- Are you ready to test your IQ?
What's up guys, Chris Ramsey here and today
I'm gonna try to beat the original
IQ tester, that's right.
I'm gonna put my noggin to the test.
I picked up this cool IQ tester.
Normally they look a bit cheesy with plastic
and you can find them at like restaurants
and stuff like that.
This is actually a classier version, same game,
they're just, the pieces are made of brass and wood.
This is made by Dan and Dave, in art of play,
you can check out the link below.
The whole object of this game, the whole point is to
be left with one pin at the end.
Now, being left with two pins is good, three is okay
but one is the pin ultimate conclusion.
What you want to get to is just one pin and that
makes you the smartest guy in the room.
Not really but I mean, it's a really cool thing
and also if you do end up figuring it out,
it's something I think that'll stay with you.
I think I randomly solved one once when I was a kid
at like camp or something but you know,
you never kind of remember, it's kind of random
so the whole point of this video is to figure
out the pattern, figure out one of the winning combinations
to get there and to remember that.
Kind of like a chess opening so a bit, a bit daunting.
I'm honestly not even sure I'm gonna get this.
If I don't, you won't be watching this video so,
if you're watching this right now, spoiler alert.
I got my new office set up as well.
Everything looks clean.
I got a new top down mount and everything is just spicy.
And if you guys are down with this video,
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it always helps and without further ado,
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let's get into it.
This is kind of like leap frog where you like jump
over someone's back and then you eliminate
whatever you jumped over so the whole idea is to
be left with one of these pins.
You start by taking, removing one of these pieces
and then from there you you know, jump over to grab
another piece, alright?
So, let's give it a shot.
Let's try the first combination here.
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It's a little bit like chess,
you got that logic feel here.
See nope, I've gotten down to two.
First attempt, got down to two, not so bad.
Let's try again.
So for this one, I started from the corner,
I'm gonna try something else, I'm gonna start
let's say from the middle, let's try that.
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I can already feel that this is not going to work.
And yep, we're down to three.
Well then.
So the whole point of this video and this experiment
is to find out the correct combination and try
to master that combination once I found it out
so I figure there has to be some type of geometrical
pattern just because otherwise how would you remember
anything so there has to be like some formation
that you have to follow.
Let's try taking off this one here.
Let's go here, so here.
Here.
I'm not following any pattern, by the way,
this is just completely random right now.
Yeah, I'm left with four.
Okay, well that didn't work out, did it?
I liked this idea of starting in the middle
and I feel like I gotta work my way upwards
so let's try that again.
See we have this nice little opening now.
Five wow, or four, here.
Let's try this again, I still feel like there's
options here that I haven't explored.
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Three, I also feel like there's more than one way
to solve this, obviously.
I think one of the major key things is to make sure
that the pegs are strung together constantly,
if they're not too separated.
If you start getting I think, two or three spaces between
the pegs, I think eventually you won't be able
to bring them back together so I think the whole
point is to keep everything tight.
Alright, so far so good.
We've emptied a spot and we've kept all
the pegs together, let's keep that up.
Well I've already failed.
Because I noticed that if you get a straight line,
like let's say for instance, we have this straight line,
you're done, there's nothing you can do at this point.
You can't jump over any of them so that's
another factor we gotta factor in.
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Everything's separated here.
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Three.
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There we go, nice little opening here.
I already feel like this is gonna go bad but
I'm getting a little bit better at bunching them up,
more so in the beginning, I kinda lose control
towards the middle so I'm gonna try to not
lose control so much here.
Kind of starting off with the same pattern as you can see,
because I think I'm gonna branch off that,
I think it's been going really well in the beginning
and then I went from here.
Three again, okay.
We're doing, we're just kind of like playing with
different permacations of that first combination.
Alright, let's try a different one.
Let's try this.
It's risky.
I can already tell this is gonna go horribly wrong.
Try this.
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And again.
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Three, okay.
I was able to bunch them all up into the corner
and the problem with that is that I think you still need
to leave like a rogue pin somewhere because if
they're all bunched up, they spread outwards
and there has to be a way for them
to come back to that bunch up.
I love this formation.
This formation is definitely where it's at.
I'm gonna try to practice that opening one more time
to get to that formation, I think maybe eating my way
down like this might end up working.
It was this and it was this.
It was then
this, yeah, okay.
I wanna free the corner
so I'm gonna do this and I need a place for the corner
to jump so I'm gonna do this and then
bring the corner out.
What if I leave that in,
bring this down first,
bring this corner up.
There we go.
This is actually looking really good.
Not gonna lie, this feels really good,
the only move I can do is this,
I've got it.
Boo-yeah!
Do it again.
Let's do it again.
Gotta do it again, gotta do it again, gotta do it again.
So I think part of the problem for me was possibly
my opening, I still feel like I could play
with my opening and it could work.
But this one seems to work a whole lot better.
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Yep and then we were in this formation here,
I brought this here, brought this here,
this here, this here and this here.
Bam, one more time, just for good measures
so it sinks into my skull and I can never
forget it as long as I live.
I'm actually quite stoked I got this.
I also feel like there's a huge random factor
then again, the mind works in weird ways
like when we see patterns and stuff, it's hard to
really, it's just you kind of go instinctively
like chess, like eventually when you know the rules
of chess, a lot of it is based on intuition
and I think this is one of those intuitive games
that is heavily based on logic and your intuition
knowing you know, the way the pieces move.
So, one more again.
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I got it.
(snapping)
Boom.
Yeah, baby.
Conquered the IQ tester.
This is a lot of fun.
If you do enjoy these types of things,
I'll leave this specific one in the description
where you can pick it up, nice little heavy brass pins
with a nice little wood finish on the bottom.
It just looks really nice on a desk somewhere
because it's all brass and wood.
So yeah, thanks for sticking it out with me.
I appreciate it.
Okay, bye.
Well, well, well, looks like someone's got
the brain the size of a planet.
That was a lot of fun.
I'm actually very, very glad that I,
not only ended up solving it eventually,
after dozens and dozens of tries but actually
remembered how to solve it and I think that was
the whole point of this experiment was to figure
out the pattern and beat the IQ tester.
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