How does Dobble (Spot It) work?

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  • čas přidán 28. 04. 2021
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    Double Dobble
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    The American Mathematical Monthly
    Vol. 13, No. 11, Nov., 1906 www.jstor.org/stable/i349244
    Vol. 14, No. 5, May, 1907 www.jstor.org/stable/i349250
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  • @standupmaths
    @standupmaths  Před 3 lety +703

    To clarify: all patreon supporters will be emailed 3 Monomatch Myriad cards that no else will get. Solely so they can check them. Report findings here: www.patreon.com/posts/50645477
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    • @TheCaphits
      @TheCaphits Před 3 lety +11

      Make this into an NFT (and send me one for the idea?)!

    • @rohitraghunathan
      @rohitraghunathan Před 3 lety +23

      I don't think it'll matter but 10303 isn't divisible by 3. You'll have a card leftover

    • @Agrajag22
      @Agrajag22 Před 3 lety +5

      At 20:35 I think you meant to say “two SYMBOLS that match” (not cards)

    • @SioxerNikita
      @SioxerNikita Před 3 lety +2

      CAn't help you with the million subs sadly... Been subscribed for years.

    • @gz3zbz
      @gz3zbz Před 3 lety +3

      You didn't link to Steve Mould's channel.

  • @deanperkins2091
    @deanperkins2091 Před 3 lety +4663

    The legendary “Parker’s Dobble”

    • @Wolforce
      @Wolforce Před 3 lety +130

      Yes thanks i was looking for this

    • @TimMaddux
      @TimMaddux Před 3 lety +269

      “It is on-brand.” -Matt Parker

    • @jamesonhardy2126
      @jamesonhardy2126 Před 3 lety +50

      Kind of looking like he's doing it on purpose now.

    • @EPMTUNES
      @EPMTUNES Před 3 lety +42

      Parker little house

    • @aperson1
      @aperson1 Před 3 lety +9

      you have no idea how right you were.

  • @Zitronenscheibe
    @Zitronenscheibe Před 3 lety +2199

    After the infamous Parker Square comes the long awaited successor: The Parker Pentagon

    • @fdagpigj
      @fdagpigj Před 3 lety +129

      At this rate, we'll be getting the Parker Hexagon in 2026

    • @Ravlen1
      @Ravlen1 Před 3 lety +77

      "it's on brand"

    • @TheZotmeister
      @TheZotmeister Před 3 lety +27

      This right here was the comment I was looking for. Would have made it myself if I didn't find it.

    • @jonathanc8845
      @jonathanc8845 Před 3 lety +6

      I found it after I made it.

    • @ggw1776
      @ggw1776 Před 3 lety +21

      Parker Happy Little House

  • @Bigandrewm
    @Bigandrewm Před 3 lety +1830

    Here's a fun game: actually print out all 10,303 cards and sell them individually, maximum 1 per person. Then, a person who bought one who meets another person who bought one can compare their cards and find out what matches.

    • @AleksandrStrizhevskiy
      @AleksandrStrizhevskiy Před 3 lety +91

      That's actually brilliant! What a wonderful meetup idea.

    • @aldude9511
      @aldude9511 Před 3 lety +60

      As you find each symbol on another card you can have them initial it!

    • @_shadownotes_
      @_shadownotes_ Před 3 lety +49

      They should be able to steal it! It would be the biggest game of spot it ever.

    • @JungleLibrary
      @JungleLibrary Před 2 lety +70

      Then it just happens to be that it's always the happy house

    • @VivekYadav-ds8oz
      @VivekYadav-ds8oz Před 2 lety +11

      "Find your soulmate with this simple (tarot) card game!"

  • @__-cd9ug
    @__-cd9ug Před 3 lety +766

    When he spotted the happy little house instantly, after I spent 5 minutes not finding it, I though he was some sort of savant

    • @driesvanoosten4417
      @driesvanoosten4417 Před 3 lety +6

      I did spot it!

    • @adampayton4695
      @adampayton4695 Před 3 lety +24

      There's also a second pair! An circle with an arrow inside! However they are different colors so maybe it's also like the "catch the match game"?

    • @MD-vs9ff
      @MD-vs9ff Před 3 lety +19

      He is "some sort of" savant.
      A Parker savant.

    • @romaindubray2325
      @romaindubray2325 Před 2 lety +11

      @@adampayton4695 That symbol really made me question wether or not he had made them match color as well... decided I'd gone too far to give up now, so that HappyLittleHouse™ was a real relief to find, even though it was one of the last symbols I checked.

    • @jonahwolfe3396
      @jonahwolfe3396 Před 2 lety +1

      Same! It took me 4 minutes to find the house. After three minutes I was about to give up but decided that I wanted to prove to myself that my attention span can last more than 3 minutes. But yah, when I saw that he found it in 5 second I was like “what?! How is he so good at this game!” Then I was laughing after he revealed what actually happened.

  • @noahbaden90
    @noahbaden90 Před 3 lety +5444

    It's funny. Matt says that he and Steve Mould are both close to 1,000,000 subs, when the reality is actually that they are both close to *the same* million subscribers.

    • @unclejimmy7
      @unclejimmy7 Před 3 lety +356

      When I saw Steve's video in my subscription box, I said to myself, "nice, I can't wait to see Matt's video in my subscription box."

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Před 3 lety +372

      When is Matt going to examine the set theory of his and Steve's subscribers?

    • @xyz39808
      @xyz39808 Před 3 lety +79

      Certainly the most _boring_ way to optimally order a million unique items

    • @YouLoveBeef
      @YouLoveBeef Před 3 lety +52

      @@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Well I would be the anomaly then. I am not yet subscribed to Steve Mould. Didn't know of him until today.

    • @epauletshark3793
      @epauletshark3793 Před 3 lety +37

      @@YouLoveBeef it is quite a good channel.
      And yes, I do love beef.

  • @ericpeterson6520
    @ericpeterson6520 Před 3 lety +944

    In the beginning God said, "Let n be an integer greater than 1"

  • @muellerhans
    @muellerhans Před 3 lety +1416

    The reason why this game doesn't include 57 cards is indeed that the printing company that is used by asmodee (the game company that acquired the rights to Dobble) can only print 55 cards on a print sheet. That's what asmodee told to a german math CZcamsr (DorFuchs) which they sponsered to promote the game.

    • @AleksandrStrizhevskiy
      @AleksandrStrizhevskiy Před 3 lety +90

      Should have made a separate print sheet that just prints the missing cars and sorts them into the other sets. But I'm not a business man, maybe that would be too much extra cost for no gain.

    • @hornylink
      @hornylink Před 3 lety +58

      @@AleksandrStrizhevskiy that literally doubles the printing costs of the cards to just add 2 cards. (they're gonna charge you for the whole sheet, going from 1 to 2 sheets doubles pricing)

    • @AleksandrStrizhevskiy
      @AleksandrStrizhevskiy Před 3 lety +100

      @@hornylink Well it shouldn't double it. You would have one extra sheet for every couple of sheets(55/2 = 22 sheets). But yes they would have to pay more and very few people would appreciate the fact that the set is complete.

    • @hornylink
      @hornylink Před 3 lety +39

      @@AleksandrStrizhevskiy nah look at OP, they say that all 55 cards fit on 1 print sheet, so to add 2 more bringing it to the total 57 they'd need to add a second print sheet. You could technically 27 of sheet one per copy of sheet two and shuffle around cut outs to make use of the extra space on sheet two, but that only works if you're doing it by hand, changing a factory line to do that would be an absurd cost.

    • @AleksandrStrizhevskiy
      @AleksandrStrizhevskiy Před 3 lety +56

      @@hornylink Yeah thats what I was saying printing a special sheet that just has two differ cards. But yes then you have to retool the factory so that the extra cards get sorted with each sheet of 55 and, it makes sense that it isn't worth it.

  • @Maseiken
    @Maseiken Před 3 lety +408

    N: "I wish I could be an integer."
    Mathematicians before 1906: : "Absolutely not."

    • @sorellana2154
      @sorellana2154 Před 3 lety +5

      lmaooooo

    • @barbapappa99
      @barbapappa99 Před 3 lety +2

      OK, I'll bite. Why?

    • @TSiAhmat
      @TSiAhmat Před 3 lety

      oh and before i forget, N stands for any number between (- infinity) to (+ infinity) [if we are talking about math]

    • @Maseiken
      @Maseiken Před 3 lety +19

      @@barbapappa99 before that no one suggested letting it.

    • @tapatorta
      @tapatorta Před 2 lety +2

      I love you

  • @wrathofnerds
    @wrathofnerds Před 3 lety +735

    "I was so close to not admitting, but...it's on brand"

    • @jfein7273
      @jfein7273 Před 3 lety +38

      Classic Parker Square

    • @martinnovacek9151
      @martinnovacek9151 Před 3 lety +1

      Came here to say this :D

    • @nanamacapagal8342
      @nanamacapagal8342 Před 3 lety +2

      @@kyozpsycho Prof pic checks out

    • @StarstormHUN
      @StarstormHUN Před 3 lety +1

      @@jfein7273 At this point I'm kind of afraid to ask, but where does Parker Square originally come from?

    • @FLScrabbler
      @FLScrabbler Před 3 lety +1

      @@StarstormHUN 😂😂😂👍🏻 Well, it was an almost perfect magic square that Matt had come up with...

  • @gregjensen2482
    @gregjensen2482 Před 3 lety +905

    Summary of Stand-up Maths: "What Matt has done: It's on brand."

  • @_FirstLast_
    @_FirstLast_ Před 3 lety +511

    The "Happy Little House" story was so funny at the end of all the sweaty maths. Love how the universe just gave him that little gift at the end, and he decided to share it with us!

    • @josiahsimmons9866
      @josiahsimmons9866 Před 2 lety +15

      Not gonna lie, the happy little house made me so mad because I spent like 10+ mins trying to find the symbol :rofl:

    • @hansrens2453
      @hansrens2453 Před 10 měsíci

      The hilarious twist for me : watching the video, this man is amaaaazing.
      And when he 'found' those 2 smiling houses, then found them again, it was like : so the third card is on a row that links the first two. Nice, he simplified the game.
      I interrupted the video to have a supper break, wondering whether another 3 cards in his 101 selection would share a "row" ?
      Row, row,row the cards, merrily row the cards ?
      Btw: Was the number 101 an random choice, or deliberately chosen : find the link 101?
      And after supper break : WOW he admits having chosen that one single row. Amongst 10 000 + cards, pick 100, or 1%, and it ends up to be
      Where is Wally, over and over and over...
      This learned me another thing: it might very well be fun, searching Wally pictures, to find a second match. Probably not intended, but would we find one?

  • @wouterlahousse9637
    @wouterlahousse9637 Před 3 lety +225

    What is your nightmare about?
    Pythagoras: irrational numbers
    Euler: e=3
    Cantor: infinity
    Einstein: Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
    Galois: duelling
    Parker: A happy little house...

  • @Mrsparky492
    @Mrsparky492 Před 3 lety +872

    Others might call it a parker dobble, but I'll use a term from earlier in the video it's a 'doh'bble.

    • @xxgn
      @xxgn Před 3 lety +6

      I was looking for this comment.

    • @cjhanson7936
      @cjhanson7936 Před 3 lety +5

      Oh my glob! That is literally the first thing that came to mind when I was watching. Then I saw your comment. Hilarious!!! ....classic Parker thing to do 🤣

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Před 2 lety

      Parker Pentagon.

  • @bloergk
    @bloergk Před 3 lety +341

    Who would have thought there could be such SORROW in the short phrase "happy little house"...

  • @Motinu
    @Motinu Před 3 lety +210

    German maths youtuber Dorfuchs asked the producer of the game about the 2 missing cards and the answer was that only 55 cards fit on a print sheet. In his video at about 7:52, automated subtitles in english available.

  • @KaiLucasZachary
    @KaiLucasZachary Před 2 lety +187

    I work professionally as a tutor, and using your guide, I've created my own version of Hebrew Dobble so that I can help people learn how to identify Hebrew letters and vowels.
    This video is the most comprehensive explanation of the game that I've ever seen.

  • @JavierYahiko
    @JavierYahiko Před 3 lety +325

    i love how monomatch myriad ended up giving parker square vibes

    • @nex
      @nex Před 3 lety +27

      Yeah; I immediately thought “cool, he's made Parker pentagons” :)

    • @AaronHollander314
      @AaronHollander314 Před 3 lety +9

      It took me 10 minutes to find the match. The more I look the more I saw new symbols.

  • @nocturnhabeo
    @nocturnhabeo Před 3 lety +675

    I feel like every programmer on the planet has done this type of embarrassing mistake. You're awesome man.

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Před 3 lety +18

      Parker Match

    • @nocturnhabeo
      @nocturnhabeo Před 3 lety +27

      @UCjlY2PsJoAlrzhK-N8djvVA Saying to yourself "Oh I'll just take the first one of X data set" which results in an annoying or unhelpful pattern you didn't think would show up.

    • @skyjoe55
      @skyjoe55 Před 3 lety +42

      "I see no reason random() shouldn't always return 3"

    • @LCrowsbeak
      @LCrowsbeak Před 3 lety +3

      @@skyjoe55 or 7

    • @stijnvandrongelen5625
      @stijnvandrongelen5625 Před 3 lety +1

      @@skyjoe55 Are you a Debian maintainer?

  • @r0cketplumber
    @r0cketplumber Před rokem +3

    "Let n be an integah!" That's how you get people hooked! What an opener!
    I hooted at that.

  • @Corwin256
    @Corwin256 Před 3 lety +43

    I love your ability to take giant mistakes, make them hilarious jokes, and then build a message that it's OK to be imperfect. Come for the laughs, stay for the life-changing attitude shift. And more laughs.

  • @quinnmartin4236
    @quinnmartin4236 Před 3 lety +1049

    The fact that you ended up going full circle and making Spot the Atom accidentally is just too conveniently ironic. God has conspired against us all and it was hilarious.

    • @tristanwegner
      @tristanwegner Před 3 lety +18

      Yeah, I was so happy that he decided to admit it!

    • @johannschiel6734
      @johannschiel6734 Před 3 lety +31

      A parker monomatch game...

    • @Intermernet
      @Intermernet Před 2 lety +31

      God may not play dice, but he definitely plays "spot the happy little house".

    • @IRONMANFAN-oc9fr
      @IRONMANFAN-oc9fr Před 2 lety +6

      He said in the video that maths is all about spotting patterns and he has inadvertently PROVED this very fact! HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

  • @nicksteele5613
    @nicksteele5613 Před 3 lety +359

    This is, with no exaggeration, a question I've had for YEARS. The first time I saw a variation on this game it just PLAGUED me as to how they managed to pull this off. Literally can't wait to see.

    • @NoisqueVoaProduction
      @NoisqueVoaProduction Před 3 lety +19

      Yeah, I also was asking myself, puzzled by it.
      It reminds a lot of the logic behind SET. Although SET is a bit more straight forward to the issue while in Dobble it is not part of the gameplay to know how it works...
      But really cool applied math about... Higher dimension? Projective planes? That sort of advanced math... Pretty cool

    • @aidanwalter2823
      @aidanwalter2823 Před 3 lety +2

      I bet you literally could have 🙃

    • @Fantastic_Mr_Fox
      @Fantastic_Mr_Fox Před rokem

      yeah me too. Well I wouldn't say it has plagued me but yeah I remember 7 year old me or smth like that playing dobble one day (not the first time I had played) wondering A) if all the cards truly had only one match with any other card and B) how they pulled it off

  • @jonarcherii
    @jonarcherii Před 3 lety +38

    On your pentagon, there is another set of symbols that (kinda) match. They both have a circle with an arrow in it, and they appear the same except the color is different. My theory is that one was an “up” arrow, and one was a “down” arrow, but that bit of information got lost in the randomization of the rotation of each symbol.

  • @F_L_U_X
    @F_L_U_X Před 3 lety +11

    0:04 It also says that the hour-glass is 15 feet tall.

  • @cjjoyce27
    @cjjoyce27 Před 3 lety +445

    Can't believe you got Steve to film himself trying to find the happy little house

    • @miriamrosemary9110
      @miriamrosemary9110 Před 3 lety +41

      So funny when he finds the happy house on another card and he's so confused

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Před 3 lety +3

      I love how it really showed the passage of time.

    • @AlphaPhoenixChannel
      @AlphaPhoenixChannel Před 3 lety +6

      Can we get confirmation on if Steve was TOLD they were all the smiley house prior to that clip? Because either way, I was rolling...

    • @arfyness
      @arfyness Před 3 lety +6

      @@AlphaPhoenixChannel I really think he didn't tell him.

  • @zacharybarbanell1064
    @zacharybarbanell1064 Před 3 lety +370

    Having done the math before, and having also wondered why there's 55 cards instead of 57, I came to the reasonable conclusion that it's because, since the main way to actually play the game starts with a single card in the center, the remaining 55-1=54 cards can be evenly divided among various numbers of players.

    • @matthewstuckenbruck5834
      @matthewstuckenbruck5834 Před 3 lety +46

      Interesting, but why then is the junior version 30 cards? 29 doesn't split very easily. Are the rules different?

    • @alxjones
      @alxjones Před 3 lety +33

      This generalizes in an interesting way. If you have N cards to divide amongst a set of players, what is the "best" number of cards to leave out?
      You could look at the closest "highly divisible number" less than or equal to N, or maybe the number less than or equal to N with the most factors. You might want to prioritize smaller factors since they should represent a more typical group size. You can model this as a question about the LCM of subsets of {1,...,N}. Definitely some interesting mathematics to explore there.

    • @88porpoise
      @88porpoise Před 3 lety +73

      Money is on someone thinking the multiple of five just looks nicer.

    • @MrTyler918273
      @MrTyler918273 Před 3 lety +38

      I would guess it doesn't have a mathematical explanation; rather a marketing and/or economic one. Someone in the marketing department probably said "57 (or 31) is an odd number (not just the fact that it is not even, but that it is relatively unusual or unfamiliar). If it will work with a more approachable number, say a multiple of 5, that would look better on the packaging and we can even save a few cents per unit."

    • @jalsing
      @jalsing Před 3 lety +26

      Maybe it's just to save money and waste on printing. They might fit nicely 5 across on the stock before they're cut. Same with the smaller set both are multiples of 5....

  • @dracuul78
    @dracuul78 Před 3 lety +35

    I have always wondered what magic was needed to design the Dobble cards, thanks for this perfect (and hilarious) explanation. I'm so amazed how well you structure your videos and use these excellent visuals. Starting with the silly 'spot the atom' version, and referring back to it later, I was in tears from laughter...

  • @tune_fisch0269
    @tune_fisch0269 Před 3 lety +55

    For the German viewers here: Dorfuchs made a very good Video about Dobble a while ago

    • @mandygoring2001
      @mandygoring2001 Před 3 lety +4

      And he included an explanation why there are only 55 cards in the game...

    • @SuperMrMuh
      @SuperMrMuh Před 3 lety +2

      @@mandygoring2001 aaand... what is the explanation?

    • @Sebb747
      @Sebb747 Před 3 lety +8

      ​@@SuperMrMuh It's this video at roughly this timestamp: czcams.com/video/vyYSEDGUdlg/video.html
      TL:DR he asked the manufacturer and it's indeed limited by printing; the shop can print exactly 55 cards on a sheet.

    • @jankisi
      @jankisi Před 3 lety +1

      I thought I had seen something like that! Thanks

  • @atomic3691
    @atomic3691 Před 3 lety +276

    "Negative six players?" I don't know why, but I couldn't stop laughing.

    • @WesYarber
      @WesYarber Před 3 lety +3

      ‘Twas a good one

    • @pyglik2296
      @pyglik2296 Před 3 lety +7

      We should switch to the correct notation [2, 8] ∩ ℤ.

    • @kirkanos771
      @kirkanos771 Před 3 lety

      I didnt get that joke either.

    • @ssnoyes
      @ssnoyes Před 3 lety +7

      @@kirkanos771 It's for "2-8" players, which you are supposed to read as "2 through 8" but Matt has interpreted as "2 minus 8".

    • @davidgould9431
      @davidgould9431 Před 3 lety +7

      Similar(ish): I finished a jigsaw in 18 months - I was really pleased because it said "2 to 4 years" on the box.

  • @SquintyGears
    @SquintyGears Před 3 lety +71

    😂 The unintended print of spot the atom had me crying

  • @Verlisify
    @Verlisify Před 2 lety +55

    So find century old math columns and make card games out of them
    Interesting business venture

  • @cj719521
    @cj719521 Před 2 lety +171

    Paused at 7:00 to say this:
    Okay, but how long did it take to put the 7x7 Feno plane in order like that? The amount of detail you consistently put into these videos is astounding (and so satisfying)! Thank you for the work you do!

    • @liborkundrat185
      @liborkundrat185 Před 2 lety +21

      My guess is:
      - The start was to separate all cards with a single symbol, in this case the clown. This left him with 49 cards to be put into the grid and 8 involving the clown to be left on the outside.
      - Then he searched for 7 cards with a shared symbol among the 49, putting them into a single row.
      - Then he searched for 7 cards with a shared symbol among the remaining (42) cards, putting them into another row.
      - Then he repeated the previous step, chopping the amount of remaining cards down to 35, then 28, afterwards 21, 14, and finally the bottom row of 7.
      - Then he rearranged all symbols within each row so there was a shared symbol (same match) in the whole column.
      And by process of mathematics, that should be enough to get the final picture, as the symbols in the diagonals are defined by the rows and columns. So, it probably didn't take *too* long with a system like this, but still, fairly long. Especially with two cards missing, which he only had to make (and add) afterwards.

    • @Trumpington1
      @Trumpington1 Před rokem +1

      @@liborkundrat185 it’s more involved than this. You’ll see if you try for real…

    • @Trumpington1
      @Trumpington1 Před rokem +13

      1. Choose a symbol that links infinity cards eg clown
      2. Pick any card out of those 8 clown cards that will represent rows. From now on, the 7 other ’row symbols’ on that card will be common with the symbols linking each row.
      3. From remaining 47 cards, arrange 1st row of 7 cards to be all cards containing one of those ‘row symbols’
      4. So the same for other rows
      At this stage columns don’t match and you’ll see a couple of blank spots due to having 47 card to fill 7x7
      5. Pick another clown card to represent columns. 7 other symbols on card aside from clown are ‘column symbols’
      6. Keeping the rows intact reposition cards so that each column has common symbol with column card.
      At this stage rows and columns all match up nicely but the main top left to bottom right diagonal probably doesn’t. You can switch any row / column around to make a diagonal but you’ll probably find the parallel diagonal doesn’t match.
      7. Find the main diagonal infinity card by looking for common symbol between lefthand most 2nd row card and top right card.
      Now rearrange grid so that main diagonal matches the common symbol between the top left and one of the other symbol on the diagonal infinity card. Don’t rearrange top 2 rows or left column during this.
      Should be done…!
      Nb for step 1 don’t choose symbol where there are cards missing eg snowman.

    • @liborkundrat185
      @liborkundrat185 Před rokem +3

      @@Trumpington1 I see. That's pretty neat, and much more accurate/systematic than I thought.
      Cool for figuring it out.

    • @michielhorikx9863
      @michielhorikx9863 Před rokem +1

      @@Trumpington1 This indeed works very nicely, thanks for the algorithm!

  • @wolfelkan8183
    @wolfelkan8183 Před 3 lety +335

    "Catch the Match" also known as "Make Fun of Your Colorblind Friends"

  • @pseudopod
    @pseudopod Před 3 lety +413

    I like how Matt put the clown mathematically as far away as possible, but it was also the physically closest set of cards

    • @lozzaaa15
      @lozzaaa15 Před 3 lety +51

      goes to show that he believes in maths more than he believes in physics

    • @ziwuri
      @ziwuri Před 2 lety +9

      @@lozzaaa15 this... actually almost makes sense, in a weird way.

    • @ahobby
      @ahobby Před 2 lety +3

      Haven't seen it yet, but I'm guessing he's put it away in manhattan distance or chessboard distance or quasi-euclidean distance, something of the sorts, rather than straight up euclidean distance :P

  • @biranfalk-dotan2448
    @biranfalk-dotan2448 Před 3 lety +109

    Matt is a professional at making #ParkerSquare, the rest of us just Dobble in it

  • @graemed8792
    @graemed8792 Před 3 lety +4

    at 3:34 the "slick" genuinly gave me a good chuckle

  • @mymoomin0952
    @mymoomin0952 Před 3 lety +298

    "I'm not sure if that's genius or lazy"
    The soul of mathematics right there

  • @golightning291
    @golightning291 Před 3 lety +103

    a game for -6 people? sounds like my social circle

  • @eboyarski
    @eboyarski Před 3 lety +5

    In 2015, I helped design a similar card game with 73 symbols, 9 on each card, and 73 cards. So, an order of 8=2^3. I used Sage to generate the solution. I never quite understood the math, so I appreciate this video!

  • @breberky
    @breberky Před rokem +10

    After spending many weeks trying to code the Dobble generating algorithm (brute force with a lot of optimization tricks, still running for long hours), the existence of the cyclic difference set literally blew my mind. Now the job is done in a second. You have saved my day! Thank you!

  • @matheuscastello6554
    @matheuscastello6554 Před 3 lety +126

    the fact you printed the first 101 rows on accident is the cherry on top of an already amazing and hilarious video, i loved it hahaha

  • @jounik
    @jounik Před 3 lety +74

    Next in line: Monomismatch Myriad where you have ~10k cards, each with ~100 symbols, the challenge for each pair being to find the one symbol that is *not* on the other card of the pair.

    • @danielyuan9862
      @danielyuan9862 Před 3 lety +3

      that's just n cards with n-1 symbols each such that you take any n-1 symbols of n total symbols.

  • @AaronZull
    @AaronZull Před 2 lety +1

    I have been waiting for this exact CZcamsr to make this exact video for several years now! Thank you!

  • @calebj5852
    @calebj5852 Před 3 lety +1

    I wondered about this when my family played over the holidays this past year! Thanks for the explanation!

  • @anushrao882
    @anushrao882 Před 3 lety +75

    That negative six got me laughing way more than it should have.

  • @n8r8rutube
    @n8r8rutube Před 3 lety +86

    You really Parker Squared that print job :P

  • @cl3m3n7
    @cl3m3n7 Před 3 lety +3

    This was an amazing video ! Great cinematography, really fun and the math is incredible !

  • @adampayton4695
    @adampayton4695 Před 3 lety +11

    There's also a second pair! An circle with an arrow inside! However they are different colors so maybe it's also like the "catch the match game"?

    • @annekay281
      @annekay281 Před 3 lety +1

      I found the same pair and if color variation was an acceptable option you would not need that many unique symbols or cards that large.

  • @Koisheep
    @Koisheep Před 3 lety +253

    It's so refreshing to find a maths channel that keeps coming up with new topics you didn't know about despite being a phd student lol

    • @SimonBuchanNz
      @SimonBuchanNz Před 3 lety +7

      It's so refreshing to find a maths channel that came up with a subject I *did* already know about! (projective geometry being a big thing in 3d rendering)
      If not something I would ever think to try to apply in this context.

    • @hugofontes5708
      @hugofontes5708 Před 3 lety

      @Hopeful Interpretation doesn't take a lot of genius to at least know about trendy or popular topics in your own field that are covered by CZcams channels for views and popularizing academics, specially when the channel actually surprises you on the regular. Or does it?

  • @a-lien
    @a-lien Před 3 lety +47

    Your mistake getting your cards printed made me really happy, not at the expense of you messing up but at the beauty of how well it ties into what we had just learned and how easy it was to make such a grave mistake

  • @reneejones6330
    @reneejones6330 Před 2 lety +1

    "Spot the happy little house" is MY kind of matching game. Love it!

  • @theplanbee79
    @theplanbee79 Před rokem

    I've wondered this question many times while playing Spot It. What a timely video. Thanks!

  • @dahemac
    @dahemac Před 3 lety +132

    I love that you have probably persuaded a renowned solar physicist to periodically throw game packages at, or to, or past you. 😁

    • @benjaminsmith3625
      @benjaminsmith3625 Před 3 lety +48

      Physicists are big fans of particle accelerators after all!

    • @wellshit9489
      @wellshit9489 Před 3 lety +9

      They need to test how the velocity, time and mass affect the results obviously.

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Před 3 lety +1

      I prefer believing they actually teleported on screen on their own.

  • @afonsoferreira5171
    @afonsoferreira5171 Před 3 lety +184

    The Parker Dobble
    edit: just refreshed the comments, good to know everyone thought the same

    • @zozzy4630
      @zozzy4630 Před 3 lety +5

      Parker Pentagon!

    • @rossradtke
      @rossradtke Před 3 lety +5

      I was gonna say its an upgrade from the Parker Square...
      ..."Now with FIVE sides

  • @Kenjuudo
    @Kenjuudo Před 3 lety +4

    This video was totally hilarious! I seldomly laugh out loud when watching videos, but this one did it. Thanks Matt/Math & Steve!
    Finally earned yourself my subscription!

  • @Calciyum88
    @Calciyum88 Před 2 měsíci

    Thank you!!! That was exactly what I was looking for!! Thanks so much!!!

  • @DannyGottawa
    @DannyGottawa Před 3 lety +199

    Paraphrased Matt: 'Just make the two extra cards yourself.'
    Couldn't I just make them all?
    Nervous Matt: Shhh

    • @PauxloE
      @PauxloE Před 3 lety +15

      There are dobble/spot-it generators on the internet. Upload a set of icons (use your own ones so there are no copyright issues), get the cards, print them. My wife made some with fruits and vegetables.

  • @CBWP
    @CBWP Před 3 lety +105

    "You can trick young people into becoming engineers." - Matt Parker

  • @IllidanS4
    @IllidanS4 Před 2 lety +8

    I remember that when learning about projective geometry, the lecturer actually brought this game to the lesson, I think.

  • @dfgaJK
    @dfgaJK Před 3 lety +3

    What made finding the happy little house, it took me about 2min, is that the contrast/saturation is sightly diffrent. (or at least it steamed to be in the image of you holding them up.)

  • @toughnerd
    @toughnerd Před 3 lety +48

    I never thought a pentagon could be classified as a square before...
    But those pentagons are the parker's square of monomatching games.

    • @Jordan-zk2wd
      @Jordan-zk2wd Před 3 lety +2

      About that... czcams.com/video/n7GYYerlQWs/video.html : P

  • @MisterNohbdy
    @MisterNohbdy Před 3 lety +47

    *points to box* "These guys sponsored me! They're great!" *promptly tosses box onto floor*

  • @tarentino3269
    @tarentino3269 Před rokem

    Thank you! I have to recreate spot it for a programming project and this is gonna be so useful in order to generate the cards. The rest is easy to do. Thanks a lot man

  • @spencerbruce
    @spencerbruce Před 3 lety +1

    I was just playing this game with some friends and we were working through the math on how to make this game! Thanks for the wonderful video :)

  • @Xanthaar
    @Xanthaar Před 3 lety +27

    Outdone the Parker square with this one. I'm crying with laughter at the happy little houses on all the cards :)

  • @Iwasneverevenhere
    @Iwasneverevenhere Před 3 lety +20

    Regarding the number cards, German math CZcamsr Dorfuchs also made a video on this game.
    In it, he contacted the company to ask about the number of cards, and they answered that it simply had to do with printing, although I don't remember the details.

    • @Ulkomaalainen
      @Ulkomaalainen Před 3 lety +5

      The game company said the printers only could do 55 (well, or 110 with 53 thrown out). Why that is wasn't solved but it was also the suggestion that it is was Poker sets (or, more broadly, the standard 52 cards plus three anything - joker cards for example).

    • @ultimatedude5686
      @ultimatedude5686 Před 3 lety +3

      @@Ulkomaalainen My guess it that it was the 52 cards, two jokers, and that extra card they always include for branding

  • @Hjerta92
    @Hjerta92 Před 3 lety +5

    When we were playing Dobble last summer we started wondering about the mathematics behind it, and how many cards you could make with x number of symbols on each card. Our formula was x*x-(x-1), so 8*8-7 in the case of Dobble, although we couldn't have explained exactly how it worked.

  • @DavidRPascucci
    @DavidRPascucci Před 10 měsíci

    I'm 8 minutes into the video and I already went to upvote it three times. You are so consistently funny and entertaining, really enjoying watching through your old videos!

  • @michaeledinger8256
    @michaeledinger8256 Před 3 lety +56

    From the producers of Parkers Square: Parkers Pentagon.
    Laugh so hard that I cried

  • @DAveShillito
    @DAveShillito Před 3 lety +116

    Literally everybody watched this video and looked to the comments to see if they would be the first to post "Parker Dobble" :D

    • @ryjtse
      @ryjtse Před 3 lety

      Oh now that is delightful.

    • @Nosirrbro
      @Nosirrbro Před 3 lety +1

      Parker Match!

    • @esotericVideos
      @esotericVideos Před 3 lety +2

      I think Parker pentagon is more apt. It suggests that with time Matt will find a way to embarrass himself with all regular polygons.

    • @better.better
      @better.better Před 3 lety

      Parker Plane... Parker Dobble is just ridiculous! personally I feel that the concept of a Parker plane being an infinite sequence of happy houses is very comforting

    •  Před 3 lety +1

      Nope, I went on to check who else found the smiling house.
      EDIT: ...and I unpaused the video and learned the truth :D :D

  • @andyland00
    @andyland00 Před 3 lety +28

    Great video! As an engineering student, however, my inner manufacturer is pained by the fact that you chose to make your myriad out of pentagons rather than hexagons... hopefully there was some printing size limit that made the difference in wastage between the two shapes negligible?

    • @mgarratt101
      @mgarratt101 Před 2 lety +3

      It makes zero difference, obviously you're a beginner engineering student, you'll get there one day

    • @paulbockmann8402
      @paulbockmann8402 Před 2 lety +9

      @@mgarratt101 seems like you’re the beginner, only triangles, squares and hexagons can tile a plane without any overlap or gaps. You’ll get there one day ;)

    • @iteragami5078
      @iteragami5078 Před 2 lety +3

      Good question. It would depend on the size of the polygon compared to the roll of paper to be printed on. Cause while regular hexagons do tile the plane perfectly, they leave jagged edges at the border, so you would compare wastage to densest pentagon packing known.

    • @SlashCrash_Studios
      @SlashCrash_Studios Před rokem +1

      He's Matt Parker, Pentagons are just cooler shapes

    • @AidanRahder
      @AidanRahder Před rokem +2

      @@SlashCrash_Studios Hexagons are the bestagons.

  • @samp-w7439
    @samp-w7439 Před 3 lety +6

    I watched this a while back, wanted to generate my own dobble (for reasons which I won't go in to). I recall Matt saying cyclic difference sets are hard to generate, so I decided I would try to write some code for it. It's a simple recursive backtracking algorithm, not much fanciness. Wrote it in python and here it is:
    def check(nums, target):
    differences = 0
    ind_diffs = set()
    mod = target * target - target + 1
    for n1 in nums:
    for n2 in nums:
    diff = n1 - n2
    diff = (diff + mod) % mod
    if diff:
    differences += 1
    ind_diffs.add(diff)
    return len(ind_diffs) == differences
    def generate(target, current=None):
    current = current or [0]
    mod = target * target - target + 1
    options = range(current[-1] + 1, mod)
    if check(current, target):
    if len(current) == target:
    return current
    for option in options:
    res = generate(target, current + [option])
    if res:
    return res
    print(generate(8))
    The code is surprisingly fast for small sizes of difference sets, but, I tried generating the length-102 set that you would need to generate Monomatch: Myriad, and it still hasn't finished running (over an hour). This makes sense, as recursive backtracking scales quite poorly (I think O(n!)), so I'm not surprised. In any case, I just wanted to share my findings. Cheers!

  • @RubenCeuppensOfficial
    @RubenCeuppensOfficial Před 3 lety +65

    Steve's face at the end when he realises, is hilarious.

    • @nitehawk86
      @nitehawk86 Před 3 lety +8

      The face of someone that isn't sure if they are being trolled.

  • @y.h.w.h.
    @y.h.w.h. Před 3 lety +22

    "I've become quite good at this..."
    Oh no. Something went wrong.

  • @carterwoodson8818
    @carterwoodson8818 Před rokem

    Matt Parker! I have been watching you for so long and I had no idea you were so knowledgeable able about projective geometry! I would love to learn more about affine spaces and projective spaces from you! I had not heard of a finite projective plane before, thank you!

  • @tiger12506
    @tiger12506 Před 3 lety

    My family and I played Spot It a lot as a time killer while waiting for food at restaurants the past ten years or so. I've came close, but never buckled down and figured out the details like in this video. Neat. I'll have to make my own set now!

  • @TacoMaster3211
    @TacoMaster3211 Před 3 lety +29

    The Happy Little House Incident must make it into Humble Pi 2, or maybe Humble Tau if you wish.

  • @somefreshbread
    @somefreshbread Před 3 lety +95

    "Friends of mine who have procreated"
    Yep. This is a math channel.

    • @Ulkomaalainen
      @Ulkomaalainen Před 3 lety +8

      Possible. Ehm, what is this "friends of mine" thing?

  • @erdnaelarresaccor3450
    @erdnaelarresaccor3450 Před 3 lety

    A friend of mine was sure there was a mathematical trick behind dobble and wanted to tackle this this as his subject for our mathematic oral test. Thank you for him

  • @NoomiSense
    @NoomiSense Před 3 lety +11

    haha, this was amazing! You should challenge Steve to discover the most efficient way of spotting the symbol on the Myriad cards. Would a sorting methodology work best here? like a 'shell-spot' or a 'quick-spot'? Or is our brain more attuned to focusing on a single colour at the time? I went through so many spotting-tactics and I couldn't even see the happy house. When I realised that the this game was so hard that the YT algorithm couldn't even spot the *leaf* I decided to un-pause the video.

  • @jubnx2781
    @jubnx2781 Před 3 lety +39

    I literally was wondering about this 2 years ago and still now today because we played this at the lake, I now know. Thx

  • @ulf-nicklassdegenhardt-mei3121

    Probably the reason for 55 cards vs. 57 cards is just a question of optimizing the production process. The cards are round. Therefore you can nicely arrange them in 11 rows a 5 cards using hexagonal packing, and you get a good sized rectangular print sheet without wasting paper. Maybe 3x19 was harder to handle?

  • @PanduPoluan
    @PanduPoluan Před 2 lety +2

    I totally lost it looking at Steve's face while he tried to find the match... then again when he realized it was all "smiley house" 🤣🤣🤣

  • @ideegeniali
    @ideegeniali Před 3 lety +2

    I tried hard (well not actually that hard, i gave up quite soon actually) to find the math of dobble. Then concluded i didn't have the math instrument to deal with what at first looked like a simple combinatory problem. Thank you for explaining in such an entertaining and multiple approaches way!

  • @thekinglydragon
    @thekinglydragon Před 3 lety +11

    I will be using that -6 players joke for the rest of my life. I have no idea how I've never heard it before. Thank you for enlightening me

  • @jaymoney5090
    @jaymoney5090 Před 3 lety +38

    28:25 "They're all smiley house"
    Always have been

  • @custardpanda6209
    @custardpanda6209 Před 3 lety

    This is amazing, keep up the great work!

  • @ThatBiohazardGuy
    @ThatBiohazardGuy Před 3 lety +1

    This is a really good way of visualizing the maths. Thanks

  • @jasonrubik
    @jasonrubik Před 3 lety +82

    Next road trip :
    Dad: I spy with my little eye, an atom !!!
    Kid : At least its not the scary clown !
    Dad : He's too far away, I can't see him yet !
    Edit. just finished the video... its one of the funniest ever from Matt !

  • @anarchyseeds4406
    @anarchyseeds4406 Před 3 lety +11

    Wow that is hilarious Matt. I was amazed how fast you matched the happy little house but that outcome is truly comedic.

  • @jamesbroderick8009
    @jamesbroderick8009 Před 3 lety

    I have always wondered about this, great video 👍

  • @aleksitjvladica.
    @aleksitjvladica. Před 3 lety

    I was hype when it was announced! And I am hype to watch this!

  • @garrettthompson3286
    @garrettthompson3286 Před 3 lety +25

    5:55 I was fully ready for a surprise diagonalization argument like Cantor's

  • @HeVi7
    @HeVi7 Před 3 lety +22

    That's a Parker Square of a game you've printed there 🤔

  • @TannerCh
    @TannerCh Před 3 lety

    Subscribed. Good luck with the million!

  • @hapticflapjack
    @hapticflapjack Před 3 lety +1

    The thrower should get a credit. (And the filming location looks lovely too.)

  • @richardwithanarr
    @richardwithanarr Před 3 lety +19

    I like how Matt frames himself sitting in front of the circle artwork behind him.
    Santino Parker, patron de numeros calculadores

  • @reformCopyright
    @reformCopyright Před 3 lety +7

    "Let n be an integer!"
    And the crowd goes wild!

  • @FilippoVicari
    @FilippoVicari Před 3 lety

    I love the new style of video as much as I have loved humble pi, keep up with this great work!