Can you solve the vampire hunter riddle? - Dan Finkel

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  • Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2024

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  • @cicada.and.pomegranate
    @cicada.and.pomegranate 5 лет назад +7609

    this is basically the DVD screensaver as a riddle

  • @Rose-ez9vf
    @Rose-ez9vf 4 года назад +5743

    Mufasa: “Any point the light touches will be even or odd”
    Simba: “what”

  • @darealmrman2266
    @darealmrman2266 3 года назад +1195

    "There is no time to draw the line"
    "Let's draw a grid"
    Wait a damn minute...

    • @zacharyshelton1336
      @zacharyshelton1336 2 года назад +18

      right? wtf... also, right after he explained some of the grid, I realized right after my answer was wrong and it is actually very simple to figure out. If he hadn't said the answer was a simple solution I probably could have guessed the right answer... that's why I'm mad. good riddle though reminds me of the DVD logo bouncing off the sides of a tv

    • @ralphschraven339
      @ralphschraven339 2 года назад +20

      The grid is just there for visualization purposes. You could "draw" it in your head, or simply leave it out and explain the answer using parity to explain the same concept.

    • @wobblyorbee279
      @wobblyorbee279 2 года назад +2

      @@ralphschraven339 yes. exactly, you dont even have to draw the grid in your head,
      *you can just.*

    • @Cobra97917
      @Cobra97917 2 года назад +1

      Well you could have done all this before going there…

    • @sxlproductions
      @sxlproductions Год назад +2

      ​@@Cobra97917 you know what else I could have done before going there or do it RIGHT THERE? Drawing a line that bounces across the walls

  • @SKfilming
    @SKfilming 4 года назад +8294

    "you only have minutes before the sun is in position"
    "alright. let me pull out a ruler and make a grid"

    • @sheeloesreallycool
      @sheeloesreallycool 4 года назад +260

      *writing* Go back down sun, thanks. *continues*

    • @senaahasan5182
      @senaahasan5182 4 года назад +91

      @The Gamist
      "What? Dude,I don't care if millions are dying from hypothermia,can you see what we're doing?"

    • @nadian848
      @nadian848 4 года назад +6

      Lol

    • @stressedbyamountainofbooks
      @stressedbyamountainofbooks 4 года назад +13

      @Nuby29 no he just need to wait the light and place diffuser on that place

    • @dude6935
      @dude6935 4 года назад +47

      @@stressedbyamountainofbooks Actually, the rooms reflective walls are kinda already a diffuser.

  • @samnesium2003
    @samnesium2003 5 лет назад +2516

    I honestly don't know why I keep watching these riddles. Every single one of these riddles I thought I could solve but then switched off my phone and felt dumber than ever.

    • @pilotpuntastic6513
      @pilotpuntastic6513 5 лет назад +176

      These feel less like a riddles and more like intricate math problems framed to be mistaken for a riddle

    • @ifyourereplyingtomycomment1941
      @ifyourereplyingtomycomment1941 5 лет назад +30

      Yeah same here, they all involve math and I'm no good when it comes to math :')

    • @brrmbrrmm
      @brrmbrrmm 5 лет назад +29

      i could relate,but was found shooketh when i realized i got this one correct
      i was like:
      hmmmm corners corners corners...
      so the light bounces at a whatever degree angle? okay...
      those other corners seem to be too far,ill just with south east bcuz my gut trusts it too
      and bam

    • @lucania101710
      @lucania101710 4 года назад +37

      Yeah, these are math problems, not riddles

    • @Arakasi22
      @Arakasi22 4 года назад +6

      Don't put it up, have a vampire bite me and then live forever while vanquishing my enemies.

  • @matrixphijr
    @matrixphijr 3 года назад +3192

    Vampires: *Hate sunlight*
    Also vampires: *Build lair with perfectly smooth, metallic walls that infinitely reflect light*

    • @miriga3927
      @miriga3927 3 года назад +70

      Really though, I thought they used cobblestone

    • @tonyblake7569
      @tonyblake7569 3 года назад +106

      That would actually make sense. The only reason the sunlight reached there was the mirrors he placed on the way there so normally they don't have to worry about that. Since it gets no natural light they probably would use candles or torches so having walls like that would allow a few to light up the entire room.

    • @Nikku4211
      @Nikku4211 3 года назад +31

      If the vampires built the lair, why would they use coffins instead of beds?
      Yes, I know they're reanimated corpses, but they're reanimated, so wouldn't they want something more comfortable?

    • @tina.tina1
      @tina.tina1 3 года назад +30

      @@Nikku4211 because they only go out in the night, and even if some day-light go into their cave, they are still protected by their coffins

    • @RyanGerhardtYimimoto
      @RyanGerhardtYimimoto 2 года назад +19

      @@Nikku4211 if you go by classic lore like Bram Stoker's Dracula, they can only rest in unholy earth of thier homeland or place of burial. Coffins are good for that.

  • @LasTCursE69
    @LasTCursE69 5 лет назад +3483

    *Puts diffuser in the right spot*
    *Clouds block the sun*
    FML..

  • @Alfwed
    @Alfwed 5 лет назад +9712

    We only have minutes before the sunlight reached the room. “Let’s draw a coordinate graph.”

    • @Antonio_611
      @Antonio_611 5 лет назад +874

      every respectable vampire hunter has a grid paper in his pocket

    • @ahmedal-saeedi5988
      @ahmedal-saeedi5988 5 лет назад +153

      Wellll tbf they were only showing u how it works with the grid 😅 Like you didn't need to draw anything to figure out the coordinates of the three points

    • @studiousboy644
      @studiousboy644 5 лет назад +45

      I suppose you have no imaging capacity then? Also vampire hunters keep every mathematical tool.

    • @ipizza9941
      @ipizza9941 5 лет назад +26

      It was just so we could understand, some people could have done it in seconds.

    • @SylasTheGreat
      @SylasTheGreat 5 лет назад +18

      @@studiousboy644 Why so negative?

  • @thekoolquintents6770
    @thekoolquintents6770 3 года назад +556

    People: " why do we have to learn angles?"
    Ted ed: "for vampire hunting silly!"

    • @soeunj1108
      @soeunj1108 Год назад +7

      Tbh vampire hunting sounds more motivational it comes to studying

  • @jukkasaarinen35
    @jukkasaarinen35 5 лет назад +1356

    Finally, i can use math to count in what point does the dvd hit the corner

    • @carlosibay3900
      @carlosibay3900 5 лет назад +1

      Jukka Saarinen yes

    • @parkerglenn9317
      @parkerglenn9317 5 лет назад +64

      This is the finest use of this knowledge ever conceived.

    • @jacrooki9560
      @jacrooki9560 5 лет назад +10

      An intellectual using internet culture and geometry

    • @yvonnienatasha1010
      @yvonnienatasha1010 5 лет назад +1

      Intellectual.

    • @pi17
      @pi17 5 лет назад +2

      Oh you do remember those!!!

  • @mohdsyafiqsapawi9190
    @mohdsyafiqsapawi9190 5 лет назад +1441

    'You don't have lot of time...''
    *Proceeds to drawing a coordinate graph*

    • @nelsonnoname001
      @nelsonnoname001 5 лет назад +1

      Lmao Thank you! Yes

    • @Richie_P
      @Richie_P 5 лет назад +20

      I'm pretty sure the sun is going to rise again tomorrow, so you have as much time as you want.

    • @nelsonnoname001
      @nelsonnoname001 5 лет назад +3

      Pretty sure you don't, you go into the lair min before sunrise, darrr darr

    • @niquel5831
      @niquel5831 5 лет назад +5

      Coordinate graph is just to illustrate how to reach the solution, you don't need it at all.

    • @donttrustnoone3921
      @donttrustnoone3921 5 лет назад

      Ikr

  • @icantthinkofaname8139
    @icantthinkofaname8139 3 года назад +297

    Walls: are crowded with coffins
    Also walls: perfectly reflective at every point

    • @garvgupta3567
      @garvgupta3567 Год назад +7

      the coffins are lower the diffuser is higher

  • @w.5655
    @w.5655 5 лет назад +2370

    You have no time to spare
    _Let's draw the room in coordinates_

    • @alilweeb7684
      @alilweeb7684 5 лет назад +23

      I was thinking that

    • @zerotolerance280
      @zerotolerance280 5 лет назад +8

      Lmao true

    • @vinayranga2211
      @vinayranga2211 5 лет назад +12

      You don't need coordinates of the whole room, just the coordinates of the corners, which is given as you know the dimensions of the room.

    • @memetic.trojan.objprime238
      @memetic.trojan.objprime238 5 лет назад +4

      Yeah this is actually pretty intuitive and simple, I solved it within 1 bathroom run.

    • @jaynor9885
      @jaynor9885 5 лет назад

      @@alilweeb7684 oof ikr

  • @ABM_GD
    @ABM_GD 3 года назад +3201

    “The walls are covered in coffins”
    10 seconds later
    “The light will bounce off the room’s perfectly smooth metallic walls”
    Hold up...

    • @aldoorymahagoub3951
      @aldoorymahagoub3951 3 года назад +273

      The coffins are made of smooth metal to make sure no light enters the coffin and disturbs the vampires

    • @three3ofspades610
      @three3ofspades610 3 года назад +113

      @@aldoorymahagoub3951 The problem is it gets uncomfortably hot in the summer, probably

    • @aldoorymahagoub3951
      @aldoorymahagoub3951 3 года назад +33

      @MARTIN OLLO VAL the coffins are parts of the walls
      The wall is caved so you can perfectly place a coffin in the gaps

    • @lisahenry20
      @lisahenry20 3 года назад +20

      @@three3ofspades610 I don't think it would. The light is only entering the chamber because of the mirrors you've put in place. My grandad has a metal shed which is freezing cold the times I've been in there in the morning, so if the coffins work similarly, they will probably be even colder, since they would have been out of the sunlight for much longer than just a night.

    • @javierlatorre480
      @javierlatorre480 3 года назад +13

      The way it's shown, the coffins cover only the bottom halves of the walls, and the light travels horizontally overhead

  • @PhantomSavage
    @PhantomSavage 3 года назад +474

    This is one of those things where you think the answer is actually really clever and out of the box, and in actuality its just a graph and math problem our vampire hunter manages to write out and completely solve in a "few short minutes"...

    • @LucksackGames
      @LucksackGames 2 года назад +27

      The thing that always shocks me is it feels like it would take more than just a few minutes to go ahead and draw that line haha, that he said you didn't have time for.

    • @thisusedtobemyrealname7876
      @thisusedtobemyrealname7876 2 года назад +13

      Has only few minutes: "let me just draw this coordinate grid first."

    • @LucksackGames
      @LucksackGames 2 года назад +8

      @@thisusedtobemyrealname7876 You can't draw 281 logical solutions in 30 seconds? Me neither. Random guessing will be my default too!

    • @gabriel7932
      @gabriel7932 2 года назад +2

      @@thisusedtobemyrealname7876 the grid was for explanation

    • @MarsJenkar
      @MarsJenkar Год назад +8

      The thing is that you don't actually need the grid to figure out the answer. It was just there for illustration. Once TED-Ed explained that a diagonal line would always travel through coordinates that were both even or both odd after it emerged from (0,0), I knew what the answer had to be given the dimensions of the room.

  • @josephmanning2129
    @josephmanning2129 5 лет назад +914

    Don’t worry, I got this. I’ve watched the DVD screensaver for hours on end.

    • @tapio_m6861
      @tapio_m6861 5 лет назад +6

      Like on the office

    • @autumn4442
      @autumn4442 5 лет назад +12

      @@tapio_m6861 Why do people always reference the office when someone mentions the DVD screensaver? Do most people only know of the DVD screensaver nowadays because of the office? I've never seen the office.

    • @aditya95sriram
      @aditya95sriram 5 лет назад +1

      @@autumn4442 ruclips.net/video/QOtuX0jL85Y/видео.html

    • @CoolGuy-xm1wm
      @CoolGuy-xm1wm 5 лет назад

      Bet you didn't miss that ..🎶

    • @Clandhad
      @Clandhad 5 лет назад

      I was waiting for someone to say that

  • @VladCodY
    @VladCodY 4 года назад +1734

    there are 2 cool things about these clips:
    1. the riddle itself
    2. the comment section

    • @alishayin4279
      @alishayin4279 4 года назад +22

      And then you realize your comment is better than the riddle...

    • @luchacha9428
      @luchacha9428 4 года назад +5

      Problem, I’m in the comment section

    • @lily-ts4tu
      @lily-ts4tu 4 года назад +5

      @@alishayin4279 Now there are three cool things about these clips XD

    • @alishayin4279
      @alishayin4279 4 года назад +1

      @@lily-ts4tu lol

    • @villagecommenter8262
      @villagecommenter8262 3 года назад +1

      3. green eyes

  • @yoursleepparalysisdemon1828
    @yoursleepparalysisdemon1828 4 года назад +553

    “Strike your diffuser”
    Bruh that’s a disco ball

  • @ninahuang6719
    @ninahuang6719 5 лет назад +5524

    step one: bring 3 diffusers
    step two: figure out why you look like a tomato

  • @ltymchenko613
    @ltymchenko613 4 года назад +1560

    By the time the light hits the disco ball, the light has basically already lit the whole room😂😂

    • @Ebin-ix2jg
      @Ebin-ix2jg 3 года назад +48

      Its a diffuser but disco ball will work i guess😂🌚

    • @TheDreamLeaf
      @TheDreamLeaf 3 года назад +55

      I was thinking the exact same thing lol. Diffuser not necessary when vampires have a brain freeze and make their walls smooth metal

    • @ikeandroy7
      @ikeandroy7 3 года назад +1

      @Motorsoul ss
      Il
      L
      L li

    • @iluvmilktea3224
      @iluvmilktea3224 3 года назад +1

      True

    • @buildertherobloxian4731
      @buildertherobloxian4731 3 года назад +1

      But that’s before the Coffins are Open.

  • @letsplaysquire3257
    @letsplaysquire3257 3 года назад +92

    "the light reflects off the smooth metallic walls"
    WTF! I don't even need this diffuser!

    • @aprinnyonbreak1290
      @aprinnyonbreak1290 3 года назад +4

      Well. The vampires put all their coffins at points with 1 even coordinate and one odd coordinate, so it's fine. The light will never strike them unless it gets diffused somehow.

  • @Macapta
    @Macapta 5 лет назад +782

    if the beam of light bounces around the room at so many different angles is there even a point to that diffuser?
    looks like the beam filled the whole room as it is lol

    • @runasfastasyoucan
      @runasfastasyoucan 5 лет назад +10

      That what I was thinking!

    • @aMxx-
      @aMxx- 5 лет назад +1

      Same

    • @pj18tires8
      @pj18tires8 5 лет назад +10

      Yes you need it. Light will bounce around the room at so many different angles in less than 1 second before it exits through the southeast corner. Chances are it won’t hit any of the vampires as they will be barely getting out of their coffins.

    • @TheLongBow
      @TheLongBow 5 лет назад

      He should have said ray of light

    • @Emily12471
      @Emily12471 3 года назад +1

      @@pj18tires8 wake them up first

  • @kokodragostinovdragostinov8754
    @kokodragostinovdragostinov8754 5 лет назад +657

    Now I have the ultimate power to predict which corner the DvD screensaver will hit.

    • @davep8282
      @davep8282 5 лет назад +13

      Haaaaaaaa! I was going to make a similar comment. I don't think that thing ever hit any corner!

    • @johnsjunk9157
      @johnsjunk9157 5 лет назад +1

      haha

    • @kruzerblade4740
      @kruzerblade4740 5 лет назад +1

      Lol nice

    • @carltonblend
      @carltonblend 5 лет назад

      WOW SO MANY LIKES

    • @lizalaagan3088
      @lizalaagan3088 5 лет назад +2

      I have seen it hit after frickkin 2 hours of just watching it idk what i was thinking

  • @-Offstar
    @-Offstar 3 года назад +111

    "You only have minutes before the sun is in position"
    Proceeds to measure the entire room rounded to the closest meter, create a to scale grid of the room, and then figure out where the light will end up. Yeah seems quick, simple, and elegant to me.

    • @tonyblake7569
      @tonyblake7569 3 года назад +4

      Went to city hall before and got the blueprints.

    • @tina.tina1
      @tina.tina1 3 года назад

      And you have a big chance to fail, because it will be possible to have all 3 corners with even numbers.

    • @arcticdraco6560
      @arcticdraco6560 2 года назад +2

      Also, he said that they "didn't have time" to do the EXACT SAME THING.

  • @BobMcCoy
    @BobMcCoy 5 лет назад +2671

    *_Dracula has left the chat_*

  • @ElliottDenizen
    @ElliottDenizen 5 лет назад +531

    If the entire room is metallic what is the purpose of the light diffuser? Shouldn't the the room glow with mirrors on all sides.

    • @ciocio-san
      @ciocio-san 5 лет назад +23

      elliott diaz No. There were parts of the room that couldn't be touched by the sunlight.

    • @dairypig
      @dairypig 5 лет назад +39

      SasswaterOceans yes, but vampires are not small enough to fit in them

    • @astrellxvoide
      @astrellxvoide 5 лет назад +4

      That's impossible, the metallic walls are covered by vampire coffins.

    • @fancylamp_
      @fancylamp_ 5 лет назад

      The light is not bright enough

    • @natnew32
      @natnew32 5 лет назад +3

      The light only bounces at a specific height, presumably above their heads.

  • @sophiesmith9300
    @sophiesmith9300 4 года назад +119

    "Alrighty gotta set these up for tomorrow morning"
    Vampires: Cool I guess we'll sleep at night then

    • @omegastar2508
      @omegastar2508 3 года назад +1

      They partied too hard and slept in

  • @fluffyface4449
    @fluffyface4449 4 года назад +730

    Wait I go into the vampire lair and set everything up in the middle of the night for the next morning.
    Wouldn’t they be awake at night.

  • @laxxayy
    @laxxayy 5 лет назад +501

    Is it a reference to DVD screensaver meme?

    • @weedfarmer5633
      @weedfarmer5633 5 лет назад +4

      same thing I first thought of

    • @dingypt
      @dingypt 5 лет назад +4

      Yes, i was thinking the exact same thing!!

    • @wariolandgoldpiramid
      @wariolandgoldpiramid 5 лет назад +5

      Not a reference at all, it's just a typical math problem.

    • @Selas81
      @Selas81 5 лет назад +1

      Yay I am like #100 on this comment

    • @mangor8543
      @mangor8543 5 лет назад

      This

  • @nocturnalkoala8870
    @nocturnalkoala8870 4 года назад +1449

    Step 1: confirm that the vampires have green eyes
    Step 2: let them live in peace

    • @baloch78
      @baloch78 4 года назад +1

      Nocturnal Koala 🤣

    • @rafhaelgonzales3436
      @rafhaelgonzales3436 4 года назад +39

      finally a green eye comment
      could have been more funny in my opinion

    • @vaivs7903
      @vaivs7903 4 года назад +12

      Ok this is the second time i read a "green eyes" comment. Where does it come from?

    • @rafhaelgonzales3436
      @rafhaelgonzales3436 4 года назад +37

      @@vaivs7903 its just another riddle from ted ed called the green eyes riddle.its referenced in every ted ed riddles

    • @amountedak9246
      @amountedak9246 4 года назад +3

      I have been rewatching a lot and im glad to see that this is now a thing.

  • @stormysamreen7062
    @stormysamreen7062 5 лет назад +492

    How can the light entering from the SW corner bounce off the "perfectly smooth, metallic walls" if the walls are covered with coffins?

    • @Green24152
      @Green24152 5 лет назад +26

      it comes in ABOVE the coffins, dingus

    • @raahilkhan1004
      @raahilkhan1004 5 лет назад +47

      If the light comes from above the coffins then why is there a limit for the places u can put the diffuser

    • @natz3284
      @natz3284 5 лет назад +46

      @@raahilkhan1004 they already said the hunter doesnt dare distueb the coffins i.e. climb them to reach the higher points of the walls presumably

    • @raahilkhan1004
      @raahilkhan1004 5 лет назад +5

      @@natz3284 ahhh okay.

    • @Aaron_Walker_011
      @Aaron_Walker_011 5 лет назад +11

      Wish he bought a ladder along, that'd save more time than the coordinate graph.

  • @saumyashah7978
    @saumyashah7978 5 лет назад +538

    Why not just flood the room with garlic?

    • @tiantian329
      @tiantian329 5 лет назад +58

      Nice joke, but I’m a smart aleck so I have to intervene.
      The video specifically says that the greatest *challenge* was to use mirrors to kill a vampire. The hunter probably did it as a dare or for fame.

    • @jacobh.264
      @jacobh.264 5 лет назад +22

      Garlic repells not kills

    • @adamzero_
      @adamzero_ 5 лет назад +1

      how else can you know your dvd is on? you need the screensaver

    • @gearshift7174
      @gearshift7174 5 лет назад

      Sunlight burns not kills stakes kill

    • @ianmeyermarietta4328
      @ianmeyermarietta4328 5 лет назад +5

      Have you ever seen a Belmont use garlic

  • @justinmontana3710
    @justinmontana3710 3 года назад +16

    I just wanna say that the animation of the light bouncing off the walls at the end is really satisfying

  • @lancelindlelee7256
    @lancelindlelee7256 5 лет назад +374

    1. What Vampire would build their walls with reflective surface.
    2. By the time sunlight reaches the point, it would be severely weakened anyway.

    • @puraasu
      @puraasu 5 лет назад +36

      1:37 Read rule 3. “The light will not get stuck in a loop, *dim* or get blocked by other objects in the room.”

    • @hurktang
      @hurktang 5 лет назад +23

      @@puraasu yeah but the riddle also say "sun light" not laser. The light will travel a total distance of 5400m and bounce once on every 2m worth of wall. So if the light beam angle is 0.02122 degree the whole room will be illuminated. The angular size of the sun from earth is 0.53° so indeed (this i push my research too far lol), the room is all illuminated.

    • @hammadibrahim39
      @hammadibrahim39 5 лет назад +2

      @@hurktang how did you get 5400 m (plus all the other numbers)? Just curious

    • @hurktang
      @hurktang 5 лет назад +3

      @@hammadibrahim39 I figured the laser would bounce every 2m of north south wall so a total of 49 time. So it travel east to west 49 time 78m = 3822m. That the east to west travel, so you multiply by sin(45) = sqrt(2) . 3822*1.4142 = ~5405m.

    • @handsomeharold4698
      @handsomeharold4698 4 года назад +2

      the sun would stay at the good angle for a bit. and the speed of light is speed

  • @porscheman998
    @porscheman998 5 лет назад +294

    I never would have guessed that.
    I heard the announcer say “simple and elegant”. To me drawing a coordinate would not fall under the former category!

    • @rhowenbelisario5780
      @rhowenbelisario5780 4 года назад +2

      Lol. Same thought sis

    • @grahampcharles
      @grahampcharles 4 года назад +10

      You wouldn’t need to draw a coordinate grid - only to realize that odd, odd or even, even are the only possibilities. The narrator only presents the coordinate grid to explain this realization.

    • @daerdevvyl4314
      @daerdevvyl4314 4 года назад +1

      Crow Okay, think of each number as “how far to the east are we” and “how far to the north are we”. So the spot where the sunlight comes in is (0,0) because it hasn’t gone anywhere. Now, it’s always going to be going diagonal. He showed this with a graph, but you can think of it with a chess or checkerboard. If you try it out, you’ll see that when you start out at (0,0) and always go diagonal the two numbers will always be both odd (you’ve gone an odd number north from the corner, but also an odd number east of the corner) or both numbers will be even. So when you look at the 3 corners, they’re
      NW: 0,49 This is because it’s 0 metres east of the starting point and 49 metres north.
      NE: 78,49
      SE: 78,0
      And remember, for the light to reach that spot both numbers have to be odd or both have to be even. So the SE corner is the only possibility.

    • @yourmomisgay377
      @yourmomisgay377 4 года назад

      😂😂😂

    • @j.r.1210
      @j.r.1210 4 года назад +1

      @@grahampcharles No one thinks of a room in terms of x,y coordinates without having a coordinate grid to map onto the room.

  • @simaogoncalves07
    @simaogoncalves07 4 года назад +28

    Finally, all those years watching the DVD logo boucing on the TV.

  • @lemondragon18
    @lemondragon18 5 лет назад +128

    If the beam of light has to bounce off the walls that much just to reach the diffuser, wouldn't the room already be lit up with sunlight? You pretty much don't even need the diffuser. Also, unless the sun is emitting a perfect laser beam, there is no way a beam of sunlight is going to perfectly bounce off the room's walls that much before hitting the diffuser.

    • @Sarah-rf5rj
      @Sarah-rf5rj 5 лет назад +4

      The light only passes through certain coordinates, I think you'll still need a diffuser to hit every single nook and cranny.

    • @danielb3573
      @danielb3573 5 лет назад +16

      S. S. If the beam has to travel that much to get to the corner, then there would be no point in mounting the diffuser on the wall because the light would diffuse completely, once it hit the first wall. Which in turn would keep the room completely dark.

    • @Silverizael
      @Silverizael 5 лет назад +3

      The beam of light is at the top of the room, far above the vampires in their coffin (which is why it's hitting the metal walls. You need the diffuser to send that light down to the floor level.

    • @Pineapply_Queen
      @Pineapply_Queen 5 лет назад +4

      I don't think you're supposed to be taking these riddles at face value; the stories just set the stage for the brain teasers the videos are _really_ about.

    • @thomasr.jackson2940
      @thomasr.jackson2940 5 лет назад

      Not within the constraints of the puzzle.

  • @leezhengjie6958
    @leezhengjie6958 5 лет назад +289

    It's the SE corner. How do I get my answer? Guts, the fastest answer solver.

    • @wuvvy6122
      @wuvvy6122 5 лет назад +9

      guts can save you forever

    • @elizabethp.7354
      @elizabethp.7354 5 лет назад +12

      I guessed correctly. Whenever there’s an option like for a b or c I always pick the right one but when I have to invent questions to ask alien gods I’m screwed

    • @moniquewilliams3560
      @moniquewilliams3560 5 лет назад

      omg sameeee

    • @iljaradenkovs7150
      @iljaradenkovs7150 4 года назад

      The comment is edited, meaning he probably got it wrong and changed it

  • @kevinmoy3752
    @kevinmoy3752 3 года назад +57

    Honestly thought the answer would be, "the walls already reflect the light infinitely in the description, so you dont even need the mirror"

    • @tonyblake7569
      @tonyblake7569 3 года назад +1

      My thought is when it hits that corner it would bounce back the way it came so wouldn't keep on going.

    • @kevinmoy3752
      @kevinmoy3752 3 года назад +1

      @@tonyblake7569 That would be true for polarized light

  • @chaskaconcar-tavares1358
    @chaskaconcar-tavares1358 5 лет назад +520

    You could just stand in the center of the room facing the light with the defuser in your hand

    • @archetype101
      @archetype101 5 лет назад +90

      Oh. THEN WHAT THE HECK DID I GET A DEGREE IN MATHEMATICS FOR?!?!

    • @MiyuTheFallenAngel
      @MiyuTheFallenAngel 5 лет назад +20

      That’s exactly what I said XD

    • @MichaelKondrashin
      @MichaelKondrashin 5 лет назад +17

      @That one friend that genuinely enjoys Rick Astley all was are reflective ;)

    • @AA-gw7hd
      @AA-gw7hd 5 лет назад +13

      Ye, but he says that the diffuser has to be wall mounted

    • @MrSasukeSusanoo
      @MrSasukeSusanoo 5 лет назад +1

      But if you're holding the difuser who will kill the vampires? You know that not all of them will die right? :v the strongest one almost never dies instantly, it will kill you before being ashes while you're holding the difuser

  • @doiu92
    @doiu92 5 лет назад +152

    This Riddle: * Exists *
    *The People Who Watched The DVD Screensaver: "Where have I seen this before?"*

  • @swifttech3602
    @swifttech3602 4 года назад +61

    Nobody:
    Lisa Lisa: lol imagine needing mirrors.

    • @aprofessionalgamer5355
      @aprofessionalgamer5355 4 года назад +2

      ?

    • @swifttech3602
      @swifttech3602 4 года назад +4

      @@aprofessionalgamer5355 i'm guessing u never watched jojo's bizzare adventure.

    • @aprofessionalgamer5355
      @aprofessionalgamer5355 4 года назад +3

      @@swifttech3602 N I C E !

    • @asterism343
      @asterism343 4 года назад +4

      Aha! I knew it! I knew there would be JoJo reference somewhere around here.

    • @여김명란-z1s
      @여김명란-z1s 4 года назад +1

      No time at all draw a complex drawing
      Me:what the

  • @iamtheone-mt3bu
    @iamtheone-mt3bu 4 года назад +361

    I’ve literally been binge watching these.

  • @NewbyTon
    @NewbyTon 5 лет назад +410

    *_THE SUN IS A DEADLY LASER_*

  • @dootdoodle569
    @dootdoodle569 4 года назад +53

    The room is covered with coffins
    The light perfectly bounces off the walls
    Where the muffin does the light bounce off of and why can’t I put the ball there?!

    • @mgt7728
      @mgt7728 4 года назад

      If you were to put the ball on the side instead of the corner, the angle of the ball would not be the right angle because it is facing straight. But the riddle requires the ball to face 45 degrees.

    • @jellytomlinson3850
      @jellytomlinson3850 3 года назад

      Actually I think he means that the coffins are stacked on the ground. To put the disco ball on the wall means crawling on the coffins.

  • @dzula7368
    @dzula7368 5 лет назад +425

    *it's my first Ted video and i feel blessed with knowledge*

    • @MinhVu-yz5rr
      @MinhVu-yz5rr 5 лет назад +25

      you ain't seen nothing yet bud

    • @Selas81
      @Selas81 5 лет назад +10

      I will then in turn bess you with knowing that there are many more riddles like this by TED-ED, should be easy to find too.

    • @blah7983
      @blah7983 5 лет назад +4

      Welcome

    • @designz3d
      @designz3d 5 лет назад +7

      Welcome aboard.

    • @literaIIyshy
      @literaIIyshy 5 лет назад +2

      You feel like that with almost every video of theirs

  • @nafisahmad8645
    @nafisahmad8645 5 лет назад +632

    imaginative and complex riddles like always,keep on going forever ted-ed

    • @paulkersey3042
      @paulkersey3042 5 лет назад +2

      I imagine getting into the damn building would take forever since every other step you'd have to solve an end game professor layton puzzle.

    • @steliostoulis1875
      @steliostoulis1875 5 лет назад +1

      That's just math.

  • @mchammer5026
    @mchammer5026 3 года назад +24

    You can imagine this as, instead of light bouncing off the walls, repeating the room infinitely many times horizontally and vertically. To hit a corner, you must therefore make a square by repeating the room on each axis. Notice that 49 (= 7 * 7) and 78 (= 2 * 3 * 13) don't share any prime factors, so their least common multiple is their product. The light must therefore cross the room 49 times horizontally, and 78 times vertically to reach a corner. Since an odd number of crossings gets you to the other side, but an even number stays on the same side, the corner it hits will be on the same side vertically (78 is even) and on the opposite side horizontally (49 is odd), making it the south east corner.

    • @bakerlee912
      @bakerlee912 2 года назад

      This was my approach exactly. Think of it like the old game "snake"

  • @keshawncodysafiyar7208
    @keshawncodysafiyar7208 5 лет назад +153

    No time at all draw a complex drawing
    Me:what the

    • @daerdevvyl4314
      @daerdevvyl4314 4 года назад +3

      The drawing was for US to understand, not for the vampire hunter. That’s like saying “The zombies are coming for you, Brad Pitt! No time to lose. Let’s get a camera and hire some special effects people.”

  • @TheRMeerkerk
    @TheRMeerkerk 5 лет назад +77

    Create a grid of mirrored rooms and draw the 45 degree line through those rooms until it hits a corner. This will happen when a corner has coordinates (x,x). Since all room corners are at coordinates (78n,49m), we just have to solve 78n = 49m. We know that 78 = 2 x 3 x 13 and 49 = 7 x 7, so the first corner that gets hit by the line is at coordinates (2 x 3 x 13 x 7 x 7, 2 x 3 x 13 x 7 x 7), which means n = 49 and m = 78. So after 49 horizontal mirrors and 78 vertical mirrors we hit a corner. If both were 1, then we'd hit the NE corner, if n = 2, then we'd hit NW, for n = 3 NE again, so if n is odd and m = 1, then we hit the NE corner. If m = 2 and n is odd, then we'd hit the SE corner, and if m became odd again, we'd hit NE again. So for even m and odd n the light will hit the SE corner.
    Answer: SE corner.

    • @TheRMeerkerk
      @TheRMeerkerk 5 лет назад +4

      wow for once my method to get to the answer is slightly different

    • @zmaj12321
      @zmaj12321 5 лет назад +3

      Ooh this is how I did it.

    • @Macieks300
      @Macieks300 5 лет назад

      I did it the same way: my explanation: ruclips.net/video/P4-n0IMQSrQ/видео.html&lc=UgxKN_EoqbgFy_lcf6B4AaABAg

    • @Epaminaidos
      @Epaminaidos 5 лет назад +1

      Yep, that's how I did it as well.

    • @MrKenkron
      @MrKenkron 5 лет назад +1

      Same. This works for all cases too. (I think the video's method does as well if you divide the walls by the greatest common factor first).

  • @simonc7221
    @simonc7221 4 года назад +13

    3:12 is the most satisfying thing ever

    • @TV-gn9li
      @TV-gn9li 10 месяцев назад

      yeah 😊

  • @whyit487
    @whyit487 5 лет назад +342

    *I love seeing the comments under these riddle videos where the commenter points out the fact that in **_real life,_** the **_non-existent mythological creature_** could be defeated another way.*

    • @Moist_jellyfish
      @Moist_jellyfish 5 лет назад +18

      Identity theft is not a joke

    • @tanviohol6807
      @tanviohol6807 5 лет назад

      😂

    • @suwinkhamchaiwong8382
      @suwinkhamchaiwong8382 5 лет назад +4

      Hey, it’s Justin’s cousin.

    • @whyit487
      @whyit487 5 лет назад +3

      @@suwinkhamchaiwong8382 I just noticed that you replied to one of my comments on "Does someone else have your face?" by It's OK to be Smart, where you said "Preparing the joke?"
      Well, i guess we both watch the same videos. I'll subscribe to you now.

    • @luc8492
      @luc8492 5 лет назад

      nut

  • @matiasherrneder4254
    @matiasherrneder4254 4 года назад +82

    I had a simpler solution (sorry for my english): The light travels at a 45° angle, so both X and Y coordinates add equaly. This means that if the first wall is, for example, 43m long and the other one 22m, in a given time the light will travel 22 times the first wall and 43 times the smaller one, at this point, it finds a corner. This will also happen with any other common multiplier (idk if it's called that) of the two numbers. Anyway, if the light travels a wall an even number of times it means it will finish on the same point for that wall, if it's an uneven nuber of times, it will finish on the opposite end. Now take this example and solve the video's riddle with it :).

    • @MrAaron317
      @MrAaron317 4 года назад +5

      thank you, i thought i'd be the only one with this solution

    • @MrSlothJunior
      @MrSlothJunior 4 года назад +4

      I would not call that a "simpler" solution.

    • @austindelacruz5872
      @austindelacruz5872 4 года назад

      But then you wouldn't which exact corner the light would hit as there are two wall with those measurements

    • @matiasherrneder4254
      @matiasherrneder4254 4 года назад +6

      @@austindelacruz5872 well, you have two axis that can be either even or uneven, you cover the four possibilities.

    • @galladegamer3579
      @galladegamer3579 4 года назад +6

      You hear that? That's the sound of my brain melting.

  • @Tarean1997
    @Tarean1997 3 года назад +21

    I'm a little late to the party, but I think I found another solution to this:
    Starting from any corner, the next time any corner will be hit is after the amount of squares traveled equals the smallest shared multiple (no idea if that is the correct English term) of the two lengths. Since the leghts do not share a divisor, it happens after 49x78 squares have been traveled, or after the entire longer side has been traveled 49 times and the shorter side 78 times. The short side is traveled an even number of times, so the beam will end up on the bottom where it started. But the longer side is traveled an odd number of times, which means the beam will switch sides from left to right. Result: it ends up in the bottom right. Can anyone confirm or was I just lucky?

    • @sunilrampuria9339
      @sunilrampuria9339 Год назад +2

      Yup, even I had solved it using this method. It's called "least common multiple" btw, although smallest shared multiple sounds cool.

  • @jaybrianrandone5892
    @jaybrianrandone5892 5 лет назад +295

    Before I watch the video, the answer is no, I can't solve the riddle

  • @KnakuanaRka
    @KnakuanaRka 5 лет назад +43

    I thought about this one in an entirely different way: basically, since the light travels at 45 degrees, the total distance it moves north-south has to be the same as the total traveled east-west. In order for it to hit a corner, this distance has to be a multiple of both dimensions of the room. Since 49’s only factor is 7, and 78 is obviously 1 off from a multiple of that, the lowest common multiple of them has to be their product. Therefore, as the light bounces around until it hits the corner, it must travel 49*78 meters in both the up-down dimension and the left-right one, so it travels the north-south range of the room (49 meters) 78 times, which is even, so it ends at the same side it started (south), and the east-west range (78 meters) 49 times, which is odd, making it end on the opposite side from where it started (east). Therefore, the diffuser must be mounted on the southeast corner.
    Also, once again, who comes up with these titles? Why not call this the Reflecting Light riddle?

    • @dryzalizer
      @dryzalizer 5 лет назад +3

      Well done, even simpler than the given explanation.

    • @KnakuanaRka
      @KnakuanaRka 5 лет назад +8

      dryzalizer Sure; I especially favor it because it actually demonstrates that it will go through that point. Sure, you can mark all the points with even coordinate sum and say that it’s possible for it to go through those points, but does that prove it will? The way I handled it actually shows that.
      Also, my version can handle cases where both dimensions are even. Imagine trying the video’s solution on a room with dimensions like 16*20; all four corners would be open, and you would be stuck. My solution automatically removes the common factor of 4, reducing the dimensions to the equivalent 4 and 5 and getting a solution.

    • @huaen8880
      @huaen8880 5 лет назад

      I have a similar explanation to yours! Mine relies on estimating 49 and 78 to 50 and 80 to simplify things, but it's close enough.

    • @tomheyworth6020
      @tomheyworth6020 5 лет назад

      Yes, I did it the same way. It's really a modular arithmetic problem.

    • @TheMoped
      @TheMoped 5 лет назад

      I didn't know i can move is a north-south direction

  • @euxiciusahuizotl8890
    @euxiciusahuizotl8890 4 года назад +8

    "you got no time to spare"
    "Watch me, ZA WAZUDO!!"
    Pauses the video*

  • @seth9326
    @seth9326 5 лет назад +111

    *_Simon Belmont has entered the chat_*

    • @hopechr
      @hopechr 5 лет назад

      smash bros has entered the chat

    • @eggboi4517
      @eggboi4517 5 лет назад

      Seth
      *_Richter Belmont has entered the chat_*

    • @HuyenPhan-ir2wo
      @HuyenPhan-ir2wo 5 лет назад

      Seth *Dracula has left the chat.*

    • @George-pp4vr
      @George-pp4vr 5 лет назад

      Jonathan joestar had joined

  • @iqbaltrojan
    @iqbaltrojan 5 лет назад +54

    I did but not in the same way!
    LCM of 49 and 78: 3822 (No common factors so 49*78, remember that.)
    Then it will bounce off the left/right sides an odd number of times, 49 so it will end on the right.
    Lastly it bounces up/down sides an even number of times, 78 so it will end on the bottom
    Bottom right corner! Did anyone else solve it like this?

    • @martijnbouman8874
      @martijnbouman8874 5 лет назад +3

      Yes. ^^

    • @icefphil
      @icefphil 5 лет назад +5

      Was looking for exactly this comment!
      Mah man

    • @iamjustluggage1157
      @iamjustluggage1157 5 лет назад +4

      Yup, that's exactly how I solved it as well. :)

    • @aer9998
      @aer9998 5 лет назад +1

      Nice. This is how I got it too. Not sure how the video’s answer rules out (0,0) (other than you can’t put a mirror over the light source).

    • @ericli2723
      @ericli2723 5 лет назад +2

      This can be visualized as the light being a completely straight line but you build reflections of the room around it. For example when the light bounces off the right wall, instead of going left and back into the room, you can create a mirror image of the room to the right of it and in that room, the light continues straight, seamlessly passing through the wall. If you construct a whole coordiante grid of these rooms, you find that the light only hits a corner when the line goes through integer coordinates. This leads to the observation of using the LCM to figure out where the next integer coordinates will land after 0,0.

  • @KartheekTammana123
    @KartheekTammana123 5 лет назад +165

    *Or* you could just put the diffuser at the door, where the light comes in.

    • @TheJthedog
      @TheJthedog 5 лет назад +12

      Kartheek Tammana it would be better to just stand in the middle of the room with it in hand

    • @jp4431
      @jp4431 5 лет назад +3

      Your knowledge of how light works is disturbing

    • @전혜준-p4z
      @전혜준-p4z 5 лет назад +1

      How will you get out

    • @lia5911
      @lia5911 4 года назад

      전혜준 after the vampires die

  • @BigMastah79
    @BigMastah79 4 года назад +35

    “The sun will be in position soon”
    “Let’s draw a graph”

  • @A_Wild_Dyzzy
    @A_Wild_Dyzzy 3 года назад +2

    I feel like just drawing it on paper and sketching out a rough line would be faster than the option you just proposed. as proof, I did exactly that, and it took me less than 10 seconds to figure out the SE corner was the correct option.

  • @NewbyTon
    @NewbyTon 5 лет назад +88

    Just hire a werewolf

    • @NewbyTon
      @NewbyTon 5 лет назад +4

      It's all a connected plot

    • @PerceptionVsReality333
      @PerceptionVsReality333 5 лет назад

      There are vampires that can easily defeat werewolves.

    • @TheMoped
      @TheMoped 5 лет назад

      Sorry but they take __***Months***__ to find and hiring them, we are in a __***DIRE***__ situation

    • @ciocio-san
      @ciocio-san 5 лет назад

      Newby Ton Bruh how would you even CONTROL a werewolf?

  • @sanarao8130
    @sanarao8130 5 лет назад +74

    I think that its harder to come up with these riddles than to solve them..😂😂Kudos to the content creators of Ted-Ed

    • @Macieks300
      @Macieks300 5 лет назад

      I heard this riddle before. It surely wasn't made by TED-Ed

    • @terry_tamali
      @terry_tamali 5 лет назад

      Mostly Dan Finkel though.

  • @Gemini-Lion
    @Gemini-Lion 6 месяцев назад +1

    I was able to track the rough direction with my finger and actually managed to get it without watching the solution beforehand! :D

  • @adityagiri3600
    @adityagiri3600 5 лет назад +53

    3:12 why do you wanna put that globy thing if there's already so much light reflected by the walls?

    • @bigbakerboi3872
      @bigbakerboi3872 5 лет назад +9

      That light would be a beam, which would only strike the walls above the coffins, not the entire room. The diffuser will spread light in all directions.

    • @bigbakerboi3872
      @bigbakerboi3872 5 лет назад +8

      @@adityagiri3600 So? You asked a question and I provided an answer. I don't care if you're anyone. And why does my age matter?

    • @monochromeart7311
      @monochromeart7311 5 лет назад +2

      @@adityagiri3600 hi doc, if you're such a "genius" why couldn't you understand simple logic from the riddle???

    • @TheMoped
      @TheMoped 5 лет назад

      @@adityagiri3600 if you are actually a professor from a non-existent university, you should care about grammar or not use when you don't feel like it, why you capitalize the U instead of both or none. You seemed to care when you started your first two sentences and added question marks. My only theory is that you used Grammarly and it didn't recognize the fake university name and didn't bother to check it.

    • @adityagiri3600
      @adityagiri3600 5 лет назад

      @@monochromeart7311 who says I didn't? I am a huge fan of Ted Ed riddles!

  • @marble25
    @marble25 5 лет назад +230

    ted-ed thinks the meaning of riddle is an animated mathematical question.

    • @theshuman100
      @theshuman100 5 лет назад +11

      Riddle me this. Throgmorton has bought 31 watermelons and shares half with his sister. How fast does a sparrow fly?

    • @creative_commander4973
      @creative_commander4973 5 лет назад +1

      theshuman100 you can’taloupe is the assumed shape of the flight which makes it impossible

    • @donavandunn9824
      @donavandunn9824 5 лет назад +6

      @@theshuman100 Is it a European or African Sparrow?

    • @theshuman100
      @theshuman100 5 лет назад +3

      @@donavandunn9824 whats the difference?
      *proceeds to get yeeted

    • @LynnHarrod
      @LynnHarrod 5 лет назад +2

      Yeah, this bothers me as well. Math word problems are not riddles.

  • @geminigalaxy9623
    @geminigalaxy9623 2 года назад +1

    Yes because drawing a perfect grid with all the coordinates lined up with perfect precision takes less time then drawing a few lines

  • @crazymanmot
    @crazymanmot 5 лет назад +77

    The list of hints didn't include the dimensions of the room tho.

  • @brendanmurphy4034
    @brendanmurphy4034 5 лет назад +20

    Oh my god....It’s the bouncing DVD riddle.

  • @Ivanhoenn
    @Ivanhoenn 3 года назад +2

    When he said it was simple and elegant I just thought he was going to say put it in the same corner where the light was coming through and you don't have to worry about angles

  • @Ahlnie
    @Ahlnie 5 лет назад +19

    The "pause the video" section didn't include the dimensions of the room.

  • @FFjean
    @FFjean 5 лет назад +61

    I don't know if it's only me but these scenarios seem a little bit forced

    • @pepperonipizza8200
      @pepperonipizza8200 5 лет назад +33

      Thanos is about to snap his fingers, ending half the universe. You are its only hope. Separating you and him is a wall, known as Thanos Wall. Thanos Wall has three chests. One chest always tells the truth, another always lies, the third has taken you prisoner along with 9 other people. He challenges you to a game where there are 10 boxes. 5 always tell the truth, 5 are completely random. Six boxes contain an infinity stone. Find the surface area of the sun.

    • @Danky_el_perro
      @Danky_el_perro 5 лет назад +7

      yes, but to make it fun, what you would prefer, resolving a coordinate problem with math, or going to kill a vampire on a castle, but with math?

    • @bliebbloepblieb
      @bliebbloepblieb 5 лет назад +2

      @@pepperonipizza8200 lmao

    • @luisguillermo6216
      @luisguillermo6216 5 лет назад +7

      @@pepperonipizza8200 Since Thanos put the six infinity stones in the chests and most chests says the truth, just ask each chest where the infinity stones are. Once you have the full set, and since you're too lazy to calculate surface area thingy, just use the infinity stones to destroy the sun. Answer: 0

    • @tuesdaywithanh
      @tuesdaywithanh 5 лет назад +1

      @@Danky_el_perro I agree. The situations are forced, but otherwise there are too many loopholes for the riddle to work. Ted Ed is still amazing though! :)

  • @ThePurpleKnightmare
    @ThePurpleKnightmare 3 года назад +1

    I used my smarts to pass the test because I knew that the diffuser was big enough that the light would hit it long before it ever hit directly on a corner, so any corner will work, but also it's okay to just stay in the room and hold the diffuser. Be your own wall.

  • @Zxymr
    @Zxymr 4 года назад +22

    The solution in the video is poor as it allows for the SW corner to be a valid solution; it isn't, only because it was not an option in the riddle.
    To prove that it will hit the SE and not the SW corner, you can just imagine the rooms mirroring themselves upwards and rightwards infinitely, forming a rectangular grid.
    Because the beam moves at a 45 degree angle, we know that the light beam will only touch the opposite corner of a square block.
    To solve this, we can exploit the fact that the length and width are integers, and find the lowest common multiple (LCM) of 78 and 49.
    The reason is because the first corner that the beam will hit after leaving (0, 0) is (LCM, LCM).
    The easiest way to find the LCM is to multiply them and to divide the result by the greatest common factor (GCF), which can be quickly calculated using Euclid's algorithm.
    Since 78 and 49 have no common factors, the LCM is 78 × 49 = 3822. The first corner the beam will hit is at (3822, 3822).
    At this point, the beam would have reflected horizontally (3822÷78)-1=48 times (even number), and vertically (3822÷49)-1=77 times (odd number).
    This means that its horizontal direction will not be flipped, but its vertical direction will be flipped. It will be moving rightwards and downwards, and will hit the SE corner first.

    • @pinkythepinkslime6170
      @pinkythepinkslime6170 4 года назад +1

      The southeast corner is the entry point. Although this reasoning is perfectly valid!

    • @Rbum4
      @Rbum4 3 года назад +2

      Pinky. West is left. The comment is right.
      I'm really disappointed in this riddle. The solution fully depends on the dimensions of the room, which are not given! It can be any of the other corners (given sides with integer lengths)

    • @MsKeylas
      @MsKeylas 3 года назад

      It actually doesn't ask in which of THREE mentioned corners, just in which corner so a southwest one is perfect

  • @ButlerWho
    @ButlerWho 4 года назад +4

    I think it makes more sense to stand in each corner of the room looking outward at 45 degrees. When you can see the reflection of the entrance tunnel dead-on, you're in the corner where you should mount your diffuser.

  • @SpurritialTheories
    @SpurritialTheories 3 года назад +1

    Even better solution
    1.Invite all vampires to a party at night
    2.Wait till everyone's there
    3.Activate a disco ball

  • @SammyMaggio
    @SammyMaggio 5 лет назад +22

    I just realized at the end it was basically the legend of the dvd screensaver

  • @castsmith6783
    @castsmith6783 5 лет назад +16

    "yeah i think i could use this method
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    *died 1 minute later*

    • @lilyjay8530
      @lilyjay8530 5 лет назад

      Castsmith lol 😂 😂😂🤣🤣🤣lmao

  • @SWARTWOODPREP
    @SWARTWOODPREP 3 года назад +14

    Thanks for the fantastic riddle! One of our students, Jon, actually brought it to John, our head instructor. He REALLY liked the Vampire Hunter Riddle and gave his own solution. Here is an alternate solution: ruclips.net/video/69wtC12zGpY/видео.html. Hope this helps some people!

  • @lemonboi9131
    @lemonboi9131 5 лет назад +13

    Wait if the light bounced all through the room, would you be able to just lie on the floor and scream to disturb them to get them out..?
    Then they all die anyways???
    edit: you lie on the floor so you don’t block too much light

  • @AO00720
    @AO00720 5 лет назад +72

    Sorry My brain is too broke to solve riddles

    • @AO00720
      @AO00720 5 лет назад

      @LagiNaLangAko23 dude you obviously didn't get the joke i meant my brain lacks even knowledge to solve riddles so im intellectually broke

    • @AO00720
      @AO00720 5 лет назад

      LagiNaLangAko23 that makes two of us

  • @javierburgre2__147
    @javierburgre2__147 3 года назад +1

    A simple yet elegant way.
    Proceeds to draw the room in a coordinate graph

  • @fqidz
    @fqidz 5 лет назад +237

    Who else is not even trying to answer the riddle?

  • @nightknight4190
    @nightknight4190 4 года назад +4

    Now that I’ve finally taken a good look at this puzzle and it’s elegant solution, I thought to myself, “but what if the room had different dimensions?” As it turns out, anytime that the room has an even and an odd dimension, the trick works out nicely, but what about when the room has two even or two odd dimensions? After having looked at the problem through an odd representation which I can explain later, the solution becomes simple. Find the greatest common factor of the two dimensions and divide both dimensions by this greatest common factor. Switch the values of the dimensions. Subtracting one from each dimension gets you the number of bounces the light makes off of the horizontal walls (for the modified horizontal coordinate) and then off of the vertical walls (for the modified vertical coordinate) excluding the last “bounce” that the light makes with the corner, hence the subtraction of one bounce each. This then can be used to tell you the direction of the light beam relative to the original direction when it’s about to make contact with the corner. Even numbers tell you that the light must be traveling the same direction relative to the original direction in that component, and odd numbers tell you that the light must be traveling in the opposite direction relative to the original direction in that component. This then tells you which corner it must strike first simply from the direction of the light beam.

    • @nightknight4190
      @nightknight4190 4 года назад

      For a relevant example we’ll use the same dimensions as the riddle presented: 78x49. 78 and 49 share no factors other than one, so we’ll divide them by one. After subtracting by one, we get 77x48. The vertical 77 is odd, therefore the vertical direction of the light beam must oppose the initial vertical direction of the light, so the beam is traveling downwards. The horizontal 48 is even, so the beam is traveling the same horizontal direction as it was initially, so rightwards. Then we know that the beam travels rightward and downward just before hitting the corner, making it the bottom right corner.

    • @wobblyorbee279
      @wobblyorbee279 2 года назад

      omg yes! this puzzle is so so interesting to me.... the solution is just *chef's kiss*

  • @raymondabban4892
    @raymondabban4892 2 года назад +1

    I moved my finger on screen trying to imitate where the light will pass and the closest was SE and I said close enough and it ended up being the right answer

  • @friedwater6519
    @friedwater6519 5 лет назад +6

    Honestly, If the light bounces off the walls _that_ many times, you don't even need a diffuser.

    • @ciocio-san
      @ciocio-san 5 лет назад

      AceofApples There were parts of the room the beam of sunlight would not be able to reach.

  • @kerithwooldridge
    @kerithwooldridge 5 лет назад +8

    How would you get/know the dimensions of the room if it's a secret lair?

  • @conando025
    @conando025 4 года назад +2

    The puzzle is quite hard when you don't have the size of the room on the summary screen.

    • @orsonmoniz
      @orsonmoniz 3 года назад

      Its actually impossible to solve with out the dimensions, or at least a mention that the one set of walls is an even number of units long and the other set is odd.

  • @games_for_life0_063
    @games_for_life0_063 4 года назад +5

    Ted ed: only have minutes till sun comes out
    Me: drew a grid professionally in pro time
    Ted ed: 😅

  • @hfnr_
    @hfnr_ 5 лет назад +65

    dude just use Hamon duh

  • @PAWAN_RAMOLA
    @PAWAN_RAMOLA 8 месяцев назад +1

    tan45 =1 = P/B= 49cm/49cm
    it means light contact upper side of traingle at 49 cm
    then apply sin(i)= sin(r)
    then same trigonometry
    now light contact lower side at 78cm (lower right corner)

  • @exoplanets
    @exoplanets 5 лет назад +176

    Love these riddles!

  • @hermellag4042
    @hermellag4042 5 лет назад +45

    the first i have ever gotten right!!
    (first i have ever guessed right)

    • @TheMoped
      @TheMoped 5 лет назад

      I only got this one right since I did it in math class (somewhat, we had to predict the number of times it will hit the wall and which corner. It didn't involve grids)

    • @lilyjay8530
      @lilyjay8530 5 лет назад

      Hermella G lol 😂 😂🤣🤣🤣

  • @KJSDASHOPAHOLIC
    @KJSDASHOPAHOLIC 4 года назад +2

    I knew my habit of doing diagonals of bathroom tiles would come in handy.

  • @yazhazdazspaz3662
    @yazhazdazspaz3662 5 лет назад +77

    For onced i beated a ted ed riddle by guessing

  • @officialjohnlee
    @officialjohnlee 4 года назад +3

    Mrs. Weasly: Remember to speak loud and clear. Harry: 2:33

  • @philipbao3725
    @philipbao3725 19 дней назад

    Fun fact: for rooms of different dimensions, if the dimensions are BOTH ODD, it’s the opposite corner, if ONE is ODD, it’s the adjacent corner that shares the EVEN-dimension wall with the starting corner, if the dimension are BOTH EVEN, half them simultaneously until either of them becomes ODD, and the same logic applies.

  • @laxxayy
    @laxxayy 5 лет назад +17

    2:51 Lol , my eyes hurt

  • @WGoodall
    @WGoodall 5 лет назад +13

    Or, you can *burst open a wall during the day* 😎