How to Beat the DEATH MAZE in "CUBE" 

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Imagine if the killer is a math teacher that was tired of students asking "Why is this important" "When will I ever need this?"

there is nothing more terrifying than being trapped in a cube and forced to do math to escape. id just walk into a trap and die

Nerd Explains: Remember, I'm not very good at math. Also Nerd Explains: *goes off about the permutations in Cube in 45 minutes*

The number of prime numbers between 1 and 999 is 153. Given that there are three sets of numbers in each room ID, this means that there are a total of 153 x 3 = *459* rooms with at least one prime number in each room ID (in a total of 17, 577 rooms, or about 38% of rooms). Leaven then realises that the true identifier for trapped rooms is a *power* of a prime. This makes one wonder why the first hypothesis seemed to work for so long. But this is easily explained. First, all prime numbers are powers of prime numbers, because a prime number to the power of 1 will be the original prime number. Therefore all 459 rooms with at least one prime number on the room ID were still marked with powers of primes. Second, the number of nonprime numbers that are also powers of primes, between 1 and 999, is only *25* . These numbers are as follows: 4, 8, 9, 16, 25, 27, 32, 49, 64, 81, 121, 125, 128, 169, 243, 256, 289, 343, 361, 512, 529, 625, 729, 841, 961. Under the power of prime rule, that means there are *534* trapped rooms in the Cube. This is only 75 more trapped rooms than were evident under the first hypothesis (or only about 14% of all trapped rooms). This is why the first hypothesis appeared to hold up for so long: the great majority of trapped rooms are covered under the first hypothesis and relatively few exclusively under the second.

Moral of the story: *You're not beating this one.*

Guys, I know that he often acts mad when characters make dumb decisions, but I think he was genuinely pissed this time.

In Leaven's defence, I wouldn't be doing perfect math either if I was under the pressure of being in a death trap

Yeah I’d be so incredibly dead in this one

5 types of horror 1. Aliens 2. Ghosts 3. Monsters 4. Psychopathic killers 5. Math

this movie is like a group project, one person does the work while everyone sits and watches.

I remember this film when it first aired, and I think that the irony of the situation was that staying put was the best move because eventually the entrance room would move back to its original position and allow for escape.

I made a D&D dungeon inspired by this. It was only 10 by 10, so 100 rooms. Still very challenging to create, and more challenging to beat. My players did so well, one of my favorite campaigns! Edit: Correction, it was 5x5x5, so 125 rooms. Yes, I know 10x10x10 is 1000. I just misspoke.

Teacher: the test isn’t that hard The test:

This maze is made by angry teachers proving that you'll use math in the real world

Halfway through this my brain just stopped working. There was so much maths involved that I forgot there were trap rooms. Honestly I’m this situation I would’ve cool aid manned my way through

Went over the Cartesian method in my engineering class and it was a pain. Can confirm you did a better job at explaining it than my teacher. Excellent job.

"The first red flag is waking up with a prisioners outfit" THE FIRST RED FLAG IS WAKING UP IN A BOX.???

we all know everyone watched this without knowing what he was talking about

I'd bring along Ren's body as they go. For multiple reasons. 1: Use his clothes/blood to mark the paths you went through. 2: Blood (while gross and salty) can be used as a means of hydration. (Not a great idea, but better than nothing) 3: In case its needed, you can eat his remains to keep yourselves alive. 4: You can use parts of his body to test rooms for traps as you go. Also, at 27:33, Quentin made a bad but potentially good decision in dropping her. He could've counted the seconds between the time he dropped her and the time he heard her hit the ground (or at least when he stopped being able to hear her scream), and that could've been used to give them a relative idea of how high they are on the cube, thus giving them another data point to work from. Miners and cave explorers use the trick with rocks when determining how deep holes or large gaps are.

Most everyone says to stay put. My fear was that the traps are on a timer and if you just stay put, eventually you'll die when the trap in the room that you are in activates.

I'd simply walk through the traps and exit safely. I'm just built different.

This movie is terrifying. There’s nothing scarier than math.

I would personally run through every door with blinding speed. Maybe I'll die the first room, maybe the second, maybe I'll escape (not realistically possible), but I sure as hell won't do this much math just to escape.

I'd love to hear you theories on Cube 2 where they are in a Tesseract rather than just a Cube and the math behind THAT ;)

I like how it's called "cube" and the dude get's diced into cube's right off the bat.

At this point, just try to find the least painful death trap and step in it

"If you woke up in a trapped cube, what would you do?" Why god whyyyy ***dies**

I think up would definitely be very useful, if you could reach the roof of the cube, you could just walk freely between 27x27 cubes

Those guys who died earlier? they had it easy Imagine being tortured like that nerd girl by having to do math on a weird cube

The best way to defeat Cube is to become Sphere

The amount of math required to understand the movie is mind boggling. A person like me would give up in the very moment i realize it needs math to survive the CUBE

When trapped in a life-threatening situation, remember that any member of your group who wears glasses is almost definitely some kind of genius.

This seems like a movie made by a math teacher to say that learning maths in school will one day save our lives. Edit:.....

The only scary part of this entire movie was all the math required

I love this movie. The way the guys face changes right before he drops that lady is amazing😂

Why'd Quentin jump to catch her and then dropped her? Like just let her fall if that's the plan.

"Lets create a deadly puzzle that only a tiny number of people will have the mathematical ability to solve." "And we'll make the jocks pay for it!"

Once he started talking in maths, it was exactly like how it is in online class. Words flew by

I worked in construction for 10 years. I can tell you, there are very few construction materials, other than concrete, that can withstand constant prolonged pounding on a small area. Those room panels look flimsy and light is coming through, so they are probably not concrete. The room they find themselves in is safe. Those boots look new. Get everyone to to kick the center of one panel, for hours. Good chance it will give. Then you can at least see what it's made of, and see the mechanics of the structure you are in. If one panel is too tough, move to another, and again, keep kicking in unison to create a harmonic vibration. That will help to overstress the material. Also, one of the panels might be a "short cut" panel to the outside. Everyone is just fixated on those doors. There may be a door disguised as a wall panel.

One thing that is interesting to note is that some or a good amount of traps need to be dodgeable after acvticated by the human. For example a human would step into a cube the trap would activate and then the human would have time to react and avoid the trap. The reason is because when anybody first wakes up in the cube they're going to think it's just one giant maze. it will definitely be scary confusing and something will be up, but the thought of different rooms being trapped to kill them won't immediately cross their mind or become aparent till after they have moved through some cubes that have a trap. So if every trap just immediately killed the person when they entered or activated the trap then everyone would die right away. So they at least need to have some traps that when activated give the person time to avoid it or at least traps that are very easily triggered by the person. So for detecting traps we then have three options to detect the traps with and that is using that prime number theory, using the boot to detect sound, movement, and presemce, and a third it would be a trap that can be dodged/avoided once activated by the person.

This should’ve been called “Why You Wouldn’t Beat The Cube” because I was confused by literally all of the math in this video

I can't believe I watched the entire 46 minutes of this video being confused about math

This video is proof that sometimes youtube suggestions aren't useless. Very good an insightful video. It's good to know all the details presented that weren't explained to the everyday common person. Also loved the sarcasm in the end.

If I woke up in one of these cubes tomorrow, I'd just sit there until the first room ran it's course though the cube and wound up back in the starting position which would be the bridge to get from the cube to the exterior (same way you got in). That's only because I know that from the movies. I never would have figured that out inside the cube.

" he just stood there and said mere-day." Lmao this dude.

imagine the people who built the cube were just like "haha how about we put random numbers to mess with them"

What was even more crazy is that back in my high school days when we watched that movie with friends, one of them came up with the idea that ALL the rooms are trapped to prevent people from simply taking one for the ride and it's their actual position in the cube that activates or deactivates the traps. In other words - you can be sitting peacefully on the floor in a "safe" room, all of a sudden you feel it move and the next thing you know, there is a giant metal spike, petting your chocolate starfish.

I always felt that water and food should be in some of the cubes to keep the participants going. But maybe that wouldn’t work lol

Imagine if a random person was put in the cube and guessed every room correctly and survived this whole thing without noticing any traps

Holy... I watched the whole thing, thinking it was only like 13 minites.

I always thought getting to door in top of room would be hard, but in movies its almost like there is no gravity.

The patterns on the cube walls remind of the Lament Configuration cube on Hellraiser

Haha, "If you woke up in a maze of trapped cubes, what would you do?" Honestly? I'd probably die....probably sooner rather than later too.

The guy who thought of this is a genius, because they were able to use the EXACT same individual set for the whole movie, CHECK MATE.

This is ridiculously stacked against them from the very beginning, since not all of them have the math skills to solve the puzzle and they don't even start in the same room. Even if you start in a room adjacent to another person, there's only a 1/6 chance that you actually go through the right door to find them. And, even then, if you wait too long, they might have moved on already. It would be a miracle to find anyone, and that's before factoring in that picking the wrong direction would likely lead to a trap room. If Leaven or Kazan had died immediately like Alderson, or if they simply hadn't met up, the entire thing would've just been hopeless. For this to be an even remotely fair game, they need to actually start in the same room together, or choose a puzzle that any of your "contestants" can solve on their own. And, yes, I do think it's intended to be a fair game, since if it wasn't supposed to be survivable at all, there are easier and cheaper ways to kill people, and even if they were determined to use the Cube to kill people for some reason, why not just not have a cube that connects to the exit?

Let’s all take a second to appreciate how much math and research he did for this👏👏👏👏

cube: this is a mathematical teamworking puzzle everyone else: horror movie with big Rubik's cube?

who else is just absolutely confused by this vid cus its basically.... a deadly math lesson

Bro I want this man to be in a horror movie and be the nerd that survives because he’s watched too many horror movies. Make this happen.

For the past couple weeks I’ve been putting this going to bed. It’s such an amazing video

Fun fact: this movie was made by a person who wanted to impress his/her crush and the crush is reeeaaally into math.

TfW a killer designs a math based torture dungeon but sucks at math and didn’t fully understand the equations in first place

I have to do math? Better give me the Alderson treatment right now.

This guy has a degree in yapology

BROOOOO THEY COULD HAVE USED THE DEAD BODIES TO DETECT TRAPS.

this movie is terrifying, but nothing is more terrifying than seeing another raid:shadow legends ad

27x27x27 outer dimension with one cube gap between the outer shell and cubes equals 25x25x25 of the actual cubes. The other main problem is, if all cubes are right next to each other than that would mean each cube can only move one space in each direction and even then the entire row of cubes in front of it should also move one space until the most outer cube fills the gap between the outer shell. It is impossible for one cube to move multiple spaces in one direction unless there are actually gaps and the entire 25x25x25 isn't fully filled with cubes.

Aww man, that final "I rather take my chances in the zombie apocalypse" made my extended time at work really worthy, awesome work my friend!

Best way to beat the cube: dont be named after a *prison*

Parents who watch this movie: Now when you go to college, you're going to study math or die in a rubiks cube

That's actually really cool and a good idea, make it to the top and you could be able to walk across the top of all the rooms. Might not help much but I dunno.. maybe you could catch the exit room as it's moving around and hop on?

I'm like, 90% sure that the Cube is neither a game nor a test. It was probably just built because somebody, at some point, proposed the construction of an ingenious massive underground death maze that's also a marvel of engineering. And they all had no idea what to do with it, so they moved on and forgot about it.

I like how NerdExplains never gives up. Huge amounts of math? Most people: Welp, we're screwed. NerdExplains: *pops knuckles*

But just imagine this While all this was going down and everyone else was dying, one random guy wakes up along and just gets so lucky he never encounters any traps, just wandering along calmly and the movie just randomly cuts to him every now and then

I’ve watched this video like 6 times, I find the run down so fascinating and funny 😂. I hope he does/ has done the sequels!

Thank you for the amount of time and work you did for this dude!

Even if her math was sketchy at times, in the movie universe Leaven literally does all the work saving everybody and figuring out what’s going on just to get shanked at the end, that’s just cold lmao

nobody: math teachers: this is what we will be doing as work today

I always wanted to see someone squished when the cubes moved because they were in the tunnels switching rooms.

Why do nerds always have glasses? They do look good on her tho. This movie is one of the many reasons why I got Lasik.

He’s explaining all this math and I’m just sitting there like: 👁👄👁

Cube: “Do you maths?” Me: “No” Cube: “LOL you’re dead.”

It's not just movie magic that makes things work, it's the writing that intentionally makes a simple situation "stupid". Like he said, leaving trail markers for rooms they've been in and testing numbers of rooms they've been in for trap/no trap. The writers intentionally do this to create suspense and leaves the rest of us screaming at the screen for how dumb these smart people are. I found this especially frustrating in 'Avengers: Civil War' (yes, I get it's not the same type of movie). All Captain America had to do was tell Stark that Bucky was under mind control by a common enemy and that he didn't intentionally kill Stark's parents. They might have still had some arguing between them, but at no point was it brought up. You would think that would be a MASSIVE bit of information when you're fighting against a friend who is trying to save another friend.

Fun fact: There is a second film made in 2020/2019 that’s Japanese that has lasers and stuff. The first fact is false there are four films. The following films are “Cube” (1997) “Cube 2: Hydrocube” (2002) “Cube Zero” (2004) “Cube” (2021)

Imagine a person with math dyslexia wakes up here

Just saying.. imagine if all characters in a horror movie were smart, that they all make smart decisions and say smart stuff and act smartly. Imagine that. And imagine that, after all this, they still die. Pretty terrifying huh ? So maybe that’s why characters in horror movies are dumb, smart characters who still end up dying would be too terrifying to watch

“If you have problems and ignore them, everything will check out”. Sounds like high school physics problems

The crazy thing is that most of them didn't die from the traps but from one of their own & too me that was disappointing. As for what I would do well I tell you what I wouldn't do I wouldn't have gone through that sound activated room I would have back tracked through to the last room I was in & gone through another door.

"I totally understand every word your saying" And I only zoned out a "few" times

How to escape easy mode: just stay in the first room the entire time until you move to the exit.

They should have brought the dudes body around to use it as a test for trap rooms, he can only die once.

You lost me when you said math

just imagine is math teacher said: *tomorow we will be having an exam* and you wake up to this

I just sat for 45 minutes to learn how to survive a movie death cube.

teacher:the test isn’t hard! the test:

One thing that was never addressed in the film was the large amount of 'empty' cube spaces there would need to be for so many cubes to be moving so much. So the odds of opening a door to empty space would seem greater than they actually encountered, at least to me...

I feel like I just sat thru a whole ass math class my brain hurts

First half of the video: Story, characters etc. Second half: *M A T H S*

I am so relieved that Nerd articulated, with great clarity, what I was struggling with watching this movie, plus some that I overlooked. 😂