This week is chess puzzles that fool the smartest people at Stanford. Look, we're clearly at Stanford. This episode of Scam School brought you by Go Daddy. In the year 2657, in the History of Magic Museum, there's going to be a dark, forgotten, cobweb-covered corner. And it'll be dedicated to Scam School, the only show dedicated to social engineering at the bar and on the street.
I'm your host, Brian Brushwood. And this week, we are at Stanford University, where we get some of the smartest people at one of the smart universities. And we're going to fool them with some chess scams. Get ready to be blown away by how dumb you and I are compared to them. There's one of them right there. All right, first of all, thank you guys so much for joining me. This is like a dream come true to be able to swoop in to freaking Stanford campus and to hang out with the chess club, and come up with idiotic puzzles that I have no rights to pose to the smartest people on campus, all right. So I'm very flattered right at the onset. But here's what I want to do. I figured it'd be fun to start things off, we're going to do a little puzzle here. Normally I would do this for a free beer, but since we don't have any beer here, I'm going to say whoever gets it first will get a copy my book, Cheats, Cons, Swindles and Tricks, 57 Ways to Scam a Free Drink. But you notice I had all of you guys pull out eight pawns. All right, now normally this should be done with eight queens, but I figured we don't have enough queen pieces to go around. So we're going to pretend all of these pawns are queens. Who can set up all those pieces, pretending they're all queens, set up all eight queens such that no two queens threaten each other, all right? Ready, set, go. I love seeing everybody spring into action here, this is awesome. Whoa, whoa. We got a potential? Hold on. Oh, in your face, suckers. What time do we have, John? Four minutes, 50 seconds, all right. You got it? You got it? Hold on, let's see. Let's see. Check their work, check their work. Yeah. They got it. Holy crap, they got it! That was great. What's the final time? What's the final time? Five minutes, 35 seconds. We couldn't figure out this one. Yeah. No, I am. That's right, that's right. And in fact, I'll show you the version I came up-- well, I say I came up. I didn't come up with any of this. The version I learned, and I just remembered the number, 3162574. And so the first one, you start up in the corner. And then you just go three, one, six, 25-- oh yeah, six. That's six. Thank you. 74, like that. But I'm sure there's a number of different solutions for it. But I'm really impressed. Obviously, for people as capable as you guys are, even then, having eight people all simultaneously trying to solve it, that took a really long time. That was a good one. Give these guys a big round of applause. That was awesome. All right, so you're going to make yourself a video podcast, make yourself famous on the internet? Maybe you want to talk about your opinions about late 1970s anime, so you registered Gamelancast. Question. Are you going to register it as a .org, pretend you're a community organization? .net, oh look, I'm an ISP. No. You're going to do .tv, because that's what all the cool kids are doing, especially right here at scamschool.tv. And guess who we used to register our domain? That's right.
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