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“As a rule,” said Holmes, “the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.” The Case of the Red-Headed League. One of my timeless favourites.
@@SMichaelDeHart Fiction is all about imagining a world where characters portrayed by the ink of pens are real. But you are not wrong. In the end, it indeed was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who concocted these words and this spectacular chronicle of genius mysteries.
I have read this particular Sherlock Holmes adventure a few times before, so I knew the answer beforehand. However, I really appreciate the setup to make it accessible to everyone instead of the standard "Sherlock solves it with his own intellect and intuition". A very well done video with excellent storytelling for a new audience!
This was a real story? Dang. Were you able to figure it out from the book? I managed to figure it out from the video, but all the major clues were crammed into two minutes.
My favorite part of the story is when both Sherlock and Watson stop his story just to laugh at the guy for a minute for accepting the shadeiest job imaginable before letting him continue
I doubt that either Sherlock nor Watson have ever had to worry about money. Even Sherlock likely isn't fully aware of how often odd jobs like this consist entirely of seemingly-pointless busywork. I once worked a temp job cleaning up a football stadium construction site, along with a dozen other guys. I was paid $16 an hour, for which the temp company charged the construction company $27 an hour, which the construction company then billed to the university for $40 an hour. So the construction company was getting paid to hire us.
This riddle was quite easy. You just had to ask the pawn shop owner "If i asked you "Is the person in your left green-eyed?". If the answer is "ulu", then you take the 23 "The Soul" card. If the answer is "ozo", then make all the population flip two coins. If they are both heads, then activate thrusters A, B, and D. If they are both tails, arrange the Greeks in such a way they don't know which color is their hat. Then, if you solved it correctly, they would enter the rave and you would have to go to planet 7. Assuming the Paradoxes start in a blue intersection, add one egg to the silver coins pile. After that you just distribute the dots in a way that you don't own any tax to Fate, and report to the police that everyone in the town is a werewolf. But, if your instrument is not in its box, open the prime numbers lockers and discover the password, which opens the fifth house of the MMM Macademy. You also have to account that it would take you 15 minutes to cross all the contaminated rooms without using snakes. That means that the fish tanks can only fall from the 27th floor. That's the only way you can create a blue triangle only being able to use the +5, +7, and √ keys. By the way, there is a shortcut to solve this. You have to make sure you land on winning numbers and only flip the lever A. After that, just separate the batteries on groups of 3 and 2 to know which are the possessed ones. And congratulations, you just saved your town and your head.
No way you just referenced the Alien Gods, Green Eyes, Tarot Deck, Fantasy Election, Death Race, Trojan War, Prisoner Hat, Giant Spider, Logician Rave, Seven Planets, Egg Drop, and Dark Coin riddles All in one solution Hats off to you
@@sihuahn99 And also the Paradoxes, Schrodinger's army, the fluffy creature, the coin dungeon, the interdimensional problem, the water escape, and like 5 or 6 more but I don't remember the names lmao
@@youtubeuniversity3638 Because the client, Mr. Wilson, albeit complicit, is innocent by being hired under false pretense. He's terminated from his job without notice nor fault. That's just him doing common sense considering his job pays way more. If you're talking about Spalding, that's because Sherlock goes to him as the "colleague at Mr. Wilson's workplace who convinced him to take the job".
This is what the sherlock holmes stories should have been! The stories make you understand sherlock's thought process very well, but except for one or two, they don't let you be the detective. This video allows you to follow sherlock's thought process decently well but it lets observant people be the detective, and becoming the detective and cracking the mystery without help. The best.
If you want a case of a genuine Sherlock Holmes mystery in the tradition of the "fair play" mystery, before those rules were codified, may I suggest "Silver Blaze". The only bit of information hidden from Watson before the conclusion is a relatively noncritical one.
I am a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes and have read all of these stories because my dad used to read them to me. It is crazy to me that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle could think up of these stories that made sense, were interesting, and created such a following back in his day. This was always one of my favorites. I like your riddle series but I already knew this one because I read it already.
Doyle was not the one to invent the mystery novel (in A Study In Scarlet, Watson mentions previous fictional detectives--C. Auguste Dupin by Edgar Allan Poe, and Monsieur Lecoq by Emile Gaboriau, which were important influences on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work), but he did improve on the formula and was excellent at writing works in that vein.
The most amazing part for me was Sherlock showing up in the middle of the night with the bank manager and chief of police. The man is so connected! And them apprehending the robbers. Imagine nowadays how a bank manager and chief of police could even dare to do that.
I keep coming back to this video as I found it entertaining. I wish there was a channel dedicated to telling the story of Sherlock Holmes in this kind of manner; brief but detailed.
I'd love to see more videos like this from Ted-Ed. I enjoy puzzles like this that reward attention to detail and lateral thinking, and they're a welcome break from the more involved Ted Riddles (most of which are too math focused for my tastes). I hope you guys create more of these!
I solved it! Sherlock tapping the sidewalk with his walking stick and the shot at the view of the buildings around told me it was going to be about the bank, and ofc, if it's about the bank, it must be about a robbery. I guessed Wilson's assistant is the thief and I quessed he is John Clay, but I completely forgot about the red-haired Duncan Ross. And I thought Sherlock asked about the directions to the Strand, which as I checked in google, is a river, because he wanted to check if the assistant knows the directions, 'cause that would imply he might want to escape on a boat with whatever he stole, but that wasn't even mentioned again xD
@@eugenetswong English is not my first language, I meant tapping on the sidewalk with his walking stick, I fixed it now. It's like when people are searching for sth hidden behind the walls in movies, they tap or knock on the walls and if the surface behind the wall or floor is hollow, it sounds differently than normal. So Sherlock gauged that a tunnel must have been dug. I'm sorry i kind of think you were confused because I forgot to mention that the tapping was due to the walking stick before, but I'm not sure so I explained it all.
I loved this story when I read it. I listened to an audible book containing *nearly* every Sherlock Holmes book narrated by Stephen Fry. It only costed 99 cents! Absolutely worth it.
I've both read this story and watch the Granada TV adaptation, so this is all intimately familiar to me, but I hope others who werent familiar with this iconic case enjoyed trying to solve the mystery!
Thank you so much TED-Ed! I've been watching since the pandemic and you have saved me in school so many times with these videos, I stumbled on this one before a test on the book The Red-Headed League and its helped me understand it sooo much better. THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!!!
I've always loved this one. Partially because I've come across it multiple times, partially because it was perhaps the first one I remember reading and thusly, yet not insignificantly, also partially because it was the first one I fully cracked before Sherlock came into action. Often while reading this I'm ever so close to the solution, only to be snubbed due to lacking a piece of information or an assumption which was common knowledge in turn of the century England, however this one consistently is not amongst them. A great succes indeed.
It'd be so awesome if TEDED made a choose-your-own-adventure riddle video where every riddle character fights every riddle antagonist to save the riddleverse
This was a delight. I spotted the french flag, the word midas, and the bank, and correctly surmised a bank robbery of french gold. I picked up on the assistant being new, and ross seemed to also obviously be involved. Didn't figure out the tapping though, or that the assistant was the wanted poster guy. That threw me for a loop.
I really liked this one! 😀 I've read a few Sherlock stories, but I hadn't come across this one. Still, the clues were well placed and I had fun searching for them and figuring out the culprits. I just didn't know the whole plan, but the mystery in itself felt very accessible. A professor of mine usually complained that since Conan Doyle is one of those who begin the detective novel genre, he didn't lay clues for readers to figure things by themselves, so sometimes it feels only Sherlock could do it and solve things. This was a really cool way of adapting the mystery. Hope you post more of these!
I was close, but not right. I thought Jon Clay disguised himself as the other guy with the fiery hair. He had the red headed man work at uncommon times, so his disappearings would seem strange to the people around him. Clay would then rob the bank and leave behind the strands of hair he took from the red headed man, who disappeared every day for a certain amount of time. And while everyone suspects the red head headed man, Clay would flee with his pockets full of loot. I missed a lot of the clues😅
It's because there's a lot of missing details like that he was working for half of the real salary (which made him suspicious), that he almost pushed Wilson to the office to take the job (the people didn't part ways) that Ross supervised Wilson during the mornings at the start and the "photography hobby" done in the basement that alerted Holmes about the tunnel.
I remembered this story to some degree, the moment they mentioned the character "Vincent Spaulding". I didn't remember everything, but I knew how this case would end once I heard that character's name.
Ted ed, this animated version of the Red-headed League is wonderful. Please make more videos about classic detective fiction ❤ P.S. I love this animation style so if you decide to animate more Sherlock Holmes stories, please keep it!
For anyone who wants to know where the hints are (SPOILERS BELOW): These are mainly suspicious details I noticed: 0:16 - The book in the top left of Holmes' office says Operation Midas. There is a French flag. 0:45 - Notorious thief John Clay is at large (bottom left of the newspaper.) 1:46 - Duncan Ross pays Wilson with GOLD coins. 2:10 - The book in the top left still says Operation Midas. There is a French flag. 2:16 - Vincent Spaulding's face looks the same as John Clay from the newspaper. 2:32 - The carriage on the right is carrying gold labeled with French flags. Midas, in Greek mythology was a king who could turn anything to gold with a touch. Since the operation is called Operation Midas, it must be related to gold. Therefore Duncan Ross and John Clay/Vincent Spaulding are planning to steal French gold. (I'm not sure if all of these details are intentional)
i love this story but i think you could add more to make it even more impressive for example he pulled out his hare to test him thus leaving it at the seen of the crime as well as learning how to copy his hand writings through the book what he wrote all leaving a note in order to frame him from the crime this would work especially well since he use to be a mason and could dig the hole
Holy heck, I actually got it. EDIT: So apparently, this was an actual Sherlock Holmes novel, so I suppose it’s spoiled for me. Still, I’m glad they made this accessible version for people to puzzle away at. I had to run through the video about 3-4 times before I figured it all out.
I knew this because there’s a game which has a mystery that starts similarly, and the Holmes-alike character jumps to this conclusion right away, but it isn’t true in-game and the game makes fun of it.
me myself dont really watch or read sherlock holmes, but i do really loves mysteries... so question is, what is up with the french gold (named in the book), why is it a clue???
I remember this mystery, but there's one detail that TED-Ed gets slightly wrong here. When Sherlock tested the pavement with his walking stick, he was trying to find signs of a tunnel but _failed_ to do so--in other words, he found where the tunnel was _not_ rather than where it was. The reason this was, was that the tunnel was _behind_ the pawnshop, where he couldn't examine the ground directly, but he did find that the bank was directly behind the pawnshop. Later, during the stakeout inside the vault, one of Sherlock's companions tapped the ground with his stick, and found it to be quite hollow, in contrast with Sherlock's tests earlier.
I actually got this one, which really surprised me. It's very different to the riddles usually posted here but I was able to figure this out with relative ease.
He didn’t even ask if at least one of the red heads had green eyes. If the answer had been ozo he could have just used the checkerboard to trap the bad guys. If ulu he would have known which pirate had the treasure at his feet.
I conclude that: The assistant of this red-headed man is the culprit and he is trying to rob the bank across the street. How I conceded it: The assistant instead him to go to that job and he was given that job out of all of the other men, this is because he wanted the red headed man to leave him and give him time to work on his plan, and the man taking the interviews was working with the assistant and he dissappered because the thime of the histe had come. (I havet watched the video past 2:42 and this is my honest opinion to this problem)
Jeremy brett's Sherlock Holmes shows this story in such a correct manner that it is uncanny to find it so similar to the words of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Jeremy Brett ❤
I figured pretty quick that the copits are Duncan Ross and the shop assistant because Ross kept him away from the shop and his assistant urged him to take the job
What I got: the assistant is John Clay, the notorius thief from the body shape and left earring He must be working with Duncan Ross for something, and wanted to distract Wilson from it, and the only crime shown that worth the effort must be the bank So I just guessed John Clay wanted to rob the bank I missed: french gold (I noticed the french flag, but never thought of it as gold), Dust and hollow ground (tunnel) I guess I got half the riddle correct, loved the narration
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The society of the red headed men is from a sherlock holmes of the twenty second century episode
please use simple English don't use heavy words i am not able to understand
I'd love more riddles like this!
I always love how this story opens with Watson witnessing an intriguing mystery... Of Sherlock talking to a ginger.
underrated comment (hes more of a redhead though)
@@desihirohamada What's the difference?
@@FREYALOVESSTRAWBERRIES gingers are more orange, redheads are more.... well... red
@@desihirohamada Ohh that makes sense. Thanks!
Even funnier the whole thing about "A" words Sherlock mentioned is about Wilson's time while reading an encyclopedia
“As a rule,” said Holmes, “the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.”
The Case of the Red-Headed League.
One of my timeless favourites.
Actually, Holmes never said a word...it was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
@@SMichaelDeHart Fiction is all about imagining a world where characters portrayed by the ink of pens are real.
But you are not wrong. In the end, it indeed was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who concocted these words and this spectacular chronicle of genius mysteries.
@@manhazaman4178 I was just teasing...
They seriously need to make more of these Sherlock Homes style mystery videos! They’re so good!
I agree 😃
I have read this particular Sherlock Holmes adventure a few times before, so I knew the answer beforehand. However, I really appreciate the setup to make it accessible to everyone instead of the standard "Sherlock solves it with his own intellect and intuition". A very well done video with excellent storytelling for a new audience!
So Correct. PLEASE MAKE MORE MYSTERY STORIES IN THIS NARRATIVE STYLE!
@@AbhaypratapKaramsot seconded
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I think it was nearly impossible to get without having all the answers, also it wasn't clear what they meant by clue
This was a real story? Dang. Were you able to figure it out from the book? I managed to figure it out from the video, but all the major clues were crammed into two minutes.
My favorite part of the story is when both Sherlock and Watson stop his story just to laugh at the guy for a minute for accepting the shadeiest job imaginable before letting him continue
I laugh so hard at that part😂
I doubt that either Sherlock nor Watson have ever had to worry about money. Even Sherlock likely isn't fully aware of how often odd jobs like this consist entirely of seemingly-pointless busywork.
I once worked a temp job cleaning up a football stadium construction site, along with a dozen other guys. I was paid $16 an hour, for which the temp company charged the construction company $27 an hour, which the construction company then billed to the university for $40 an hour. So the construction company was getting paid to hire us.
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth".
Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
from "The Sign of the Four", right?
@RenoApostoli yes and no. It's the most commonly used quotes/phrases that Holmes states in numerous stories, both in the novels and short stories.
Only if world is deterministic
I love this quote. It’s actually valid
@@user-zb8hc2im4e indeed
This riddle was quite easy. You just had to ask the pawn shop owner "If i asked you "Is the person in your left green-eyed?". If the answer is "ulu", then you take the 23 "The Soul" card. If the answer is "ozo", then make all the population flip two coins. If they are both heads, then activate thrusters A, B, and D. If they are both tails, arrange the Greeks in such a way they don't know which color is their hat. Then, if you solved it correctly, they would enter the rave and you would have to go to planet 7. Assuming the Paradoxes start in a blue intersection, add one egg to the silver coins pile. After that you just distribute the dots in a way that you don't own any tax to Fate, and report to the police that everyone in the town is a werewolf. But, if your instrument is not in its box, open the prime numbers lockers and discover the password, which opens the fifth house of the MMM Macademy. You also have to account that it would take you 15 minutes to cross all the contaminated rooms without using snakes. That means that the fish tanks can only fall from the 27th floor. That's the only way you can create a blue triangle only being able to use the +5, +7, and √ keys.
By the way, there is a shortcut to solve this. You have to make sure you land on winning numbers and only flip the lever A. After that, just separate the batteries on groups of 3 and 2 to know which are the possessed ones. And congratulations, you just saved your town and your head.
Lmao the ozo and ulu💀
No way you just referenced the Alien Gods, Green Eyes, Tarot Deck, Fantasy Election, Death Race, Trojan War, Prisoner Hat, Giant Spider, Logician Rave, Seven Planets, Egg Drop, and Dark Coin riddles
All in one solution
Hats off to you
@@sihuahn99 And also the Paradoxes, Schrodinger's army, the fluffy creature, the coin dungeon, the interdimensional problem, the water escape, and like 5 or 6 more but I don't remember the names lmao
THE AMOUNT OF WORK IN THIS
What
So, if they just left the League open for another day, they would have gotten away scot free? That’s gonna haunt them for a while, ouch
Yes, because it's closure was one big hint the tunnel was done. That's how Sherlock knew they're going to attack that night.
@@Inkay257 Also is why the client bothered to go to Sherlock at all.
@@youtubeuniversity3638 Because the client, Mr. Wilson, albeit complicit, is innocent by being hired under false pretense.
He's terminated from his job without notice nor fault. That's just him doing common sense considering his job pays way more.
If you're talking about Spalding, that's because Sherlock goes to him as the "colleague at Mr. Wilson's workplace who convinced him to take the job".
@@defaulted9485 I wasn't asking a question.
Was making a statement.
This is what the sherlock holmes stories should have been! The stories make you understand sherlock's thought process very well, but except for one or two, they don't let you be the detective. This video allows you to follow sherlock's thought process decently well but it lets observant people be the detective, and becoming the detective and cracking the mystery without help. The best.
Try Agatha Christie. There you get a fair chance of guessing the culprit
@@unemployeddude704yh they mentioned her before on the channel aswell in a video. Wonderful author
If you want a case of a genuine Sherlock Holmes mystery in the tradition of the "fair play" mystery, before those rules were codified, may I suggest "Silver Blaze". The only bit of information hidden from Watson before the conclusion is a relatively noncritical one.
I am a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes and have read all of these stories because my dad used to read them to me. It is crazy to me that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle could think up of these stories that made sense, were interesting, and created such a following back in his day. This was always one of my favorites. I like your riddle series but I already knew this one because I read it already.
Doyle was not the one to invent the mystery novel (in A Study In Scarlet, Watson mentions previous fictional detectives--C. Auguste Dupin by Edgar Allan Poe, and Monsieur Lecoq by Emile Gaboriau, which were important influences on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work), but he did improve on the formula and was excellent at writing works in that vein.
I love how their hair is continuously flowing in the wind
TED-Ed animations are too underrated. Top notch work🩵
this story has a special place in my heart, seeing as it convinced me to read the entire series
Do you know which book this was?
@@tahlequah the adventures of sherlock holmes, if im not wrong
Yea that's the one@@desihirohamada
Please bring more of Sherlock Holmes' stories. We all would be glad.😊
You should do more of these. Sherlock Holmes is one of my favorite detectives, along with Lt. Columbo and Nick Charles.
The most amazing part for me was Sherlock showing up in the middle of the night with the bank manager and chief of police. The man is so connected!
And them apprehending the robbers. Imagine nowadays how a bank manager and chief of police could even dare to do that.
I keep coming back to this video as I found it entertaining. I wish there was a channel dedicated to telling the story of Sherlock Holmes in this kind of manner; brief but detailed.
I remember this story as a kid. Proves information and small clues ain’t useleless
I'd love to see more videos like this from Ted-Ed. I enjoy puzzles like this that reward attention to detail and lateral thinking, and they're a welcome break from the more involved Ted Riddles (most of which are too math focused for my tastes). I hope you guys create more of these!
Please make a playlist for every Sherlock Holmes story, it's really good!
animation hits hard everytime! shoutout to the animators & the guy narrating this video👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I solved it! Sherlock tapping the sidewalk with his walking stick and the shot at the view of the buildings around told me it was going to be about the bank, and ofc, if it's about the bank, it must be about a robbery. I guessed Wilson's assistant is the thief and I quessed he is John Clay, but I completely forgot about the red-haired Duncan Ross. And I thought Sherlock asked about the directions to the Strand, which as I checked in google, is a river, because he wanted to check if the assistant knows the directions, 'cause that would imply he might want to escape on a boat with whatever he stole, but that wasn't even mentioned again xD
What is the relevance of the tapping of the sidewalk?
@@eugenetswong English is not my first language, I meant tapping on the sidewalk with his walking stick, I fixed it now. It's like when people are searching for sth hidden behind the walls in movies, they tap or knock on the walls and if the surface behind the wall or floor is hollow, it sounds differently than normal. So Sherlock gauged that a tunnel must have been dug. I'm sorry i kind of think you were confused because I forgot to mention that the tapping was due to the walking stick before, but I'm not sure so I explained it all.
Honestly this is one of my favorite Holmes stories. It's just so... mundane at first. I love it so much.
Ted Ed, please, make more videos like this one!!
One of my favorite Sherlock Holmes stories in the book.
You had me at Sherlock Holmes. Thanks for making this for a new generation!
Sherlock Holmes novel is always captivated me with his exceptional intellect and his ability to solve complex misteries❤❤
I loved this story when I read it. I listened to an audible book containing *nearly* every Sherlock Holmes book narrated by Stephen Fry. It only costed 99 cents! Absolutely worth it.
Please make more of these. It was quite fun and engaging. Also, loved the animation style.
2 riddles back to back? THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE.
I always believe I'd be able to think of an answer to these puzzles/ riddles and I only end listening to the answer. Great animation!
Love the art style
The fact that he got in touch of Sherlock Holmes is amazing
I've both read this story and watch the Granada TV adaptation, so this is all intimately familiar to me, but I hope others who werent familiar with this iconic case enjoyed trying to solve the mystery!
Thank you so much TED-Ed! I've been watching since the pandemic and you have saved me in school so many times with these videos, I stumbled on this one before a test on the book The Red-Headed League and its helped me understand it sooo much better. THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!!!
Pleeeease make this a series!
By 2:45 I was like: huh
Your riddles are the best.
I've always loved this one.
Partially because I've come across it multiple times, partially because it was perhaps the first one I remember reading and thusly, yet not insignificantly, also partially because it was the first one I fully cracked before Sherlock came into action.
Often while reading this I'm ever so close to the solution, only to be snubbed due to lacking a piece of information or an assumption which was common knowledge in turn of the century England, however this one consistently is not amongst them. A great succes indeed.
It'd be so awesome if TEDED made a choose-your-own-adventure riddle video where every riddle character fights every riddle antagonist to save the riddleverse
"Sherlock homeless"
Tf 💀
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Bruh
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can this be considered a wxs reference
I am so pleased that one of my most satisfying cases has been turned into a Ted-ed video with incredible animation.
No way is this the REAL Sherlock?
@@suspiciousshadeofgreen don't be that suspicious
@@sherlock1854 Dude it’s in my name
@@suspiciousshadeofgreen And my identity is in my name as well....
@@sherlock1854 Yeah if your trying to solve crime maybe don’t put your name in your yt tag?
I love that the riddle is actually a logic puzzle and not a maths problem like in the past 😃
Absolutely love this type of video!! Make these for other mysteries please❤
I paused the video and solved it myself. I'm happy that I did. Thanks for this Ted Ed.
I have studied Psychology and Philosophy.You must have an Open-Mind,and
never leave any stone un-turned.
This was a delight. I spotted the french flag, the word midas, and the bank, and correctly surmised a bank robbery of french gold. I picked up on the assistant being new, and ross seemed to also obviously be involved.
Didn't figure out the tapping though, or that the assistant was the wanted poster guy. That threw me for a loop.
I really liked this one! 😀 I've read a few Sherlock stories, but I hadn't come across this one. Still, the clues were well placed and I had fun searching for them and figuring out the culprits. I just didn't know the whole plan, but the mystery in itself felt very accessible. A professor of mine usually complained that since Conan Doyle is one of those who begin the detective novel genre, he didn't lay clues for readers to figure things by themselves, so sometimes it feels only Sherlock could do it and solve things. This was a really cool way of adapting the mystery. Hope you post more of these!
I really love the artstyle and animation of this.
I was close, but not right.
I thought Jon Clay disguised himself as the other guy with the fiery hair. He had the red headed man work at uncommon times, so his disappearings would seem strange to the people around him. Clay would then rob the bank and leave behind the strands of hair he took from the red headed man, who disappeared every day for a certain amount of time. And while everyone suspects the red head headed man, Clay would flee with his pockets full of loot.
I missed a lot of the clues😅
It's because there's a lot of missing details like that he was working for half of the real salary (which made him suspicious), that he almost pushed Wilson to the office to take the job (the people didn't part ways) that Ross supervised Wilson during the mornings at the start and the "photography hobby" done in the basement that alerted Holmes about the tunnel.
I remembered this story to some degree, the moment they mentioned the character "Vincent Spaulding".
I didn't remember everything, but I knew how this case would end once I heard that character's name.
I'm honestly proud of getting halfway there!
Ted ed, this animated version of the Red-headed League is wonderful. Please make more videos about classic detective fiction ❤
P.S. I love this animation style so if you decide to animate more Sherlock Holmes stories, please keep it!
For anyone who wants to know where the hints are (SPOILERS BELOW):
These are mainly suspicious details I noticed:
0:16 - The book in the top left of Holmes' office says Operation Midas. There is a French flag.
0:45 - Notorious thief John Clay is at large (bottom left of the newspaper.)
1:46 - Duncan Ross pays Wilson with GOLD coins.
2:10 - The book in the top left still says Operation Midas. There is a French flag.
2:16 - Vincent Spaulding's face looks the same as John Clay from the newspaper.
2:32 - The carriage on the right is carrying gold labeled with French flags.
Midas, in Greek mythology was a king who could turn anything to gold with a touch.
Since the operation is called Operation Midas, it must be related to gold.
Therefore Duncan Ross and John Clay/Vincent Spaulding are planning to steal French gold.
(I'm not sure if all of these details are intentional)
Petition to cover more Sherlock Holmes stories! :D
i love this story but i think you could add more to make it even more impressive for example he pulled out his hare to test him thus leaving it at the seen of the crime as well as learning how to copy his hand writings through the book what he wrote all leaving a note in order to frame him from the crime this would work especially well since he use to be a mason and could dig the hole
This is a retelling of the original Sherlock Holmes story written by Conan Doyle so it wouldn't make sense to add extra stuff as cool as it might be
Holy heck, I actually got it.
EDIT: So apparently, this was an actual Sherlock Holmes novel, so I suppose it’s spoiled for me. Still, I’m glad they made this accessible version for people to puzzle away at. I had to run through the video about 3-4 times before I figured it all out.
Sherlock is the G.O.A.T of solving cases
I knew this because there’s a game which has a mystery that starts similarly, and the Holmes-alike character jumps to this conclusion right away, but it isn’t true in-game and the game makes fun of it.
In Maharashtra, India we have this riddle in our seventh grade textbooks
Between taking a strand of his hair and large samples of his handwriting on every English word, I figured this was gonna be a framing of some kind
(After the question comes)Me: What?
(After the answer comes)Me: It’s not special now.
me myself dont really watch or read sherlock holmes, but i do really loves mysteries... so question is, what is up with the french gold (named in the book), why is it a clue???
Guys, this story is the red headed league!
I am quite the Sherlock Holmes enthusiast 😏
ted told knows how to animate a vido its visually stunning! the hair! it moves!
I remember this mystery, but there's one detail that TED-Ed gets slightly wrong here. When Sherlock tested the pavement with his walking stick, he was trying to find signs of a tunnel but _failed_ to do so--in other words, he found where the tunnel was _not_ rather than where it was. The reason this was, was that the tunnel was _behind_ the pawnshop, where he couldn't examine the ground directly, but he did find that the bank was directly behind the pawnshop. Later, during the stakeout inside the vault, one of Sherlock's companions tapped the ground with his stick, and found it to be quite hollow, in contrast with Sherlock's tests earlier.
ted ed: "Can you solve a mystery before sherlock holmes"
Me: "ozo"
Sherlock Holmes is ze best! :3 And not just coz of Sherlock himself and his cases--but also coz of the wonderful bromance between him and Watson.
I read this story in the book! There are many clever plots involved in Sherlock stories.
do more of these. best riddles
More of these. Brilliant!
Loved this book as a kid
We need more of these !!!
Elementary my dear Ted! 🎩
Early Sherlock just hits differently.
Please do more of these!
Fun concept! Keep it up
WE NEED MORE OF THIS!!!!!
This should be a series of videos.
I do remember reading this some years back
I actually got this one, which really surprised me. It's very different to the riddles usually posted here but I was able to figure this out with relative ease.
He didn’t even ask if at least one of the red heads had green eyes. If the answer had been ozo he could have just used the checkerboard to trap the bad guys. If ulu he would have known which pirate had the treasure at his feet.
MORE OF THESE PLEAAASEEE
@TED-Ed Please make more videos like this. But please take all the time you need.
More Sherlock adventures😊
I FINALLY GOT ONE RIGHT AFTER LIKE 5 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😭😭😭😭
I cheated :/ I’ve read this one before
Can't believe they referenced this in The Great Ace Attorney 💀
Except, the solution is entirely different. And much more tragic.
Amazing !! .. Sherlock Holmes stories always are the best!..
I conclude that:
The assistant of this red-headed man is the culprit and he is trying to rob the bank across the street.
How I conceded it: The assistant instead him to go to that job and he was given that job out of all of the other men,
this is because he wanted the red headed man to leave him and give him time to work on his plan, and the man taking the interviews was working with the assistant and he dissappered because the thime of the histe had come.
(I havet watched the video past 2:42 and this is my honest opinion to this problem)
I had to make a plot diagram on this so I hated it but seeing this video has got me interested in Holme’s tales
Jeremy brett's Sherlock Holmes shows this story in such a correct manner that it is uncanny to find it so similar to the words of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Jeremy Brett ❤
I really liked the beautiful artwork on this one!
Please do more of theseee!!
I learned this chapter during my English classes in the 8th Grade! we even acted it out as a play!
Sherlock Holmes will always be my favorite fictional sleuth.
I figured pretty quick that the copits are Duncan Ross and the shop assistant because Ross kept him away from the shop and his assistant urged him to take the job
This is the fastest I've ever clicked on a notification
_Mysteries are marvelous_
What I got: the assistant is John Clay, the notorius thief from the body shape and left earring
He must be working with Duncan Ross for something, and wanted to distract Wilson from it, and the only crime shown that worth the effort must be the bank
So I just guessed John Clay wanted to rob the bank
I missed: french gold (I noticed the french flag, but never thought of it as gold), Dust and hollow ground (tunnel)
I guess I got half the riddle correct, loved the narration