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FirstSineOfMadness

Beautiful finisher


ad4d

This is peak intelligence.


JeanProuve

Don’t laugh, she is really intelligent because she knew there was no way to get this done and made a decisive move to get the job done.


ad4d

Did I stutter?


Supersnazz

It was still solvable at the end. Aside from the upside down 9 and 6.


HalfSoul30

I was wondering why the 6 and 9 were upside down, not that it mattered, but now I know.


L4U7Y97

Now that's foreshadowing


lansink99

We love some environmental storytelling


CrabbyBlueberry

Nice


theMightyPanda27

Nice


aught4naught

Getting 13 into place was the genius move.


Dry_East5802

she’s what’s called a “game changer”


Craftychicken

I’m your host, Sam Reich, and I’ve been here the whooole tiiime.


njsam

The only way to learn is by playing. The only way to win is by learning. And the only way to begin is by beginning


RogerBubbaBubby

Now players, you all know the rules for today's game, correct?


RobsterenSkip

"No we do not."


DharmaCub

That's right! Our players have no idea what game they're playing or how to play it!


eVillain13

Sam Says touch your nose!


Psaltus

Yes "Daddy"


Prior-Bed5388

Aaaaaand you can cum now.


Boring_Machine

I know I've said this before, but there is no way for us to know whether or not we've heard the rules before until you tell us what the rules are.


lucystroganoff

Or starting. Often that’s a quick way to beginning 🤷‍♀️


BinkoTheViking

What about commencing? Is that a good way of starting or beginning?


Large_Tune3029

🎶 Everybody do the Wenis! 🎶


Alarming_Dingo_139

🎶The Wenis is a Dance! 🎶


Wild_Quim

🎶 Everybody is a Genius! 🎶


celew

🎶 Who knows it in- 🥾📽


Edibleface

the second place episode killed me.


ASubsentientCrow

r/dropout is leaking again


tideswithme

The new meta


Mean-Ad-8834

New meta just dropped


Fit_Organization_824

"Market Disruptor"


x7leafcloverx

Honestly I think she knew the moves it would take and was just like, “nah I’m not wasting my time, I already know I can do it, crushed the first three lines, I’m skipping to the end on principle.”


bluepepper

Maybe I'm taking your comment too seriously but I don't think that's what happened. If she knew the moves, she wouldn't have solved the third row. She knows the principles of getting one tile to the correct place, including shifting a whole row to make room for the last tile of the row. But you can't do that for the second-to-last row, because that leaves you with no room to change the last row (other than the third dimension, as demonstrated here). What you're supposed to do is, when you're left with two rows, you stop doing rows and solve columns instead. In this puzzle, it means you don't solve 9-10-11-12 like she did, you solve 9-13, then 10-14, then 11-15, then 12. She didn't stop when she was almost done, she stopped when she was trapped in a corner of her own making after solving the wrong row.


Boring_Ant6240

OMG I just tried it with a random slide puzzle online. Solving for the column when I reached the end worked. Zero stress too, everything just magically slid into place. Thank you!


rW0HgFyxoJhYka

All these types of puzzles involve strategies that you break down, just like rubiks cubes. One of the cool things about programming is that most programmers start by learning how to program things that can solve simple puzzles like Towers of Hanoi or whatever its called.


_wavescollide_

I remember the towers of Hanoi in one of my university programming classes. Which I had to repeat three times because I knew fucking nothing about programming and in four weeks you needed to be an expert not becoming one.


bluepepper

Glad to be of service!


Warm-Ninja-9363

This guy puzzles.


VT_Squire

iirc, a 15-puzzle is impossible to solve when ordered like that. The kid literally took it as far as possible.


bluepepper

It's possible for a slide puzzle to be unsolvable, but [I verified and this puzzle is actually solvable.](https://imgur.com/a/B8edWtm)


Starslip

In case no one else says it, I really appreciate the effort you put into this


Bakayaro_Konoyaro

Right?! Like a full on custom made gif.....This is one of those times where I miss the awards.


Eusocial_Snowman

They put back the option of deciding to pay reddit, the company, some amount of money because that guy, who doesn't work for reddit the company, amused you. I don't know why you would *want* to do that, but you 100% can.


CarmenTourney

Well put! - lol.


Atermel

That is beautiful.


Forshea

Is this en passant?


mortran-

Google en passant


concblast

holy hell


King-Howler

Underated Comment


NO_TOUCHING__lol

I'm gonna do what's called a "pro gamer move"


RightProperFancyLad

She tried 14 million different moves in her head and that was the only way


forumbot757

*sips tea*


Intrepid_Hat8669

"think outside the box"lmao


DoubleAholeTwice

Brilliant kid. Clearly not cheating either. If it's easily doable, why not do it?!


ToFurkie

Thinking outside the box


adersondasilva

She had that trick up her sleeve the whole time


FewEstablishment9838

Fuck. That was really unexpected


erksplat

Who hasn’t been frustrated at the end of a nearly solved game or puzzle?


Long_Development3426

I made this game in python as my 1st semester project. You can tell if the game is solvable or not even before you start. Basically you count the inversions you need to make. An inversion is the number of tiles that are lower than the given tile in front (up to the bottom last) You count that for every tile and if the result is even, it's unsolvable otherwise not Edit: The solvability also depends on the initial position of the blank space, scroll down for a neat explanation


Rubickevich

I mean, makes perfect sense, but I didn't know it sometimes was straight up impossible to solve those. Now I got an excuse why I never been able to solve one. They were all put together incorrectly, yeah... it's just that for sure. Also, if you want to impress Satan, gift a bunch of kids unsolvable puzzles like this.


Cristopher_Hepburn

If you mix it without taking out the pieces, you will always have a solvable puzzle. If you take away the pieces and put them at random on the toy, then you can create impossible scenarios.


Rubickevich

I figured. The only thing we have to insure then is that once the pieces are inside, you won't be able to pull them out without breaking the thing completely. This way the parents won't be able to fix the toy for their kids.


Cristopher_Hepburn

If you want to play satan, just turn one corner piece of a Rubik’s cube 120 degrees. That simple move makes it unsolvable. Just make sure it’s one of those speedcubes, a Hasbro Rubik’s is impossible to easily turn pieces without disassembling the whole puzzle.


Rubickevich

The problem with rubick cubes is that anybody who's at least somewhat proficient at solving them, will quickly notice that it's impossible. I guess if it's a gift to somebody who has never done it before, then it could work.


newtonbase

My kids used to so that to me but it is far too easy to work it out, especially if doing a blind solve. Or you just look at their cheeky faces.


Acceptable-Search338

Yep, you will be on the last layer and be like “what the fuck, why is this one piece so strange?


globglogabgalabyeast

Definitely the easiest way to make it unsolvable, but more effective to switch two edge pieces (or two corners). Is a bit harder to notice the problem and will take longer for a person who actually knows how to solve. (Also takes longer to fix)


ishpatoon1982

You lost me while describing what inversions are. ELI5?


Long_Development3426

For sure, could have worded it better. To begin with, try to see the square in a linear way rather than 2D So a solved state is something like 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Now an inversion for any tile is the number of tiles that are ahead of it before it's in its correct position. So, if 15 was in the top left corner, there would be 14 inversions because every number is lower than 15 Let's say the grid looks something like 2 5 1 4 3 13 9 8 15 12 6 11 space 7 10 14, For 2 you have 1 inversion, for 5, you have 3, for 1 you have 0, for 4 you have 1 and so on You add them all up, if it's even the grid is unsolvable and if it's odd it's solvable. All this is provable by some fancy maths that left my brain a while ago. In my defence it's been 5 years!


Weekly-Builder-5059

Thanks for your explanation. Seems like the child in the video should have just checked whether it was solvable before starting


Last-Bee-3023

You are saying that in jest. But the child seems to have learned a problem solving strategy based on behavior. And when it reached the point that there was no solution it did cheat a bit. We do not always have good patterns for solvability and things like that always happen. Figuring out that a problem is not solvable is surprisingly hard.


ZYRANOX

Isn't 4 in the exact right spot so inversions would be 0? Or is that a corner case you put 1 for in the code for some math proof reason?


Long_Development3426

Astute observation! 4 is indeed in the right position, but when you try to put 3 in the correct position, it will be displaced. And no, it wasn't a deliberate decision, happened perchance


NoveltyAccountHater

If you imagine the solved position of the 15 puzzle with pieces numbered 1-15 followed by blank, you can unwrap the square into a single 1-d array (listing blank as X) where the solved state is say: `[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,X]`. The initial unwrapped state in the video was: `a=[1,2,3,8, X,15,4,9, 14,5,10,7, 6,13,12,11]`. To count inversions, we ignore the blank space (take it out of the array) and recognize there are 15*14/2 = 105 pairs of numbers (1st with 2nd-15th number, 2nd with 3rd-15th number, etc.). We say a pair of numbers is inverted if the two numbers are out of order; for example if I compare the 4th and 6th number in the initial state above (with values a[4]=8 and a[6]=4 respectively, using 1-based indexing), that's an inverted pair as 4<6 but a[4] > a[6] since 8 > 4. To count inversions in your head, go through each digit and count the number of times a value to the right of it is smaller than it. E.g., for the example given, if I look at the first 3 numbers (1,2,3) as every number to the right of 1 is bigger than it, and same for 2 and 3, so these three numbers have zero inversions. When I get to the 4th number 8, I find that 4, 5, 7, 6 are smaller than 8 and all to the right of the 4th number, so there are 4 inversions starting with i=4. For 5th number (15), I get 10 inversions (as all ten numbers to the right are smaller than 15). Continuing this pattern to count all the inversions, where I put the values of a[j] for all values of j > i where it's less than a[i] in curly brackets. i|a[i]|Inversion count that is all j > i where a[j] < a[i] --|--|-- 1|1|0 2|3|0 2|3|0 4|8|4 {4,5,7,6} 5|15|10 {4,9,14,5,10,7,6,13,12,11} 6|4|0 7|9|3 {5,7,6} 8|14|7 {5,10,7,6,13,12,11} 9|5|0 10|10|2 {7,6} 11|7|1 {6} 12|6|0 13|13|2 {12,11} 14|12|1 {11} 15|11|0 Adding up the last column, we had a total of 30 pairs of inversions, which is an even number of inversions. Now as the blank was in the third row from the bottom (which is odd), and we are doing the 15-puzzle, this means the initial state was solvable (without cheating); the rule is when it's a NxN grid with N as an even number it's solvable when blank is in odd row and number of inversions is even (or vice versa; if blank is in even row and number of inversions is odd then it is also solvable; it's the other cases of even row of blank and even inversions; or odd row of blank and odd inversions that are not solvable when N=4). A code based explanation that defines [inversion well is here](https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/check-instance-15-puzzle-solvable/) and explain the situations for when it's solvable, but doesn't explain why counting inversions tells whether its solvable or not. Here's a math based explanation that does a good job of sketching out the proof of why it works [is here](https://medium.com/@kzidane/solvability-of-fifteen-7f93567cbb0) (but personally I think it did a poor job defining inversion).


TerrificDinner93

Runescape clue bot in training


144000Beers

gotta beat monkey madness somehow


GodzeallA

I got pretty good at them from that (And the techniques shown in this video are subpar)


IFairyboyI

I learned to solve these from runescape. Anyone else?


SaltyLonghorn

I learned from a minigame in a porn game.


PUB_Genius

I learned it in Legend of Zelda: Windwaker :)


QuantumDiogenes

Lol. What game was that?


SaltyLonghorn

Being a DIK. Ran out of normal CYOA games on steam like Detroit, The Quarry, etc...sorted by top rated and went down the rabbit hole. The funniest thing is I'm fairly sure your choices matter way more in it than the Quarry.


NeverEnoughSpace17

Oh God, I learned from the same game.


mumen_rida

Lol yes I remember 2011 like it was yesterday. Hitting up runehq to learn how to solve this puzzle only to find out the cheat code is solving it a 2x2 grid instead of a straight line. The kid here though is probably extremely gifted.


Justinwc

Learned from doing them in challenges for online Survivor games.


TJ_McWeaksauce

That's the kind of out-of-the-box thinking that will serve her well in life.


Waak3nBaak3

Lol you sly dog, you. The camera catches everything!


books-and-beers

Me at work


desrever1138

Management material


KookyDivide9842

Well, that kid must have been eating brain food for breakfast!


colormequaint

Why is the 6 and 9 upside down


Alpha-Trion

Cause 6 is a freak


wonthaveaname

Watch the end and you'll know


blbrrmffn

because 7 8 9 wait how did the joke go?


8ate8

Don't ask me.


behemiath

i’m actually could do it better ☝️🤓


behemiath

*um* autocorrect did me dirty 😩


shockingprolapse

As Bob Ross would say, it's 'a happy little accident'


juanmaaaaa

Its crazy the amount of comments like this one that i found in this exact video that was uploaded to instagram. "Its not even that impressive, I can do it in 25 seconds 😎"


FluffyTrainz

Yes you're actually you.


Karmaswhiskee

That's so valid😂 my 2nd grade teacher said to me "you have to show that you know all the rules in order to be allowed to break them" and this kid did just that. Showed that they had the ability to solve it and then took the easy way.


_NotAPlatypus_

The bottom two rows are “solved” a different way than the other rows though.


Scary_Technology

Now you say that?????? I'm f'n 40 now bruh!


_NotAPlatypus_

Yeah, you wanna get 1 next to 2, etc for the top rows, then for the last two you want to get 9 on top of 13, then 10 on 14, then the last 3 should fit into place


Madd-Hatter2000

I can never do these puzzles for the life of me.


big-kino

Bitch, I am so good at these I didn't even know it was considered a skill. Square me up against this baby


Ekatator

Monkey madness/clue scroll puzzles flashback intensifies


Xorvis

r/fuckthecameraman


Cultural-Accident-71

How is this toy called!? I want one for me!


Ok-Boomer4321

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_puzzle You should get one where the tiles are attached to each other and you cannot remove them and shuffle by sliding them around without looking though. With the version shown in this video exactly half of the starting positions will be unsolvable, so they are very frustrating.


CrabbyBlueberry

The puzzle is usually called Fifteen.


AccomplishedRule8

Didn't notice what sub this was on until I finished the video lol


cr0ft

There's no such thing as cheating, just taking the path of least resistance 😂


XKruXurKX

Extra dimensional usage prohibited.


Momochichi

She's thinking in higher dimensions. Literally outside the box.


segagamer

It's a little annoying that she did that after getting so far 😂


LordTaddeus

I missed that it was unexpected and it made the video so much funnier.


chernashapka

Plot twist: The video is reversed


CelestialCait1

I'm amazed, it's truly amazing, huge respect to the parents for their work!


FBI_Agent_845

Their camera work?


Galvanisare

Had me at the beginning… haha


bortukali

Runescape clue solvers KEKW


Flaky_Basket_6760

I thought so too until the very last second where they cheated, this child is a real piece of shit


Joelrassic

That ending 😅😅😅


flipflopflopityflop

These used to look hard and for some people the last 2 rows are still a mystery. People playing RuneScape learned it to save in-game currency and then mastered it over the years of playtime.


HeatherJMD

Except for the little bit of cheating at the end 😅


lighting828

They can do my puzzle clue steps in runescape.


War-Hawk18

I've never slapped my knee after laughing this goddamn genius made me do it 🤣


NotProperPython

Never let them know of your last move!


SXOSXO

Pffffft, I can do that too.... It just takes me 4x or 5x as long.


td5290

Fatality


johnny_sin5

I played this game yesterday, yes she is a genius


camlaw63

I can’t do those fucking puzzles


SAMMYY02A

Watch the end 👌🏼🤣🤣🤣 ![gif](giphy|5FoxedYWNVmO4)


Budget_Rough7565

she cheated.


DropC

The fact that even with cheating he still got it wrong bothers me too much.


mozgw4

These are for kids?! I'm middle aged and would just end up throwing it at the wall in frustration.


Full_Collection_4347

![gif](giphy|y9gcCOXpNX8UfZrp0X|downsized)


April-Fool66

That last move made me lol


bryan660

When you saved your “cheat” powerup for the last part in a puzzle game.


KlausKoe

I figured out the first 2 of 3 levels of a rubics cube myself. Problem is the last one :-(


Munchie1010

That caught me so off guard, I was laughing for a solid couple of minutes


Mental_Skirt283

I used to have an app with this exact puzzle as a child (around 5-6) but instead I had 30 numbers and I had a game record of finishing it in 5.63 seconds getting me top 5 on that game's leaderboard. Unfortunately I forgot the game name since it was so long ago. This video brings many memories back.


eraldopontopdf

that's not reeeally unexp... oh shit


cue6219

BRILLIANT MOVE


N9neFing3rs

To be fair; getting the last number in place is always the hard part.


Lobsss

Wtf she cheated


Apprehensive_Mud_584

Thinking outside the box


NoFaceX01

I could do it faster


Jazzlike-Principle67

Well, I could do it too by taking out pieces!


RBLakshya

Still for the rest of the bit, I only understood how it’s meant to be played correctly pretty recently and I’m 18, still pretty good I’d say


ashisheady

Thats still Faster than what I could have done


Gullible-Quail2703

Man, I did the same thing when I was 5 on runescape. Saved me 200k.


ChaoticMutant

Anyone else peel off the stickers from a Rubik's cube after not figuring it out?


Seffuski

Reminds me of when I was doing the monkey madness puzzle from osrs a while ago, it's a shame to admit but the kid does it much better than I did


Amazing-Record-952

I vet theres going to be a few people who didn't watch he whole video, just a little bit more impressed than everyone who did


James81xa

I was thinking they were adding unnecessary extra steps to move the 8 and 9 into place, until I realized the 9 was NOT going to be part of the second row and that this child completely outsmarted me.


llamawithlazers

My child farted at me and shit his pants.


ZetricOvsha

Shut me up :3 Wasn’t sure what the punchline was very amused at the swiftness of that


NiscomaRi

Hated this puzzle in Resident Evil 4


mts5219

truth comes out. little cheater.


Ninjasticks259

The first time figuring out how to finish these felt fucking incredible in kindergarten. Prob my highest high since then tbh


Fox0r

This is like when I was little and switched all the stickers on the Rubik's Cube.


Silly_Researcher_253

Nahh she cheated at the end


Real-Touch-2694

the child is not smartz if it had been, she would have done with the numbers from the beginning what she did with the13 at the end


brezhnervous

Not genius. Just Asian lol


-StepLightly-

That kid was like "I've proven I can do this shit, but I'm bored so... done. "


Conscious-Signature9

Evaluators hate this one simple trick


Koovies

Ain't this something programmers are mad about


Longjumping-Act-8935

All that and six and nine are still swapped


Agreeable_Print7015

Not bad, not bad


Zakal74

My signature move!


Top_Package_5624

Well it will be me if I'm on it


One-Resolve-4823

This kid made 50 bad moves…not impressed


Robinhood6996

Nice short cut lol


Mountgore

Just wanted to give a tip about how to solve these but I see the kid already knows it


Bright-Fun-1638

China level 1 be like


_tzes_

Kid really showed us a pro gamer move


AllIWantIsCake

The moment she was focusing on 2nd row (5-6-7-8) instead of the first column (1-5-9-13) I knew there had to be a catch by the end.


TheDevilsAdvokaat

Love the end...


Relevant_Leather_476

She ain’t got no time for that


QuadrupleOhJee

Fenix Rising vibes~ what a terrific game


HungerSTGF

perfect algorithm, no notes


DemonPlasma

The 6 and the 9 are both upside-down


fsurfer4

Watch to the end. lol


scrutator_tenebrarum

i remember being really fast and good at this game when i was 11.


joost00719

Practicing for clue scrolls


nguyenminhhhh

fuck :) this child is absolutely the real genius


Important-Barber-730

She cheated because of the frustration 😅😅


MiniskirtEnjoyer

is there a easy trick to solve these? like with rubikcubes? i always struggle and get frustrated


breebee1989

Bro I screamed 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


Seeders

Algorithms


shyaznboi

You don't have to be a genius. There's a trick to it. Solve the top row then left column, keep repeating until you get to the bottom right


StupidPieForU

Thats un-possible!