Stand-up Maths’ most viewed videos of 2016
Lifetime totals, not views in this range.
Snapshot from 19 Oct 2026.
- Rank 1:

The Unbeatable Game from the 60s: Dr NIM
- Rank 2:

The Mathematics of Winning Monopoly
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Stand-up comedy routine about Spreadsheets
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Why is TV 29.97 frames per second?
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Calculating π by hand
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There is only One True Parabola
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How to build a Hexastix in 72 easy steps
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Leap Years: we can do better
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Four has Four Letters
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The Three Indistinguishable Dice Puzzle
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Australian Bank Notes are the Best in the World
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The A4 Paper Puzzle
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Ramanujan, 1729 and Fermat's Last Theorem
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Stand-up comedy about Equations That Correspond to Vortex Motions (aka "smoke rings”).
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How to mathematically calculate a fall through the Earth
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Paraboloids and The Building which Set Things on Fire
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The bridge which is measured in smoots
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The Maths of Spinning Coins and Euler's Disk
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The Fractal Menger Sponge and Pi
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SOLUTION: Three Indistinguishable Dice Puzzle
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How many different Youtube videos are possible?
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Matt & Hugh: The Euler Disk Which Spins Forever
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Geometry of Footballs and the Cube-shaped Ball
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Mind-boggling Card Trick (you can try at home)
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Milk first or last? The correct method for hot tea. (GONE MATHEMATICAL)
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New Rubik's Cube World Record! 4.74 seconds (interview and breakdown)
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Prisoners in Hats Puzzle: two variations
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The Spherical Droste Effect, with added twist and recursion.
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The Best Square Square in New York
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How to make an edge-coloured origami dodecahedron
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The Numbers in Dice Stacking and Balancing
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SOLUTION: 10 coin flips in a row! (for 10^5 subscribers)
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New World-Record Largest Prime Ever Found!
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Spinning Egg Trick (feat. Tippe Top)
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17 Number Facts about 2017 in 2:17
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Quick Mathematical Card Trick
- Rank 37:

The Curious Incident of the Maths in the Stage-show: Part 1
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Romantic Mathematical Shape: möbius-loop hearts
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Manchester Mega Pixel: world's largest analogue digital image
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Matt & Hugh play with a Brick and derive Centripetal Acceleration
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Polygons of New York
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The maths of spherical video (aka "360 camera")
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10 coin flips in a row! (for 10^5 subscribers)
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Mind-boggling Card Trick: REVEALED
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Puzzle: Is 36 the only triangle-square number?
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A new Rhombic Dodecahedron from Croatia!
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James Grime's Maths Puzzle: The self descriptive number
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The Curious Incident of the Maths in the Stage-show: Part 2
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MathsJam 2016: Letterwise Magic Squares