The Hardest Easy Game

[@Vsauce2]

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.

[@ketsu1503]

he didn't have his pants on i guess

[@reverse5461]

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

[@lukeahandsa]

take the L

[@kyden1329]

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..

[@JSephH76]

@@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

[@racool911]

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

[@zythex4385]

I think it's more like both + tetris

[@tcg1_qc]

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

[@zythex4385]

@@tcg1_qc shh

[@zythex4385]

@@ream1622 no, why would you do that?

[@TheCrash480]

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

[@__M.K.]

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

[@ElectroTiger]

Same

[@bpdoijfd]

Me three

[@milkylights2]

damnit

[@msiio]

That's....... The hardest part

[@_fnt_8628]

No strategic principles works with that one

[@shepherd3718]

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

[@user-mw8hu5be7n]

THREE FRICKIN D

[@Nova38797]

Todoroki

[@user-mw8hu5be7n]

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

[@rycedj3319]

Maybe to give us a seizure

[@GSFigure]

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

[@jerry3790]

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

[@demerion]

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

[@goomy9966]

Tell us kevin TELL US

[@mrorion4794]

He just showed some pants while talking about the sponsor

[@lpsfoxstar8454]

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

[@ZenoDLC]

Does he need to?

[@leonelpowers5979]

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.

[@zanr6943]

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

[@EASReviewer]

I can imagine waluigi say that

[@overlordcringe2715]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@generalbacon7476]

Wahhh

[@rynew]

Wal-elegy

[@86BarbOmega]

Luigi Fredo

[@ketsu1503]

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

[@danielabay8872]

grammar is out of here too

[@latoon4194]

ketsu ] Easiest*

[@ketsu1503]

@@danielabay8872 lol sry

[@ketsu1503]

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

[@ZeroSleap]

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

[@bluehoodie_gamer6867]

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

[@irrelevant_noob]

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

[@conairehorgan2456]

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

[@immaparrot2824]

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

[@BernieYoda]

Or the 1,7 sec pit stop by Guido

[@alejrandom6592]

oh

[@stillrabit73]

He did what In his cup?

[@bw-leftturnracing7779]

He actually blew a 1 lap lead

[@andreabarone4964]

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

[@mysterymeat4197]

Hahaahhahahahahahahahzaha

[@LeventK]

ROFL

[@Havron]

7 0 7

[@andreabarone4964]

@Z-Games Pro i liked it

[@LeventK]

@@andreabarone4964 hey dude you ruined it

[@Kaepsele337]

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.

[@ThrottleKitty]

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

[@elementoproductions6005]

*buzzer!*

[@elementoproductions6005]

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

[@ThrottleKitty]

actually i'm a cat tyvm

[@christianjordansuryadi341]

@Mantra Mahajan hm

[@ukatofarticus9046]

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

[@kherii.]

Ukato Farticus yes please

[@digitalbarks5705]

B O N E L E S S P I Z Z A

[@DickKick]

🅱️ O N E L E S S

[@alphastar12]

700th like

[@pandydoesstuff5817]

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

[@bmgsplushworld8205]

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

[@littolicce]

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

[@CottonTheCat]

F

[@thevictorhaha]

F

[@chadbroski6711]

F

[@lavalordYT]

F

[@1000karlcool]

F

[@MrMitchbow]

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

[@crimzonshooter]

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

[@jadenjohnson8389]

Speed runner?

[@crimzonshooter]

@@jadenjohnson8389 nah, just good with AI abuse

[@Lucvs169]

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

[@Sir-Taco]

# lakewood20 lol

[@robfielding100]

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

[@The_sleppers]

oof

[@luxariaheart]

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

[@backseatsurfer5005]

Lol

[@LastEmblem]

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.

[@shuvisenpai651]

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

[@pasijutaulietuviuesas9174]

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.

[@jacekniedzielski9837]

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

[@jacekniedzielski9837]

(I think)

[@LastEmblem]

@@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.

[@sha_663]

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]

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

[@tristanjones7623]

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

[@zedex1226]

Taking the top stop for weirdest never-nude variant.

[@blvckgoogle]

Sorry, but Snapback staying on during s*x

[@kherii.]

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

[@tzisorey]

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

[@Figgy20000]

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.

[@tzisorey]

@@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.

[@karlik4861]

smh vsouce 2 i biased

[@Ceelvain]

@@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.

[@Figgy20000]

@@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.

[@LocalMaple]

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.

[@OP_eLaniM]

The simplest game Michael: Or is it?

[@AchievingAchievement]

Hey, Micheal, Vsauce here.

[@goshawk6153]

This is Kevin

[@viditpandey9101]

@@goshawk6153 Or is he?

[@AidebHerb]

sriram n or do you?

[@latioshunter]

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

[@TheAndermany]

Same

[@KaeOlerti]

They had us in the first half not gonna lie

[@thewendysguy2172]

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

[@databaseinformacion4373]

👍

[@megasonichunterramirez3231]

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

[@gemmamalo96]

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

[@sylver369]

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

[@drmonkeys852]

@@sylver369 Just click the first link in the description

[@twbvqc]

agreed

[@ravrav6433]

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

[@joaorodrigues1477]

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.

[@awesomeninja1311]

No if u lose u have to take the l

[@databaseinformacion4373]

@Zoie Pogoreski i think is a joke

[@Navoii.]

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

[@Lil_mally_world]

Timestamp?

[@Seb_Kowalke]

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.

[@GG_4_ETERNITY]

How do you make the pieces.

[@Goastyy]

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

[@FoxSlyme]

When? I missed that moment

[@ducky0nqu4ck94]

Show the timestamp

[@KoyasuNoBara]

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?

[@SG2048-meta]

@@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

[@DTheAustralian]

Damn, didn’t know Tetris was THAT hard.

[@wesguyer4182]

Giorno killed polpo, shouldn't you be dead

[@wesguyer4182]

Black Sabbath I mean

[@DTheAustralian]

Wes Guyer You can’t kill a shadow dude

[@wesguyer4182]

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

[@moldyshoess]

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

[@georgecharles941]

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.

[@STANNco]

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

[@Staggedtree]

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

[@tracy9610]

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

[@matthewmchenry2889]

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

[@catfood2]

I cant unsee it

[@Speedpunk650]

the lighting makes him look like Nerd City

[@julius_trifinity]

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

[@mordet2]

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

[@KaliTakumi]

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

[@shadowbread6616]

"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.

[@lev7509]

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.

[@altayklc9047]

well you gotta save some time to sleep

[@darktaro9249]

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

[@joythecat1950]

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

[@aidenhanson884]

Heh.

[@christopherdiedrich40]

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

[@namansingla2975]

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

[@bellaarboleda8782]

What no

[@xdfixstudio366]

I was about to write the same thing XD

[@jo_nm9484]

What no

[@meherinmouly]

What no (can we make a chain?)

[@xdfixstudio366]

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

[@oliviavillarr]

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

[@alejrandom6592]

no

[@miztahrayeproductions2942]

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

[@jacobswind4497]

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

[@Asian.Thomas]

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

[@sonal8109]

Very funny

[@pewdiepieisstillabadyoutub4490]

Nobody: Las Vegas:

[@JQ3B94]

British people: :O

[@arkanon8661]

@@JQ3B94 yep... exactly

[@angelolouis3253]

Teacher: The test is easy. THE TEST:

[@Cat-ki3hy]

It's supposed to be the easiest game possible

[@cjfdnqkn4374]

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

[@rubyblockmc]

11:10 is the BEST way to demonstrate how 2 negatives can make a positive

[@pdpauldelaney]

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

[@pdpauldelaney]

Thx bro

[@outside8312]

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

[@shortyshawty]

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

[@Caligula1488]

D!NG*

[@linuxstreamer8910]

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

[@narusferree6506]

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

[@xogdo5260]

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

[@daniguay88]

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

[@stutiarya]

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

[@stephaniaworthington4129]

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

[@volt7958]

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

[@sansdusttale7224]

It is nintendo switch

[@databaseinformacion4373]

@@volt7958 f#

[@GrifoStelle]

@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

[@itsyaboimike9010]

When is the anime of the L game coming out

[@sephirothbahamut245]

I clicked on the link, won my first match vs AI, I don't want to play it anymore so I'll keep a 100% winrate

[@PeepsMichael]

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

[@ketsu1503]

😂

[@scrap5051]

its funny cause its so relatable!

[@F3zyX]

LMFAOO

[@warGasmshit]

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

[@cristiandior2805]

@@warGasmshit ok boomer

[@waterain7774]

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

[@Figgy20000]

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

[@geradosolusyon511]

@@Figgy20000 but it does train your brain

[@elindauer]

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

[@Majestic469]

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

[@koala.symphony]

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

[@weegee9616]

Isn't the other L blue?

[@fortunes11]

ferre feys yes

[@calvyno_the_dumbass]

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

[@manojo123]

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

[@georgios_5342]

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

[@Notester82]

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

[@stanleydodds9]

Not to mention all those L-spins he was doing

[@jimothyjimothy1]

tf is a perfect clear?

[@stanleydodds9]

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

[@Notester82]

@@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!

[@cookiecyborg24]

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.

[@mandolinic]

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 😂😂😂

[@thejellybeangamer3284]

Nobody: Not a soul: *Knight*

[@christovac]

Tccoydgyfdjdkdrjydfjdcfykcfycfukcutcugkcgocougcugkckygckgycugocky&ykfccfyjcfkycgkycfkyc ITS A KNIGHT

[@charadremur333]

@@christovac nah

[@ardydyandra4788]

@@christovac nope

[@lockiemcneven7219]

Ostroth not in chess lol

[@adrian.h2938]

*knight

[@YesNO-bn3pq]

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

[@xXx_Oshino_xXx]

He isn’t wrong

[@XVYQ_EY]

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

[@mitchelob111]

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

[@thechair6519]

0:59 me opening my "homework" folder

[@hypenheimer]

?

[@hypenheimer]

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

[@thechair6519]

wait i dont remember commenting this on this exact video

[@meroaso4932]

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

[@garythesnail8863]

This guy could talk about literally anything and still be interesting

[@itsatalex3059]

This just sounds like a really simple chess. Trap their L(king), strategize how each move will affect the next, and you have to think in advance

[@ViratKohli-jj3wj]

I am Human

[@powerpug964]

Chess but easier.

[@JustinLe]

chess but every rule is different

[@Yaksha_]

Chess but in tetris..

[@chrisandrew7577]

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

[@davidtran5812]

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

[@AustinJASMR]

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

[@cjfdnqkn4374]

No

[@eclecticsoffy]

Let's not

[@shadowstorm7094]

This should not trigger me, but it did. About the tetris pieces: It's L, O, Z, I, T (And if we count the 2 variants of L and Z it's J ans S). just needed to point that out, anyway have a nice day

[@nishantchatterjee3049]

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

[@goroakechi3194]

Off*

[@thepumpkinpigs1688]

Off*

[@sidhaantnagpal586]

This is so much like chess! Easy to learn but really difficult to master!

[@Blankult]

Yes, but actually no

[@jeremyharwell7070]

Also tic-tac-toe.

[@laikaperraespacial6025]

Yeag

[@rdooski]

@@jeremyharwell7070 Tic-tac-toe is closer to Monopoly than it is to this.

[@oledakaajel]

@@jeremyharwell7070 tic tac toe always ends in a draw for any slightly experienced players. Stopped being fun when I was 12

[@ariesyana]

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

[@friedrichdergroe6361]

4:10 you had 4 possible moves, you could just flip the L piece so it looks like an L

[@davidkumarmahto8187]

It's the other piece you have to move

[@thatoneleaf9895]

The VSauces: Overcomplicating things to make them more interesting I learn

[@MaveRick01]

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

[@marissasmith2827]

When he made the 2 L's a W... I felt that.

[@Alex_MB]

5 day course about this game: *exists* vsauce: im about to end this Man whole career

[@siyacer]

What?

[@Alex_MB]

@@siyacer what?!

[@ella6547]

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'.

[@Lip22Gloss]

I haven't watched vsauce in so long! I'm so excited to see this video 😍

[@badasschannel-c9u]

Vsause: is alive Everyone: braincell time

[@lucamengo8853]

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

[@jewelxiat]

Broke: this just seems like a simpler Chess Woke: C H E C K E R S?

[@charleswillhite5375]

Two people playing checkers perfectly every time will have the same outcome every time.

[@wysysaczkrwi2312]

You're interrupting me studying for my math test

[@saltypupper17]

Jajaja pathetic. He's interrupting me for my art test

[@benjamincortes9409]

He is secretly helping you on your test

[@gman235]

He is interrupting my studying for my spanish test

[@GenericCatboy]

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

[@GLG929]

i didnt even realise this was vsauce till he said it at the first 2 seconds

[@rossthebesiegebuilder3563]

I think "The Simplest Hard Game" would be a more accurate description.

[@Cosmetic_Kat]

Me already a stratigic chess player: Ah, so essiantly this is just a practice game

[@nyx142]

"W"esauce im following advice, using "w"s

[@monikaosmenda3269]

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

[@szittyano]

commenting to see if it really happened

[@ineedsmooths7177]

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

[@spiderking8011]

I'm a believer

[@vortexjax3865]

7 months

[@ineedsmooths7177]

@@vortexjax3865 dude joe just got em bad..

[@tylerbuck9347]

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

[@bukachell]

"Let me just take of my pants." -Kevin 2019

[@LeonardEisen]

If I’m not mistaken, the “Counter Move for B that he offers at 05:30 would have required the opposing player/viewer to move the neutral piece before moving their L which is not a legal move.

[@user-xh6cg7zf9h]

check out the pinned comment!

[@10jimmy]

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

[@KaotikKreator]

5:30 Counter Move B breaks the rules. How did that neutral piece get moved in the first place?

[@jefferyrandall8030]

Like he said, the neutral piece can be moved only after you move your “L”

[@radekz.7164]

I wonder about the same and dont know

[@enderpearl8281]

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?

[@hirnlosesentertainment7656]

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

[@nowonatall]

i was seeing him normal colored, but when i noticed the red and blue lights, i can't stop seeing him as a half red half blue human, it's really weird...