Solving the Mascot Murder Mystery! (Sporcle)

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[@mekan0001]

Jake being so proud of his quick math 9, when it is in fact 12, is allowing me to get through my morning.

[@DMMoore1313]

Unhinged quiz with the square resizing.

[@5tudmuffin5]

jake getting 3x4 wrong and celebrating it made me laugh out loud

[@asdfaeou]

1. I hate this quiz, the most difficult part is the column three which you need all of the clues very early on to get (Which is exactly what tripped the crew up, column three [and Mr Clean] are the only ones that can be the four remaining victims not adjacent to the corners. Peanut tells you he has a vertical safe person, so that forces the top most and bottom most of column three to both be victims. That's the key to this entire puzzle, everything basically falls into place after that, but it takes every single existing clue and math to figure it out, and it makes the quiz suck in my opinion) 2. On top of all that, the boxes and their terrible sizing make this quiz even more annoying in my opinion, so I'm glad it got raked over the coals for that. It deserves it.

[@gregbohnert2789]

So frustrating watching knowing the one thing you need to solve it and they aren’t getting it 😂

[@zealot2147]

Is 1 really that big of a deal? Like, this isn’t a hard puzzle, only made harder by guessing. Just cuz you have to count doesn’t make it a bad puzzle

[@deepowls]

Math as in counting? Subtracting 7 from 11 (or 10)? Multiplying 3 * 4? Wait...never mind. Sorry, Jake. [ETA: Technically, the Pigeonhole Principle is used repeatedly in this game...but you don't need to have heard of it to use it.] The box sizing is a legitimate issue, since it makes "seeing" diagonally a bit tricky. I paused the video after seeing them stuck on Mr. Peanut around the 6-minute mark and had a go at it, myself. I felt I was a bit slow on a couple clues, in part because I didn't read the instructions for "see" until I got stuck. I didn't have much trouble finishing well under time. Having the clue where you needed to synthesize almost everything concurrently (e.g., the Mr. Peanut clue) early on is easier. Since there was so little else to go on, it was pretty clear what you had to use.

[@Cheapiebeepie]

“Are we supposed to be guessing this early?” No. It’s a logic puzzle. You’re never supposed to be guessing 😂

[@Awhalenaw]

The marlboro man clue was just ignored for way too long

[@carsontaylor811]

I was screaming this for so long 😅

[@cornichon2580]

"Who the fuck is the Noid?" Ouch. Wasn't expecting to be made to feel that old during a Sporcle Murder Mystery video.

[@johnwilson4982]

Gotta avoid the Noid

[@danielc2545]

Mr Clean undderated murderer, he knows how to clean a crime scene up

[@generallukeproductions]

Jake playing the meta game and gets it from the jump 😂

[@bdylanfan90]

I paused and ran through it before watching the video was laughing so hard that they nailed it from the start

[@tyjjer]

Columns vs Rows is an important thing to know.

[@nealsecrist6448]

Sometimes I can’t watch the whole video because of how frustrating it is to watch them struggle through something so simple 😭😂 love the sporcles regardless

[@hendog5396]

I don't like that the big hurdle is the first move after the 6 free spots: 7/11 victims are next to corners, so that leaves 4 victims to be in C3 & R3, subtract one because we know Mr. Peanut is one of them; there are 3 victims in C3 & R3. The Marlboro Man tells us that these non corner-touching victims are NOT in R3, so they MUST be in C3. The middle column has 4 blank spaces to house these 3 victims, and Peanut is vertically next to a safe person, therefor Energizer and Geico MUST be victims, and either Chester or the Noid (who tf is that?!) is also a victim. It flowed pretty easily from there on for me ("seeing" means vertical, horizontal, or diagonal)

[@deepowls]

I think having the big hurdle where you needed to synthesize almost everything concurrently (e.g., the Mr. Peanut clue) early on is easier. There was so little other information to distract you. It should be clear you had to use the information you used...and you correctly explained how to use it. Without something like that, it wouldn't be much fun for many people. As it was, I found it at most modestly challenging, but at least it wasn't trivial or a waste of my time.

[@jamesange3124]

The noid is a dominos guh

[@shanec3984]

What a clusterfuck that was. The resizing squares was infuriating.

[@BRyeMC]

The random AF Sporcle videos are the best lol

[@Yognaughto]

Based aunt jemima takes

[@pistachio737]

everybody else said it but I’ll have my turn too. once you know these 5:53 clues, you know geico gecko and energizer bunny are victims. there are 7 victims adjacent to the corners. there are 11 in total so there are 4 in the middle column and middle row (because these are all the squares that aren’t adjacent to corners). mr peanut is a victim and he is the only victim in that middle row, so the remaining 3 are definitely in the middle column. mr peanut is vertically adjacent to one safe person, so the 2 in that column (gecko and bunny) that aren’t adjacent are definitely victims. I think you almost got there. godspeed.

[@johnnydropkicks]

17:12 “And I have good news… Kool-Aid Man is dead.”

[@danielfreeman9385]

11:32 Jomboy goes full Norm Macdonald

[@drewirvin5620]

Man it’s killer to see a clue you’re ignoring lol

[@dbr2211]

These videos are so frustrating but I love em

[@patdry]

“The Cancellation of Aunt Jemima” sounds like my new band name.

[@DanielElliott080]

This was so fun to watch.

[@numagik]

"ok and i have good news.. kool aid man is dead"

[@gageslagle7342]

It was so obviously mr clean from the start

[@andrewogden1480]

Worst episode of GeoGuessr ever

[@Christian-qg9jh]

I don't think I will be able to look at Trix the same after Jimmy assumed that the rabbit was a female who was "turning tricks"

[@austinfrandsen6537]

Not sure I can ever look at Mr.Clean the same way again

[@andrew66862]

Why do y'all not link to quizzes in the description?

[@johnnydropkicks]

6:00 Screaming at my iPad while their cursor is on the biggest piece of information that they’re totally not seeing.

[@toastedfoolery7137]

jakes vertically adjacent to a fire hydrant

[@reBornMiles]

Mr. Clean is just Agent 47 from Hitman

[@OBGrollout]

2:25 lmao

[@chriskohnke33]

Fun stuff

[@66edoug]

A prediction before I watch the video ( truthfully after watching the first minute), I'm going with the Pillsbury Doughboy. Someone poked his belly one too many times.

[@channelname5345]

Off the rip the green giant I never felt safe around

[@rudened1377]

I guess everyone also has that though that the cute little tp bear is a pyscho murderer when no one is looking.

[@Kalbuir66]

This was quite painful to watch.

[@carsontaylor811]

Why did they ignore all of the Marlboro man one for so long!!!

[@superbaloo]

This was extremely painful.

[@Killenqtor]

This was enjoyably painful to watch

[@HAVIN_IT_tm]

Doughboy! Haha clean name

[@packers12to80]

Jim not knowing who the noid is breaks my heart

[@baslkmg]

I am consistently shocked with how horrible the reading comprehension of the average person is. The word only means only.

[@frankperehinec3925]

I guessed it right !

[@BenJohnson-tt5ed]

Early prediction is trix rabbit, tht mf crazy

[@ShaneSpear02]

Those kids had it coming - Trix is for everybody!

[@MikeBites]

These boys never ate Trix cereal?

[@peterharris6409]

Hey guys, Chester is a food mascot

[@indierockluke]

Painful.

[@bamadave11]

It was right in front of them

[@1Also]

17:11 That’s NOT good news

[@matriculatethefootball]

"entergina bunny"

[@olivershepard118]

Gret fucking breakdown sick

[@etard33]

Btw, I looked at this board and I immediately thought Cap’n Crunch was the murderer.. let’s see if I’m right!

[@etard33]

Shit…

[@etard33]

I have good news! The koolaid man is dead! - Jake 2023

[@paulabbottii6937]

If only they would resolve not to guess.

[@cjbralph]

Watching you guess your way through this, despite the description stating it can be solved without guessing, was painful. If you follow the clues in the order that you are given them, it's really not that hard.

[@Bladewing10]

If feel like this wasn't a well-constructed Sporkle if you're forced to guess after 6 clues

[@paulabbottii6937]

There’s no guessing required.

[@Crushnaut]

You are saying, "I can not see anything, therefore I have to guess", instead think, "the puzzle designer wouldn't make me need to guess, what am I missing." That line of thinking helps in a lot of puzzles (and also life in general).

[@snickidy6947]

can we get some drafts again since the yanks suck

[@walbobo]

The spacing is terrible, and adjacent shouldn’t include diagonal

[@Colts814Life]

Jim is right, there wasn't enough info before they had to start guessing. This was a bad setup from the getgo

[@mvass1599]

The clues that there are 11 victims total and 7 touching corners let’s you know that the top and bottom in the middle row are victims. They missed that

[@crwall05]

It can be 100 % solved logically. They started guessing because the did not put all the clues together. When they knew there were 7 murdered adjacent to the 4 corners, and they also know that there are no additional victims in row 3, then all 3 remaining victims are in column 3 (11 total - Mr. Peanut - 7 in the corners = 3). Since one of the 2 adjacent to Mr Peanut in column 3 is safe, then Geico Gecko and Energizer Bunny both have to be victims in order to reach the 11 total. From there you get more info that leads to the next steps

[@tannermetcalfe1727]

It can be solved without guessing

[@jeffh8693]

Oh yeah you have a Chanel...immediately remembered why I don't watch with ads...so bye just wanted to leave comment on why I don't see you

[@kylekearson]

Matty's commentaary kind of ruined this 😂

[@poleary]

What an unexpectedly homophobic twist in this video.

[@atomknight8361]

The noid is gay?