Why are Chinese students better at this riddle than Americans 

you forgot that after you weigh the gold you must also run naked through the streets yelling eureka

I solved the first but not the second. I have never heard of the elephant story but I am aware of the hansel and gretel one... wtf

As an american, i got the first one and failed the second. The second one's solution seems silly, nobody would carry pounds of sand into a cave. My answer was to keep your right hand on the right wall, then when you want to get out keep your left hand on the wall. That way, you dont have to carry more weight with you and you cant get mixed up if you back track like you could with the sand.

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I've been waiting for an upload from this channel since two years , this is one if the very few non BS channels , I hope the creator is okay

The solution to the second one is bad. if you encounter a loop crossing the old path you will be lost. Always sticking to the right wall on you way in and allays sticking to the left wall on your way out is guaranteed to get you back out. Not to mention that you wont have to carry the heavy weight of the sand and aren't dependent on the caves cleanliness.

I thought in putting the statue in one side of the boat and the gold in the other. When the boat stays straight then the weight would be the same. Does that count as right? In my mind it works just fine...

Where is this guy? Does he have a patreon, because if he stopped making money due to financial reasons, I would totally pay to watch.

For the second riddle, I just thought he should only take left turns when there is multiple paths. That way, all he had to do in order to exit was take multiple rights.

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I thought the first question was easy because the people already know how much to pay because he has come before

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both riddles were quite easy. did these students really fail that hard?

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Hey man I was following your videos since a couple years ago and I kept checking back every few months but you never posted again. I can say your content was unique. I mean as someone who majored in psych, I knew a lot of the research you were referencing but you still put it in such a different perspective that it really pulled me in and got me thinking. What I'm saying is, your channel has potential despite being so indie and people are interested in what you're making, so hopefully you stopped making videos because you realized this isn't what you wanted to do, and not because you felt this channel didn't have a chance or something. Only got love for your work man!

The riddle is, where the fuck did you go??? I miss this channel SO MUCH

This channel hasn't uploaded for 11 months... What happened? D:

I got both lmao, and I immediately thought of the Minotaur labyrinth Greek legend when the second one came up

I got both wrong, but my answers also made sense? Riddle 1: Put the statue on one end of the boat and the gold on the other end, like a makeshift balance Riddle 2: Scratch the walls with rocks until white

Why can't you just put the statue on one side of the boat and stack gold in the same shape on the other side of the boat until the boat is level?

Hänsel und Grethel did not use pebbles, but bread crumbs, that's why they got lost in the first place, cause the birds are the crumbs... Also there are various other solutions, e.g. always turn right, so to get out you just always turn left, sure it's not very effective, but neither is the sand one cause you can always only exile one path per fork/'crossing'. It would probably make more sense to write down actual notes either the sand at each fork... Also the fact that the riddle were solved with different success rates may just as well be due to language... If in one phrasing ist more emphasised that he travels by boat or that he travels on sand (rather than in a dessert since to my knowledge not all desserts have sand) it's far easier to solve.

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hello, does anyone know the video editing software used here ? I would like to crate videos of similar quality

i literally just skipped past the beach part and was stuck thinking for like 5 minutes

It said all he had was a flashlight and a bag, so I thought that meant he couldn't go back and get anything else, and I thought he could rip up the backpack and leave backpack bits as a trail or he could just follow the right wall

weird I figured it out as an American. To be fair though the question kind of lead to it by mentioning the boat as well as seeing it visually from the video

My answer for the first riddle was to put the statue on one side of the boat and put the gold on the other side of the boat until the boat was leveled

What's the chill song name please?

I'm American and got both immediately.

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I'm Irish and I got the first one instantly but I had to think for a bit and relisten to get it. What does that mean?

i looked at the picture and in seconds figured out the answer to the riddle . I didn't even need to pause the video.

i got the first one, i am chinese (not from china and never heard of the elephant story). i solved the 2nd one differently, what if there's already sand in the cave, it would have been pointless. i was thinking of putting twigs pointing towards the direction i came from every few meters.

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I had to pause and think, but I solved it, and now I feel like wizard.

audio is a little asymmetrical it sounds like about 70% is comming out of my left speaker, did check my speakers but other videos work fine, reloading this video didn't help either, did anyone else notice this?

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I'm Chinese living in the west, and I solved both in 5 seconds.

i was thinking the boat had something to do with weighing the statue, but he said that the guy didnt have access to other scales and i thought that inluded anything that could be used as a scale, like the boat.

I mean my first reaction to the second one was that he would put his right hand on the right wall like a maze....

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To me, this video proves that keeping other cultures alive could have practical benefits.

I thought that in Hansel and Gretel the kids used small bits of bread instead of pebbles to mark their way, but when they tried to go home it turned out birds had eaten all the bread, so they were lost and couldn't find their way. Anyone else?

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10 months wow

For the first riddle I thought of building a makeshift scale using a rock and possibly the boat. My mind did initially start with using the water but then I realized it would get the volume and discarded it completely. For the second riddle, instead of thinking about sand I just thought of hugging one wall so that you can return using it.

Could you measure the density too in the first riddle? Have both right if you can use this method. German highschool btw.

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is he alive

I'm an Indian and I got both riddles correct and I hadn't heard of any of these folk stories before.

What was the name of the background music?

The second riddle's solution is really bad for these reasons: 1) What if the cave was structured like a maze and there are overlapped path you must scout to get to the treasure? Backtracking can sometimes result in a dead loop. 2) Can the bag hold enough sand to track the entire cave & can you carry it? This is not critical but time-consuming as hell. 3) Will the sand stay there? My proposed solution: carry a piece of paper and a pen. Every time you get to a point with multiple possible paths, draw a simple graph of that point. And don't you tell me you don't have pen and paper in the bag.

The folk tale is WRONG. It was the son of the emperor who solved the riddle. Oh also, it is a historical event, 曹冲称象。

My version for the 1st riddle is based on the archimedes principle. immerse the statue in a liquid container containing known volume of liquid, say 1 liter, immerse the idol in the liquid and observe the liters of water displaced and note the litre remaining.Now, take another container containing the same volume of water, and immerse the gold until the marked reading is reached. is this solution feasible?

There are multiple ways for solving both of these riddles. Including methods that don't use the ones mentioned in their respective stories.

If Westerners got the second riddle based on a story they knew, I would have thought they'd be more likely to think of Theseus and the minotaur. Hansel and Gretel is mostly remembered for the witch's house, rather than the trail of pebbles.

I was thinking for the second riddle that he could make markings using the bag fabric, but I guess taking the bag apart wasn't a good idea

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For the first one I said they could use the boat as some type of scale. For the second one I said you could drag your foot along the dirt and use it to find your way out.

he could just remember the amount of gold from last time

What typeface do you use for your videos? Nice videos too!

Anyone know the exact name of the song used?

For the first one I thought the statue and gold were going to be put on opposite sides of the boat until the boat was completely level. Close enough

i was so close to the first one. I thought it was that you had to put the head on one side of the boat and see how much that sinks, then (while the statue's still in the boat) put the gold in until it exactly counter-balances the gold so that the boat is completely even with the water

More videos please. They are very educative and interesting

for the first one, get a huge vase or a basket or w/e and fill it with water. put the statue in, so the amount of the statues volume goes out from the vase in water. now, put gold in the vase until the water level of the vase reaches the top again. for the second one, tear some cloth for a single long piece of yarn. use that to backtrack when needed. that way, you don't have to search the cave with a backpack full of sand

i didn't even have to pause for ether?

For the second one I thought he would use the backpack's string to tie it to something and use it to find his way back.

I've lived in the UK for a large portion of my life and both of these riddles were quite easy.

I was close, Said to put the statue at one end of the boat and load gold on the other side till it was balanced. the sand one was easy. So am I super smart or just a practical thinker?

I was thinking leave a trail of fabric strips from the bag

I was close on the first one. I said to put water in separate things big enough to fit the statue and gold and hold water. The water would be filled right to the top. Then you put the statue in one and see how much water spills out and do the same with the gold until the amount of water that spills out is equal

I solved both riddles in other ways than the ones you proposed. The boat could be balanced on a rock and then used as a scale. And in the cave you could follow the left wall around, and when you want to get out, turn around and follow the wall that are now on your right side.

For the second one I said that he could scratch the walls with the flashlight....

with the first riddle i had in mind putting the statue on one side of the canoe and the gold on the other untill the boat was lined up with the water.

I realised that it was too do with water displacement, I just didn't get the exact method.

In riddle #2, you can also stick to one side of the cave (left or right). If you find a dead end, pick the reverse side.

oh got both of them did not realize there was multiple questions

I think the visuals of the riddles have a big impact on whether someone figures it out or not

I'm not sure if I technically got the second riddle right because I didn't think sand at all, first I thought of creating a trail with grass and leafs. My other thought was if he was only allowed to use the items on his person like in the other riddle, then my other thought was to leave the flash light behind you and follow the light back (but really grossly underestimating the size of the cave), maybe because the natural climate where I live and grew up doesn't have many large caves.

For the first riddle: Remain the statue on the boat, fill the boat with gold until it sinks. Then take out the statue and repeat. The difference of the amount of gold in both cases is the weight of the statue. Anyone who knows Archimedes principle should know well. Though, the video did not mention any tools available for marking the boat.

I was thinking of using the boat itself as the weight by putting the statue on one end and the gold on the other but close enough I guess, same concept.

when you solved both and feel like a badass

For the first one I thought they'd put the statue on one end and the gold on the other until it was level.

It took me 3 minutes to solve the first riddle, and I solved the second one in less than a minute.

assuming gold and statue would have equal density, I would immerse them in water and find the water displaced by the statue , then compare it with gold. Would that be correct.

For the first riddle my first inclination was to find some string and tie it to the entrence

My answer for the first riddle was a bit different. I thought that since it is a canoe, a big rock would tilt it upwards if placed on either side of the canoe and then all you have to do is place an even amount of gold on the other side until the canoe gets back to place, basically using it as a scale.

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For the first riddle, you could have put the statue on one end of the canoe and put gold on the other to balance it out

Quite fascinating that childhood stories have such an impact on our ways of thinking about solutions, Great video, very entertaining

idk I think I found good alternative solutions to the riddles. The first one​ I thought you could put the statue on one end of the boat and piled the gold on the other end to find the balance. I also thought "Surely the tax collector had an oar?" he could use that like a seesaw to balance the money and statue. The second riddle I thought the explorer could have kept his hand on one side of the walls to trace his way back out, much like you can do in a maze.

While I recognized that the mention of the beach in the second question was important and would likely have something to do with the answer, I still neglected to figure it out. The first one I answered quickly by thinking of the story of the discovery of water displacement. (the crown of gold and the king needed to know if it was real or fake and they put it in a tub). The second answer seems really silly because depending on how big the cave is you could have to carry around a LOT of sand which is actually pretty heavy, especially when wet, like beach sand. I thought of keeping your right hand on the right wall while walking in and your left hand on the left wall while walking out but a lot of people seem to think that would only work with one tunnel. However, so would the sand. After returning to a fork in the cave from traveling down one side, there are now two sides with sand leading into them. If you travel down the other fork, when you return, there will be 3 sides with sand in them and you will be lost.

In the first riddle, my answer was get the villagers to pick up the statue and then get a tarp and add gold until the villagers who held the statue all had to carry the tarp.

Well considering the visual of the gold is in ingots which are usually of matching weight, he could just rock up there and say, "Give me what you gave me last time", I guess

I got both right but I think the people in the study were given only written riddle no video or pictures. So I had access to more information

I got the second riddle before he finished talking, but don't know the Hansel and Gretel story. I just thought about leaving trail of string.

The first one was somewhat easy because we know right away that the boat is part of the solution.

I didn't think of Hansel and Gretel but the story of the Minotaur where the hero used a ball of twine to lead him back out of the labyrinth.