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The Hardest Easy Game

Vsauce2
2019 ж. 3 Қар.
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Play The L-Game: hwwmath.looiwenli.com/l-game
Edward de Bono is a lot of things -- an author, an economic theorist, a physician -- but he’s also a thinker about… thinking. His 1967 book “The Five-Day Course in Thinking” included a game that’s one of the hardest in the world, yet also one of the simplest.
The idea behind creating the perfectly simple, perfectly impossible exercise that turned into The L-Game was to distill a 2-player experience down to a constant churn of critical strategic decisions. By limiting the board to just 16 spaces with 2 L-shaped tetrominoes and 2 neutral pieces, the board can’t distract from the core task. And with so few rules -- really, just that you need to move your L piece to an open space and then optionally move one of the neutrals -- the focus is purely on thinking several moves in advance.
That level of abstraction is way, way harder than it seems. But by using experience to identify and organize some strategic guiding principles to moving in the L-Game, it’s possible for both players to play perfectly -- and forever.
As de Bono demonstrates in his course, that’s the same sort of approach we apply to almost everything we value. We think strategically about the groceries we buy, the relationships we have or want… if it matters, we employ some form of strategy. And the better we are at strategic thinking, the more likely we are to get the result we need.
And it all starts with a 4x4 board, two tetrominoes, and a couple pennies.
** SOURCES **
"The L Game: Strategic Thinking". The Five-Day Course in Thinking by Edward de Bono: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01...
"Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Vol. 2," by By Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway, and Richard K. Guy: www.amazon.com/Winning-Ways-Y...
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  • Just some clarification about only having 3 possible moves in the A, B, and C scenario -- yes, there’s also a fourth move (the L down the left side from the top corner), but it just mirrors the situation we have in A and B. By simply reflecting the L vertically, we open ourselves up to another immediate loss as orange places a horizontal L on the second row and kills our chance to make another move. Also, in move B, de Bono assumed that we would notice that Player 1 also moved the neutral piece from the top toward the bottom (since it can go in any of the open spots), which opens up a spot for Player 2 to go down the right half of the board. The neutral piece can’t be moved by orange *before* the L is moved, so that neutral piece had to have been moved by pink after Player 1 moved their L. Thanks for diving deep into these details -- and showing what strategic thinking is all about. P.S. -- Whether or not I put my pants back on for the rest of the video is up to you to decide.

    @Vsauce2@Vsauce24 жыл бұрын

    • he didn't have his pants on i guess

      @ketsu1503@ketsu15034 жыл бұрын

    • The breeze is gonna hit you in the nuts if you don't put that antibacterial silver tx2 fabric pants back on

      @reverse5461@reverse54614 жыл бұрын

    • take the L

      @lukeahandsa@lukeahandsa4 жыл бұрын

    • but according to the rules, or what i understood, is that you could move the coin after you moved the L piece. And the coins seems like half the game. In your 'possible moves' you didn't move the coin at all, which would balance your enemie's possibilities..

      @kyden1329@kyden13294 жыл бұрын

    • @@kyden1329 Yeah you can open up a whole ton of possibilities further than those he listed. I don't know if I'm just misunderstanding something or if he really did miss some options. For instance if you flipped your piece into the unlisted 4th possible move and then moved the lower neutral coin into any position on the board then you can extend the game out at least one more move. I don't know why he left out the options that would extend the game. I also don't get why in situation B pink would intentionally move the neutral piece into a position that would cause him to lose the game and at the same time not show positions in A that would have pink move the neutral piece into an advantageous position. There is just a whole bunch wrong with those scenarios

      @JSephH76@JSephH764 жыл бұрын

  • So he did most of the video not wearing any pants?

    @jerry3790@jerry37904 жыл бұрын

    • How can you heart this comment and not reply?! :P

      @demerion@demerion4 жыл бұрын

    • Tell us kevin TELL US

      @goomy9966@goomy99664 жыл бұрын

    • He just showed some pants while talking about the sponsor

      @mrorion4794@mrorion47944 жыл бұрын

    • @@demerion fair enough. there, i did it XD

      @lpsfoxstar8454@lpsfoxstar84544 жыл бұрын

    • Does he need to?

      @ZenoDLC@ZenoDLC4 жыл бұрын

  • This just seems like a simpler version of chess and a more complicated version of tic tac toe

    @racool911@racool9114 жыл бұрын

    • I think it's more like both + tetris

      @zythex4385@zythex43854 жыл бұрын

    • @@zythex4385 You guys have the exact same profile picture but with a different letter

      @tcg1_qc@tcg1_qc4 жыл бұрын

    • @@tcg1_qc shh

      @zythex4385@zythex43854 жыл бұрын

    • @@ream1622 no, why would you do that?

      @zythex4385@zythex43854 жыл бұрын

    • @@zythex4385 Because swapping accounts to reply to your own comment is laaaame.

      @TheCrash480@TheCrash4804 жыл бұрын

  • This actually seems like a fun game Now I just need friends to play it with

    @__M.K.@__M.K.3 жыл бұрын

    • Same

      @ElectroTiger@ElectroTiger3 жыл бұрын

    • Me three

      @bpdoijfd@bpdoijfd2 жыл бұрын

    • damnit

      @milkylights2@milkylights22 жыл бұрын

    • That's....... The hardest part

      @msiio@msiio2 жыл бұрын

    • No strategic principles works with that one

      @_fnt_8628@_fnt_86282 жыл бұрын

  • V-sauce: *tries to show the pants* V-sauce: lemme take it off real quick V-sauce: *literally sitting on a chair without pants*

    @Goastyy@Goastyy3 жыл бұрын

    • When? I missed that moment

      @FoxSlyme@FoxSlyme2 жыл бұрын

    • Show the timestamp

      @ducky0nqu4ck94@ducky0nqu4ck942 жыл бұрын

    • That's weird, this is the second comment on this video I've seen regarding whether he's wearing pants or not after taking them off, but he never took them off?

      @KoyasuNoBara@KoyasuNoBara2 жыл бұрын

    • @@KoyasuNoBara there is a comment saying that the video is 12 minutes 52 seconds long, but actually it is shorter. I feel like the pants section is gone for some reason

      @SG2048-meta@SG2048-meta Жыл бұрын

  • I can't stop thinking about why his left side is red and his right blue

    @shepherd3718@shepherd37183 жыл бұрын

    • THREE FRICKIN D

      @user-mw8hu5be7n@user-mw8hu5be7n3 жыл бұрын

    • Todoroki

      @Nova38797@Nova387973 жыл бұрын

    • 5upernova ah yes I see you are a (preferred pronoun) of culture as well

      @user-mw8hu5be7n@user-mw8hu5be7n3 жыл бұрын

    • Maybe to give us a seizure

      @rycedj3319@rycedj33193 жыл бұрын

    • Choose the left side or right side of Vsauce. Like those pills in The Matrix.

      @GSFigure@GSFigure3 жыл бұрын

  • 1:50 my calculator when I try to divide by 0

    @andreabarone4964@andreabarone49644 жыл бұрын

    • Hahaahhahahahahahahahzaha

      @mysterymeat4197@mysterymeat41974 жыл бұрын

    • ROFL

      @LeventK@LeventK4 жыл бұрын

    • 7 0 7

      @Havron@Havron4 жыл бұрын

    • @Z-Games Pro i liked it

      @andreabarone4964@andreabarone49644 жыл бұрын

    • @@andreabarone4964 hey dude you ruined it

      @LeventK@LeventK4 жыл бұрын

  • 2:38 That would of been the best oppertunity to say "L-swhere"

    @MsChestnutter1@MsChestnutter12 жыл бұрын

    • damn this comment needs more attention

      @rawr_ahh@rawr_ahh3 ай бұрын

  • Beating the AI in this game was a lot more cathartic than what I thought and had a lot more of me flipping the bird at the thing that I would had imagine.

    @leonelpowers5979@leonelpowers59792 жыл бұрын

  • "the hardest easy game" My brain: aight imma head out....

    @ketsu1503@ketsu15034 жыл бұрын

    • grammar is out of here too

      @danielabay8872@danielabay88724 жыл бұрын

    • ketsu ] Easiest*

      @latoon4194@latoon41944 жыл бұрын

    • @@danielabay8872 lol sry

      @ketsu1503@ketsu15034 жыл бұрын

    • @@ZeroSleap well then... I guess its back

      @ketsu1503@ketsu15034 жыл бұрын

    • Actually...it's the Hardest easy game there's a difference...

      @ZeroSleap@ZeroSleap4 жыл бұрын

  • Don’t let this distract you from the fact that Lightning McQueen blew a 3 lap lead in the piston cup

    @conairehorgan2456@conairehorgan24564 жыл бұрын

    • If the cows are laying down the fish ain’t bitin I won’t. Comments like these make me remember everything.

      @immaparrot2824@immaparrot28244 жыл бұрын

    • Or the 1,7 sec pit stop by Guido

      @BernieYoda@BernieYoda4 жыл бұрын

    • oh

      @alejrandom6592@alejrandom65924 жыл бұрын

    • He did what In his cup?

      @stillrabit73@stillrabit734 жыл бұрын

    • He actually blew a 1 lap lead

      @bw-leftturnracing7779@bw-leftturnracing77794 жыл бұрын

  • 4:36 counter-move b is an impossible move as in order for orange to play it they'd need to move the neutral piece before playing which is against the rules

    @bluehoodie_gamer6867@bluehoodie_gamer68672 жыл бұрын

    • Guess you didn't read the pinned comment before writing this? :-)

      @irrelevant_noob@irrelevant_noob2 жыл бұрын

  • Most of this video applies to all deterministic perfect information games, like chess, go, checkers, nine mens morris, tafl, connect 4 etc. (Although some of them can't go on forever). What makes this game special is that it strikes the balance where it's not obvious how to play correctly, but you can master it in a couple of days, where the other games can take a lifetime to master.

    @Kaepsele337@Kaepsele3372 жыл бұрын

  • "Avoid L's and manifest W" But of course, no Luigi more Waluigi

    @zanr6943@zanr69434 жыл бұрын

    • I can imagine waluigi say that

      @EASReviewer@EASReviewer4 жыл бұрын

    • WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

      @overlordcringe2715@overlordcringe27154 жыл бұрын

    • Wahhh

      @generalbacon7476@generalbacon74764 жыл бұрын

    • Wal-elegy

      @rynew@rynew4 жыл бұрын

    • Luigi Fredo

      @BarbarellaAlpha@BarbarellaAlpha4 жыл бұрын

  • so what ur telling me is it’s tetris, chess, and tic tac toe combined?! edit: 1000 likes i’ve always wondered what it took to be cool

    @checkmyinstagramyaga566@checkmyinstagramyaga5664 жыл бұрын

    • ye

      @iaapm@iaapm4 жыл бұрын

    • You have 69 likes

      @riciw8915@riciw89154 жыл бұрын

    • Well yes,but actually no,actually yes,

      @laimawolf6826@laimawolf68264 жыл бұрын

    • no its not

      @michaelrojas8176@michaelrojas81764 жыл бұрын

    • Chesstris Tac Toe

      @blueflamefae7898@blueflamefae78984 жыл бұрын

  • I was recently at a camp for the disabled and I played this with my cabin mate, we had lots of fun playing such a simple game, though we changed the rules so the penny could only move to open spaces connected to eachother and not boxed off areas

    @bmgsplushworld8205@bmgsplushworld82052 жыл бұрын

  • I like the fatal weak neutral & strong mindset. It really reflects how "just being reliable enough" can have you win through a competitor's mistake. Rarely need to play the risk because just not exposing yourself is already on the winning side. Only when both sides are in the skill level of not losing through mistakes, strong moves even start to matter. Man i love that.

    @sha_663@sha_6638 ай бұрын

    • Thanks for reading. The idea is: On an even playing field of experience, if you spend time only learning neutrals of playing it safe, you only need to focus on 1/3 rd of the game but win 99.5% of the time, constantly beating opponents who will make mistakes. Because the winning move is a ~1/200 chance for someone to unknowingly play to then develop into an unbeatable turn order. Only when both players mastered "not losing by mistake", the winning move even matters to learn because only then, weak moves are a guaranteed loss and only neutral moves eventually lose by chance (expecting a true neutral game to go on for a long time until one plays a winner by chance. (See chess, where low elosconstantly make mistakes and expose themselves, better elo ending in more draws and high elo confidently going for high risk moves, sacrificing high value pieces. Makes sense? More of a metaphor on how focusing on not making mistakes can put you ahead of ~99% Lmk if i'm completely wrong there

      @sha_663@sha_6638 ай бұрын

  • Nobody: Kevin: hey wanna play some B O N E L E S S C H E S S

    @ukatofarticus9046@ukatofarticus90464 жыл бұрын

    • Ukato Farticus yes please

      @kherii.@kherii.4 жыл бұрын

    • B O N E L E S S P I Z Z A

      @digitalbarks5705@digitalbarks57054 жыл бұрын

    • 🅱️ O N E L E S S

      @DickKick@DickKick4 жыл бұрын

    • 700th like

      @alphastar12@alphastar124 жыл бұрын

    • nah man, I wanna play 🅱️ O N E L E S S M O N O P O L Y

      @pandydoesstuff5817@pandydoesstuff58174 жыл бұрын

  • I thought I was the easiest game. Everyone plays me.

    @littolicce@littolicce4 жыл бұрын

    • F

      @CottonTheCat@CottonTheCat4 жыл бұрын

    • F

      @thevictorhaha@thevictorhaha4 жыл бұрын

    • F

      @chadbroski6711@chadbroski67114 жыл бұрын

    • F

      @lavalordYT@lavalordYT4 жыл бұрын

    • F

      @1000karlcool@1000karlcool4 жыл бұрын

  • I bought this about 30 years ago. My mathematics students loved playing this.

    @robfielding100@robfielding1002 жыл бұрын

    • oof

      @thesleppers3574@thesleppers35742 жыл бұрын

  • played against the AI, won first try, never playing again so i can convince myself i'm a prodigy

    @gemmamalo96@gemmamalo963 жыл бұрын

    • I'm trying to figure out how people are playing an on paper game with AI...

      @sylver369@sylver36910 ай бұрын

    • @@sylver369 Just click the first link in the description

      @drmonkeys852@drmonkeys8527 ай бұрын

    • agreed

      @twbvqc@twbvqc3 ай бұрын

  • "You can't place them at an angle to win!" *Places them at an angle to turn his L into a W*

    @ThrottleKitty@ThrottleKitty4 жыл бұрын

    • *buzzer!*

      @elementoproductions6005@elementoproductions60054 жыл бұрын

    • @Mantra Mahajan *he ended up scrambling this sentence.*

      @elementoproductions6005@elementoproductions60054 жыл бұрын

    • actually i'm a cat tyvm

      @ThrottleKitty@ThrottleKitty4 жыл бұрын

    • @Mantra Mahajan hm

      @christianjordansuryadi341@christianjordansuryadi3414 жыл бұрын

  • Little known fact - Kevin sleeps with his SnapBack on. It never leaves his head not even to shower.

    @tristanjones7623@tristanjones76234 жыл бұрын

    • Taking the top stop for weirdest never-nude variant.

      @zedex1226@zedex12264 жыл бұрын

    • Sorry, but Snapback staying on during s*x

      @blvckgoogle@blvckgoogle4 жыл бұрын

    • Sam Samovich wait, even better Kevin: sorry babe but the SnapBack staying on my head when it’s sexy time

      @kherii.@kherii.4 жыл бұрын

  • 5:10 My guess: Nestle your L against Orange’s long end, and move the corner neutral one space inward. You will control half the board, the opponent’s L will be forced to flip, and Orange will have 3 edges along the side-a more vulnerable position as shown before. But I don’t know how they’d move the coins.

    @LocalMaple@LocalMaple3 жыл бұрын

  • 3:14 there are 4 possible moves. The forth being a simple left-right mirror

    @mordet2@mordet29 ай бұрын

  • “This game takes 5 days to master” Oh yea? Watch me do it in 12 minutes & 52 seconds

    @MrMitchbow@MrMitchbow4 жыл бұрын

    • Mastered it in about 5 minutes, with a 2 move win

      @crimzonshooter@crimzonshooter4 жыл бұрын

    • Speed runner?

      @jadenjohnson8389@jadenjohnson83894 жыл бұрын

    • @@jadenjohnson8389 nah, just good with AI abuse

      @crimzonshooter@crimzonshooter4 жыл бұрын

    • @@crimzonshooter gotta be honest i just did random stuff and won in 15 secs with 2 moves lmao

      @bbzlucas6932@bbzlucas69324 жыл бұрын

    • # lakewood20 lol

      @Sir-Taco@Sir-Taco4 жыл бұрын

  • when this game first came out in the early 1960's, I had one...and I came across it in my backgammon game. It was always one of my favorite games.

    @georgecharles941@georgecharles9412 жыл бұрын

  • I just played it for the first time, and came up with a simpler way to play it, and possibly even guarantee an infinite draw. Every corner square gets a score of 0. Every outside square that isn't a corner gets a score of 1. Every inside square gets a score of 2. Maximize your score with every move, then think about what neutral piece move would take away your opponent's highest score position, while not allowing him a higher score position by moving said neutral piece.

    @Seb_Kowalke@Seb_Kowalke2 жыл бұрын

    • How do you make the pieces.

      @GG_4_ETERNITY@GG_4_ETERNITY2 жыл бұрын

  • new rule: if you win its required to say “take the L”

    @ravrav6433@ravrav64334 жыл бұрын

    • The game is 3 rounds total, the player who loses takes one of the L's, and puts it on their forehead. There are only two L's in the game and at the 3rd loss, the winning player just does the "Take The L" on them.

      @joaorodrigues1477@joaorodrigues14774 жыл бұрын

    • No if u lose u have to take the l

      @awesomeninja1311@awesomeninja13114 жыл бұрын

    • @Zoie Pogoreski i think is a joke

      @databaseinformacion4373@databaseinformacion43733 жыл бұрын

  • Vsauce2 out of context: GET THESE PANTS now back to our game

    @Navoii.@Navoii.4 жыл бұрын

    • Timestamp?

      @Lil_mally_world@Lil_mally_world2 жыл бұрын

  • 1:44 my secret strategy to always win at battleship

    @doritos5447@doritos54473 жыл бұрын

  • I played this when my high school was on lockdown till 10pm. I won every match out of about 20. It was easy to figure out the end game states early on, and use rotations of those board states to make my friend take the L.

    @inutamer365@inutamer3653 жыл бұрын

    • Now I'm curious about why your high school was on lockdown until 10pm.

      @General12th@General12th2 жыл бұрын

    • @@General12th nearby shooting. Suspect at large. Incompetent police and school administration.

      @inutamer365@inutamer3652 жыл бұрын

  • "The possibilities here are endless" No they're not. You said yourself, there's only 2296 possible board states ;)

    @tzisorey@tzisorey4 жыл бұрын

    • Which funny enough makes this game ridiculously easy to solve even for humans. We can easily memorize 2296 positions and just play perfect every time.

      @Figgy20000@Figgy200004 жыл бұрын

    • @@Figgy20000 I'm a little hazy about whether that number is before, or after, taking various reflection and rotation symmetries into a account - but you're probably right, yes.

      @tzisorey@tzisorey4 жыл бұрын

    • smh vsouce 2 i biased

      @karlik4861@karlik48614 жыл бұрын

    • @@Figgy20000 Most people won't memorize that many moves because it would take a lot of time. You'd better just play it a lot and get a feel for it. You'd end up categorizing the moves intuitively. I'd personnally just write an AI for it. Either specific to the game that just memorize for me all the positions. Or based on reinforcement learning, a method that would, by playing a lot, come up with an evaluation function that tells how strong a move is. This last one is my obsession of the last few month.

      @Ceelvain@Ceelvain4 жыл бұрын

    • @@Ceelvain Rubix Cubers and top Chess GMs have easily memorized more positions than actually exist in this entire game. If someone were to throw a million dollar prize pool at this thing next Saturday I'd bet you we'd have at least 50 100% perfect human players entering that same weekend.

      @Figgy20000@Figgy200004 жыл бұрын

  • 3:34 don’t you mean, “you can’t go anywhere... Ls?” okay bye now

    @kiwichu9928@kiwichu99284 жыл бұрын

    • Lol

      @backseatsurfer5005@backseatsurfer50053 жыл бұрын

  • I specifically have a hard time with these spatial tests. This was the part of my IQ test that brought my score way down lol

    @christopherdiedrich40@christopherdiedrich403 жыл бұрын

  • 4:08 The Battle Nations soundtrack, nice!

    @Simon-qh1ys@Simon-qh1ys2 жыл бұрын

    • Seems so outta place and it threw me off when I heard it. Haven't heard that in years. Got smacked with nostalgia.

      @joshuagonzalez8645@joshuagonzalez86452 жыл бұрын

  • Me: loses My friend: do it Me: but- My friend: take the L. Me:*eats my piece* Lol jk, I dont have friends.

    @latioshunter@latioshunter3 жыл бұрын

    • Same

      @TheAndermany@TheAndermany3 жыл бұрын

    • They had us in the first half not gonna lie

      @KaeOlerti@KaeOlerti3 жыл бұрын

    • You may not have friends. But you have a FRIEND :)

      @thewendysguy2172@thewendysguy21723 жыл бұрын

    • 👍

      @databaseinformacion4373@databaseinformacion43733 жыл бұрын

    • You can't lose if you don't have friends

      @megasonichunterramirez3231@megasonichunterramirez32313 жыл бұрын

  • "You can't take forever. You have to make a move." A certain skeleton with a hoodie and single glowing eye would like to have a word with you.

    @shadowbread6616@shadowbread66164 жыл бұрын

    • Undertale fandom is everywhere... and I'm part of it! BTW nice joke, I can *see* you are a Mann/Frau of culture like me.

      @lev7509@lev75094 жыл бұрын

    • well you gotta save some time to sleep

      @altayklc9047@altayklc90474 жыл бұрын

    • Sans couldn't take/wait forever either, eventually the player would outsmart the game, unless the game itself is meant to be endless, but there are many limiting factors to an indefinite game

      @darktaro9249@darktaro92494 жыл бұрын

    • No matter what video i click I cant run away from the undertale I mean i am not complaining XD

      @joythecat1950@joythecat19503 жыл бұрын

    • Heh.

      @aidenhanson884@aidenhanson8843 жыл бұрын

  • Thanks for this cool game, Vivec!

    @sporebliss@sporebliss2 жыл бұрын

  • legit thought at 0:40 I started to hear the daredevil intro (on Netflix)

    @JarbyStar@JarbyStar3 жыл бұрын

  • Teacher: The test is easy. THE TEST:

    @angelolouis3253@angelolouis32534 жыл бұрын

    • It's supposed to be the easiest game possible

      @Cat-ki3hy@Cat-ki3hy3 жыл бұрын

    • The test: Make a strategy that is guaranteed to win the L Game

      @cjfdnqkn4374@cjfdnqkn43743 жыл бұрын

  • The simplest game Michael: Or is it?

    @op_elanim4971@op_elanim49714 жыл бұрын

    • Hey, Micheal, Vsauce here.

      @AchievingAchievement@AchievingAchievement4 жыл бұрын

    • This is Kevin

      @goshawk6153@goshawk61534 жыл бұрын

    • @@goshawk6153 Or is he?

      @viditpandey9101@viditpandey91014 жыл бұрын

    • Kevin...

      @Mistner@Mistner4 жыл бұрын

    • sriram n or do you?

      @AidebHerb@AidebHerb4 жыл бұрын

  • This brings whole new meaning to "Taking an L" when someone loses.

    @miztahrayeproductions2942@miztahrayeproductions29422 жыл бұрын

  • Yo I’d never seen any of your videos before and I’ve just walked out even more of a nerd than I used to be. Thanks

    @GenericCatboy@GenericCatboy2 жыл бұрын

  • Damn, didn’t know Tetris was THAT hard.

    @DTheAustralian@DTheAustralian4 жыл бұрын

    • Giorno killed polpo, shouldn't you be dead

      @wesguyer4182@wesguyer41824 жыл бұрын

    • Black Sabbath I mean

      @wesguyer4182@wesguyer41824 жыл бұрын

    • Wes Guyer You can’t kill a shadow dude

      @DTheAustralian@DTheAustralian4 жыл бұрын

    • @@DTheAustralian well you can kill the user so the shadow dude dies

      @wesguyer4182@wesguyer41824 жыл бұрын

    • how'd you master typing upside down? is it possible to learn this power?

      @moldyshoess@moldyshoess4 жыл бұрын

  • “Let me just take off my pants” -Kevin 2019

    @jacobswind4497@jacobswind44974 жыл бұрын

    • can you please stop with the quoting, it's a bit annoying. Just saying

      @Asian.Thomas@Asian.Thomas4 жыл бұрын

    • Very funny

      @sonal8109@sonal81094 жыл бұрын

    • Nobody: Las Vegas:

      @pewdiepieisstillabadyoutub4490@pewdiepieisstillabadyoutub44904 жыл бұрын

    • British people: :O

      @JQ3B94@JQ3B944 жыл бұрын

    • @@JQ3B94 yep... exactly

      @arkanon8661@arkanon86614 жыл бұрын

  • The title: “Hardest easy game” My Brain: ⏭↩️◀️↖️⬅️↖️🔼◀️⏮↙️↪️⏫↩️➡️🔂▶️🔁⏮🔄🔄⏮⤴️ what

    @_Kabir_@_Kabir_2 жыл бұрын

  • Nobody: Not even a single soul: Vsauce2's next video: How tetris links with the creation of the universe

    @daniguay88@daniguay882 жыл бұрын

  • 0:14 Me looking at the food at home when mom doesn’t want to take me to McDonald’s.

    @PeepsMichael@PeepsMichael4 жыл бұрын

    • 😂

      @ketsu1503@ketsu15034 жыл бұрын

    • its funny cause its so relatable!

      @scrap5051@scrap50514 жыл бұрын

    • LMFAOO

      @F3zyX@F3zyX4 жыл бұрын

    • also, me when realizing your generation is doomed, zoomers couldn't survive a day in the forest like your forefathers had to or alone for that matter

      @warGasmshit@warGasmshit4 жыл бұрын

    • @@warGasmshit ok boomer

      @cristiandior2805@cristiandior28054 жыл бұрын

  • The lighting makes him look like he got painted in red and blue

    @Staggedtree@Staggedtree4 жыл бұрын

    • Jack Howard - I was thinking that the whole way through.

      @tracy9610@tracy96104 жыл бұрын

    • Nah, it's just his facepaint making the lighting look weird.

      @matthewmchenry2889@matthewmchenry28894 жыл бұрын

    • I cant unsee it

      @catfood2@catfood24 жыл бұрын

    • the lighting makes him look like Nerd City

      @Speedpunk650@Speedpunk6504 жыл бұрын

    • Who told you he isn't painted in red and blue?

      @julius_trifinity@julius_trifinity4 жыл бұрын

  • 1:22 1 year later i still dont know if that was an intentional double meaning Of lose and play the l game

    @NoobMicesters@NoobMicesters3 жыл бұрын

  • I love your lighting

    @InformationEngineer59@InformationEngineer597 ай бұрын

  • 5:29 Counter-move B is invalid according to the rule that you can't move the neutral piece before the L-piece move is completed.

    @LastEmblem@LastEmblem4 жыл бұрын

    • Yep, I noticed that while it was in scene as well...

      @shuvisenpai651@shuvisenpai6514 жыл бұрын

    • It is valid. The pink player flipped his piece and then moved the neutral piece from 1x3 to 3x1. Then the orange player puts his orange piece to where the neutral piece was. That's also the only move where the pink player moved the neutral piece for some reason.

      @pasijutaulietuviuesas9174@pasijutaulietuviuesas91744 жыл бұрын

    • So he is saying that its the pink player that moved the coin? The pink player does his move in "my possible moves"

      @jacekniedzielski9837@jacekniedzielski98374 жыл бұрын

    • (I think)

      @jacekniedzielski9837@jacekniedzielski98374 жыл бұрын

    • @@pasijutaulietuviuesas9174 Pink did not move the neutral piece, look again. The finalized board after Pink's move, which was just an L-flip, shows no movement of the neutral piece. Unless Kevin made an error in setting it up, but either way it wouldn't make sense for pink to move the neutral to (3,1) anyway, it wouldn't benefit them. It's one of the fatal moves they could make.

      @LastEmblem@LastEmblem4 жыл бұрын

  • I knew "take the L" was going to be said at some point in this video

    @KaliTakumi@KaliTakumi4 жыл бұрын

  • 3:47 i need to know the name of this song

    @TenToTu@TenToTu3 жыл бұрын

  • Man you are the best don't you DARE stop ☺️

    @meroaso4932@meroaso49323 жыл бұрын

  • Your videos are brilliant Kevin, I hope that it’s providing a good life for you and your family.

    @pdpauldelaney@pdpauldelaney4 жыл бұрын

    • Thx bro

      @pdpauldelaney@pdpauldelaney4 жыл бұрын

  • 5:34 The B position isn't even possible because for that you'll have to move the neutral spot first and then make the move. That is ILLEGAL

    @namansingla2975@namansingla29754 жыл бұрын

    • What no

      @bellaarboleda8782@bellaarboleda87823 жыл бұрын

    • I was about to write the same thing XD

      @xdfixstudio366@xdfixstudio3663 жыл бұрын

    • What no

      @jo_nm9484@jo_nm94843 жыл бұрын

    • What no (can we make a chain?)

      @meherinmouly@meherinmouly3 жыл бұрын

    • @@meherinmouly What no we can't make a chain.

      @xdfixstudio366@xdfixstudio3663 жыл бұрын

  • This is an insightful description of the beautiful chaos in chess and life.

    @elindauer@elindauer Жыл бұрын

  • 4:53 option “B” is incorrect you cannot make that move without removing neutral piece first.

    @jessewilson8676@jessewilson8676 Жыл бұрын

  • Playing... Kevin: Me: Nevermind, it's my turn now

    @oliviavillarr@oliviavillarr4 жыл бұрын

    • no

      @alejrandom6592@alejrandom65924 жыл бұрын

  • The more i look at his face, the more it looks like red and blue facepaint. I know it's lighting but, it messes with me

    @STANNco@STANNco4 жыл бұрын

  • Title: "The Hardest Easy Game" Me: *VISIBLE CONFUSION*

    @ariesyana@ariesyana3 жыл бұрын

  • “What you like to eat?” “Y O U R S O N”

    @Speedy4417@Speedy44173 жыл бұрын

  • 8:13 Everybody gangsta until Kevin gets a Perfect Clear in Tetris

    @Notester82@Notester824 жыл бұрын

    • Not to mention all those L-spins he was doing

      @stanleydodds9@stanleydodds94 жыл бұрын

    • tf is a perfect clear?

      @jimothyjimothy1@jimothyjimothy14 жыл бұрын

    • @@jimothyjimothy1 when you clear your entire stack; in this case it was with a tetris too.

      @stanleydodds9@stanleydodds94 жыл бұрын

    • @@jimothyjimothy1 Exactly what Stanley Dodds said, plus the reference just came to me since a standard Tetris board is 10 tiles wide, if that helps clear things up!

      @Notester82@Notester824 жыл бұрын

    • In modern tetris games, There is a cycle which gives you every piece every 7 pieces. Players used this to make up "starter setups". There also is a "perfect clear setup", which gives you a not guaranteed, but high chance to get a perfect clear withing the first 10 (11 with the "hold" option) tetriminos.

      @cookiecyborg24@cookiecyborg244 жыл бұрын

  • Them: calculating every movment , possible out com- Me who has been starving for 5 days: *alright* *mate,* *take* *your* *time*

    @waterain7774@waterain77744 жыл бұрын

    • Me who has memorized all 2296 positions: Yeah this game isn't so "impossible"

      @Figgy20000@Figgy200004 жыл бұрын

    • @@Figgy20000 but it does train your brain

      @geradosolusyon511@geradosolusyon5114 жыл бұрын

  • It's actually quite interesting how much this just emphasises the 'control the centre square' philosophy of game shows! I would assume that the principle behind play is 'if you keep your L in the middle, you cannot lose - if you place your penny in the wrong spot, you can be moved out of the middle, so it requires TWO mistakes by player one to lose'.

    @ella6547@ella65472 жыл бұрын

  • “Hey Josh” “Yeah?” “Wanna play the HARDEST EASY game?” “👁👄👁”

    @vampir.moment@vampir.moment2 жыл бұрын

  • Kevin used to be my least favourite Vsauce ( no offense ) but these days it's by far the best Vsauce!

    @outside8312@outside83124 жыл бұрын

    • Outside it’s bc it’s actually posts Also I love him :3

      @shortyshawty@shortyshawty4 жыл бұрын

    • D!NG*

      @stefan512@stefan5124 жыл бұрын

    • i love vsauce 1 and 3 but i'm to poor for youtube red

      @linuxstreamer8910@linuxstreamer89104 жыл бұрын

    • Well, Michael's stuff been paywalled until recently, and once you notice Jake's pausing every sentence, he's hard to listen to, so....

      @narusferree6506@narusferree65064 жыл бұрын

    • @@linuxstreamer8910 It's all free until the end of the year

      @xogdo5260@xogdo52604 жыл бұрын

  • When is the anime of the L game coming out

    @itsyaboimike9010@itsyaboimike90104 жыл бұрын

  • 7:25 we like squares

    @agustnegara1207@agustnegara12072 жыл бұрын

  • Bro I opened this video while seshing just for fun, and damn boy this is is opened my eyes. My life makes sense now.

    @lucamengo8853@lucamengo885310 ай бұрын

  • 0:59 me opening my "homework" folder

    @thechair6519@thechair65194 жыл бұрын

    • ?

      @hypenheimer@hypenheimer2 жыл бұрын

    • How does this have anything to do with storing the y'know in a normal looking folder

      @hypenheimer@hypenheimer2 жыл бұрын

    • wait i dont remember commenting this on this exact video

      @thechair6519@thechair65192 жыл бұрын

  • Nobody: Not a soul: *Knight*

    @thejellybeangamer3284@thejellybeangamer32844 жыл бұрын

    • Tccoydgyfdjdkdrjydfjdcfykcfycfukcutcugkcgocougcugkckygckgycugocky&ykfccfyjcfkycgkycfkyc ITS A KNIGHT

      @christovac@christovac4 жыл бұрын

    • @@christovac nah

      @charadremur333@charadremur3334 жыл бұрын

    • @@christovac nope

      @ardydyandra4788@ardydyandra47884 жыл бұрын

    • Ostroth not in chess lol

      @lockiemcneven7219@lockiemcneven72194 жыл бұрын

    • *knight

      @adrian.h2938@adrian.h29384 жыл бұрын

  • This game brings a whole new meaning to "hold this L''

    @tylerbuck9347@tylerbuck93472 жыл бұрын

  • I bought that book when I was a student in the early 1970s. One of the important lessons it taught me was that when solving a problem, you don't have to use everything that's provided; a lesson that has proved invaluable ever since, particularly when solving jigsaws 😂😂😂

    @mandolinic@mandolinic8 ай бұрын

  • Wtf this is actually an amazing game! Why isn’t it more popular?

    @Majestic469@Majestic4694 жыл бұрын

  • So nobody is talking about the weird lighting on his face that looks like face paint.

    @stutiarya@stutiarya4 жыл бұрын

    • I think has face paint for his face and the lighting for his arms

      @stephaniaworthington4129@stephaniaworthington41293 жыл бұрын

    • Is no one gonna talk about how the L game doesn't work on android:(

      @volt7958@volt79583 жыл бұрын

    • It is nintendo switch

      @sansdusttale7224@sansdusttale72243 жыл бұрын

    • @@volt7958 f#

      @databaseinformacion4373@databaseinformacion43733 жыл бұрын

    • @Zoie Pogoreski but the colors move as he moves around 2:59 see how the lights switch as he furrows his eye brows and returns after. The blue is on his right and the red is on his left. In the end as he explains the importance of planning ahead and making those Ls Ws, the W turns purple in the lights. Pretty sure this was planned for specifically that moment

      @GrifoStelle@GrifoStelle3 жыл бұрын

  • Kevin: "You can't take forever. You gotta make a move." Great advice. Easier said than done though.

    @MaveRick01@MaveRick013 жыл бұрын

  • 4:44 there is clearly more possibilities here, as pink doesn't move a coin on their turn etc etc and now there is like 10 possible moves and even more for the enemy

    @10jimmy@10jimmy2 жыл бұрын

  • Wait, I've had the L game as a board game for 10 years, ever since I was 5 years old!

    @georgios_5342@georgios_53424 жыл бұрын

  • Vsauce: You have a dad and a mom right? Vsauce: WRONG

    @YesNO-bn3pq@YesNO-bn3pq4 жыл бұрын

    • He isn’t wrong

      @scunthorpe5513@scunthorpe55134 жыл бұрын

  • My first time playing it just now, against the ai linked, I won in just 2 moves. I definitely "get" the goal. Time to bring my friends into this.

    @Tera_GX@Tera_GX Жыл бұрын

  • My brain recognizes, deconstructs, analyzes and predicts patterns constantly, this game is like a rubiks cube in my mind. I'm gonna play.

    @chrisandrew7577@chrisandrew7577 Жыл бұрын

  • 3:20 I can't move my L piece My whole life is an L

    @asspounderify@asspounderify4 жыл бұрын

    • F

      @hagridthetable@hagridthetable4 жыл бұрын

  • "This game is super hard to master." Chess master: "Wanna bet?"

    @AustinJASMR@AustinJASMR3 жыл бұрын

    • No

      @cjfdnqkn4374@cjfdnqkn43743 жыл бұрын

    • Let's not

      @eclecticsoffy@eclecticsoffy2 жыл бұрын

  • I watched this after my tetris addiction stage.. guess what I immediately thought of. Falling blocks. Question: will tetris players be better at this game?

    @enderpearl8281@enderpearl82812 жыл бұрын

  • Chess players: Is this some sort of peasant joke that I'm too rich to understand?

    @iBoss818@iBoss8182 жыл бұрын

  • see yall in 6 years when this is in everybody's recommended

    @monikaosmenda3269@monikaosmenda32694 жыл бұрын

    • commenting to see if it really happened

      @szittyano@szittyano3 жыл бұрын

    • Yo same here also commenting to see if it'll happen.

      @ineedsmooths7177@ineedsmooths71773 жыл бұрын

    • I'm a believer

      @spiderking8011@spiderking80113 жыл бұрын

    • 7 months

      @vortexjax3865@vortexjax38653 жыл бұрын

    • @@vortexjax3865 dude joe just got em bad..

      @ineedsmooths7177@ineedsmooths71773 жыл бұрын

  • When I get my midterms back: “It’s game over.”

    @mitchelob111@mitchelob1114 жыл бұрын

  • The most incredible thing for me in this video was learning the word halves o.O

    @manojo123@manojo1233 жыл бұрын

  • my 5 attepmts and answer to win is: you need to occupy 3 of 4 central areas, 1 coin mist be an the end of shortest leg of L and second coin an the back of middle part of longest leg of L

    @XVYQ_EY@XVYQ_EY2 жыл бұрын

  • It’s incredibly satisfying to me that the tetrominoes are colored properly according to the way they’re colored in tetris.

    @koala.symphony@koala.symphony4 жыл бұрын

    • Isn't the other L blue?

      @weegee9616@weegee96164 жыл бұрын

    • ferre feys yes

      @fortunes11@fortunes113 жыл бұрын

    • Me: sees it one shade to dark Also me: “pic of link cooking meal for Gordon Ramsay”

      @calvyno_the_dumbass@calvyno_the_dumbass3 жыл бұрын

  • "I'm just going to take of my pants..." -Vsauce2, 2019

    @nishantchatterjee3049@nishantchatterjee30494 жыл бұрын

    • Off*

      @goroakechi3194@goroakechi31944 жыл бұрын

    • Off*

      @thepumpkinpigs1688@thepumpkinpigs16884 жыл бұрын

  • The counter move in number B isnt possible bc you have first to move a neutral piece. In C there is a better move, you only have to move a neutral piece over the pink L

    @hirnlosesentertainment7656@hirnlosesentertainment76563 жыл бұрын

  • You know what? That AI in the game link is really mean :(

    @thinBillyBoy@thinBillyBoy3 жыл бұрын

  • I’ve shown you to my teacher and she’s now obssesed with your channel :D

    @davidtran5812@davidtran58124 жыл бұрын

  • Vsause: is alive Everyone: braincell time

    @Subscriberswithnovideosc-wv3me@Subscriberswithnovideosc-wv3me4 жыл бұрын

  • on vsauce's given moves, how could you possibly make the countermove b, if you can only move the penny after moving your piece? Am I overlooking something

    @philkill44@philkill442 жыл бұрын

  • 4:53 Isn't the B countermove here illegal based on the rules explained before? Assuming pink didn't move the penny from the top row before orange's turn, orange should not have been able to place the L the way it did, because the penny can't be moved until after the L is moved.

    @TheUnknownsShow@TheUnknownsShow Жыл бұрын
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