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[@starkidforlife136]

The notepad at 2:58 says: "TO DO: Film Cipher wheel video Talk to doctor about corn Pick up dry cleaning Take cats for walk Buy corn Will the nightmares ever end?" I couldn't understand the rest.

[@phonglove6767]

We need ⅛x (i mean 0.125x)

[@phonglove6767]

2:59

[@phonglove6767]

Next: .... by BECK ...... ....... about "(idk is it Ears or bars)"

[@phonglove6767]

... ...... .. .. hear me

[@ammarmardawi3904]

Ask neighbor about "ears"

[@choomatt]

I am 100% sure that every word in that bucket said corn

[@joz9843]

choomatt there was only one piece of paper

[@SoulWhite]

Well he wasn't wrong then xD

[@et496]

lOl

[@AllisonDeereVR]

I purchased it You are correct

[@powderedwater4742]

yes i think we all are

[@Coppyrightt]

"michael's toys" intros are always so strange that they become hilarious.

[@Kntrytnt]

Ozy Michael embraced the memes a long time ago. He's transcended memedom

[@thatfinnishguy1571]

Lol

[@harrowing5405]

It's on purpose my doggies

[@dacunos3790]

not only is michael smart but he has turned to the dank side

[@rakstar343]

Sexy pic

[@jennatools5136]

00:00 When you are desperately trying not to say „Hey VSauce, Michael here!“ xDxD

[@yinyang1217]

ye

[@gachastocks6151]

Welcome to 4 15 14 7

[@Infest19]

@@gachastocks6151 I'm pretty sure that says DONG or DING, I'm not sure when they changed the name

[@KrimNL10DenZ]

@@Infest19 this is a completely separate channel. The vsauce intro is only for vsauce.

[@jankima8646]

@@Infest19 the name is DONG. It is written as D!NG with an exclamation mark/point akin to swear words.

[@NopeNaw]

Since the cipher wheel is based on numerals you can further make the encrypted message harder to decipher. You can add rules to add, subtract, or perform any other mathematical steps in order to produce the accurate letter. For example, if you have it set so that for say the letter M, the outer most and second outer most rings are set to 2 and 7 respectively, and the unknown rule is to subtract the latter by the former, you would then write down 5 instead. Even further, since each encrypted letter is made up of two symbols instead of one, you can write each letter vertically, but the entire word is written horizontally as normal. Like this for example, using the corn example: 5913 7925 Ciphers are fun.

[@thebeastisback2697]

Nope Naw isnt that the same cipher the germans used in WW2 named the Lorenz cipher (or Tunny as the british named it) just with a slight diffrences.

[@jakeile7921]

TO MENY Woooooorrrrrrddddddsssss

[@rabeebibrat1805]

Yeah, add Caesar Box and what not? ❤️ And about mathematical operations, it's somewhat more complicated. More generally, you are asking for transforming the four numbers (a,b,c,d) to another n numbers, but note that the transformation has to be invertible. E.g, (a+b, a-b) is a good place to start exploring. Other complicated linear combinations, like (a+b, 2a-3b+c, c-d, a+d) are still invertible. That's common sense from linear Algebra, however, for non-linear transformations, more complicated explorations may be required. Note: Without such transformation, the message, if a large one, e.g., a few sentences will be pretty easy to decipher, even without the wheel.

[@necrozma4029]

Yall here talking about ciphers meanwhile I'm remembering Gravity Falls and all of its codes

[@justcallmeluuf]

"Does that mean I'm a dipus? A dipusal? Yes, it does" -Michael 2018

[@Courageouslion]

*-Micheal 1:40 your welcome

[@jukka6305]

4:55 look at the top of the paper

[@Mocroskate]

Jukka lmao falcon eyes

[@deggo9925]

Michael’s real toy

[@sam_ze_wolf]

ha haha omg lol

[@Wnick56]

DONG

[@antiisocial]

Lol. Dong!

[@cooleslaw]

Vsauce4 = Inq

[@100billionsubscriberswithn4]

There actually is a meme channel called Vsauce 4.

[@aangsstaff4174]

Person. Thoughty2?

[@iagreebut6813]

How to summon Vsauce4

[@cooleslaw]

Person. Despacito 2 confirmed.

[@iagreebut6813]

Mαrbleious oh he did, did he? Rip in peace

[@vdd4399]

When michael say "hey vsauce, michael here" he refers to us as vsauce. But his channel name is vsauce. So are we vsauce or is he vsauce. Things that keep me awake at night.

[@Jess-pe8bq]

We are Vsauce. He is Michael Here.

[@orecula]

Maybe he says vsauce micheal. Not vsauce, Micheal.

[@saulgoodmanKAZAKH]

@@orecula he makes a small but obvious pause between Vsauce and Michael so no.

[@TheCompleteMental]

We and him are both Vsauce

[@legendarypillow1450]

Micheal is made of Vsauce

[@shaileshrana7165]

"I'm gonna go with 99" There was 69 right there, Michael!

[@zymosan99]

right?!

[@StringedGuitar17]

nice.

[@fridgemancer]

Y E S

[@geomochi4904]

-69 is a demonitizable word- ignore me

[@StringedGuitar17]

Huh?

[@grandayy]

04 05 19 16 01 03 09 20 15

[@thinkon2127]

D E S P A C I T O

[@gabrielsaunders44]

A legend has spoken

[@srirammusic4033]

Ayy lmaooo

[@watermomantic4828]

I bet dolan dark will steal this

[@bernep3374]

At first, I thought you were reading the number sequence from Lost. 4 8 15 16 23 42 WHAT DO THE NUMBERS MEAN MASON?

[@s34l_]

wow this Michael guy should make his own channel

[@shaunar3117]

He Does Have His Own Channel It's Called Vsauce!!!

[@eduardorogacheski6584]

woosh

[@s34l_]

How Amazing What? No way!

[@shaunar3117]

Seal Sorry dude thought you were serious, now I realize it was sarcasm. My bad!😉

[@clintwhalley3550]

@@shaunar3117 r/oopsididntmeanto

[@donotron7680]

Vsauce4 is Inq confirmed

[@justuslm]

This wheel is missing "space". That means you are giving away the lengths of all your words to everyone.

[@domiller14]

One way around that is to repeat the last letter of each word using another corresponding character in the cypher line to signify a space/period/end. For example, use the inner-most character as a space, period, or end.

[@KrzysiuNet]

Dook, it makes deciphering even easier. If you would make analysis and guess at least a one boundary (which would be easier as well, as "another number" means that if there's XX, it can't be one), you know that in word (with space on the end) 123456, 5 must be 6. Last letter of the word will be of course just a subset of alphabet, so probably you'd get word like 7686 and it means that 8=5=6. Then if there's 1454, then 4=5=8=6 and the game is over - you have already relative to themselves orientation of rings and you are left with 33 combinations. In fact even with a single guess like that you already have sure position of two rings relative to each other which possibly would be game over for cipher as well.

[@irrelevant_noob]

krzysiu.net you're missing the whole point of repeating the last letter *_INSTEAD_* of having spaces.

[@SkyeeUwU]

** *** ***** **** *******? Didn’t think so.

[@NoriMori1992]

Unless you don't use spaces.

[@Biscuit-zi6gc]

This could be used to figure out who HowToBasic is

[@medicat6494]

was*

[@GioGioMioGio]

will*

[@iniMLuna]

Michael is like a more advanced version of Blues Clues

[@DanDart]

"Corn can be found." - Michael, 2018

[@BK01012]

4:44 look at the hidden message on the paper

[@MrCleanAteMyWife]

I thought I was the only one who saw that 😂

[@shubhamkhare8749]

I miss those days when he use to say "hey vsauce, Micheal here"

[@shubhamkhare8749]

Kaden Madier those are old videos man

[@zankumo]

Kaden Madier 6 months ago :(

[@superdoodjj]

Honestly, the greeting doesn't matter much to me. I just enjoy the content.

[@thisisayoutubeaccount8299]

SHUBHAM KHARE wisecrack, bro

[@runesk8179]

Michael: Pffft, latinization of a Greek word. *precedes to greekify a Latin word*

[@porkbellycutlets427]

Might be illiterate, but I think its proceeds. yeah it is, precedes means to come before something.

[@vladimirlenin5637]

@@porkbellycutlets427 he's right

[@teodorapaneva1148]

That "ohh" at 1:29 was adorable

[@Cyranek]

SEE YOU THERE

[@wellingtonzani1280]

Cyranek pls make more vids Cyranek i miss u

[@zane49er51]

Is that his way of saying he's immortal?

[@Nova-jw6ju]

Hey Cyranek

[@_leo.png_3208]

O H. H E L L O. T H E R E.

[@daft_icup]

@@wellingtonzani1280 for real

[@rabeebibrat1805]

A good addition could be: set the wheel to an initial position. Choose a finite sequence S, wrapped around. After every 5i letters, rotate the 4 wheels S_4i, S_(4i+1), S_(4i+2), S_(4i+3) times respectively, and continue in this way. A second level of security will redefine additional 4 rotations for the 4 wheels every 20 characters in the ciphered text, and you are good to go :D

[@azron201]

Aliens find this in the future and start thinking we worshipped corn

[@craigcorson3036]

You DON'T?!?!? INFIDEL!!!

[@theonebman7581]

We kinda do tho Corn is awesome, we make fuel, popcorn, bird food, even kitty litter from it

[@russ4550]

"you can read them all in a mError"

[@zestyorangez]

The connection between tim from grand illusions and Michael gets stronger every day.

[@WhimsicottFanatic]

Now you got me wanting a collab between them

[@o_ber]

Vsauce from the Nile.

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

What we did not know, is that there is a mirror image of the universe on that t-shirt to explain that ;)

[@ABaumstumpf]

seems like they are out of ideas.

[@cdubftw1363]

3:20 *Michael covers half the symbols and the music intensifies. He is turning us into conspiracy theorists.

[@christinahamilton7676]

"You know what?" *"i c a n d o w h a t i w a n t"*

[@lynzzyr]

Me at the start of the video: “Hey! Vsauce, Michael here.” The video: *WELCOME TO 4 15 14 7* 4 15 14 7: DONG

[@ebrucan7161]

I thought it was some random numbers!!!

[@saulgoodmanKAZAKH]

@@ebrucan7161 "Randomness isn't really that random" - Michael

[@JerrySeinfeld1998]

Oh my God, thank you! This was driving me crazy, I thought it was a configuration at first before I realized it was a message I couldn’t solve.

[@lilthiccum8130]

not dipus or bipus but bipod

[@edwardfanboy]

Latin / English: biped

[@Saronite]

nah am pretty sure its tidepod

[@GuillermoValleCosmos]

bepis

[@addisonalbert9078]

It's biped :/

[@worldhistory1014]

featherless biped

[@MiniGui98]

Wait, so spiders could be called "octopus" as well ?. By the way, "Inq" has to be the best and most creative name for the octopus.

[@caillieb540]

Petition for Inq to have a personal Dong channel where our minds are penetrated with Inquisitive Dongs by octopuses.

[@Screeked]

REMEMBER, REALITY IS AN ILLUSION THE UNIVERSE A HOLOGRAM BUY GOLD BYEEEE!

[@elias9746]

egassem sdrawkcaB egassem sdrawkcaB egassem sdrawkcaB egassem sdrawkcaB

[@ericafleming5197]

Gold is just a hologram too.

[@n.itrogen]

Elias 676 Gravity Falls lol

[@crowspears3265]

Gravity Falls fans are everywhere.

[@STB4G]

A X O L O T L MY TIME HAS COME TO BURN, I INVOKE THE ANCIENT POWER THAT I MAY RETURN

[@alphonsekenswick2278]

1:33 How can you blow past you destroying everything I thought I knew so frivolously!

[@zebjonsson4467]

Michael is one of the few people I would love to meet one day. Such a lovely and funny guy. Makes me smile every time he talks so enthusiastically about his toys.

[@lambda1617]

0:10 I think it's time we blow this scene Get everybody and the stuff together Ok, three, two, one, let's jam!

[@zogurtool424]

1:43 so we are bipuses .

[@asmemes3586]

Zogurtool actually we are bipod puses

[@yinyang1217]

bipussies

[@squibble311]

bipusidies :)

[@coyraig8332]

All joking aside, we are bipeds

[@zz-uk8iv]

i feel like after 10 videos he will be reviewing a stone

[@rosiex2757]

this is so cool. I only wish I had a friend to write encrypted messages too....

[@ruler_riley1687]

12:58 *CRONCH*

[@silkthyme]

bring back jake chudnow music

[@mythcrafts]

jake chudnow should make new music first

[@aglorklmeel9425]

anyone know the names of the songs in this video?

[@phlash649]

The most important comment

[@rendexrz2105]

That's right, this xilophone music is a bit ridiculous

[@kavitaprajapati8046]

Christina Huang this is a dong and if I am right he puts Jake chudnow music in his main vsause channel

[@Autumn_Actually]

The intro sounds like Michael is introducing us to the year 415,147 A.D.

[@mityakiselev]

5:18 the moment Michael betrayed us all

[@ntgfire3764]

Thank you Micheal, very cool!

[@atom9885]

SixSuicideSheep thank you kanya very cool

[@AronWarrior1]

That's Vsauce for you! One minute we encrypt the word "corn" with a cypher designed after a cute squid, then we discuss the heat death of our universe.

[@TheCoBBus]

1:30 - 1:49 just love the fact that you make these "fillers" in the videos ! I would love to see you just talk in a seminar or a ted talk or something because it seems like everything that you talk about is interesting and you make them not boring like so many others!

[@toomuchsugar3960]

hey micheal, Vsauce here, we miss you :(

[@maris_molotov]

What do you mean miss him? He's right here!

[@NotReese]

I don't think there were multiple words in there. I think he made a bunch of papers with corn written on them.

[@Hydratz]

So when are you posting a video on the vsauce channel?

[@100billionsubscriberswithn4]

It belongs to KZbin Red now.

[@Armsvid]

Person. No it's not

[@aaron-n]

Yeah. I wish.

[@ixaacm]

yeah, i miss his scientific videos.

[@shadow_psych7069]

Right!? I seriously miss the kinds of videos he uploaded there. If it truly belongs to KZbin Red now, then he should just take of Vsauce2 and/or make Vsauce4 and continue. :P

[@janzacharias3680]

I know Michael once said he likes doing DONG more than making original VSauce videos. But i really miss those gotta say. How about a second take on the Banach-Tarski-Paradox? Really like seeing Michael do these kinds of mindfuck themed videos :))))

[@TealScarab]

I plan on building my own cipher wheel using the Alchemical symbols found on the album cover of Canadian rock band Rush’s final album “Clockwork Angels”. Hope it turns out well.

[@cristiansarofin4025]

We want classic vsauce back

[@LukusMaxamus]

4:36 *_-D O N G-_*

[@reenabalasarangi9331]

You just need to entangle this wheel with the one with FBI

[@applepie1272]

Start of the vid:Corn End of the vid:The Universe will lost its hopes

[@cele42]

I become somewhat of a corn obsessed myself as of lately

[@Vsauce]

cele42 it's happening. Be safe.

[@jifmacmiioder3295]

Vsauce why do you keep talking about corn? I am worried michael.

[@ChefGourmet]

please post on vsauce main

[@feeldabassline6657]

ChefGourmet I feel ya

[@SaItogaming202]

teacher: what comes after 100 me: 101 teacher: then why did you write *Vsause1*

[@Aeronaughtica]

We the people of @HeyVsauceMichaelHere have the following demands: 1) New Inq's Cipher code at the beginning of each episode 2) Universal healthcare.

[@Heccinchonker12]

1:28 Michael is best girl

[@JackHadders]

"This is box number 8 by the way" In the description you say it's box number "VII" (7) - is this another way to encrypt the wheel?!

[@hafda010]

Vsauce: Michael Vsauce2: Kevin Vsauce3: Jake Vsauce4: Inq

[@vikkitg485]

Bond, James Bond! And who might you be? Inq, Inq-uisitive!

[@vicas6952]

Sure, see ya there in when the universe dies of the heat death... *waits almost 1 googol years* I guess it's time to watch the last ever Vsauce video...

[@MrLuigiBean1]

Wish I earned an income so I could subscribe to the Curiosity Box...

[@awesomeshotgun8565]

Prashanth Sharma b

[@anthonycastaldo2050]

Your octopodes are cute

[@kidsfashionexpert]

The very end GOT ME man. Michael really cracks me up

[@WildStar2002]

I love mini-Inq! So excited to get my very own in my last curiosity box! :D

[@shimalding]

"My favourite way is the heat death." Legit choked on my coffee.

[@-xLucas]

can someone make an online version of this in their free time lol

[@shafaet1194]

im sure it already exists somewhere out there.

[@RevJR]

Problem is, if you got the numbers in order on each wheel, then you've actually got a fairly trivial way to crack it, especially if the same letter is a different number various times in your message. Each wheel represents 26 in order, so it's ultimately a slide cipher that probably wouldn't be as hard to crack as one might think.

[@OneOfDisease]

Rev JR i don't disagree it is fairly simple especially if all of your numbers were in order. I think it would be far more effective if each block of 26 were randomized and only a small team had wheels that were in the same order. But like he said in the introduction its a toy.

[@DlcEnergy]

everybody who buys the curiosity box within Michael's life time is actually given a secret set of instruction to easter egg hunt on the earth to get into his secret society in which will give you the power of immortality, and the steps to meet Michael upon the heat death of the universe, at which point, he'll save you from it. and you'll be the last in the universe to be given the last mystery out of his ultimate curiosity box. Hey VSauce, Michael still here. and you'll be blown away.

[@pulsefel9210]

makes me think of a multilayer encryption...encrypt it once, mirror the symbols, decrypt it with mirror numbers to make a new message.

[@spyfox260]

*I AM THE OCTOPUS*

[@otakuribo]

🐙💕

[@add852]

You're a bipus

[@bigmike9947]

Coo Coo Kachoo

[@v838monocerotis9]

ranch it up

[@MattyFez]

ARE YOU LONELY

[@meepmorp3569]

When we getting an actual episode of Vsauce? If you aren't counting the youtube red videos, its been a long time...

[@GraceMotley]

Corn... this whole time... all of your Tweets, how could I not have seen it before... I feel like a fool

[@zenburt2512]

This is by far the best episode of Michael's toys because the camera randomly zooms in

[@mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm7165]

What’s the music in the beginning

[@that_tilton9662]

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMn mm.

[@patrickkilduff5272]

Your favorite way the Universe will end is the heat death??? I would have guessed you were more of a big crunch kind of guy? hmmm.

[@emilyjames2252]

I seriously need one of those large inq plush toys so I can hug it forever.

[@ventousemoustachue]

0:00 This music tho 😍😍

[@salwan2767]

0.25x speed on 1:30 when the D is so good lmao

[@kenthehobo]

He's just a mean meme machine

[@pratishtha1437]

kenthehobo How dare you disrespect our beloved Michael ?

[@firoz554]

You could make the wheel in a way that it'd lock on A when turned CCW but would be free turning CW, like some dials on wrist watches...

[@hello-cara]

bless this channel for making vsauce free again

[@klntym]

All I want is an answer to this question. What percentage of each box is donated to the Alzheimer Foundation? I used to donate to the United Way until I found out how little of the total money donated made it to the intended purpose. Do guys make a video, or reply to me here. One of the other works. Break it down to cost over donation if you want or feel you need to justify a small percentage. If you had of started with help support the channel by buying a box or four I'd be doing that right now (I already went and looked at the cost for a Canadian) instead of requesting this. But seeing as I am going to send money to a foreign country for research to an illness that is close to me ( father) I'd like to know. I don't care where the breakthrough happens as long as it happens. Hardest thing to see is a man, my father, suffer from two things I wish no one should ever have happen. He had Alzheimer's and then he had a stroke!

[@ybn.govern1875]

I literally need this for while im in class and i have a situation to tell my friend

[@vinayk7]

I almost lol'ed when said "Octopi" it sounded more like "oh my octopie

[@birdmn9930]

Give Inq a channel, he'll probably be more active than the main one :(

[@anguirosuchus55]

there can be a way to tell which one of the many configurations the cipher could be in just by one of the letters, for instance, the random cipher name A04366398 corresponds to the numbers 4, 36, 63, and 98 being over the letter "A", in that order.

[@anguirosuchus55]

Oh, wait, you already mentioned it. (oops)

[@mrmoth26]

You should make an "I know what's in it box".

[@yeetthefeet9554]

Michael: I can either do 09, 36, 69, or 99 Me: please do 69 please do 69 Michael: oooh I’ll go with 99 Me: *FUUUU-*

[@mybonesfellout]

DONGLE

[@Aziraphale686]

Oh man, I played an old sega master system game where you had to input symbols into a computer and they used these same symmetric numeral symbols, but I never realized that at the time. I have no idea what the game was called, but that was one hell of a nostalgia trip my brain just went through.

[@jaybingham3711]

When you were commenting on various means of usage, I would have liked to see you interject a reference as to how Enigma was cracked just to add insight as to "best practices" when it comes to encryption. With regard to the heat death of the universe, consider that the exact moment in which no more work can take place (i.e., maximum entropy) might paradoxically equate to a highly unstable state...possibly even equivalent to a state that we now refer to as a singularity.

[@chip2508]

4:55 *M i c h a e l s t o y s*

[@aines_world1614]

I saw this in a anime called Deltora quest.

[@Pomodorosan]

2:52 saying ten makes corn move 5:32 saying twelve makes corn move

[@eias6628]

5:15 Nice.

[@postaldude7879]

The first sponsor i haven't skipped