A Game You Can Always Win
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The 100 game was created by the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson -- who you may know for writing Alice In Wonderland under the pen name Lewis Carroll.
Carroll’s Oxford students were amazed. On February 5, 1856 he wrote in his diary: “... the trick of counting alternately up to 100, neither putting on more than 10 to the last number named, astonished them not a little.”
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A similar trick works with 21 dares. Follow the multiple of 4 and you will always win.
kevin's toys
Must be a new series!
I tried this with a friend, and I kept saying "let me explain this to you" and he would say "no, no, I'll win eventually."
Poor guy.
Lol lol lol!
It's very simple tho, I've figured out how to win this game and all of it's different varieties when I was in elementary school. So it's easy to figure out the priciple by yourself.
@@leptonparticle238 ok bud
Q00 likes
Tristan Powell lol
When the teenager is alone in their room:
"I guess I'll just... play with myself."
@Dally :/ mainly teenagers though.... i should know
HUEHUE
420 likes...you are lit!
@@dumbmonkey1313 nah it mainly starts around 12 or 13 so it is a teen thing
I thought that was well 😂
This is basically what's described early on in the book "How to Cheat at Everything".
I wonder if there's something called how to cheat in my math test-
Whoa! Everything? Can i do the cheat of blinding-teacher so i can cheat at the test?
XD lol lmao! 😂
hi
Where do I get this at?
Me, who can't even win an argument with my shampoo bottles: it's showtime
This deserves more likes 😂😂
Lmfao
LMFAO
Play against the shampoo bottles
@@joshuagraham3
I did
And I lost
“I’m gonna play with myself”
If I said that my dad would laugh
That doesn't sound very good... ha...ha...
Or does he?🤓
I was already laughing
666 likes :o
@@diemtrinh2804 I see it
Bold of you to assume I can do math quickly without making it look suspicious
saaame
saaame
*.*
@TypicalModerator is that a flex
Its underrated comment (if it is original )
Me: plays with a friend
Friend: begins with 1
Me: *quits*
Not really. He just have to not know the strategy 😃
@@rahootrau2544 if he begins with 1, there's a 99% chance he watched this video
@@No_king1143 It's 90%
There is already a game like this called 21 and I thought everyone knew about it.
Whoever says "21" loses and you count by 1, 2 or 3.
The trick is to go 2nd and play every 4th number (4, 8, 12, 16, 20,)
so that your opponent says 21 and loses.
Edit: as long as you can count, you can rid of anyone's suspicions by changing the evil number.
If it was 22, you'd go first and say 1
If it was 23 you'd go first and say 2
I don't get it
Yes and another one where you count to 10. But we used to play with 25 people in school by being in a circle and people used to team up.
@@s_k1303
It's some elimination game played with a group, if you say 21 you lose. Whoever doesn't say 21 wins. You always have to count up either in 1,2 or 3s.
What's funny is you could just say 3 in a row and then the 7th person just says 19 and 20 and the 8th person is eliminated.
Finally, an explanation on 21 dares
How to always win a game:
Step1: play with yourself
Step2:enjoy :D
@Saleh Habbab so
....
Bet get the lotion lol
@@chimmychuck HAHAHAHA
@@chimmychuck I meant against yourself
But you will also lose
I got only one friend
He also watched it
This deserves more than 8 likes
@@Neotox999 Your reply deserves more than 8 likes ;)
carealoo744 good one haha
i got only one friend and i play with himself
I deserve more than 8 likes *wink *wink
I thought it was where you took their number and played the “mirrored” number where it starts mirroring from 5-6 so 1 and 10, 2 and 9, 3 and 8, and so on until its 5 and 6
Me struggling what are u saying since my math is very low*
@@kexinlittle5752 he’s just saying the same thing but in a different way, 10+1=11 9+2=11 and so fourth mirrored and subtracting from 11 in this game is the same
“I win every time”
Ye that’s bound to happen if you play against yourself
“Grab a friend”
I’ve already lost…
Edit: The amount of people offering to be my friend is actually wholesome. The amount of people that can relate is depressing.
Edit 2: We should all get together and play Minecraft.
Lol
:(
creeprkillr11305 that's sad
Hahahahahahhahahahahaha
Haha same
You need: a friend
Me: *cries*
Hotel: Trivago
Well come on Antichrist, it's hard to be friends when you're literally called the great deceiver!
Aww...
Not even a friend....you can play with anyone
BRING IT ON
0:22 congratulations,you played yourself
“If I separate your moves by 11...I RULE THE WORLD!!! Or at least, this simple number game...gotta start somewhere”
😂😂😂😂😂You sounded so sad😂😂
here's another game you can win every time:
you: "pick a number"
them: "45"
you: "46, i win"
Me lol
😂😂
dummdumm muddmudd quick
Maths 😂
OK Charlie Zelenoff...
you: "pick a number"
friend: "infinity"
you: "infinity +2, i win"
I’m a normal guy.
I see matchsticks with numbers written below them in a thumbnail,
I click.
Lucid199
Sure mate suit yourself
Clorox Bleach please I also need some
@@Thatguy-nh4by Uh... You're not a "normal guy": you're bleach... Sooooo...
He's THE BLEACH. The full house. The huge jug of memes. So many fun and true things to say, like the cube island getting the 3rd rune in 3-5 days.
Clorox Bleach hi brother
The number game was introduced to me in a holiday trip. About 11 years ago. In a vehicle filled with strangers, people challenged me this game and I always lose, I was so frustrated that 9 years later, I had enough math knowledge to actually solve the way to always win by myself, which was this way, I was so proud. That's all my comment is, just wanted to share one of my only successful of something.
Congrats
Tick tac toe first to 2 in a row I go first tho
everyone:"wow this is cool"
Me:"wow that white board is so cool"
We have a whiteboard table in the collaborative learning area in my school
1:32 "I win every time!"
Yes you will if you keep playing against yourself
😂
That would also mean you would lose to yourself an equal number of times, thus always concluding in a draw.
Lol
@@GoldfishEmpire 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
bro doesnt get it...he could do it with someone else and still win
I game you can always win
*Math needed*
Half the world can't win now
ImanolDoesGaming bahahAHAHAHA TRUE
Hell yeahhh
LOL
ImanolDoesGaming
Lol ikr
Im kinda good at maths so i the ohter half
I actually thought of this when my mom taught me this game
0:04 I felt that everyone felt that
The struggles of writing on a whiteboard left handes.
I can relate.
Yup I'm left handed
u r so damn right
Yep..
O... I no see that becouse I'm left handed x"D
Kevin's content is so underrated despite the fact that he's one of the hardest workers on the whole platform.
He's the only one who uploads more than just 3 times a year
Thomas Kolb
2 is not a good number
Kassadyn kinda reminds me of Xbox Ahoy except he isn't in a work filled hiatus right now.
Absolutely nothing better than just kicking back and watching a Vsauce2 sesh.
Agreed
Complicated theory of “what if both players know the trick”
Ok then we’ll just see how many times each one is gonna avoid the other from getting close to 100 and eventually one of them will win, it will be almost pure luck.
The match stick one will not always work, so when they reach 5 matches say skeletor took 1 match, T took 1 match, then skeletor took 2 matches... T will loose
T will not take 1 match duh
Who goes first will win.
T will take 3 then
But if T takes out 3 matches then Skeletor is left with last match to lose .
Then you set different numbers and see who knows the generalized trick :)
If only i could do maths in my head
*Sips tea while reading all of these comments saying they have no friends*
Replace mine with coffee
Öh yes
Doing the exact same thing
The Weird Potato ;
Just here sipping my sweet tea.
To guarantee you’re never scammed by one of your friends in these games; always request to go first. If your friend refuses, you win without winning
I let them go first then adjust my numbers to get 12, then continue from there. Or to throw them off I adjust my number later in the game to say 67, then continue from there.
@@omega5040
Even if you go second you can still just adjust your picks to the multiples of 11
It shouldn't matter as long as you do not know the trick. If the friend realized this, he would just accept, go whenever asked, and play to his trick that you likely have not figured out. I liked where you were heading, but it's not quite foolproof.
You can win without going first with the method..
What's cool with the numbered on that's different than the matchstick one is that it actually doesn't matter if you go first or not
Keep the number of matches odd if you did the first turn and even if otherwise
0:22 he knew what he was doing
Me too, what he meant.pkay with myself 🤣
A game you can always win...
Or can you?
*Vsauce theme plays*
*thinking music starts playing*
WRONG
Vsauce 2 music plays
What if you say -0
A FILM BY JAKE ROPER
HAH I FOUND A WAY TO LOSE
"I guess ill just play with myself."
Clipped and saved
One of my dad's friends played this game with me about 1 and a half years ago. I figured it out by slowing down. If you play it like 10 times you will. It is simple, but hard to find at first.
“..even those of us who use skeletor to explain math games”
AND THIS IS WHY I LOVE YOU KEVIN
I'll get you He-man Nyahhhh!!!
5:56 that moment when you realize what you are doing in your life
Nicely done ✅
Mirror: hi me it’s nice to see me am I ready to play
Me: yes I am
The best one on one challenge yet! Skelator vs Mr. T! Brilliant!
Twist: The opponent decides to go first.
"A game you always lose!"
Clever, but it turns out you can still win by doing the same strategy, and eventually you'll still leave them with 89 and win. I've tried it before
@@PolrisTired the opponent plays 1, what do you do then?
(You are A)
B: 1
A: 4 (any number) =5
B: 9 =14
A: 9 (because it's just important to get the the 23, because 1, 12, 23 and so on) = 23
B: 7 =30
A: 4 (because 7+4=11)
You can play with any numbers. Numbers between 1 and x. Then you have to play to x². And your goals isn't 11, but x+1. So with numbers from 1 to 16, you play to 256. After your 1, you have to add in your second turn the difference because the current progress and 17.
(Sorry for my weird english lol)
@@namenlos3679 B:1
A: 3
B: 8
A: 1
B: 10
A: 5
B: 6
and so on. The opponent will 100% win if he plays 1 and if he knows the strategy. Yes, you can win if he doesn't do it on the first 1 or simply does not know it
Yall smart in this comments
If u forget the sequence...
1
12
23
34
45
56
67
78
89
Exactly, just keep bringing the number to a multiple of 11, plus 1.
For?
Omg thank u so much
My friend challenged me to this game and he forgot the sequence. He lost to me 21-0
It’s just counting to 10 but not saying 10 see 123456789
And it’s 1223344556677889
That effect at the beginning was great!
*me who looses every game I play*: I’m listening
Title: A Game You Can Always Win
Me: Or can you?
@Liftsky its called 130 moon men
Why i cant play this game :
1. i dont have friends
2. i am bad at math
3. i dont remember anything
Hristo Georgiev you don't have friends and you can't do 11-whatever your ""friends"" number was even tho you don't have any also you can probably play this with a family member that hasn't watched the vid
Hhaa
Lol
4: we are in lockdown
Write it down and play with ur family
You can do this with tic tax toe, if you always go first.
First, you go in the middle.
Then, if they go into a corner space, you pick one which is one corner space away.
For example, if they go top left, you can go bottom left or top right, and if they pick top right, you can go top left or bottom right.
Then, they are forced to block you, since otherwise you can just win with the diagonal. Once they do this,you can just go 4 spaces clockwise from their original move, and you have 2 possible winning spaces, which they can only block one of.
However, if they first go into a side middle space, you can go 2 spaces clockwise or counterclockwise and force the enemy to block your sideways winning condition. Then, you just go one below your previous move, and have 2 winning conditions.
I watched Survivor Thailand and there was a challenge where teams had to draw 1-3 flags out of 21 while trying to take the last one. It made me think of this and I did the logic puzzle to figure out how to win 100% of the time.
Vsauce2: Plays with match sticks
Smokey the Bear:
*A N G E R Y*
@@linkthehero1234 aH yeS, boll gats
I have a Smokey the bear sign near my house and it’s literally cursed
Me clicking on this video: "Oooh, I can screw with my friends with this."
*requires you go first*
technically, no. watch the whole video
@@theAstarrr yeah but if you go first you can guarantee a win, whereas if you don't the friend can just turn it around on you
@@theAstarrr I thought this game required the going first too but if you think abt it just get the following numbers that you said and you good to go.
For that game specifically. Take a game like reaching 20 and a max 4 per turn. You would actually want your opponent to start. This is because the optimal starting number is the remainder of goal# / (maxperturn +1) and here it is 0.
I have learned many things from your video. Thanks for your games. Keep going on.
i figured out what you did almost imeadatly, it really does work that well. what your doing is always getting it in sets of 11
Friend :lets play this game
Other friend : ok
Friend : i pick one first
Other friend hhmm
Friend your turn
Other friend: im sorry to break it to you but ...
Friend: what ?
Other friend :i watched the video
Friend : oh
Nooooooo
@@Mike20321_ luckly i am from argentina, and i dont think my frieds see this kind of videos so i still can win
I Can't play this game
Im bad at Math
Im not, my favorite subject in school is math.
My favorite is reading
*lMaO mAtHs Is eAsY*
just kidding im not one of those people
I love math!
Use calculator.
This is one of those things where I'd rather play it completely randomly but can't resist employing this strategy to win
Match like puzzle sticks is a magical phrase that reminds me I used to play number games with explosives.
The 20th century was wild.
I’ve been stuck in a vsauce videos loop for hours. I can’t get out, it’s all too interesting. Someone help.
Just like casual loop
Go watch Pink Guy Stfu
still stuck???lol
he's still stuck
the house turned into years
6:40 "...to make sure all his plays match up with the series"
Heh. "match" up
Notifing you that you got 82 likes
Calling “Counting to 100” a game, is an overstatement.
We played that match game in school once and I early on realized that there was a pattern to leave the other person with 5 matches. And then I managed to win every round.
I have no friends, but I can play with my sleep paralysis demon lmao
Sad life man
Can I join? Please.
I think if you win then your sleep paralysis demon chokes you
VSauce 2 is honestly so underrated the videos are so well done
you dont have to overcomplicate it so much, start with 1 then keep on adding the number that gets you to where the ones are bigger than the tens by one (12, 23, 34, 45, 56, 67, 78, 89)
I did it with my friend he lost every game and I never used this but then I woke up and I remembered I have no friends
“A game you can always win”
“A game you can never win”
the duality of man
a game you can sometimes win
@@someweirdstuff1256every single game ever
I saw this video last night and I studied the number game to win in every situation except the one that your opponent starts with 1 and knows the series. When I went to school I challenged my math teacher to play this game to end a bet we had. It turns out he figured out the pattern already while I was explaining the game to him. I lost but I also won every other match I had with the teachers and my friends leaving them confused on how I won every single time. I also figured out the mathmetical explanation it's a pattern which is 11n+1 (you get rid of the 1 first and then add 11 in total each time to reach 89 which is n=8 11x8+1=88+1=89)
Well thank you for reading this long ass comment and don't forget to like the video and support this awesome channel 👍
@DYLAN MCCAIN yesn't
I don't understand.. ; -;
Kofuku Rose you actually don t need to be a math teacher to figure the pattern out , i did it when my friend was explaining the game to me and i am 13 ffs
@DYLAN MCCAIN there are no curse words
You challenged your math teacher well... You sound like a math teacher
The only thing im thinking is WHERE DID KEVIN GET HIMSELF?
It is editing (i can feel the wind with four O's coming)
there are also variants where person who starts as a second player can win (in number game), for example:
3 - max numbers you can pick, 20 - last legal number
games itself also becomes more interesting when more than 2 players are playing (person who is forced to go above 20 (or just next person after someone who played 20) loses) :]
I cant count so i cant win
Him: "i guess I'll just play with myself"
Me: *That did not sound right*
Go away coronavirus
@@pxpsiperson no im here to stay
@@greenestgoblin2717 If we find the cure you cant stay here anymore
??????
It sounds perfectly normal
I rlly love how he explains why we would win
"I PITY THE FOOL!- accordingly."
Priceless!!!
I tried it and lost.
can't even win a game that is impossible to lose, that's sad
Then you're terrible at math!
1.you start 1
2.they say a
3.the formula is 11 - a = b
4.you say b
5. Repeat from step 2
The absolute state of american "" education ""
CIER what no that’s basic algebra
NIM is
WIN upside-down
iNIM !
uh that depends which axis you're rotating on
+AlSmaq
I'll just drop this GIF instead of choking on own words: gyazo.com/54a4259cd8cebbb1e190f5ce078199d3
Architector #4 n
rotated 180 degrees*
You can use a similar concept, but in a game of "count to 20." each turn, a player counts up 1 to 3 numbers per turn. The one to say 20 wins. The way to always win the game is to have the other player go first. if they say 1, 2, or 3, like they should, you need to count JP to any multiple of 4. Resulting you with saying 4, 8, 12, and then 16. Once you say 16, there is no possible way for the other player to say 20. Thus, making you the winner.
I can't win because
I have no friends :)
Play against you
Aww I can be your friend:>
I'll be your friend😊
I can be your friend
I will be your friend
3:18 i always knew the Vsauce guys were evil.
@The Wither Empire same
*i rule the world*
you definitly rule the world in my mind...killah content bro thx for all your clips
I wonder how many takes it took to get the timing on that splitscreen shot right.
*~me when I play with my friends~*
“1” “2””3””4””5........” etc.
hi izuku
Izuku is terrible, hes like pichu. He harms himself while fighting
So?
Izuru
Why is there always either an afton or an mha character in a video I watch XD
“All you need is a friend”
That’s out of the question can’t do this
People:trying to win
Me:I just love how he's face is half with red and blue
This video is full of assumptions, primarily:
A) I have friends
B) I enjoy counting as a pass-time
I already have a game I never lose
Smash bros against my brother
Zhyper your pfp is me when i hear someone want to play smash with me
I'm really worried whether this is literal or the game....
@@rafaeldias8987 why’d you think it would be that way, obviously not the game! That’s disgusting!
ToxicMatter Same
Lmao
I made a program like this in programming. The computer can usually beat you, depends on who goes first.
There is a version of the game called 21 dares which is the same priciple which used to be very popular in the 2018s
Me: ok time to play
My cousin: with me right
Me:stares
Cousin: With me . . right?
I'm still waiting for top ten spit facts Vsauce
Why tf are you everywhere? 😂
Justin Z. Who the hell are you and WHY ARE YOU EVERYWHERE, your on all genres, even on grinning anime opening vids (ahem ahem all Tokyo ghoul openings)
This aint no Matthew Santoro
Why do so many people impersonate this guy
Creator: *releases video*
*WILD JUSTIN.Y APPEARS!!*
The max a person can say is 10.
To make each round consistent, calculate the number of numbers to count.
10+1=11, 11 per round.
To get 100 you need them to say 99.
99%11=1
Say 1, then count up at the complement of 11.
*Thus, each "round" the numbers add up to 11.*
This formula works with any numbers.
I remember this because I calculated it on my own, and trolled everyone in class.
*This is what 8th graders with no friends do in free time.*
Kento Nishi same
Kento Nishi you do realise this is exactly what he explains in the video
Kento Nishi I didn’t understand
+Top is life i was going to comment same thing
As an 8th grader with no friends I approve this.
i know a game called 21 its where who ever says 21 is out and you can say 1-3 numbers and if its a 1v1 then who ever starts will lose if the other person knows the strategy and its say multiples of 4 until you get to 16 then no matter what they do you can say 20 and win. and sometimes you can play with saying 1-4 or 1-5 numbers but just use this equation: x+1=y and x would be the amount of numbers you can say per turn and y is what multiple you need to get to each turn rill you get to a place where you can win cuz they cant say anything to save themselfs
I actually got the method by just looking at your demos.
“I guess I’ll just play with myself then”
Demonitezed
Me playing the number game with my friend
Also me: fonds out she has also watched this video
Dun Dun dun..oh no oh no oh no no no no no
1:30
I've been using this trick to win 21 dares for YEARS now 😂 ofc, it doesn't work for bonds of 11, I do it to bonds of 4, since you can only say 3 numbers at once and you _want_ to say 20
I remember I used to play the match game with my friends, but instead of using matches we just said the "total" and subtracted by 1-3 each turn
@1:38 I was kind of expected to hear "I'll win every time because I'm playing against myself".
I'm get some serious Yu-Gi-Oh season 0 vibes from Nim-like games though.
I remember making a program in one of my programming classes for an AI that plays a game where you take 1, 2, or 3 stones from a basket until the basket is empty, and it seems like a similar concept.
5:13 where i grew up (netherlands) we called this game: Dennis begint, Dennis wint (Dennis starts, Dennis wins)
0:04 grab a friend
Me: aight ima head out
3:11 the way he says 100 sounds like chris griffin from family guy
Good call
Thanks, now I can't unhear it anymore.
Peter Griffin