Can you solve the sea monster riddle? - Dan Finkel

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According to legend, once every thousand years a host of sea monsters emerges from the depths to demand tribute from the floating city of Atlantartica. As the ruler of the city, you’d always dismissed the stories… until today, when they rose out of the roiling waters, surrounded your city and demanded a ransom of pearls. Can you figure out which chest of pearls is the ransom? Dan Finkel shows how.
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@TEDEd 4 года назад

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@Mysteri0usChannel 4 года назад

How do we know the ancestors used a base 10 system, or that they used our method of writing numbers and not, let's say... a more Roman approach?

@TEDEd 4 года назад

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@kamstrz 4 года назад

Hi friend. I admirer you (I have no idea if that was good grammar or not)

@Umair-Khan- 4 года назад

Still Didn't maked a single video on covid-19.😒

@dhoom-z7221 4 года назад

Can I use a calculator to solve?

@MegaAgamon 4 года назад

A random guard 5 days ago: "Let's take a pearl out of these chests it isn't like they are counted"

@painfulpee5789 4 года назад

Oml xD

@binnieminnie9803 3 года назад

Lmao rip

@alexmun7391 3 года назад

@Rachel He ulozo

@someguywithahecktonofcomme9154 3 года назад

@Rachel He zolul

@kinyacat5919 3 года назад

Theyre city is doomed

@somerandomweeb4836 4 года назад

Plot twist: they made a counting mistake 1000 years ago

@alexortiz9777 4 года назад

Also likely someone embezzled a few pearls

@TheSassi14 4 года назад

@@alexortiz9777 both cancelled each other out, leaving you with a number of pearls dividable by 1001

@fathfez7991 4 года назад

Is that Narnia?

@zulfanauliya9789 4 года назад

I have never seen anyone getting hearted by Ted-Ed

@menthaspicata1571 4 года назад

Plot twist: the numbers aren't base 10

@TehWolfmanOP 3 года назад

"Each containing a precisely counted number of pearls prepared by your ancestors for exactly this purpose." Ancestors: "Let's make each chest have a different number of pearls inside even though we know exactly how many pearls the monsters want."

@egge 3 года назад

what if there are a different amount of monsters tho? gotta prepare for multiple cases

@akshayniemishra694 3 года назад

@@egge But it would still be a multiple of 1001

@AmateurStorytime 3 года назад

@@akshayniemishra694 Not necessarily. Let's say there were 8 Leviathan lords. Then you'd have 13x11x8, which is 1,144.

@markimbing8018 3 года назад

The legend specifically said “Each leviathan would then divide its share into 11 equal piles.” and “Each kraken would then divide its share into 13 equal piles.” However, it didn’t specify how many leviathan lords there would be. It just said, “The pearls would be split evenly between the leviathan lords.”, so the kraken and mermites would remain the same in number.

@criscusack 2 года назад

@@markimbing8018 Sure it did: 7! Check Rule 2 "Each of the 7 piles" [one per Leviathan]..

@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 3 года назад

I'm just confused as to why those sea monsters want those pearls, like they're literally underwater, they can get it themselves.

@smokebomb6760 3 года назад

It is easier for them, like texas for not killing you

@hpds3133 3 года назад

It's easier for you to ask your friend's homework answers rather than answering them yourself

@maximuscraig8222 3 года назад

Oh gosh you’re here again

@jenieuwedocent 3 года назад

I live on land and can get food anytime I want, but if someone would bring me food, I'd still be happy

@yeetmyauntaccountlikethisa8622 3 года назад

OH it's you I didn't know your learning riddle too that make sense :l

@l554446l 4 года назад

TED-Ed: “7 Leviathan Lords...10 giant kraken...12 mermites.” Me: (Multiplication problem. How hard could it be?) TED-Ed: “Unfortunately...you don’t know how to read the ancient numbers.” Me: “Of course, TED-Ed.”

@Paul-A01 4 года назад

It's always something with these guys...

@ewe8929 4 года назад

They might as well teach us their language now

@nhathuynguyen4736 4 года назад

It’s Ted-Ed anyway, what else do you expect? :D

@theguyman256 4 года назад

Most riddles like this: ha you see, you actually had to do 7x11x13 haha. Ted-ed: decipher ancient languages of past civilizations

@ee-vk7is 2 года назад

im still confused by where did those 7x11x13 come from . not 7x10x12. anyone can help ?

@nuggetillustrations383 4 года назад

5 days ago- guard : I’m gonna surprise my wife with a Pearl necklace; I’m sure these boxes full of them can spare a few

@winnersduplicate554 3 года назад

AAAAAAARGH

@zer0serpents106 2 года назад

Dang O-O

@aviXex 2 года назад

😂

@sprazz8668 2 года назад

“I wonder what those symbols on the front mean? Eh, I’m sure it doesn’t matter. Probably just when they were collected or something.”

@thanthanh5190 2 года назад

Plot twist: he makes it possible to divide equally

@frostflamegames673 2 года назад

You'd only need to fish up a single pearl per YEAR, with one year having 2 pearls in order to satisfy the sea monsters in 1000 years. Honestly, these are some very fair sea monsters. Wish my rent could be that low.

@ng42. 2 года назад

1001 pearls per 1000 years

@mohamedb737 2 года назад

hhhh yeah my rent over a 1000 years is a small country's GDP

@_pitako 2 года назад

@@ng42. that's 1.001 pearls a year, such a great deal!

@frozenover_exe 2 года назад

@@mohamedb737 If said small country is Singapore that’s way worse

@mohamedb737 2 года назад

@@frozenover_exe I think that's my rent over the age of the universe hahaha

@nicolekow1600 3 года назад

0:13 According to legend, once every thousand years there comes a solvable ted ed riddle...

@jojohendo7385 2 года назад

Try the Einstein one if ur good at sudoku

@drewpeacock9087 2 года назад

And this is that riddle! First one I actually nailed, although I did need to get a pen and paper

@infiniti2011 2 года назад

@@jojohendo7385 That's the one I first solved. I love those types of riddles. We had a book full of them for school, and I breezed through it.

@electricchris9932 2 года назад

This is one of the few riddles I was actually able to solve

@daichi1069 4 года назад

plot twist: one of the pearls fall while bringing it to the monsters

@tristannaess2558 4 года назад

Different plot twist. They use dozenal

@Apotoxin-nz6ws 4 года назад

Just get rid of 1000 other ones and you're good

@fallingforward9173 4 года назад

@@Apotoxin-nz6ws plot twist, you have no idea that a pearl fell down due to the blanket structure of your entire city(it also floats somehow.).

@awesomemantroll1088 4 года назад

Grab one from one of the other chests.

@fallingforward9173 4 года назад

@@awesomemantroll1088 you don't know that one has fallen off, that's why it's a plot twist. It's an easy problem to solve, but you don't solve it because you don't know it's there, like forgetting your keys before you leave the house and lock all the doors and windows, that's why it's a plot twist.

@alexc3543 4 года назад

Me: Tosses an empty box down, containing 0 pearls. Leviathan lords: Bruh Me: Divide them into 7 groups of 0! Leviathan lords: Alright, you win this time.

@nazninsultanashima1937 4 года назад

Intellectual!

@ultra-flamaxus 4 года назад

Epic Bruh moment.

@confusedpotato7045 4 года назад

Kraken kommanders : no no he’s got a point

@Bloobinton 4 года назад

Your the next Tom Ed

@NotAnAlex_Guy 4 года назад

I get the joke, but you have to have a Pearl at least so uh *not stronks?*

@rileybishop3597 3 года назад

You may not have enough time to count how many pearls are in the boxes but you should have enough time to use the pearls in the chest to count out 1001 pearls and give them that. Especially considering everyone would be willing to help given that their life is on the line

@Deathnotefan97 10 месяцев назад

You are assuming that 1001 pears is enough Yeah, it satisfies the even splitting rule, but it’s also a paltry offering

@khosani1726 7 месяцев назад

The condition was given simply that the answer is a multiple of 1001, not that it had to be a higher multiple. Sea monsters are apparently arbitrary with their pickiness.

@Vamilator7165 2 года назад

Ok so not only did my ancestors pull an epic prank on me by leaving, not one chest but 5, they also assumed that either I as their descendant was a math wiz and could quickly calculate the correct solution, or that the monsters would be super patient as I sat down with my abaccus and counted out the amount of pearls required and then counted the content of each chest. It's a wonder Atlantarctica lasted this long with previous generations setting up newer ones to fail

@misakianimated 2 года назад

I thought the same lmao

@ComDenox Год назад

I mean, they wrote the amounts on the chests and from their perspective, it was readable. The only thing they didn't account for was that the numeric system changed in 1000 years, everything else was fine.

@billyotea6421 Год назад

They were probably Asians parents

@The_Dr_Fate 9 месяцев назад

@@ComDenoxthats not what he means

@TherealNiqqa 5 месяцев назад

they waited 1000 years to collect your rent so yes they are more than super patient

@shamitsharma7304 4 года назад

Lesson learnt: Remember how to read the ancient digit system

@TEDEd 4 года назад

This is the exactly the takeaway we had hoped for

@kevinlane1219 4 года назад

@@TEDEd Here's a riddle: what happens when the unstoppable force meets the immovable object?

@somerandomweeb4836 4 года назад

@@kevinlane1219 see minutephysics

@BigattckFirecat 4 года назад

But what if they were taught and any information or hints are gone.

@nilavsarkar748 4 года назад

@@kevinlane1219 U get an incredibly Awesome movie : The Dark Knight

@nightowlanimate7813 4 года назад

Ted Ed: We need something original for a city in the middle of the ocean. Some dude: how about we merge Antarctica and Atlantic together? Ted Ed: PERFECT

@abhishekpanwar7022 4 года назад

Just about to comment the same thing

@nightowlanimate7813 4 года назад

Abhishek Panwar 😂 too bad you're late. Srry bro

@KartheekTammana123 4 года назад

@@nightowlanimate7813 Huh. I thought they merged Antarctica and Atlantis

@lastyearswishesx 4 года назад

Kartheek Tammana Yeah me too

@ewe8929 4 года назад

Very original

@epikitee2186 3 года назад

And then it turned out that the ancient system didn't use base 10, but someone stole several pearls a couple years ago (because who would notice, like, 3 pearls missing among however many thousands are in those chests?) and it turned out to all balance out in the end. Not that anyone was ever aware of this.

@MrTeknotronic 4 года назад

"There isn't enough information to decode the ancient Atlantartican numeral system." Then you go on to make assumptions about the structure of the ancient Atlantartican numeral system

@kentakagi5214 3 года назад

ted ed assuming it's a based ten system 🙄

@kenjidayan7579 2 года назад

@@kentakagi5214 it literally says in the rules its base 10

@archiecook4232 2 года назад

@@kenjidayan7579 MrTeknotronic is right as say roman numerals are base ten and it would not work for them

@sajeucettefoistunevaspasme 2 года назад

@@archiecook4232 how ?

@diegonathanielmina7361 2 года назад

Only the symbols for the digits are said to have changed. It's safe to assume that it continued using the same base for the past 1000 years: a highly likely scenario given that the same applies to many cultures of humans. And it might be possible to decode the ancient numeral system fully, but it would take too much time given that there are a bunch of very powerful and impatient sea creatures right outside the city.

@luftwaffle4156 4 года назад

“You didn’t believe these stories were true” “Your sister nation was annihilated because of this” K

@academicunboxing1402 4 года назад

😂😂😂😂

@franziska9260 4 года назад

I didn't believe in my sister nation anyway 😂

@Cats83747 4 года назад

they didnt know why atlantis sunk they could have just thought is was a story

@AlexLopez-hn5ru 4 года назад

"I'm sure she was just exaggerating"

@CrazyAvidGamer 4 года назад

It was just a flu /s

@dahomeboi9759 4 года назад

“If there is an uneven amount or an extra pearl, they will tear the city down” They should be grateful that they get an extra pearl

@facundollamosas8208 4 года назад

They're really sensible to inequality

@prometheus7387 4 года назад

The monsters are ideal communists!

@madiliarianawati5424 4 года назад

they have OCD

@iamnolongerexisting 4 года назад

IKR

@Inkyminkyzizwoz 4 года назад

@@facundollamosas8208 *sensitive

@nickr.4075 3 года назад

So the sea monsters destroyed Atlantis because the offering had “leftover” pearls? I did not know sea creatures had OCD.

@shawnburke-hutchinson5901 3 года назад

Sea Monsters: There is an offering that is one pearl too much. It’s triggering my OCD! +1 sin

@impossiblehanley2732 2 года назад

No, it's because they would fight for the extra pearls

@Spacebugg 2 года назад

@@impossiblehanley2732 why dont they just.... *GIVE IT BACK!?*

@theaegislash8249 2 года назад

@@Spacebugg Cus they still want the pearl for themselves?

@Spacebugg 2 года назад

@@theaegislash8249 but thats not the amount they wanted

@nouche 4 года назад

This is actually the first time I managed to solve a TED-Ed riddle myself!

@DittoJoe 2 года назад

Me too! Kudos 🥳

@andriesbingani 8 месяцев назад

I was almost there, I didn’t get the pattern part

@sebastianelytron8450 4 года назад

What does a sea monster eat? Fish and ships

@sophi765 4 года назад

haha

@rebeccasutton2401 4 года назад

and citys

@rebeccasutton2401 4 года назад

oh I get it now

@bruhmoment1271 4 года назад

I love ur about... 😂😅

@rebeccasutton2401 4 года назад

fish and chips fish and ships

@bryanw4582 4 года назад

1000 years ago they knew you would need an EXACT number of pearls but they left 5 chests? The real villain is not the sea monster, it’s your jokester ancestors.

@ephyreus 4 года назад

@Kyoko Chan If the city is old enough and if they come once every 1000 years u may easily see the pattern, you don't know how many times they came before

@ossiencadwallourien-modred447 4 года назад

@Derek Meng different patterns wouldn't allow for the "1,001" trick

@daniels5780 4 года назад

Sea monsters die and reproduce. you have to have options.

@daerdevvyl4314 4 года назад

Dan Z The ancestors didn’t know you needed a trick. They thought you’d be able to read the numbers. So they prepared chests for the different patterns that might happen in 1000 years.

@emiliekarlsen7081 4 года назад

Maybe the other ones are just filled to the brim so they have a place to get pearls from 😅

@percuss3757 3 года назад

Every TedEd riddle ever: uNfOrTuNaTeLy

@innitheotaku3883 3 года назад

TedEd: complicating things for no reason since 1999

@archtansterpg4246 3 года назад

I love how the leviathans just happen to command their armies in such convenient numbers for the purposes of this riddle. :)

@dhirendrakalita9237 4 года назад

Step 1: Confirm you have green eyes. Step 2: Ask the monsters to leave

@mithmoonwalker 4 года назад

monsters: HAHA I HAVE GREEN EYES TWO AND MORE OF THEM

@ruirui1164 4 года назад

bruh

@tod3608 4 года назад

I don't get it

@batteryz9615 4 года назад

@Matthew CHOI Which video is it?

@madhusai220 4 года назад

@@batteryz9615 try searching "green eyes Ted ed puzzle" that should bring up the video

@electronresonator8882 4 года назад

ancestor A : "our future children shall face the same peril, what should we do" ancestor B :"aha, let;s prepare them 1000 boxes full of pearls and don't teach them how to read numbers" ancestor A : "brilliant !!"

@shadowfox3442 4 года назад

@Matthew CHOI........

@martinaguilar5646 4 года назад

STONKS!

@milx7210 4 года назад

@Matthew CHOI *stonks*

@Rainy_R 3 года назад

*y e s*

@deKahedron 3 года назад

Plot twist: not believing in the ancient stories of sea monsters, I had already spent all the pearls to improve the quality of the Atlantarctic drains.

@Imamotherfreakingavocado 3 года назад

Wow, these sea monsters must be great friends, they share completely equally

@truegentlemen4174 2 года назад

Rantaro

@truegentlemen4174 2 года назад

The ultimate avocado

@marveltrailers6015 4 года назад

My city is surrounded by sea monsters. Also me Let's decode ancient numbers because only one of our 5 ancestors kept the right amount of pearls....

@nightowlanimate7813 4 года назад

Monsters waiting outside: da fuk took them so long?

@aarongilbertphonetube219 4 года назад

I'm guessing all the chests have the correct amount for particular events

@franziska9260 4 года назад

@@aarongilbertphonetube219 if there are more of these monsters I'm taking my city to land and staying there

@thalespro9995 4 года назад

Just count 1001 pearls

@daerdevvyl4314 4 года назад

Thales pro999 They said you didn’t have time.

@arisontube 4 года назад

A cheaper solution: Just give them 1001 pearls.. With a few servants it shouldn't take more than 5 minutes to count them.

@silentwaves6389 2 года назад

This is actually clever.

@thomb.9013 2 года назад

@@silentwaves6389 unless they want a ransom of atleast x pearls. then oyu need for example 10,001 pearls, taking to long. but if not ur fine. and clearly they want at least 100 pearls per, due to all the chests having at least 100X1001 in them

@blackscreenscreen6961 2 года назад

It doesn't work . So let s say you do have 1001 pearls. First you neet to give the pearls to 7 leviathans. That leaves each leviathan with 143 pearls. The each take one for themselves, so that actually leaves each leviathan with 142 pearls, and since they can't devide that to 10 krakens your city get's destroyed. I calculated that there are exactly 917 creatures, and if you divide that by 7 you get 131, take one for each lev. So 130 actually divides by 10. The result is each kraken has 13 pearls, they take one for themselves so that leaves 12 pearls and wouldn't you know that goes perfectly for 12 fish. They got the answer wrong on this one and no one noticed probably bc no one does the actual math lol

@seven_8434 2 года назад

@@blackscreenscreen6961 the leviathans don't take one pearl, they divide the pearls into 11 piles and take one pile for themselves. So it goes like this: 1001 ÷ 7 = 143, each Leviathan gets 143 pearls, then they divide it into 11 piles, 143 ÷ 11 = 13, and take a single pile for themself, so each Leviathan ends up with 13 pearls. Then the krakens divide their pile into 13 piles, 13 ÷ 13 = 1. So each Leviathan gets 13 pearls and the krakens and mermites get 1 pearl each.

@idotical 2 года назад

@@blackscreenscreen6961 did you even watch the solution

@TigruArdavi 3 года назад

Did it with a spreadsheet, getting all the 6-digit multiples of 1001, then checking whether the string of digits fits the patterns on the chests. Does actually just fit with the correct chest but within that, you find actually more than 600 combinations between 100 000 and 999 999 where the pattern ABC ABC fits. Neatly made animation, I like this :-)

@xcorpionxting84 2 года назад

nice solution, but it can be done in another easier way: just count and give 1001 (7*11*13) pearls. This satisfies the division needed, and you keep more pearls for your kingdom that way.

@karellengkong1918 4 года назад

SAY WHAT YOU WANT, THIS IS THE FIRST TED-ED RIDDLE THAT MY IDIOTIC BRAIN ACTUALLY SOLVED WITHOUT WATCHING THE SOLUTION I'M SO HAPPY.

@iriotero1760 4 года назад

Sameee lol

@mrjoe332 4 года назад

Me too. It's the first time I felt smart in so long

@johnlucas6683 4 года назад

I'm with you. Although my solution and choice ended up just being lucky.

@absentcoder4552 4 года назад

Similar story - didn’t have a calculator on hand but the moment I saw the number “1,001” it was a great epiphany.

@albreigh 4 года назад

Saaaame

@kinghiccup 4 года назад

ted-ed: solves all these crazy riddles me: can't even tie a shoelace

@TEDEd 4 года назад

Personally, we prefer the Bunny Ear Method 🐰

@kartiksharma2361 4 года назад

i can solve the riddle but still cant tie shoelace

@geraldjinx 4 года назад

@TED-Ed I hate when people just use very complicated Methods.

@matthewl6627 4 года назад

Next up: The shoelace riddle

@memekasagar4314 4 года назад

Me: can’t even spell lays

@robinbanks7500 2 года назад

Plot twist: they didn’t count using base-10.

@thomb.9013 2 года назад

hexadecimals, also known as base 16.

@iminediamonds 2 года назад

The rules state that the numbers are in base 10

@cyanisnicelol Год назад

3EF3EF: Am I a joke to you? But really, If it was hexadecimal I'd hope the number corresponds to 3EF3EF, or a multiple of 3EF3EF

@danielcgallagher 3 года назад

More so than any of the other TED-Ed riddles that I have seen so far, this one is very solvable by just giving it an earnest shot (i.e. by just trying stuff to see what happens).

@samtrout5147 4 года назад

I enjoy the fact that you dress up riddles and puzzles as stories.

@DarkRizzard69 2 года назад

That is technically what riddles are but I like its narration

@kingwolf3044 Год назад

Ever wonder if they’re set in the same universe?

@Internalisverychill 4 года назад

Ted-ed: Can you solve this riddle? Me: *Quick answer no*

@kevinlane1219 4 года назад

Then down to the deepest depths with you and your people, so sayeth we, the Seven Leviathans.

@matheuss.3596 4 года назад

Long answer: yes lol

@Internalisverychill 4 года назад

@@matheuss.3596 ikr lol

@obi-wankenobi4886 3 года назад

"Can you solve this problem?" "I'll answer when i come back"

@KombatGod 4 года назад

1:31 "five chests each containing a precisely counted number of pearls prepared by your ancestors for exactly this purpose." Oh so any of the five chest is fine then.

@JoseAyalaVelez 3 года назад

Don't forget that uneven piles and leftover pearls trigger the monsters.

@KombatGod 3 года назад

@@JoseAyalaVelez it said they PRECISELY counted the pearls of EACH chest for EXACTLY this purpose. So going by that my ancestors already put precisely the needed amount of pearls in each chest.

@winnersduplicate554 3 года назад

@@KombatGod might be different puzzles

@akashwalavalkar7313 4 года назад

Ruler of ATLANTARTICA: Dismisses legend MONSTERS:Whomst has awakened the ancient one

@senaahasan5182 4 года назад

"Haha..I haven't seen a monster come out in ages!!" Monsters: *so anyway then I started blasting*

@oldrabbit8290 4 года назад

so: - these chests were prepared for such occasion, but the ancient kings decide to mix in 4 wrong chests for some reason. - the city has 5 chests of valuable pearls, but let them gathering dust in the basement for thousands of years. If they believe in the prophecy, they should rewrite these numbers ages ago. If they don't believe, then it's just bad management. - for some reason, no pearl has been lost after thousands years of neglection. - no one bothers to call the historians, who should be able to read your old language. - the monsters don't accept any leftover pearl, even though they could use that fund to throw a party for everyone if they don't want unequal payment. "You want to give me more money? How dare you!" on the side note, the Kraken is such a nice boss. They divide the spoil equally with their minions; and because the mer-something have no one else to split the spoil, they actually receive the same pay as their lord. Either the mer-something have a good trade union, or someone had read Das Kapital in his free time.

@carlosortiz1070 4 года назад

I think its so they can just give them all of the chests.

@andrescrespo2514 4 года назад

I mean it really isn’t much to do with Marxist economic analysis, read The Prince. Machiavelli describes the qualities a good prince should have and how he should pay his men. Two other quick points, Adam smith advised paying your workers twice their need so that they may raise a family so that class of worker does not die out and, Marx never really advocated for totally equal pay. With the seizure of the means of production there is still the division of labour and the natural disparities that come with those smaller hierarchies the goal being to lessen them so no one individual had more power than the rest to be able to exploit the others. This typically improves the social cohesion of the workers and results in increases in productivity and maintaining a nearly similar pay roll.

@VyLe-lq8yv 4 года назад

nam trịnh người Việt hả

@ruirui1164 4 года назад

maybe they're all communist

@VyLe-lq8yv 4 года назад

rui rui oh 👌:)

@Justme_1213 3 года назад

“Madam, the monsters are here” “THROW THE PEARLS”

@themanwithaplan.3494 Год назад

i got this one! I reasoned that to divide chests with that precision, they must be in bits of the lcm of those piles (being 7*11*13), which equated to 1001. Any 6 digit number which is a multiple of 1001 would be of the form abcabc, meaning only one chests could be the answer (making the assumption the number system on the chests are base 10).

@sreejasrivaram8250 4 года назад

everyone gangster until the chests have roman type numericals.

@knightlypoleaxe2501 4 года назад

Roman?

@stormchazer3068 4 года назад

@@knightlypoleaxe2501You are right, indeed not even close to Roman, not only do they look different, but the Romans use a different kind of number system with counting stuff by or off eacother. This riddle wouldn't have been possible with the Roman numerals, so also not with a number system like the Romans.

@alexanderjoseph5380 4 года назад

@@stormchazer3068 I think that was the point. It would be impossible.

@agioiutdrdgfyfyfhgky 4 года назад

Or duodecimal/literally any other number base...

@orderandkhos6269 4 года назад

Not even close

@sincerelysof 4 года назад

"the monsters accept your ransom and swim back down to the depths for another thousand years". Why not another 1001 years? 🤓

@eclecticsoffy 3 года назад

Does it matter at that point

@goddessdeedeebubblesofimag7789 3 года назад

@@eclecticsoffy riddle would be a lil easier to solve that way and it kinda just-- fits, cuz referencing/ hinting at the math problem

@eclecticsoffy 3 года назад

@@goddessdeedeebubblesofimag7789 oh ok, just wondering

@mogenoof 9 месяцев назад

0:29 detecting multiple leviathan class life forms in the area. are you sure what you're doing is worth it?

@vdawgvinny 3 года назад

“If there is uneven amount of pearls or an extra pearl, they will tear the city down” *Ah yes I see a perfectionist*

@ispeakforthetrees69 2 года назад

Probably they are Virgos

@CookieM0nster76 4 года назад

"Can you solve the..." No. I can't. We've been through this. Tens of times. I Cannot. Stop asking. Still gonna watch the video though lol

@namesareoldschool4533 3 года назад

@Voteforbella Thank you.

@0606Deco 3 года назад

@Voteforbella I know the guy wasn't very polite, but this puzzle is considerably easier than others in the channel. And I wish the person who posted the original comment actually tried. Enigmas and puzzle are awesome, but solving by yourself is even better.

@nanaadusei6604 3 года назад

0606Deco @its pms’ comment was unnecessary though, and it assumes that everyone has the same mathematical prowess as they do. It might be easy for you but that doesn’t mean it’s easy for everyone. Even if OP’s original comment was a joke. It’s pms’ comment would still be unnecessary

@itsashplazxxx1649 3 года назад

its ms I’m sorry but I can’t seem to find WHO ASKED

@vernanonix 3 года назад

@@Randomuser-dl5mx Small correction. You technically don't want to find the LCM here because the number needs to be simultaneously divisible by all three numbers, so just the product of the numbers. Now, since all the factors for the number are prime, that is what you do in essence. But you can't divide 24 by 3 then 8, then 6, right? (Just for the sake of example.)

@jannettecolle6182 4 года назад

TED-Ed: Theres no time to recount. Leviathan Lords & Kraken: We do tho

@833Rowan 3 года назад

monsters: gimme them now no time for u to count monsters 2 seconds later: ok now wait for me to count all of these to see if u live or not

@ChrisHinners008 2 года назад

@@833Rowan everyone would just be like BRUH

@fleasy4393 2 года назад

Sea monsters have Rainman counting powers, that's just basic lore.

@raydrysdale2726 3 года назад

Smashed this one out the park with identical reasoning... Easiest riddle yet for sure

@SkittishGirl... Год назад

I did it. This is my first time I successfully soved a TedX problem that also had right explanation.

@Alkalus 4 года назад

*This riddle really un-Loched my ability to solve future riddles!*

@isaiahsangilan8889 4 года назад

I don't sea the joke

@franziska9260 4 года назад

Christ, dude, that's a more painful pun than the "meets the eye" joke on the Cyclops sheep video

@christina4558 4 года назад

That's enough pun for tuna-it...

@rockspoon6528 4 года назад

Imagine having five enormous chests of valuable resources lying around for something you thought was an absurd myth.

@treehugger0241 3 года назад

We don't know if the pearls have any other value for their civilization.

@ishanjain922 3 года назад

Finally, after all this time, a problem that I could solve. Let me tell you mortals, it feels legendary

@DexterNguyenn Год назад

First time solving a TedEd problem by myself ! Feel so proud !

@georgeliang4800 4 года назад

Why can’t the ancestors just leave the right chest so we don’t need to worry about it.

@mythicql9652 4 года назад

George Liang I think because the army might be different so then you’d need a different amount of pearls

@aleksitjvladica. 4 года назад

Liang, you have 70 IQ.

@RailwayPenguin 4 года назад

Or better, why didn't the new ruler just count out 1001 pearls to give?

@hunnitbaehunnitbae8804 4 года назад

@@RailwayPenguin It was literally mentioned that she didn't have enough time

@RailwayPenguin 4 года назад

@@royinc.1191 must have missed that.

@danielmakhlouf8931 4 года назад

Ted ed : can you figure which box is it? Me : *randomly select a box and got it right* : GENIUS

@lukebomber 4 месяца назад

Solving these gets you better at solving more... That and actually being willing to sit down and keep thinking. This marks my 9th solution

@42ndadventurer41 2 года назад

THE ONE TED ED RIDDLE I ACTUALLY SOLVED CORRECTLY THIS IS A HISTORIC DAY

@nealliu1746 4 года назад

my ancestors: offers thousands of pearls to the lords me, an intellectual: poison the pearls and kill the monsters, securing the absolute dominance over the sea for eternity

@roshanpaul1184 4 года назад

How would you poison something already inedible? No reason it should work. What if the monsters love the poison so much they demand a second helping?

@wouterlahousse9637 4 года назад

You stole this! This strategy is the legitimate property of the United kingdom.

@neejan1029 4 года назад

And how would that work? They're not going to eat the pearls. It's inedible

@nealliu1746 4 года назад

@@roshanpaul1184 well the video said you FEED them the pearls 🤔

@tiniwish5248 4 года назад

Monster: EaTS peArLs

@mrb9825 4 года назад

“You don’t know how to read their numbering system. Luckily, their system turns out to be a substitution code for our system”. Uh huh. Lucky break.

@userasdf 4 года назад

My exact complaint as well. These guys should know about roman numerals. Entirely different way of writing a base 10 numbering system. Could be 2 squiggly symbols sometimes mean 1 digit as well. Lot of numbering systems have 2 somewhat separate symbols meaning 1 number.

@jessicav931 3 года назад

I miss that part, that explains alot. I was coming to say that I could create a number system where every number is a totally different simbol. Like 1 will be ¢ and 10 ¥ and 100 ∆

@Bruhdley.W 3 года назад

Hey bro, I know it’s been 7 months. I appreciate your sarcastic tone. But you didn’t put the period inside the quotations. I’m going to have to mark your paper off by 12

@mrb9825 3 года назад

@@Bruhdley.W Ah, your wit is as sharp as it is timely.

@jackwells8107 2 года назад

Twist: you give the monsters the chest, and they destroy your kingdom, because you didn't know the last king was born without thumbs and declared all counting be done in base 8.

@DittoJoe 2 года назад

I've been watching these videos for days and this is the first riddle I solved by myself 😭🥳

@naveengadhwal2838 4 года назад

FINALLY after years of watching riddles and failing to answer them... I finally solved one!!

@flowergirl6267 4 года назад

Navin Mali what might be the answer?

@AftabAlam-xz5ee 4 года назад

@@flowergirl6267 2nd chest was answer. It's pretty easy question.

@eliakimrodrigues 4 года назад

@@AftabAlam-xz5ee It might be easy, but it's not evident. Almost no one knows the special properties of 7*11*13.

@santiagoflores9926 4 года назад

GIRL, SAMEEE

@bb5bucks 4 года назад

I’m in that boat too! Finally solved one

@tirthgolwala1233 4 года назад

This was one of the easiest TED-Ed riddles

@hieulechi2548 4 года назад

I totally agree

@dumbassalert1943 4 года назад

it's the only one i've ever done correctly lmao

@hardikdua8123 4 года назад

yeah

@justaguy1182 4 года назад

@@dumbassalert1943 me too i think

@juliaprohaska9295 4 года назад

Don't ruin my victory 🙈

@roastymytoasty1707 2 года назад

Plot twist: 1 thousand years ago the number system was in base 9

@SPUDIKIN 2 года назад

I had been searching for a while for a comment to bring this up.. this whole plan falls apart if the ancestors weren't fans of base 10

@beasty4545 2 года назад

This is the first of these riddles I've gotten on my own 😊

@peterthepanda 4 года назад

Trying to think of solution: Alright, let's get Kraken.

@wingedbluj1674 4 года назад

CURSE YOU, PETER THE PANDAAAAAAA

@static_theshapeshifter 4 года назад

UUGH I LOVE IT IT'S TEEERRRRIBLLEEE

@andrewcheng1948 4 года назад

A angry Karen would work to

@sybelleesguerra6635 4 года назад

Crew Member 1: What should we call the island in the riddle? Crew Member 2: How 'bout Antarctica? Crew Member 3: Nah, mate, let's do Atlantis. Crew Member 4: aTLanTaRtLca

@Atapd 3 года назад

me: crew 1 **** ted-ed: crew 4 ; )

@avivastudios2311 Год назад

Crew Member 5: How 'bout Gattaca? The others: *laugh*

@ApurbaPaul 3 года назад

First thing thing that comes in my mind is how to know or rather confirm the ancestors used decimal system? There are huge number of other options.

@certifiedfurry 3 года назад

For the future, just Count out piles of 1001 because its much more efficient than 482482 or whatever that means

@destux 4 года назад

There's arctic, Then there's antarctic, And then there's atlantarctic

@Based-Degenerate 4 года назад

I think it would have been better if instead of arctic you wrote Atlanta

@fadeonline1384 4 года назад

Its Atlantis plus Antarctica and Arctic

@nathankaltz6925 4 года назад

"There is nothing special about 725" EXCUUUUUSE ME!!!!! 725 DESERVES MORE RESPECT!!!!!!

@sneakers1553 3 года назад

@Mateusz-Maciejewski 3 года назад

Yes, 725 is the least number of pearls for 5 leviathans with 5 krakens and 29 mermites.

@EdwardNavu 3 года назад

@@Mateusz-Maciejewski Not quite. It's 5 Leviathans with 4 krakens under each, with 28 mermites under each kraken. It's 5x(4+1)x(28+1) instead of 5x5x29.

@Mateusz-Maciejewski 3 года назад

@@EdwardNavu You're right. I forgot that bosses also want pearls.

@ricardodeleon0475 2 года назад

Sadge 725 noises

@1996Kuldeep 3 года назад

Loved it. Actually the first riddle of Ted Ed that I was able to solve 😂🤣

@memeboy4206 2 года назад

What an elegantly crafted riddle

@ankitdoddamane391 4 года назад

I finally solved a ted-ed riddle...after fours years of watching ted-ed! Huge achievement you see...

@prasunadhikari6054 4 года назад

Same

@jacobkhu-oldacc.4491 4 года назад

ditto! this is simple algebra~ all the other riddles were either very logical intensive or builds on number theories.

@DJTileTurnip 4 года назад

The pearl economy in Atlantartica must be high if they can feed all of them to monsters every 1000 years

@0mathgaming 3 года назад

1000 years is a long time though

@mratkovich 2 года назад

Well I saw this riddle two years ago when it was first posted and I couldn’t remember how to solve it but I remembered which one was the right one, so I guess I’ll take that win

@oldschoolgames2589 2 года назад

This was by far The most BRILLIANT enigma e ver.

@heyitsmatt3953 4 года назад

I'm just happy that I get to be hot in one of these riddles, usually I look like a deformed muppet.

@jayyates1921 4 года назад

Ted-Ed : “see if you can solve this!” Me : “it’s 4am”

@Olive-ey1cc 3 года назад

I continue to watch these even though I know I won’t be able to solve them

@nosubscriber8975 4 года назад

1. you give your random chest 2. give your army scuba diving tool(almost 3,7401ft 1,1400m) 3. sink to the bottom of the sea

@PhilomenaPhilominnie 4 года назад

That princess who doesn't know the numbers allocated supplies better than the government in this lockdown.

@dreamcanvas5321 4 года назад

It's because she was more concerned about saving the city than pocketing the pearls for her personal fortune.

@kousikdas9794 4 года назад

@@dreamcanvas5321 lol

@cosie1336 4 года назад

"The piles must split evenly": this is easy! "You can't read the numbers": wait WHAT. *multiplies 7 × 11 × 13 on calculator*: nevermind this is easy again.

@ecem44444 5 месяцев назад

The first riddle I was able to solve!!! Quite dissapointing but exciting as well lol

@danielcharles5085 19 дней назад

finally i could solve a ted-ed riddle...i m so happy

@oscarfinley8554 4 года назад

easy: just give them zero coins and they will be so confused by how to split the money, they'll die on the spot

@The-Cookie 4 года назад

Good Point.

@mithmoonwalker 4 года назад

unless, oh no *I BECOME THE DED*

@LavaLambz 4 года назад

pearl*

@heraldcarljesalva36 3 года назад

It's 0/(7*11*13), not the other way around. Still zero.

@amosbatalden5871 3 года назад

@Antony Rye That defeats the point. You don't have time to count out 1001 pearls.

@s7intlyFN 4 года назад

Imagine the queen doing all of this in her head in like 2 minutes I’d just pick the chest with a closed top lol

@ibee1104 3 года назад

Hey Mr Cheese

@s7intlyFN 3 года назад

@@ibee1104 hola

@SingularPhasmid 3 года назад

You're talking to yourself, Mr. Cheese. Get some help/

@s7intlyFN 3 года назад

@@SingularPhasmid What a good idea

@MAA-kw4ez 3 года назад

I would THROW THEM ALL

@DoFliesCallUsWalks 8 месяцев назад

Queen: Oh no I can't count! You: Don't worry, I'll make him an offer he can't refuse

@inoyunhodino4058 3 года назад

I’ve been watching loads of these and this is the first one I actually solved yay

@tryhardest4844 4 года назад

You: *Accidentally drops the box of pearls when going back up the stairs*

@Momingi 3 года назад

XD ikr

@manjularathaur9712 2 года назад

It would be just like me

@Spacebugg 2 года назад

your pfp fits

@siriyadla1334 4 года назад

I can't be the only one who doesn't solve the question, sees the answer and say "I was right"

@jeonghwang6223 4 года назад

IKR

@LordShehap 4 года назад

what ?

@dreamcanvas5321 4 года назад

I actually guessed right, but wasn't sure because I got mostly through the logic. I got as far as multiplying the three primes, and then multiplying them by 100 to get a six digit number. I saw that that resulted in 100,100; and only one box had a double-matching pattern so I picked it. But, I hadn't gone far enough to realize it was right, I just eliminated the others as not possible and wasn't sure "why" that last one was right without the explanation.

@jucom756 4 года назад

That's normally what i do too, but this one was pretty simple imo, maybe that's just because i've been interested in these kinds of math problems for a while.