxico Před 5 lety +55

      considering the population is infinite, 1 million people getting $1,000,000 is negligible

    • @ThrottleKitty
      @ThrottleKitty Před 5 lety +68

      What is with the sudden trend of people doing some form of "woosh" in a completely incorrect context? Do people just not realize it's suppose to reference when someone doesn't get a joke? Or is doing it out of context part of the joke? I'm betting on the former.

    • @AugerHybrid
      @AugerHybrid Před 5 lety

      Inflation is the key for everything.

  • @robmemeoverlord6399
    @robmemeoverlord6399 Před 5 lety +455

    This gives *die* a whole different meaning.

  • @SJLWorld
    @SJLWorld Před 5 lety +582

    Mr beast should do this, if someone rolls a pair of dice and doesn't get a pair they get 10 dollars and they can throw again for more money but if they roll doubles they don't get any of the money.

    • @KalemStLouis
      @KalemStLouis Před 5 lety +7

      DeltaSJL 10 dollars....? You get doubles 1/6 of the time

    • @SJLWorld
      @SJLWorld Před 5 lety +15

      @@KalemStLouis well that's why I said 10 dollars and not 100 lol

    • @thomasknight604
      @thomasknight604 Před 5 lety +18

      There are doubling down and doubling up strategies in gambling that mimic this. They are called martingale and anti-martingale strategies. They tr to take advantage of the latter 90% bet that he discussed, but with a 2:1 leverage instead of 10:1. They also always inevitably fail in the presence of edge without a high % payout scenario.

    • @adam121312able
      @adam121312able Před 5 lety +3

      Idk man sounds pretty stale to me I say we up the wager and you stabbed could be fatal might be flesh wound hart to tell just a good thrust..for the content I cant wait

    • @bukanmatin5973
      @bukanmatin5973 Před 5 lety +3

      1 dollar, so that mr beast would actually do it.

  • @alextle06
    @alextle06 Před 4 lety +42

    Kevin: Plays this game and keeps winning.
    Inflation: Allow me to introduce myself.

    • @isaz2425
      @isaz2425 Před 4 lety +6

      if the population is infinite, then, just a few billions people earning millions of dollar won't change anything.

  • @brennanperry8001
    @brennanperry8001 Před 5 lety +56

    Me: *rolls 1 and 1*
    Person: ok, sir, collect your mil-
    Me: *flips both dice to six side*
    Person: sir-SIR!

  • @DavidBennell
    @DavidBennell Před 5 lety +295

    Hyperinflation awaits the winners though

  • @SKyrim190
    @SKyrim190 Před 4 lety +15

    One thing is the probability you will survive the game, given that you are going to play it
    versus
    The other thing is the probability you have survived the game, given that it has ended and you participated in it
    You are answering two different probabilities, that's how they are different!

  • @ciamekityle294
    @ciamekityle294 Před 5 lety +61

    Plot twist: First person rolls double six.

  • @0subscriberschallenge308
    @0subscriberschallenge308 Před 5 lety +169

    Hmm... playing this game is a tough call because I hate rolling dice but I do wish to die instantly.

    • @llkurofoxll1013
      @llkurofoxll1013 Před 5 lety

      Same

    • @zacozacoify
      @zacozacoify Před 5 lety +1

      Don’t worry, you could just volunteer to be in the group of participants. Only one out of each group has to roll.

    • @_catzee
      @_catzee Před 5 lety

      oOf

    • @skibur848
      @skibur848 Před 5 lety

      0 Subscribers ,

  • @subscribefornothing6045
    @subscribefornothing6045 Před 5 lety +278

    Kevin you are the only one keeping vsauce alive

    • @crediblesalamander8056
      @crediblesalamander8056 Před 5 lety +28

      Jake is releasing a super long video on october 10th

    • @jared8
      @jared8 Před 5 lety

      Mhd. Yousef Attar when’d micheal gonna upload

    • @CraftyF0X
      @CraftyF0X Před 5 lety +20

      Yes and he does a great job. Im quite pleased with the direction he took lately.

    • @comicstrider4851
      @comicstrider4851 Před 5 lety +3

      Well, there's still D.O.N.G

    • @SirTatManTat
      @SirTatManTat Před 5 lety +2

      Dude you gotta get into the D.O.N.G, there's always things to Do Online Now Guys.

  • @rauldigpal3750
    @rauldigpal3750 Před 5 lety +175

    I don't get it either way I win . . .

  • @grimmyhits3481
    @grimmyhits3481 Před 4 lety +8

    This is a message for every person trying to hit double sixes on monopoly.

  • @reax5526
    @reax5526 Před 5 lety +361

    Man, i wish the other vsauce boys were as active as you...

    • @davidwallace7543
      @davidwallace7543 Před 5 lety +19

      Reax Jake takes suuuper long with his videos and he explained why they take so long. Michael does the same, buuut he also deals with his other shows and stuff.

    • @mountzera
      @mountzera Před 5 lety +17

      well, I think thats why the other vsauce boys posts so much better videos than Kevin

    • @necromoni
      @necromoni Před 5 lety +1

      check DONG they've been active on there

    • @Zotemann
      @Zotemann Před 5 lety +24

      Mount better yeah, but Kevin’s videos are also interesting - i like all three a lot

    • @necromoni
      @necromoni Před 5 lety +5

      Jake (vsause3) has also been making a movie the past 5 months releasing the 10th this month

  • @LyricWulf
    @LyricWulf Před 5 lety +106

    1:55 I think you mean permutations, since the order matters. eg you count 1 then 3 as a separate case from 3 then 1.
    "Combination" would mean that 1 then 3 is the same as 3 then 1 so you wouldn't count it twice.

    • @pipebombmailer
      @pipebombmailer Před 2 lety +1

      NERD

    • @lukejohnson29
      @lukejohnson29 Před 2 lety

      Hey Lyric! What’s up?

    • @user-nx6wi6eh9v
      @user-nx6wi6eh9v Před 2 lety +12

      I think he did it for the people that didn't know the difference between permutations and combinations, while it is scientifically accurate to say permutations it would confuse the people that do not know what that is, and for the rest of us we can understand what he meant pretty clearly. This is just my opinion, if you have a different one please lmk.

    • @thehotdogman9317
      @thehotdogman9317 Před 2 lety +1

      He makes this same mistake in other videos as well

    • @thehotdogman9317
      @thehotdogman9317 Před 2 lety +1

      @@user-nx6wi6eh9v It's better to use the right word so people can learn it, then avoid it for something simpler and dumb down the point of matter. More concise words means more accuracy and and a more educated audience.

  • @xXmahriXx
    @xXmahriXx Před 5 lety +1

    been on a streak of 4 or so videos from this dude and man I do feel close to billy, he such a nice guy

  • @heybrah4051
    @heybrah4051 Před 4 lety +2

    Am I the only one who heard a Grindr notification go off @ 1:34 in the video? 😅😂

  • @CUZZZZZZZskalzzz
    @CUZZZZZZZskalzzz Před 5 lety +267

    Can you upload a tutorial on how to play *without* a best-friend named billy?

    • @poachedpenguin8170
      @poachedpenguin8170 Před 5 lety +11

      sorry, billy is mandatory

    • @benrosen5917
      @benrosen5917 Před 5 lety +3

      But that's impossible. You need a friend named Billy. Not a random stranger named Billy. Not a friend named David. A FRIEND named BILLY.

    • @shadygaming6523
      @shadygaming6523 Před 5 lety +1

      hi, 3 months later and you still win the intertent

    • @heydannypark
      @heydannypark Před 5 lety

      In MY minds game, MY friend is either a past-his-prime comic named Andrew Clay, and/or an ill-tempered goat named William. William has consumed Andrew, fully, on more than 2.7 occasions. Okay, 3. It was three occasions.

  • @lucabaldassi6024
    @lucabaldassi6024 Před 5 lety +143

    I would play, it's a win-win situation anyway

    • @paulgoogol2652
      @paulgoogol2652 Před 5 lety +10

      and you can have a little fun before you go.

    • @nsshing
      @nsshing Před 5 lety +12

      I can see sadness in your words. lol

    • @Th2WolF
      @Th2WolF Před 5 lety +2

      Dark

    • @HamHamHampster
      @HamHamHampster Před 5 lety +1

      On the bright side, with that much millions flowing around, the currency will be worth less than toilet papers.

  • @williamwilson1870
    @williamwilson1870 Před 5 lety

    Banging out great videos mate well done

  • @matthewbergeron3641
    @matthewbergeron3641 Před 3 lety

    Glad you finally made an episode on combinational probability, since you actually had several math issues when calculating coin flips. Granted the theories, paradoxes, and games talked about all still hold true with the proper math, so that's good at least. Just wanted to give you a heads up, love your content

  • @chrishansen8201
    @chrishansen8201 Před 5 lety +197

    KSAUCE, VEVIN HERE
    *wait*

  • @DarthSmirnoff
    @DarthSmirnoff Před 5 lety +540

    I learned about Combinatorial Probability while researching how many runs of Stratholme it would take me on average to get Rivendare's Deathcharger in World Of Warcraft.

    • @matthewtabor3375
      @matthewtabor3375 Před 5 lety +38

      ~125 Strat runs. That was a sweet mount.

    • @MrSaucyBeans
      @MrSaucyBeans Před 5 lety +9

      And how many? Was it 125?

    • @LnPPersonified
      @LnPPersonified Před 5 lety

      Oh wow, this is a well timed comment. I literally just reinstalled WoW a couple nights ago to play BfA.

    • @jpedrosc98
      @jpedrosc98 Před 5 lety

      I actually got it on my first try and pissed my friend who had already played it dozens of times

    • @fbomb7117
      @fbomb7117 Před 5 lety +1

      @hawks Plus Seb Dude lmao what did it come out to,you ever get one? I got one once xd.

  • @emadalsibiani1990
    @emadalsibiani1990 Před 5 lety +3

    1:25 ...**SUSPEND REALITY**

  • @ferdichristianhiphop
    @ferdichristianhiphop Před 2 lety +1

    This guy is teaching me more math in a 6 minute videos than my math teacher in a year

  • @Lewex
    @Lewex Před 5 lety +568

    But how much does "surviving", weigh?

    • @Rock-ck7ms
      @Rock-ck7ms Před 5 lety +50

      About $1,000,000.

    • @foxymetroid
      @foxymetroid Před 5 lety +3

      About 2 lbs.

    • @darealpoopster
      @darealpoopster Před 5 lety

      Lewex You’d probably win about 25 rounds, then there would be around a half chance of dying. So 25 million dollars

    • @pipodrankje
      @pipodrankje Před 5 lety +4

      Somewhere around 4 m²

    • @TommoCarroll
      @TommoCarroll Před 5 lety +14

      “But how much does weigh weigh?”

  • @isaacbeitzel2586
    @isaacbeitzel2586 Před 5 lety +174

    Rolls double six first round...
    Aka my luck

  • @nobodylol3345
    @nobodylol3345 Před 5 lety +80

    "You might think that after 18 rounds, there will be a 50/50 chance of rolling double sixes, right?"
    Vsauce2: *"Well yes, but actually no"*

    • @aegg792
      @aegg792 Před 3 lety +1

      I was expecting
      " *WRONG* "

    • @aFREEsportsbettingSYSTEM
      @aFREEsportsbettingSYSTEM Před měsícem

      yet you'd think that if it was 50-50 at 27 that you could split thousands of throws into groups of fifty-four and there would be one 6-6 in either half of each group more often than not. Yes, but no. It's just the way our minds try to comprehend things and simplify complex mathematical principles.

  • @user-ij8qq7xx4e
    @user-ij8qq7xx4e Před 4 lety +5

    Me: How hard could this be? A high chance to survi-
    *Gets double sixes*

  • @PavelJanata
    @PavelJanata Před 5 lety +131

    All I see is a huge inflation problem

  • @Johnny_Shields
    @Johnny_Shields Před 5 lety +116

    My friend refuses to believe in combinatorial probability no matter how many times I explain it.

    • @biohazard724
      @biohazard724 Před 5 lety +16

      Does he believe in dice gnomes?

    • @ani_n01
      @ani_n01 Před 5 lety

      @@Zombiesbum you're contradicting yourself. If chances for getting to n round are low that would mean chances for hitting double 6 are somewhat significant.

    • @Bartonovich52
      @Bartonovich52 Před 5 lety +29

      The dice have no memory.
      It’s 1/36 every time you roll.
      It’s possible to roll double sixes every time, or none at all... ever.
      It won’t ever attempt to “right” statistical anomalies.

    • @YouNoob93
      @YouNoob93 Před 5 lety +27

      @Sharon is there: No, because the probability to get to round 94783 without rolling double 6 is miniscule, but the dice don't know if you are on round 1 or whatever, still 1/36 chance for any given roll

    • @Thunterise
      @Thunterise Před 5 lety +18

      Just explain that if you roll a dice 5 times without getting a 6, then according to their logic, the 6th roll guarantees a 6. That makes them realize that this isn't how it actually works.

  • @glca7ie
    @glca7ie Před 5 lety +4

    "And may the odds be ever in your favor"

  • @nordicgodofbakedbean8501
    @nordicgodofbakedbean8501 Před 5 lety +16

    Best friend
    I have never had one of those

  • @XWurstbrotX
    @XWurstbrotX Před 5 lety +68

    If you die instantly, it is kind of a win-win situation :)

  • @gabe7630
    @gabe7630 Před 5 lety +148

    jokes on you i dont have friends

  • @douglasskinner6348
    @douglasskinner6348 Před 5 lety +13

    Can't wait to use this as D&D challenge. Thanks for the inspiration, Kevin.

    • @TheRABIDdude
      @TheRABIDdude Před 4 lety +2

      Douglas Skinner Lemme know how you intend to turn this into a challenge! Sounds cool!

  • @xoromgb3477
    @xoromgb3477 Před 4 lety +4

    Me: *buys triangle dices that have 5 sides*
    Also me: I am inevitable

  • @titanspirit7238
    @titanspirit7238 Před 5 lety +129

    Hey you wanna play the dice death game?
    Nah, I'm gonna play some video games instead and chill. You have fun though...

    • @darkmario720
      @darkmario720 Před 5 lety +1

      No one plays dungeon dice monsters

    • @TommoCarroll
      @TommoCarroll Před 5 lety

      “Is this why I have no friends...😢...”

    • @TommoCarroll
      @TommoCarroll Před 5 lety

      “Is this why I have no friends...😢...”

    • @WilliamSkafast
      @WilliamSkafast Před 5 lety +1

      Meh, as long as it's painless I'd do it for $1 billion.

    • @cathy-pz2to
      @cathy-pz2to Před 5 lety +1

      But you will get $1billion dollars!😆

  • @nhatphuinh5043
    @nhatphuinh5043 Před 5 lety +38

    I still wonder where the hell that Billy guy is, like, he went from 100$ dollars to death dices, like dude had good decision

  • @Lazarosaliths
    @Lazarosaliths Před 5 lety

    The music is the mvp here thank you for the amazing video

  • @yoh1583
    @yoh1583 Před 5 lety

    This is the last think I watch before I sleep, so I can ponder this riddle in my dreams

  • @amalreji7389
    @amalreji7389 Před 5 lety +58

    Isn't this just because "Billy" has less information than you?
    He does not know which round you played in, so his calculations must be based on the entire game including billions of people even if you were only one of 10 people playing in a round.
    Hope that makes sense :)

    • @VollderFred
      @VollderFred Před 5 lety +13

      If he knows you DID play and he knows the game is over, it doesn't mater how many rounds were played.
      After the game ends in any round, around 90% of people that played, died. Since he doesn't know in which round you where in, he just hast to hope you were in the first 10%.

    • @matthewtabor3375
      @matthewtabor3375 Před 5 lety +12

      It's not so much that he has less information, it's that he has different information because the game is already complete.

    • @tomheyworth6020
      @tomheyworth6020 Před 5 lety +8

      It's actually because he has more information. He knows you played.

    • @LegDayLas
      @LegDayLas Před 5 lety +5

      VollderFred, not true. It does matter what round the game ends in. If he knows the game ended round 1, then he knows you are 100% dead ;)

    • @douglaspantz
      @douglaspantz Před 5 lety +1

      No, it’s because he assumes that you will actually be chosen to roll. About an infinite amount of people wont be chosen.

  • @furaosentu
    @furaosentu Před 5 lety +1327

    "You might think that the game could be played for 18 rounds, before there was a 50/50 chance of rolling doubles sixes..." well, no, and there's also not a 50/50 chance of me rolling double sixes after not having rolled doubles sixes 25 times (although that's not what you said, it is implied by proposing the premise there might be a 50/50 chance of rolling double sixes after not having rolled double sixes 18 times), because past events don't influence the chance of future events. Wording is important, as it has the potential of misleading people into believing faulty assumptions. The probability of rolling double sixes on the 26th roll is 2.7% and it has been 2.7% each of the 25 times before. The 50% is the probability of having rolled a double six after (!) having rolled 25 times. The key here, is that it is not predictive, but merely descriptive.
    You could ask "What is the probability of me rolling a double six if I roll 25 times?" and the answer would be 50%. But if you ask "I have rolled 25 times and never rolled a double six. What is the probability of me rolling a double six on the 26th roll?", then the answer would be 2.7%.
    Disclaimer: I didn't check the probabilities. I just believed your math about those would be correct. It's just the interpretation that bugs me.

    • @aiksi5605
      @aiksi5605 Před 5 lety +39

      Shame that this is such an underrated comment

    • @ubiquity60441
      @ubiquity60441 Před 5 lety +58

      I totally agree with this. It really bugged me watching this and knowing he was misrepresenting the logic.
      This is very similar to a birthday problem/paradox.

    • @KrenthKh
      @KrenthKh Před 5 lety +1

      THANK YOU!

    • @JivanPal
      @JivanPal Před 5 lety +16

      The first concept you touch on is called the "gambler's fallacy", because it is common for people to fallaciously think that, e.g. after flipping a coin and it landing on heads, it is more likely that the next flip will result in tails, and for gamblers to make bad decisions based on this false assumption.
      The concept that the video attempts to describe, and which you clarify, is described by the so-called "geometric probability distribution".

    • @ringozeitgeist
      @ringozeitgeist Před 5 lety +4

      The increased odds come from the increased number of players, and your life is on the line with each person’s roll.

  • @petrosarkanych7899
    @petrosarkanych7899 Před 2 lety

    It's not only perspective, it is also the fact that Billy knows the game is finished.

  • @-neutralface-
    @-neutralface- Před 5 lety +2

    *rolls a double six*
    "YOU KILLED US ALL!!*

  • @93lozfan
    @93lozfan Před 5 lety +269

    gambler's paradox: previous outcomes don't affect later outcomes. each group has a 97.2% chance of success.

    • @chevaldarsaut3770
      @chevaldarsaut3770 Před 5 lety +40

      You're right but irrelevant

    • @stxnw
      @stxnw Před 5 lety +9

      Cheval Darsaut it isnt irrelevant

    • @ExelsioHD
      @ExelsioHD Před 5 lety +4

      That is what i thought the gamblers fallicy applies here

    • @gakzor
      @gakzor Před 5 lety +52

      @@stxnw It is only relevant to you, but not to your friend Billy. You are looking at the current round only, your friend Billy is looking at the entire game as a whole. That's the crux of the riddle - it is why your chance of success is 97.2%, but to Billy you have a 90% chance of being dead.

    • @annadoesroblox6205
      @annadoesroblox6205 Před 5 lety +17

      Yes but the game will end at some point, and the final group makes up ~90% of the people

  • @masterschwarz3258
    @masterschwarz3258 Před 5 lety +265

    So after watching this video,
    I went to my room, took 2 dices and rolled 6&6 at the first attempt...
    After pretending to be dying for a while -
    I am now here writing this comment.
    Have a good day everybody ;)

  • @zaith9945
    @zaith9945 Před 5 lety +2

    Bro if 10 people all lived and walked out the room ,with each having 1 mil I’ll make them not alive.

  • @danteezy945
    @danteezy945 Před 5 lety +5

    "What was that?"
    "Death"
    "Of what kind?"
    *"Instant"*

    • @IrvingIV
      @IrvingIV Před 4 lety

      czcams.com/video/SsYaiJgtMSQ/video.html

  • @Lonely.Chrome
    @Lonely.Chrome Před 5 lety +36

    *_Suspend Reality_*
    Don't worry, I've done it all my life.

    • @Th2WolF
      @Th2WolF Před 5 lety

      Made me laugh. Thanks

    • @pvic6959
      @pvic6959 Před 5 lety

      im gonna have to reject your reality and substitute my own

    • @gavrolux532
      @gavrolux532 Před 5 lety

      :)

  • @Artificial-Insanity
    @Artificial-Insanity Před 5 lety +16

    There's no contradiction here, you're calculating your odds of survival going into the game, Billy is calculating your odds of dying coming out of the game. Those are two fundamentally different questions.
    Similar problem: let's say your odds of winning the lottery are about 1 in 15 million. Billy knows you play every week and hears that there has been a winner but your country only has 10 million inhabitants and let's say half of them play. So he calculates that the odds that YOU are the winner are 1 in 5 million.

    • @chevaldarsaut3770
      @chevaldarsaut3770 Před 5 lety

      Finally someone said it right

    • @RipleySawzen
      @RipleySawzen Před 5 lety

      You're correct that there's no contradiction here, but you're wrong that you, as the player of the game, have the correct perspective. Going into the game, you have a 90% chance of being placed into the final round. You never actually have a 98% chance of living. It's because they got infinity involved that this happens. Basically, going into the game you have to look at the results of the game, making Billy correct.

  • @anoiceperson6447
    @anoiceperson6447 Před 4 lety +2

    3:54 Kevin became German

  • @miniancraft
    @miniancraft Před 2 lety +1

    Why did I sub you... All your doing is explaining cool things and placing TNT and Redstone Blocks in my head

  • @discoHR
    @discoHR Před 5 lety +77

    It's always "Kevin here". When will it be "Michael here"? Got nothing against Kevin, just haven't seen Michael's beard for a long time.

    • @onlookerofthings6029
      @onlookerofthings6029 Před 5 lety +6

      Probably became that crystal skull while making this video

    • @steveh1474
      @steveh1474 Před 5 lety +9

      i always preferred "Vsauce! I'm Jake."

    • @Andeloine_is_not_a_communist
      @Andeloine_is_not_a_communist Před 5 lety +6

      You see, that's where the trouble began.
      That beard...
      That damned beard...

    • @maracachucho8701
      @maracachucho8701 Před 5 lety

      We see his DONG every once in a while, though.

    • @frama1122
      @frama1122 Před 5 lety

      Knowing him, he probably trimmed it and doesnt want to make a video till it grows back

  • @Ethanerd
    @Ethanerd Před 5 lety +290

    Wow, I'm early. Better make a joke. . .
    Micheal posting a video to Vsauce

    • @Ethanerd
      @Ethanerd Před 5 lety +7

      luka subari same. . . same ;(

    • @1foru2forme84
      @1foru2forme84 Před 5 lety +3

      Ethanerd What’s he doing nowadays?

    • @zapattack1138
      @zapattack1138 Před 5 lety +8

      @@1foru2forme84 DONG

    • @Zotemann
      @Zotemann Před 5 lety +10

      Se7en D3ys and a Show on YT behind a paywall

    • @TommoCarroll
      @TommoCarroll Před 5 lety

      Oh snap, this was a genius move 😅

  • @ryanxin1848
    @ryanxin1848 Před 5 lety

    I love how he says mathematical terms so hilariously

  • @bone-bs4cs
    @bone-bs4cs Před 5 lety +1

    I love how he always says the friend is named “billy” because i actually have a friend named billy

  • @Weatherboy1
    @Weatherboy1 Před 5 lety +24

    monopoly has taught me to roll double 6s all the time so id be the reason of genocide

  • @Johnny-ju6di
    @Johnny-ju6di Před 5 lety +33

    I’d play the game to hopefully get that 2.8%

  • @Wyattporter
    @Wyattporter Před 5 lety +40

    I can really imagine a Black Mirror-style future where they grow mass amounts of people in test tubes and force them to play 66DG - Double Sixes Death Game.

    • @TheRABIDdude
      @TheRABIDdude Před 5 lety +3

      Why. There's no reason to do that. Each Black Mirror narrative is based on a technology which would supposedly improve the world but actually creates a dystopia.

    • @stuff2328
      @stuff2328 Před 4 lety +1

      @@TheRABIDdude *overpopulation*

    • @TheRABIDdude
      @TheRABIDdude Před 4 lety +3

      Joshadow OP said growing people in test tubes specifically for it. That aside, you still wouldn't use this to tackle overpopulation because the number of people killed varies massively due to chance alone. You would most likely extinctify the human race in just one game.

    • @stuff2328
      @stuff2328 Před 4 lety +1

      @@TheRABIDdude no because no matter what a small chance survives

    • @TheRABIDdude
      @TheRABIDdude Před 4 lety

      Joshadow Yeah but overpopulation is a simple numbers problem. Say you have 12 billion people on a planet which can only sustain 9 billion. You obviously need to kill 3 billion. So why use a game which randomly chooses anywhere between a few thousand and hundreds of billions of victims.

  • @hermansperman2314
    @hermansperman2314 Před 5 lety +1

    You can play a deathgame I call “survive trough a math class like this in actual school”

  • @Ludix147
    @Ludix147 Před 5 lety +979

    This is simply false. I and Billy describe different events. I say that P(a specific player survives) = 92%, while Billy says that P(a randomly chosen player is dead) = 90%

    • @Biosquid239
      @Biosquid239 Před 5 lety +206

      They are both talking about the probability that you are alive, to the main person they see a 97.2% chance as that's the chance of the dice roll being successful. Now what bill sees is that eventually the game has to end, it can't go on forever, and when it finally does end, ~90% of the total people who played the game would be dead as every next room is a factor of 10 higher than the previous. So he looks at that and says you have a 90% chance of death because it will inevitably fail and you have a 90% chance to be in that group.

    • @deckie_
      @deckie_ Před 5 lety +138

      Wasn't this a world with infinite people though? Because if that is the case, then your chance of being in that fatal group is 0%

    • @Chiphunk
      @Chiphunk Před 5 lety +47

      Not quite, at least the way I see it.
      Billy is looking at a specific player too, his friend, but he has a different perspective on the same equation, meaning he does not have the information that you have, which is that you lived or did not. Bit of a Schrodinger's Cat scenario, but without the quantum theory. The cat knows 100% if it's alive or dead, but Schrodinger does not, which makes his *probability* different, but not the equation. Just the probability changes, reality is still the same in that there is a cat in a box with poison in it.

    • @TyDreacon
      @TyDreacon Před 5 lety +61

      +TheArrowOfDestiny : It's on the condition that you're one of the people who got to play. Despite an infinite pool to pull from, there's a finite number of people playing the game, since it ends as soon as we roll two sixes.

    • @mattawan1000
      @mattawan1000 Před 5 lety +25

      He's not claiming that you and Billy are describing the same events.

  • @Manudyne
    @Manudyne Před 5 lety +16

    The probability that I love Vsauce2 is 100%.
    Or is it?

  • @t.m.w.a.s.6809
    @t.m.w.a.s.6809 Před 2 lety +2

    The true reason why the probability seems different is because you’re measuring two different things. The high likely hood of not dying from your perspective is the measure of how likely it is for your one role to go double 6’s, but the 90% chance of you being killed by the perspective of the friend is measuring how likely it is that you’re the one in the larger population of the players, and this probability difference is also largely arising from the lack of information the friend has, not knowing which group you were in when the game has ended.

  • @yui5994
    @yui5994 Před 5 lety +3

    so every game containing 2 di is like playing with death

  • @nathansmith3608
    @nathansmith3608 Před 5 lety +11

    This reminds me of the "doomsday argument" in that it basically hinges on assuming reality's equivalent to an intentionally awkward & inconsistent description of things

  • @JonoSSD
    @JonoSSD Před 5 lety +5

    It gets easier to understand once you realize these percentages are from different groups. One has to do with the dice, the other with the total number of players.
    Great video, btw, I love these math problems.

  • @jahjah7940
    @jahjah7940 Před 3 lety +1

    No matter what i roll, it’s a win-win situation

  • @samarpitshrivastavaofficial

    It went straight above my head.

  • @alexvaldivia1855
    @alexvaldivia1855 Před 5 lety +5

    The only vsauce that uploads consistently

  • @jordanr.2120
    @jordanr.2120 Před 5 lety +18

    Billy needs to find a new hobby besides challenging me to all these games.

  • @connman8d617
    @connman8d617 Před 5 lety

    This is amazing.

  • @firedblaze2778
    @firedblaze2778 Před 5 lety +1

    Walks into room
    Leaves room....

  • @paedors6739
    @paedors6739 Před 5 lety +27

    I might be understanding incorrectly, but this feels like a false paradox. (I know all paradoxes are false, but this one especially.)
    You and your friend are starting from fundamentally different premises. You know that you'll be participating in a random round. Since everyone in a given round has a 97% chance of living, you know that you have a 97% chance of winning.
    Your friend, on the other hand, only knows that you were a random participant. That's really different from knowing that you were in a random round, since there are many more people in the last round than in every other round, and you're most likely to be a participant from the last round. If you only knew that you were a random participant in the overall game, you would come to the same conclusion as your friend.
    So I think the paradox is really just two completely separate problems, stated in a similar way. They're about the same situation, but it's definitely not surprising that you end up with different probabilities. The only confusing part seems to be the problem statement.

    • @randomnobody660
      @randomnobody660 Před 5 lety +1

      Easy fix: everybody potentially participating is drugged asleep. It is revealed to you afterwards that you participated. That way, neither you nor your friend know anything the other does not.
      Also not every paradox are "false". "This is a lie" literally can't be true nor false. Some paradox points to a flawed axiom.

  • @FallenShadowNinja
    @FallenShadowNinja Před 5 lety +18

    I've been reading a manga lately called Liar Game that features people playing a bunch of these sorts of games that Kevin has been covering lately. It's get psychological/cat-and-mouse-game kind of series if anyone really likes these sorts of games and wants to see more.

    • @PratameshMistry
      @PratameshMistry Před 5 lety +1

      Also 'no game no life' manga n anime is awosum...

    • @roseturck3468
      @roseturck3468 Před 5 lety +1

      That ending though...

    • @daviddecsi4962
      @daviddecsi4962 Před 5 lety

      You should check out Kaiji as well. Same game theory like scenarios and is awesome

  • @thebookworm1613
    @thebookworm1613 Před 5 lety +2

    To quote CinemaSins, this requires more of an expulsion of reality.

  • @Gigi-pk2vz
    @Gigi-pk2vz Před 5 lety +1

    This is a win-win situation.

  • @MRanzmo
    @MRanzmo Před 5 lety +10

    *ohboy this game seems fun, where do i sign up for getting killed?*

  • @Dybbukkk
    @Dybbukkk Před 5 lety +104

    *Where is Michael?*

  • @juliusreyes3539
    @juliusreyes3539 Před 4 lety

    Wooooow. I always get amazed by his videos

  • @azuarc
    @azuarc Před 5 lety +3

    The problem with Billy's argument, of course, is that the game gets played to completion.

    • @Enaronia
      @Enaronia Před 2 lety

      That's actually part of the information in Billy's math.