When he revealed the message, I was like how do we know the columns aren’t all the same letter? Since we know one and only one tile is chosen from each column. But it turns out i was right. That was the point.
Not just that, but arranging the cards at the end in the already predetermined order. If they were placed in the order they were randomly generated, or selected by Person B or whatever, and then that always spelt out a message as well that'd be interesting. But also, y'know, impossible.
That’s what I thought as well. Glad I’m not the only one who thought that way. I figured that would be the easiest way to guarantee that message always showing up
Right, he kept talking and talking and I was expecting him to change subjects. He’s the kind of guy that spends 10 minutes explaining the “got your nose” trick by doing an anatomy of the feet lesson.
I am utterly confused by the setup maybe and how it relates to the magic square. I can not duplicate the results. For the message to read correctly every row has to be the same. What am I missing?
@@BryanLeeWilliams if you message is “hello” you just have hello in 5 rows and then you just pick one note from each column and the only possible result is to get Hello at the end
@@brianbarrett2487 Right? Wrong! No one is pretending to be smarter than everyone else because they "solved" the trick, because there was no trick to solve, it was just plain bad, their opinions and criticism weren't meant to be douchy
I really hope it is, the magic square history was actually pretty entretaining, but had nothing to do with the whole point of the video. Definitely the most nonsense video they've ever made.
This feels silly. Given that the horizontal doesn’t matter, you’re just making people “select” a bunch of units. And the fact that they all are only moved down to the bottom at the end, makes it incredibly obvious what’s going on.
The removal of the horizontal cards, does 2 things, it guarantees different each card is at a different y level, and slightly obfuscates the trick, I saw through the trick before he removed the second row, tho kinda hoped the horizontal cards being removed was adding complexity, I couldn't think of a way this could reliably be done but in the beginning he claimed, there was 1 way this could be messed up, so I was hoping someone smarter then me had figured out a way to do exactly that
Yeah, I'm gonna say this video's a miss. The trick was so obvious that, admittedly, I thought that couldn't be it and the magic square excursion had nothing to do with it.
Perhaps a version more akin to magic squares would be having 12! distinct messages, and so in that version every row would be nonsense, but anything other than that would be valid. Seems more doable in English language with a lower number (maybe 4!, where it produces 4! Distinct words), but regardless it sounds more satisfying than this illusion of choice
I don't see how this would work. If you have a magic square of words: SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS Randomness can easily pick stuff like SETRO or TONPS which is utter gibberish. Magic squares have nothing to do with this trick.
@@Lernos1 your magic square example isn't a magic square example though lol, I gave a 3x3 example of what I mean, but yes I agree the trick shown in the video doesn't have much to do with magic squares that's why I commented this
I worked out the trick as soon as you moved the letters down to the same level. A young child might think this is cool but anyone above the age of 10 surely knows how it works
@@lk2704 Every column has the same sentence. Since you remove the row and column of each square you pick, when you're done you have one letter in each column, which is a complete row since they're all the same.
Man I thoughts that's how it was gunna happen but I was really hoping it wouldn't be that simple and there would be something much more beautiful and complex going on in the background
uh, doesn't have anything to do with magic squares, does it ? you're just keeping one card from each row and if the rows are full of the same letter then yeah duh you're going to have the same sentence
"Hm, well you could just write the same message over and over again but I wonder what the actual trick is. ... oh." I guess not EVERY video can be mind blowing, or else we would be completely atomized :D
Maybe I don't get it correctly but it seems extremely obvious no? When he did it with his word "Right?Wrong!" I immediatly knew what was going on... and I'm no genius.
I suppose the trick is a bit less mesmorising if you end up with an entire column after n-1 choices instead of just the final 1 letter that got isolated
I have a simpler version of this game: Just arrange 12 cards in a row, and then randomly pick cards until you've picked 12 unique cards. Then reveal the magical random message! That's essentially the same game. In the version in the video you choose out of 12 columns and 12 rows, but the choice of row doesn't matter since it's just the same row duplicated 12 times.
@@JohnSmith-qq7fm it seems like after the roll, the one on the left will be the choice for X and the one on the right will be the choice for Y. It also doesn’t matter. You could take either one and the result wouldn’t change. It’s supposed to be random.
I wouldn't even call that a trick... sure it is a good set up to surprise people, like a gender reveal, but it's not hard to figure out. it has nothing to do with a magic square either... feel disappointed
That’s a good idea. I’m gonna use this trick the next time I change my gender. Ha ha I’m jk obviously you can’t change that sort of thing. That would be ridiculous.
When you realize the message is just repeated over and over, there is no opportunity for you to get a 'wrong' character. You are just selecting a random character in the sequence, then removing all occurrences of that specific character. Honestly, the game would work even if you didn't clear each row, just the columns.
@@hahafreepremium3990 Think you got it mixed up. If you clear the columns, then you remove all the duplicates. And since each row is the same, the choice of row for each column does not matter.
I thought it would be something mindblowing, but turns out it was just the lame hypothesis that instantly crossed my mind when you told me how it would work
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7:05 You're going to have to explain what you mean by that. Because adding the 9 numbers of those squares doesn't give 34. And how could it be when a 2 by 2 square _inside it_ already has a sum equal to 34?
There are a lot of mistakes in this video, is this some sort of experiment to prove, idk, people's capacity to identify errors or something like that? Like this has to be part of something else right? Maybe something that has to do with expectetions and outcomes?
Wow, magic squares, that's really cool, wonder how it could be applied here. Can't wait until he explains it, so I can comment that he could have just made each column out of a single letter in order, since the removal method leaves one square per column exactly and... Oh.
I thought this was going to talk about a simple version of fountain codes, that are actually able to decode a correct message out of absolutely random subset of encoded data, but instead it was this. Oh well
@@alejrandom6592 Hamming codes are similar, but they're designed to correct errors (flipped bits) in the message, not fill in the missing parts, like fountain codes
I instantly suspected that it was just the same message on every column as soon as he rolled the first dice, I didn't expect the trick to be so easy and so obvious but I guess it was
I think i have become too overpowered In the beginning of the vid, I thought that you could just repeat the line horizontally and they will ultimately get the same line
It was clear what was going on in the first 2 rolls. Stupidly simple. I get it was an excuse to talk about more interesting stuff, but I feel bad for anyone impressed by his display.
Its like giving a Player repeativly The choice out of 5 cards to chosse, but all the cards are the same. And the magicly a word appears? Its realy Not that complex, you can maybe fool some younger kids but thats where it stops.
Now that I'm in uni these videos aren't as enjoyable as they used to be when I was in middleschool :/ It's just predictable and almost obvious when u have some basic math intuition
This one in specific didn’t even have math, it’s just picking a unique number between 1 and 12 twelve times to get a sequence of 1 to 12 Look at every other comment here, this video in particular was just an extra dip in quality. You don’t even have to be in elementary to shrug this one off
That would make sense, but this vid in particular had a super obvious “secret” for how it worked. I still don’t understand how this is even a variation of magic squares. This would be predictable to anyone paying good attention.
I like magic squares, but this thing seems kind of silly. You randomly pick one letter from each column. But each column just has a bunch of identical letters. So you don't have any choice. I don't really get how this is complex or interesting.
I thought it was gonna be like a sentence where each of the 12 cards in a column gives a different word or set of words but still fits in with the rest.
I think you could get a number from 1 to 12 with a d6, if each number in the d6 represents one pair of numbers from 1 to 12. For example, rolling a one means 1 or 2, rolling a 2 means 3 or 4, rolling a 6 means 11 or 12. Then you roll another d6 to get which number in the pair. Above 3 is the second number, and the rest is the first number. Example: You roll a 3 and a 5. Number 3 corresponds to the 5 or 6 pair, then number 5 is above 3 so it's the 6.
as long as you can tell the two d6 apart if they're the same color, how would you decide which one tells the pair, and which one tells which one if the pair?
7:20 There are some mistakes about the 34 1. Numbers 2. Rows and colummns, diagonals - 34 3. Outside squares - 34 4. Center square - 34 5. Corners - 34 6. Inner rectangles - 68 (34x2 because its #4 + my exampe #13) 7. Diagonal rhombusses - 34 8. 3x3 blocks - 69, 72, 81, 84 (from left to right and up todown) 9. Vertical "X" - 34 10. Horizontal "X" - 34 11. Trapezoids - 51 12. Squaews that dont use the corners - 34 But there is another way to get to 34 13. (3+2) + (15+14) OR (5+9) + (8+12) The basic rule seems to be to use 4 numbers which will give you geometric forms or a kind of mirage reflection. #11 is giving at least the same numbers like #5 but #8 is complete out of position and i couldnt find any connection to 34. Edit: #13 was meant when he draw #6 #8 you just take the corners #11 just the edges (3+13 and 4+14) The rule is always to take the 4 numbers or in bigger geometric forms the 4 corners
Your #13 is what he actually meant by the inner rectangles, I don’t know why it’s not just called the inner edges or something. But yeah I can’t figure out #8 at all
@@ashleycao523 Ok so that makes #11 following the same rule - i was just thinking too simple and ignore that he specially marked it with points before he connected
Yes, it might be a lame trick, but like he said, it's somewhat decent for a marriage proposal if the other person doesn't realize what's going. Yes, it might be easy to figure what's happening if that's what you're actively trying to do, but it's just vague enough to get someone who's not paying the most amount of attention to completely get surprised by it.
Like seriously, if you wanted to cheat, just flip a coin for Y and roll the desired dice size for X. It has the same result. Mixing dice isn't even that uncommon in social groups that actually use the d12. If you have a Bard in DnD 5e you know what I am talking about
i was hoping this had something to do with magic squares. i spent a few minutes right before the reveal trying to think of a different way this could be done without much progress, but you ended up presenting the most obvious solution.
This one seems a little too obvious for grown ups. As soon as you removed the row and column I fell most people would know what's up. Could work for kids though.
