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The king has instructed you that if you're at least 90% sure a contestant mis-added or cheated, you should disqualify them. The highest-scoring player who remains will be the new heir to the throne. After you explain the rules, the children run to their rooms. When they return, Alexa announces her score is 385
*The king has instructed you that if you're at least 90% sure a contestant mis-added or cheated, you should disqualify them. The highest-scoring player who remains will be the new heir to the throne. After you explain the rules, the children run to their rooms. When they return, Alexa announces her score is 385*
There is a simpler way that I found. You need a 2 to go to 21. A 2 to go to 23 and from there to 52. A 1 to go 53 and there to 94. A six to go to 100. The other player needs a 5 to go to 6. Another 6 to go to 12 and from there to 98 and a 2 to finish at 100. I hope that someone will see this.
@@tabcat no, that's not it. it goes something like: let's play a game of snakes and ladders ... (something i don't remember) again can you keep it secret don't tell your friends don't tell your friends and it has kinda like a pop rock vibe i can't find it anywhere it's so weird 😳
Fun fact = The chances to actually roll these sequences needed without magic dices are 1 in 7776 each. Chances for both of them to get out alive without magic dice are 1 in 60,466,176.
@@hashblack11 He makes 5 moves. He rolls 5,4,6,6,6 + 5 = 5 (ladder to 15) + 4 =19 (ladder to 41) + 6 = 47 (first player already used snake so he stays on 47) +6 = 53 (ladder to 94) + 6 = THE END
Anyone else noticed the fact that when the reaper said “oh and btw” at the end of his explanation of the rules, he probably realized that the solution share a similar path, so he added the disappearing rule at the end to make it more challenging for the dudes. If this isn’t a coincidence then we’ll played
I mean, if that rule didn't exist then whether there were 2 players or 1 or 999999 players would make absolutely no difference, as obviously if one player could escape then any additional players could use the exact same path.
I solved in reverse, starting from the top and going down. I figured there are only two set of stairs that can lead you to 100 hundred within a six dice throw. The "complicated" part was discerning which route could work if the other one goes first, but there is only one possible solution so i eventually figured it out (to my understanding at least)
What I find most interesting about this is the princess. She gave the boys the magic dice. Which means she knew about the game. She knew what tools to use to escape death so she probably had to face death herself once and managed to escape. But that brings out another question where does she have the magic dices from? And also isn’t it beautiful how she gave them the one tool which could basically lend her immortality? If the boys failed the test she would never have gotten her dice back thus being able to die her next death.
This would be a great puzzle to solve with a computer program. So many things to consider (1) how to model the initial setup, (2) how to modify the model to make snakes and ladders disappear, (3) optimizing the search strategy, etc.
I think a computer wouldn't have much trouble brute forcing it. I mean, you only need to roll 5 times, so there are only 6^5 possibilities to check, which is easily doable by a computer. Once you've done it for the first player, you can discard all of the ones that didn't reach the end, and then repeat it for the 2nd player after each winning strategy for the first player. There are more efficient ways of doing it (well.. efficient in processing time anyway, probably not efficient if you include the time spent programming it since a computer can easily roll a die 6^5 times in under a second.. so if it takes you more than an extra second to program a more efficient one then it's probably not worth your time), but it's not really necessary to use them for this problem because there just aren't that many possibilities to check.
(1) The model could just be a simple array of size 100. A snake or ladder would be represented by an element containing the index of the player's target destination. All other elements without a snake or ladder would just be empty. (2) When a snake/ladder is used up, add a flag indicating which turn player 1 used that snake/ladder. If player 2 gets there on the same roll or after player 1, the snake/ladder no longer exists. (3) An optimized search strategy is the hardest part, of course, but you can break the problem into smaller chunks that are easier to manage. Like the video mentioned, you could work backward and keep a record of how many moves you are from the goal ("Okay, from these 6 spots, I can make it to the end in one roll. Which other positions allow me to get to any of these 6 spots by using one more roll?"). Or you can work forward and record how many rolls an optimized path would take to get to each successive element. If you reach a ladder path, record your current roll count in the destination position, but don't take that path quite yet. If you reach a snake path, check to see if that would lower the recorded roll count in that destination position. If so, follow that path and continue forward from the destination position with your newly optimized roll counts and update any previous records that are sub-optimal. I haven't fully worked out how to figure out player 2's optimized path when it requires a snake/ladder to be used up. But my hunch is just to remove the snakes and ladders player 1 used and re-run the algorithm again for player 2. If player 1 has multiple working solutions, run the algorithm for player 2 for each new setup. Not sure if this would work in every case though.
I quite like how I ended up modelling it for my "pen-and-paper" approach. 1. Any squares that have no ends of a snake or ladder are identical, therefore uninteresting. List the "interesting" numbers along a line. 2. Snakes go down, so draw arrows from their mouth spaces to their tail spaces below the line. 3. Ladders go up, draw arrows from their bases to their tops above the line. This makes it WAY easier to see the relationships between exits and entrances - and the arrows helped me work backwards, by finding arrowheads near a point of interest and following them back to see if they could be used.
it took me around 10 minutes but i figured it out before finishing the video and confirming my answer. it made me realize, the rules themselves often give away the solution. if you want a really hard puzzle like this, probably putting in a rule like 6 into a puzzle where it doesn't actually restrict the solutions or hint at the correct solution, to throw people off who try to use it in some way
This is the easiest one I came across. My only hiccup was thinking about the "ladders and snakes disappear after one use" rule as only pertaining to ladders. It's also like 4am and I'm tired. But this is still the only TED riddle I've solved on my own.
@@prakriti3702 The line was from later. After explaining the ladder/snake routes, he says that one of them is blocked by a disappearing ladder and snake, and that you won’t find another 5-turn path from the starting state. The answer is in *not* using the starting state; instead using the disappearing snakes and ladders to open a path that wasn’t there before.
I found paths to get both of them out in four moves each though. Correct me if I'm wrong and explain why, please. Player 1: roll 1: 5 right roll 2: 4 left roll 3: 6 left roll 4: 4 left Player 2: roll 1: 4 right roll 2: 5 right roll 3: 6 left roll 4: 3 left
After 10 years of asking programming questions in job interviews, my mind is going: _"A backtracking graph search algorithm might work. Represent the game as a directed graph, with the tiles as vertices ... "_
It's the human life cycle 4 legs in morning means when you are a baby, 2 legs in afternoon when you are grown up and 3 legs in night means when you are old and use a walking stick Originally the riddle was 3 legs in evening and no leg in night where the latter means death
@2:29 says there isn't a route that uses exclusively ladders that works, but there is one: 5, 6, 2, 3, & 6 Which goes along with the first player going: 4, 1, 3, 6, and 5!
within seconds of exiting the cavern, they sing a song about their adventure, which they could've planned beforehand this means they are both masters of improv
I can easily believe I could solve this. It’s been a long time since I played board games, and math is basically my oldest enemy, but... It’s 2 am and I’m bored. Meaning I can do anything as long as it’s completely useless.
I solved it by guessing that the gimmick involved using the disappearing objects to your advantage. I looked for a snake head which had a ladder 6 spaces away in each direction, since this is the only configuration in which a disappearing snake would save a turn. I then knew that the first player needed to use that snake and the second player needed to skip past it, and working from there it's easy to find the routes. I call this method "middle-out" deduction.
Winning like that always feels so cheap. I mean, I do it and its still winning, but its detecting and solving for tropes and likelihoods in the question itself, and considering the context in which the question was presented. Sorta like when your friend says, "You'll never guess how many apples I can juggle..." and you say, "6," based on a number that seems impressive to brag to a friend about, and you are correct. lol
Life is also just like this. Everything happens for a reason. 1). You get ditched down in life (by snakes in video), so that you rise faster in some other ways. 2). You miss an opportunity (disappeared ladder in video) so that you will get something even better. So, be positive even in hard times. Where there is a will there is a way.
00:07 Bill and you insulted the king and are about to be executed but are given two magic dice. 00:43 Escape Death by winning a game of Snakes and Ladders. 01:17 Survive the cavern game with fewer rolls than Death. 01:47 Solve the puzzle to exit the cavern. 02:20 Using snakes in the game opens up more opportunities 02:52 How to get to a single roll from the exit 03:34 Strategies to overcome ladders and snakes in the game 04:04 By choosing a 5-roll path, you can win without using any snakes or ladders.
I like this puzzle because it not only tests your problem solving skills, but also your ability to think backwards. Also, sick Bill and Ted reference. Most excellent! *Air-guitar riff*
This was a really fun but easy riddle. The 75 Ladder really twisted my head as to how he will ascend, but then I realize, a snake will disappear and it opened the world to me
_"they're not the brightest"_ They figured out the puzzle AND wrote a song about it at the same time that was so good the king himself rocked out to it. I'd say they're genius
Very interesting and fun little riddle! I personally found another way of defeating the riddle: nothing says you and your friend can't give each other piggy back rides lol. You could give each other piggy back rides to counter the problem of snakes/ladders disappearing after one of you uses them and both take the same path, no? Still, it will require taking one of the two paths you mentioned and purposely going backward which as you say is counterintuitive.
for all computer science junkies - it's a maximum flow problem: build a graph of all reachable nodes in 5 moves or less from the source, and then, find two non-edge intersecting paths in this networking using a maximum flow algorithm: set capacity of edge between rooms equal to some big number and capacity of edge on snake or ladder equal to 1. maximum flow on such network will yield two paths that do not intersect on edges. in fact this is extensible to N non-edge intersecting paths.
@@99897767 Idk I mean they haven't done a lot of research and thinking on this. ( Not to mansplain even though I'm a girl but that was sarcasm in case by some rare circumstance you didn't know that )
00:11 Given magical dice to cheat death 00:49 Escape death by playing Snakes and Ladders with Death in a cavern 01:19 The challenge is to reach the exit before Death in a game involving snakes and ladders. 01:53 Solve a sequence of rolls for efficient exit 02:24 Utilizing snakes in the game opens up opportunities 02:55 Solving the riddle requires working backwards from snake tails. 03:37 Riddles with life and death scenarios 04:07 One of the 5-roll paths helps cheat death without using snakes or ladders. Ur welcome
A: throw 1 die to get to that rly big ladder, then just keep throwing double 6's with the 2 dies. Sure your partner is gonna lose with out a die to throw, but you're gonna beat death easily. EZ
funny how noone is ever wrong...................................................................................................................................
This is one of the very few puzzles I was actually able to solve. I'm awful at maths so I'm usually out of the running for this, I just had to rely on brute forcing solutions until I figured out the optimal routes.
A more strict interpretation of the rules would help as well. The rules state a move is when you move forward. It gives no spefic rules on moving backward. By the rules stated, you can move backward indefinitely
I am highly impressed, the amount of complexity to these riddles are so great....Not gonna lie, out of the 15 riddles I've watched I got 0 correct. Base on my thought experiment...I can solve this in 1 week of intense thinking and lots of scratch papers.
Solved it by accident. I found the path using the 53-94 ladder first completely missing that 47-30 was a snake. Then when I found the second path and realized that it also used 41 (76 and 19 both lead there) the complete answer dawned on me.
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The king has instructed you that if you're at least 90% sure a contestant mis-added or cheated, you should disqualify them. The highest-scoring player who remains will be the new heir to the throne. After you explain the rules, the children run to their rooms. When they return, Alexa announces her score is 385
*The king has instructed you that if you're at least 90% sure a contestant mis-added or cheated, you should disqualify them. The highest-scoring player who remains will be the new heir to the throne. After you explain the rules, the children run to their rooms. When they return, Alexa announces her score is 385*
These puzzles are the best thing in your channel
:)
There is a simpler way that I found. You need a 2 to go to 21. A 2 to go to 23 and from there to 52. A 1 to go 53 and there to 94. A six to go to 100.
The other player needs a 5 to go to 6. Another 6 to go to 12 and from there to 98 and a 2 to finish at 100.
I hope that someone will see this.
"-theyre not the brightest-" well theyre definitely brighter than me
@peepeepoopoo man is coming hmmm yes
@peepeepoopoo man is coming I guess that proves his point 😂
same
@peepeepoopoo man is coming r/woosh
@peepeepoopoo man is coming it's a single apostrophe on the internet man... chill
i like how according to this they somehow wrote an epic song about snakes and ladders
i swear i knew a song called snakes & ladders but now i can't find it anywhere
@@hazelnut2457 Well, there's one by Joni Mitchell.
@@tabcat no, that's not it. it goes something like:
let's play a game of snakes and ladders
... (something i don't remember) again
can you keep it secret
don't tell your friends
don't tell your friends
and it has kinda like a pop rock vibe
i can't find it anywhere it's so weird 😳
@@hazelnut2457 Did you look up the lyrics?
@@veryangrytomato yup
Fun fact = The chances to actually roll these sequences needed without magic dices are 1 in 7776 each.
Chances for both of them to get out alive without magic dice are 1 in 60,466,176.
r/theydidthemath
@@chibyi. 6^5 and 6^10, nothing complicated.
@@valentinoromitti6005 sounds complicating
@@valentinoromitti6005 I think your answer of 6¹⁰ is incorrect
There's no such word as 'dices' - 'dice' is already plural
Bold of you TED-Ed, trying to trick me into doing maths.
4:05 the guy in red takes more than 5 moves to reach the end. How is it possible? Someone explain plss
@@hashblack11 It's exactly 5
@@hashblack11 He makes 5 moves. He rolls 5,4,6,6,6
+ 5 = 5 (ladder to 15)
+ 4 =19 (ladder to 41)
+ 6 = 47 (first player already used snake so he stays on 47)
+6 = 53 (ladder to 94)
+ 6 = THE END
first time
@@hashblack11 read Chris Websters reply.
Wow Ted Ed is getting more and more creative with these riddles
:)
I smell sarcasam
@@Kermitthegod Yup, I prefer psychological riddles, but they do more of these mathematical ones.
Or maybe I'm just getting dumber :'(
Honestly they've always been top-notch in quality
Anyone else noticed the fact that when the reaper said “oh and btw” at the end of his explanation of the rules, he probably realized that the solution share a similar path, so he added the disappearing rule at the end to make it more challenging for the dudes.
If this isn’t a coincidence then we’ll played
You are probably right , they did it to make it more difficult
I mean, if that rule didn't exist then whether there were 2 players or 1 or 999999 players would make absolutely no difference, as obviously if one player could escape then any additional players could use the exact same path.
Alternative title: Bill and Ted-Ed’s Excellent Adventure
It certainly wasn't a Bogus Journey.
@@ericstelzman5190 The Bogus Journey one was the one where they actually had to compete against death though.
Don't you mean "Brilliant Adventure"?
I realized everything except for the fact that Our name could be Ted-Ed
"COOL"
*Unfortunately, they're not the brightest*
Also them: Figures out a ted-ed ridle
yeah wth?
I knowwww
This one is really easy though.
They got High Int, Low Wis. Smart enough to solve a Ted-Ed riddle, yet not wise enough to not insult the King when he's right in front of them.
@@destinyjewel2588 👍
I solved in reverse, starting from the top and going down. I figured there are only two set of stairs that can lead you to 100 hundred within a six dice throw. The "complicated" part was discerning which route could work if the other one goes first, but there is only one possible solution so i eventually figured it out (to my understanding at least)
yep and the video covered the solution, so u didnt get it
Both routes end turn 3 on 47 (prior to accounting for the snake). It doesn't matter which route is taken first to get there.
And I thought my whole childhood that I have to avoid snakes.
You still have to avoid snakes because you can't predict or make the die role according to your favour..
You don't have a magic die, so...
well you at the mercy of your dice roll so...
Snakes and ladders is usually a "zero-player" game.
Can we even avoid anything in game
What I find most interesting about this is the princess. She gave the boys the magic dice. Which means she knew about the game. She knew what tools to use to escape death so she probably had to face death herself once and managed to escape. But that brings out another question where does she have the magic dices from?
And also isn’t it beautiful how she gave them the one tool which could basically lend her immortality? If the boys failed the test she would never have gotten her dice back thus being able to die her next death.
Power of music
pun intended?
literature 100%
Maybe she has 3 magic dice
@@yuy3605 😏
You clearly mentioned that the musicians weren't the brightest, so them solving this puzzle is almost impossible
They could be the second and third brightest people in the world though
He just have high standards
@@DendrocnideMoroidesthe first being the princess for having escaped death herself
It's a simple puzzle that doesn't require math, specially for them.
@@yayhina not necessarily, she might just know what goes on there
The band: Defeats death itself
Also the band: Insulting the king is definitely a good idea!
Bands, am I right???
It's common practice in music
I mean, why worry about insulting the king when Death itself is on your side?
To be fair, there _is_ a difference between intelligence and wisdom.
They were too based to resist roasting a politician.
Imagine playing music so good, even Death loves it
Death Metal
thanatos loves ancient rock music lmao
@@_aristo.cat_ bruh
@@_aristo.cat_ i was gonna say that
Because Bill and Ted made the most excellent of music
2:00 hey, solved, great puzzle
Ted ed: Pause here if you want to figure it out for yourself
Shrek: Closes book* Like that's ever gonna happen
DONKEY...... That's Far Far away.
Pretty much lmao
I did
SOME
@@kingofworms831 BODY Once Told me!
The takeaway message: Sometimes in life, you have to be eaten and then excreted by snakes to avoid death.
DEEP
In terms of furry:
Vore can save you from death at times
Underrated
I have to get into Vore???
Ohhh being eaten and excreted by snakes is TIGHT
This would be a great puzzle to solve with a computer program. So many things to consider (1) how to model the initial setup, (2) how to modify the model to make snakes and ladders disappear, (3) optimizing the search strategy, etc.
I think a computer wouldn't have much trouble brute forcing it. I mean, you only need to roll 5 times, so there are only 6^5 possibilities to check, which is easily doable by a computer. Once you've done it for the first player, you can discard all of the ones that didn't reach the end, and then repeat it for the 2nd player after each winning strategy for the first player.
There are more efficient ways of doing it (well.. efficient in processing time anyway, probably not efficient if you include the time spent programming it since a computer can easily roll a die 6^5 times in under a second.. so if it takes you more than an extra second to program a more efficient one then it's probably not worth your time), but it's not really necessary to use them for this problem because there just aren't that many possibilities to check.
(1) The model could just be a simple array of size 100. A snake or ladder would be represented by an element containing the index of the player's target destination. All other elements without a snake or ladder would just be empty.
(2) When a snake/ladder is used up, add a flag indicating which turn player 1 used that snake/ladder. If player 2 gets there on the same roll or after player 1, the snake/ladder no longer exists.
(3) An optimized search strategy is the hardest part, of course, but you can break the problem into smaller chunks that are easier to manage. Like the video mentioned, you could work backward and keep a record of how many moves you are from the goal ("Okay, from these 6 spots, I can make it to the end in one roll. Which other positions allow me to get to any of these 6 spots by using one more roll?"). Or you can work forward and record how many rolls an optimized path would take to get to each successive element. If you reach a ladder path, record your current roll count in the destination position, but don't take that path quite yet. If you reach a snake path, check to see if that would lower the recorded roll count in that destination position. If so, follow that path and continue forward from the destination position with your newly optimized roll counts and update any previous records that are sub-optimal.
I haven't fully worked out how to figure out player 2's optimized path when it requires a snake/ladder to be used up. But my hunch is just to remove the snakes and ladders player 1 used and re-run the algorithm again for player 2. If player 1 has multiple working solutions, run the algorithm for player 2 for each new setup. Not sure if this would work in every case though.
When y'all develop this game, I wanna see it.
I quite like how I ended up modelling it for my "pen-and-paper" approach.
1. Any squares that have no ends of a snake or ladder are identical, therefore uninteresting. List the "interesting" numbers along a line.
2. Snakes go down, so draw arrows from their mouth spaces to their tail spaces below the line.
3. Ladders go up, draw arrows from their bases to their tops above the line.
This makes it WAY easier to see the relationships between exits and entrances - and the arrows helped me work backwards, by finding arrowheads near a point of interest and following them back to see if they could be used.
Me: can't solve the riddle
Also me: "Guess I'll die!"
Same😂
Nice pun
@@Sciencedoneright pun? Where
@@bye3568 "die" also means dice and death
5 star hotel!!!😉😉😊😊😊😊😊😊
0:45 I like how they are just happily vibing to the music not like theyre about to take part in a game that defines whether they die or not
😭🖐
🤘🏻♫ ♪
it took me around 10 minutes but i figured it out before finishing the video and confirming my answer. it made me realize, the rules themselves often give away the solution. if you want a really hard puzzle like this, probably putting in a rule like 6 into a puzzle where it doesn't actually restrict the solutions or hint at the correct solution, to throw people off who try to use it in some way
Instructions unclear: Death didn't play snakes and ladders with me when I died
The lies...
did you instead go to hades and solve the hades riddle?
so how did you came back and manage to write this comment?
@@satriyanto6741 I made a deal. One with a price to pay for the next time I die
@@jovansoh how much?
Moral of the riddle: Sometimes the obstacle is the way
That's actualy good wisdom
That's actually an obstacle course
Is that a Ryan Holiday reference number!?
Just like the pilgrim riddle
This is the easiest one I came across. My only hiccup was thinking about the "ladders and snakes disappear after one use" rule as only pertaining to ladders. It's also like 4am and I'm tired. But this is still the only TED riddle I've solved on my own.
nope u didnt solve it, he did
Ted Ed: "You won't find five turn routes anywhere else"
Also Ted Ed: proceeds to explain another 5 turn route
the snek was in the way
they said we wont find five turn routes using exclusively ladders
(Proceeds to only use 5 turn routes)
@@prakriti3702
The line was from later. After explaining the ladder/snake routes, he says that one of them is blocked by a disappearing ladder and snake, and that you won’t find another 5-turn path from the starting state. The answer is in *not* using the starting state; instead using the disappearing snakes and ladders to open a path that wasn’t there before.
“…exclusively using ladders.” This is why reading tests are important I guess
"So.. can you solve the riddle?"
"Well ozo, but actually ulu"
owo
Too bad we still don't know which is yes and which is no
uwu
so it could be, well no but actually yes
awa
1:27
Dream luck? More like nightmare luck.
1. Confirmed that you have green eyes
2. Ask Death to leave
Also Excellent Bill and Ted reference TEDed!
Speed wagon ?
It doesnt work like that. YOU ask Death if you BOTH can leave NOT ask death to leave.
No they have red eye
Speedwagon best waifu
@@reneiracurtis9198 Yeah, that's what they said. Ask Death to leave. "To leave" is referring to you, the player, not Death.
The new “Bill and Ted-Ed’s Righteous Riddle” looks sick!
people cheat death all the time it's called suicide lol
What i was thinking lol
Outstanding movie reference!👏
@@DarthVizzle you cheater I will get you for that!
Beautiful reference
"A true gentleman never leaves a puzzle unsolved." -Prof. Hershel Layton
"imagine a real life snakes and ladders contest, there would be gigant snakes that you can slide on!" -theodd1sout
Or slide through
His Wish came true
Yes
YEAHHHHHHHHHHH
Its a dream come true
The people who aren’t the brightest are certainly brighter than me
Is that really saying much though :p
4:05 the guy in red takes more than 5 moves to reach the end. How is it possible?
@@hashblack11 if you roll the dice 5-4-6-6-6 then it's 5 moves
@@hashblack11 no prob bro
I found paths to get both of them out in four moves each though. Correct me if I'm wrong and explain why, please.
Player 1:
roll 1: 5 right
roll 2: 4 left
roll 3: 6 left
roll 4: 4 left
Player 2:
roll 1: 4 right
roll 2: 5 right
roll 3: 6 left
roll 4: 3 left
(A, on player one, you would end up at 26. (B, on player 2, you direct one up the board backwards
What do you mean by left and right?
Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. - Langston Hughes
Ops Life is meant for ladder. And death is meant for snakes. Let life be like getting higher and Higher and Death a begining of new life.
Ops Life is meant for ladder. And death is meant for snakes. Let life be like getting higher and Higher and Death a begining of new life.
I never thought that the actual grim reaper could be a Metallica fan, but hey, that's pretty cool.
I love your riddles Ted, keep up with the good work
His favorite genre is death metal. Duuuuh.
@@underrated1524 hahahahhahaha
Hello
First TED-Ed I solved by myself 😁😁
Solution:
(Player , Die roll)
Me4 -> B5 -> Me1 -> B4 -> Me6 -> B6 -> Me5 -> B6 -> Me4 -> B6
After 10 years of asking programming questions in job interviews, my mind is going:
_"A backtracking graph search algorithm might work. Represent the game as a directed graph, with the tiles as vertices ... "_
@@shravansk hey so u r the one who created this riddle. Cool man
@@shravansk 4:05 the guy in red takes more than 5 moves to reach the end. How is it possible?
@@hashblack11 no, he takes exactly 5 die rolls. Check again
@@shravansk sorry, my bad. Thanks fr explainin😄
@@shravansk there are other ways to get past this, right?
normal riddles: i walk on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three at night…
ted-ed: can you CHEAT DEATH through this riddle?
but what does walk on four in the morning, two at noon, three at night?
@@mouthlesshater Ligma
@@anubritsaha861 but ligma died out entirely years ago. it was terrible.
It's the human life cycle 4 legs in morning means when you are a baby, 2 legs in afternoon when you are grown up and 3 legs in night means when you are old and use a walking stick
Originally the riddle was 3 legs in evening and no leg in night where the latter means death
@2:29 says there isn't a route that uses exclusively ladders that works, but there is one: 5, 6, 2, 3, & 6 Which goes along with the first player going: 4, 1, 3, 6, and 5!
"Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is to relax"
Bet
So true
@@kl4pp3d_78 Do something Productive Too not Only relax there needs to be a balance lol
This RIDDLE has a clear message: If you want to SUCCEED in life then you will need to face OBSTACLES.
Or cheat and have dice that can roll any number
@@mkaali lmao
If you want to succeed in life, invest in snakes.
@@mkaali LOL!
Sliding down unlubricated snakes is rough. Don't forget to get your snake oil.
within seconds of exiting the cavern, they sing a song about their adventure, which they could've planned beforehand
this means they are both masters of improv
Can't believe I was able to solve this one. My love for board games and dice has influenced me to do maths.
Awesome
I can easily believe I could solve this. It’s been a long time since I played board games, and math is basically my oldest enemy, but...
It’s 2 am and I’m bored. Meaning I can do anything as long as it’s completely useless.
everyone is able to solve it, drunkard
Yep
nah, it's just too simple to solve
I solved it by guessing that the gimmick involved using the disappearing objects to your advantage. I looked for a snake head which had a ladder 6 spaces away in each direction, since this is the only configuration in which a disappearing snake would save a turn. I then knew that the first player needed to use that snake and the second player needed to skip past it, and working from there it's easy to find the routes.
I call this method "middle-out" deduction.
Winning like that always feels so cheap. I mean, I do it and its still winning, but its detecting and solving for tropes and likelihoods in the question itself, and considering the context in which the question was presented.
Sorta like when your friend says, "You'll never guess how many apples I can juggle..." and you say, "6," based on a number that seems impressive to brag to a friend about, and you are correct. lol
Brilliant, well done
Dude you are the real life L Lawliet
🧢
You’d make an excellent programmer!
took me till 0:52 to realize the 2 "bards" look like Bill and Ted. .
Life is also just like this. Everything happens for a reason.
1). You get ditched down in life (by snakes in video), so that you rise faster in some other ways.
2). You miss an opportunity (disappeared ladder in video) so that you will get something even better.
So, be positive even in hard times. Where there is a will there is a way.
This needs more likes
That as too deep for my potato iq to understand
imagine if you're about to be executed, and a princess who is one of your fans just gives you 2 dice
00:07 Bill and you insulted the king and are about to be executed but are given two magic dice.
00:43 Escape Death by winning a game of Snakes and Ladders.
01:17 Survive the cavern game with fewer rolls than Death.
01:47 Solve the puzzle to exit the cavern.
02:20 Using snakes in the game opens up more opportunities
02:52 How to get to a single roll from the exit
03:34 Strategies to overcome ladders and snakes in the game
04:04 By choosing a 5-roll path, you can win without using any snakes or ladders.
Why did it take me so long to find out it was a little spoof of Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure?
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
@@GeorgiaDLee I meant to put that👀
Yeah dude that’s totally excellent !!
Excellent
I like this puzzle because it not only tests your problem solving skills, but also your ability to think backwards.
Also, sick Bill and Ted reference. Most excellent! *Air-guitar riff*
This was a really fun but easy riddle. The 75 Ladder really twisted my head as to how he will ascend, but then I realize, a snake will disappear and it opened the world to me
_"they're not the brightest"_ They figured out the puzzle AND wrote a song about it at the same time that was so good the king himself rocked out to it. I'd say they're genius
they wrote a song to save themselves because they did insult the king
It was not the best song in the world, it was just a tribute.
@@Abisso666 - So? Besides, no song, is 'the best song in the world.'
I don’t know if my friend Bill and I could solve this but if we could, it would be a triumphant cheat! And a most excellent turn of events.
That death was such a chill guy,man...
I'd like to meet him someday.....
I know I can never solve these riddles but for some reason I still click it
The curiosity
So that we can ask the same question to our friends 😉
This one was actually pretty easy considering that all you had to do was to solve it backwards ;)
@@mywayforum I solved it forwards, that disappearing snake almost got me.
Same I solved it forwards too, but not in the way the video showed
If I ever got dice that could land on any number I wanted, I'd go to the casino and make tons
And bribe the king so you live!
@@gettingshotsomeonesgonnapa8635 why not
@@Modernisedfarming well, being the richest person won't do me any good when I'm dead.
@@Modernisedfarming I'd rather offer the king millions to stop my execution.
I love how everyone is considering that the casino would let you use your own dice...
This riddle is actually pretty easy because you can literally just trace each path until you find two unique paths that reach the exit within 5 turns.
Yup
Finally, after so much time, I've solved another riddle
"Most EXCELLENT Music"
hehehe Bill and Ted
Bill and Ted-ed
Very interesting and fun little riddle! I personally found another way of defeating the riddle: nothing says you and your friend can't give each other piggy back rides lol. You could give each other piggy back rides to counter the problem of snakes/ladders disappearing after one of you uses them and both take the same path, no? Still, it will require taking one of the two paths you mentioned and purposely going backward which as you say is counterintuitive.
Nah, your another way of “defeating the riddle” isn’t good enough
@@fos1451 Would you mind clarifying?
@@RainbowEssence-c3wits obvious whats wrong. 2 players dont move to the same dice roll
he did say 'each one', so they must do it separately
I really like how creative you are but that is obviously not the answer to the riddle
*_"they are not the brightest"_*
*_*casually beats death in snakes and ladders using 5 moves with dissapearing snakes and ladders_**
They still don't compare to the Demon of Reason.
That riddle contains good philosophy inside.
Sometimes we need a ladder (success) and snek (fail) to reach the main goal (100)
“It can land any way you wish”
ok then, for me or lands on 99. game over
Yea cuz 6 sided die are known for landing on numbers bigger than 6.
0:43 This is what my parents think of Rock/Emo Music 🤦♂️🤦♂️
For once I actually spent the time to figure this one out, and it was pretty fun to solve.
for all computer science junkies - it's a maximum flow problem: build a graph of all reachable nodes in 5 moves or less from the source, and then, find two non-edge intersecting paths in this networking using a maximum flow algorithm: set capacity of edge between rooms equal to some big number and capacity of edge on snake or ladder equal to 1. maximum flow on such network will yield two paths that do not intersect on edges. in fact this is extensible to N non-edge intersecting paths.
death is so depressed he just want friends to play with him sNakes aNd LadDers
NNLD?
I would play if he taught me how.
@@hairje1340 the one taught us everything is life not death mate
I see, TedEd also enjoys fantasy and Bill & Ted
Playing games with death: Best five out of 7?
Death: damn right!!
I’ve lost track of how many times cheating death has played into a Ted Ed lesson or riddle.
maybe, just maybe, they have found a way to cheat death
@@99897767 Idk I mean they haven't done a lot of research and thinking on this. ( Not to mansplain even though I'm a girl but that was sarcasm in case by some rare circumstance you didn't know that )
Plot twist: the TEDed narrator is casually cheating death every day and these videos are his first hand accounts of how he did it.
Scientists: trying to find a cure for cancer
Ted Ed: how to cheat death
"A true gentleman leaves no puzzle unsolved." -Prof. Hershel Layton
Thanks TedEd! Keep them riddles coming. This is fun. Seriously considering the annual Brilliant subscription.
That was a most excellent adventure, ted-ed! *epic air guitar*
00:11 Given magical dice to cheat death
00:49 Escape death by playing Snakes and Ladders with Death in a cavern
01:19 The challenge is to reach the exit before Death in a game involving snakes and ladders.
01:53 Solve a sequence of rolls for efficient exit
02:24 Utilizing snakes in the game opens up opportunities
02:55 Solving the riddle requires working backwards from snake tails.
03:37 Riddles with life and death scenarios
04:07 One of the 5-roll paths helps cheat death without using snakes or ladders.
Ur welcome
These type of riddle videos are one of the absolute best from ted-ed.
patch notes:
the grim reaper will no longer be prevented from reaping souls due to band affilitiation
oh my god
Wow. Too perfect
Man , that princess's got confidence lending you the dice of immortality itself .
The animation here is so funny yet the artist is massively talented
A: throw 1 die to get to that rly big ladder, then just keep throwing double 6's with the 2 dies.
Sure your partner is gonna lose with out a die to throw, but you're gonna beat death easily.
EZ
cant use two dies lol
@@yuvrajbaheti6867
1:58 where in the rules does it state that you cant have 1 person throwing 2 dies?
@@yuvrajbaheti6867 that rule is not specified
@@Masterhene3 Actually it does. Rule 2: A move consists of rolling A DIE...not dice.
The real treasure is the friendship you made along the way
This gon' be the start if my next dnd campaign
0:19 Are those the Faberge eggs on the wall?
I like puzzles like these, I felt really good when they were going through the results and I was right.
funny how noone is ever wrong...................................................................................................................................
@@jiogcyihsugyiocjfdoivhphvw6821 it was an easy riddle
@@jiogcyihsugyiocjfdoivhphvw6821 you're wrong.
“Wow these random kids are gonna die soon, better grab my life-sized snakes and ladders board!”
Ted-ed: Can you solv-
Me: Nope, but I can try!
4:15 why??? What hath that snake done to you for you to render it powerless?
This is one of the very few puzzles I was actually able to solve. I'm awful at maths so I'm usually out of the running for this, I just had to rely on brute forcing solutions until I figured out the optimal routes.
Ok but this artwork deserves a chef's kiss😚
Wow this was amazing. I absolutely loved it. I tried to solve this with my father. It was very fun.
A more strict interpretation of the rules would help as well. The rules state a move is when you move forward. It gives no spefic rules on moving backward. By the rules stated, you can move backward indefinitely
"A move consists of rolling a die..."
Imma roll a DIE then
roll a die to live
@@hazelnut2457 New achievement has been unlocked:
Isn't that IRONic
@@imaginativeinks4143 well ulu but actually ozo
I am highly impressed, the amount of complexity to these riddles are so great....Not gonna lie, out of the 15 riddles I've watched I got 0 correct. Base on my thought experiment...I can solve this in 1 week of intense thinking and lots of scratch papers.
Nah, just a few minutes. Start from the top and work backward. You'll figure it out in no time.
Perfect! I'm just about to do an escape room, this will be great practice! Edit: I actually figured it out!
Riddles from Ted-Ed are always awesome. Love your channel!
Me:- _tries to dance_
Bill:- *ye main kar leta hu, aap dream 11 pe team banao*
Alternative Title - *Why You Should Music As Your Career*
I can never solve these but I'm always fascinated by the answer
I like how I’ve solved this when I was younger and watched the video but now that I’m older I had no idea...
Solved it by accident. I found the path using the 53-94 ladder first completely missing that 47-30 was a snake. Then when I found the second path and realized that it also used 41 (76 and 19 both lead there) the complete answer dawned on me.