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When you're happy,you like the music,when you're sad,you understand the lyrics If we assume that a sequence of 2 blas equals to 0,and 3 blas equals to 1,in text,that is a,b,c so he is basically saying,a forgotten prophecy,b (be) swap c (see) In understandable language,he says "A forgotten prophecy be swapped and seen" and that's deep
Zeus: Say sike right now? Where am i gonna throw all these lighting bolts at if it ends? Aphrodite: But if it ends Helen won't marry Paris! Hades: Personally I'm okay with more souls coming to my domain
5:04 This lines up nicely with the story, as the fates said that if the truce lasts for ten days, all will end soon. They never said there would be peace. They just said the war wouldnt go on for long, and that there is a possibility one side would have a possibility of a massive victory against the enemy. Thats exactly what happened after the truce. So in other words, you were the one who made the situation that gave the greeks the idea of the trojan horse!
It is called ‘Fun Fest’ by Klink but all yt versions, spotify versions, and amazon music versions are removed and can only be found on apple music (i think).
There is a way to solve the second riddle with only one move. By opening up the top arm of the Trojan camp (with a diagonal swap), you essentially create a ring of Greeks around the Trojans. Even if you break the ring on one side, it will still be connected on the other side. Engineers use this principle to create redundant networks. If you connect nodes (e.g. power stations, data centres) in a ring, any one node/edge failure will not disconnect the graph. Edit: (The no-surrounding rule was added after this comment was made.)
*EDIT: Okay, so apparently nobody is reading OP's edit, which CLEARLY states that the no-surrounding rule WAS NOT THERE when these comments were made. The video was EDITED. Capiche? I'm putting this edit at the beginning, just in case it's a matter of people not clicking "Read more". Now, on to my comment from 4 months ago. Which, let me reiterate, was a time when there was no rule against surrounding.* Yeah, that's how I did it. I was super confused, wondering what I needed my other swap for, and thought I misunderstood the rules. lol Now, if a rule was added that both sides' territory must contact the perimeter, so that neither side is totally surrounded by the other, we'd have a different story.
Fun fact: The Māori (New Zealand) tribe of Ngāti Kurī once tried a strategy very similar to the Trojan horse. They made a fake whale carcass using dog skins in order to assault an enemy pā (fortified village). The Māori did not hunt whales, however they fed on the carcasses or dying animals they found at the beach, so when the enemy came to check out the whale's carcass, the Ngāti Kurī warriors who were hiding inside came out and attacked them!
@@sandradermark8463there always be as long as human lives and thinking process have simillar pattern. The most easiest way to describe this is “there is nothing new under the sun”
"You need to get your contact lenses, but your provider has a task for you to solve before you can get them." Fourteen employees are placed randomly on a 23x17 grid. You're at (10,15) and can only see one space in front of you. Employees with blue shirts move like knights in chess. Spaces that are touched a prime number of times are trapped. Employees can only say ozo or ulu...
Trojans: we cannot trust anyone outside the walls, anything out there is suspicious Also Trojans: oooh, a hollow wooden horse capable of holding enough men for an invasion.
Not nearly enough men inside the horse for an invasion by itself, but enough men to quietly kill the Trojan guards and open the gates after dark. The Trojans aren't anticipating the Greeks to attack during the truce, so they have only a small unit of guards on duty, to keep watch for external threats, to wake up the Trojan army in case the Greek army shows up. Completely blindsided by the threat from within... and just like that, it's GG to the Greeks.
For the second one, you could also move the top trojan camp, so that even if the camps block one route, there will always be another for the Greeks to meet one another. Edit: This does not work as kindly shown to me by multiple people; as the Trojans would then be surrounding the Greeks, breaking one of the rules for the puzzle.
I was thinking the same. you only need to swap 1 camp and your good.. you can swap it diagonally so you are not breaking the trojan camps. and by doing that no matter which "wing" they try to close up you can always go the long way around. since every camp has at least 2 routes to any given camp
The stories for these problems are just hilarious. I can only imagine the writers: "What about the Trojan war? We can even use the fates and their loom. It'll be great!" Solid work, keep at it! 😁
"And left the Trojans a parting gift..." Little did the Trojans knew that the parting gift by that certain Greek general would be the reason they lost the war.
With the solution as animated at 4:52 I can imagine the Greek general noticed what was happening. Because one of the Trojan camps which had three Trojan camps besides it could swap with the sole Greek camp at the fourth edge. That way the swapped Greek camp got isolated from the other Greek camps. If one instead had swapped the other dangerous camps, which were the camps that had to be swapped diagonally with a Greek camp, maybe nobody had ever heard of The Trojan Horse.
I love the narrator for Ted Ed riddles. His voice is very calming. I can get an hour long video of him reading riddles to fall asleep to, then later solve.
Once again you speak to the fates, and they prophesise the following: "The meddling trojan camp is somewhere within four grid spaces of the perimeter of the battlefield" *Damn*
One of the few riddles I could actually figure out on my own. The 2nd part you can solve with just one move by moving the top camp so there will always be a path no matter who blocks
Fates: "Oh, yeah, this war can stop if the truce can AT LEAST last the whole day" Also fates: "Should we tell them it's gonna last 10 more years, anyways?"
@@theali8oras274 she was more like a medic, picking up wounded dudes and saving them, one of them was aeneas from the aeneid also yes diomedes threw a spear and wounded her hand
I got the first one, but on 3:54, there's a new layout (I assumed that the swapping was not done before the thought of defection arose) but on 4:03, apparently, we still have to use the earlier set-up. That was my initial thought to, I was confused for the new layout for the second part.
The second question is so confusing. Are the camps in their initial position again? If so, how do I keep them "arranged so that any soldier can move to any ally", if they're not arranged like that yet?
yeah actually the image on 3:55 is what made it confusing.. because if you only hear the narrations/story, it's pretty clear that you continued on the swapped position
The reason they are not showing the swapped position is because there are multiple solutions to the first half of the riddle, & therefore you have to solve the riddle from your place. Since the video does not know what that is they have to resort to an image that can give a general idea of how to solve.
@@jozenne0018 That's still confusing. TED should have used the solution they originally showed as the example......And the expression "within 4 spaces of the perimeter" was confusing too with the pic. Is it outside the shaded x-ed off area or inside of it? took me a while to figure out the correction interpretation.
@@jozenne0018 They still use only their solution to explain the answer. So it does not yield any benefit that they don’t use that one in the “solve it yourself” part.
@@geertien You could just look at the Status Quo you got or go back to an earlier section of the video to see what camps are where. It probably does not matter much anyway that they are only using their answer since the other once are likely similiar
Interestingly, for the second step of the riddle, I took advantage of the fact that the moving camp would have to disrupt both trojans AND greeks. So if you move the two northern trojan camps diagonally southeastwards, they you create a connection between the greek camps that no singular move can undo. Therefore none of the 4 trojan camps that had an option to move before, now can; and elegantly I feel, you don't touch those camps themselves.
If you're stumped at the second puzzle, maybe it's because you got confused and are using the map being shown in 3:54, when in fact it should be the map AFTER the six swaps which is shown at 3:03 (also shown in 4:03).
The second question should be like this; - The defecting camp is within 4 spaces of the border **before the first 6 swap from the first question** . - This means the blue camp at the center (row6, column5) could be the defecting camp, which create much more trouble. - You need to swap 1 time on the top to open a path connecting yellow camps into a ring, to counter the possibility of closing the right and bottom at the same time. - But then, you only have 1 swap left. How can you counter the center blue camp if it's a defecting camp? If you do nothing, it will swap with it's left yellow camp and that yellow camp will be surrounded by blue in all 4 directions. But if you swap that yellow camp with other blue camp to prevent that strategy, the center blue camp will be surrounded by blue in all 4 directions insteand and then it can swap diagonally with any yellow camp to isolate it. - This became seemingly impossible, but there is an unexpected solution. ( Pause here if you want to figure out for yourself ) . . . . The solution to this version is; swap that center blue camp (row6, column5) with other blue camp on the right or bottom! Because they are guaranteed non-defecting blue camps. It makes the critical blue camp on the junction free of sus, thus impossible to make any yellow camp isolated. And the 2nd swap is used to open the top path as said.
For the second riddle, you only to move one camp. If you move the camp at the end of whichever Trojan line is fully intact, the Greeks will have passage through all 4 sides. Now, even if one camp were to shift, there would still be 3 paths open.
The second riddle was somewhat frustrating for me. I had to rewind to work out which side was blue and which was yellow since it wasn't explained in the written rules, then the way the center was shaded made it hard to tell how the campus were arranged there (rules did not allow the defecting camp to be in the center initially, but did allow it to move there), and finally, when paused, the bottom of the list of rules is blocked by the title of the video that TH-cam decides to put up when the video is paused. I liked the riddle, but more effort could be put into its presentation.
so for the 2nd part (4:03 if you wanna see the grid), can someone explain to me why we can't just open up the top part as well with one diagonal swap? (exactly like we did with the others) that way, no matter what camp was plotting to close down a passage way there will always be an alternative route right?
For the second part of the riddle, you could solve the problem in ONE move. Move the blue (trojan) at the top center diagonally. That way you open up the yellow (Greek) pathway at the top. Then it won't matter if you block the side and bottom, the yellows will still be connected.
2:55 those are not all the possibilities. For some reason you neglected all the ones where the topmost and bottommost camps are moved simultaneously (another 8 ways) 3:55 on this summary page you should really be displaying one of the modified camp arrangements from before.
When I first saw the video, I heard “If the truce continues for ten days, all will end soon” and assumed they meant some Greek apocalypse would occur, so I naturally considered how to cause war as quickly as possible.
About the second riddle, couldn't we swap the Trojan camp at the top diagonally to solve the problem? A loop for Greeks will be created, making it impossible for the Trojans to surround the Greeks. (look at the map 4:23)
There is one special variant that was overlooked (unless it is shown in 2:53). Moving the yellow camp four squares left, then moving the North, East, or South and East Blue final camp diagonally. It allows both blue and yellow camps to be connected horizontally and vertically. It could be it was shown but I just wanted to point that one out.
3:58 should have used the solved board for clarity, it seems to imply that you have to solve it from the beginning with only two moves, which would be impossible, you even use the solved board in 4:21 on the explanation. Still another great puzzle!
Why do I feel like this puzzle is themed around the Palestine and israel truce ? I remember it got broken because of the positions they held as well, what a coincidence.
I am on 1:43 and have figured it out. If you're still figuring it out, the solution I found involves abusing diagonal swaps. Don't mind spoilers or have watched the solution? Okay. Pick the short line of Trojan camps. Diagonally swap all of them to bring them closer to the middle while keeping them together, using 3 swaps. The last camp of the line will be swapped with the middle Greek camp to connect all Trojan camps together. 4 swaps have been used. Then swap the Trojan camp at the end of the line opposite the one you started with diagonally to keep all Trojan camps connected and connect the Greek camp squares together. 1 swap remaining. Do the same thing with either of the other two lines and it's done. A Greek soldier might have to take a very long detour if they want to get to a Greek camp on the other side of the unbroken line of Trojan camps, but they don't have to go through a Trojan camp, and peace is preserved.
I think you can solve the second riddle with only one swap. If you "open" the last "closed" branch, that means swapping (1, 5) with (2,4), then no blue camp is adjacent to the perimeter anymore. Any swap that the defecting camp could make will only close at most one of the four branches, leaving three open. That means that the yellow camps will always stay connected.
I didn’t recognise that the greeks were in yellow might have needed to be written in the rules since i automatically assumed they were blue and spent ages thinking it was impossible
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First lol
yo second
wasup
Third
Dear Ted,
Too many Riddles none worth solving 😢
That's the trick with the Fates: when they say "all will end SOON" rather than "all will end PEACEFULLY", it's almost guaranteed to be a massacre.
still better than 10 long years of despair
@@833Rowan Yes, instead of ten years of despair, it ends in a single moment as an asteroid destroys the planet. All has ended.
There is definatly someone hidden in the horse
@@tchaguym You sure? Idk man
This is a joke, I know
@@kerbe3 more precisely a gift unboxing itself to slit your throat at your weakest
Trade offer: You receive - A nice big wooden horse. We receive - Nothing, haha, don't worry about it.
SJSJFDJDISKSKD I LAUGHED SO HARD
💀😂 lol
Imagine getting a heart from Ted-Ed
😂😂💀💀
Saw this on r/196
When Ares said "...Bla-bla, bla-bla-bla, forgotten prophecy, bla-bla-bla. Bla-bla-bla, SWAP, bla-bla-bla." I felt that.
When you're happy,you like the music,when you're sad,you understand the lyrics
If we assume that a sequence of 2 blas equals to 0,and 3 blas equals to 1,in text,that is a,b,c so he is basically saying,a forgotten prophecy,b (be) swap c (see)
In understandable language,he says "A forgotten prophecy be swapped and seen"
and that's deep
@@smncoolidfk how sad are you to reach that conclusion
@@smncoolidfk OWO
@@lunadragonliz *grabs Thomas the Thermonuclear bomb*
@@Wudjja I'm hitting sadness levels that shouldn't even be possible
The one who solved the puzzle : We did it gentlemen, we have achieved peace.
Ted-ed : But wait there's more.
lol true
Was expecting this comment.
Lol
That was athena lol
@@loulou492 wot is this
“All the gods want the war to end”
Ares: hahah lol what if I made somebody move to disrupt peace hahha
Zeus: Say sike right now? Where am i gonna throw all these lighting bolts at if it ends?
Aphrodite: But if it ends Helen won't marry Paris!
Hades: Personally I'm okay with more souls coming to my domain
^^ lol
@Queen Helga One more soul for hades
@@akisa7865 something about "say sike right now" in question form is actually making me wheeze
Pretty sure that was Hermes
Ted-Ed: "Can you solve this riddle"
Me: "No but i'll watch it anyway"
same
Repost
Dont care same
Its true after all
That’s what I do
Everybody talking about the Greeks and Trojans while I’m just out here jamming to the elevator music during the countdowns.
It's a bop
@@TEDEd its a what
@@clayel1 basically saying it's a good song
@@pdpika o
ok
@@TEDEd
*so it’s a bop then?*
_dances_
5:04
This lines up nicely with the story, as the fates said that if the truce lasts for ten days, all will end soon. They never said there would be peace. They just said the war wouldnt go on for long, and that there is a possibility one side would have a possibility of a massive victory against the enemy. Thats exactly what happened after the truce. So in other words, you were the one who made the situation that gave the greeks the idea of the trojan horse!
1:45 I like how the riddle sounds intense right from the beggining then theyu start playing relaxing peacefull music
I want to know what the song is called lmao
True
It is called ‘Fun Fest’ by Klink but all yt versions, spotify versions, and amazon music versions are removed and can only be found on apple music (i think).
@@Mafew0690fr
Step one: Identify that you have green eyes.
Step two: Ask the war to leave.
Yep! And If you don’t Congrats! You get to fight for another 10 years!
Seriously? You guys are waaay out of fresh material.
@@shreeyamittal1771 it did get kinda old for a bit but now im finding it funny again lol
...I feel this is some kind of cultural reference that I am not getting 🤨?
Oh, you're Genius
TED ED RIDDLES AND ANCIENT GREECE- SOME OF MY FAVORITE THINGS😭😭😭
I read it like the song from the sound of music.
The fates: If peace lasted for 10 days, no war!
Greek General: Well yes but actually, no
Well, the fates said if the peace lasted ten days, it will be over soon. They however didnt said how it would end
@@nbyv There's a 65% chance that it will be either a genocide or a massacre
Based Odysseus
There is a way to solve the second riddle with only one move. By opening up the top arm of the Trojan camp (with a diagonal swap), you essentially create a ring of Greeks around the Trojans. Even if you break the ring on one side, it will still be connected on the other side.
Engineers use this principle to create redundant networks. If you connect nodes (e.g. power stations, data centres) in a ring, any one node/edge failure will not disconnect the graph.
Edit: (The no-surrounding rule was added after this comment was made.)
woah thats smart
Ohhhhhhhhhh i see
*EDIT: Okay, so apparently nobody is reading OP's edit, which CLEARLY states that the no-surrounding rule WAS NOT THERE when these comments were made. The video was EDITED. Capiche? I'm putting this edit at the beginning, just in case it's a matter of people not clicking "Read more". Now, on to my comment from 4 months ago. Which, let me reiterate, was a time when there was no rule against surrounding.*
Yeah, that's how I did it. I was super confused, wondering what I needed my other swap for, and thought I misunderstood the rules. lol
Now, if a rule was added that both sides' territory must contact the perimeter, so that neither side is totally surrounded by the other, we'd have a different story.
Outsmarting Ted Ed riddle
Oh yea, its big brain time
Fun fact:
The Māori (New Zealand) tribe of Ngāti Kurī once tried a strategy very similar to the Trojan horse. They made a fake whale carcass using dog skins in order to assault an enemy pā (fortified village). The Māori did not hunt whales, however they fed on the carcasses or dying animals they found at the beach, so when the enemy came to check out the whale's carcass, the Ngāti Kurī warriors who were hiding inside came out and attacked them!
Curious how there are always similar myths or folktales across cultures and even continents!
@@sandradermark8463there always be as long as human lives and thinking process have simillar pattern. The most easiest way to describe this is “there is nothing new under the sun”
Okay, but the elevator music? WOW i don't know the editor of this video but they deserve a raise this is *chef's kiss* perfection
they make very good stuff
TedEd: Can you solve the riddle?
Me: no, no I can't
#Relatable
A real 300 IQ+ only riddle
@@DontEatGaming
I mean, the first part wasn’t very hard
This is a 1,000,000 iq riddle this is super hard #relatable
Same, lol
"You need to get your contact lenses, but your provider has a task for you to solve before you can get them."
Fourteen employees are placed randomly on a 23x17 grid. You're at (10,15) and can only see one space in front of you. Employees with blue shirts move like knights in chess. Spaces that are touched a prime number of times are trapped. Employees can only say ozo or ulu...
ensure you have green eyes, the rest is trivial
Bustin The contact lenses are green. That's why you are trying to get them.
When the riddles are merging together to become a harder riddle
What's the question lol???
@@maninimahapatra649 How many rubies can you force the insurance company to hand over?
Well, a Greek God would just destroy the middle camp
Wouldn't work
@@superpeanutcrusade9208 because the Greeks would think the trogins were responsible.
@@elainegoates9792 exactly why ares would try that
@@elainegoates9792 not if we (as I assume we are Athena) trick Zeus into lightning bolting them
@@klem9758 or ask. Athena is daddy's girl, even if she's way smarter.
I love the swap at 1:43 from intense music to some bouncy elevator tunes.
We want the truth what is that song's name?
Heyyyyy ummm what is this funky tune?
Trojans: we cannot trust anyone outside the walls, anything out there is suspicious
Also Trojans: oooh, a hollow wooden horse capable of holding enough men for an invasion.
Not nearly enough men inside the horse for an invasion by itself, but enough men to quietly kill the Trojan guards and open the gates after dark. The Trojans aren't anticipating the Greeks to attack during the truce, so they have only a small unit of guards on duty, to keep watch for external threats, to wake up the Trojan army in case the Greek army shows up. Completely blindsided by the threat from within... and just like that, it's GG to the Greeks.
For the second one, you could also move the top trojan camp, so that even if the camps block one route, there will always be another for the Greeks to meet one another.
Edit: This does not work as kindly shown to me by multiple people; as the Trojans would then be surrounding the Greeks, breaking one of the rules for the puzzle.
This seems like a simpler solution than the one in the video
@@alexm4808 but if they do that, Trojan lines would be broken. The point is to prevent any Trojan or Greek camps from being disconnected
@@saranshgupta3517 but they said that the opposing side would move a camp only if it blocked the greek camps
I was thinking the same. you only need to swap 1 camp and your good..
you can swap it diagonally so you are not breaking the trojan camps.
and by doing that no matter which "wing" they try to close up you can always go the long way around. since every camp has at least 2 routes to any given camp
@@saranshgupta3517 there are no green camps; trojan camps are blue
The stories for these problems are just hilarious. I can only imagine the writers: "What about the Trojan war? We can even use the fates and their loom. It'll be great!"
Solid work, keep at it! 😁
"And left the Trojans a parting gift..."
Little did the Trojans knew that the parting gift by that certain Greek general would be the reason they lost the war.
With the solution as animated at 4:52 I can imagine the Greek general noticed what was happening. Because one of the Trojan camps which had three Trojan camps besides it could swap with the sole Greek camp at the fourth edge. That way the swapped Greek camp got isolated from the other Greek camps.
If one instead had swapped the other dangerous camps, which were the camps that had to be swapped diagonally with a Greek camp, maybe nobody had ever heard of The Trojan Horse.
When TED offers a second puzzle: I feel so Trojan now. I didn't see that coming.
And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward,
I tell you.
It's born with us the day that we are born
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That is indeed the quote at the beginning of the video yes.
@@ghostderazgriz Appreciate it.
I love the narrator for Ted Ed riddles. His voice is very calming. I can get an hour long video of him reading riddles to fall asleep to, then later solve.
Once again you speak to the fates, and they prophesise the following:
"The meddling trojan camp is somewhere within four grid spaces of the perimeter of the battlefield"
*Damn*
That intermission music tho......is perfect
One of the few riddles I could actually figure out on my own. The 2nd part you can solve with just one move by moving the top camp so there will always be a path no matter who blocks
Except one of the rules is that neither side can completely surround the other
That rule was added afterwards
As soon as I saw "riddle" I barked like a dog while clicking on the video
Your referencing Trojan queen Hecuba being turned into a dog right
@@iqraakhtar6219 No I saw something along the lines of this in the comment section of another video lol
Fates: "Oh, yeah, this war can stop if the truce can AT LEAST last the whole day"
Also fates: "Should we tell them it's gonna last 10 more years, anyways?"
That trojan gift is something that exists to this day. What a legend !!! (literally)
The "Greek Gift" is also a move in chess where you sacrifice a piece (most cases a bishop) to bait/weaken the enemy's king safety and checkmate it
@@jeremythomas4744 it's called climbing silver in Naruto.
@@akshaychauhan4346 yes it is !
@@jeremythomas4744 yea, but it only counts as greek gift if it is on h7 or h2
Solved the first riddle, second one sounded and looked confusing with the initial pattern.
Ikr me too. I was like yesss I solved it and then they pulled the second one 😆😆
Yeah they should have shown one of the solutions instead of the original one. I got really confused
Me too
I dunno, that ten days of peace seems like a Trojan Horse...
Let’s just call Aphrodite and put an end to it
if i remember correctly from 7th grade , aphrodite partook the fighting and got wounded in the arm once
@@theali8oras274 also, she was the one pretty much directly responsible for the war do to her kidnapping Helen.
@@theali8oras274 she was more like a medic, picking up wounded dudes and saving them, one of them was aeneas from the aeneid
also yes diomedes threw a spear and wounded her hand
she basically started it...
@@theali8oras274 her and ares. I think it was Diomedes who hurt them both. My favorite hero right after Odysseus
3:59 beautiful elevator music, where do you get such a wonderful piece? 🎶 🎧 ✨💀
I think the fact we're playing Athena is probably one of the harder to believe parts in regards to trying for peace
All I can think about is how “I” look so beautiful in the animation. Great job Ted-Ed!
its based on athena from greek mythology
I got the first one, but on 3:54, there's a new layout (I assumed that the swapping was not done before the thought of defection arose) but on 4:03, apparently, we still have to use the earlier set-up. That was my initial thought to, I was confused for the new layout for the second part.
music during the rest of the video: ambient, mysterious, dramatic
music during the pause: 💃👯🕺🎉🎶
Everytime when teded uploads a riddle,
Me: I cant, but still lets go and watch it!
Respect and credit for any person who really tried to solve the riddle for at least one second
Dear Trojans, Bla-bla, bla-bla-bla, forgotten prophecy, bla-bla-bla. Bla-bla-bla, SWAP, bla-bla-bla. Eternally yours, ARES
Hmm, interesting message alright.
Genes message.
I'm convinced.
You can't undestand the "bla"s, he is speaking the language of gods
Sorry bad joke
Very Intresting.
I don’t usually comment, but Ted-Ed’s videos are always my favorites to watch. The animation, the narration, the lesson 10/10 👏
The second question is so confusing. Are the camps in their initial position again? If so, how do I keep them "arranged so that any soldier can move to any ally", if they're not arranged like that yet?
yeah actually the image on 3:55 is what made it confusing.. because if you only hear the narrations/story, it's pretty clear that you continued on the swapped position
The reason they are not showing the swapped position is because there are multiple solutions to the first half of the riddle, & therefore you have to solve the riddle from your place. Since the video does not know what that is they have to resort to an image that can give a general idea of how to solve.
@@jozenne0018 That's still confusing. TED should have used the solution they originally showed as the example......And the expression "within 4 spaces of the perimeter" was confusing too with the pic. Is it outside the shaded x-ed off area or inside of it? took me a while to figure out the correction interpretation.
@@jozenne0018 They still use only their solution to explain the answer. So it does not yield any benefit that they don’t use that one in the “solve it yourself” part.
@@geertien You could just look at the Status Quo you got or go back to an earlier section of the video to see what camps are where. It probably does not matter much anyway that they are only using their answer since the other once are likely similiar
You know it’s going to be a good day when TED-Ed posts a riddle video 💯
Well a riddle after a long time! Thanks Ted-ed!!!
Edit: Noice.
Edit 2: nvm someone ruined it
Interestingly, for the second step of the riddle, I took advantage of the fact that the moving camp would have to disrupt both trojans AND greeks. So if you move the two northern trojan camps diagonally southeastwards, they you create a connection between the greek camps that no singular move can undo. Therefore none of the 4 trojan camps that had an option to move before, now can; and elegantly I feel, you don't touch those camps themselves.
lol, I am so happy, I just solved my first TedEd riddle, this was an easy one, but it still feels magnificent
Damn... I solved these ted-ed riddles back when I was 11-15 (nostalgia noon)
Thanks for bringing this back after a long time.
They never stopped posting them.
@@yomer355 I am sorry, I meant like.. it's been recommended to me now
I didn't even really remember them until this came up in my rec
I love how on every video, there’s at least one joke about the Green-eye riddle and one more miscellaneous.
Whoever makes this riddles has a incredible talent to create elaborate contexts for what is basically just math problems
This riddles go to a whole new level
If you're stumped at the second puzzle, maybe it's because you got confused and are using the map being shown in 3:54, when in fact it should be the map AFTER the six swaps which is shown at 3:03 (also shown in 4:03).
3:13 people writing an important email be like
Very important i must agree
The second question should be like this;
- The defecting camp is within 4 spaces of the border **before the first 6 swap from the first question**
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- This means the blue camp at the center (row6, column5) could be the defecting camp, which create much more trouble.
- You need to swap 1 time on the top to open a path connecting yellow camps into a ring, to counter the possibility of closing the right and bottom at the same time.
- But then, you only have 1 swap left. How can you counter the center blue camp if it's a defecting camp? If you do nothing, it will swap with it's left yellow camp and that yellow camp will be surrounded by blue in all 4 directions. But if you swap that yellow camp with other blue camp to prevent that strategy, the center blue camp will be surrounded by blue in all 4 directions insteand and then it can swap diagonally with any yellow camp to isolate it.
- This became seemingly impossible, but there is an unexpected solution.
( Pause here if you want to figure out for yourself )
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The solution to this version is; swap that center blue camp (row6, column5) with other blue camp on the right or bottom! Because they are guaranteed non-defecting blue camps. It makes the critical blue camp on the junction free of sus, thus impossible to make any yellow camp isolated. And the 2nd swap is used to open the top path as said.
For the second riddle, you only to move one camp. If you move the camp at the end of whichever Trojan line is fully intact, the Greeks will have passage through all 4 sides. Now, even if one camp were to shift, there would still be 3 paths open.
This would break the 6th rule
Neither side can completely surround the other
I think the rule applies after THE CAMP swaps, not after YOU swap.
i like how they added cheerful music at 1:43
The second riddle was somewhat frustrating for me. I had to rewind to work out which side was blue and which was yellow since it wasn't explained in the written rules, then the way the center was shaded made it hard to tell how the campus were arranged there (rules did not allow the defecting camp to be in the center initially, but did allow it to move there), and finally, when paused, the bottom of the list of rules is blocked by the title of the video that TH-cam decides to put up when the video is paused. I liked the riddle, but more effort could be put into its presentation.
Everytime a TedEd riddle is uploaded, an angel grows it's wings
so for the 2nd part (4:03 if you wanna see the grid), can someone explain to me why we can't just open up the top part as well with one diagonal swap? (exactly like we did with the others)
that way, no matter what camp was plotting to close down a passage way there will always be an alternative route right?
That was my first thought after looking at it for a while. I can't think of any reason that shouldn't be a valid solution.
That could technically be the defecting camp (since it's unknown), so if you move them, they can just move back later.
@@ManniDoan wel yes, but then there still is the original path for all the Greek camps to move between each other
Because that would mean that the Trojans were completely surrounded by the Greeks
This is the only one where the cryptic clues and the perfect logic make sense
The Fates: Hold a knife instead of a scissors.
they left their scissors at home
For the second part of the riddle, you could solve the problem in ONE move. Move the blue (trojan) at the top center diagonally. That way you open up the yellow (Greek) pathway at the top. Then it won't matter if you block the side and bottom, the yellows will still be connected.
But the Trojans will be completely surrounded by the Greeks
@@Inkyminkyzizwoz Yes you are right. I overlooked that requirement. Thanks for pointing it out.
Nice! I finally solved a TED-Ed puzzle, granted it was only the second one, the arguably easier one, but still!
I have read all of your riddles and was thankful that a new one came! Good Job Ted-ed!
2:55 those are not all the possibilities. For some reason you neglected all the ones where the topmost and bottommost camps are moved simultaneously (another 8 ways)
3:55 on this summary page you should really be displaying one of the modified camp arrangements from before.
When I first saw the video, I heard “If the truce continues for ten days, all will end soon” and assumed they meant some Greek apocalypse would occur, so I naturally considered how to cause war as quickly as possible.
Ah yes, riddles no one actually answered (mostly😁), yet we watch it because we wonder what is the solution🤦♀
About the second riddle, couldn't we swap the Trojan camp at the top diagonally to solve the problem? A loop for Greeks will be created, making it impossible for the Trojans to surround the Greeks. (look at the map 4:23)
I'm gonna need a whole album of that waiting music please 💳
Agree
There is one special variant that was overlooked (unless it is shown in 2:53). Moving the yellow camp four squares left, then moving the North, East, or South and East Blue final camp diagonally. It allows both blue and yellow camps to be connected horizontally and vertically.
It could be it was shown but I just wanted to point that one out.
That would involve moving camps multiple times which isn’t allowed
@@magicalwatermelon5147 ah, you're right. I overlooked that rule. Oops.
3:58 should have used the solved board for clarity, it seems to imply that you have to solve it from the beginning with only two moves, which would be impossible, you even use the solved board in 4:21 on the explanation.
Still another great puzzle!
This. Seriously wasted my time confused
These riddles are why I subscribed to this channel!
2nd puzzle: you only need to move the top blue camp. Maybe there's an extra rule that the trojans can't become surrounded?
4:30 you could also just move the top camp diagonally, then regardless of which camp moves their would still be a connection
But then the Greeks would completely surround the Trojans
2:31 solution: swastika
i love the dramatic story, plus the game show waiting music during the rules
who only likes this video because its hard and you never solve it?
At 4:56 the blue camp farthest to the right can be swapped diagonally
Don't be afraid of losing people ,Be afraid of losing yourself by trying to please everyone
Bruh you are first
@@vatsalmehta477 I should get an award 🤣🤣
Finally!!!!!! I'm able to do a Ted Ed riddle all my myself!! Achievement Accomplished.
Haven't watched the video, but here's the answer: Arson. Set that horse on fire
Ok so there's no Horse but Arson is still a valid solution anyways.
"all will end soon"
Gotta love those ambiguous phrasings
Why do I feel like this puzzle is themed around the Palestine and israel truce ? I remember it got broken because of the positions they held as well, what a coincidence.
Ted Ed: let’s see, if we move this camp over there...
Greek god: nah, destruction for everyone. No more fighting.
The answer is simple, ask Athena the goddess of wisdom, like she should be on Mount Olympus.
I think we are her.
The helmet, opposition to Ares, and implication that we are smart enough to solve the riddles of the Fates imply that we are Athena.
Proud of myself for solving both of these!
Same!
0:22 That's exactly why COVID 19 started Y'all
I am on 1:43 and have figured it out. If you're still figuring it out, the solution I found involves abusing diagonal swaps.
Don't mind spoilers or have watched the solution? Okay. Pick the short line of Trojan camps. Diagonally swap all of them to bring them closer to the middle while keeping them together, using 3 swaps. The last camp of the line will be swapped with the middle Greek camp to connect all Trojan camps together. 4 swaps have been used. Then swap the Trojan camp at the end of the line opposite the one you started with diagonally to keep all Trojan camps connected and connect the Greek camp squares together. 1 swap remaining. Do the same thing with either of the other two lines and it's done. A Greek soldier might have to take a very long detour if they want to get to a Greek camp on the other side of the unbroken line of Trojan camps, but they don't have to go through a Trojan camp, and peace is preserved.
3:01 wait why dos she have six fingers
Seven
@@BL0XYST1NG3R6 fingers and 1 thumb
@@TheWorldsLargestOven that was me when I still believed that the thumb counts.
@@BL0XYST1NG3R they do
I think you can solve the second riddle with only one swap. If you "open" the last "closed" branch, that means swapping (1, 5) with (2,4), then no blue camp is adjacent to the perimeter anymore. Any swap that the defecting camp could make will only close at most one of the four branches, leaving three open. That means that the yellow camps will always stay connected.
Then you think wrong, because that would break the rule about neither side completely surrounding the other
@@Inkyminkyzizwoz Yeah, you're right. I didn't see that...
I actually took the time to solve them and I got both right!!! So proud of myself lmao
Name more iconic duo than Ted Ed and Greek riddles.
No we don't because we are having better work to do.
greek mythology n ted ed riddles are the highlight of my life
I didn’t recognise that the greeks were in yellow might have needed to be written in the rules since i automatically assumed they were blue and spent ages thinking it was impossible
there are literally arrows pointing to the camps
I love how they show quotes before starting the video