So for those of you interested, this is not a riddle in the traditional sense. It is called a Lateral Thinking Puzzle, where you get the end of a narrative and have to work out the events leading up to the end through yes/no questions. Sometimes there is a limit on the number of questions. There are hundreds (thousands?) of these and they can get really strange and interesting. I have never seen one animated before but found this highly effective and entertaining. Amazing work, thank you!
This has to be my favourite of all time. I love the concept behind this film. The way the animation fluctuates yet flows so easily. This was highkey trippy
I know this is absolutely amazing, I enjoyed every second. The trippy visuals in combination with a conversation between others reminds me of another animation called "Mr Madila" it's another favorite of mine :)
and then the waitress comes back to the man ready to apologise because she actually served him pelican soup and not albatross soup, and turns out the albatross soup tastes exactly the same as the soup he had on the island :/
First of all, that animation was trippy. Second, holy shit that was tragic! And the surreal celebration in the end when they all clapped because they finally "solved the puzzle" while the video of a traumatized guy plays out as he kills himself in realization that he actually ate his wife. Man. That was one of the most tragic things I've encountered this year.
Stories are for entertainment purposes. People care more about “winning” by solving the puzzle than about any possible human drama. No feelings anymore just information and games.
I feel like there's probably a difference between the flavor of albatross soup made on a remote island and albatross soup from a restaurant. He should have tried human soup to be sure.
Albatross is a bird like chicken, and human flesh has been described as simular to pork. I think even with seasoning, the man would be able to realize what he ate on the island isn't albatross.
Love how the animation adds so much weight to the guesses and everyone's process of figuring it out adds a different lense to the animation which makes it more intense and unsettling 👌👌
As soon as the wife was introduced, I roughly predicted the ending. None the less, the collaborative aspect of the story was very charming, and the animation was fucking fantastic. I've always been a big fan of trippy hand drawn animation, but the way it bounced between very real people having a fun time solving the "riddle", and the story unfolding on screen in a myriad of different directions, was a superb concept. You get to enjoy a sense of immersion in both the story on screen and it's deviances, as well as the subjects trying to guess, _and_ the director of both the experiment and the animation. The feeling of empathy towards three different groups in such rapid succession felt genuinely fresh and endearing as all hell.
I've always hated lateral thinking puzzles, but after watching this video I finally understand how they work. I've only ever read them in books, so the question is posed and you obviously can't ask the book questions, you just have to know the answer to get it right. With someone who knows the riddle and the answer you ask the questions and the asker gets to respond to guide your journey through to the answer. Thank you. You've converted me. Great animation and narration as well. Quality 👍
@seveisaacs You can get ChatGPT to present a lateral thinking puzzle and give Yes/No responses to your guesses! I've played a few puzzles with it, and it hasn't made any mistakes or screwed up the game.
dude, whoever made the music.... WOW! it really sets the mood and makes the trippy designs even trippier while also being subtle enough you forget it's affecting your emotions
Out of however many short films I've seen, this is the only one I've returned to even 4 years after first seeing it. It leaves such an impact, it's nearly impossible to forget about.
SOLUTION: As it is impossible to take a "bite" of soup, the man was forced to confront the impossibility of his own existence, and the only logical reaction was suicide.
The real answer is "The man was on a boat with his wife and another person. So the wife dies of starvation and the person claims to to have given the man albatross and the man loved it so when he go to safety he went to a restaurant and order albatross eats one bite and it taste different and then he released that the albatross the person gave him was not albatross but In fact his wife and killed himself out of guilt."
Stumbled upon this channel and this is the first video I watched. A great animation with a unique concept that honestly had me on the edge of my seat. There was mystery, there was suspense, but I was most impressed by the authenticity of the recorded voices. Well done team!
was anyone else lowkey unnerved by the placement of the cheering and whooping RIGHT after the animated dude shoots himself? like maybe it's cuz I've had to immerse myself into my film class for the past 7 weeks and now i can't unnotice interesting shots or edits, but that's just... trippy
I come back to this video every few weeks. I'm not sure why but everything about it keeps calling me back. from the voice of the narrator to the 50 different voices to the animation. It's crazy but has become so ingrained in my routine that i keep coming back. This video will always be my guilty pleasure
This is my favorite puzzle...The whole reason I love them. It was given to me and and some classmates by our teacher about 20 years ago and I've never forgotten it. The art and style of this video is amazing. Thank you.
@@MrDamojak The riddle that the people are conversing over here is a classic lateral thinking puzzle. Lateral thinking puzzles are essentially where one person gives a situation without detail and then answers yes or no questions until the people they asked the question to can figure out the specificities of the situation. I personally dislike them because they're only difficult if you have a question limit but when you have a question limit it becomes too difficult as there are very little clues. But converting one into a story like this is really smart and beautiful.
@@eoincampbell1584 I don't really like them as much too. I think they can make amazing stories but bad riddles - as there really is no riddle. Writers go so crazy with these stories that logic thinking is mostly useless and in the end it's just about asking the right questions by chance.
Randomly remembered this video that I first saw probably theee years ago and had to come find it again. The storytelling is so well done with the animation and I love the terror of the animation paired with the thrill from the people solving the puzzle in the background. Very well done.
I think it'd be very hard to get to the answer with any degree of confidence if you only had the original story to work with. You have to deduce it by making guesses and getting feedback, the way these people are doing. If your teacher didn't give you the opportunity to ask questions that had 'yes' or 'no' answers, then yeah - I'd say that's why you couldn't get it.
A few weeks ago I was at a friends house and she told a "riddle" very similar to this with a few minor differences. While I was mad that it was NOT a riddle, It was a very creepy exercise and this animation summed those feelings up perfectly. Absolutely incredible job!!!
I ALREADY KNOW THIS STORY AND I'M SO FREACKIN' PROUD OF ME FOR THAT. I actually know an other vertion of it and I learned it in a game that I learned in a vacation camp... The game is the same concept of the video and we all in group try to guess why the man killed himself. We almost guessed but it was too hard... But anyway now I know the story and I'm so happy that I learned it before, I feel like so powerful
@@gullybonesart4670 it's a women who goes into a restaurent and commend a anaconda soup but when she trys it she runs out the restaurant crying and kills herself jumping of a rooftop. We discover at the end that she was in a plane with her husband when it crashed on an unknown land. In the accident, she lost sight, and to survive with her husband who was still alive they had to eat the dead people but the man told her that she was eating anaconda soup. Finally the husband died and she was the only passenger who was saved. When she comes back to her town the first thing she does is trying anaconda soup, when she finally tasted it, she understood that she wasn't eating anaconda soup but human soup and she killed herself! THE END
I need more of this weird, working out everything from animation Riddles like this where if you ask questions it'll work out a potential story that eventually solves the entire riddle's question is kinda fucking awesome in its own way.
The animation is absolutely insane! But let’s also show some love to that sound quality and the sound effects!!! All the echos added to the mysteriousness of the story and the yes/no narration was dark and sinister almost. The curiosity of the players and their echos was thought provoking in its own. This was just a thrill to watch!! WOW.
Freshman year in high school my biology teacher used these lateral thinking puzzles as a way to get us to think outside the box. This was one of them actually. Really interesting. That was an amazing class.
Bruh you do not know intensity until you watch this amazing video on an acid trip, like I've seen that video prior to that but oml it was like I was watching a trippy thriller. I love this video so much!!!!!!
I thought it was because he hated albatrosses, and he always wanted them dead because he tried to shoot them, so when he ate the albatross soup he realized it was inside of him so he killed himself to make sure the albatross was dead idk that's what i thought
A fun riddle to do this sort of thing with is "How far can a deer run into a forest?" I always get the most absurd answers as people try to figure it out, but all the necessary information is in the question itself.
"Alcatraz" comes from the the Portuguese word for "albatross", and the people who made that soup probably deserve some time in prison. Such a brilliant, gripping, anxiety-inducing animation. Loved every second!
i wish the audio of the people was mixed higher than the sound effects and sound track. if the whole point is these people trying to figure it out, they should be easier to hear than they are.
I'm thinking about that too!! Except, it's a bit hard to explain how. Say, we all know how Mcdonald's burgers taste like, maybe the taste may differ between countries, but it may not if it were within your local area? So, perhaps the distance he travelled from island to island wasn't too far and the albatross soup could be trusted more on the side of where it was made at, being an official restaurant and not some stranded island filled with absolutely hungry people!
I think it's more likely the albatross and human meat has significantly different flavour and/or texture. It's like the way you can tell whether a burger was made from chicken or cow meat. Even if you process the meat, you can still tell.
I was thinking the samn thing like how would he know what was what he had never tried human b4 so the restraunt cud have just processed the meat different and what the check restraunt even serves albatross
Exactly what I was thinking. Isn't the idea of a riddle is that you should be able to give the correct answer just from the initial explanation/telling of? Like, there is no way you can figure it out without asking 30 questions
This is a type of riddle called a lateral thinking puzzle. Whoever gives the puzzle knows the answer and responds with yes/no/irrelevant to the questions asked for clarification. It gets you to do deductive thinking and stretch your mind outside the box.
@@IANOYTYK This is a Situation Puzzle. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation_puzzle It is not a riddle: A riddle is a statement or question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved. Riddles are of two types: enigmas, which are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical language that require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution, and conundra, which are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question or the answer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddle
Man, this was an intense story! To tell a story in the form of an animated Lateral Thinking Puzzle is frankly brilliant. Kudos to everyone who worked on this!
I’m really disappointed because I already heard this before and I’m sad I don’t get to figure it out along with the people who were listening to the riddle
Nikki B oh of course, still very well done of you to guess! I thought it was going to turn out that he was an albatross himself or something crazy like that haha :)
This form of riddle is called 海龜湯 in my country, literally means "turtle soup"...and I got dozens where that came from... Don't even start me with the "triplets" story
With experience of psychedelics I really must share how this came to my knowledge and my reaction. So, earlier this morning when I'd nearly fallen asleep I remembered the other night when a channel aired the game but I fell asleep before any major detail. So I found this clip and got the trippy but dark vibes. By the time the all out otherworldly dimensions kicks in on full effect I started to get feelings and memories so strong that I'm convinced a stored backdoor to placebo trippyness opened up. Maybe due to my extreme tiredness or from the years of popping various things or even both. But it stuck to me into my sleep which caused fever like dreams which I woke up from twice all super confused of what was real and not for a short time until i managed to fall asleep a 3rd time without any wierdness. Mainly bc my very first experience was the most terrific thing AND among the most wonderful too that I've seen, combined with the tone of this video and riddle is what triggered it i think. But despite all that I really love the engagement, the dedication to the animation, the narrators epic voice and role play and being that I find crime and story telling extremely interesting like so many others I got completely captivated by this and in utter chock and disgust and sad anxiety at the answer of the tragic ending/answer. Well fricking done! Now I need to spend a little time on a field of puppies and kittens 🥲
as that one girl with all the black stories, I've had so many different groups of people try and solve this puzzle. this video was brilliant, it really encapsuled that weird moment when everyone realizes what was going on and is simultaneously happy and totally creeped out. amazing animations, narration, everything.
This is a pretty classic story... but the one thing that always bothered me about it as a kid was like... when I eat a food that I've had before and it tastes TOTALLY different... I don't think "well what I ate before was something else! Maybe I was eating people?" I think "who boy, someone fucked this soup up!" or "Man this is way better than filthy island soup!"
its was probably a lingering fear in the back of his mind the whole time. regardless if he had reached the correct conclusion or not, i feel the end result would have been the same. for example what if his wife died and by chance they happen to finally get some bird meat out of nowhere. they cant cook very very and it doesnt taste very good. but for some reason after that they werent able to get more bird meat. it could have been horrible timing that lead him to the lingering fear of "did i eat my wife?". once he saved he still traumatized by the experience with the question lingering on the back of his mind. he desperate for an answer and goes to try the soup. but when he tries it and realizes it taste completely different. his mind in an unstable state, jumps to the horrible conclusion that he must have eaten his wife, without considering the possibly that the soup was simply made differently and the meat was cooked in a different way. therefore shooting himself. have you never had an obsessive paranoia? one that could possibly lead you to jumping to incorrect conclusions before you've really had the time to rationalize it? like i said regardless if the situation was true or not. unstable minds can jump to any conclusion with the right triggers.
@@108wee i think what helped is that he tried to shoot one of the birds but failed , making him more suspicios that he migh have eaten his wife. He also was stranded on an iland starving, he went crazy
So for those of you interested, this is not a riddle in the traditional sense. It is called a Lateral Thinking Puzzle, where you get the end of a narrative and have to work out the events leading up to the end through yes/no questions. Sometimes there is a limit on the number of questions. There are hundreds (thousands?) of these and they can get really strange and interesting. I have never seen one animated before but found this highly effective and entertaining. Amazing work, thank you!
Thank you! I was trying to figure out why this was a riddle since you had to ask questions.
Finna say, this ain't no riddle.
Those are a lot of fun, whether you're the one guessing or the one answering questions.
Sounds like yes or no game at my English course
Sounds like black stories to me xD
"Then he kills himself."
*_*INTENSE APPLAUDING*_*
Yay!!
*_YAAASSSSS_*
Well I’m glad your happy cuz I’m gonna kill myself
vix smoke what the hell
Are you okay?
jonathas silveira it’s a reference lad
The yes and no guy in the background has an amazing voice. Would love to hear him as a creepypasta storyteller
@@Dwarfplayer Voice Over is listed in the description as Vit Horejs.
i agreeee
he sounds like Jafars "yeeeeesss"
*NO*
His voice is too godly for creepypastas.
his "yessss" at 4:37 literally made this this soo much better
The man answering these questions is excellent. So much emption and personality portrayed through only the words "yes" and "no."
Alejandro Jodorowsky
This has to be my favourite of all time. I love the concept behind this film. The way the animation fluctuates yet flows so easily. This was highkey trippy
Wow. High praise! Thanks
@@shortoftheweek Agreed, this is going in my trippy playlist for sure
I know this is absolutely amazing, I enjoyed every second. The trippy visuals in combination with a conversation between others reminds me of another animation called "Mr Madila" it's another favorite of mine :)
@@elaniscott6397 I'm going to check that
and then the waitress comes back to the man ready to apologise because she actually served him pelican soup and not albatross soup, and turns out the albatross soup tastes exactly the same as the soup he had on the island :/
Except the question that clarifies he did get Albatross soup
Now it's an M. Night Shamalamdingdong movie.
@@donweiss2326 r/woooosh
And actually his wife did not die back then. Back then they actually served albatross soup. But what he ate just now is soup made from his wife
First of all, that animation was trippy. Second, holy shit that was tragic!
And the surreal celebration in the end when they all clapped because they finally "solved the puzzle" while the video of a traumatized guy plays out as he kills himself in realization that he actually ate his wife.
Man. That was one of the most tragic things I've encountered this year.
Stories are for entertainment purposes. People care more about “winning” by solving the puzzle than about any possible human drama. No feelings anymore just information and games.
IS 11:32 pm and I'm going to sleep! So i hope i will not have a trippy dream with an end like people clapping! Shit! so.. Good night!
I was looking for this comment!
@@fairlyadorablepancreas3746 congratulations! 👏👏👏
You found it. The surreal claps shall never end.
Why am I so fecking evil I immediately knew he ate his wife as soon as they said “island”.
I feel like there's probably a difference between the flavor of albatross soup made on a remote island and albatross soup from a restaurant. He should have tried human soup to be sure.
when they crashed on the island they somehow stumbled upon a perfectly working kitchen with spices but no other ingredients :P
Albatross is a bird like chicken, and human flesh has been described as simular to pork. I think even with seasoning, the man would be able to realize what he ate on the island isn't albatross.
Already knew the answer going in... *I was still on the edge of my seat the entire time.*
Danielle Fraher Yes!
Same here
Sammmeeeeee
odd1sout
Edit: ooh! More than one like and it isn't mine!!!
Same here, I remember the riddle from summer camp years back in Russia of all places, funny how it carries on worldwide for years
“And he kills himself”
“Yep”
*crowd cheering*
Love how the animation adds so much weight to the guesses and everyone's process of figuring it out adds a different lense to the animation which makes it more intense and unsettling 👌👌
As soon as the wife was introduced, I roughly predicted the ending. None the less, the collaborative aspect of the story was very charming, and the animation was fucking fantastic. I've always been a big fan of trippy hand drawn animation, but the way it bounced between very real people having a fun time solving the "riddle", and the story unfolding on screen in a myriad of different directions, was a superb concept. You get to enjoy a sense of immersion in both the story on screen and it's deviances, as well as the subjects trying to guess, _and_ the director of both the experiment and the animation. The feeling of empathy towards three different groups in such rapid succession felt genuinely fresh and endearing as all hell.
Yes
I was fully submerged into this video. When it ended it felt like I woke up
It's a good feeling if you ask me 😂 to be immersed in something interesting
I was high as fuck and this felt so surreal
Annie Wilson +
I've always hated lateral thinking puzzles, but after watching this video I finally understand how they work. I've only ever read them in books, so the question is posed and you obviously can't ask the book questions, you just have to know the answer to get it right. With someone who knows the riddle and the answer you ask the questions and the asker gets to respond to guide your journey through to the answer. Thank you. You've converted me. Great animation and narration as well. Quality 👍
@seveisaacs You can get ChatGPT to present a lateral thinking puzzle and give Yes/No responses to your guesses! I've played a few puzzles with it, and it hasn't made any mistakes or screwed up the game.
The animation is so impressive, but it gave me such anxiety lol. But I watched through it because I appreciated the art
dsdqwefqwed same!!! i was struggling to get through it cause it made me so anxious but i wanted to know the ending
imagine it high
Exactly how i felt! My heart was pounding
THE NARRATOR'S VOICE THOOO IT SENDS SHIVERS everytime he answers
I got chills when I realized he realized that the albatross soup didn’t taste like the soup on the island!!!
dude, whoever made the music.... WOW! it really sets the mood and makes the trippy designs even trippier while also being subtle enough you forget it's affecting your emotions
Oh my god. This was a trip that was interesting to watch. Hearing everyone slowly figure out the puzzle was really awesome.
Out of however many short films I've seen, this is the only one I've returned to even 4 years after first seeing it. It leaves such an impact, it's nearly impossible to forget about.
I thought maybe he made friends with an albatross and he realized that the soup was his bird friend
Like that answer! 👍🏽
thats what i thougt
that wouldve been so depressing :(
@@seedh1674 would've been a better ending imo. "Aw fuck my 10c isn't in here, bEtTeR kIlL mYsElF"
Me too
SOLUTION: As it is impossible to take a "bite" of soup, the man was forced to confront the impossibility of his own existence, and the only logical reaction was suicide.
Winner!
The real answer is "The man was on a boat with his wife and another person. So the wife dies of starvation and the person claims to to have given the man albatross and the man loved it so when he go to safety he went to a restaurant and order albatross eats one bite and it taste different and then he released that the albatross the person gave him was not albatross but In fact his wife and killed himself out of guilt."
@@sofa543 thanks for playing along
Stumbled upon this channel and this is the first video I watched. A great animation with a unique concept that honestly had me on the edge of my seat. There was mystery, there was suspense, but I was most impressed by the authenticity of the recorded voices. Well done team!
Welcome! cheers
was anyone else lowkey unnerved by the placement of the cheering and whooping RIGHT after the animated dude shoots himself? like maybe it's cuz I've had to immerse myself into my film class for the past 7 weeks and now i can't unnotice interesting shots or edits, but that's just... trippy
this was like watching a whole series in like 6mins unfolding all of the mystery. It was amazing I want more like this!
I come back to this video every few weeks. I'm not sure why but everything about it keeps calling me back. from the voice of the narrator to the 50 different voices to the animation. It's crazy but has become so ingrained in my routine that i keep coming back. This video will always be my guilty pleasure
Watching this on fullscreen and with my headset. I thought I was on lsd.
This is my favorite puzzle...The whole reason I love them. It was given to me and and some classmates by our teacher about 20 years ago and I've never forgotten it.
The art and style of this video is amazing. Thank you.
This was a brilliant idea to turn a kinda bad riddle (I just kinda hate lateral thinking puzzles) into a brilliant psychological mystery.
What?
@@MrDamojak The riddle that the people are conversing over here is a classic lateral thinking puzzle. Lateral thinking puzzles are essentially where one person gives a situation without detail and then answers yes or no questions until the people they asked the question to can figure out the specificities of the situation. I personally dislike them because they're only difficult if you have a question limit but when you have a question limit it becomes too difficult as there are very little clues. But converting one into a story like this is really smart and beautiful.
@@eoincampbell1584 ok Thx I get it now
@@eoincampbell1584 I don't really like them as much too. I think they can make amazing stories but bad riddles - as there really is no riddle.
Writers go so crazy with these stories that logic thinking is mostly useless and in the end it's just about asking the right questions by chance.
@@eoincampbell1584 I think the challenge is trying to get it in as few questions asked as possible. also they're just kinda fun lol
Randomly remembered this video that I first saw probably theee years ago and had to come find it again. The storytelling is so well done with the animation and I love the terror of the animation paired with the thrill from the people solving the puzzle in the background. Very well done.
Agree, it was our "Short of the Year" that year
After I heard he was stranded, I immediately knew that soup used to be a human being
@@vinnonsmoke ik how dare he 😡😡
Lmao as soon as he said yes to the flavor being the reason. I turned into a vsco girl and hit the hardest sksksksksk
Pretty obvious
@@mendsaikhanunurbat2393 r/iamsmart
Drada does telling my opinion makes me dumb now?
I remember hearing this riddle as a kid and I never understood how you were supposed to figure out the ending. My teacher must have told it wrong
I think it'd be very hard to get to the answer with any degree of confidence if you only had the original story to work with. You have to deduce it by making guesses and getting feedback, the way these people are doing.
If your teacher didn't give you the opportunity to ask questions that had 'yes' or 'no' answers, then yeah - I'd say that's why you couldn't get it.
About halfway through I got chills that didn't leave until it was over
A few weeks ago I was at a friends house and she told a "riddle" very similar to this with a few minor differences. While I was mad that it was NOT a riddle, It was a very creepy exercise and this animation summed those feelings up perfectly. Absolutely incredible job!!!
I ALREADY KNOW THIS STORY AND I'M SO FREACKIN' PROUD OF ME FOR THAT.
I actually know an other vertion of it and I learned it in a game that I learned in a vacation camp... The game is the same concept of the video and we all in group try to guess why the man killed himself. We almost guessed but it was too hard... But anyway now I know the story and I'm so happy that I learned it before, I feel like so powerful
whats the other version?
@@gullybonesart4670 it's a women who goes into a restaurent and commend a anaconda soup but when she trys it she runs out the restaurant crying and kills herself jumping of a rooftop. We discover at the end that she was in a plane with her husband when it crashed on an unknown land. In the accident, she lost sight, and to survive with her husband who was still alive they had to eat the dead people but the man told her that she was eating anaconda soup. Finally the husband died and she was the only passenger who was saved. When she comes back to her town the first thing she does is trying anaconda soup, when she finally tasted it, she understood that she wasn't eating anaconda soup but human soup and she killed herself! THE END
I knew it too! From another video tho, but I dont know wich one...
This is irrelevant about ur comment but I love your profile pic 😂. That's such a good anime and it's so sweet
Being proud that you've heard a riddle before is kind of a weird flex.
I need more of this weird, working out everything from animation
Riddles like this where if you ask questions it'll work out a potential story that eventually solves the entire riddle's question is kinda fucking awesome in its own way.
can we please just appreciate that animation though like damn
i love how each part of animation flows into each other it's so nice to watch
The animation is absolutely insane! But let’s also show some love to that sound quality and the sound effects!!! All the echos added to the mysteriousness of the story and the yes/no narration was dark and sinister almost. The curiosity of the players and their echos was thought provoking in its own. This was just a thrill to watch!! WOW.
Guy: kills himself
*Everyone cheers and claps*
Juichibey (Rabbit) This is the trumpian world we live in.
Freshman year in high school my biology teacher used these lateral thinking puzzles as a way to get us to think outside the box. This was one of them actually. Really interesting. That was an amazing class.
Can we get some love for the background music? This video was about 200% better because of quality music design. Great job!
this is so cool!
the riddle is so weird and scary but it all makes sense at the end
and the animation is really good! Love the funky style
This short deserves more than million likes
Bruh you do not know intensity until you watch this amazing video on an acid trip, like I've seen that video prior to that but oml it was like I was watching a trippy thriller. I love this video so much!!!!!!
Wow your animation is amazing!!! Must have taken ages, well done!! ❤️
I’ve been telling this to people for years since I heard it as a kid. Amazing to find this incredible video created from it. Beautiful work!
This was absolutely incredible and brilliantly insane. Well done.
I thought it was because he hated albatrosses, and he always wanted them dead because he tried to shoot them, so when he ate the albatross soup he realized it was inside of him so he killed himself to make sure the albatross was dead
idk that's what i thought
Such a terrific riddle told with style!
Oh. My. God. This is my favorite Black Story since ever. My life is complete now! Thank you so much!!!
My dad told me this riddle when I was really little!!! Only now in retrospect realizing how messed up it was lmao
I already heard the riddle before, so I got nothing out of that. But animating it is really a work of art in itself.
“That was hard and disgusting” is a mood
This is in my top ten favorite videos of all time.
A fun riddle to do this sort of thing with is "How far can a deer run into a forest?"
I always get the most absurd answers as people try to figure it out, but all the necessary information is in the question itself.
Halfway, the other half the deer will be running out of the forest
@@meeshacontreras5366 Bingo! You would not believe some of the stuff people have asked... "how many legs does the deer have?" is probably my favorite.
Lol
Anyone else hold back a “that’s what she said” when the dude said that was hard and disqusting
ok but I guessed that there was cannibalism involved at the very start :0 This is super cool!
"Alcatraz" comes from the the Portuguese word for "albatross", and the people who made that soup probably deserve some time in prison. Such a brilliant, gripping, anxiety-inducing animation. Loved every second!
Okay this is literally my mind at 3am - Sometimes I can't think of a still image as they morph
I'm actually up a 3am
Womp😓
This is disturbing but amazing, the sounds of the people celebrating with the image of the man bleeding was particularly interesting!
i wish the audio of the people was mixed higher than the sound effects and sound track. if the whole point is these people trying to figure it out, they should be easier to hear than they are.
I knew it as an albatross sandwich. But still, same riddle. But this form of story telling brings back the stress and joy of figuring out the riddle.
*James can be soooo helpful*
Give this animationteam a raise. This was visually fucking awesome as well.
You’d almost think, is this the work of James Baxter?
You means Games Bookstore? Hahaha
The horse? I don't think so.
Nebulaoblivion James Baxter is a Disney animator..
@@ItsPersonaTime it's a joke
@@ItsPersonaTime There's an episode of the cartoon "Adventure Time" that involves a horse named James Baxter. th-cam.com/video/lqWC58PgypE/w-d-xo.html
dude whoever animated this is a grand master of their craft
The man kills himself and then they all say yaaaaaay and start clapping😂
Edit: wow thanks for the likes guys
Caterina Gheorgsdottir you should become a detective lol
Yeah it was surreal.
Should you be glad cause the puzzle ended, or stare at the old mans corpse.
@@caterinarandom8410 after all, real detectives these days use math and physics to predict what happened
oh my god i have a friend who knows a lot of stories like this but when animated is a completely different thing! love it!
I was so confused but then he said island....
And I said:
He ate someone
then later I said:
he ate his wife.
lol
the sound design in this is incredible
I like this
Bruh, I heard this riddle 7 years ago in two sentences and their acting like it's new.
Can’t believe that someone made this game as a animation haha
whers tha game
This video was great! Loved the flowing animation, the guy in the background and the editing!
What if the restaraunt just uses a different recipe?!?
Am I the only one thinking that???
I'm thinking about that too!! Except, it's a bit hard to explain how. Say, we all know how Mcdonald's burgers taste like, maybe the taste may differ between countries, but it may not if it were within your local area? So, perhaps the distance he travelled from island to island wasn't too far and the albatross soup could be trusted more on the side of where it was made at, being an official restaurant and not some stranded island filled with absolutely hungry people!
I think it's more likely the albatross and human meat has significantly different flavour and/or texture. It's like the way you can tell whether a burger was made from chicken or cow meat. Even if you process the meat, you can still tell.
why so boring
@@qudsiii6431 It could be your personality?
I was thinking the samn thing like how would he know what was what he had never tried human b4 so the restraunt cud have just processed the meat different and what the check restraunt even serves albatross
My guy didn’t want his wife as his last meal.
That's not a riddle any more than if I asked you why my doctor's appointment got cancelled.
Exactly what I was thinking. Isn't the idea of a riddle is that you should be able to give the correct answer just from the initial explanation/telling of? Like, there is no way you can figure it out without asking 30 questions
This is a type of riddle called a lateral thinking puzzle. Whoever gives the puzzle knows the answer and responds with yes/no/irrelevant to the questions asked for clarification. It gets you to do deductive thinking and stretch your mind outside the box.
@@IANOYTYK This is a Situation Puzzle.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation_puzzle
It is not a riddle:
A riddle is a statement or question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved. Riddles are of two types: enigmas, which are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical language that require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution, and conundra, which are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question or the answer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddle
@@Lardzor I've never even heard of that definition. Cool!
😅
Man, this was an intense story! To tell a story in the form of an animated Lateral Thinking Puzzle is frankly brilliant. Kudos to everyone who worked on this!
Amazing animation, great idea, dark history. CONGRATS to all the team!
Wow this was was truly amazing! This deserves more views. The animation, the storyline, everything was so well done! Amazing work!
This isn't a riddle. It is a cool way to tell a story though.
THANK YOU
I agree that it wasn't a riddle also!
yes! lateral thinking puzzles and riddles are NOT the same!
I want so many more of these! Such a unique idea that plays to perfection.
Hey, that's black stories! Loved it! :D
The premise of this isn’t outstandingly creepy or disturbing compared to other horror stories, but the animation and and sounds amplify it so much
I’m really disappointed because I already heard this before and I’m sad I don’t get to figure it out along with the people who were listening to the riddle
I already know this riddle, I love telling it to my friends because they aren't used to lateral thinking. Takes them days
damn, didn't think I'd guess right before it concluded x) I usually suck at guessing riddles
Nikki B it wasn’t actually a riddle, rather a thinking exercise. :)
@@novidsnosubs9758 very well, still think it's nice I wasn't clueless till the end. :P
Nikki B oh of course, still very well done of you to guess! I thought it was going to turn out that he was an albatross himself or something crazy like that haha :)
LMAO THE ALBATROS SOUP RIDDLE WAS AN ACTUAL THING ???? I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS SOMETHING MY SISTER MADE UP TO PISS ME OFF
This form of riddle is called 海龜湯 in my country, literally means "turtle soup"...and I got dozens where that came from...
Don't even start me with the "triplets" story
Wow, i hadn't heard this puzzle albatross soup in decades. The animation was trippy and fantastic. Sound design was great too.
1:18 why does that sound like jaiden animations to me?
OMG
With experience of psychedelics I really must share how this came to my knowledge and my reaction. So, earlier this morning when I'd nearly fallen asleep I remembered the other night when a channel aired the game but I fell asleep before any major detail.
So I found this clip and got the trippy but dark vibes. By the time the all out otherworldly dimensions kicks in on full effect I started to get feelings and memories so strong that I'm convinced a stored backdoor to placebo trippyness opened up. Maybe due to my extreme tiredness or from the years of popping various things or even both. But it stuck to me into my sleep which caused fever like dreams which I woke up from twice all super confused of what was real and not for a short time until i managed to fall asleep a 3rd time without any wierdness.
Mainly bc my very first experience was the most terrific thing AND among the most wonderful too that I've seen, combined with the tone of this video and riddle is what triggered it i think.
But despite all that I really love the engagement, the dedication to the animation, the narrators epic voice and role play and being that I find crime and story telling extremely interesting like so many others I got completely captivated by this and in utter chock and disgust and sad anxiety at the answer of the tragic ending/answer.
Well fricking done! Now I need to spend a little time on a field of puppies and kittens 🥲
The music that starts at 3:54 holy!! I heard similar music somewhere. Does anyone know?
as that one girl with all the black stories, I've had so many different groups of people try and solve this puzzle. this video was brilliant, it really encapsuled that weird moment when everyone realizes what was going on and is simultaneously happy and totally creeped out. amazing animations, narration, everything.
This is a pretty classic story... but the one thing that always bothered me about it as a kid was like... when I eat a food that I've had before and it tastes TOTALLY different... I don't think "well what I ate before was something else! Maybe I was eating people?" I think "who boy, someone fucked this soup up!" or "Man this is way better than filthy island soup!"
its was probably a lingering fear in the back of his mind the whole time. regardless if he had reached the correct conclusion or not, i feel the end result would have been the same. for example what if his wife died and by chance they happen to finally get some bird meat out of nowhere. they cant cook very very and it doesnt taste very good. but for some reason after that they werent able to get more bird meat. it could have been horrible timing that lead him to the lingering fear of "did i eat my wife?". once he saved he still traumatized by the experience with the question lingering on the back of his mind. he desperate for an answer and goes to try the soup. but when he tries it and realizes it taste completely different. his mind in an unstable state, jumps to the horrible conclusion that he must have eaten his wife, without considering the possibly that the soup was simply made differently and the meat was cooked in a different way. therefore shooting himself.
have you never had an obsessive paranoia? one that could possibly lead you to jumping to incorrect conclusions before you've really had the time to rationalize it? like i said regardless if the situation was true or not. unstable minds can jump to any conclusion with the right triggers.
@@108wee i think what helped is that he tried to shoot one of the birds but failed , making him more suspicios that he migh have eaten his wife. He also was stranded on an iland starving, he went crazy
To be fair, you aren’t gonna order chicken, have it taste like matzo ball soup, and be like “lol guess they got the order wrong”
I love the voice of the guy answering
"..eats the soup and he kills himself?"
"yep."
*cheering*
Solving this by myself a few years ago when someone told it to me was probably one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.
I only know the answer because of the Odds1Out. Like if you’re with me.
Oh man I should know it but I guess I forget
Yeah i commented that other people arent talking about this
Please please please make more of these, i watched this once like 2 years ago and it's still mindblowing to me