Surviving The Deadliest Game
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- There’s no more dangerous game than Russian Roulette. One wrong move and the consequences are fatal… and Balloon Kevin knows it.
The real difficulty is that in the sort of game you see played in a movie, there’s no skill involved when a player makes that move. It’s right or it’s wrong, and it’s a combination of the highest possible stakes with the lowest possible element of human control.
According to Nick Berry of DataGenetics, a common job interview question tests the mathematical reasoning and probability skills of interviewees by asking them to consider an alternative, slightly more complex arrangement: with two potentially fatal chambers loaded, and after having successfully survived the first round of a game, does the player request to spin the cylinder, or do they just let it go? Does it even matter?
The answer is surprising, and the exercise is a lesson in how gaining a small edge -- or not losing one -- can make a tremendous difference. If you were faced with consequences this dire, wouldn’t you want every percentage point of survivability your math mind could muster?
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5/5 guys say Russian Roulette is a safe game. Some might say that there's a sixth guy that would say otherwise, but he stubbornly refused to answer my question.
Did he give you the cold shoulder?
I know right, he even slept on the ground with his butt facing me; what a rude guy >:(
he gave you the silent treatment
EXACTLY, now I have to mop the floors again :(
He never responded to me, however do you a spare bullet?
"I'm 'real Kevin'." ok, but that sounds like something 'fake Kevin' would say
“Real Kevin” killed the real kevin
Dun, dun, dun......
My real name is Kevin and my name is kevin
Will you be my valentine?
Kevin:"I'm not the messiah!" Everyone else:"Only the messiah would say that he's not the messiah!"
Me: (loses a game and demands a rematch)
Everyone else playing Russian Roulette: Hol' Up....
Lol
He used the totem of undying?!
There are two interpretations:
1. To lose is to get shot.
2. To lose is to not get shot because you wanna die.
@@RandomDude1487 third, you got shot but somehow survived.
Calm down, Rasputin
Russian mafia: “We play Russian Roulette.”
Me: “Okay. Give me 10 minutes.”
Lol
10:50
@@streifitm3908 my favorite part is 59:33
Anakin80042 Fury not the time to take a wank, man.
Jack Fekete I now have a FREAKING RED LINE ACROSS THE SCREEN
The real deadliest game is resting your eyes after turning off your alarm
Last time I did that I blinked and an hour passed.
That's why I set five alarms.
It doesn't always work.
@@PunkZombie1300 Go for ten
IVE DONE IT!
Chan WS I set up and s worth of alarms, still wake up late
"1 in 6 people found this game mindblowing"
"winner doesn't have to paint the walls for me!"
"This game really makes my blood rush like a bullet to the head!"
"Its hard to keep my head in place with this dangerously fun game!"
"It Is recommended to brainstorm if you should play or not before playing."
I’m literally dying rn….if you catch my bullet
@@TheGusatron *plop*
caught it
@@Rockethead293 lol
....but quite literally
@@Rockethead293 you're the chosen one...
"The important part is that you never do any of this ever"
Got it. I will not set up a game of NERF Russian Roulette using a balloon stand-in of myself (nor a balloon stand-in of Kevin) in which a needle is inserted into the NERF dart
... Wait why not?
Because needles are dangerous
@@vadenlow5953 Needy
@@TheSTOOL-y *slaps*
bonk
He means not to play it with a real gun and real bullets and real people
As a player of buckshot roulette this helped me a little, but most of the strategies you mentioned I’ve already discovered on my own
My brother is the Russian roulette champion
He only lost once
Nice cat pfp
alexdg • 5 years ago wow that’s a great record!
Miken10 why are so many people watching this now lmao
@@HikerMan-px1bv youtube recommendations
So hi must bi soviet
I have five hours of sleep left before work, so i should watch this video tomorrow, right? WRONG!
You've made a wise choice.
@@arcaderdude 2/6 to 2/5 because you ignore the just fired round
Good morning!
Hope you have a good day at work!
You're going to miss the bus.
I like the idea of vsauce being in this situation irl and his captors are just watching and listening him going over the calculations
There a Lucky Luke comic in which Luke goes to a town where everyone is obsessed with gambling. For reasons, he ends up wrongfully imprisoned in the town jail. The jailor is an old man who asks Luke if he wants to play Russian roulette, which is his preferred game of chance since he believes it's impossible to cheat at it. Luke agrees and the jailor goes first, survives and hands Luke the gun. Luke then immediately makes sure the bullet is aligned with the barrel, points the gun at the jailor and demands to be let free.
The jailor goes: "Well, I'll be damned. You _can_ cheat at Russian roulette!"
fun fact:
5 out of 6 people find this game harmless
Edit: this comment showed me that people are really bad at fractions and words
Edit 2:i wonder when people will figure out that this is a joke
Underrated
U mean 5/5 lol
@@BonyArt6 no
@PotatoGuy 03 yesn't
Round 2
that new guy talks so much, kevin is so polite, not interrupting him.
@Qwerka because people are lazy to write a reply
It's a shame Kevin died at the end
@@DoodleZoo Not only that, but the new guy played with his eye balls! Can we get an F in the chat
@@yartastic f
Comment War Starter bruh that's not it
I remember playing this when I was 9 years old with my cousins. I had a nerf gun (strongarm, ig that’s its name) and I lost all of the bullets except 1. It was fun to see each one of us getting scarred for our turn.
Russian Roulette: I AM THE DEADLIEST GAME ON EARTH
Danganronpa: no thats WRONG
It is the deadliest game
This is just Kevin threatining a balloon for 11 minutes until he eventually kills it by the end
Red Shadow you spoilt it!
*spoiler*
Stop looking at comments if you don’t wanna get spoiled
Woosh
Ben Couch r/wooooshwith4os
It’s easy to survive Russian Roulette. Just hold a Totem of Undying.
Your a legend,I legit see your comments in almost every youtubers videos wtf
semii. It’s because he doesn’t have a mustache
He's only here because he's jealous of balloon Kevin's 'stache.
Or be in a party and hope someone has a Phoenix feather or rez magic
Minecraft : totem of undying
TF 2 : Dead ringer
Me : *Holds both of those things*
I AM A GOD!
Aca va otra idea para sobrevivir a la ruleta rusa, no jugar a la ruleta rusa
LOL THIS TRANSLATE THING IS USEFUL
good idea
@@datawave_gd ikr lmao
Buena idea mi amigo
Yes lol
thank you for the tutorial! this will be helpful the next time I hang out with my friends!
I like how he constantly emphasizes the word "toy" when referring to the Nerf gun to not get demonetized
Go watch itadaki seieki
It doog
@@duckitonduck Bruh.
@@duckitonduck who
Yea u shouldn’t watch itadaki seieki. It’s some hentai unless you’re into that.
My friend Jim, was so good at this game, that he had only lost once.
had*
How many times did he win?
T Thung lol
@@archanamotagi1675 can you not r/wosh it is cring
@@archanamotagi1675 that's not how r/whoosh works kid
“I AM REAL KEVIN.”
Sure that’s what he wants us to think.
0:36 He looked genuinely surprised it didn't shoot him
"Worlds most dangerous game"
This dude clearly hasn't played truth or dare with his best friends
lolll lolll
Does he have any?
Lmao
true btw
*not best friends after saying dare*
Uno as well.
> "Never do any of this"
> Proceeds to do math
Perfect. Gotcha. Never do any of this
TomboFry if this is peak comedy on CZcams I want to play Russian roulette
the perfect excuse
@@adrian-uy7jx I agree with both your statement and its opposite. I would like to play russian roulette with 6 bullets
But you can do Russian roulette
Teacher: Math homework is-
Me: I was told to never do math
my grandfather was so good at this game that he only lost once!
Fun fact: russian rullet is mostly played in America
*Has Russian in it*
*Mostly played in America*
AAAAA
@@s-305_the-crudely-drawn-hunter because Russian roulette originated from well russia
Yeah especially in schools.
Lol, why wouldn't we want to raise the American death rates?
calculations:
just don’t play it
yes, it always makes you the winner.
Well technically the odds are in your favor
I mean you can mkay it if the gun and bullets are fake and stuff but yea it’s not safe if you don’t play it how I just explained it
Worth it for the 2 dollars
tHe BeSt PoSsiBLe aNSwEr
There's an even deadlier game called:
"What does my mother do after the count of 3?"
Lol that’s right I even asked once and she just kept counting
I survived that game
NEVER TRY IT!!!!!
Count to 4
I found out. I got yanked from my bed and pulled by my leg cause I didn't wanna go to school LOL
Oh damn I don't wanna play that game
Two darts being adjacent was a clever way of thinking about it, drawing out the random combinations instead of just seeing there’s 3/5 empty slots was reverse clever
My grand dad was so good at this game, he only lost twice!
My dad never lost.
I'll never play.
rip balloon kevin
2019-2019
He was a good, honest man
So sad he died before the turn of the decade. ;( RIP Kevloon
F
0. The answer is 0.
Wow ok spoiler
"The important part is that you never do any of this. Ever."
darn i really wanted to have a 1/6 chance of shooting a balloon version of vsuace2 kevin with a nerf bullet that has a needle inside of it
This is definitely a *BRUH* moment
I guess i have to do it to myself then
@@kameradin8964 you have a very interesting name
@@kenet7877 well let's just say I never used a luger to play Russian roulette
-Me 5 clicks in-
Wait i'm not supposed to do this?
The fact that this man turned manslaughter into math,
this vid oversimplyfied:
if have 1 bullet u can take chance at going the 2nd round with no spin wich will give higher odds
if with 2 bullets u are better off rolling in the 2nd round
If you have 1 bullet you are better off spinning, the only way it’s better not to spin is if they are adjacent
CZcams Algorithm: sees a nerf gun
Is this for kids?
lol
I thought I was crazy when I saw a bunch of recommended kids videos on the side bar *sigh*
COPPA
@Thew Bloxy 2 AND THE FTC
420 so me can’t like :c
I can't tell which one's the real Kevin
I wonder why Real Kevin has no legs
Balloon Kevin killed Real Kevin
The left Kevin said he’s the real Kevin... that can only mean right Kevin is the real Kevin and the other is just a balloon
It’s the one on the right
@@DerSerafin lies
This is like deciding you want to end your life, but you want someone to decide your fate.
You can calculate the random position 2 bullets choice much easier, because you know that after the first shot anything can come except the empty position that you fired already. This means that there are 2 bullets and 3 other empty ones, which is 3/5=60%.
"i need a fake kevin because this game is deadly"
*takes out nerf gun*
If the needle dart would hit a vital place... Even a nerf gun can kill... If it had enough punch the needle could pierce your skull and lead to brain damage, the propabilidty for that is low but not non existent.
@@Em.P14 why would he use a needle if he is using it on himself.
@@Em.P14 they better nerf those needles then
@@tincuptan he wouldn't, as he is not playing rroulet
Just could've not put a spike on it
"Come on pull the trigger" "SHUT UP IM DOING MY MATH"
69 likes
SHUDDUP
@@m27zero44 now 690 likes
Dam this is my first comment that got 1k wow
I was expecting this comment to have like- 96 replies or something
Guy who lost: I want a rematch!
Everyone else: 😱👻👻
Love how he is teaching us how to survive Russian roulette but tells us not to try it
Instructions Unclear
This is the friend at his funeral talking.
Lmao
Oh no did you put 6 bullets in the gun?
Or did you use a gun that uses a magazine
jr. beast - no that would be “American” roulette
Torlak Kårstad no
That’s northern roulette American roulette is where you get sniper rifle, southern roulette is get a shotgun
Stand 50 meters away and pull the trigger let’s see who wins I’m 5-1
@@torlakkarstad4251 No. American roulette is 5 bullets out of 6
“I put a needle in this dart”
Illegal weapon modifications that defy the geneva convention (2019 colorized)
*BIG BRAIN'T*
LMAO
Red flag him
metalfaust19, Bruh, it’s a shotgun, trust me, you don’t need needles.
Ah yes
Him: THAT DANGEROUS
Me: no it’s just a better way of playing with a nerf gun
Now this a game that can only be played in Vr without dying
2:00 “Let’s make this scenario a little more complex...”
*pulls out smg*
oh no
Let’s play Extreme Mode
*pulls out quad rocket laucher*
PULLS OUT LMG
lol
*PULLS OUT MINIGUN*
"Never do this at home"
4 year olds with a nerf guns:
That sign cant stop me, because i cant read!
Wait NERF!?!?
You should play this with nerf?
@@joeloliver2279 better then getting shot with an airsoft one. or hecc, even a real one.
Wait... ìmyou cant read, why do you know that that sigh cant stop you to do that?
@@linhcao3152 r/woooooooosh
Linh Cao r/woooooooooosh
Imagine balloon-Kevin survives, but with horrific injuries.
thanks for clarifying which one was you, i was really confused there for a moment
Like russian sheakspeare would say:
"To spin or not to spin"
That is the question
SHAKEspeare :)
Spinspear
I was watching it and I read this comment and my reading perfectly lined up with him saying it
Gyro?
When your homie loses but he asks for a rematch and wins
@Crypti yes because the meme is in the fact that he asked for a rematch
Wait
420 likes, DON'T BREAK IT
Fairchild Republics A-10 Thunderbolt
Nah, sorry m8
Realistic toriel *_HOLY WATER_*
It stands to reason. The previous trigger-pull "used up" one of the possibilities without a chambered round, so there are now only three remaining, vs two with rounds. Re-spinnning brings that one back into play again.
"I'm real Kevin"
That is exactly what balloon Kevin would say.
Here’s how you actually win:
Play in a group of six with yourself included. Sit next to the person who goes first and go the opposite way so you’re last. If someone loses before it gets to you then good job, but if no one gets shot, pull out the gun you brought with you and shoot everyone else
You’ll never lose at ping pong ever again (EDIT) this wasn’t supposed to be funny. also idek why i wrote ping pong
This is what i was thinkin- WAIT PING PONG?
oops
Im scared
Nani
Not gonna lie, they had us in the first half.
Is this murder or suicide?
Suresh nb yes
kamikaze
yes
Suiurder. Or maybe Muriside?
balloonicide
"I have put a Needle inside this nerf bullet."
Why did that give me a Shocked face...
"Choose boy, spin or no spin?"
"Hol up, gonna do my math first."
I appreciate how he seems to have actual trigger discipline, even if it is a toy. Gotta keep those good habits.
I looked for this comment, I had to play back, and he only had his finger on the trigger during one reload. Maybe he wasn't allowed to bring his .500 S&W to the studio.
Nice amount of likes
@@jettsamuelson9669 didnt even notice till you brought it up lmao
can we get this man to 420?
Yeah but he had needles in the darts
Yea
I can’t believe ballon Kevin just shot real Kevin like that
I know right?
Are you sure he's real Kevin though?
balon
@@3rdFloor666 well, there's a 50% chance of there were placed adjacent to each other.
What.
This game seems fun!
5/6 friends said that they enjoyed the game, but idunno where Dan went, haven't seen him since he played the game with them...
Also, which way does the cylinder spin? Is it counter or clockwise? You have to keep that in mind as well, because if you have 2 rounds in, say #1 and #5, and it clicked on the 4th, then don't start thinking: oh, it will click in 3rd, even though the cylinder rotates clockwise.
it doesn't matter at all
"I AM THE REAL KEVIN" hmmm something a clone would say.
-Spend 10 minutes saying "don't spin, take any advantages possible"
-Don't spin
-Actually shoot needle
(insert Diabolical Gru Plan meme)
This aged decently.
@@r_stair the balloon didn't
Wow, thanks for the "cheat code" for winning at Russian Roulette. can't wait to try it out on my next trip to Bangkok. I wonder if it works for shotguns too.
5:20 - 7:21
It is just not efficient to do so.
We now that there will be 2 bullets and 3 empty spaces after the dry shot.
So the odds to survive are 60%.
Absolutely
"Never do any of this!"
Later: "If you want to do some Russian Roulette, go to brilliant.org!"
He meant never to do it in real life *or else*
But having it happen in brilliant.org, it doesn't make no sense
*Try again*
*now*
@@arieslee6464 You do know what a joke is, right?
Aries Lee r/woooooooooosh
@@arieslee6464 Called a joke m8
Wooosh
"Deadliest game" bah. 5 out of 6 scientists agree Russian Roulette is completely safe.
LOL I hope somebody else gets this.
Everything's a Smoke Machine Even better: 5 out of 5 living scientists agree!
1 out of 6 can't agree cause he dead
@@gaminbros316 Congratulations, you got the joke
Damn
“Just pull the trigger, I don’t want another lecture.”
Played russain roulette with my friends, very fun but very safe too!!
One of my friends are sleeping on the floor, went to check on him this morning but he’s still asleep, he’s drooling red stuff out of his mouth, I think he just got sick
"Load one bullet in the cartridge"
Nagito: *INSTRUCTIONS UNCLEAR, LOAD 5*
Same here, honestly was surprised how far down I had to look
We have the same profile picture and I was trying to figure out when I psoted this, watched this video in the first place and what the hell I was saying since I have no idea what Nagito is
Then I read the name and felt like a moron
I WAS LOOKING FOR A COMMENT ABOUT KOMAEDA
Kevin isn't the ultimate lucky student tho
NO DANGANRONPA
Kevin harassing and ultimately killing his doppelganger for 10 straight minutes.
wdym? I thought it was balloon Kevin who did this
Missles have a guidance system. Those are projectiles at best!
Keeping things smaller is a good way to make differences more apparent as the differences seem less and less apparent the larger you get.
For example, if you're playing with a revolver with 2 chambers and 1 bullet loaded, your first shot chance of surviving is 50%. If you don't spin, your chance of survival is 0% while spinning resets you back to 50%.
A good way to think of it is like a bag of marbles where green marbles are empty chambers and red marbles are full. If you have a bag of 5 marbles with 1 red and 4 green, you initially have a 80% chance of surviving. If you pull a green marble out of the bag, your chances drop to 75% (1 green, 3 red), then the next pull is a 66% (2 green, 1 red), then 50% (1 green, 1 red) and then 0% (0 green, 1 red). By "spinning", you place all of the green marbles back into the bag and increase the ratio of green to red marbles which increases the chances of getting a green. If you pull a green marble on the first try and your odds decrease to 75%, "spinning" will put the green marble back in and reset it to 80%.
“DO YOU LIKE YOUR CHANCES BOY”
He said to the balloon
He wishes to be a real boy
Me: closes eyes for a second
Kevin: starts talking about DNA
Me: WTF
Red Nuggs this is so relatable because I usually drift off to sleep as I watch vsauce videos.
Efforce random question: what is going on with these pfp?
Red Nuggs lego star wars
Wellington's Boot yeah? But why?
This actually happened
Thanks! I was looking for a new party game!
8 percentage points when you start out with only 16.6 is a large improvement, your probability of dying decreases by about 10%
“I’m real kevin”
suuure whatever you say balloon man
BALLOON KEVIN KILLED REAL KEVIN?!?
Or Did He?
*Vsauce Music.*
The chances of dying is actually 1 out of 7 since the original Russian roulette was played with the seven shot 1895 Nagant Revolver
1895*
what are you talking about?
@@pigeon4298 I made a typo
Ayy this guy knows whats up, the nagant is one of my fav revolvers, especially with the gap mechanism. Really unique gun
@Maple Leaf are you fr
Balloon Kevin at least has quantum immortality going for him...there will always be at least one instance he survived per many world's theory!
I remember this game show, underrated on GSN
"The important part is that you never do any of this. Ever. Okay? Okay."
*kevin shoots fake kevin balloon*
This is what goes on in the “im so smart i can do math instantly” anime characters heads when the anime villain thinks that have the upper hand
Mc B Not just in anime, Silver in the angry birds movie does that too!
When the sun hits that ridge just right
"9 x 17"
"12"
"Not even close"
"But it was quick tho"
RIP Balloon Kevin
He'll always be remembered...
you can do that, just not with weapons that can injure you or worse
such as with friends with a Nerf blaster, or online games like VR Bullet Roulette
9:13 imagine an alternate reality where it's a balloon Kevin playing with actual bloody eyeballs...
Elijah Thompson Jesus Christ
Out
out
r/cursedcomments
Someone has watched too much Rick and Morty
Monomi: All you have to do is keep 1 bullet in the barrel Nagito: Guess I’ll only take 1 bullet out then.
SHUT UPPPPP
@@reb-dom1ne no you ✨
@@reb-dom1ne just ignore the Danganronpa comments 😭🖐️
Fr, and freaking Monokuma coming in like wtf, I didn't think anyone was stupi- I mean BRAVE enough to do that. Here ya go, have more info than Mr Protagonist
Yes
Thanks for the advice
Here I was like immediately... Definitely you should spin again...
Nobody:
Kevin to BaloonKevin:
“Do you want to explode?”
What’s up ç
You mean fake Kevin to real Kevin?
@@vector9511 yes
We all know inside Balloon Kevin is not actually smiling inside even know he's forced to smile
*tough
Not know.
He Who Must Not Be Named *though. Not tough
I mean, you would too if a gun kept being held to your face
@@hewhomustnotbenamed5912 *though
in fact, he can't be smiling inside, because he only have air inside him.
You deserve a sub because you made the deadlyest game onto a math class
I’m more of an ELA person and Im not good enough at math to figure this out but Kevin somehow makes this math makes sense
Plot twist: Kevin accidentally shoots himself with the gun at the intro when he aimed the gun at himself.
Mateja Cirovic so does that mean there were multiple balloon Kevin's?
@@hazapples251 Definitely.
this changes everything...
"Traditionally, a single round is put in a revolver-"
Nagito: *I'm just gonna pretend I didn't see that*
Imagine if Nagito and Naegi was playing this
Everytime I think of russian roulette I think of Nagito
“What am I doing? Playing Russian roulette obviously.”
5 of 6 and he still survived
@@syarifzaki1878 he would survive 6 out of 6
Missed all the math because I was transfixed by the beauty and charisma of Balloon Kevin.
Oh i will do some maths for you
1% is him actually doing the game
9% is doing anything else
90% is literally just deciding if he should spin or not