Can you solve the Alice in Wonderland riddle? - Alex Gendler

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  • Опубликовано: 4 янв 2025

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  • @TEDEd
    @TEDEd  4 года назад +925

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    • @Hacksolotl
      @Hacksolotl 4 года назад +3

      :)

    • @pvvineet1722
      @pvvineet1722 4 года назад +7

      This was a fascinating riddle.... But i had once read about Fibonacci sequence in Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code and decided to dig deeper... And because of that, i knew the answer right away.

    • @kurzgecat1232
      @kurzgecat1232 4 года назад +1

      nice riddle

    • @icto8624
      @icto8624 4 года назад

      Sure!!

    • @mohammedfawzikharroub8482
      @mohammedfawzikharroub8482 4 года назад +2

      what's so special about 833

  • @knoweverything9075
    @knoweverything9075 4 года назад +9291

    Moral of story:
    Never interfere someone conversation if you don't want to die.

    • @jaschabull2365
      @jaschabull2365 4 года назад +165

      You know what Solomon said: To intervene in other people's argument is like pulling a dog by the ear.

    • @Hessonite_Dragon_Helen
      @Hessonite_Dragon_Helen 4 года назад +26

      Or know the answer and be a smarta**

    • @blueotter5954
      @blueotter5954 4 года назад +22

      But...then more will die

    • @genechia2605
      @genechia2605 3 года назад +9

      Exactly what I was thinking

    • @RedGallardo
      @RedGallardo 3 года назад +13

      Yup. You may not know the whole story and it's rude to interfere.
      Oh! Excuse me for interfering! XD

  • @erindrawsabit804
    @erindrawsabit804 4 года назад +2721

    Alice: You see, Fibonacci numbers-
    Red Queen: OFF WITH HER HEAD

    • @Bxll_Bxll
      @Bxll_Bxll 3 года назад +49

      *chop*

    • @ikimiyu
      @ikimiyu 3 года назад +9

      fr lmao

    • @ikimiyu
      @ikimiyu 3 года назад +8

      the fact that the queen is one who acts harley quinn in the movies is amazing (excuse my grammar)

    • @_Stxxx
      @_Stxxx 3 года назад +3

      Lmaoo

  • @danyelhaskins6210
    @danyelhaskins6210 4 года назад +7094

    Alice- does the math and proves the queen wrong
    Queen-......Im right, you're wrong, shut up.

    • @shaxosYT
      @shaxosYT 4 года назад +236

      Off with her head!

    • @vaughnjohnson8767
      @vaughnjohnson8767 4 года назад +86

      @@shaxosYT To the guillotine!

    • @wargeneral0659
      @wargeneral0659 4 года назад +169

      Well thats like fighting with your parents be like

    • @jpex_8359
      @jpex_8359 4 года назад +16

      Karen

    • @jims007
      @jims007 4 года назад +11

      i almost died reading this

  • @tee-nw5vx
    @tee-nw5vx 3 года назад +809

    "can alice wrap her head around whats wrong? before she loses it?" KILLED ME LMAO

  • @Sumirevins
    @Sumirevins 4 года назад +10238

    "Answer the Riddle or you die"
    Me: Guess I'll die

    • @herobrine1847
      @herobrine1847 4 года назад +73

      Yes finally

    • @captaincheese4511
      @captaincheese4511 4 года назад +45

      I'll die too

    • @CactusJ7
      @CactusJ7 4 года назад +14

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @tikaynico9073
      @tikaynico9073 4 года назад +35

      Plot twist: just answer it whether its right or wrong then you'll be free

    • @melontusk7358
      @melontusk7358 4 года назад +24

      Bold of you to assume I want to live.

  • @manlingsun8928
    @manlingsun8928 4 года назад +2203

    _Just as things aren't looking too good for Alice, she remembers her geometry..._
    Boy, I wish I could do that in a situation where I'm about to lose my head.

    • @loveloveaii
      @loveloveaii 3 года назад +56

      If you don’t use it you might as well lose it

    • @marcusscience23
      @marcusscience23 3 года назад +5

      @@loveloveaii lol

    • @iceyyl3mon
      @iceyyl3mon 2 года назад +3

      Quite literally

    • @stickycheezedog9205
      @stickycheezedog9205 2 года назад +1

      Hello, I'm the thousandth like

    • @obiwanfisher537
      @obiwanfisher537 Год назад

      Yeah, well, then again you only sit on your couch, watch tedex videos and never have any real life adventures in the firstp lace

  • @royalmasterjun
    @royalmasterjun 4 года назад +8089

    This reminds me of the old “Infinite Chocolate Bar” trick

    • @zawsrdtygbhjimokpl6998
      @zawsrdtygbhjimokpl6998 4 года назад +274

      perhaps because it's the same, but idk

    • @MrKimKim
      @MrKimKim 4 года назад +210

      it is the same

    • @dc9631
      @dc9631 4 года назад +85

      You beat me to it....same comment here....the chocolate bar theory

    • @smallspace7
      @smallspace7 4 года назад +34

      Yes, thank you I was asking myself why is this so familiar?

    • @sabrinah.476
      @sabrinah.476 4 года назад +9

      Same!

  • @nicholasmedich7493
    @nicholasmedich7493 4 года назад +974

    I seriously though TED was finally going to tell us why a raven is like a writing desk.

    • @billydeeuk
      @billydeeuk 3 года назад +79

      Edgar Allan Poe wrote on both

    • @aliyahpulido953
      @aliyahpulido953 3 года назад +9

      You turn to them both on a dark and stormy night?

    • @Tolivian
      @Tolivian 3 года назад +97

      Lewis Carroll actually provided an answer for that one though, it's because "they both make notes (letters and "caw") although they are rather flat (paper and a flat music note)."

    • @jaronflynn5052
      @jaronflynn5052 3 года назад +5

      Me too

    • @Hinatachan360
      @Hinatachan360 3 года назад +2

      I was thinking the same thing. Why IS a raven like a writing desk?

  • @leonguyen896
    @leonguyen896 4 года назад +7545

    Fun fact: The author of Alice in Wonderland was a mathematician and his books are full of math references.
    For example, when Alice falls down the hole and begins shrinking, she wonders if she'll eventually disappear or shrink indefinitely. This hints at the concept and definition of a limit.

    • @wariolandgoldpiramid
      @wariolandgoldpiramid 4 года назад +413

      It's no wonder various authors have used Alice and her adventures to write and logic and math books.
      It fits so well.

    • @izthistle6196
      @izthistle6196 4 года назад +474

      Fun fact: Queen Victoria liked the book so much that she suggested that Carroll dedicate his next work to her. And *An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, With Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraic Equations* was presented to the queen

    • @crimson-sz
      @crimson-sz 4 года назад +34

      @@izthistle6196 👏👏

    • @jaschabull2365
      @jaschabull2365 4 года назад +60

      I wonder what a Wonderland based on Common Core mathematics would look like.

    • @daweirdo2930
      @daweirdo2930 4 года назад +5

      wut

  • @skyloh258
    @skyloh258 4 года назад +312

    Matilda’s dad be like if he were the queen: I’M BIG YOUR SMALL I’M RIGHT YOUR WRONG AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT

    • @Inkyminkyzizwoz
      @Inkyminkyzizwoz 3 года назад +6

      *you're
      And why does everyone have to 'be like' statements? Doesn't anyone ever 'say' them anymore? And what's with 'BE like'? Unless you're a pirate at least take the trouble to conjugate it!

    • @skyloh258
      @skyloh258 3 года назад +22

      @@Inkyminkyzizwoz I mean the sentence is grammatically correct (except for the your) so I don’t understand why you are upset about the fact I said be like instead of say. Btw English isn’t my mother tongue

    • @erickpoorbaugh6728
      @erickpoorbaugh6728 3 года назад +20

      “Matilda’s father is known to behave in a manner that I shall now demonstrate, with said demonstration assuming a hypothetical scenario wherein he replaces the queen in the narrative recited above:”

    • @agenttechnaid5438
      @agenttechnaid5438 2 года назад +7

      @@erickpoorbaugh6728 when you wanna hit that 1 thousand words quota

    • @mindofzena8447
      @mindofzena8447 2 года назад +1

      lmaooo love this comment and your Aang pfp

  • @torch14000
    @torch14000 4 года назад +1743

    alice iq is so high that she thought the Queen is serious about her joke

    • @crimson-sz
      @crimson-sz 4 года назад +8

      lol 😂

    • @Tudsamfa
      @Tudsamfa 4 года назад +193

      alice iq is so high that she immediatly talks to the person she was hiding from

    • @torch14000
      @torch14000 4 года назад +27

      alice iq is so high that a reddit user r/woooosh her

    • @sakibislam4079
      @sakibislam4079 4 года назад +17

      well people with high IQ has less eq so your sarcasm is not really sarcastic

    • @xeno2421
      @xeno2421 4 года назад

      @@sakibislam4079 what is eq?

  • @PendoraBox
    @PendoraBox 4 года назад +136

    "Can you answer the Alice in the Wonderland riddle?"
    Me: I *wonder* how I'll get confused before the actual riddle start

  • @ValeryValWho
    @ValeryValWho 4 года назад +1213

    Just when Alice was about to lose her head, she remembers the chocolate tablet problem that was around the internet a few years ago...

    • @betka5791
      @betka5791 3 года назад +37

      Oh yeah, that. I ate the chocolate.

    • @tarragon112
      @tarragon112 Год назад +9

      infinite chocolate pog

  • @minhbui6943
    @minhbui6943 4 года назад +139

    Alice at 0:29 : interject the queen without thinking
    Also Alice: solve the whole math problem

  • @DrawBioMed
    @DrawBioMed 4 года назад +3496

    *Students complain geometric is useless outside of school.
    Queen of Hearts: Hold your head❤️

    • @arthurlam751
      @arthurlam751 4 года назад +11

      Thanks for your illustrations.

    • @milesandrews6711
      @milesandrews6711 4 года назад +11

      I mean you can beat this scenario without geometry

    • @javidfarhan1675
      @javidfarhan1675 4 года назад +35

      Yeah , my day job involves following a rabbit into a hole everyday, like many people do.
      Geometry is really useful in this line of work

    • @DrawBioMed
      @DrawBioMed 4 года назад +3

      @@arthurlam751 My pleasure to help the scientists! Happy drawbiomed

    • @naturesgirl6864
      @naturesgirl6864 4 года назад

      It is not😒😔

  • @myowncomputerstuff
    @myowncomputerstuff 4 года назад +111

    If Alice is able to solve this puzzle in three seconds while being dragged to her death, she's clearly a prodigy. No wonder she was so bored of her sister's simple history lesson that she fell asleep.

  • @lexrsnow1111
    @lexrsnow1111 4 года назад +4178

    There's only one problem: how will I explain everything I just saw to the Queen?

    • @lilchristuten7568
      @lilchristuten7568 3 года назад +321

      Tell her there's a visible gap between the soldiers, if they are as big as depicted (the size of humans) then there should be no problem seeing that gap from close up.

    • @rile8001
      @rile8001 3 года назад +159

      Queen be like : Off with her head

    • @thenordicmyth5758
      @thenordicmyth5758 3 года назад +109

      Run as fast as you can while screaming the answer XD

    • @Sate12
      @Sate12 3 года назад +90

      Point at her and scream "you chested b!tch"
      And then RUUUUN

    • @AngelicHalfblood
      @AngelicHalfblood 3 года назад +9

      I thought it was more like a acid trip

  • @patrickdrazen8411
    @patrickdrazen8411 3 года назад +61

    I thought the riddle was going to be: "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?"

  • @heinaghost411
    @heinaghost411 4 года назад +1264

    why is no one talking about the background music? it's a groovy bop

    • @heinaghost411
      @heinaghost411 4 года назад +4

      @Daksh Chauhan there is great background music

    • @Snips.Snails.Fairytales
      @Snips.Snails.Fairytales 4 года назад +20

      It sounds similar to "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane! I wouldn't be surprised if it's on purpose

    • @wtfduud
      @wtfduud 4 года назад

      Man, the bar for what's considered "a bop" has gone down so much.

    • @nunyabiznes33
      @nunyabiznes33 4 года назад +3

      We all inhaled the smoke from the caterpillar's pipe..

    • @erebosd2592
      @erebosd2592 4 года назад +1

      Does anyone know the music's name?

  • @AJDaniels5298
    @AJDaniels5298 3 года назад +45

    "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
    *Because Poe wrote on both*

  • @shinyagumon7015
    @shinyagumon7015 4 года назад +1384

    Since this is Wonderland it's also possible that both are wrong and the true answer is Jabberwocky.

    • @bluecheese8703
      @bluecheese8703 4 года назад +80

      Who is this person who is so wise in the ways of science?

    • @elj955
      @elj955 4 года назад +51

      I aspire to reach your level of wisdom one day

    • @catandcomparator
      @catandcomparator 4 года назад +15

      JIBBERWICKY

    • @SofiaMariaVona
      @SofiaMariaVona 3 года назад

      :D Hi! Concerning the Alice’s world, I think you could like this adaptation played on piano by me, of the Alice’s movie soundtrack, composed by the great Danny Elfman, 😃here it is!👉🏻ruclips.net/video/_QJcwbevE54/видео.html 💚thanks for your attention:)

    • @yueshijoorya601
      @yueshijoorya601 3 года назад +3

      Wow, they really butchered Shiny Agumon with that redesign, huh?

  • @ursa2766
    @ursa2766 4 года назад +7

    the rabbit countdown at 1:52 was so cute

  • @Halaaa15
    @Halaaa15 4 года назад +1101

    * reads title *
    "probably not but I'll give it a try"

    • @calebmurray4438
      @calebmurray4438 4 года назад +25

      This is basically it. This is what all of us do.

    • @SH-vh2bi
      @SH-vh2bi 4 года назад +3

      this was me

    • @05r41
      @05r41 4 года назад +4

      I’d seen it before... which is disappointing bc it means I didn’t get to try it

    • @livingmybetsylife
      @livingmybetsylife 4 года назад +6

      literally me every single time.

    • @fuwa1276
      @fuwa1276 4 года назад +4

      Me with every TedEd riddle

  • @Aozora210
    @Aozora210 2 года назад +14

    Recently I watched a video of a math teacher explaining this problem and while I kinda get it, it didn't clicked for me. The chessboard and the gap is such a wonderful illustration that helps my visual brain to process it better.
    The art is also very cute! Thank you so much for creating this video ❤️

  • @MinityMaths
    @MinityMaths 4 года назад +5

    These riddles are great as starters for Math lessons, they engage students and encourage them to explore various possible solutions based on concepts they have already learnt

  • @rachealx.107
    @rachealx.107 4 года назад +105

    WHen the world needed them the most, Ted-Ed uploaded a riddle.

    • @dhruvsingh34
      @dhruvsingh34 4 года назад +2

      Meanwhile, Twitter
      🐦
      !⃝ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱

    • @catandcomparator
      @catandcomparator 4 года назад +1

      (Atla music plays)

  • @jumaimachowdhury5533
    @jumaimachowdhury5533 2 года назад +12

    I just love that Alice in Wonderland characters are randomly having an argument about numbers 😂

  • @darksilence6930
    @darksilence6930 4 года назад +399

    Nobody:
    Queen of Hearts: OfF WiTh YoUr HeAd

    • @Lheticus
      @Lheticus 4 года назад +8

      That does rather sum her up.

    • @Lheticus
      @Lheticus 4 года назад +1

      @Yinka Vaughan Believe it or not, I didn't actually intend that one! XD A happy little accident, as Bob Ross would say.

    • @Eddie-yv1ix
      @Eddie-yv1ix 4 года назад +2

      You disagree with my knowledge, to the guillotine

    • @jyothish5194
      @jyothish5194 3 года назад +1

      Dance Dance Dance to Death

  • @jarrakul
    @jarrakul 4 года назад +3

    Figured out the slopes thing right away but got stumped trying to figure out how they could possibly be covering the board anyway. Some clarification of the constraints of the question would've been nice, as I didn't think "they aren't" was a valid response.

  • @salt-x4o
    @salt-x4o 4 года назад +291

    Queen: Knows advanced geometry
    Also Queen: Does not 64 and 65 are different.
    Also Queen in 1975: Galileo!

    • @itstomatogear6806
      @itstomatogear6806 4 года назад +3

      Congratulations 🎉👏 of being the top comment 👍😁 (as of now 😈)

    • @random20000
      @random20000 4 года назад +3

      When this comment has more likes that ted-eds comment (FOR NOW)

  • @RGC_animation
    @RGC_animation 4 года назад +49

    Step one: Confirm you have green eye
    Step two: Ask the Queen of heart to leave

  • @mayorstudland2929
    @mayorstudland2929 4 года назад +123

    I was able to solve the riddle but in a different approach.
    Given the Queen's arrangement of the four soldiers, it would seem that a rectangle can be formed. Even if the total area of the four shapes sums up to 64 sq. units and cannot form a shape that's more or less than the mentioned area, there's been cases like the infinite chocolate bar puzzle that beg to differ.
    To check if the 13x5 rectangle is possible, see if the measure of the rectangle's diagonal matches with the sum of the diagonal side of the trapezoid and the hypotenuse of the triangle.
    If one were to look closely at the trapezoid, there is a right triangle within the trapezoid. Split the trapezoid into a 5x3 rectangle and a right triangle with legs 2 and 5. Using the Pythagorean Theorem, the hypotenuse of the right triangle within the trapezoid, which is also the diagonal side of the trapezoid, is sqrt29.
    Now let's take a look at the hypotenuse of the triangles with legs 8 and 3. Using the Pythagorean Theorem once more, we get a hypotenuse of sqrt73.
    Now let's take a look at the diagonal of the supposed 13x5 rectangle. To get the measure of the said diagonal, we use the Pythagorean Theorem again. We get a measure of sqrt194. If the rectangle can be formed with the four soldiers, then the diagonal of the rectangle should be the same as the sum of the hypotenuse of the right triangle solder and the diagonal side of the trapezoid soldier.
    sqrt194 is approximately 13.928
    sqrt29 + sqrt73 is approximately 13.929
    Since the two values above are not equal to each other, the 13x5 rectangle cannot be formed with the four soldiers/shapes. As such, the extra square comes from the gap at the supposed diagonal of the rectangular chessboard as shown in the video.

    • @fuwa1276
      @fuwa1276 4 года назад +5

      Woah

    • @zarapantoja6435
      @zarapantoja6435 4 года назад +5

      tldr

    • @halloooo1duuuuu
      @halloooo1duuuuu 4 года назад +2

      That was exactly how I approached it!

    • @awfuldynne
      @awfuldynne 4 года назад +2

      I found the sum of the areas of the soldiers to determine whether I should look for a surplus or a deficit-or, equivalently, which rectangle contains the error/cheat. (of course it's a gap; overlaps are more obvious)
      Since the external dimensions matched the areas of the rectangles, there had to be a gap between the soldiers within the 5x13 rectangle. The lines running parallel to the sides of the rectangle will fit tightly together regardless, so the only place left for a gap-"are the large triangles really triangles?", check the slopes like Alice. 2/5 ≠ 3/8.
      You know how other methods of finding the solution sort of pop out once you've solved the problem? You could also compare the slopes to the 5/13 of the rectangle's diagonal.

    • @martinpiekarski1512
      @martinpiekarski1512 3 года назад

      Yep, I did it in similar way.

  • @mariatrinitymya8618
    @mariatrinitymya8618 3 года назад +1

    I thought the riddle is about "why is a raven like a writing desk." Ha ha! 😀 😀

  • @Alkalus
    @Alkalus 4 года назад +205

    Ted-Ed: Sure enough, there's a miniscule gap between gap between the triangles and trapezoids...
    Card Soldiers: *cover up the gap when lying down in **1:33*

    • @thundersheild926
      @thundersheild926 4 года назад +41

      If they didn't, it would have been too obvious. Besides, the gap would have been less than a tenth of a square wide at its widest point.

    • @sed1589
      @sed1589 4 года назад +13

      I mean you're supposed to figure that part out though.

    • @thealiker7777
      @thealiker7777 4 года назад +11

      Actually the line is there, I am watching at 720p in my 13 inch, and there is a very light gray line in-between them, u have to be Keen to see that, man animators should have worked real hard on that!!

    • @prerakgames4668
      @prerakgames4668 4 года назад +2

      It's so small we can't see it

    • @PowerStar004
      @PowerStar004 4 года назад +3

      I can see it just fine.
      Granted I'm using a 65 inch TV as a monitor, so it's a lot easier to see at that size.

  • @halloooo1duuuuu
    @halloooo1duuuuu 4 года назад +7

    Great riddle! The recent riddles have been a little boring but now you're back, Ted Ed! I was stuck on this one for a long time and almost gave up but then I did the math. I figured that something must be wrong with ____ (no spoilers here!) and located the issue.
    Besides, what a wonderful story and animation! The Alice in Wonderland theme is a great way to show how miraculous but universally true mathematics are.

  • @what3374
    @what3374 4 года назад +372

    So the queen of hearts is able to have card soldiers that have fibonnaci sequence values as side lengths but can't piece together that 65-1 = 64

    • @roguishpaladin
      @roguishpaladin 4 года назад +42

      It's Wonderland. No one there is logical.

    • @DefnitelyNotFred
      @DefnitelyNotFred 4 года назад +45

      “We’re all mad in here” - says the grin without a cat

    • @NoriMori1992
      @NoriMori1992 4 года назад +26

      She cheated on purpose. She didn't really think that the two numbers are equal.

    • @richardgibson8403
      @richardgibson8403 3 года назад +10

      it’s an advanced technique called “lying”

    • @SofiaMariaVona
      @SofiaMariaVona 3 года назад

      :D Hi! Concerning the Alice’s world, I think you could like this adaptation played on piano by me, of the Alice’s movie soundtrack, composed by the great Danny Elfman, 😃here it is!👉🏻ruclips.net/video/_QJcwbevE54/видео.html 💚thanks for your attention:)

  • @ceydan.3888
    @ceydan.3888 4 года назад +7

    Wow: "One can't believe impossible things." What great advice lol

  • @melontusk7358
    @melontusk7358 4 года назад +96

    People who watched Numberphile's video half a decade ago:
    *Oh this is going to be super easy and should barely be an inconvenience*
    The legends who saw PatrickJMT's lectures on the Maclaurin series and Cantor Set:
    *We're all mad here, but my powers have doubled since the last time we met*
    God-like beings who memorized all the frames in "The Banach Tarski paradox" video by Vsauce a trillion eons ago:
    *More and more curious. All those years of academic training was worth it*

    • @t3rmin8orproduction96
      @t3rmin8orproduction96 4 года назад +5

      All those gods the moment after clicking on this video:
      *Pathetic*

    • @joshuahudson2170
      @joshuahudson2170 4 года назад +2

      What's up with the "The Banach Tarski paradox" that it appears to cheat the law of conservation of energy, and this goes unquestioned?

    • @davidt8087
      @davidt8087 3 года назад

      @@joshuahudson2170 wow i looked everyone to find this paradox and youre the ONLY one who caught up with the fact this girl talking to those recetangles who were secretely smaller than they appeared was actually part of banarch tarski something the video didnt explaina and neither do the LITERAL CHILDREN AKA BABIES ON RUclips ACTUALLY KNOW ABOUT IT EITHER MUCH LESS HAVE A DEVELOPED ENOUGH BRAINAS OF YET TO TRULY GRASP AND UNDERSTAND THE IDEA, CONCEPT, IMPLICATION, DEFINITION, AND JUST IN GENERAL TRULY GRAPS WHAT THE BANACH TARSKI PARADOX EVEN IS

    • @davidt8087
      @davidt8087 3 года назад +1

      @@joshuahudson2170 its just an abstract mathematical concept or idea which using tricky and unnecessary math that would never ever be used in the real world especially by nature or for example gravity or atoms because its just extremely great at being a MASSIVE VIOLATOR OF ALL LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE SUCH AS THE LAWS OF PHYSICS OR ESPECIALLY THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS WHICH STATE THAT ENERGY CANNOT BE CREATED OR DESTROYED, the paradox PRETENDS and seems to imply and give the illusion and to those who are super nerds and mathematicians DESPERATE to have their decades or life's work actually somehow maybe, hopefully be fact somehow or someday or in some place in reality and they completely become DELUDED AS FUK because they TRULY believe due to their MATHS, that the UNIVERSE DOES AND CAN ALLOW YOU TO CUT UP SAY CHOCOLATE IN SUCH A WAY AND REARRANGE IT IN SUCH A WAY THAT YOU SOMEHOW GET YOUR FULL CHOCOLATE BAR BACK PLUS AN EXTRA BAR. Now any sane and normal person would realize this is bs and impossible, but hey, deluded mathematicians will cry and argue otherwise. I wouldnt say it cheats the law of conservaation of energy but rather it goes against the laws of thermodynamics particularly the first law which says energy cant be created or destroyed.

    • @sillygoosetaur
      @sillygoosetaur 2 года назад +2

      hey that’s a ryan george reference! wowowowowow!

  • @frgal1336
    @frgal1336 4 года назад +6

    “Suddenly, Alice remembers her geometry.”
    If only.
    If only...

  • @manasrastogi5948
    @manasrastogi5948 4 года назад +820

    The only riddles which are not of kids level.

    • @barrotem5627
      @barrotem5627 4 года назад +3

      Was the other ones easy for you?

    • @slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447
      @slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 4 года назад +19

      @@barrotem5627 I think that he's talking about all of this channel's riddles

    • @barrotem5627
      @barrotem5627 4 года назад +3

      @@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 Okay. Does this mean the other riddles were easy for them?

    • @slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447
      @slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 4 года назад +43

      @@barrotem5627 other riddles on the internet I would assume
      that's how I understand it : "only ted-ed's riddles are not 'kid level'"

    • @jerometan1631
      @jerometan1631 4 года назад +1

      Yup

  • @PhooPhooMagoo
    @PhooPhooMagoo 4 года назад +8

    Once I realize it's a math riddle, I turn around and thank ted for it's time.

  • @space1607
    @space1607 4 года назад +42

    “64 is the same as 65”
    This is beyond science.

  • @pomegranate_man
    @pomegranate_man 2 года назад +1

    Alice: See’s a minuscule gap
    The gap: *Size of the Grand Canyon*

  • @poweroffriendship2.0
    @poweroffriendship2.0 4 года назад +169

    _"Why is a raven like a writing desk?"_
    *Answer:*

    • @Gunganfan
      @Gunganfan 4 года назад +32

      Poe wrote on both

    • @胖海豹小白
      @胖海豹小白 4 года назад +16

      They both produce notes and the front can nevar be mistaken from the back

    • @gabrielcichysilva4033
      @gabrielcichysilva4033 4 года назад +5

      There is a classical one! I don't have any idea hahahaha

    • @amberbrown5359
      @amberbrown5359 4 года назад +13

      They both produce notes, though they are both very flat

    • @kamille286
      @kamille286 4 года назад +6

      Because both have quills dipped in ink

  • @nakulpanchal6345
    @nakulpanchal6345 4 года назад +1

    Queen : Explain how 64 and 65 are different!
    Alice : ozo

  • @Hacksolotl
    @Hacksolotl 4 года назад +211

    Ted Ed: Can you solve...
    Me: Instantly clicks the video
    *Edit* Wow this is probably my most liked comments, I never expected to have this many! Thank you.

    • @mariocuric6690
      @mariocuric6690 4 года назад +6

      Me: no, but let me see it anyways

    • @michaelroditis1952
      @michaelroditis1952 4 года назад

      Me too I love ted ed 's riddles

    • @dhruvsingh34
      @dhruvsingh34 4 года назад +1

      🐦
      !⃝ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱

    • @Hacksolotl
      @Hacksolotl 4 года назад

      @@mariocuric6690 Yeah.

    • @Hacksolotl
      @Hacksolotl 4 года назад +4

      Wow, thankyou for all those likes :)

  • @adityakumari4088
    @adityakumari4088 Год назад +1

    Easiest one! : Area of two trapeziums- 2{(1/2 x (5+3) x 5}= 40
    Area of two triangles- 2(1/2 x 3 x 8)= 24
    Total are of trapeziums and triangles- 64 which equals the 8x8 chessboard but not the (13x5)=65 chessboard. Damn Easy ♟️

  • @PeterdaPanda
    @PeterdaPanda 4 года назад +15

    This is like the the Chocolate bar trick where you cut it up and remove one piece and when reassembled makes it look like it didn't reduce in size.

  • @user-fi1on9rw6x
    @user-fi1on9rw6x 3 года назад +2

    I'm so happy that I got this one!! My method was different, though. The small angle is 21.03 degrees on the triangle created by the diagonal of the 13*5 rectangle, but the 8*3 triangle had a smaller angle of 20.56 degrees.

  • @Alphaloser1874
    @Alphaloser1874 4 года назад +6

    0:57 As if going in wonderland wasn't weird enough the least you would expect is *four odd looking soldiers* approaching you.

  • @fredflintstoner596
    @fredflintstoner596 3 года назад +1

    Mrs Richards "I paid for a room with a view !"
    Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
    Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
    Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
    Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
    Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
    Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
    Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?

  • @justinhepfer276
    @justinhepfer276 4 года назад +213

    Real answer it's wonderland don't question it

    • @dhruvsingh34
      @dhruvsingh34 4 года назад +8

      🐦
      !⃝ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱

    • @OneNerdyAce
      @OneNerdyAce 4 года назад +1

      THIS IS FRICKEN GOLD

    • @sergiorosales8658
      @sergiorosales8658 3 года назад +1

      Always question your reality

  • @Kittyyy026
    @Kittyyy026 3 года назад +1

    “Answer the riddle or *die* “
    Me who hasn’t gotten to geometry in school: Adios

  • @littletravelblog7589
    @littletravelblog7589 4 года назад +18

    These riddles are always so interesting and I love how they are being presented. I admit, I couldn't solve this riddle by myself, but now I know the explanation and the Fibonacci numbers, so I'll know what to do next time)

  • @Al-Ash
    @Al-Ash 3 года назад +1

    TED-Ed: Can you solve X riddle?
    Me: Nope. I'll just wait for the answer, thank you very much :)

  • @michikomanalang6733
    @michikomanalang6733 4 года назад +70

    B-but... she doesn't have a shrinking potion after the beginning. She's got her mushrooms! (Don't mind me, I'm just salty I can't put math into words)

  • @mannatchaudhary9447
    @mannatchaudhary9447 4 года назад +15

    2:07. There's your answer. The gap is already visible. Alice is mad to not have noticed it.

  • @AkankshaSingh-hx4db
    @AkankshaSingh-hx4db 4 года назад +36

    Ted ed: Can you solve the Alice in Wonderland riddle?
    Me: probably not, but you know I'm gonna watch it anyway.....

  • @brendenchee16
    @brendenchee16 4 года назад +9

    Lewis Carroll is awesome. An awesome author AND mathematician!

  • @zack-ronald259
    @zack-ronald259 4 года назад +63

    step 1: confirm you have green eyes.
    step 2: Ask the diagonal sides to leave.

    • @blueeye2281
      @blueeye2281 4 года назад +4

      Step 2 is what a karen would do.

    • @sukhchain9696
      @sukhchain9696 4 года назад

      uhh ?

    • @icarus3224
      @icarus3224 4 года назад +1

      @@sukhchain9696 It's another video from TED-Ed, the link : ruclips.net/video/98TQv5IAtY8/видео.html

    • @icarus3224
      @icarus3224 4 года назад +3

      I mean the green eyes

    • @sukhchain9696
      @sukhchain9696 4 года назад +1

      @@icarus3224 okay thanks...now i understand the joke

  • @saranimri3536
    @saranimri3536 3 года назад +1

    "can alice wrap her head around what's wrong before she loses it"... That made me laugh and forgot to think about the riddle 😂😂

  • @James_Moton
    @James_Moton 4 года назад +6

    To get the limit solution: (1) Start with a rectangle with an aspect ratio of phi^2 to 1 (2.618:1). (2) Cut the rectangle along the diagonal, so you end up with 2 congruent triangles with the same aspect ratio. (3) Lay the triangles one on top of the another and align them so they appear as one triangle. (4) On the longer side of the triangles, mark a perpendicular line at phi^-1 (0.618) of the way in. (5) Cut the triangles along the marked line. (6) Rearrange the resulting triangles and trapezoids into a square. In the limit case, you should not have any excess or missing material.

  • @randompotato._.7498
    @randompotato._.7498 3 года назад +1

    I love how I thought of this really long and hard but didn't even get close to the answer

  • @maebluejay
    @maebluejay 4 года назад +173

    Let’s be honest:
    You don’t try to solve the riddles
    _You read the comments_

    • @rachealx.107
      @rachealx.107 4 года назад +12

      I thought you were going to say "You wait for the answers then curse yourself for not figuring it out"

    • @archanadesai471
      @archanadesai471 4 года назад

      no

    • @maebluejay
      @maebluejay 4 года назад +1

      @@rachealx.107 yeah that too lmao

    • @highTideWaves
      @highTideWaves 4 года назад +1

      Well for once I know how to solve this one because I've seen something similar lol

    • @CindyFily
      @CindyFily 4 года назад +1

      "1:35, they showed it as if they actually touched. If it had said that there a was gap in between, it would have been more obvious for me. They didn't show the information correctly. I still enjoy this concept though"

  • @martinpiekarski1512
    @martinpiekarski1512 3 года назад

    Yeah, I have also noticed that combination of these diagonal lines adds some lenght. Not sure if my reasoning is right, but what I did is I used a Pitagorean theorem in to measure these diagonal lines. It won't give accurate results, but in short, a hypotenuse of 8 and 3 is a square root of 73, which is around 8,544 and a hypotenuse of 5 and 2 is a sqr of 29 which is around 5,385. When you add up these numbers, you will get ~13,93. As you can notice, it is almost 1 more than the length of the 12 which makes a base length of that second rectangle. Not exact 1, but close enough to give you some idea.

  • @collinlyons4525
    @collinlyons4525 4 года назад +21

    This riddle was, wonderful hehehe

  • @1001SPA
    @1001SPA 4 года назад +2

    4:23 i JUST realized she's doin' tha jazz hands.

  • @destroyerofworlds4663
    @destroyerofworlds4663 4 года назад +15

    This is basically
    *"The Infinite Chocolate Bar Trick"* the question

  • @loganlabbe9767
    @loganlabbe9767 4 года назад +1

    The suggested assumption by the pictures where it tells you to pause is that the shapes perfectly cover the second board, but they dont

  • @blueeye2281
    @blueeye2281 4 года назад +5

    0:15 look that castle also has the face of the queen

  • @antonspivack3928
    @antonspivack3928 4 года назад +2

    At 3:59 the sequence leaves out the second 1.

  • @TheFerretofEarth
    @TheFerretofEarth 4 года назад +50

    Me a being beyond mortals and gods: *Pushes queen into guard* then *drinks shirking potion* and runs into bushes

  • @kushagraverma6456
    @kushagraverma6456 3 года назад +1

    The moment she said "64 is 65" I knew I wont be able to solve the riddle.

  • @pietrosmusi6348
    @pietrosmusi6348 4 года назад +5

    Someone replied that Carol was a mad man when he wrote about his book: but I love how its problem got me so addicted.
    Thank you Ted ed

  • @aryanjoshi3342
    @aryanjoshi3342 4 года назад +2

    Okay I am going to use this comment as a notepad while solving the puzzle because I am on a phone.
    1. The easiest way to prove something wrong, is by seeing what happens if we assume it is right. We can ignore the 8x8 and 5x13 shapes because they both ( if the queen is right ) must be the sum of the 4 shapes so the first step should be to find the area of each one.
    2. The area of both trapezoids are the same as the area of a square and a triangle that form them so it is equal to (5x3)+1/2(5x2)=15+5=20 square units each. Also The area of the triangles are 1/2(8x3)=12
    3. The total area of the shapes is 20+20+12+12= 64 making it clear that the queen is cheating in the 65 grid. In the 65 x 65 grid, there is a clear diagonal line that runs from 2 corners. If the queen is true, the. The sum of the area of the trapezoid and the triangle is half of 65. But half of 65 is 32.5 and the sum of the 2 pieces are 32 clearly proving that the pieces do not exactly equal 65
    4. Now with all this evidence, all that is left is to find the location of the missing square. Clearly the trickery is inside the diagonal line that divides the 2 sections of the shape. I think that the missing square is somewhere in the middle of the line, I am not sure where. I am pretty confused here and am going to stop now
    Edit: OH MY GOD WHY DIDNT I THINK ABOUT THE SLOPE I WAS SO CLOSE

  • @lenlenlen6152
    @lenlenlen6152 4 года назад +15

    Ted ed: Can you solve-
    Me: No. No, I can't

  • @imeldasuryanti2335
    @imeldasuryanti2335 4 года назад

    0:30 Alice and the queen arguing about numbers
    Also Alice: draws a parralelogram

  • @blueeye2281
    @blueeye2281 4 года назад +5

    I couldn't solve the riddle but learnt something new.
    It's 'ch' as in 'choke', not like 'ch' as in 'school' in Fibonacci.

  • @marshall7439
    @marshall7439 3 года назад

    I should be coming for the riddles.
    I came for the art direction.
    God that Alice design is like
    perfect.

  • @s-b9ifjry7732
    @s-b9ifjry7732 3 года назад +12

    The situation is hilarious when you think about it.
    Queen: 64 is 65!
    Alice: No!
    Queen: _So you have chosen death_

  • @Quadraxis
    @Quadraxis 3 года назад +1

    "You cannot believe the impossible." said Lewis Carrol, and proceeded to write the hardest acid trip known to man.

  • @haziqfawwad3490
    @haziqfawwad3490 4 года назад +3

    This is one of those situations where your math teacher will say ......
    SHOW ME YOUR WORK!

  • @crunchybubblewrap
    @crunchybubblewrap 4 года назад +1

    Alice: Hold on and give me five seconds to figure this out.
    The queen: happens to say ok.

  • @thehappysuma3067
    @thehappysuma3067 4 года назад +5

    Sherlock Holmes: exists
    Me who manages to solve the riddle: I’m about to end this man’s whole career

  • @martinpiekarski1512
    @martinpiekarski1512 3 года назад +1

    Mindblowing fact: this equation b^2=ac+1 does not only pertain to fibonacci numbers but to each and every squared natural number. If you try it, you will see that no matter of the natural number you have, odd or even, when raised to the power of two, is the same as the multiplication of its two adjacent natural numbers plus one. So, in order to calculate a square root of a given number, you can either multiply it by itself or use this formula here.

  • @swagathon6967
    @swagathon6967 4 года назад +4

    Damn, didn’t know Alice had the ability to perfectly mesure the length of geometrical shapes and calculate equations straight out of her mind . Could have served purpose in the films .....

  • @김혜임-c9i
    @김혜임-c9i 4 года назад

    I really enjoyed the background music and the riddle was quite fun!!!

  • @tosay9858
    @tosay9858 4 года назад +3

    Ariana Grande: 34, 35.
    Queen of Hearts: 64, 65.

  • @pekuja
    @pekuja 4 года назад +2

    I enjoy these videos, and I'm sure people have pointed out this before, but aren't these "riddles" more puzzles or math problems than riddles? For me a riddle is a kind of conundrum where the answer is obvious once revealed and the challenge is really in understanding the riddle's framework, as they're usually using unusual language to describe the conundrum.

  • @dhruvsingh34
    @dhruvsingh34 4 года назад +5

    👶🏻 KIDS are SOLVING RIDDLES
    😉 LEGENDS waiting for PAUL RUDD
    😁

  • @monochromeart7311
    @monochromeart7311 4 года назад

    the quote at the start fits the book "No Game No Life" so well

  • @ternence2000
    @ternence2000 4 года назад +4

    I almost gave up,
    but the faith of believing in science eventually let me solve this riddle.
    Good video👏

  • @tardisgirl1237
    @tardisgirl1237 3 года назад +1

    Who else clicked on this video expecting to figure out Why a raven is like a writing desk?
    But instead, all they got is maths homework!

  • @PvblivsAelivs
    @PvblivsAelivs 4 года назад +6

    "I dare say you haven't had much practice. When I was your age, I used to believe six impossible things before breakfast."
    What is truly sad is that he used the pen name Lewis Carroll in his fictional works to disassociate them with his work in the mathematical profession. Instead, the name of Charles Dodgson has almost been lost.

  • @thelastking6266
    @thelastking6266 3 года назад +1

    Alice should have exchanged her 64 gold coins for 65 gold coins with the queen. Then the queen would have known 64 ≠ 65.

  • @eggyolk6735
    @eggyolk6735 4 года назад +7

    Nobody did this yet so here I go:
    Confirm to the queen that your eyes are green and get out

  • @smileydream.4033
    @smileydream.4033 4 года назад

    FINALLY A TED ED RIDDLE I WAS ABLE TO SOLVE WITHIN THEIR TIME FRAME & BEFORE THEY EXPLAIN IT

  • @acedreamer2004
    @acedreamer2004 3 года назад +4

    1:47
    I can't figure out the answer, because I'm terrible at math, but I'm guessing the answer is similar to the "infinity chocolate bar" trick

  • @Kairikey
    @Kairikey 4 года назад +2

    This one is kinda easy when you second guess how the slope would continue from each shapes. I love how this riddle needs Alice in Wonderland. It's fitting! Another thing I love is the secret of fibonacci numbers that make this puzzle possible.