@@Mrlol4 a measly old 10^40 pages for all moves. If we go off of a hard cover book’s page thickness this book would be about 63,418,243,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 LIGHTYEARS thick. That’s a lotta paper. The weight of it would be about 136 MILLION suns worth of weight. THIS WOULD TAKE 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ENTIRE TREES TO MAKE THE PAPER FOR THIS UNHOLY CULMINATION OF LITERATURE AND CHAOS INCARNATE.
I love how right after he says that there's a secret string of moves that you can play to win against the book, he laughs almost like he's remembering the pain of searching for that string of moves for years.
@AZAZELLO__ He volunteered to be in white room solitary confinement for three days, and it's been scientifically proven to permanently damage your brain. There's a 30 minute video of it.
Man this guy is so cool, he embodies all the curiosity and excitement that I had as a child but sadly lost due to various reasons and now in my 30's I've found this channel and it's takes me back to being a child. Thank you bearded sauce man ❤
Turns out the Tic-Tac-Toe decision tree is so small you can solve it with sheer brute-force, so a min-max algorithm which goes deep enough will just generate the whole decision tree from scratch. Ultimate tic-tac-toe, on the other hand, will have a min-max algorithm perform very poorly, because it's very hard to make a good heuristic for this game
For those curious, winning is going first and picking middle. Then pick opposite corner of the circle. Then pick another free corner or the corner that blocks the 3 in a row. Now you have 2 options of winning by going horizontally from the 2 corners you picked or diagonally trough middle. So any play made by the opposite player will allow you to win in your next turn
@@ProtiumPowerActually, it would only need to be about the size of the moon (assuming each page could be written on a single hydrogen atom) if you only include positions that can actually be reached from the standard starting position of chess
Considering that there's more possible moves in chess then atoms in space, good luck Edited due to a disagreement whether it's on earth or in the universe
Hmm... You can make any possible move, but the book makes only "the perfect" moves. It decreases the number of moves significantly, but it would still become thicker than any single book after only few moves. "For next move, go stairs up, second room at left, top shelf at third cabinet and pick the first page of book with code..."
@@user-ke1gn3ql1g it would expand outside our solar system. There are more possible chess games than atoms, and the width of a page is much larger than an atom.
If we know who has no friends...we thank the mother for all her efforts By the way, I don't have any friends either...my best friend died and since that day I don't want any friends.😢
"Do you know somebody who has no friends?" "Well of course I know him. He's me." - Ben Kenobi Edit: kinda sad that some people took offense to this. Get out of your mothers' basements please
@@Dr_Doctor_Leei’ve seen thankfulness and bullshitness he is thankful and j because he looked up doesn’t mean he isn’t thankful there are a handful of reason as to why he looked up 🫨🫨
As a kid in programming class, I programmed a Tic Tac Toe AI which was an excessive list of moves, which I generated. But I made a bug that one chain of actions would lead to a win. So basically a digital form of this book. I forgot about it, but this short brought back the memory, kinda eerie
@@lulu111_the_cool In the 90s there was hardly any talk about neural nets or other self-learning models. Having a computer adopt the role of a player in a game was enough to call it an AI
@@amosbatalden5871 Computers were running simple neural nets in the 80s. And AI researchers were certainly talking a lot about the potential of neural net algorithm. The 1999 book Virtual Organisms by Mark Ward goes in depth on neural nets and their uncanny potential for solving problems. So people were talking about it. But compared to now when it's a mainstream topic of casual conversation, the difference in sheer volume of conversation makes the chatter back then essentially a rounding error compared to now.
Seemed like a tongue-in-cheek joke to me. Like he says it just to make the joke that his mom thinks he has no friends. And that “it was … really fun” is something you say when you get a lame game as a gift.
I love how he says “do you know anybody with no friends, well here’s a great gift for them” To then immediately follow up saying “so I was gifted this book a few years ago”
@@seva7500I cut ties with my parents in my early 30s, best decision I ever made. My life is so much easier and drama free. Bunch of abusive, manipulative, narcissistic, extremely obese, racist fundy MAGA bigots that are reportedly hardcore into Qanon antivax antimask propaganda nowadays.
When I was in middle school, my best friend and I found a copy of this in a cafe and spent an afternoon trying to solve it! After a while we flipped through to find the one winning game, and flipped backwards to find the sequence to get there. It's turned out to be one of my favorite memories from that time in my life.
Michael is somehow the most comforting and disturbing presence, at the same time.
Fr
Agrees
i believe that's called delusion
Fact
Good punctuation.
The laugh of a man who has played every possible game with that book.
Sup Angled
No one told him there was only one solution, he figure it out through trial and error
Been a while since I saw u
Also has dementia setting in
@@opticstrz who
This is _essentially_ a computer comprised solely of goto statements, and I love every bit of it.
We need the sequel that plays chess! Cut down every tree!!
@@theteletubbiemafia2603this is hypothetically possible but oh my god that book would be IMMENSE
@@Mrlol4 a measly old 10^40 pages for all moves. If we go off of a hard cover book’s page thickness this book would be about 63,418,243,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 LIGHTYEARS thick. That’s a lotta paper. The weight of it would be about 136 MILLION suns worth of weight. THIS WOULD TAKE 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ENTIRE TREES TO MAKE THE PAPER FOR THIS UNHOLY CULMINATION OF LITERATURE AND CHAOS INCARNATE.
@@theteletubbiemafia2603bet
Love every byte of it
"Do you know someone with no friends?"
Your talking to one right now ✌️💀
90% of vsauces audience has no friends 😭
@@tennisbaIl seems I ain't alone in this
real
@@Haleyncasey real indeed 💀
"Do you know someone with no friends? This is a great gift"
"My mother got ME this gift"
"Of course I know him. He's me"
Beat me to it
Beat me to it too
NOOOOOOOOOOOO. I JUST COMMENTED THAT.
real
There it is!
That "thank you mom" sounded so... Lovely
"you can get this for someone with no friends"
"My mom got me this"
💀
I'd say it was the absolutely perfect gift for him, his mother knows exactly what she nourished all those years
E
@@EEEEEEEE good point!
@@EEEEEEEEE EE?
A god.
@@EEEEEEEEA
I love how right after he says that there's a secret string of moves that you can play to win against the book, he laughs almost like he's remembering the pain of searching for that string of moves for years.
You can just go through and look for the winning page then backtrack. I doubt it would take more than 30 mins
And still not finding it. 😂😂
@@stevenluoma1268but cmon… you can’t do that
@@stevenluoma1268They meant doing it legit, not by cheating
Easier to just find the page you win then reverse engineer it
Love the subtle self-burn
"thank you,mom" way to wholesome for vsauce
Michael has never recovered from that room
😂😂😂
🤣😭
What room?
@@AZAZELLO__ the isolation room
@AZAZELLO__ He volunteered to be in white room solitary confinement for three days, and it's been scientifically proven to permanently damage your brain. There's a 30 minute video of it.
I like how this implies he played the book so much he won against it
I like how this also implies that his mom got him the book because he has no friends
@Cheddar-Frog my favorite implication
Yup thats the joke kelvin
@@whatthe573hey vsause, kevin here.
@@whatthe573(i know you said kalvin dont correct me-)
Man this guy is so cool, he embodies all the curiosity and excitement that I had as a child but sadly lost due to various reasons and now in my 30's I've found this channel and it's takes me back to being a child. Thank you bearded sauce man ❤
You can't give that to someone without friends. The mere act of giving them a gift makes you their friend
bro described himself as introvert , loved his mom , advertised a book , taught us a new thing all at the same time💀
even had that 'i am being forced to say this at gunpoint' side-eye while he thanked her for it 💀
But he uploaded it for millions of people to see... Almost the exact opposite of what an introvert would do. The word you're looking for is "nerd".
you guys thinking introvert = not talking to people 🥱
Just to be clear, introvert dosent mean antisocial
..?
He just shows up with the most random but interesting shit and I love it💀
Why the skull then
@@teamneutrophils4654it just attaches itself to all messages now
💀💀💀💀
@@teamneutrophils4654he died from the randomness 😔
@@teamneutrophils4654he's deadass :D
@teamneutrophils4654 you need to be updated on how we use emojis nowadays
I don't know why, but that "thank you mom" was very, extremely heartwarming.
me burning the book “who’s the loser now huh who’s the loser now!”
I can't believe a man like Micheal doesn't have a friend impossible
Of course he has friends. His mom gave him the gift. I think he's married so his wife probably likes him
@@thebillyd00interesting usage of "probably" 😂
@@thebillyd00lol
@@TheKornfeldlol
Screw everyone who thinks he doesn't have freinds he have plenty of freinds you just can't see them.
Need a top ten most Vsauce things tier list
this is one of them
Yes bro😮
fr
what the fuck is a top ten tier list
Right? Where do these esoteric things come from?
“Hahaha…I’m alone”
Hits hard
Thank you for sharing, genuinely. That book is such an Awesome idea and whoever made it, I think should have an award of graditude in thier life.
The "thank you mom" was very wholesome
Got me teared up a bit too
Mothers are the best
This made me remember when my dad bought a florescent tic tac toe when I was a child.
It's as wholesome as "Do you know somebody who has no friends?" when you realise *why* your mom gave you this book.....
That's a long time to wait to thank your mother. By now she doesn't remember it, lol
Michael: "Do you know someone with no friends?"
*2 seconds later*
"My mom got this book for me"
Thats the same thing i was thinking 😂
EMOTIONAL DAMAGE
i was finna say that xD
You bunch of dweebs - you actually didn't realize that was the point from the beginning?
THAT'S THE JOKE!!! :))))))
I like the way he says thank you mom and a little smile at the end😊
He looked right next to him and looked very scared… Vsauce, are you ok?
“Do you know somebody with no friends?”
*Im listening* 💀
I read that in Zoidberg's voice
Fr
I have one fantastic one! Just friends, nothing more!
You know me
I don’t think I have ever met you, have I?
Also, if someone has no friends how can you give them a gift from a friend such as yourself?
"Do you know someone with no friends?"
*yes that would be me* 💀
Pains😑
1 like = 1 friend
man thats a little too accurate
#relatable#i want to end it #why is life so annoying
Bro gave him the megamind “no friends?” stare 💀
A perfect gift for myself thanks
"HAHEHEHAHE"
You played hundreds of games with this book to win, didn't you, Michael..
As someone with no friends, I need to get this book.
Get it from your mom as a gift 🎉
I can see why you don't have friends.
@@Chip_Fusehow ?
@@Chip_Fusechris nolan sees everything
@@Chip_Fuse why???
Michael saying thank you mom is adorable
Ong
It's a gift for people who don't have friends
Also slightly disturbing
His mom loves him way too much that gives him books... For playing alone... Huh.
a 10 outta 10 coffee table book tho!!
Yes Michael… I do know someone who has no friends… thanks for asking…
I will now be buying this book.
I genuinely sincerely hope Michael has friends. He deserves them
another proof that Coldplay fans are the best people
It's not that he doesn't find them, it's that his friends can't outrun him.
Same
Duh. Vsauce 2 and 3!
I don't know about him but sadly I only have imaginary friends 🙁
Michael was definitely being held at gunpoint at the end
That laugh lmao
There is one way to win “It Is… …really fun…” (Changes from answer to opinion)
Michael doesn't get held at gunpoint, he holds others at gunpoint.
Yea why dif he look up before saying that you mom like that?
The way he looks up at the end after laughing
Yeah, the second he mentioned following the book's instructions when placing your X, I thought it seemed like you were at a disadvantage.
He doesn't need an Oscar, he needs friends
maybe he needs a friend called Oscar.
@@nonyabusiness.Maybe Oscar needs a vsauce called friend
He needs Oscar 😔
@@Edwxrd69Oscar needs Vsause😔
@@Franklin-busfr😔
This is basically like making an unbeatable tic-tac-toe bot, but instead of using a minimax algorithm you just hard code every possible response
and hard code a mistake, apparently
Stand up maths did a video where he made a tic-tac-toe algorithm with matchboxes.
Turns out the Tic-Tac-Toe decision tree is so small you can solve it with sheer brute-force, so a min-max algorithm which goes deep enough will just generate the whole decision tree from scratch.
Ultimate tic-tac-toe, on the other hand, will have a min-max algorithm perform very poorly, because it's very hard to make a good heuristic for this game
For a game as small as tic tac toe, that's really feasible though.
Stockfish glow-up
The fact that he actually *knows* you could win really disturbs me.
Great gift, but how frustrating to always have to lose or draw 😅
"Well, Of Course I Know Him. He's Me." - Obi-Wan Kenobi
I haven't gone by the name Ben since ohhh before you were born.
💀
this comment should be encased in gold, fuckin' legendary
Yeah...
Well, Can't relate Cuz I HAVE GOT FRIENDS.
I'd love to meet the people who raised this gem of a person.
"person"
A Gem that had no friends😂
@@inspirednaija7204 to be fair, gems don't have friends
@@ornolfurfr mother and father unless he doesn't have one.
@@inspirednaija7204and smart af lol
If you're buying a gift for someone without friends, they've got you as a friend
He definitely played every single possible game of Tic-Tac-Toe with that book
"Do you know someone who has no friends? Give them this!"
"My mom gave me this!"
😭😭 💀💀
it's not like a friend would ever give you this
What is the need of repeating wot he said😂😂😂 it just makes no logical sense
Damn.... Michael is the most friendly person I've seen who has no friends.....
e
130+ likes 😲😲noice
@fliub-tv5hh And me
He has
I'd be his friend
"Well of course i know him, he's me!" -Obi-Wan Kenobi
For those curious, winning is going first and picking middle. Then pick opposite corner of the circle. Then pick another free corner or the corner that blocks the 3 in a row. Now you have 2 options of winning by going horizontally from the 2 corners you picked or diagonally trough middle. So any play made by the opposite player will allow you to win in your next turn
That "Thank you Mom" at the end 🥺
yes so?
fr
@@uttamkumarpan3656his mom is dead
@@uttamkumarpan3656 His Mum gave it to him because he has no friends*
@@HalfdeadRiderThis stuff is just an act, his actually a pretty smart guy and does have friends. The thing is his mom is dead.
I love how he says it’s a great gift for someone who has no friends, and immediately follows that up with “yeah, my mom got me this a few years ago”
💀
"Do you know somebody that has no friends?" Yeah he's me. 🙂
his mom is so nice he even said "thank you mom :)"
“Do you know someone without friends? Here’s a great gift Idea for them.”
“Thanks mom!” 💀
💀 that’s sad
We watched the video
vsauce kinda has millions of friends
"Do u know anyone with no friends?"
Im lisening
Lol
vsauce is just too precious,
we must be protected from him at all costs-
what?
Bro thought he is funny 💀💀
@@HypnosisBearBro thought this was supposed to be funny 😂😂😨😨😨
@@Final_SCMe fr fr
This is funny tho
Seeing Vsauce traumatized after learning something new seems strange. Micheal blink twice if ur in danger
Imagine if chess had a book like this
@@ProtiumPower yooooo highlighted comment
Good idea!
Chess isn’t a solved game, too many variations
@@yuanangelospeedcubinga highlighted comment just means it’s the one you clicked the notification for. Doesn’t mean anything special lol
@@ProtiumPowerActually, it would only need to be about the size of the moon (assuming each page could be written on a single hydrogen atom) if you only include positions that can actually be reached from the standard starting position of chess
"it's so fun"
Me after lose 10 matches in a row to a book
@enriqueamaya3883Bro what
@enriqueamaya3883nah thk u, i prefer evilness
@enriqueamaya3883I like having an empty heart and a fist full of cash that some scam artist preacher hasn't tried to take.
@@LoafOfBreadCat YEAAAAHHHHH, LET'S SPREAD CHAOS!!!!!
@@xdStray Blood for the blood God skulls for the skull throne
"Ofcourse I know him, it's me."
-Obi Wan Kanobi
“do you know anyone who has no friends” that killed me
Bro is the most friendly and disturbed person I ever seen
Friendly and disturbed, sounds like my forever mood
He use to teach us science 10years ago in middle school 😊
Stolen comment
Chaotic good energy be like:
"Do you know somebody who has no friends? "
Well of course I know him. He's me
Always me :)
i thought of the exact same quote
@@loanly_same
This
"Thank you, mom."
That was cute.
I want a chess version of this book
e4
That book might actually be big enough to reach the moon.
Considering that there's more possible moves in chess then atoms in space, good luck
Edited due to a disagreement whether it's on earth or in the universe
Hmm... You can make any possible move, but the book makes only "the perfect" moves. It decreases the number of moves significantly, but it would still become thicker than any single book after only few moves. "For next move, go stairs up, second room at left, top shelf at third cabinet and pick the first page of book with code..."
That is why I put the word between ""-marks.
@@user-ke1gn3ql1g it would expand outside our solar system. There are more possible chess games than atoms, and the width of a page is much larger than an atom.
I love how his mother got him something he considers a great gift for people with no friends
Dude had a nerdy ass mom who knew her son a bigger nerd loser
That's the joke.
Nothing gets past you!
@@bigfootbeliever6985 which he loves
Now I want a book that plays chess
If we know who has no friends...we thank the mother for all her efforts
By the way, I don't have any friends either...my best friend died and since that day I don't want any friends.😢
“Do you know somebody who has no friends?”
“Of course I know him
He’s me”
I’ll be your friend
@@markironside9818great dude right here
I'll be your friend dude
I'll be ur friend too
I won't
Bro lost 50% of his sanity playing against this book💀
He didn’t have much sanity to begin with
Profile pic checks out.
Nah book is the one who lost his sanity
he had sanity?
that's not a lot of sanity
"Do you know somebody who has no friends?"
"Well of course I know him. He's me." - Ben Kenobi
Edit: kinda sad that some people took offense to this. Get out of your mothers' basements please
@deluxetheplasmaboi3642Ok, then please be my friend too
dangit i was aboutta say that
**maniacal laughing slowly turns into desperate sobbing**
cringe
I've got a friend in you
I love how even the mom was like "yeah this dude got no friends, here play tic tac toe with yourself"
I like to think she bought it so he would put it on vsauce.
Yes congratulations that was the joke
That "Thank you mom" was deep and people didn't notice it
"Do you know somebody who has no friends?"
yes of course he is me.
It’s nice how he’s polite enough to thank his mom at the end of the video 👍
I mean, she tried to help didn't she
did you see the look on his face when he turned away?
ye thats not thankfullness
@@Dr_Doctor_Leehe probably just wanted to go somewhere
maybe
@@Dr_Doctor_Leei’ve seen thankfulness and bullshitness he is thankful and j because he looked up doesn’t mean he isn’t thankful there are a handful of reason as to why he looked up 🫨🫨
As a kid in programming class, I programmed a Tic Tac Toe AI which was an excessive list of moves, which I generated. But I made a bug that one chain of actions would lead to a win. So basically a digital form of this book. I forgot about it, but this short brought back the memory, kinda eerie
AI or it's just random?
@@GlitchedBloxseems more like if else. Tbh
And somehow that counts as AI apparently
@@lulu111_the_cool In the 90s there was hardly any talk about neural nets or other self-learning models. Having a computer adopt the role of a player in a game was enough to call it an AI
@@neostar7206 That's not true at all. Neural net theory started in the 40s and has taken 80 years to come to fruition.
@@amosbatalden5871 Computers were running simple neural nets in the 80s. And AI researchers were certainly talking a lot about the potential of neural net algorithm. The 1999 book Virtual Organisms by Mark Ward goes in depth on neural nets and their uncanny potential for solving problems. So people were talking about it.
But compared to now when it's a mainstream topic of casual conversation, the difference in sheer volume of conversation makes the chatter back then essentially a rounding error compared to now.
Why is his presence so powerful😭
"Hey vsauce michael here is the book really smart"
"Or is it"
"This book is perfect for people who don't have friends, my mom bought it for me"
Disturbing
💀
Michael is the only man that could make you feel uncomfortable while talking about Tic Tac Toe
Holy Pickles and beans, it has only been 1 hour
tic tac TOE
@@handoverthestromboli6715 Sounds like he will steal my Toe if I lose
1.3k likes but only 2 replies ?
Lemme fix it by adding an another one
Fr
god these 'Michael is a crazy madman lol' comments are so forced and cringe. Get original you hopeless dopes.
“Thank you mom”
Damn, Michael’s mom is savage
Micheal is like five minutes away from becoming the Riddler
Tic-tac-toe is literally that one game you can force everyone to draw in
That's the point of the book. They only let you win once just for giggles.
oh you clever commenter, i see what you did there
@@gamerguyrandom that's called a double entendre.
@@jorelldye4346 ok
@@jorelldye4346And a pun, I think.
"here's a great gift idea for them"
"this is a book that reminds them that they have no friends"
Who is buying them the book 👀 xfiles theme tune intensifies
@@billytheripper4 someone who feels incredible pity for their loneliness, of course!
Your mother knows you better than anyone else personally this was the perfect gift for you
“Do you know someone who has no friends?”
_Of course I know him, he’s me!_
Everytime I rewatch this video and hear him say "thank you mom" it warms my heart🥰
fr
And scares me 😂
@@tomtosavage9722Motherless behavior. We need to get you a goth girl STAT
Seemed like a tongue-in-cheek joke to me. Like he says it just to make the joke that his mom thinks he has no friends. And that “it was … really fun” is something you say when you get a lame game as a gift.
Thank you mom! Do you know someone who has no friends?
Michaels mom sounds like a really awesome person
Such a grateful son!
sounds like mom is pointing something loaded and deadly at her beloved son
where is the text
"Do you know somebody who has no friends?"
Yes, me 😭😭
Thank you. Eri loves you, and i hope your mom does too
I love how he says “do you know anybody with no friends, well here’s a great gift for them”
To then immediately follow up saying “so I was gifted this book a few years ago”
Yeah, and by his Mom lol. That was a little subtle but I think alot of people may have missed it
i wonder why…
tomioka giyu:
Props to Michael though, man's pushing 40 and still accepts gifts and (most likely) keeps in touch with his Mom. What a wholesome individual.
Why? Do you think when people turn 40 they cut all ties to their parents? I don’t understand.
@@seva7500 you'd be surprised. My cousin left home at 22 and never talks to her parents so...
*Turns 40* I’m an orphan now
@@seva7500I cut ties with my parents in my early 30s, best decision I ever made. My life is so much easier and drama free. Bunch of abusive, manipulative, narcissistic, extremely obese, racist fundy MAGA bigots that are reportedly hardcore into Qanon antivax antimask propaganda nowadays.
@@crashbandicoot5636That is not the norm
Michael makes literally the most versatile content.
That's honestly quite fun sounding.
bro called himself friendless and thought we wouldn't notice
I unironically want this
Yeah same and I even have friendsXD
Rain looks so pretty in that outfit 😊
Thanks mom was personal 😂😂
This is so cute and wholesome. Thank you Michael’s mom!
No replies?
When I was in middle school, my best friend and I found a copy of this in a cafe and spent an afternoon trying to solve it! After a while we flipped through to find the one winning game, and flipped backwards to find the sequence to get there. It's turned out to be one of my favorite memories from that time in my life.
Fake. Only people with no friends have this
@@KeksEooeow-he9gh Perhaps that's why I'm no longer friends with that person. It was the universe correcting its mistake
That unironically sounds fun
Kinda like solving chess puzzles with your friends
That’s so damn wholesome 🥹❤️
@@ChroniclerEonsdamn hope it worked out for the both of you