When she named the dinosaur Blue, I thought it was a Jurassic Park reference... then she named the little person "Green" and I was disappointed. Then she named the last one George and I realized she's just an agent of chaos, like her dad and her uncle Jason.
it's not simply chaos, it's a very clever understanding of the rule of 3s in comedy. I could guess she was going to break the pattern there to be funny, and she did, and it was.
I teach English in East Asia and your vids make all the difference in my classes. thanks to you, I have 8 year olds slowly pulling bloody (colored in) splinters out of their fingers, and 10 year olds spelling out their card and finding it to their own surprise. as a lifetime amateur, I get what you do. you teach the best possible magic that doesn't need sleights. thanks again for helping give joy to lots of kids.
Very cool to hear about your success in sharing this with your students. I think this is great and I hope they have fun teaching their parents when they get home.
(7:52) - Too bad the image showing the direction of 'winning' is actually wrong. it is showing 'losing' direction [Paper -> Scissor = loss, Scissor -> Rock = loss, Rock -> Paper = loss] but the idea is sound, as each 'change' keeps the 'loss' directional arrow correct.
Recently, someone on P&T Fool us took the principle behind this, made a prediction trick with it, and fooled Penn and Teller. I still cannot fathom that they didn't get it. But that may be because I LOVE logic puzzles, and this is more of a logic puzzle then a magic trick. Cool presentation with the toys and all. And great explanation. The way I pictured it was with a triangle or arrows. And every time you swap two items, you flip the triangle with the not-changing item as a fixed point. That reverses the direction of the arrows. Swapping opponents works the same way, logically. The difference is that the triangle stays in place and it is your viewpoint that switches from above to below or vice versa.
I just watched that P&T video and immediately thought of this scam nation explanation. The whole time I was thinking Penn & Teller had to know how this was done. But I was fooled.... because they didn't!!
They probably knew about the triangle thing, they just got thrown by the way the final prediction was fixed before the trick began, because it depends on the order of the initial picks of the items by A&P&T. In more detail: They seem to have thought he had two final predictions, one for each way they could have picked the items. (Ya know, the old two outs thing.) But it was something different.
I've been obsessed with this channel for over a week. I'm definitely gonna buy your book. Thanks for all the awesome puzzles and stuff; this is all gold.
Ever since the pandemic started I have hoped for this so hard. I do hope he interviews his wife someday. Not many women are willing to give a guy a chance who can't get the injury counter over 3mo so I have a feeling she's as interesting as he is.
Pretty early into it I knew that if I just really thought about rock, paper, scissors for a bit I could figure out the trick. But then I realized, why the hell would I want to think about rock, paper, scissors that much.
I love it I love it. I LOVE it when scamnation gives us such simple and amazing ideas. Uninhibited, fun, playful magic. We want more and more secrets like this. Greetings from France ....... Magically
the best rock-paper-scissors I had was actually in Japanese and after the first line we would say "lets go again" if it was a tie all of this would then be said faster and we chose faster and faster until someone lost. it became a competition where we had to beat everyone in the classroom and it was fun.
Next time you're in any kind of rock paper scissors situation, use this specific phrasing. "If you win, (insert opponents reward here) if not, (insert your reward here)". By using that particular phrasing, any draws/ties count as a win for you, because as it was stated, if you're opponent doesn't win, they lose. And since a tie/draw is not a win, they lose.
“If you win, $10 if not, $10” your exact formula. Are you saying, if your opponent wins, they get 10 bucks and if they lose, you get 10 bucks? Yeah, that’s how it works, well done. Or are you saying if they win, they get 10 buck and if they lose they still get 10 bucks? Either you didn’t quite understand the game or you were drunk writing this.
@@20catsRPG "if you win, I give you $10. If not, you give me $10." They're saying if it's a tie, the opponent didn't win, so they lose $10 2/3 of the time.
You and your daughter are awesome and any negative comments about either of you are trash. Keep making amazing videos. It's so fun and exciting to learn and see someone else learning at the same time.
You can give names and make it seem more difficult while actually being less difficult so long as all 3 names go alphabetical or to be less obvious reverse alphabetical. In other words Paper Rock Scisdors could become Wally Stacy and Beatrice.
Hey Brian, if you ever cut your hair short would you consider donating it? I love the change from the old videos where you have spikey hair to the new ones with long hair. I laughed so much when Josie named the toy George. I had a cactus named George but I had to give him a new home. He is happier and thriving now.
I've just paused this before the 'reveal'..and I have no idea how he knew who would beat who!........ok so now I have watched the reveal and it's very clever..I guessed it was a mathematical technique but in no way realised how..or how foolproof..very very clever and relying on the trust that nobody lies to you it cant go wrong! Good way of winning drinks in a bar I'd say!
This was the first trick I ever saw from the original Scam School channel that got me hooked to the series! Lots of nostalgia seeing it in this form now haha
You've got to watch all his quarantine videos where his daughter has replaced the people at the bar. They are all priceless. This one was typical, but far from the best.
Am glad this channel is still doing good AV been subbed since you had very spiky hair and the channel name was scam school. I remember the first thing I tried was the nail up the nose lol.
I am the only one who thinks that they got the grafick wrong or am i mising something????? I love the show and have been waching for many years, learned soo many triks and i ceap comeing for more. Love u guys and all the best to u.
Brian, dude, bro, I read your Twitter rant about Mayonnaise and I gotta say wtf bro? "YOUR PRODUCT CAN KILL MY CHILDREN! REEEEEEEE!!!" Lol. sh*t had me rolling! I hope you feel better now, bro.
This girl is the type to close her eyes in a hide and seek game because she thinks that "If I cant see them they cant see me" according to the state of the back of her head 😂😂
On the desk, George (Red) has paper and Green has rock, but in the graphic, George (Red) has rock and Green has paper. Hence my head melted until I ran back and discovered the discrepancy.
I don't know how much it matters to you for the video, but your clockwise/counter clockwise animations were actually backwards. When your "victory circle" was clockwise, the pictures were counter clockwise and vice versa. Everything Brian said was still correct, just the animation of the victory circle was wrong
Before watching the performance, please let it be the one video I watched like 8 years ago where Spiky Brian said something like "red beats green beats blue" which has stuck with me so bad that I just repeat that sentence all day from time to time and yet I forgot which video it is!
Holy shit it is! I've never felt this nostalgic since you re-did the video with the spelling "last two cards match". This is amazing. Also shoutout to Bryce for the nice editing and visuals!
if we assume whats meant with "the ages" is some notion of long term time keeping, i mean theres archeological evidence of prehistoric peeps marking months on bones, so i guess paleolithic is pretty much the start of "the ages" except thats still a way long period, and im not sure we can count it as long term timekeeping, so lets keep things easy and see if we can find something better. according to wikipedia, which we all know to be the most reliable source in all of science, the first recorded calendar is the Sumerian calendar, which is (and i'm totally quoting here because im not entirely sure what that actually means) a lunisolar calendar from the 21st century BCE. so i suppose that means "the ages" started in the 21st century BCE. and anything before that would have been "before the ages"
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the order to remember of clockwise or counterclockwise is based on the figures (ie Blue, George, Green) and not the actual rock, paper, scissors order, right? You look at the RPS order to determine if the initial order of the figures is set up clockwise or counterclockwise. That way, whenever switches occur you just have to remember if it's George > Green > Blue or Blue > Green > George.
You can use whatever reference you want. No matter what your reference in a cyclic hierarchy is, it always reverses direction every time a switch is made.
OK a question: I’ve seen this trick performed by a magician and I get how he was getting his predictions. He had 3 players (knew their name) and he gave each an item, then asked them to swap. Once, then twice, then 3 times. Problem is, for his last prediction, he wrote it on the very same piece of paper that was being used in the game, all crumpled up. He then unfolded it and his prediction was on the paper, all correct. How could he have done that without knowing the initial circle direction? Without knowing that initially Bob beats Peter who beats Marry who beats Bob? He didn’t give the weapons out, he let the 3 players take them out of a box and he didn’t touch them at all so couldn’t have swapped the paper. How did he do it?
Since there’s only two outcomes, it would presumably be easy to sleight of hand out the piece of paper with a duplicate that has the other result on it.
I remember you teaching this years ago on scam school, and I put it into my stage show at that time. To make it stage worthy I used volunteers with colored shirts I gave them, and massive oversized props. For the finale I added a twist where I not only did the full circle, but also revealed which weapons belonged to who as well. I'll leave out how I did that. :D
When she named the dinosaur Blue, I thought it was a Jurassic Park reference... then she named the little person "Green" and I was disappointed. Then she named the last one George and I realized she's just an agent of chaos, like her dad and her uncle Jason.
you're my boy blue!
Your profile picture reminds me of the Minecraft Structure Block
@@dogefugger6960 That's because it *is* the Minecraft structure block :)
@@IceMetalPunk woah cool :)
it's not simply chaos, it's a very clever understanding of the rule of 3s in comedy. I could guess she was going to break the pattern there to be funny, and she did, and it was.
I teach English in East Asia and your vids make all the difference in my classes. thanks to you, I have 8 year olds slowly pulling bloody (colored in) splinters out of their fingers, and 10 year olds spelling out their card and finding it to their own surprise. as a lifetime amateur, I get what you do. you teach the best possible magic that doesn't need sleights. thanks again for helping give joy to lots of kids.
Very cool to hear about your success in sharing this with your students. I think this is great and I hope they have fun teaching their parents when they get home.
...you will unleash a scourge upon the world!
@@Alagachak don't blame me. it's all brushwood's fault!
My friend teaches English in China and has been having some issues. I'm going to suggest this to her.
holy cow, this is so elegant and simple, I'm amazed
(7:52) - Too bad the image showing the direction of 'winning' is actually wrong. it is showing 'losing' direction [Paper -> Scissor = loss, Scissor -> Rock = loss, Rock -> Paper = loss] but the idea is sound, as each 'change' keeps the 'loss' directional arrow correct.
I missed the 3 minutes after the diagram because I thought, " that picture isn't right"
What a nice magic trick at 2:56. Those figurines magically switch their positions after the camera angle changes :O
Ha yea and they change back again after
It is SO heartwarming watching these two. I love that these two share their family fun with us!
Recently, someone on P&T Fool us took the principle behind this, made a prediction trick with it, and fooled Penn and Teller. I still cannot fathom that they didn't get it. But that may be because I LOVE logic puzzles, and this is more of a logic puzzle then a magic trick. Cool presentation with the toys and all. And great explanation. The way I pictured it was with a triangle or arrows. And every time you swap two items, you flip the triangle with the not-changing item as a fixed point. That reverses the direction of the arrows. Swapping opponents works the same way, logically. The difference is that the triangle stays in place and it is your viewpoint that switches from above to below or vice versa.
I just watched that P&T video and immediately thought of this scam nation explanation. The whole time I was thinking Penn & Teller had to know how this was done. But I was fooled.... because they didn't!!
Their knowledge is not limitless
They probably knew about the triangle thing, they just got thrown by the way the final prediction was fixed before the trick began, because it depends on the order of the initial picks of the items by A&P&T.
In more detail: They seem to have thought he had two final predictions, one for each way they could have picked the items. (Ya know, the old two outs thing.) But it was something different.
I've been obsessed with this channel for over a week. I'm definitely gonna buy your book. Thanks for all the awesome puzzles and stuff; this is all gold.
I swear to you Josie is being primed to take over Scam Nation and Im totally co with that
yeah IF this pandemic ever ends
Ever since the pandemic started I have hoped for this so hard. I do hope he interviews his wife someday. Not many women are willing to give a guy a chance who can't get the injury counter over 3mo so I have a feeling she's as interesting as he is.
Pretty early into it I knew that if I just really thought about rock, paper, scissors for a bit I could figure out the trick. But then I realized, why the hell would I want to think about rock, paper, scissors that much.
I love it I love it. I LOVE it when scamnation gives us such simple and amazing ideas. Uninhibited, fun, playful magic. We want more and more secrets like this. Greetings from France ....... Magically
the best rock-paper-scissors I had was actually in Japanese and after the first line we would say "lets go again" if it was a tie all of this would then be said faster and we chose faster and faster until someone lost. it became a competition where we had to beat everyone in the classroom and it was fun.
I loooooooove how confident and comfortable she is with you! What better indication of a good relationship.
"I'm so thrilled you got it so easy"
She's a Brushwood, obviously.
@TranniesRBetter ThanRealWomen What's the difference, aside from the letter "R"?
One is their name, the other is not.
Next time you're in any kind of rock paper scissors situation, use this specific phrasing. "If you win, (insert opponents reward here) if not, (insert your reward here)". By using that particular phrasing, any draws/ties count as a win for you, because as it was stated, if you're opponent doesn't win, they lose. And since a tie/draw is not a win, they lose.
Unless you’re playing with a bigger dude who has a sense of FairPlay. Who won’t go for legalistic technicalities in a bar game
“If you win, $10 if not, $10” your exact formula. Are you saying, if your opponent wins, they get 10 bucks and if they lose, you get 10 bucks? Yeah, that’s how it works, well done. Or are you saying if they win, they get 10 buck and if they lose they still get 10 bucks? Either you didn’t quite understand the game or you were drunk writing this.
@@20catsRPG "if you win, I give you $10. If not, you give me $10."
They're saying if it's a tie, the opponent didn't win, so they lose $10 2/3 of the time.
I remember learning this from your channel years ago. It was fun to do.
I love Josie's Mannerisms, lovely clear diction and enthusiasm. She's great!
You and your daughter are awesome and any negative comments about either of you are trash. Keep making amazing videos. It's so fun and exciting to learn and see someone else learning at the same time.
Where are the negative?
AT the 7:26 mark, I believe you have your illustration backwards on the CIRCLE OF VICTORY. Rock beats Scissors, Scissors beat Paper, Paper beats Rock.
I am loving all the re teachings of old scam school episodes! Great Job
It’s a good feeling when you’ve seen enough of these scam school puzzles that you figure one out before it’s revealed.
You can give names and make it seem more difficult while actually being less difficult so long as all 3 names go alphabetical or to be less obvious reverse alphabetical. In other words Paper Rock Scisdors could become Wally Stacy and Beatrice.
Beatrice wouldn’t never hang out with Stacy and absolutely no one would ever hang with Wally.
All hail group theory! (Which is why I immediately spotted this trick even before his first guess.)
Good on you for doing these vids with your daughter, it's something she is never gonna forget :) Well done :)
her naming them Blue Green and George shows she's chaotic neutral. her being a chaotic neutral magician should scare anyone around lol
I heard mention of even and odd as numbers, I wish you made the connection with even or odd as permutations in a permutation group!
Visual was off lol :P Love Josie's reactions though :)
Really fantastic stuff, as always. It's hard to believe that it's so simple!
George is the right name. Comedy comes in threes. She has a perfect instinct for it. Must have gotten it from her mother.
Hey Brian, if you ever cut your hair short would you consider donating it? I love the change from the old videos where you have spikey hair to the new ones with long hair.
I laughed so much when Josie named the toy George. I had a cactus named George but I had to give him a new home. He is happier and thriving now.
Josie is still rocking the "I wanna be goth, but gave up halfway there"
bru that is the Kazuma Kaneko style
Poor parents.
@@zebilaweed clearly you dont appreciate the fine art of Kazuma kaneko.
@@drn000 Looking at it..... yeah really good.
Looking at the girl..... poor parents.
@@zebilaweed could try to be more whitty but i lack the energy
I've just paused this before the 'reveal'..and I have no idea how he knew who would beat who!........ok so now I have watched the reveal and it's very clever..I guessed it was a mathematical technique but in no way realised how..or how foolproof..very very clever and relying on the trust that nobody lies to you it cant go wrong! Good way of winning drinks in a bar I'd say!
This was the first trick I ever saw from the original Scam School channel that got me hooked to the series! Lots of nostalgia seeing it in this form now haha
Damn i remember watching you when you had the liberty spikes. I didn't know you were still around this randomly got recommended to me
You've got to watch all his quarantine videos where his daughter has replaced the people at the bar. They are all priceless. This one was typical, but far from the best.
Also check out The Modern Rogue that's the channel of his I watch the most! It's really good tonns of crafts, crazy codes and lockpicking.
I'll check those out thanks 👍
Am glad this channel is still doing good AV been subbed since you had very spiky hair and the channel name was scam school. I remember the first thing I tried was the nail up the nose lol.
Some dude just did a version of this on "Fool Us" and (supposedly) fooled Penn and Teller....
7:53 - 8:03 - OOPS! Your animation guy got it backward. LOL
I am the only one who thinks that they got the grafick wrong or am i mising something?????
I love the show and have been waching for many years, learned soo many triks and i ceap comeing for more. Love u guys and all the best to u.
7:27 ya new rules for this game, rock > paper, Paper > scissors and scissors beats rock... I guess.
Brian, dude, bro, I read your Twitter rant about Mayonnaise and I gotta say wtf bro? "YOUR PRODUCT CAN KILL MY CHILDREN! REEEEEEEE!!!" Lol. sh*t had me rolling! I hope you feel better now, bro.
This girl is the type to close her eyes in a hide and seek game because she thinks that
"If I cant see them they cant see me" according to the state of the back of her head 😂😂
That luscious hair of golden wheat hair flowing in the wind lol
On the desk, George (Red) has paper and Green has rock, but in the graphic, George (Red) has rock and Green has paper. Hence my head melted until I ran back and discovered the discrepancy.
Same, I was real confused.
TIL Josephine named the Pacman ghosts.
What does "TIL" stand for?
@@mrgw98 "Today I Learned"
@@zacharyshaffer9986 Ah, thanks.
I don't know how much it matters to you for the video, but your clockwise/counter clockwise animations were actually backwards. When your "victory circle" was clockwise, the pictures were counter clockwise and vice versa. Everything Brian said was still correct, just the animation of the victory circle was wrong
I noticed that too. I read comments to see if anyone else mentioned it, before I looked like a copy cat.
Me, three. Should make a correction in description
Ha! Was just looking for this comment.
What when was it?
@@siddarth1346 it would appear that they fixed the mistake on the video.
At 7:26, I’m pretty sure the arrows are pointing in the wrong directions
I remember the sugar packet version of this which blew my mind :)
I almost snorted a piece of chocolate out of my nose when she named the last figurine Georg 😂
Before watching the performance, please let it be the one video I watched like 8 years ago where Spiky Brian said something like "red beats green beats blue" which has stuck with me so bad that I just repeat that sentence all day from time to time and yet I forgot which video it is!
Holy shit it is! I've never felt this nostalgic since you re-did the video with the spelling "last two cards match". This is amazing. Also shoutout to Bryce for the nice editing and visuals!
A variation of that was at Penn&Teller, but did not fool them
Yes it did.
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I learned this one using artificial sweeteners from another video. Red beats white beats blue was easy to remember.
if we assume whats meant with "the ages" is some notion of long term time keeping, i mean theres archeological evidence of prehistoric peeps marking months on bones, so i guess paleolithic is pretty much the start of "the ages" except thats still a way long period, and im not sure we can count it as long term timekeeping, so lets keep things easy and see if we can find something better. according to wikipedia, which we all know to be the most reliable source in all of science, the first recorded calendar is the Sumerian calendar, which is (and i'm totally quoting here because im not entirely sure what that actually means) a lunisolar calendar from the 21st century BCE. so i suppose that means "the ages" started in the 21st century BCE. and anything before that would have been "before the ages"
you and your child learning mentality wow man.growing man good luck.🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
Somebody in post-production needs to get fired. They started the victory lap in reverse.
A bit harsh 😬
@@filthypagan3639 Only for the first one >:)
I used to know a version of this that used 'psychic' symbols on cards.
Same principle different narrative.
The black lipstick on just the top lip makes it look like she has no lip. Especially with the lighting from the side.
why doesn't the picture at 7:27 match what's being said
7:54 graphics are wrong shows paper beating scissors and so on.
Penn and teller get fooled by this trick recently :)
Graph theory for the win! I'm going to do this in my graph theory course!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the order to remember of clockwise or counterclockwise is based on the figures (ie Blue, George, Green) and not the actual rock, paper, scissors order, right? You look at the RPS order to determine if the initial order of the figures is set up clockwise or counterclockwise. That way, whenever switches occur you just have to remember if it's George > Green > Blue or Blue > Green > George.
You can use whatever reference you want. No matter what your reference in a cyclic hierarchy is, it always reverses direction every time a switch is made.
lol works the same as phase changing direction in an 3 phase Electrical system
Yep.
I really liked this one.
ingenious trick!
I like it!
The weapons at 7:25 are reversed since it is clockwise
It's fun, and a little scary, watching Josie grow up into a full blown scam artist.
Love this!
Imagine jossie grows up to be like a goth badass magician type and and his dad is just Brian brushwood which was one of the most chaotic magician X'D
Blue, green, and Goerge. Ah yes, comedy comes in three.
Did anyone else feel like they were at their optometrist towards the end when he was going over clockwise/counterclockwise?
The Josie-generated sound effects are too funny
Robert Neale is a treasure. I keep a bunny bill on me at all times!
7:26 is opposite
I LOVE your shirt!
'You can make that with a deck of cards. not as intuitive but the same principle :D
Paper beats everything. Paper can cover scissors _and_ a rock.
no,the paper always lose with the scissors,the scissors cuts the paper
Sometimes the rock cuts holes in the paper tho (not mindblown yet?)
OK a question: I’ve seen this trick performed by a magician and I get how he was getting his predictions. He had 3 players (knew their name) and he gave each an item, then asked them to swap. Once, then twice, then 3 times. Problem is, for his last prediction, he wrote it on the very same piece of paper that was being used in the game, all crumpled up. He then unfolded it and his prediction was on the paper, all correct. How could he have done that without knowing the initial circle direction? Without knowing that initially Bob beats Peter who beats Marry who beats Bob? He didn’t give the weapons out, he let the 3 players take them out of a box and he didn’t touch them at all so couldn’t have swapped the paper. How did he do it?
Since there’s only two outcomes, it would presumably be easy to sleight of hand out the piece of paper with a duplicate that has the other result on it.
A og effect but a awesome revision
Awesome scame trick brian
Is Josie prepared for this? (0:30)?!
This is an application of group theory
Who picked the background music on this one?
Schere, Stein, Papier
I have the same pair of scissors! ✂
“Rock, scissors, Paper” = correct
The click moments are so good.
1:34 scissors uses paper? Green uses George? Who wins?
How did I know the last one was going to be George?!
i see red green blue. i think fire grass water. the 3 starter pokemon types.
fire burns grass. grass absorbs water. water puts out fire.
George? More like "Georange."
Josie is the funniest tween on planet earth.
Is he really Brian brushwood from life hacker
The person in the thumbnail looks like if INabber and Amanda the Jedi were one person.
This trick literally fooled penn and teller.
Anyone else call her saying "George" for the last one in their head? Just me?
Big brain
Wow a $84 book
Video is v nice 🎉
I remember you teaching this years ago on scam school, and I put it into my stage show at that time. To make it stage worthy I used volunteers with colored shirts I gave them, and massive oversized props. For the finale I added a twist where I not only did the full circle, but also revealed which weapons belonged to who as well. I'll leave out how I did that. :D
Woah. This took me so long to understand. Am I stooopid?
im right there with you buddy....
Is that Kim Possible makeup I see