Can you solve the locker riddle? - Lisa Winer
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- Опубліковано 27 бер 2016
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Your rich, eccentric uncle just passed away, and you and your 99 nasty relatives have been invited to the reading of his will. He wanted to leave all of his money to you, but he knew that if he did, your relatives would pester you forever. Can you solve the riddle he left for you and get the inheritance? Lisa Winer shows how.
Lesson by Lisa Winer, animation by Artrake Studio.
"And then exactly one month later, you are assassinated in your sleep."
Jajajajaja
OMG
pretty much
😀😀
😂
When you're on a Ted-Ed riddle video marathon and you feel dumb AF
Tru 😂
These don't really feel like riddles as much as they do just generic math problems
Jazmin Leiva this
yeah the riddles are satisfying though
You in an alternate universe your username is A1 linguine
I thought the whole point in the uncle Developing the riddle is to prevent family members from badgering you. Now not only will they badger you, they’ll hate you for being smarter than them
Move away to the moon LMAOOO
I thought they'd pester because him leaving it all to you wasn't fair (at least to them). But if you earned it by figuring out the riddle, they'd just have to shut up and deal with it.
I figured this helped by giving them less of a legal leg to stand on. If you straight up leave someone out of the will, they can contest that they were forgotten about. This gives everyone an even shot at the prize and the niece has a lot more legal protection after having solved it fair and square.
I've heard people recommend that, if there's someone in your circle you want to leave out of your will but you know would kick up a fuss, just leave them something pitiful like $1. It serves the same purpose of removing that "I was forgotten" argument.
Wait I just realized, what if the uncle wanted you to have the money, why didn’t he tell you that the answers were perfect squares. You can just pretend you found the answer on your own
I am legally forbidden to like this comment due the blood pact I've done with the Dark Lord
Easy, tell them: "Atleast one of you has green eyes." and wait 100 days.
I just came from that video
I dont see why the solution of that couldn't be just saying. " all of you have the same eye colour "
@@trex8523 cuz the person giving the statement can't say any new information. the people don't know if their own eye color is the same as everyone else's. saying "all of you have the same eye color" is giving out new information.
You don't have green eyes, so things go brrrrrr after 99 days
Lol just watched em
Surely the relatives will still pester them for money anyway
outlier 07. Restraining orders
Hamiltrash?
outlier 07 I love your pfp.
THIS IS THE GREATEST SHOW!
Oh wait wrong song
They can't pester her for money because the inheritance was just a pile of big rocks.
0:31 I think my uncle overestimated my intelligence
I'd never get that money 😂😭
Pure comedy
All I need is some dynamite
Hah
K o m e d y
1: confirm you have green eyes.
2: Sneak all the money into your pockets
3: Ask your relatives for permission to leave forever
4: Profit
But would you answer Ozo?
@@omegaultramax ozo =yes , 3 god riddle
i just watched the green eyes riddle video
I love how at this point, I kinda expect every video to have a comment about green eyes.
@@wisperrose after that, finish the deal in 17 minutes before the relatives come back
My question is, if they’re my family, WHY AM I THE ONLY ORANGE ONE, my momma got some explain for to do
spray tan
At this point, I wouldn't question it. I'd take my money and leave 😂😂😂
no shame in being adopted
trump's child
Maybe both of her parents have a hidden chromosome of the orange color that's a possiblity to .
Homework: what's 2+2?
Exam: this video
SCHOOL 100
2+2=4-1 thats 3 quick maffs
Flapjack Lang everyday mans on the block-
@@yvette1800 lol
4
plot twist: one of your relatives has heard this riddle before and beats you to the punch
the uncle intervenes from the afterlife and punches him
Problem they’re jerks so they wouldn’t listen to the riddle
Plot twist, every relative works together
Further twist, this isn't a riddle so all your uncle's coaching is actually useless
Hahaha
"Pause the video now if you want to figure it out for yourself"
Me: figure out what exactly?
I dont think i even understood the question
@@necromelodia2432 Exectly
If this was me, my uncle would have face palm in the heaven.
Well no matter what, he'll facepalm 99 times
Title: Can you solve....
Me: Probably not. But I'll watch the 3 minute video anyway.
JaylindenXX so true
Dude also stop giving away free accounts. I know! How about giving away accounts to anyone whi can solve a riddle! Thats way easier!
YUP DAT WAT I DO
JaylindenXX 500th like
Yeah me too
Got 99 relatives, but an uncle ain't one.
Too soon
an*
+Henk Waterlander xD
K spiderman
+Henk Waterlander too soon he just died bro
At the end, you’d still take all the inheritance, and they’ll still pester you
Hahaha i know, how can she be so sure that she wont be pestered after? 😆😆
Just use the money to buy weapons and kill them
Or get a restraining order against them
Wait- he _voice acts the lawyer??_
This narrator just gets better and better
Honestly, I just straight up gave up on solving it because I learned from the past videos.
+Pratham Gurung SAME
+Scheneca Crane 😂😞
+Pratham Gurung Is it bad that I still don't understand the riddle even after watching the explanation? lol
+DJEmonTV It probably means you didn't pay attention to factoring in 9th grade.
me too
After completion of the video, I took a deep breath and started to realize how poor my math skills are.
Surya Kiran I know... I was so puzzled 😕
Same
Same here, I felt this was more of a maths test than a riddle personally. Or maybe I'm just terrible at maths
dont feel bad, i have a math degree and thought the answer was composite numbers rather than perfect squares
Me beginning of video: ok sure I’ll try it to solve it myself.
Me after video: 😐😐😅 yeah not what I had in my paper 😂
0:22 that girl just hit me with a dab
Yes
XD
LOL
Lmao
This isn't a riddle, this is my math homework.
Same
Same here
Same here
Lol 😂😂😂😂
true😂
Both the uncle and the lawyer have the best mustaches in the universe
The lawyer does. (We never see the uncle)
Christopher Morrow The uncle has wings
And a halo
Do you mean the lawyer
Christopher Morrow no, the angel uncle definitely has an impeccable moustache (0:26)
What makes you think they won't pester her after she wins?
I know, they must be there when you get the money so it would make no difference
not the point of the riddle dumb ass
vaiouser We know it's not the point but it makes no sense to do the riddle since it wouldn't have mattered, she'd be pestered either way.
Cqcrtdoesgaming you solve the riddle. thats it. you dont start writing whole story about whats gonna happen. what are gonna say next? who's gonna pay for her tuition fees?
vaiouser What a tool. I did solve the riddle. Why can't we speculate about the author's plot hole on top of that?
0:54
The lawyer: has a mustache
Me: that's one big smile
Plot Twist: You weren’t listening to your Uncles riddle lessons and were playing Angry Birds instead.
99 relatives is a LOT of relatives.
+Melissa Geckensmerf Literally everyone, and then some.
asians
oishi chowdury Wow, are you a comedian?
+ZhangK71 parents, other aunts and uncles, other niblings, maybe grandparents grandaunts and granduncles, all their descendants, and all the same for all the families related only by marriage
+Melissa Geckensmerf Ever heard of Saud family?
How did she solve this mathematical problem even before anybody started, that's inhuman speed to me
she is either a alien or she can freeze time
Or she has done this before. DUH
no! thats to logical
0:27 that explains ;)
Elmar Rhex Gomez Now that I think about it, that is impossible and completely logical. So scrap that. She's probably a time freezing alien. 😂
Step 1: check if you have green eyes
Step 2: ask everyone to ignore you when you get the fortune
Step 1: Confirm you have green eyes
Step 2: Ask the 99 relatives to leave
Imagine if these questions appeared on ur math test
oh my god, this is a talking cockatiel
I'd kill my teacher
actually, we did this in my 6th grade math class, and it was for a major grade, so... but actually, I was the first one to find the pattern, and when I watched this a few months later I was like "I know this! I can actually solve a teded riddle for once!"
I would just not do it
This was summer homework
that's not a riddle, that's a math problem... :D
That's exactly what I said xD
I know... &Cries&
At least it's not a race.
every logical math problem is like a riddle, but not all riddles are math problems.
element74 This riddle is literally nothing but understanding and crunching numbers.
girl: **Gets inheritance**
also girl: **spends all her inheritance on build-a-bear workshop**
XD
This reminds me a lot of that movie Knives Out. With the mean family, fun old man, and the girl who gets the whole inheritance.
Yes!
*Teded: But how?-*
Me: Idk, I’m definitely not as smart as this 9 years old girl
Multifandom Kid I solved this easy
Why you think she’s 9
This kids in college
christovac I bet you watched the whole thing...
If you did you are not alone
I will answer when i will return
I bet the relatives made a total of 1,000+ accounts on UA-cam to dislike this.
lol
hahagaha
LOOOOOOOOOOL !!! !
HATERS GONNA HATE
Hater gonna hate i laugh cause they hate XD
"but you stepped forward and said you know which locker would still be opened, but how?"
Me questioning how I finished my chemistry class with an A yet forget them all in pharmacology
Riddles like these are the rare occasions that I like math
When you watch these even though you have no idea what he is talking about no matter how many times he explains it squad.
Snow Angel Ayyyy! That's me XD
haha relate much Im not good at riddles especially if there's math on it.. deym..
ayyy I'm right here 😂😂😂
I tried solving his Albert Einstein riddle and i got a mistake because i got confused in placing something in the left of something else c':
thats so me
this made me realise i will never be rich
Why are we both here
ARMYYYY!
ARMY!
why park jimin when u can ride jimin
your username-
Aweee hi fellow army and aroha is that moonbin on your pic?
My roundabout way of doing it was trying the first ten squares for the first ten numbers, realizing the pattern was 1 was on, then two spaces, then the next one was on, then four spaces, then the next one was on (so I figured it'd be just 2 bigger each time). This ended up being right, but also slower than simply recognizing perfect squares.
This is the plot of “39 clues”😂
YES!
Yes!!
This is so like the 39 clues
Ayyyy I was looking for just this commit
This isn't a riddle, this is just an extremely complicated math problem XD
isn’t that just a riddle?????
BrickFlix complicated math problems require a understanding of the math rules applied in the riddle and not much logic so a math-let like me is lost. I prefer out-of-the box riddles.
TBH. Not THAT Complicated
Every riddle is something like a math problem
An algorithm, simply put, is “x + y”.
You can expand that with “+”, “*”, “/“, & “-“ and any variable.
That is a riddle. To help you, and others, if you disagree with me still... you are more than likely overthinking this.
So.. break it down: create “layers” or steps to solving the problem. Instead of seeing, for example, that you have 3 projects and 2 papers do at the end of the semester/school year...
You break it down to tasks of each of the projects/papers.
You prioritize them... some factors of priority are time and dependency.
1) Time: Meaning some tasks are done over a period of time and can’t be done all at once (e.g. starting at 0 and wanting 100 fortnite wins).
2) Dependency: Meaning some tasks have to happen before others can happen. Or they depend on something to exist before the task itself can exist. (e.g You have to win 1 fortnite game before you can win the second.)
Title: can you solve the locker riddle?
Me: *no*
Also me: *watches it anyways*
I mean, that's the best way to find out
Now you can solve it
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I COULD SOLVE THE RIDDLE!!! took me 12-15 minutes but the happiness after confirming the answer was immeasurable!!🥳
the fact that the uncle knew none of the other 99 bozos could've done a math problem. such trust and faith
Who watches these but never does them
Ellina Komha mehh
Ellina Komha yep, meh
being honest, me
Ellina Komha I try to but I give up
Ellina Komha me
"Heya, I'll just grab the first k-"
*"HEYA I KNOW THE ANSWER"*
i feel bad for that dude the guys who had to put all the lockers in there i mean
@@bob837 I feel worse for the guy with the first key case dude gott open them all
Oof
@@susamogus8331At least he didn't have to go thru that
The real riddle is how are 99 of your relatives still alive
i just opened like 10 different ted-ed riddle videos and i have only been able to answer one, feeling fantastic
Wouldn't the girl still be pestered about the money by her relatives since the clue is for everyone and everyone knows who solves it?
1:57 cuz she's a smartass
If she's a "smartass" then she'll also be able to protect it- the money.
by what? Filing 99 restraining orders?
NzmAnh Dee how do you know she didn't
+linkguy3305 legal protection from a lawyer
If I got that money my parents would be like:
"Oh good job you got the money! Now give it I am your Mom."
Yep
Lol
sameeee
Completely agreeable
-_-
the ‘good luck’ from flying dead uncle gets me everytime
I like how all of these have stories to it
The whole point of this riddle was to leave the inheritance to you with the added bonus of not having pestering relatives. So what is stopping the relatives from pestering you after the riddle is solved?
if it was directly to her, it would still be legally hers mate
They got pwned by uncle Mathew's eccentric need to to make everything into a math puzzle, just because of his name. The shame spread them to the far corners of the earth.
You did something that they didn't (think), so they don't have the right to complain without making themselves look stupid.
FitnessNerd k
But either way she would have obtained the money legally, riddle or no riddle.
Couldn't your great-uncle just tell you the answer instead before he passed away? That would be so easy lol
as it said before, the relatives will find it unfair, so what the uncle trying to do is just make the other relatives look 'unworthy' for the money and he sure knew that the little girl will solve it
Couldn't he just give us the damn money?
listen to the beginning of the video 0:23
Andy Reiner if I were the uncle, I would’ve told her the answer, but I would’ve also told her to act and pretend that she didn’t know about the answer from the beginning. That would’ve resulted in the money being given to the girl without any of the riddle work and without the relatives bugging her
On a riddle marathon and finally got one!
This is lowkey “Knives Out” just without the clever riddle.
I want an uncle like that, rich and that he would tell me riddles
Sonialay /black space me tio
Ikr
I was thinking the same 😂
And I want money
My uncle IS like that BOIIIII 😂😎
10/10 for best uncle ever
This riddle series is the best!💙
That simply guitar ad is really funny. I watched it all the way through twice.
I cant even understand the question. Fml
same
***** i thought im the only one lol 😂
You mean you don't want to take the time to understand the riddle - cause you're just here for the entertainment. lol
+mega17 pretty much
meet either
But they'll still pester her.
"This pattern will continue," makes it sound like the fourth heir will open all of the lockers like the first one did.
I like it when teded gives you the moment to pause the video to answer the riddle. I don't know the answer but I feel smart.
I think she’d still get pestered lmao
Riddles are my FAVVVVVVV
same
+Linda Lind this was a logic puzzle. Riddles are a subset of puzzle. Logic Puzzle is also a subset of puzzle. And riddles and logic puzzles are different.
+Sofia McCabe same
+Prateek Kumawat the word riddle is literally in the title
***** sorryitsanna About riddles wikipedia says "A riddle is a statement or question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved.". And about logic puzzle "A logic puzzle is a puzzle deriving from the mathematics field of deduction."
Nice riddle took me half an hour to solve and I was right
I had so much fun doing this.
Thank you guys 😄
i feel really happy since i got the logistics of both questions down.
Please upload more of riddles and brain teasers :) I love it so much
I ❤💜💝💟 riddles
If my uncle was that rich...
My uncle will be
I don’t have an uncle because my aunt is still in school.
xDDD Every one else are like my uncle could just tell me the answer, and the there's just u
xDDD Every one else are like my uncle could just tell me the answer, and then there's just u
If my uncle is rich
I can't solve any of the riddles yet I still watch these just for the cute animations.
With these kind of riddles you always have to realize something really specific. I feel like a lot of people wouldn’t realize that specific thing. That’s why I don’t like riddles. But these videos are really fun to watch anyway :)
My family would still nag me even if I have solved this riddle
same
me to, they would steal allllllllllll of ir
t.
EXACTLY. It's like wtf is the point of all of that? If he gave her all of the money or if she "won" all of the money...it wouldn't stop them from pestering her for it!
+Katrina M.B But if he gave it all to her then they would Say its unfair. if she won it though, they would say that she earned it.
Katrina M.B : You guys don't seem to understand the essence of quiz, the story is not relevant only math question is.
I love these riddles (although I never answer it). You should do way more of these Ted-Ed
+DarkJordan Yes! Yes yes yes!
I think for hours and was shock when the solution was just like that
What an amazing riddle
I like how were so smart we can figure this out in less than 5 seconds.
This is not a riddle, it's a math problem.
thank you
You've just sloved the riddle!
Yes. Yes it is.
+Lamar Cole My thought exactly.
+Warpath 375 ha! :)
Finally, a use for prime numbers out of school
Annabel Chow how about cryptography?
Annabel Chow YESSSSSSSS
Prime number are the reason RSA encryption works and why your bank account is safe from hackers
Well global economy will be fail without prime numbers
hcf and lcm
Everyone: focused on getting money and being rich forever
me: wondering what the heck is wrong with my uncle
EXACTLY
0:10 Ted just gonna roast your whole family like nothing
Jokes on him, I don't have a family.
This uncle isn't that smart. He could just give you the fortune and advise you to file 99 restraining orders.
so you wouldnt solve an easy riddle and file 99 restraining orders?
Those relatives would pester you regardless.
+Alpha Bulblax ,a bye some will hire people, to steal your ,money ,because the adjective "nasty"
actually the uncle only wanted to show off his extraordinary math skills
+SuperWaffle was this puzzle really easy to u ?
I can never solve these riddles BUT IDC
haha same, i hope we all learn something
Same
me too XD
Bunny Life I did one the frog with right reasoning sum how
First ted riddle that I was able to solve by myself.
I don't have brain to answer any riddle but the voice...... Soooo calm and smooth like chocolate
That's basically the 39 clues series but really shortened
EXACTLY!!!! Finally someone said it.
Just with more math
Exactly what I was thinking!
I came to the comments section just to see if someone else said it :P
Seemed more like “The Westing Game” to me
I memorize their riddles in the event that one day I end up in one of the scenarios that they describe...
lol 😂😂
+Jon Snow you should try to solve them so that you can solve any riddles thown at you. Like the girl did actually
+Ben G Lol I do sometimes I get it other times...
I knew it had something to dp with prime numbers, but the whole square root thing tripped me up lol.
i like that they still give us a moment to think when they know damn well we have no clue what the answer is
You guys need to make more of these riddles. I love them.
I came for a riddle not advanced Calculus.
Advanced...............? hahahaha........
try basic number theory
This is like theorem 1.0 of any number theory class
If this math is advanced to you then maybe you should do the world a favor and not have children Forrest Gump. Life might be like a box of chocolates but Spartans had the right idea, kill the children with defects.
Wow dude, read that sentence again but apply it to people who think saying shit like that is acceptable. No need to be so incredibly rude.
Cool! I am glad that I was able to figure this one out! I have one minor gripe, though. The word sequence t 3:12 says "touched only twice", and in my introduction to logic course in college, they taught us that the word "only" has a very specific meaning in formal logic, distinct from how we use it in common language. Since this is a formal logic problem, I feel it bears mentioning that the first locker is, technically, touched "only" twice. "Only" does not mean that something has happened, only that it is not _exceeded._ So, to exclude the first locker, touched only once, we would want to say something like "touched twice _and only_ twice", but then that's 12 words in the clue, which means we need another 44 - 68 lockers, to change the word in locker 81 to "twice", in 100 to "and", for the word in locker 121 to read "only", and the one in the 144th locker to say "twice."
You could fix it by changing the phrase to "touched exactly twice" and sentence length would stay the same.
@@nathanlaird I feel like it must say something about the different _KINDS_ of intelligence that I thought that whole logical argument and missed something as simple as what you pointed out. Thanks. :)
Sorry, but this is a misunderstanding of how the operator "only" is used in logic. Only is used to describe a necessary condition for some consequent. For example, consider the phrase "Open the locker only if it has been touched twice." Logically, this is equivalent to saying "If the locker has been touched twice, then open it." Under these conditions, if the locker had been touched just one time, it would not be opened. Similarly, using "only" in the manner they did in the video means that its including solely lockers that were touched exactly two times. Consider the use of the term only in a non-numerical context. "For fuel, my car takes only gas." There's really no way to consider how that concept might be "exceeded," and you wouldn't put diesel in that car, would you?
Hope everyone is doing good
I watched this a hundred times and I finally get now
1:42
Ted-ED: How?
Me: Why do I always do this to myself?
To be honest, the phrasing was unclear, but, then again, I'm almost certain I still wouldn't have got it so I'm not even mad.
Nailed it right how you explained
I love your riddles!!!
How? She looks 10 and he did in like 1 minutes. Here I am, a senior, blacking out at this riddle.
Zaza Codio akskskksks I'm an college freshman and I was like oh I'll jus keep watching the video for the answer lol
lol
Yup
I’m 11. I waited for him to answer it then, I thought about how it really worked. It’s quite simple after the answer is revealed and the you take time to think about it. I would have never thought of it but it makes sense.
Umm, you still got all the money so why wouldn't they still bother you?
Doesn't matter. You don't deserve all that money to yourself anyways.
Isabel Daniel
No it doesn't. Because in the real world if you have a lot of money your going to get harassed for it. Doesn't matter if you got it fair and square. Your family is still going to harass you for it.
And the family could prove in this case that the whole riddle was made up just for her to get it. Thus making the will void and unfair. Then comes the power of attorney and other stuff. None of this scenario at all makes any sense and honestly the poor girl would just end up getting shot or something.
Artaneius, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Because they will see that you solved it, and didn't recieve it right away, making them feel stupid, and they can't bother you without sounding even more stupid.
Yoki Popcorn
Sighs would you say that your own family would care if you solved the riddle or not? What's stopping them from constantly making phone calls etc. to ask for money? What's legally stopping them?
Smart _and_ wholesome, perfect
Honestly I just love how the diamonds are perfectly,green-screened diamonds, 3 supposedly terrible, drawn diamonds.