Surviving The Deadliest 2-Player Game

Get an intro to the math of Russian Roulette with "Surviving the Deadliest Game": • Surviving The Deadlies...
We know from “Surviving the Deadliest Game” that there’s no more dangerous game than Russian Roulette. And is there any game stupider than a duel in which two people stand there and shoot at each other? No -- so what happens when you combine them?!
Legendary scientific thinkers Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison are about to find out as their balloon avatars battle it out for electrical supremacy.
In this scenario, there’s only one single gun that Edison and Tesla pass back and forth for each shot. Can that game actually be fair if someone can go first and win on the first shot? If the first player has a probabilistic advantage, how much is it?
Is it possible for us to adjust the game in such a way that the first player’s advantage is a lot more fair? Can you EVER have a perfectly fair turn-based game when it’s possible for a player to win on the first turn?
Oh, and there’s actually a way that you can use your phone as a random number generator to simulate a Russian Roulette game in a perfectly safe way.
We thought The War of the Currents was over, but it won’t be decided until today. Edison and Tesla will enter Vsauce2. Only one will leave.
** Sources/Further Reading **
Blom, Gunnar, et al. “General Russian Roulette.” Mathematics Magazine, vol. 69, no. 4, 1996, pp. 293-297. www.jstor.org/stable/2690538
Sammartino McPherson, Stephanie. “The War of the Currents: Thomas Edison vs Nikola Tesla“ www.amazon.com/War-Currents-S...
Nahin, Paul J. “Dueling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers.” www.amazon.com/Duelling-Idiot...
Jonnes, Jill: “Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World.” www.amazon.com/Empires-Light-...
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[@Vsauce2]

People are mentioning using dice as a Russian roulette simulator. DO YOU HAVE DICE IN YOUR POCKET? I DO. BUT DO YOU?

[@josephmeeks240]

ALWAYS

[@solarwolf678]

Maybe

[@angrynoodletwentyfive6463]

yes most of the time yes.

[@lzielinski4212]

DND player is always ready to play

[@jazzabighits4473]

I have dice on my desk. Also I wouldn't say this is the deadliest game, for example you could make a game out of everyone drinking cyanide and see who lives the longest.

[@treggosaurus]

We interviewed 500 people who had played russian roulette. All of them survived. Russian Roulette is a completely safe game to play.

[@eclecticsoffy]

Kids, this is why statistics are deceiving sometimes

[@jerecakes1]

survivorship bias best bias uwu

[@cl759]

@@eclecticsoffy statistics are always deceiving and that was a good example

[@eclecticsoffy]

@@cl759 yeah, not always, but a lot of times

[@cl759]

@@eclecticsoffy how so ? I found every single time it can be used to suit the needs, thus always deceiving

[@shlokippala7087]

My grandpa was so good at Russian roulette that he lost only once

[@TK--yf3yt]

Oh that's why he was soo good

[@blaineturner4993]

:|

[@polaarj4064]

Ok thats a good one

[@nicokilg8529]

Cool, hows he doing?

[@TK--yf3yt]

@@nicokilg8529 he would respond: he's cool, just visiting the grave for some years

[@Majorkill675]

I love the detail of him hesitating whenever shooting Tesla, but absolutely zero for Edison

[@kjohn5224]

tesla had a dark side though

[@IchiroSkywalker]

The Russian roulette I heard is a different version: Instead of shooting at their rival the one who goes first shoot his own head instead and then hand the pistol to his rival for his suicidal turn _without re-spin_ and so does the rival will hand it back without spinning the cartage again if he survives. And there is a trick for this version of roulette: if you goes first and you survived the 5th shot, instead of handing the revolver to your rival for his suicidal turn, do him a favor by shoot him directly because chances are as soon as he loaded the 6th guaranteed shot he will cheat by immediately point the gun at you and fire.

[@RomanNardone]

I'd be curious what the statistics were on if one person spun the chamber and the other one didn't

[@Ippikiryu]

@@RomanNardoneThe person who doesn’t respin the chamber only has a 4/5 chance of surviving an individual trial compared to the one who spins having 5/6.

[@RomanNardone]

@@Ippikiryu thanks I appreciate it 🙂 so are your calculations accounting for the nonspinner going first?

[@ctgsuchok740]

The Deer Hunter (1978)

[@mathguy37]

If i did the math correctly, it is actually perfectly even

[@benjamindover4337]

Pro tip: The odds are better if you don't use a revolver.

[@rjs6510]

Use a semi-automatic or fully-automatic instead

[@nervous556]

@@rjs6510 to be fair that reduces the odds to a nice even 50% coinflip

[@gabrielfraser2109]

If you use a Zip-22, it can take hours.

[@jazzabighits4473]

Use a musket

[@awwastor]

@@nervous556 You’re not wrong but I don’t like it,

[@danlowe]

At least you didn't miss Headison. But Tailsla was right there too.

[@hel2727]

@Luca 245 it's coming

[@imbob99999]

Omg is tesla u stoopeed human person 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 do rebserc bafor yoo say a E Me've the smartest and thik brayn *h*

[@mr.waterbucket]

@@imbob99999 I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not. If not, r/wooooooooooosh.

[@nanomoltoalto1589]

@@mr.waterbucket bro you don't understand, you don't have the thik brain

[@l.t.c8.1.46]

@@mr.waterbucket I actually think you got wooooooooshed

[@shoecan2047]

So you could say, that Tesla and Edison’s rivalry is still a “current” event

[@countrycoffeecup7772]

Haha, that's an ole knee slapper (forgive my uncommon terminology, I just find that better than making a drum kit onomatopoeia)

[@isaacmalik3714]

yeah but it's not really because they're both dead ages ago lol

[@countrycoffeecup7772]

@@isaacmalik3714 Open a dictionary, go to the J chapter. Find a word spelt Jay - Oh - Kay - Ee.

[@natantitelbaum6061]

Ah history repeats itself

[@themilkman1938]

I was always routing for Tesla I new he would get a "direct" hit

[@ZelPie]

You can tell that he’s actually genuinely having fun lol

[@SvetlinTotev]

"you can run a russian roulette simulation without a computer program" *pulls out a computer from his pocket* *uses a computer program* ...

[@nobody5093]

he said "you can" not that he would

[@syweb2]

He probably meant "dedicated computer program," or a program meant specifically for that simulation.

[@maxhuzen6329]

He also calls a stopwatch a random number generator, which it definitely is not.

[@syweb2]

@@maxhuzen6329 I think he's referring to the _viewer_ as the random number generator. It's a little unclear, though.

[@Sporrik]

@@maxhuzen6329 Many "random number generators" are actually just stopwatches. They use time in the same exact way he did in the video (but to a more precise decimal) to determine "random number."

[@Lettuce1]

Fun fact: 5 out of 6 people find Russian Roulette a completely safe game

[@anthonyliloia2022]

Nice

[@sotminXD]

Well the 1 that does not find the russian roulette a safe game won't be able to tell us the reason :/

[@Lettuce1]

@@sotminXD thats why nobody knows why it is safe for only 5 out of 6 people and not fun for the whole family

[@sotminXD]

@@Lettuce1 It's all fun and safe, until the quiet kid of the family that is ignored, brings out an AR-15 C:

[@Lettuce1]

@@sotminXD next he brings it to school

[@ElderonAnalas]

interesting that this is the first time i've heard of spinning the chamber again after handing it over to the next player, usually the first person loads, spins, pulls, and just passes it over, player 2 just pulls the trigger again.

[@WoWhistorian]

Yeah, I was confused when he suggested that each time one person's round fails, the next person gets one more shot because I thought that eventually it would just reach a point where one person gets all six shots and is guaranteed a victory lol. Spinning it each time does make more sense.

[@nanochad2979]

@@WoWhistorian also it is possible to rig if you know what ur doing so it makes sense for the second person to spin as well

[@6272355463637]

There was a flash game like that back in the day. You know, when flash games were still a thing.

[@ElderonAnalas]

@@6272355463637 there are a handful of flash emulator plug-ins still going around, and if you were like me and saved the .swf files, you can still run them with the standalone player

[@6272355463637]

@@ElderonAnalas Didn't know how to do that back then - I was quite new to the internet. But the game I'm thinking about differed from how this video played out, too. You could choose to spin the drum.

[@zohakhan8714]

plot twist: he took out the bullet when it was tesla's chance

[@MINECRAFTLOVER4000]

nah you can see the bullet tho

[@tophat6511]

@@MINECRAFTLOVER4000 r/woooosh

[@alecjosephson8540]

Look at 9:00 how he reaches back to grab the bullet

[@q_fxed]

@@alecjosephson8540 he grabed the pen…

[@codyarmentrout6438]

U can see it

[@Tytoalba777]

Alternate title: “Balloon forces other balloons to shoot each other”

[@ceddyd]

Nice.

[@trueaidooo]

Where is real Kevin?

[@tonyf3431]

are you calling him a bag of wind?

[@tonyf3431]

@@snowwsquire would you prefer I say he's full of hot air?

[@Mx.Chowder]

The music fades, and with a dazed look on his face: "Headison."

[@ayush.kumar.13907]

so if Tesla gets Tails thats "Tailsla"

[@differentturret9890]

11:09 top 10 saddest anime deaths

[@mechanick]

I think only randomizing once in the beginning, and just firing consecutively afterward, would make it an even 50/50... at that point there's a maximum turn count (6), and parameters for victory (even or odd) which aren't affected by who goes first. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[@glebkachur8033]

can we just appreciate the attention to detail?? he got 2 pringles cans and took the time to design them suits, hands and even a bow tie, as well as drawing a face on a balloon, sticking google eyes on it and sticking it to the can. this man is amazing

[@monohymn]

His wife is the crafty one...

[@jakelencher817]

thats not really that hard to do.

[@brazenpo6408]

@@jakelencher817 Yes, but that's not the point, it's that he didn't have to do it but he still did it

[@seetiisoaho2403]

I have done it since i saw this the first time.

[@kingatlas5066]

How'd you know it was a Pringles can fatass Joke

[@Bacony_Cakes]

After stealing every technology that can ever be, Edison begins killing his rivals.

[@silvertheelf]

Hahaha 😂 brilliant my friend.

[@minebrandon95264]

He is killing the competition

[@Egg-mw6iq]

@@AxxLAfriku oh no it's you again 😂

[@nunyabiznes33]

Some guy in France disappeared in a train to Paris with his invention. Later Edison comes out with something similar. Brother sued. Brother died in a "hunting accident".

[@nunyabiznes33]

@@Isometrix116 of course! Always. Never forget.

[@Emanemoston]

That was so much fun to watch and learn!

[@mt.everst3433]

nobody: Kevin literally every second: But wait there's more

[@ikusA74]

Introducing, the TRUE deadliest game! War with somebody who owns multiple nukes while you dont!

[@arbel1990]

The best proven way to guarantee a win in a Russian Roulette is with another gun in your pocket... You will have to kill all the players before the game starts... It's the exact same outcome as you would have won if you played by the rules... Plus, No one left alive to blame you for cheating...

[@livedandletdie]

No a toast to keep the courage is the best way to win Russian Roulette. Good old Pal Polonium...

[@hakanbackman371]

i can comfirm this works

[@nicokilg8529]

I mean yeah it works, but my backyard cant fit anymore skeletons... But I have an idea. Massive Death ray. Cart it in and say it's a surprise, and when the game starts, BLAM. No cleanup, my backyard can finally rest.

[@socialistrepublicofvietnam1259]

Can confim, never lost a Match once

[@MrDalgard]

3 People can keep a secret, If 2 of them are dead.

[@misterfeola9268]

Your videos are AMAZING!! I TRULY WISH YOU ALWAYS LOVE MATH.

[@bicivelo]

This is one of the most entertaining videos I've seen in a long time! Hilarious! Nice work 😅😅😅

[@psewdymcpseudonym9852]

I love how excited he gets when the balloons survive.

[@myowncomputerstuff]

That was such an intense scene to watch.

[@tntbrine5237]

Yeah, that's because he's also a balloon.

[@BenTheSkipper]

same

[@Charming_TCO]

I absolutely agree ahaha

[@TheGodOfInsanty]

I see balloon Kevin has brought some of his friends

[@abhijitprajapati3764]

lol

[@deankrahling6060]

yes

[@shaunakbrahme9683]

You mean the "Real Kevin"

[@ChatGPT-IV]

LMAO

[@luistheugliestdude1909]

yes

[@pandagirl7144]

I just love how he was having so much fun playing that game

[@PoqpJlaH_nenera]

this video is so good that I actually presented some ideas from it in my little project for highschool , amazing!

[@badbovine7427]

Video's purpose: how to make a game of killing more fair. Bloody brilliant.

[@MCMaterac]

Haha, yeah. A pity Headison still had an advantage. I'd do this that way: Headison spins and shoots. Tesla shoots. Repeat till dead end ;) It easy to see it's perfectly fair as the chance of bullet after spinning being in the first chamber is the same as in second (if we neglect the off-center mass of the bullet causing slightly uneven spin). Alternatively it can be: First baloon spins, shoots and passes the gun. In each next step a baloon shoots, spins, shoots again, passes the gun. Also 50 - 50, but both get chance at spinning.

[@German_New_State]

*Bloody* like literally Bloody

[@brandenhall4063]

It's not a game of killing....it's a game of dying

[@x97sfinest]

That "this video was sponsored by no one" was so aggressive lol

[@nunyabiznes33]

"This could have been you here"

[@myplaybox2178]

5 out of 6 people think russian roulette is completely safe.

[@nacoran]

You could make the NFL coin flip much closer to even with a simple change... the team that wins the coin flip would still have a 52% chance to win, but if you made it so the team that lost the coin flip only had to tie to win you'd get them up to 48%. It would also create an interesting choice... let the team that wins the coin toss decide to either receive, in which case they have to win to win, or to receive, in which case they would win or tie to win. That could create an interesting tactical decision. A team with a really strong defense might choose to kick with their only goal being to stop the other team from scoring.

[@koko-lores]

Don't know about (american) football, but isn't it much easier to enforce a tie than to score, which is a prerequisite for winning?

[@harmonicafruitbananatoonie3261]

Wow, balloon Kevin got the real Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla. If only real Kevin were here to see this

[@yagmiramen4097]

?? But there was only 2 balloons

[@zatanfromhell7718]

@@yagmiramen4097 r/woooosh

[@ViratKohli-jj3wj]

@@yagmiramen4097 r/woooosh

[@SoI-]

@@yagmiramen4097 r/woooosh

[@tammyoldman6083]

@@yagmiramen4097 r/woooosh

[@engreyight]

"without a computer program" **pulls out a phone**

[@tntbrine5237]

He kniw that you can just search rng on google and google will give you a random number, right?

[@ava_niche]

@@tntbrine5237 The numbers generated by computers are pseudo-random, they're not actually random.

[@janekkouril476]

@@ava_niche the stopwatch method is dependent on humans, I think that computers are more random.

[@nikhilpolekar8325]

@@janekkouril476 it's opposite. Computers are pseudorandom. Humans are more random than a programmed machine.

[@Reashu]

@@nikhilpolekar8325 Ask 100 people to choose random numbers from 1-100 and I bet you'll see some reproducible outliers. Ask a class of students to "fake" a series of 50 coinflips and it'll typically look "more random" than a real one, which will often have "patterns" like six heads or tails in a row - a random outcome which humans consider non-random. A person could, probably quite reliably, stop the timer in a designated region of they so wish. Human behavior can be used to generate randomness, but it has to be something we don't directly control. If you want a result which is unpredictable (by someone who has access to a normal person's resources), computer PRNG will probably do much better than any human choice. Many computers *do* use subconscious human input to seed their randomness. If you have fine enough control to affect that in a predictable way, you could definitely control a dice roll or timer.

[@michaelyoung6381]

He is having so much fun with these

[@spookyskelly5276]

Rhapsody in Blue... nice. Such a wonderful song wonderfully in the public domain as of recently. Will probably hear it all over now.

[@beowolf9480]

fun fact about Duels: they were very formally done, and they were made specifically so that odds are, assuming it even got to shooting, neither of them died by having the barrel of the gun be very small, causing the bullet to bounce around in it, and, most duels in the first place never even got to the shooting, people tend to assume that duels were informal, but in reality, there was a whole process, basically, if your pride was challenged, you would challenge the person to a duel, assuming they don't back down, you pick your second, who is there to basically there to just talk to the other second and try and resolve the issue, so the seconds are essentially peacemakers, then you have a doctor on site, turned around, etc etc, like I said, there's a lot of formalities, and few even got to the shooting

[@where_is_sauce]

Also, a lot of these duels used an "fake bullet" that only made the noise and a little smoke, so they didn't get hurt

[@snapcircuit9135]

Don’t worry, I watched Hamilton.

[@beowolf9480]

@@snapcircuit9135 I did watch Hamilton, but that was never mentioned in it

[@beowolf9480]

@Jack Rainwater I have

[@charanickles3812]

You sound like you listened to Alexander Hamilton and you're just rehashing what was sung >w>

[@TheGamerMan64]

I love how the comment section has this secret agreement to not spoil who gets shot

[@ViratKohli-jj3wj]

Tesla(sorry)

[@andermium]

Edison(sorry)

[@pkmntrainermark8881]

Balloon Kevin(sorry)

[@0bread286]

Edison(sorry)

[@thef13key]

Tesla(sorry)

[@pabloriazagutierrez9633]

The music was incredible!!

[@DavideCosmaro]

He actually forgot to put in the rubber bullet, and he realized his mistake only in the last round

[@samuelbako2692]

this felt like 2 actual people were playing but they were just baloons, it was intense

[@brownie3454]

like the pixar short that played before A bug’s life

[@angelpulido7841]

Great storytelling.

[@tiedeman39]

I'm glad to see 3 Balloon characters enjoying themselves

[@flybyj1384]

Glad?? The one in the middle has forced the other two to kill each other, it’s sad

[@spencerdumlao1654]

Ballon kelvin: …

[@orysso]

Im way to excited about this duel!

[@Batmans_Pet_Goldfish]

I thoroughly appreciate the use of Rhapsody in Blue in the beginning.

[@lucaswallace7476]

"Anything...more dangerous" *Quickly hides .38 special snakeshot.*

[@truegamer2097]

Why not actually make it even more of a duel: each one gets a gun, both spin and pass it to the other, and both shoot their opponent simultaneously?

[@marcelobulhoes6180]

That makes both of them losing possible

[@truegamer2097]

@@marcelobulhoes6180 though true, it's still a fair duel with Russian Roulette mixed in.

[@fasebingterfe6354]

hmmmmmmmm

[@pbnetto]

Certainly one will shoot before the other just to guarantee his life if both guns are loaded.

[@truegamer2097]

@@pbnetto not if the shot is automatically timed after the roulette is spun

[@lucabertoldi1872]

Amazing work Kevin. Can you calculate the probability if the second player get One more shot than the First player? Than on the second round the First player can have two shot and the second player can get three and so on?

[@NickAndriadze]

I think the best way to approach the inherent unfair advantage that the player who goes first gets is making the one who went second fire 2 shots, but then every subsequent shot returnes to only 1. This case it's also not the insanity of the survivor getting so much better of a chance at winning because *BOOM,* they get some 69420 shots in one round now!

[@chowdown]

11:02 You can actually see the dart in the chamber for about two or three frames when he swings the gun around.

[@jamespotter1436]

Oh yea there was that blue bit

[@sasavlaisavljevic824]

But after he was done with re-spinning the cylinder a few seconds before, the bullet actually ended up 3 frames away from being fired. So, it wasn't truly "random" or honest.

[@miloc9900]

“You’re not going to believe this. And if you do, I won’t believe you!” I’m using that

[@albertholl4836]

Not gonna lie, I thought "Headison" and when he said it I couldn't stop laughing.

[@AreEnTee]

Headison & Tailsla

[@connorw6335]

I’m ten seconds into this video and the rhapsody in blue is already giving me ptsd

[@Mr_Yeah]

Vsauce2: saying that you can actually run Russian Roulette simulations yourself without a computer program 10 seconds later: pulling out a smartphone and starting an app

[@niikiyama]

never seen a guy this happy just from playing with balloons dressed as people before

[@nilsragnar1347]

What is the music at 9:13 ? Edit: Found it in another comment, for anyone wondering it's Rhasody in Blue by George Gershwin

[@slickestbatlog2514]

Never thought I would tense up so much watching balloons play nerf

[@nitzajimenez5811]

me, an English major who can't even add: "yeah, seems legit, his math checks out"

[@Sheridantank]

I love that you felt the need to qualify your comment by adding that you’re an “English major” but didn’t use capitalization or punctuation. Not to mention that majoring in language studies is pretty lame. Literally the only thing it teaches you is to sound smart but know nothing.

[@kugelblitzingularity304]

@@Sheridantank bad day?

[@Sheridantank]

@@kugelblitzingularity304 How does it feel to be so sensitive?

[@nitzajimenez5811]

@@Sheridantank wtf dude chill, this is a comment section not a college essay. You clearly missed the joke by a lot. Todo bien en casa??

[@Sheridantank]

@@nitzajimenez5811 Again, another overly sensitive sheep with an opinion. Thanks for proving my point. Why would you comment in a second language when speaking to someone who has given no indication of being multilingual? Because it makes you FEEL smart.

[@jacoblambert1586]

Music: Rhasody in Blue, George Gershwin For anybody wondering

[@ayushpaul6863]

OH THANK YOU I AS SEARCHING FOR THIS!!!

[@superkoff1]

Noticed it right away! 👌🏿✨✨

[@3lEctrikah]

Thank you so much! It sounded so familiar and nostalgic but I didn't know where I had heard it before. Turns out its ingrained into my memory from that old animated film Fantasia 2000 .

[@attilamagyar91]

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

[@Uselessmff41]

Me: I'm gonna go to bed early tonight Me at 4am:

[@javiersierra6887]

love the music :)

[@wrecker3318]

Glad to know that my friend and I have almost even odds of killing each other!

[@cherrybombcoffee]

Rhapsody in Blue plays Vsauce2 a fellow genius

[@DUGHBYO]

Duds i was listening to gershwin earlier, the videp kinda scread me cause i thought i was hearing things. Great peice tho

[@Ash_Tallant]

I came down to the comments specifically to find someone who noticed ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ being played, I’m glad I didn’t have to scroll far!

[@Nooticus]

OHHH I knew I heard it before!!! I was looking in the description for the music haha

[@FreeTimeFeats]

Thank you fantasia 2000 for expanding seven year old me's musical tastes! A classic!

[@10--50]

9:30 All I can think of when I hear this song is that I'm boarding a united flight

[@Someman1209]

Incredible Kevin Great Math

[@Autumnly]

“I will need two complete morons-“ *sign me up.*

[@Bell-ih5ln]

lol

[@Mauripsu]

Can I be the second moron?

[@henryboianimations4869]

@@Mauripsu Can I also be the second moron?

[@Mauripsu]

@@henryboianimations4869 We can all be the second moron

[@Danilego]

What happens if we play the game with 3 morons?

[@aldothelizard6669]

Feeling anxiety every time kevin pulled the trigger

[@windzero00w0]

Hey Kevin, check my math here but I think I can make it completely fair: If player 2 doesn't spin the cylinder (or can choose to spin the cylinder, but it's best if he doesn't spin), a quick math gave me the chance of player 1 winning to be exactly 50%. Player 1 still have to spin the cylinder every time, of course.

[@gabrielamaral978]

Man, if you want the most fair game of russian rullet, use a semi-automatic pistol. If the coin is a fair one, this is a perfect 50/50.

[@tubbykids00]

I'm surprised he didn't slap one of the balloon''s face and screamed didi mao!

[@ishaangattu5315]

He is WAYYYY too excited for their demise

[@jollow250]

Your reaction every time it missed always made me smile without failure.

[@peikkolapio]

Loved the video like always. One question.Why you pull the trigger with your middle finger when most of the world uses index finger ?

[@bertob7417]

Rhapsody in bflat in the background is amazing

[@thebiglink]

“Dooooooooooo!” -Kevin 2020

[@Luca_5425]

9:58

[@Luca_5425]

10:20

[@Luca_5425]

And it goes on

[@thebiglink]

Thanks Luca, very cool

[@Luca_5425]

@@thebiglink you're welcome!

[@gingerinajacket8519]

Ah yes, the video where 3 balloons play Russian roullete

[@NetheriteMiner]

Waiting for his response saying I'm real Kevin

[@mobileterrarian8860]

I thought there was only one.

[@TK--yf3yt]

Wait 3.....?

[@gingerinajacket8519]

@@TK--yf3yt yes 3. Balloon Tesla, Balloon Kevin, and Balloon Edison. That is 3 balloons

[@TK--yf3yt]

@@gingerinajacket8519 uhm i did t whatch full video soo he might have added a new balloon

[@eferguson5369]

Thanks for the tutorial

[@TheTwisterlink]

Very good choice of music. rhapsody in blue is great

[@dielip1781]

seeing just how excited kevin gets when a shot misses is the best part

[@Reashu]

If you want it fair, use the "ABBA" sequence, or don't spin between shots.

[@Goldy01]

I had to scroll way too much to find a person that suggests to NOT spin the chamber between shots. Isn't that how it's supposed to be played? lol

[@Danicker]

Im curious, is the ABBA sequence the only fair solution?

[@RishabhSharma10225]

Someone please explain what's the ABBA sequence!

[@Icalasari]

@@RishabhSharma10225 Edison shoots, Tesla shoots, Tesla shoots, Edison shoots

[@Kara_Kay_Eschel]

ABBA? Waterloo, Take A chance on me, or Dancing Queen?

[@Stigma536]

11:07 Tesla: *Dies Vsauce: *Proceeds to turn into a cow

[@da-boi6007]

Happy holidays, from, Vsauce2. *proceeds to talk about Russian roulette*

[@NovaAge]

am I the one that's triggered by the fact that he pulls the trigger with his middle finger?

[@conradrobinson7941]

Yes

[@Lybrel]

Yes. But it’s a Nerf gun and he’d have to use his index finger to pull the safety if it were a real gun so he gets a pass 🤔

[@muranziel]

Interesting. How triggers are used, trggers you.

[@james4v261]

*squeeze

[@lucasng4712]

@@Lybrel no..you thumb a safety

[@wierdpeopleotherdude1422]

I played this with my friends once except all of the 6 barrels were loaded and there were 7 of us I haven’t heard from them in a while I wonder what’s wrong

[@BoardGameDave]

So much scrolling and still didn’t see a comment about the music! It’s “Rhapsody in Blue” by American composer George Gershwin, a masterpiece in jazz/“classical” fusion, written in less than a month! Great choice for this video! 🎶

[@manwithouttalents3741]

Love how we can see the dart

[@connorconnor2421]

I was hoping he'd crush Edison at the end

[@hudgynsasdarl6967]

Edison won by stealing the bullet

[@ivanzlatev9298]

If Edison goes first, then Tesla has two shots and then they start taking turns with one shot each, Edison will have 48.2% chance of winning and Tesla - 51.8%

[@theoldfinalchapters8319]

Better yet, just have them do two shots indefinitely after Edison's single shot.

[@ivanzlatev9298]

@@theoldfinalchapters8319 Yes, in this case it's 50.8% for Edison and 49.2% for Tesla

[@andermium]

Wouldn't it be even better to use the sequence ETTETEETTEETETTETEETETTEETTETEET I guess it's called the “fair-share sequence” (that's what I read in another comment) You can generate it by starting with E and then forever replacing each E by ET and each T by TE Or you can by putting the same sequence you already have behind it and flipping the E's and T's

[@ivanzlatev9298]

@@andermium You can also define this sequence in another, maybe a little more complicated way: take the sequence cscccscscscccscccscccscscscccsc It is defined in the following way: You start with c, then write s and repeat the sequence before it, then write c and repeat the sequence, then write s and repeated it, then write c and repeated it, and so on. Now you start with E and every time there is c - change the letter, every time there is s - it stays the same.

[@odedsayar4345]

​@@ivanzlatev9298 I've wrote a short script in python to optimize the game - where each round the player less likely to have won so far takes a shot. Edison's turns are represented with 1's, Tesla's with 0's. Got the following sequence: 1001011001100110011001011001100110011001101001100101100110011001... Turned it to hexa for a more compressed representation: 9666659999a65999a5a6665a659999a659a665a65a5a. When stopped, the difference between their chances to win is ~1.55e-15 (in Tesla's favour surprisingly), and the chance for a tie is ~9.6e-15). Obvious patterns are hard to find, though it does start along with ETTE-TEET-TEET and then breaks out and even presents other viable 4-turn-blocks: 5=TETE, a=ETET

[@Audjem1]

The Carny music for this is just great

[@VortekStarling]

This is why the dealer in blackjack has the advantage, getting busted is the same as the gun firing. You have to risk getting busted first, so if there were no 3 to 2 payout for a blackjack, no doubling and no splitting, the dealer would have about a 54 something percent chance of winning, with a slight variation depending on which cards were already dealt. If it were an infinite deck it would be that.

[@CaptComical]

The music building up before each trigger pull had me thinking “this one’s definitely the bullet” every time

[@violeteastwood3241]

"You took a shot and it did you in," "EDISON'S MEDICINE!"

[@CWLFroge]

thanks for showing how to win every nerf battle, with that dart :D

[@ThePhysicalReaction]

Wolverine is so badass he plays russian roulette and doesn't spin the barrel - just to get a good nights sleep

[@Madmij]

The excitement was contagious

[@qazzzyqaz5517]

Really was

[@bradleyvernon7973]

If Edison gets one shot and then every turn after that is 2 shots I get probabilities of 50.8% and 49.2%. This is the basis of a “snake” draft or you could call it switching who goes first each round. I wonder why this wasn’t used considering its a more obvious approach and produces closer probabilities.

[@JohnDoe-hs5vq]

My thoughts exactly!

[@BartonMaxwell]

Also tie breaks in tennis use this format due who serves.

[@6272355463637]

Yeah, wondered about that, too. Still not perfect but certainly closer (and it felt closer, too).

[@brettcyr7426]

If you only spin the cylinder at the start of each players turn, the probabilities are 52.2% and 47.8%. Slightly more fair than Vsauce's approach and slightly less fair than your approach. However, it puts a definite limit on the duration game and makes any 6th round a hell of a lot more fun to watch XD.

[@BioTheHuman]

If Tesla gets 3 shots only for 2 round and then everyone get 2 shots. Wouldn't it be even closer to 50/50?

[@ppierce]

That took so long that I thought they would deflate before they got shot

[@nucance102]

could you imagine the torture of the anticipation of a 6 shot round of roulette?

[@micmac1719]

I thoroughly enjoyed "Head-ison"

[@nekolalia3389]

The odds change depending on the amount of available information, so to even it out you remove some information. Two guns. One bullet/dart. Nobody peeks down the chambers. Guns are swapped between each set of simultaneous shots.

[@crelos3549]

This is like playing Jenga, you feel confident until is your turn again

[@Ridlay_]

The last few minutes were just him having fun with odds.