Wouldn’t it be unlikely an opponent would continue to use the conventional strategy if you played a series of games? After potentially one or two games of losing, they would recognize your pattern of questions and adopt it and then you would not maintain the advantage for the remaining set of games
Yeah the video title is misleading, because it assumes your opponent is a kid lol. A rational opponent would adopt an optimal strategy to confront you, in which case the first player will win approximately 2/3 of the time (if you do the math out)
I like the alternate way to play guesswho where you have to ask abstract questions like "does your person look like they would enjoy tapas as a first date" - it's a genuinely funny way to play with friends.
Claire was literally the WORST character to get! My sister and I would always hate that card because she literally had every “unique” factor so you’d lose pretty fast if you got her lol. The Claire card became the running joke in our house
@Magst3r I agree I think Mark Rober cheated with the whole "or" thing. Like that is super cheap everyone knows it should only be one question at a time.
@TulpechaidoplaysMC It depends on how you interpret the question. Either you are expecting an answer that is one of the attributes, i.e. "red hair", "glasses", or "hat", or you expect an answer that is yes or no. For the latter it is one question since, when answered, you just know the character has atleast on of the attributes, but not which or if they have multiple.
My older sister once had an evil strategy: She'd get me to sit in front of a window (it had to be sunny) and she could just see through the card who i had using the sunlight. Took me 5 games to realize it
I played this with my daughter last night. Can i just say that the newer guess who boards are SO Much more diverse, and i wonder if they still stuck with the "5 people have a particular attribute" thing. it was pretty fun though
When my son was 4 I think he came up with the best strategy. He memorized the boards, and I even had both set up different. Then he noticed usually the person he was playing would put their person down on their board right away, or with the first group they put down. He would figure it out almost every time after one question.
It's technically within the rules, but I agree that it would get house ruled pretty quickly. I'm sure there's more subtle things which you can ask which apply to more than 5 people but no more than half, and that still improves your odds
The teacher was so passionate. Just look at him while he's explaining. He's so enthusiastic about it. My 12 grade teacher looked like he would commit suicide if I ask him a question again.
My friend taught me a more challenging version of Guess Who where you start by drawing two cards. The questions you ask have to be formatted as "Do either of your people...?" or "Do both of your people...?"
@mkaali there's some memory involved and some luck. For example: "Do either of your people have white hair?" If the answer is "no" you can knock down all the people with white hair. If the answer is "yes" then you have to remember that AT LEAST one of their people has white hair until you have more information..."Do both of your people have white hair?" If yes, now you can knock down everyone that doesn't have white hair. If no, then you know that one person has white hair and the other does not.
I finished my Math Analysis class last week and never thought I would use it. Watching this video and understanding all the terms was kind of rewarding lol
I can confirm that good teachers really shape the way you see their subject. Last year I had this awesome physics/chemistry teacher that was very bubbly, fun, and charismatic. She always taught with passion, and it was very fun. Even for those that weren't doing well! She was very patient and was willing to help everyone understand the concepts. Now I have the complete opposite of a teacher in physics/chemistry, I never hated chemistry until she came around.
"It's a random process but you do know the group will always look like that" - the teacher says this with such fresh and genuine fascination even though he's taught that perhaps tens of thousands of times. His unwaning passion for the subject he teaches is indeed super contagious, just like the one who made this video.
one more thing I just wanted to say I really love your videos and you have helped me learn so many new thing that I never even new about. So I just want to say thank you so very much mark rober
hey mark, i have a question here. If you have a strategy that wins 50percent of the times, and they have a 75 percent win rate, what is your real win rate?
Mark Rober: Quits NASA Also Mark Rober: "Now this frozen chicken nugget will represent our running average" Edit: Sorry guys I meant "the" not "our" haha
I think you should programmatically simulate these games by implementing a binary search tree. You can also give your opponent various behaviors for comparison
The strategy could even be improved one step further if i’m not mistaken. Consider u have already reduced the number of people to six (2 turns have passed at a reduction rate of 50% per turn). At this point, there would be still 3 turns left to find the person in a dystopic scenario (reduction to 3, reduction to 2 and finally reduction to 1). But there is a problem when u get to three bc it takes the same number of turns to get to 1 (worst case scenario of course) than if u had 4 (u would reduce the sample firstly to 2 and then to 1) so it’s not really “efficient”. Instead, I found that if when u have 6 remaining people u ask about only 2 of them, there’s a possibility of saving one turn. -Scenario 1: The right person was within the group of two people u picked and therefore save a turn bc u need only one more turn to determine the solution. -Scenario 2: The right person was NOT within the group of two people u picked (hence there are still 4 remaining possible candidates), but since it takes the same number of turns to reduce to 1 from 4 than from 3, no turns were saved, but no turns were misused either. Nonetheless, it is also true that when u only have 3 remaining people u have a 33% chance of picking the right one since u are reducing the number of possibilities at a rate of 1 person each turn. I haven’t given this that much thought but since it occurred to me while watching the vid i decided to comment this anyways. Edit: Nevermind, i was wrong. There is a necessary reduction of 33/66% of the sample in both strategies and it is the same whether to do it when there are 6 or 3 people left. The turn saved that i referred in the original comment could also happen if the player guesses which of the three is the right one when there are 3 candidates left. I also tend to talk weirdly so i’m sorry if my reasoning was not understood completely.
The statistics rely on the idea that his opponent will keep the same strategy through several games. I would imagine lots of people would change their questions to match his format.
Wouldn’t it be inaccurate to use a bell curve to represent your strategy since it always guarantees a win within five or six guesses exclusively when done properly? In that case, the distribution between number of guesses to win wouldn’t resemble a normal curve, but instead be a single split probability between two outcomes.
Yes, although I think you could technically represent that as a bell curve with an average of 5.5 and a standard deviation of zero. The simulations are could to test out how many guesses it takes with a 'normal' strategy
You wanna make guesses that cut the available choices in half--or the closest to 50/50. That way you get the same benefit yes or no. If you cut the 24 heads in half each guess you win in 5-6 guesses EVERY TIME! 2 years later update: I feel like asking “Does your person have white hair or glasses?” isn’t fair. But “Does your person have facial hair?” is totally fair. Beards AND mustaches would count and it’s at least related.
The best single question that we came up with when we were younger was to ask 'does your person have facial hair?'. It groups the mustaches and beards together and basically follows his strategy in the video which is that it allows you to eliminate more people at once.
In blind games I play with the no repeat question rule I just ask questions that apply to my pick, therefore if they dont pick up on that they wont be able to properly narrow down any real answers. It definitely has a positive win rate, but I would guess in the 65-75% range.
I like playing guess who with my wife with the obvious rule of not reusing questions. That turns really funny over several games when you get to questions like "does your person look like he would be banned from schoolgrounds"
Except it's not accurate. He demonstrates a way to win that he describes as being 80% accurate (though by my math, it's actually about 74%, and only if you go first). It also bugs me that he doesn't talk at all about the statistical advantage in going first.
I legit failed math but fully understood and leatned from this- then again I found out I had ADHD as an adult and think that makes it all make sense because my silent tests were easy but classwork sucked. Either way this sort of learning really gets peoples attention 😁
The used bell curve distribution indicates that in 1 of 741 cases the usual player needs less than one guess. Should have had at least some small letter caption "Other distributions are available"
this is basically a very similar concept to database indexing. when you are searching a database for something, its much faster to find it if you can order all potential answers, and then the computer tries to figure out if its above or below a random guess. It requires less amount of checks to do it this way than to sequentially check each individual row if its accurate or not.
I know this is an old comment thread but a lot of you are misunderstanding the type of "or" question he was referring to. Its not an "either/or" question with an answer like "is it 1 or 2?" in which you would answer 1 or 2, its more of "is it one of 1 or 2? (out of 10)" if it is 1 or 2 you say yes, if its 3-10 you say no. So for best results you would ask "is it 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5?" then you could eliminate 50% of the possible choices. Basically your just using the word "or" to phrase the question in a way that you can ask multiple traits in one question.
imagine how awkward at 4:07 it was for him to walk into the room place the camera on the table and ask the guy to hold his reactions and just leave and walk back in
What if in a best of 5 your opponent is capable of recognizing your strategy and adopts it for themselves. Instead of increasing the odds from 80% you reduce it towards a coin flip.
Funny about the teacher. I always loved numbers yet my first and second statistics teacher spoke 1% English. Can only figure where I could have been with those odds
as a little kid, i always tried to take down 50% with each question, can't see a strategy better than that, even now edit: like that searching algorithm lol
Had a teacher in 5th grade that was really new how to make math entertaining. Literally that year the only thing anyone cared about is getting to math. By far the most I learned from a teacher. I don't know how he did it. He was just very upbeat and energetic. I don't think there was any day of that class where I didn't laugh. I practically had an okay teacher in algebra which was better than most. Literally the only 2 times I learned a lot in math class. The rest was learning from online videos and stuff.
Imagine this: you go to see someone you haven’t seen in 18 years they go to shake your hand but before you do you stop them, Setup your camera and walk out just to walk back in and acted normal .
This is all well and good, but you don't take into account that your opponent may change their strategy after a few games once they realize that your strategy is winning. If they model their strategy after yours, the percentage to win becomes much less. Keeping the games to a minimum per person will probably prevent this, but if you play the same person over and over again (e.g. a sibling) they are bound to pick up the strategy and use it against you.
Can we all just appreciate how proud his old teacher looked.
Yes
@Creative 8D That's his friend.
No
He achieved Guess Who Mastery. Something everyone strives for.
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Wouldn’t it be unlikely an opponent would continue to use the conventional strategy if you played a series of games? After potentially one or two games of losing, they would recognize your pattern of questions and adopt it and then you would not maintain the advantage for the remaining set of games
@Artamis Bot oh, the probabilities!
thats why you play against kids
I’m the 1.7k like
Throw out the occasional wild question to keep them unaware of the strat
Yeah the video title is misleading, because it assumes your opponent is a kid lol. A rational opponent would adopt an optimal strategy to confront you, in which case the first player will win approximately 2/3 of the time (if you do the math out)
I like the alternate way to play guesswho where you have to ask abstract questions like "does your person look like they would enjoy tapas as a first date" - it's a genuinely funny way to play with friends.
We called it 'character assassination guess who' and it was great fun
100%. I call it “hypothetical guess who”
what wait this is great
also surprising how well it works!
want chiken nuggets
Claire was literally the WORST character to get! My sister and I would always hate that card because she literally had every “unique” factor so you’d lose pretty fast if you got her lol. The Claire card became the running joke in our house
@Alejandro guerrero it's also the association with Care Bears
@CBear ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ why is it a common nickname? Just because Claire and bear sound similar?
@CBear ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ I am too and my names not clair
another Claire here! can confirm that "claire bear" has been my nickname basically sine I was born
Same only she became the joke bc she just looked weird (I live in Australia so the cards looked different and she looked even funnier 😆😆)
"You would lose because the nugget is belowthe spaghetti."
-a actual physicist who made a mars rover
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@MrKraziWert oh fuk
@MrKraziWert Welcome to the Mark Rober Mars Rover extravaganza
practically how the ranking systems i nbattle royale games work
At young age, I always began my games asking : "does your character have an accessory". I won probably 96% of my games!
@Magst3r ?
@Canada SyruP LMAO!!! Exactly!!! This is why Mark Rober's version is bullshit. You might as well just do what you just said lol
@Magst3r I agree I think Mark Rober cheated with the whole "or" thing. Like that is super cheap everyone knows it should only be one question at a time.
I cheat and ask is your character one of these and list half the characters so each round through I get 50% closer
@Kurt Punches Things No the truth is you want a question that will eliminate half the people in the beginning. Did you not watch the video?
There’s absolutely no way your opponent will let you get away with an “or” question.
@TulpechaidoplaysMC It depends on how you interpret the question. Either you are expecting an answer that is one of the attributes, i.e. "red hair", "glasses", or "hat", or you expect an answer that is yes or no. For the latter it is one question since, when answered, you just know the character has atleast on of the attributes, but not which or if they have multiple.
Absolutely agree. Especially if it’s 3 or more. I know that it’s technically not against the rules, but no one will want to play with you.
@Boden Haufler and then they stop playing with you.
As a starting question we usually go with "Is your person blonde?" which is true for yellow and white hair ones.
@ddawn23 it's definitely one question
Can we just appreciate how he flew out just to show his teacher his guess who strategy
Yup
Nah he prob just going to visit and then he thought of this video
I’m the 1000th like
In an ecological perspective this sounds weird
I'm 800th like
My older sister once had an evil strategy: She'd get me to sit in front of a window (it had to be sunny) and she could just see through the card who i had using the sunlight. Took me 5 games to realize it
200 IQ lol
I did the same
@DemiLoveNailArt Played rummyking with that strat and destroyed my older sister
Street smart beats school smart, but only on the short run
Are you a ghost?
I played this with my daughter last night. Can i just say that the newer guess who boards are SO Much more diverse, and i wonder if they still stuck with the "5 people have a particular attribute" thing. it was pretty fun though
@Ingwia Fraujaz ethnically and otherwise
When my son was 4 I think he came up with the best strategy. He memorized the boards, and I even had both set up different. Then he noticed usually the person he was playing would put their person down on their board right away, or with the first group they put down. He would figure it out almost every time after one question.
@Todd Stones not on the version I have
@Dr. Morty nope. I tested him on the boards, he has them memorized. Still does a few years later.
But both players can have the same character?
He could See through the Card when sun shines in them
Sounds like a foolish strategy, to willingly mark your opponents target
98% of the time the other person isn't going to let you specify 3 things in a single guess, so it'll be hard to win with this strategy =p
It's technically within the rules, but I agree that it would get house ruled pretty quickly. I'm sure there's more subtle things which you can ask which apply to more than 5 people but no more than half, and that still improves your odds
The teacher was so passionate. Just look at him while he's explaining. He's so enthusiastic about it.
My 12 grade teacher looked like he would commit suicide if I ask him a question again.
If you’re a very famous celebrity and worked at nasa I think he would’ve been happy to see you lol.
Billy’s basement he must be really fun at parties
@Billy's basement You had textbooks in 6th grade?
Did you work at NASA?
@Laden Bin Osama bro your 8th grace teacher should be fired
“Does your character look like a freak?”
“Yes.”
Flips none of them over.
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@Doug Newland then they drew a character that wasn't on the board.
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@999 dex get English class
@Leithos. who
@JJDI18 Wait so theyre not a freak? HOW COULD THIS BE-
My friend taught me a more challenging version of Guess Who where you start by drawing two cards. The questions you ask have to be formatted as "Do either of your people...?" or "Do both of your people...?"
Yes I’ve played like this! I like it better.
This version is mentioned in the rule book itself
@enTREEque I see. Sounds interesting! I have to try it out.
@mkaali there's some memory involved and some luck. For example: "Do either of your people have white hair?" If the answer is "no" you can knock down all the people with white hair. If the answer is "yes" then you have to remember that AT LEAST one of their people has white hair until you have more information..."Do both of your people have white hair?" If yes, now you can knock down everyone that doesn't have white hair. If no, then you know that one person has white hair and the other does not.
How does it work? How can you track two people with just one set of tiles?
I finished my Math Analysis class last week and never thought I would use it.
Watching this video and understanding all the terms was kind of rewarding lol
I can confirm that good teachers really shape the way you see their subject. Last year I had this awesome physics/chemistry teacher that was very bubbly, fun, and charismatic. She always taught with passion, and it was very fun. Even for those that weren't doing well! She was very patient and was willing to help everyone understand the concepts. Now I have the complete opposite of a teacher in physics/chemistry, I never hated chemistry until she came around.
@•Simply Grace• One bad experience, one bad person, is all it takes to ruin something..it's the worst!
Same with music. I hate music because my music teacher is SO mean. So like in middle school, I’m not gonna go to music since then it’s optional
"It's a random process but you do know the group will always look like that" - the teacher says this with such fresh and genuine fascination even though he's taught that perhaps tens of thousands of times. His unwaning passion for the subject he teaches is indeed super contagious, just like the one who made this video.
Lovely comment. Very true
"It would remove half of the characters"
*Perfectly balanced, as all things should be*
Not bad
:o
Me: I'm inevitable
Friend: has carictar that makes its so I can't take out half the carictars
Also friend:I'm iron man *snaps fingers*
I like to call that the THANOS method.
@maira khan was that the only reason u replied to say that u replied and nothing else?
The dedication to all of Marks videos is AMAZING! Like 1,000 games to determine a percent! Woah
I love how happy his teacher is to see him again, and how proud he seems of mark, and himself
I love how passionate and proud his teacher looked, I wish every teacher was like this!
Dude, mark rober became a mechanical engineer who worked for NASA.
I'm pretty sure the teacher would be proud by his engineering degree alone.
Every teacher is, if you have 10 mio subscribers on KZclip….
better strategy: rig the stack of cards, then instantly guess who they chose.
yes
😂😂😂
🤝
one more thing I just wanted to say I really love your videos and you have helped me learn so many new thing that I never even new about. So I just want to say thank you so very much mark rober
Man... this is the guy that built the mars rover and quit NASA to make a video about how to win in guess who
RIP NASA start PASTA
He's like howard from big bang theory but Mark is actually successful
Helped build the rover
Smarter then Albert Einstein.
My uncle actually worked on the mars rover
Mark, will you have your statistics teacher for a live session? Like your science classes? That would be awesome!!
I love how much effort he puts in his videos
hey mark, i have a question here. If you have a strategy that wins 50percent of the times, and they have a 75 percent win rate, what is your real win rate?
I’m a fan of the variation where you give a super specific character description and try to get your partner to get in one guess
This was so heart warming to see for mark rober😆
Mark Rober: Quits NASA
Also Mark Rober: "Now this frozen chicken nugget will represent our running average"
Edit: Sorry guys I meant "the" not "our" haha
@Poku Neet две стороны противостоят друг другу и пытаются доказать друг другу свою истену
Im the like number 1k B)
One like away from 1k
he actually ordered that chicken nugget off of ebay for the episode to seem more approachable.
Let’s get this to 777 likes
What a great teacher. Wish I had more like him!!
I think you should programmatically simulate these games by implementing a binary search tree. You can also give your opponent various behaviors for comparison
Mark; one of the people who Can take an everyday thing and Making it amazing 🌟
The strategy could even be improved one step further if i’m not mistaken.
Consider u have already reduced the number of people to six (2 turns have passed at a reduction rate of 50% per turn). At this point, there would be still 3 turns left to find the person in a dystopic scenario (reduction to 3, reduction to 2 and finally reduction to 1).
But there is a problem when u get to three bc it takes the same number of turns to get to 1 (worst case scenario of course) than if u had 4 (u would reduce the sample firstly to 2 and then to 1) so it’s not really “efficient”. Instead, I found that if when u have 6 remaining people u ask about only 2 of them, there’s a possibility of saving one turn.
-Scenario 1: The right person was within the group of two people u picked and therefore save a turn bc u need only one more turn to determine the solution.
-Scenario 2: The right person was NOT within the group of two people u picked (hence there are still 4 remaining possible candidates), but since it takes the same number of turns to reduce to 1 from 4 than from 3, no turns were saved, but no turns were misused either.
Nonetheless, it is also true that when u only have 3 remaining people u have a 33% chance of picking the right one since u are reducing the number of possibilities at a rate of 1 person each turn.
I haven’t given this that much thought but since it occurred to me while watching the vid i decided to comment this anyways.
Edit: Nevermind, i was wrong. There is a necessary reduction of 33/66% of the sample in both strategies and it is the same whether to do it when there are 6 or 3 people left. The turn saved that i referred in the original comment could also happen if the player guesses which of the three is the right one when there are 3 candidates left.
I also tend to talk weirdly so i’m sorry if my reasoning was not understood completely.
perfection
I figured out a strategy when I was younger that allowed me to win ultra fast as well so this brought back memories
When your friends are all talking about getting jobs while you just watched a 14 minute video on how to win at Guess Who
@xXxMegalodoNxXx I'm also part of dat community but idc
SuperNova GD oo another gd player
What are friends?
I'm sure a lot of us are watching this from work ;-)
SuperNova GD when you have a job but other people your age are looking for a partner and im still laying bed on a sunny sunday 12 am
The statistics rely on the idea that his opponent will keep the same strategy through several games. I would imagine lots of people would change their questions to match his format.
This man is a better teacher than most teachers I have ever had and probably will
Wouldn’t it be inaccurate to use a bell curve to represent your strategy since it always guarantees a win within five or six guesses exclusively when done properly? In that case, the distribution between number of guesses to win wouldn’t resemble a normal curve, but instead be a single split probability between two outcomes.
Yes, although I think you could technically represent that as a bell curve with an average of 5.5 and a standard deviation of zero. The simulations are could to test out how many guesses it takes with a 'normal' strategy
You wanna make guesses that cut the available choices in half--or the closest to 50/50. That way you get the same benefit yes or no. If you cut the 24 heads in half each guess you win in 5-6 guesses EVERY TIME!
2 years later update: I feel like asking “Does your person have white hair or glasses?” isn’t fair. But “Does your person have facial hair?” is totally fair. Beards AND mustaches would count and it’s at least related.
My question is what would the percentage be if your opponent and you were using this strategy?
This video:
The product of an adult losing Guess Who to a six-year-old.
Ooh
I remember once when I was in third grade, I was playing Guess Who by my self during recces and this video reminded me of that moment :(
Siow Jun Yang OK. Then it would need to be just the number 8. 888 is not three times lucky, 888 is not 8.
Siow Jun Yang u mean China? In japan, its 7
Well it’s at 2k, LET’S GET TO 3K
2:11 Can we take a moment and appreciate his perfect hints like oh my goodness I totally did not think of that thank you
You made statistics so much fun and interesting compare to my statistics courses in college 🤣
The best single question that we came up with when we were younger was to ask 'does your person have facial hair?'. It groups the mustaches and beards together and basically follows his strategy in the video which is that it allows you to eliminate more people at once.
If Mark talked about paint drying for 5 hours... It would still be freaking interesting and I would watch for 4 hours and 59 minutes
I wish I had a math teacher like him
It’s been 4 years, they might have patched it
They did
It’s been 7 years, they might have patched it now, 4 years seems to soon for them to be patching these crusty musty boardgames.
7*
7 years
now 7 years
“If the match was over now, you’d lose because the nugget is under the spaghetti” - Mark
In blind games I play with the no repeat question rule I just ask questions that apply to my pick, therefore if they dont pick up on that they wont be able to properly narrow down any real answers. It definitely has a positive win rate, but I would guess in the 65-75% range.
I wish Mark Rober and his professor taught me statistics. Learnt more in 12 minutes than in 2 semesters…
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how perfectly this gum packets were lined up like wow
I love how he used food at the end to explain the statistics about winning
I like playing guess who with my wife with the obvious rule of not reusing questions. That turns really funny over several games when you get to questions like "does your person look like he would be banned from schoolgrounds"
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha x))
Ha! That's a good idea.
Adkit2 your profile pic looks like it would be banned from school grounds
Adkit2 that sounds very fun
love how he actually used an accurate percentage instead of just 99% WINNING CHANCE ALWAYS WIN
Except it's not accurate. He demonstrates a way to win that he describes as being 80% accurate (though by my math, it's actually about 74%, and only if you go first). It also bugs me that he doesn't talk at all about the statistical advantage in going first.
Your percentage to win depends on your opponents strategy and most importantly who goes first. If your not going first take more chances
I love mark rober because I want to do science and engineering and this is a big inspiration
You're so right teachers dont make a difference, awesome teachers do. Keep up the great work Mr. Malloy.
I legit failed math but fully understood and leatned from this- then again I found out I had ADHD as an adult and think that makes it all make sense because my silent tests were easy but classwork sucked. Either way this sort of learning really gets peoples attention 😁
It's pretty cool that he had such a great relationship with his teacher. Visiting someone after 18 years-- wow.
Seriously I graduated last year and I barely remember their names
Mr. Malloy was so incredibly happy to reconnect with you, and proud that you're using something he's passionate about teaching
The used bell curve distribution indicates that in 1 of 741 cases the usual player needs less than one guess. Should have had at least some small letter caption "Other distributions are available"
That BB experiment was literally one of the coolest things I've ever seen
U can tell how much mr Malloy loves to teach
this is basically a very similar concept to database indexing. when you are searching a database for something, its much faster to find it if you can order all potential answers, and then the computer tries to figure out if its above or below a random guess. It requires less amount of checks to do it this way than to sequentially check each individual row if its accurate or not.
My friends were ruthless, there's no way you could ask an "or" question without being killed
“There were 25 deaths that day…”
5th thousand like
I know this is an old comment thread but a lot of you are misunderstanding the type of "or" question he was referring to. Its not an "either/or" question with an answer like "is it 1 or 2?" in which you would answer 1 or 2, its more of "is it one of 1 or 2? (out of 10)" if it is 1 or 2 you say yes, if its 3-10 you say no. So for best results you would ask "is it 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5?" then you could eliminate 50% of the possible choices. Basically your just using the word "or" to phrase the question in a way that you can ask multiple traits in one question.
If an "or" question is asked you can decide which one of the "or's" to answer to.
Exactly
Being in front of your Old teacher and he teaching you again... definitely humbles you...
I had an English teacher like this guy, super enthusiastic and knowledgable.
Thanks Mr Moffatt 👍
Nice to know I intuitively came up with a similar strategy as a child
This is the only guys who makes learning fun
This is awesome. And it shows im not alone in researching random things. Ppl need to thirst for knowledge no matter how minute.
I love how your teacher looks so proud of the man you’ve become
He should....Mark was a NASA engineer before he quit to do these videos
Yea...
(Osomatsu san)
I love it so much.
francis bonnafoy iu
Princesstekitteh Meow Ohio
mark rober is one of those awesome teachers to 17million people
Still one of my favourite videos of all time!
90 seconds of information Crammed into a mere thirteen minutes of video! More of these please!
Explaining the law of large numbers with a pizza box, spaghetti, popcorn and a chicken nugget is borderline brilliance.
That unexpected ending 😂😂😂😂
imagine how awkward at 4:07 it was for him to walk into the room place the camera on the table and ask the guy to hold his reactions and just leave and walk back in
self filming camera
he is the camera man
SoloStudios exactly what I was wondering when I watched this lmao
I never thought about that
420 likes not today god o weed
I had Mr. Malloy in high school for math. He was the best math teacher I’ve ever had.
What if in a best of 5 your opponent is capable of recognizing your strategy and adopts it for themselves. Instead of increasing the odds from 80% you reduce it towards a coin flip.
Mark: This strategy works 96% all the time!
Player: *Forgets to flip all of the cards*
Yeah, I definitely need to win my “competitive guess who games”
What an interesting video! I actually want to play a couple games now lol
“This is perfectly legal because the rules state you just have to ask a yes or no question”
OMG IM DEAD
Are they human yes or no
yeah, that wouldn't fly in my family
I dont get the joke?
@Xandeath75 its not people binge comments before watching video and act all confused
...what's so funny. It's a fact. Not a joke.
Funny about the teacher. I always loved numbers yet my first and second statistics teacher spoke 1% English. Can only figure where I could have been with those odds
I absolutely love the statistics teacher.
2:20 in the best strategy is use a question which elements the most when you are wrong. This is the main strategy for similar games like codebreaker
as a little kid, i always tried to take down 50% with each question,
can't see a strategy better than that, even now
edit: like that searching algorithm lol
Had a teacher in 5th grade that was really new how to make math entertaining. Literally that year the only thing anyone cared about is getting to math. By far the most I learned from a teacher. I don't know how he did it. He was just very upbeat and energetic. I don't think there was any day of that class where I didn't laugh. I practically had an okay teacher in algebra which was better than most. Literally the only 2 times I learned a lot in math class. The rest was learning from online videos and stuff.
*Find someone who looks at you like the teacher stares at Mark.*
GooKoo Inc. That teacher had a pretty creepy stare lol
14:06
GooKoo Inc. This made my day lmao
I can't get over this, this is too CUTE. :(
He probably just thought?
"Why are filming all this? It's a child's game!" or "Why did we greet each other twice?"
His teacher loves statistics. And i liked him for genuinely loving his job. Much better than 96 percent of other teachers
I like that he teaches us in chicken nugget and spaghetti form to understand the laws of all that is.
My question at the end of the video is what are the questions you ask to get as near to half of the characters as possible.
Mark, “I’m not gonna show you now but I’ll show you at the end of the process.”
Me: Immediately skips to end, “I WILL BEAT YOU JIMMY!!”
Instead of just telling you, I’d like to make this video more than 10 minutes long. 😊
He spend 12 minutes to invent dichotomy that you learn in a middle school
My thoughts exactly
Imagine this: you go to see someone you haven’t seen in 18 years they go to shake your hand but before you do you stop them, Setup your camera and walk out just to walk back in and acted normal .
Lol
OMFG
@Ádhamh Mac Conchobhair mine does
Jason Cheng r/woooosh
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This is all well and good, but you don't take into account that your opponent may change their strategy after a few games once they realize that your strategy is winning. If they model their strategy after yours, the percentage to win becomes much less. Keeping the games to a minimum per person will probably prevent this, but if you play the same person over and over again (e.g. a sibling) they are bound to pick up the strategy and use it against you.
I wonder what would happen if two people played each other while using this method
that is incredible I've always loved math