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MATH MAGIC and a NEW LEANBACK


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·Nov 10, 2024

Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. And this video is to tell you that I released a brand new Vsauce leanback - a playlist of some of my favourite videos from all over YouTube, with me hosting in between. You can only really watch it on a computer, so if you're on a mobile device or something else weird, wait until you're in a better position to lean back.

To make it worth your while, in this video I've got news, a fact and math. Three things. First of all, the news item. Hazel. Vsauce t-shirts. Let's try to act a little bit more mature. Vsauce t-shirts. We've got the logo, we've got brains and here's the fact. Are you ready? For this one, drop some knowledge and hear some order happen. You're not using this take, are you?

Baby... Baby carrots are made out of adult carrots. No! Weird adult carrots, they shave them into the little baby carrots that we know. But they just, it just stops growing and it's a baby carrot. No. They take adults, especially ugly adult carrots that look weird and they shave them into good shapes. I don't know, dog food or something.

But wait a second. Baby corn really is baby corn. It's normal corn and they don't let it grow to adulthood, they kill it when it's a kid and then they serve it to you and you eat it when it's still a baby. That makes me feel better.

Now it's time for some mathematics. Okay, first of all, it does not matter at all what order the cards are in. This is completely a mathematical trick. So anyone can do it and there's no sleight of hand involved. I'll shuffle it, so I can just prove that to you. All we need are 9 cards. One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three? Three, very good.

Now, pick a pile that you fancy. Alright, now choose a card out of that pile. You can look at them all, yeah. Okay. Okay, now you can totally show me what it is, 'cause it's a math trick. So put it right on top. Three of diamonds, good choice. Now, what I'm gonna do is take the rest of our 9 cards and stick them right on top.

The rest of the deck, all this whole mess thing here, doesn't matter. Get it out of the way. Now, because of the range of numbers of letters in every single card's name, and because your card is the third from the bottom, three of diamonds, this will always work.

Let's spell out your card's name. Three of diamonds. T. H. R. E. E. Rest on top. What's the next word? Of. O. F. Rest on top. Diamonds. Spell it out for me. D. I. A. M. O. N. D. S. Rest on top. Okay. Now. Okay, are you ready for this? Yes.

Alright, now what I want you to do is say the phrase "Hazel is really super awesome." Okay. Okay? Uhm. As I drop a card you say a word. Okay. Hazel is really super awesome. There's your card. No way! That'll work every single time.

Try it at home. I learned it from Mismag, a magician I've included in the leanback before. I put an interactive trick of his in this leanback, it's a long one, you're gonna learn a lot of different stuff that goes all over the place, it's gonna pack your brain with knowledge. Alright? It's gonna all be covered in Vsauce when we're done.

So start that lean back. And as always, thanks for watching. Bye.

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