A Game You Can Always Win

Get Vsauce’s favorite science and math toys delivered right to your door: The 100 game was created by the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson -- who you may know for writing Alice In Wonderland under the pen name Lewis Carroll. Carroll’s Oxford students were amazed. On February 5, 1856 he wrote in his diary: “... the trick of counting alternately up to 100, neither putting on more than 10 to the last number named, astonished them not a little.” The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll’s Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays, by Martin Gardiner The Diaries of Lewis Carroll Volume I Arithmetical Croquet ~mikes/159/ *********************************** Vsauce Links Website: Twitter: Facebook: Hosted, Produced, And Edited by Kevin Lieber Instagram: Twitter: Website: Research And Writing by Matthew Tabor Special Thanks Michael Stevens VFX By Eric Langlay Huge Thanks Paula Lieber Select Music By Jake Chudnow: