Only 3% of people pass this creative test, can you?

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  • @2Dspectre
    @2Dspectre 8 лет назад +3034

    you said I had A ray gun. as in ONE. not ten, cmon...

    • @TheBardSM
      @TheBardSM 8 лет назад +131

      Thank you.

    • @DJ_POOP_IT_OUT_FEAT_LIL_WiiWii
      @DJ_POOP_IT_OUT_FEAT_LIL_WiiWii 8 лет назад +157

      I also question the notion that 10 x 10% ray guns pointed at the same target as 1 x 100% ray gun doesn't do the same amount of damage to the healthy tissue. How should I know firsthand that the effects of ray guns are additive and vary depending on the type of tissue. The effects could have been cumulative and affect both types of tissue in the same way for all I know. Am-I missing something obvious here?

    • @DJ_POOP_IT_OUT_FEAT_LIL_WiiWii
      @DJ_POOP_IT_OUT_FEAT_LIL_WiiWii 8 лет назад +21

      By reading other comments the explanation seems to be that the combined ray guns does affect a very accurate point in 3D space. Don't think that was even mentioned in the premise. It never occurred to me that combining many rays to the same spot wouldn't cause a big radius of damage thereby affecting the healthy tissue just as much as a single ray. Would have thought that doing this would cause a diffuse spherical damage even bigger than the linear one caused by a single ray.

    • @DJ_POOP_IT_OUT_FEAT_LIL_WiiWii
      @DJ_POOP_IT_OUT_FEAT_LIL_WiiWii 8 лет назад +22

      ***** I did reflect a bit on my previous comments. What I really meant was that the 3% success rate has much more to do with the incomplete premise rather than a lack of creative thinking. When you have a good grasp of the "ray-guns" physics it becomes a simple geometric problem that is easily solved by applying "intersection" which is learned in grade school...

    • @Anna-hp4zq
      @Anna-hp4zq 8 лет назад +3

      i just said get a docter that can do surgery duhhh also this is unrealistic cuz you always have a partner when dealing with a patient so stfu

  • @Milkra
    @Milkra 8 лет назад +1578

    "You have >A< ray gun"
    "Place 10 ray guns"
    Thanks.

    • @someoneinthecrowd4313
      @someoneinthecrowd4313 8 лет назад +8

      You happen to work in a hospital and that hospital may have 9 more ray guns thats currently not being used. So you use them. Hehe

    • @pygmyrhino5515
      @pygmyrhino5515 8 лет назад +6

      +Someone In The Crowd If you don't have time to operate I doubt you'd have time to run around the hospital looking for ray guns or even setting up an elaborate 10 gun system to shoot at once

    • @someoneinthecrowd4313
      @someoneinthecrowd4313 8 лет назад +3

      Pygmy Rhino They never said you didn't have time to operate, only that you couldn't operate.

    • @o0ss_st
      @o0ss_st 8 лет назад +5

      TheSavageNerds I guess that's what thinking out of the box means

    • @someoneinthecrowd4313
      @someoneinthecrowd4313 8 лет назад +1

      o0ss Bingo.

  • @nicocornejo4303
    @nicocornejo4303 8 лет назад +372

    You have a ray gun. But ten around the patient. Any one else see the problem?

    • @nicocornejo4303
      @nicocornejo4303 8 лет назад

      *put

    • @nicklopez8004
      @nicklopez8004 8 лет назад

      yes, the problem is you don't think outside the box, I suggest also getting some pisces as friends

    • @nicocornejo4303
      @nicocornejo4303 8 лет назад +16

      Nick Lopez I was following the rules. Now if it didn't specify how many ray guns we had then I would forgive it. But it specifically said "a" raygun meaning one. Changing the rules of the riddle doesn't mean you solved it so yeah. Of course I thought of other ways this could work with one raygun.

    • @nicklopez8004
      @nicklopez8004 8 лет назад

      Nico Cornejo but riddles are always there to trick you just like the riddle if a rooster lays an egg on a house which way will it roll, solution: roosters don't lay eggs hens do, here's another one, what weighs more a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks, solution: they both weigh the same since its a pound; thus dude there are a bunch of riddles just like the one with the ray gun

    • @nicocornejo4303
      @nicocornejo4303 8 лет назад +19

      Nick Lopez Except those make sense. It's impossible to have 10 ray guns if it SPECIFICALLY said 1. If it didn't have this information it would make sense because it's the perosns fault for not thinking outside of the box. But with this puzzle it specifically stated you only had one.

  • @papaslap7350
    @papaslap7350 8 лет назад +282

    That's not fair! He says you have a ray gun, not multiple ray guns with adjustable intensity levels. Important info!

    • @ansbaba1
      @ansbaba1 7 лет назад

      I also think the same answer haha :D

    • @rephax4445
      @rephax4445 7 лет назад

      Papa Slap it is fair if you have a humongous creative personality you would of guessed it automaticly he never said you can't have more than 1 ray gun he said you have one ray gun

    • @casperd2100
      @casperd2100 7 лет назад +9

      I also would have guessed that I could pray to god for the tumor to go away and it would work. He never said that god couldn't exist and that god couldn't remove tumors.

    • @kravenmoorehead3824
      @kravenmoorehead3824 7 лет назад +1

      Casperd2100 Beautiful response.

    • @aashishjaiswal9990
      @aashishjaiswal9990 6 лет назад

      You are not creative that's the truth

  • @LimakPan
    @LimakPan 8 лет назад +884

    "You have A gun, what should you do?" "use 10 of them". I call this "test" bullshit.

  • @MorbidRose02
    @MorbidRose02 8 лет назад +454

    IT SAID "A RAY GUN"
    AS IN ONE RAY GUN
    THAT IT NOT OKAY

    • @andresvera5427
      @andresvera5427 8 лет назад +3

      That is where you Are supposed to use your Creativity!!

    • @YeetusTheFetus
      @YeetusTheFetus 7 лет назад +22

      Fangirl2202 I thought you cut open the patient's abdomen and shot the ray gun only where the tumours were to decrease damage to healthy tissue.

    • @alinayessimbekova6532
      @alinayessimbekova6532 7 лет назад +4

      exactly!

    • @skorqion_art
      @skorqion_art 7 лет назад +1

      same

    • @skorqion_art
      @skorqion_art 7 лет назад +14

      YOU COULD ALSO PRAY FOR THE TUMOR TO GO AWAY AND CONSIDER IT CREATIVE

  • @jimjamsim
    @jimjamsim 8 лет назад +337

    "But you do have a ray gun."
    You said A raygun, not multiple. Only 3% got it right because you asked it wrong.

  • @emexdizzy
    @emexdizzy 8 лет назад +238

    I do not see why combing all the ray guns will not still kill the healthy tissue...

    • @Alttrigger
      @Alttrigger 8 лет назад +6

      Siara Hughes because it does not have full power in a individual area if they are puting the ray gun from all side so not effecting a single area of are tissu . and they met at a single point where there is more ray coming from all other are with out effecting the tissu and they mixed up and make 100 % again because of the 10 ray gun at 10% each ... easy

    • @pugzmcstewson5603
      @pugzmcstewson5603 8 лет назад +37

      That isn't how atomic physics work but Ok.

    • @user-zu1ix3yq2w
      @user-zu1ix3yq2w 7 лет назад +3

      Siara Hughes think waves.. combining..

    • @entropymikaela607
      @entropymikaela607 7 лет назад +16

      true. if all ray guns are surrounding the tumor and are at 10% then the healthy tissue will still be damaged due to the combined power of the ray guns...

    • @cosmicblox934
      @cosmicblox934 4 года назад

      Yea my ans was set it to medium

  • @lynxaway
    @lynxaway 9 лет назад +947

    How was I supposed to know I had ten ray guns????

    • @lynxaway
      @lynxaway 9 лет назад +155

      ***** It made it sound like you only had one gun. I thought that using ten guns would be considered cheating.

    • @oscarr0_794
      @oscarr0_794 9 лет назад +120

      But it said "a ray gun" what means one ray gun... Not ten!!!

    • @oscarr0_794
      @oscarr0_794 9 лет назад +103

      Its like saying 1 + 1 = 3 and call it creativity... 1 + 1 is 2 and that is how it will allways be...

    • @lynxaway
      @lynxaway 9 лет назад +62

      Oscar Exactly! Choosing ten ray guns sounds like cheating. They tell you that you have _a_ ray gun, as in one. How on Earth can you figure that somehow, you have _ten_ ray guns?! It doesn't make sense.

    • @richellesmith4454
      @richellesmith4454 9 лет назад +1

      that's the thing it's a riddle you gotta think outside the box

  • @gfr9109
    @gfr9109 8 лет назад +660

    You have A gun.
    A gun.
    Not multiple guns.
    I call bullshit.

    • @lillylavender6876
      @lillylavender6876 8 лет назад +3

      I know ay cause like this riddles a whole lotta bullshit

    • @sammybray5346
      @sammybray5346 8 лет назад

      +Wolverine Otter (kit-katkitty-catkitten) that's nonsense, besides, if he said directly that you have access to a 10, you'd think that you should use those 10 in some way, until you find out how. This, will in fact, make its a whole lot more easier for people to find the answer uselessly, without creativity.

    • @flukewest
      @flukewest 8 лет назад +2

      I have a dog in my backyard. I haven't seen it for a few weeks. Is it dead? Please tell me. You apparently have enough information.

    • @gfr9109
      @gfr9109 8 лет назад

      hidethechildren
      You haven't looked in your backyard for a few weeks.

    • @flukewest
      @flukewest 8 лет назад +1

      Gilian Rüsterholz Yeah. Sammy Bray should be able to tell if my dog is dead, right? I gave him more than enough information. He should figure the rest out with his creativity. He made it sound easy.

  • @aprilblenk
    @aprilblenk 8 лет назад +426

    You said I had "a ray gun", implying I only had access to one.
    NOT.
    *TEN.*

    • @dominosrcool4120
      @dominosrcool4120 8 лет назад

      I actually was just going to say that and Ikr

    • @durdleduc8520
      @durdleduc8520 8 лет назад

      EXACTLY!

    • @mr.peanutbutter303
      @mr.peanutbutter303 8 лет назад +8

      +aprilblenk you can split the beam using partial reflection mirrors and redirect the fractions to the "hot spot".

    • @JaforSadequl
      @JaforSadequl 8 лет назад

      LeanLikeACholo q

    • @mja9393
      @mja9393 8 лет назад

      +LeanLikeACholo mate, that's just called being a genius not creativity

  • @fairytaleoverworlds7795
    @fairytaleoverworlds7795 7 лет назад +76

    No wonder only 3% pass the test, the other subjects lent their ray guns out to them.

  • @Commandercool56
    @Commandercool56 8 лет назад +582

    "You do have A ray gun" not 10 wtf

    • @dhal2034
      @dhal2034 8 лет назад +3

      Mirror to reflect rays?

    • @ragingdonut4301
      @ragingdonut4301 8 лет назад +1

      Precisely.

    • @Tymon0000
      @Tymon0000 8 лет назад +3

      You can split the beam of one ray gun into multiple weaker beams.

    • @pixelheart3121
      @pixelheart3121 8 лет назад +2

      that's what I thought !!!!!!! a=1 not 10

    • @Saturn-uz6jc
      @Saturn-uz6jc 8 лет назад

      +Tymski And you expect the average joe to know that?

  • @ninjanayr
    @ninjanayr 8 лет назад +223

    Having one ray gun then suddenly having ten is just cheating the question. This doesn't answer the question. It changes it

    • @Rain_267
      @Rain_267 8 лет назад +4

      Exactly

    • @Oydle
      @Oydle 8 лет назад +1

      +AmalGatroN Could just move ray gun around (to pass through multiple different areas of tissue, and avoid staying on one region for too long) whilst keeping it pointed at tumor. Problem solved :)

    • @pikachuisalemon9295
      @pikachuisalemon9295 8 лет назад

      Nooooo just be fucking creative and Randy The Dolphin will slap you across the face and it will give you duplicating superpowers

    • @double-helix-22x22y
      @double-helix-22x22y 8 лет назад

      +Oydle nope, the ray guns need to shoot at the same time. what u propose has the same effect as turning the ray gun on and off 10x. changing its position wont matter, shooting from 10 different angles to the same point at the same time does.

    • @Oydle
      @Oydle 8 лет назад

      Tom Kummer I think you are right. My bad. I had assumed that the effective total radiation dose was the key here, but if it's the intensity alone which matters, then yes, you need more ray guns.
      Edit: Or a complicated set of mirrors..

  • @claymodelexpert
    @claymodelexpert 9 лет назад +554

    "Three houses are on fire with people inside. You have one ladder. You can only save one house. How can you save them all? The answer: you use a helicopter."

    • @KalimaShaktide
      @KalimaShaktide 9 лет назад +3

      +Voldermort BUTT I like your avatar's name and your sarcasm

    • @honeydew247
      @honeydew247 9 лет назад +5

      +Voldermort BUTT was the length of the ladder specified? if not lay the ladder on top of the houses make the poeple climb up the chimney and then snap the ladder at the end so you create two ladders and angle it down :D or just snap the ladder into three and use them
      but yeah
      there yah go

    • @akiragl
      @akiragl 8 лет назад

      +honeydew247 you realize that since the chimney is an opening, all of the smoke will be concentrated to that one spot, making it impossible to see or breath while climbing.

    • @honeydew247
      @honeydew247 8 лет назад +12

      fuck it make the ladder into a gas mask i dont give a fuck how possible it would be

    • @SwagPoly
      @SwagPoly 8 лет назад +1

      +Voldermort BUTT I read it as "tree house is on fire" then i was like. Thats easy af...

  • @user-zv7yb4yp9g
    @user-zv7yb4yp9g 8 лет назад +117

    The question was like " You have two apples, you give three apples to John, how many elephants passed the river?"

    • @marwansalim9977
      @marwansalim9977 5 лет назад +11

      The answer is today is Thursday

    • @josephdockemeyer6782
      @josephdockemeyer6782 3 года назад +2

      The answer is three apples ate ten elephants.

    • @madhujoshi8496
      @madhujoshi8496 3 года назад +1

      Your ans is zero

    • @lilu8575
      @lilu8575 3 года назад +3

      The answer is 1 baby elephant. You ordered 1 apple so you can give 3 to John but that required delivery so they sent a baby elephant across the river to give you the apple.

    • @MarleneWizdom
      @MarleneWizdom 3 года назад

      You are just not creative enough 😂

  • @BiteSizePsych
    @BiteSizePsych  9 лет назад +183

    Turns out I wasn't careful enough when I summarized that first riddle. Here's the original wording of the problem
    "Suppose you are a doctor faced with a patient who has a malignant
    tumor in his stomach. It is impossible to operate on the patient, but unless
    the tumor is destroyed the patient will die. There is a kind of ray that can
    be used to destroy the tumor. If the rays reach the tumor all at once at a
    sufficiently high intensity, the tumor will be destroyed. Unfortunately, at
    this intensity the healthy tissue that the rays pass through on the way to
    the tumor will also be destroyed. At lower intensities the rays are harm-
    less to healthy tissue, but they will not affect the tumor either. What type
    of procedure might be used to destroy the tumor with the rays, and at the
    same time avoid destroying the healthy tissue?"

    • @thedoginthewok
      @thedoginthewok 9 лет назад +61

      Bite Size Psych This wording makes it way easier to get to the solution than the wording you used in the video.

    • @BiteSizePsych
      @BiteSizePsych  9 лет назад +2

      ***** I'm not sure if it would. The middle intensity wouldn't be able to destroy the tumour :/

    • @360mlg_senpai5
      @360mlg_senpai5 9 лет назад +10

      Bite Size Psych While they are asleep, cut their stomach open and blast at the tumor at 100%.

    • @cloverhamilton2453
      @cloverhamilton2453 9 лет назад

      Bite Size Psych I listened to it twice and changed the wording in my head because it didn't seem right. I came up with two theories and I did get it right.

    • @autumnhartman3300
      @autumnhartman3300 9 лет назад

      ***** that's what I said too!

  • @Daniel-rk2qz
    @Daniel-rk2qz 9 лет назад +399

    Thats bullshit because there is no way for us to know that tissue-sensitive intensity wasn't additive. I call this the worst creative test ever.

    • @VarunSingh000
      @VarunSingh000 9 лет назад +8

      +Daniel
      Actually the video hoped you'd know (at least the barebones) about electromagnetic radiation.

    • @benfungfook9793
      @benfungfook9793 9 лет назад +21

      +Varun Singh this is a creative test, not a test on electromagnetic radiation

    • @VarunSingh000
      @VarunSingh000 9 лет назад +3

      Ben Fung Fook
      If I tell you to bring me some water. You're not going to bring it in your hand because you know water behaves like a fluid. Everybody does.
      The concept that two weak beams of light can merge into a stronger beam is similar. Just experiment by turning two torches on at once.
      (By electromagnetic radiation, I meant light, because that's what it is.)

    • @benfungfook9793
      @benfungfook9793 9 лет назад +5

      Varun Singh I get what you're saying but not everyone interacts with light in this way, at least not to the same degree that they interact with water

    • @VarunSingh000
      @VarunSingh000 9 лет назад +7

      Ben Fung Fook
      Touche
      But still, people know two torches are brighter than one.
      The test is pointless though because you were supposed to have "a ray gun".

  • @justme3139
    @justme3139 8 лет назад +277

    I was thinking about that, but you said I have A ray gun!!! A ray gun is NOT 10 ray guns!

    • @SSSPro1135
      @SSSPro1135 8 лет назад +5

      Exactly!

    • @violetviolets7061
      @violetviolets7061 8 лет назад +1

      You can have 10 ray guns and still have "A" ray gun.
      As long as you don't have less than ONE ray gun, you will still have "A" ray gun.

    • @parrisnia72
      @parrisnia72 8 лет назад +1

      EXACTLY! They trick us

    • @mattcole3119
      @mattcole3119 8 лет назад +2

      +Violet Violets there wasn't enough information in the starting riddle, you are lead to believe that you only have one ray gun thanks to the wording and the animation

    • @ronwilliams4184
      @ronwilliams4184 8 лет назад

      Yeah, but I thought - what if you had two rayguns and focused on the tumour. That's 50% intensity. It's still possible to get past a badly worded question, which is what scientists do every day, as nature doesn't pose most questions coherently.

  • @knowledgeisspherical
    @knowledgeisspherical 6 лет назад

    More videos on Creativity
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  • @joseph10097
    @joseph10097 8 лет назад +282

    The question was implying one ray gun. Not TEN. Re-word the question and that percentage will jump up from 3% to 75%.

    • @durdleduc8520
      @durdleduc8520 8 лет назад +5

      Exactly.

    • @undeniablySomeGuy
      @undeniablySomeGuy 8 лет назад +3

      That's what I was going to say

    • @maixck
      @maixck 8 лет назад +1

      +joseph10097 Implying that you can use more than one would give away the answer, maybe rephrase it to, you´ve developed, then coming up with the idea of using 10 would still require creative thinking, and might still be close to 3%

    • @undeniablySomeGuy
      @undeniablySomeGuy 8 лет назад +3

      Yes, but without any knowledge of the fact you even have access to more than a single gun, it is impossible. It's like saying you have made an amazing cure, but there are 10 sick people. To solve this you make 10 more. This is unreasonable because it doesn't say you can make any more -and things require materials to create.

    • @maixck
      @maixck 8 лет назад

      +Miguel! I Draw! If you invent something it is the reasonable thing to asume that you can make more.

  • @krisssoldo1472
    @krisssoldo1472 8 лет назад +493

    All these people bitching about ''A ray gun''
    I'll made B ray gun that doesnt damage the tissue but kills tumor
    now thats creative

    • @rukshanacheema4131
      @rukshanacheema4131 8 лет назад +5

      that made me laugh so hard XD

    • @silverdandylmao
      @silverdandylmao 8 лет назад +3

      you made my day

    • @tfw2997
      @tfw2997 8 лет назад +1

      but your pacient is dying in these exactly moments xD

    • @krisssoldo1472
      @krisssoldo1472 8 лет назад +7

      Soy F
      It doesnt say anywhere that the patient has to survive hehehe

    • @tfw2997
      @tfw2997 8 лет назад +1

      Kriss Soldo (under breath) this guy is good

  • @scallywag1716
    @scallywag1716 9 лет назад +192

    The video said "A ray gun" implying you had ONLY ONE.

    • @scallywag1716
      @scallywag1716 9 лет назад +46

      +Matt Sinotte Earth to Matt...the real world does have CONSTRAINTS. For example, engineers have to work within constraints all of the time including only "so much material" or " so much money" or "so much time". These are all valid, REAL WORLD, constraints.
      The real creativity is working within those constraints to find a solution.
      When you have enough experience in the real world get back to me. Then we can have an actual discussion.

    • @scallywag1716
      @scallywag1716 9 лет назад +18

      +Matt Sinotte like I said....come back in a few years after you get some actual real world experience under your belt.

    • @samuelhensinger2962
      @samuelhensinger2962 9 лет назад +1

      +Scallywag This guy is in college probably working his ass off trying to get smarter and better at what he does, while you sit there and criticize him for not having enough "real world experience".

    • @scallywag1716
      @scallywag1716 9 лет назад +12

      +Samuel Hensinger yes because being smart or a smart ass like him is one thing. Having real world experience is entirely different. I hope Matt finds his dreams and has the best of both worlds; smarts and experience. I can't fault the guy, just his logic that isn't based in the "real world".

    • @schierke
      @schierke 9 лет назад +8

      +Matt Sinotte that's not creative the video literally stated ONE ray gun. In that case then I'll do surgery wait that's against the rules? nah I'm being creative. Besides the top comment stated that the a ray gun thing was a mistake so just admit your wrong m8.

  • @VigoHornblower
    @VigoHornblower 8 лет назад +68

    still isn't a good solution...the combined radiation has a lethal level up to a certain radius. This would be a perfect sphere. However, the tumor is not a perfect sphere. Therefore with this solution, it would be impossible to get rid of the tumor without hurting cells. If you really wanted to get rid of the entirety of the tumor, you would have to destroy some healthy cells as well...

    • @rephax4445
      @rephax4445 7 лет назад

      Vigo Hornblower actully it is the best idea because when your shooting one ray gun your shooting one spot of the tumor and when you do that it puts all the pressure on one spot if you use ten and put them on 10% it puts the same amount of pressure on each spot of the tumur allowing the doctor to kill the tumur without putting all the pressure on the protective tissue im the most creative in my family

    • @silversmokebitterweather7180
      @silversmokebitterweather7180 6 лет назад

      My answer was to buy a different ray gun that had a medium level of intensity, or to get a ray gun that had less toxins that would kill your tissue.

    • @Rovemcmanus1312
      @Rovemcmanus1312 6 лет назад +1

      Depending where the tumour was I thought of first making an incision and shooting the ray gun through the hole to damage less tissue. Maybe that's dumb but it was my first idea (I'm no doctor)

    • @ironkb57
      @ironkb57 6 лет назад +1

      actually that is how radiotherapy works

    • @OgdenM
      @OgdenM 6 лет назад +1

      Vigo, ah true to the sphere. But what if you are making that sphere smaller then the tumor? Then you can just move the rays around to destroy it.

  • @enigma9306
    @enigma9306 8 лет назад +129

    You have a ray gun...
    You place ten ray guns...
    uhhh

    • @wouter11234
      @wouter11234 8 лет назад +8

      Yeah I was about to comment, how are you gonna place 10 ray guns around him if you only have one ray gun

    • @no9ah103
      @no9ah103 8 лет назад

      Yeah because of him being wrong in the 10 I thought he answer would be a focus point

    • @Mira-dp6di
      @Mira-dp6di 8 лет назад +3

      You could rotate the one ray gun at full capacity. The healthy tissue would get the full brunt of energy for a small amount of time, which unless it's high enough to cause instantaneous permanent damage won't hurt the tissue (and if it does, then lower capacity on the laser would be sufficient with the proposed method). The unheathy cells would get the full energy brunt all the time, since it's in the middle regardless of which way you beam it from.

    • @carolinejohnson-pseudonym1841
      @carolinejohnson-pseudonym1841 8 лет назад +2

      Nice one
      Yeah, there's a lot of different solutions. You could also use surgery to get the one ray gun in a position where it won't damage healthy tissue, while still not operating on the tumer.
      Also, 10 ray guns wouldn't work. First, why 10? Anything less than 100% should work without a specific level mentioned. Second, that only kills cells at one tiny point. Make the beams larger and you damage healthy cells. You would have to constantly adjust each gun by hand, grt them all to line up,and repeat dozens of times.
      And as you suggested, a potential cumulative effect could be used in a number of ways that would allow you to use one gun to kill the tumor.

  • @eddyblat
    @eddyblat 8 лет назад +171

    "U have a ray gun... U place 10 Ray guns." If I could just apply the logic to spending like "I have one dollar... So I can spend $10 with going into debt."

  • @memelorddabble632
    @memelorddabble632 8 лет назад +278

    Let's set some shit straight. This riddle was unsolvable. You people can talk about how you simply had to be creative to use more than one gun, but the riddle says that you have *A*raygun. A as in a single Ray gun. Not rayguns, a raygun. It also says that you patient is dying and needs treatment so fast that operation is not an option. Allocation of additional rayguns is entirely illogical. You would be right in saying that it is creative thinking to imagine up 9 more rayguns, however, in the context of the video as a whole, that makes no sense. He talks about the use of creativity in business leaders. Let's say you're a CEO. You need 10 million dollars for a project that needs to be approved in a few minutes. You have 1 million readily available. How to you approve the new project assuming all of the money needs to be turned in at the start. The answer is that you can't. You don't have the 9 million, and you don't have the time to redirect the funds from other projects to this one, seeing that there are rules and guidelines to be followed in moving such large amounts of money. You can't imagine up 9 extra million dollars. So you can be creative all you want, but you have to be realistic at the same time when solving riddles like these, and the answer to this was nowhere near realistic.
    (EDIT) - In retrospect, the solution itself is false. Putting 10 rayguns at 10% power is the same thing as 1 at full power, due to the concept of constructive interference. When waves of any kind (which a ray gun would most certainly use), overlap, if they both have positive amplitudes (and these rayguns would in fact have identical amplitudes and frequencies), then the power of the waves are added. So 10 at 10% is the same as 1 at 100% making this answer ENTIRELY INCORRECT.
    (2nd edit) Constructive interference is why their solution with multiple ray guns would work (if they had multiple rayguns that is), but it's impossible to avoid damaging healthy tissue using that method. There would be unavoidable overlap, meaning that their entire theory was wrong in the first place.

    • @donerlordmcelrond5694
      @donerlordmcelrond5694 8 лет назад +9

      yes you are right bro, fuck this, bite size psych has several bullshit moments in their videos

    • @sonofcleinias7748
      @sonofcleinias7748 8 лет назад +6

      I also took the question as literal and tried to work with that. Closest I got was using a low strength laser with some kind of focusing lense.
      I was pretty disappointed to find the goalposts moved int he answer.

    • @azatrikprime5155
      @azatrikprime5155 8 лет назад +7

      Another problem I saw, was that he didn't tell how low "low intensity" was. It could've been in this case that the healthy tissue gets damaged when firing a railgun with an intensity of 40% or higher of it's maximum possible intensity, which would mean that you'd just need 3 of these railguns firing at an intensity of like 35% or so to kill the tumour without damaging anything else. It just bothered me that he was saying this exact amount of 10 railguns when it really could've been any amount because the problem hasn't been defined enough.

    • @exeremi6086
      @exeremi6086 8 лет назад +1

      Ryan J I mean the only reason we have creativity is to get away from all that complicated junk. Obviously Ben Franklin didn't give a flying flip when he got that kite and key during a storm he could've gotten killed because that lightning bolt could've did some damage but thankfully to his luck he wasn't and invented electricity. Therefore we human beings don't care about anything if we are creative and have a wicked, crazy, and looney mind.

    • @memelorddabble632
      @memelorddabble632 8 лет назад +1

      batnay K Your point is totally irrelevant. First of all, the whole Benjamin Franklin and the kite thing, never happened. It's a folk tale, based on a real person. Second of all, to be of any use, creativity must be used while also considering reality. That "complicated junk" is real life, and you cannot get around it by thinking your way past it. It is still there, and no matter how many ray guns you wish you had, you still only have one.

  • @understandingart9961
    @understandingart9961 8 лет назад +27

    oh dude thinking out of box doesn't means changing conditions of questions...so 10 guns huh?

  • @AGJ117
    @AGJ117 9 лет назад +81

    The rays had percentage settings? If we knew that, we could have solved the problem with ease.

    • @PaddyMacNasty
      @PaddyMacNasty 9 лет назад +5

      +Blue W I think saying Low and high intensity settings should be enough. My answer was two ray guns at low intensity. I got the gist so I'm counting it as a win.

    • @Irgendeindepp3
      @Irgendeindepp3 9 лет назад +1

      I think that's what he meant with "thinking out of the box"

    • @beste19997
      @beste19997 8 лет назад

      +Sally D Me too but thats the dumbest answer you can probally have for this xD

    • @a24karatcarrot99
      @a24karatcarrot99 8 лет назад +3

      +PaddyMacNasty But he said you have a raygun, which can only mean one thing. There was only one gun as far as you knew. When did it say you had more? With the information given, you suggested an idea that required something you didn't even know existed.

    • @internetpolice9366
      @internetpolice9366 8 лет назад

      +Karat Carrot Seriously. Creativity =/= Crazy Solutions

  • @small_creature
    @small_creature 9 лет назад +178

    :( I thought I only had one ray gun.....
    So.... I can borrow from other players of this riddle or what....?

    • @mathardo
      @mathardo 9 лет назад +10

      yes for every 1 person that solves it 9 have to do it without a ray gun at all ! :^)

    • @small_creature
      @small_creature 9 лет назад +2

      +mathardo XD lol, so we take ten patients and decide which one is worth the sacrifice of the others? Can't we just operate on one, then pass the ten ray guns to the next patient that's waiting?

    • @mathardo
      @mathardo 9 лет назад

      +Falling Up see ! you got the purpose of the video after all ! that's creative thinking. ;)

    • @ghostysnakier
      @ghostysnakier 8 лет назад

      +Falling Up lol

    • @durdleduc8520
      @durdleduc8520 8 лет назад +1

      Ikr

  • @nebihdasekunemja
    @nebihdasekunemja 8 лет назад +169

    Q:you have a ray gun what do you do
    A:you use 10 of them
    nice logic

    • @deathman1687
      @deathman1687 8 лет назад +4

      +Nikola Kostić I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought that.

    • @0Fyrebrand0
      @0Fyrebrand0 8 лет назад +9

      Not only that, but I thought there were only two vague settings: "high intensity" and "low intensity." You can't aim 10 ray guns unless you know that you can set them to precisely 10% intensity, which was never an option. I mean, if I can use my "creativity" to dream up options that aren't presented in the riddle, then I might as well dream I have magical healing powers and can do whatever I want.
      Also, you would have to have *miraculously* precise aim and timing to completely destroy the tumour and never damage any healthy tissue. I say, even with the proposed "creative" solution, that patient is *FUCKED*.
      I really wonder if this riddle could be phrased in a better way, or about a different scenario, so that the solution actually works realistically.

    • @Shadow_Dragon_1056
      @Shadow_Dragon_1056 8 лет назад

      yip, I agree

    • @matematica_obando
      @matematica_obando 8 лет назад +1

      ten of them but "with Lower power" the idea have to be completed

    • @drewlmao
      @drewlmao 8 лет назад +2

      By that logic, the answer might as well be "find a surgeon who can remove the tumor for you"

  • @CR-kl5fz
    @CR-kl5fz 8 лет назад +21

    This is definitely one of those things where they depict creativity as being totally separate from logic to an absurd point

  • @ajgrant9975
    @ajgrant9975 8 лет назад +174

    This was literally the riddle: How do you get 2+3 to equal 10?
    The answer is to add 5 to 2+3.

    • @saul.ceruleo
      @saul.ceruleo 8 лет назад +9

      Accurately compared👌

    • @sownheard
      @sownheard 8 лет назад

      only 3% :l i get why

    • @grrr1351
      @grrr1351 8 лет назад +1

      Because of creativity

    • @marinemutualist2153
      @marinemutualist2153 8 лет назад

      BECAUSE ONLY 3% ARE THAT STUPID TO MAKE THAT ONE ANSWER. I though hey use more beams to surround a powerful beam minimizing the damage but also didn't say how the guns worked plasma my idea would be sound but not lazer beams and what is a ray?

    • @mochimochi6357
      @mochimochi6357 8 лет назад

      lmao

  • @Deathnotefan97
    @Deathnotefan97 8 лет назад +31

    You told me I only had _a_ ray gun, where did the other 9 come from
    In order for that to work, I'd have to set up a prism to split the outgoing beam into 10 beams, then uses precisely aimed mirrors to converge them from different angles at the tumor
    And that just opens the question
    Why the hell do the individual beams need to be at 10%? You could accomplish the same thing by using 2 beams at 50% each

  • @akarandomizer5858
    @akarandomizer5858 8 лет назад +234

    I thought : That guys said, "Imagine you're a doctor." So, imagine that the tumor disappears. Am I wrong?

  • @RossyFFA
    @RossyFFA 7 лет назад +27

    u did say “imagine you’re a doctor”, so who says I can’t just imagine a ray gun that doesn’t damage the tissue?

    • @nicenamehere5052
      @nicenamehere5052 4 года назад

      Ahahahaha that's what I imagined XD

    • @azizaarsalane7335
      @azizaarsalane7335 4 года назад

      Thats true this isnt 100 percent accurate it still has flaws but involves creativity

    • @lazyg3n
      @lazyg3n 4 года назад

      Those are just the conditions fool

  • @l.moontea
    @l.moontea 8 лет назад +178

    My answer was just imagine the patient without a tumor. Ha!

  • @hfkasdjhfkasdfsdjfhkajsd8961
    @hfkasdjhfkasdfsdjfhkajsd8961 8 лет назад +211

    Uhm... You said one ray gun. Not ten. Wtf.

    • @zuepernostril9269
      @zuepernostril9269 8 лет назад

      he bought them

    • @paulmcf1115
      @paulmcf1115 8 лет назад +20

      Doesn't say that you can do that. In the rules of the riddle, the gun is one of a kind, and can't be modified or improved. Or you can go the route of "but they didn't say that", which at that point you've entered into Deus Ex Machina territory, and litteraly anything that solves the problem is correct. "How do you get rid of the tumor" I improve the gun so that it doesn't kill healthy tissue now. That's the same thing.

    • @cupcakecake7606
      @cupcakecake7606 8 лет назад

      +PAUL MCF thats why you think out of the box teachers shouldve learned you not to study paragraphs by heart

    • @JohnSmith-rb6zj
      @JohnSmith-rb6zj 8 лет назад +1

      + Cupcake Cake "A" implies singular. This isn't a problem with education; it's a problem of the British guy not knowing how to speak English.

    • @JohnSmith-rb6zj
      @JohnSmith-rb6zj 8 лет назад

      ***** It appears you don't know how to speak English.

  • @ayme5868
    @ayme5868 8 лет назад +249

    GREEN IS NOT A CREATIVE COLOUR

    • @peachylenvy
      @peachylenvy 8 лет назад +3

      What's your favourite idea?
      MINE IS BEING CREATIVE

    • @ChaosophysOldYT
      @ChaosophysOldYT 8 лет назад +1

      thinking about it, since green is not a primary color, and the majority of people's favorite colours are red and blue, I'd say green is extremely creative.

    • @ChaosophysOldYT
      @ChaosophysOldYT 8 лет назад +2

      and yes I know the DHMIS reference

    • @peachylenvy
      @peachylenvy 8 лет назад +3

      TheDerpyDisaster
      Ikr?! Green is creative af! The notebook was just salty 😂

    • @uzairm3816
      @uzairm3816 8 лет назад +2

      If green is creative af how creative is f

  • @hassancohmdan9851
    @hassancohmdan9851 2 года назад +1

    What if you do not ray constantly but use a frequency on the ray gun. The intensity will kill the tumour but the energy will not build up on the tissue

  • @Felixr2
    @Felixr2 8 лет назад +158

    Holy shit 3% of the earth's civilization actually thinks the statement "you have a ray gun" means you can use ten ray guns?

    • @chitinousbones9230
      @chitinousbones9230 8 лет назад

      why the fuck is it ten and not two or three? Ofcourse only 3% of the population solved this.

    • @シランドラ
      @シランドラ 8 лет назад

      3% of people who were involved with the test... not 3% of the entire population. That makes no sense.

    • @シランドラ
      @シランドラ 8 лет назад

      John Holmes Wow that's hilarious. Not all of earth's civilization has seen that test.

    • @シランドラ
      @シランドラ 8 лет назад

      John Holmes lmao

    • @liannes5502
      @liannes5502 8 лет назад

      I just thought move it around each time using only one with small dosis :p

  • @pygmyrhino5515
    @pygmyrhino5515 8 лет назад +187

    I've got an answer for the matches one. Get another 6 matches because apparently were allowed to pull stuff out of our ass in these riddles, then make 4 triangles from 3 matchsticks each.

    • @xl000
      @xl000 8 лет назад +8

      That's thinking outside of the box; this answer is as valid as any other.

    • @sevenhundred77_
      @sevenhundred77_ 8 лет назад +4

      Pygmy Rhino lets just make a match house since apparently we have a match stick factory next to us...

    • @The-Blue-Knight
      @The-Blue-Knight 8 лет назад

      XD

    • @champagnefroggy3801
      @champagnefroggy3801 8 лет назад

      Lmaooo I'm cryiiing 😂😂😭

    • @ReloadingPlay
      @ReloadingPlay 8 лет назад +6

      Or just mould a (3D) pyramid with 3 corners and you're done haha

  • @shivamtyagi5365
    @shivamtyagi5365 8 лет назад +75

    0:09 You do have "a" ray gun.
    Now where does other 9 came from?

    • @CerseiDM
      @CerseiDM 8 лет назад

      +Shivam Tyagi man he was just mentioning the existence of the tool. Why would you limit yourself in the number of ray gun you can use when you're trying to cure a tumor?? x)

    • @jrhend1167
      @jrhend1167 8 лет назад +1

      +CerseiDM it's not that you yourself is limiting the number of ray guns using the term "a ray gun" implys you are only given one

    • @CerseiDM
      @CerseiDM 8 лет назад

      no but there you implied it was one of these little puzzle games where people deliberately limits yours resources and you have to find a crazy solution with ONLY the tools given. I believe the mistake people make here is to not see that this was a medical/real life problem and not a game. If you put yourself in the head of a researcher or a doctor, then you won't even think that the number of guns at your disposition to save a life would be limited.
      I think it's the way the question is asked (it looks like this kind of game with limited tools) that trick people and forbid them to see the answer. It doesn't mean people aren't creative, I'm sure if you tell people "it's a real life problem not a puzzle game" many more would find the answer.

    • @CerseiDM
      @CerseiDM 8 лет назад

      Snapping your fingers won't work. But if you were confident that operating was possible and safe, then yes it would be another solution to the problem (whether the people asking the question would accept the answer or not I would not care, a good solution is a good solution).
      But I do not possess the knowledge of whether operating is possible and/or safe. This video just told me about how ray guns work. So it makes more sense to first try to come up with a solution with the ray guns. If you can't find any, then looking for alternative solutions like surgery is good (and creative) rather than give up :)
      Surgery is probably way more dangerous than the ray guns though so it's cool that we have ray guns!
      PS: anyway I think their "test of creativity" is very flawed here.

    • @nathanielgreen8413
      @nathanielgreen8413 8 лет назад

      +FabledDaniel same

  • @tarantinodavide90
    @tarantinodavide90 8 лет назад +28

    i Thought I had only one ray gun so my solution was to use a series of well arranged reflective surfaces to make the low intensity rays pass the body only one time per part while making it pass multiple time on the location of the tumor. problem solved life saved money saved (I can use only one gun) now where is my success?

  • @DracaNova
    @DracaNova 8 лет назад +139

    You do have A raygun...keyword A meaning 1.

    • @alfa-aardvark7073
      @alfa-aardvark7073 8 лет назад +2

      I know! When I saw the answer I was like, but you said we only got ONE ray gun not 10... -_-

    • @relcojrproductions
      @relcojrproductions 8 лет назад

      thank you! that's what I was thinking

    • @kiyasuihito
      @kiyasuihito 8 лет назад

      OMG for realz!

    • @Tymon0000
      @Tymon0000 8 лет назад

      You can split the beam of one ray gun into multiple weaker beams.

    • @VixeyTeh
      @VixeyTeh 8 лет назад

      Creativity is the ability to think beyond limits. Imagining the ability till have more than one gun is the actual creative part.

  • @amanchandra
    @amanchandra 8 лет назад +88

    I said take two ray guns at 50%, but in the starting you said you have a ray gun, meaning only one

    • @williamknowles4532
      @williamknowles4532 8 лет назад

      A gun can fire more than one shot and can be moved between shots.

    • @BeepingSheep
      @BeepingSheep 8 лет назад +2

      +William Knowles The gun would have to move at a superluminal velocity (faster than the speed of light) in order to do what you have proposed. Even if you found a way to move the gun at the speed of light, which is physically impossible, the light would never intersect with itself to produce more than the original intensity.

    • @leozanna2861
      @leozanna2861 8 лет назад +2

      Reflect the beam set to 10% at least 9 times with some mirrors to the tumoral tissue and you're fine.

    • @darkpanda239
      @darkpanda239 8 лет назад +2

      +Leonardo Zanetti after each reflection, the intensity that each reflected ray carries keeps decreasing.... so it's not possible :/

    • @leozanna2861
      @leozanna2861 8 лет назад +2

      dark panda Then just set the beam to 100% put a prism that divides the beam in 10 and those 10 with mirrors get deflected to the tissue.

  • @nikolagaborov6389
    @nikolagaborov6389 8 лет назад +86

    You said "A ray gun" not "ray guns". You can't say that people who don't think of an answer aren't creative. They are just better at following the rules and thinking logically.

  • @jellybabiesarecool4657
    @jellybabiesarecool4657 8 лет назад +49

    Take 4 matches to make a square then take the other 2 and make a cross in the middle. You will then have 4 right-angled triangles.

    • @umnikos
      @umnikos 7 лет назад +7

      SuperEddie Gaming The sides have to be of equal length.
      The solution is to actually make a pyramid.

    • @yoavsigler4457
      @yoavsigler4457 7 лет назад

      Alex Stefanov
      how do you make a pyramid with 6 matches?

    • @LearnByDoing7
      @LearnByDoing7 7 лет назад +4

      SuperEddie Gaming the diagonal of a square is 1.414times the side of a square. if each stick is of length 'a' ,then the diagonal sticks should be 1.414×a.

    • @umnikos
      @umnikos 7 лет назад +2

      Yoav Sigler with a triangular base

    • @drj362
      @drj362 7 лет назад

      I realize I am a bit late to this effort, but the simplest answer I can see is make I triangle from 3 point up, then placing the remaining three so they form another triangle in the middle of the first point down, but excess match sticks out beyond sides of the first... easier to draw. End up with 4 triangles all inside the first, of equal sides, essentially half a match stick.

  • @cat-wi4un
    @cat-wi4un 9 лет назад +37

    how can there only be one solution to a creativity test?

    • @luckycrazything
      @luckycrazything 9 лет назад +1

      cat 95 There are possibly more. As the riddle did not specify how many intensities the ray had, I thought that a middle or medium intensity would be evened out, sort of like goldie-locks. It could kill the tumor but be harmless to the tissue of the skin.

    • @KevlarGorilla
      @KevlarGorilla 9 лет назад

      +cat 95 Another solution, the one I've heard of before I saw this video, was to mount the laser on a robotic arm that would move around the patient in a sphere, but track to always be aiming at the tumor. Reduce the power so that it takes a few minutes of concentrated firing to destroy a cell, and keep it moving. If the laser can't be moved, then the patient can be tracked around instead.

  • @telatomodosh7410
    @telatomodosh7410 8 лет назад +42

    You never said I had ten rail guns I was thinking of putting mirrors so that it would bounce off one mirror and be a little less strong then bounce off to another. Do this shot at 5 different points until all lowered shots hit the person. I think too much I should shut up now.

    • @Felixr2
      @Felixr2 8 лет назад +1

      THIS is actually a working solution, if you position the mirrors so that each time, you cut off enough to let 10% of the original ray pass through.

    • @freefalling75
      @freefalling75 8 лет назад

      o

    • @freefalling75
      @freefalling75 8 лет назад +6

      I'm pretty sure 10 rail guns would obliterate the person

    • @telatomodosh7410
      @telatomodosh7410 8 лет назад

      Oh it would actually work? Damn

    • @JakkFrost1
      @JakkFrost1 8 лет назад

      +Thomas Toledo ~ No that's not what he's saying. He's saying a rail gun (which you said in your OP and which is completely different from a ray gun) would completely destroy your vict... patient, not heal him.

  • @videogameguy9093
    @videogameguy9093 8 лет назад +23

    He said A ray gun, not ten god damn ray guns.

  • @razorbrickful
    @razorbrickful 7 лет назад +3

    "You do have A ray gun." - "The solution is very clever. You put TEN rayguns around the patient"

  • @BharathRamMS
    @BharathRamMS 8 лет назад +39

    How am I supposed to know 10 ray guns combined will not hurt the healthy tissues? You said it provides the same power.

    • @BharathRamMS
      @BharathRamMS 8 лет назад

      dodekeract How am I supposed to know all of those 10% will add up if focused? I don't how those things even work!

    • @BharathRamMS
      @BharathRamMS 8 лет назад

      dodekeract I somehow don't find it so obvious.

    • @flukewest
      @flukewest 8 лет назад +6

      At the point where all 10 of the ray guns converge, you have a high intensity beam I guess? So you get to pick and choose EXACTLY where that high intensity spot is. I got it wrong too, cause I thought I only had the one ray gun, and I had no idea how the rays worked. EM waves would have destructive or constructive interference, radiation doesn't seem to work that way, etc. The solution I came up with, given the sparse information and no mention of limits besides "Don't damage healthy tissue with the ray gun," was to let the patient die, then cremate them with the ray gun. The objective is to remove the tumor without damaging healthy tissue. Dead tissue isn't healthy. Etc.

    • @Keshaire
      @Keshaire 8 лет назад

      I know right? It's stupid.

    • @greeny3382
      @greeny3382 8 лет назад

      +hidethechildren it still ends up being the same power and you can concentrate 1 ray gun just as good of not better than 10

  • @philmills5652
    @philmills5652 8 лет назад +24

    Wouldn't The combination of low intensities from the multiple rayguns have the same effect to the tissue as one rayguns at high intensity???

    • @philmills5652
      @philmills5652 8 лет назад

      Raygun*

    • @JP-dh1xv
      @JP-dh1xv 8 лет назад +4

      +Philip Mills he also said "a Raygun" not multiple. The question was deceiving at the start.

    • @darkpanda239
      @darkpanda239 8 лет назад +3

      +Philip Mills but pointed from different directions so it means passing thru different tissues.

    • @paulmag91
      @paulmag91 8 лет назад +3

      +Philip Mills Actually not. Think of this comparison: If you hold a finger in a fire for 10 seconds you will get burnt and possibly permanently damage the skin on your finger. But if you hold each of your 10 fingers in the fire for just 1, or even 2, seconds, they will all probably be fine, with no permanent damage.

    • @YoudonGettit
      @YoudonGettit 8 лет назад +1

      +PaulMag But same with the tumor then...

  • @gino14
    @gino14 8 лет назад +23

    Hmm... still working within the rules of having *a* ray gun, couldn't you use a prism to break the ray up into 10 weaker beams, redirect each one through a mirrors, then focus them on a single point?

    • @ElectricQualia
      @ElectricQualia 8 лет назад

      It's possible, but since the refraction index is less than unity, the combined force would be weaker than the original ray. So not a great idea...
      You could always get a stronger gun, or increase the power or whatever. But that seems to be beside the point. I.e you wouldn't solve the paradox within it's original context, you would be changing the subject.

    • @bradsimpson8724
      @bradsimpson8724 8 лет назад +3

      Of course you can. It's a bullshit question. He gave us a problem - kill the tumour. He gave us our tools - a ray gun. He gave us the limitations - don't harm healthy tissue. Then he conjured up 9 other ray guns out of nothing. If that counts as a legitimate answer, then you can certainly apply a series of mirrors and prisms to the problem.

    • @tilmanrotationalinvariant2257
      @tilmanrotationalinvariant2257 8 лет назад

      it is also a very smart idea, because then u could use interference, beeing WAY more effective

    • @gabrele.ggreen3429
      @gabrele.ggreen3429 8 лет назад

      Hmmm .... Interesting perspective

    • @alexandrafedorova4257
      @alexandrafedorova4257 8 лет назад +1

      that's kind of similar to what I thought

  • @prithivi007
    @prithivi007 8 лет назад

    for the riddle with matches... make a square with four matches then use the other two as perpendicular bisector for both of the two opposite sides making 4 equal sized squares

  • @antonioricardopereiragonca949
    @antonioricardopereiragonca949 8 лет назад +22

    6 matchs 4 triangles.
    4 matchs do a square, plus 2 matchs in diagonal.

    • @edsondes.esilva7998
      @edsondes.esilva7998 8 лет назад +6

      Your triangles don't have sides of equal length.
      Brake the matches in half.

    • @antonioricardopereiragonca949
      @antonioricardopereiragonca949 8 лет назад +1

      +Edson de S. e Silva Ok, I missed the equals side part only made equals triangles, I can make them equals side.
      This is at least as valid as breaking in half to double matches.
      /// + \ and a match on top other on base.

    • @edsondes.esilva7998
      @edsondes.esilva7998 8 лет назад +4

      I didn't understand your answer. But I have a better one. Build a tetrahedron!

    • @VenomTheCat
      @VenomTheCat 8 лет назад

      i havent even tried becuase wasn't sure if it was equal sides to eachother triangle or all sides of all triangles need to be the same size

    • @g.seangourlay2593
      @g.seangourlay2593 8 лет назад +1

      sorry, they don't fill the space. it's kind of a small x in the middle of the square. unless you overlapped the matchsticks so the square was smaller.

  • @Kattholicism
    @Kattholicism 8 лет назад +47

    You guys said we had "A" ray gun which means we have only ONE ray gun. Not multiple rays guns so ur answer is technically not correct...
    Tho ofc I may be wrong...

    • @Fif0l
      @Fif0l 8 лет назад +17

      You need to buy milk in a vending machine for 3$. You only have a 5$ coin and the vending machine doesn't give change. There are no shops to get change, and your friends won't help you because they hate you. How do you make sure you won't overpay for the milk?
      You pay with a 3$ coin you have in your back pocket.
      Only 3% of the population are creative enough for this.

    • @Metqa
      @Metqa 8 лет назад +1

      If someone tells me I have only one item, I don't assume that I have two items instead. If I only have a ( article used for single nouns) $5, then that is the only coin I have, I could pay with 3 $1 BILLS, but not with coins because I have only A coin, but saying I only have this denomination coin means I have no other denomination coins.

  • @rockmandzx
    @rockmandzx 8 лет назад +7

    I understand the idea behind this but again like so many people has said before me you only said one ray gun. "A" means one. The reason why we didn't get that answer isn't because we're not creative its because those other change the parameters of the scenario. stating that you could have more than one ray guy would of giving the answer away but this question was flawed to begin with

    • @rockmandzx
      @rockmandzx 8 лет назад +3

      so your saying the real answer to riddle is to create a time machine and prevent him from getting sick?
      Or use alien technology and remove the organ operate and replace it back fully fixed?
      ORRRRR MAGIC!! All riddles have assumed logic and boundaries. I understand a person with prior knowledge to how ray-guns work would be at an advantage (if all ray-guns have the same) compared to the rest of us But if we just pick and choose our own limits its opens the riiddle up to an infinite amount of answers. All we know it has a high intensity and a low, the way its referred to is implied singular and the condition of the patient. Everything else is pure make believe!

  • @phatrick8848
    @phatrick8848 4 года назад +1

    "The ray" "a ray" "Actually the answer is a bunch of rays"

  • @bestaudio7315
    @bestaudio7315 8 лет назад +18

    This, like many other riddles online is crap. The riddle states that you have A raygun. Meaning one. If the riddle said you had 10 rayguns well then it's pretty darn easy to arrive at the answer now isn't it?

  • @alcusaco
    @alcusaco 9 лет назад +27

    The answer assumes that there the doctor has 10 ray-guns available when one of the first things said is that the doctor has a single ray-gun. No wonder only 3% 'get' the answer.

    • @JeezJeezy
      @JeezJeezy 9 лет назад +5

      Zander Cohen And why specifically 10 at 10%? Each "ray" would be 20% so you could just do 5 guns at 20% since the rays don't magically stop at the tumor site. And since we can have multiple, why not 2 rays at 50%?

    • @PointyGorman
      @PointyGorman 9 лет назад +2

      Zander Cohen you could just use a beam splitter, 10 ray guns are not necessary.

  • @FunnyBuns1
    @FunnyBuns1 8 лет назад +30

    I was under the impression that I only had one ray gun... not 10. I wouldn't have been able to figure this riddle out, given the information I was provided, and I'm sure a large portion of the 97% who get this question wrong feel the same. I don't find this riddle to be an accurate indicator of one's creativity unless creativity is considered putting your own spin on the premise. If that's the case, I can just say I was able to find a ray gun in my pocket that can kill tumors without damaging tissue and the answer to this riddle would be I'd just use that ray gun I found. Sorry, I just hate open ended riddles and how people think you get it wrong because you didn't arrive at the same answer as someone who believes they have the correct answer. In actuality, I believe a riddle like this is more of a thought experiment than a question with one answer that only 3% of people can solve...
    Other than that, I really enjoy your videos =D

    • @ajgrant9975
      @ajgrant9975 8 лет назад

      Perfect comment

    • @JoeHartiganFleming
      @JoeHartiganFleming 8 лет назад +2

      +FunnyBuns1 The real answer (as actually used in hospitals) is that you *do* only have one raygun, but you fire it from 10 (or more) different positions in quick succession.

    • @FunnyBuns1
      @FunnyBuns1 8 лет назад +1

      Now that's creative

    • @aboutdunn
      @aboutdunn 8 лет назад

      +FunnyBuns1 Not really a bit more intellectual

    • @noname89325
      @noname89325 8 лет назад

      +Joe Hartigan-Fleming this wouldn't really work since the whole thing has to happen at the same time, you can't move one gun to 10 different angles fast enough so that the rays will Hit the Tumor at tue Same time

  • @avivastudios2311
    @avivastudios2311 2 года назад +1

    I thought the solution was to bring the ray gun a few feet backwards to lower the intensity. Close enough.

  • @karldejong5731
    @karldejong5731 8 лет назад +14

    He said: "You do have a ray gun." One fucking ray gun. Not ten.

  • @lukutiss1324
    @lukutiss1324 8 лет назад +16

    There are 5,000 hungry people and you have a loaf of bread and a fish. How do you feed them? Take 5,000 bread and fish and give each person one.

  • @AFunkyHypnoCat
    @AFunkyHypnoCat 8 лет назад +52

    So if you rob up another 9 ray guns from 9 other people taking this test then they all fail? Unluckyyy

    • @MrPrice-je9sh
      @MrPrice-je9sh 8 лет назад +2

      I see you...

    • @AFunkyHypnoCat
      @AFunkyHypnoCat 8 лет назад

      Mr. Price Hmmmm

    • @taniwhab3860
      @taniwhab3860 8 лет назад

      +MrFunkyHypnoCat I know, you just happen to be able to phase yourself, fo you reach in with a scalpel and operate like that. Easy!

    • @xXZorganStudioXx
      @xXZorganStudioXx 8 лет назад +1

      i should not have scrolled down this comment just spoiled the answer for me

    • @taniwhab3860
      @taniwhab3860 8 лет назад

      +Ariphael don't worry there isn't a correct answer to this......

  • @Guonejo
    @Guonejo 8 лет назад

    The problem with the first one:
    a) You said I have A ray gun, not multiple.
    b) If a ray gun at low intensity doesnt kill the tumor, but one at high intensity does (and damages tissues), wouldnt 10 ray guns at low intensity have the same effect as one with high and still damage the tissue?

  • @natsudragneel7282
    @natsudragneel7282 8 лет назад +33

    there's just me saying "Put it in middle intensity"

    • @lukeh3234
      @lukeh3234 8 лет назад

      Same

    • @pd6192
      @pd6192 8 лет назад

      Ikr simple as that like wtf

    • @wallows8264
      @wallows8264 8 лет назад

      It said if you put it low enough so it won't destroy the healthy tissue it can't destroy the tumor so medium would destroy the healthy tissue

    • @debaratighatak2122
      @debaratighatak2122 8 лет назад

      me toooo :3

    • @icecold4411
      @icecold4411 8 лет назад

      Ye

  • @k8t636
    @k8t636 8 лет назад +4

    "A" ray gun as in a single ray gun. the phrasing in the question could be refined.

  • @itsquinlyn8806
    @itsquinlyn8806 8 лет назад +50

    just cut open the area, and shoot the tumor directly and then stitch them back up was my first thought when asked the question.

    • @SophiaCafy
      @SophiaCafy 8 лет назад +6

      That's what I thought too

    • @yasminamarie6211
      @yasminamarie6211 8 лет назад +3

      Me too I thought I was the only one

    • @jjith2005
      @jjith2005 8 лет назад +3

      I said that and just shoot them through their mouth

    • @HanibiSW
      @HanibiSW 8 лет назад +1

      I was about to say that but then I realized two things: you would be damaging the tissue so maybe that disqualifies the answer and you would still be hitting 100% power at the healthy tissue behind the tumor. Regardless with "A ray gun" the "creative" answer can't be the solution.

    • @Phoenixe1986
      @Phoenixe1986 8 лет назад +3

      You were not paying any attention to the video then. It says you cant perform surgery!

  • @xdukeyx
    @xdukeyx 8 лет назад

    to answer the end question, if you make a square out of the matches and cross the other 2 over you get 4 triangles of equal length. in quote of hanzo, sinple geometry.

  • @monkeybuttz25
    @monkeybuttz25 9 лет назад +75

    or just do medium intensity instead of cloning yourself nine times -_-

  • @aDotFromTheFuture
    @aDotFromTheFuture 8 лет назад +44

    Since when does "A ray gun" imply ten ray guns instead of just the one? Just a misleading question for a bullshit test.

    • @evanorlandomacdonald7511
      @evanorlandomacdonald7511 8 лет назад

      +aDotFromTheFuture
      ikr

    • @squibshot1121
      @squibshot1121 8 лет назад

      +aDotFromTheFuture That's the point of question. It's all hypothetical, you're supposed to use cognitive thinking to create a solution with very limited information.

    • @eav2820
      @eav2820 8 лет назад

      I was thinking the same thing

    • @pawgchampion9189
      @pawgchampion9189 8 лет назад

      Fucking retarted riddle. It literally gave ME a tumor.

  • @sgtsforge9636
    @sgtsforge9636 9 лет назад +31

    Lol, I just thought, "Oh just cut his healthy tissue open and sew it back later." XD I'm not creative at all.

    • @Yonkage
      @Yonkage 9 лет назад +4

      +SgtsForge :
      Pretty much. "Inoperable" just means the tumor can't be removed without damaging blood vessels or nerves that are closely entwined with it. Here, they can make a large enough incision to see the tumor, and then zap it. In real life, this is actually done with brain tumors, except they use liquid nitrogen instead of a "ray gun".

    • @lymonrad268
      @lymonrad268 8 лет назад

      Me too!

    • @angel-lw4tw
      @angel-lw4tw 8 лет назад

      I did it too

  • @coin3010
    @coin3010 8 лет назад +5

    in a creativity test should be more than one 'right' answer
    besides the most creative answer to a problem is hardly ever the most practicable

  • @ameliah2384
    @ameliah2384 8 лет назад +5

    "You have one ray gun to cure a cancerous tumor, what do you do?" "Use 10 of them" wow.

  • @Pierssy
    @Pierssy 8 лет назад +7

    Question says you have a ray gun singular not ray guns

  • @tylerwolf7021
    @tylerwolf7021 8 лет назад +37

    I said set it to medium

  • @ЛюбомирГайдарски
    @ЛюбомирГайдарски 8 лет назад

    If we assume that the tumor is in the stomach we can insert an optic cable through the mouth and use it to lead the laser beans directly to the tumor, also splitting the rays in ten and then rejoining them might cause damage to the nearest healthy tissue or simply resolving in a collected bean which hasn't got enough power to actually kill the tumor, because percentage of the beans power would be consumed while traveling through the healthy tissue before rejoining in the middle of the tumor.

  • @guiltyking1182
    @guiltyking1182 9 лет назад +25

    How about breaking all the 6 matches into 2 pieces.
    You'll end up with 12.
    12 (How much pieces you need) divided by 4 (How many triangles to make) would be 3 (The sides of the triangles)
    Tadaaa. *_Jazz hands :>_*

    • @GarketMardener
      @GarketMardener 9 лет назад +7

      +Guìlty Kìng “Smol Bun” Without breaking them just put 2 triangles on top of each other, one facing down and other up.
      You get 6 equal triangles on the edges of the 6-peak-star you just made
      i just beat the solution yeah bby B^)

    • @guiltyking1182
      @guiltyking1182 9 лет назад

      :0
      GASP.

    • @JLBat1993
      @JLBat1993 9 лет назад +3

      +GarketMardener Or just make a tetrahedron.

    • @GarketMardener
      @GarketMardener 9 лет назад +1

      JLBat1993 Yhea but i got 6 triangles you got 4 lel :^)

    • @Stabacs
      @Stabacs 9 лет назад +5

      build a square with 4 matches, take the other two for diagonals and you end up with four triangles

  • @graciepoopoonoonoodooblebu8010
    @graciepoopoonoonoodooblebu8010 8 лет назад +7

    The question implies that you only have access to one ray gun. People get this wrong because of the way the question is worded-they assume that this is current day real life and that you can't just pull 9 more ray guns out of your back pocket.

  • @sownheard
    @sownheard 8 лет назад +52

    why cant i use 100 Ray guns on 1%
    or 5 Ray guns on 20%
    why do i have to use 10 Ray guns on 10%
    can i use 4 on 25%
    can i use 2 on 50%
    as long as i get a Total of 100% my patiënt wil life

    • @wat5448
      @wat5448 8 лет назад

      Cuz anything over 10% damages the healthy tissues? I dunno

    • @Rowow
      @Rowow 8 лет назад +5

      Its all incorrect. This example can be directly correlated to lasers in real life. If you used 1 laser at 100 watts of power in one point, then you have 100 watts of energy in one point. However, if you use 10 lasers at 10 watts of power at one point, then you still have 100 watts of energy in the one point, which will still be as devastating at the 10 lasers at 10%.
      In fact lasers are being used this way to achieve greater burning power without needing a more powerful single laser. However in the end its just as destructive as anything else.
      The logic in this makes no fucking sense. how do hundreds of thousands of people cant understand it???

    • @ribohe7295
      @ribohe7295 8 лет назад +4

      +robert karas That's what I thought too. Wouldn't the lasers combined destroy the tissue just as much?

    • @Rowow
      @Rowow 8 лет назад +5

      ri bohe Yep, so it seems there are only a few out of the hundreds of thousands in this comment section that has figured it out. Really depressing as this is what happens when idiots attempt to make a science channel about theories. They spread bullshit information.

    • @anah1269
      @anah1269 8 лет назад +1

      +robert karas They go into the tissue in different areas. That's why the lasers are spread out around the patient, because all of the beams are hitting different points in the skin, yet they all center on the tumor inside of the tissue, thus not damaging the skin.

  • @davegecko7160
    @davegecko7160 7 лет назад

    Lay two matches in the shape of an X, inside a square made from the other 4 matches. It does not say they must touch or cannot be over lapping.

  • @bug9495
    @bug9495 8 лет назад +49

    He said A ray gun not 10 ray guns!Geez

    • @bayflingers9277
      @bayflingers9277 8 лет назад

      +Ema Žnidarec you could still take that one ray gun and shoot, then re-position to the next spot and shoot and get the exact same effect as proposed. Still gonna damage the other tissue though, but the DNA damage won't be as focused on one line of tissue...

    • @guesswho180
      @guesswho180 8 лет назад +1

      +ka da It has to be at the same time.

    • @bayflingers9277
      @bayflingers9277 8 лет назад

      wellllll actually from a biochemical standpoint any amount of radiation will damage cellular DNA and it does have a stack-up effect which eventually kills the cell so it does not have to be at the same time. Sort of like how it always takes several specific DNA mutations to form a cancer cell. In the real world (and this is actually starting to be done) one gun would work just fine and would be far more cost effective...
      But just to throw another solution out there, how about some reflectors that make it into several beams with one gun.

    • @aboutdunn
      @aboutdunn 8 лет назад

      +ka da I would of had taken a mirror and used the reflection over time. Like starting a fire with glasses.

    • @wat5448
      @wat5448 8 лет назад

      +ka da but there would still only be one beam in the end

  • @lemonke8132
    @lemonke8132 8 лет назад +91

    You said i had a ray gun to work with, not 10. Jesus christ. Also, it's not like there is only one solution to this problem, not everything else is wrong 😒

    • @lialewis5273
      @lialewis5273 8 лет назад

      +Definitely Not B8ing exactly

    • @sammid8763
      @sammid8763 8 лет назад

      Ikr

    • @qpqpqpqpqpqpqpqp
      @qpqpqpqpqpqpqpqp 8 лет назад

      +Definitely Not B8ing 1 ray gun is more dangerous because it destroys the healthy tissue in its path. Since there are 10 ray guns used with less intensity at different angles the healthy tissue isn't damaged

    • @alexshi8583
      @alexshi8583 8 лет назад

      in real radiotherapy they use 1 intense ray but its rotating around the tumor and has precision controled lead shields that change shape as you go around the tumor. so there is a solution using only 1 ray gun.

    • @Maddinhpws
      @Maddinhpws 8 лет назад

      Yeah if I can create 9 rayguns out of thin matter. I can also just kill the tissue with it and create a new one. Who said I only have 1 tissue to work with. No problems if it is damaged when I have 2 right.

  • @1FbPT2
    @1FbPT2 8 лет назад +52

    only 3% pass because its fucking worded in a way that implies you have only one ray gun, not ten

    • @bobbobbybeats7670
      @bobbobbybeats7670 8 лет назад

      True

    • @dmytrocrawford7860
      @dmytrocrawford7860 8 лет назад +1

      Exactly!

    • @angels3630
      @angels3630 8 лет назад

      But I got it right without focusing on the fact that he said A ray gun

    • @lyaz0939
      @lyaz0939 8 лет назад +2

      Would it work with mirrors? LOL xD

    • @ThomasParker12341
      @ThomasParker12341 8 лет назад

      I bet that this 3% would roll down to 0% if your life depended on the answer given the misleadingly worded riddle.
      It is because how the riddle is worded as “a ray gun” properly interpreted there is basically no solution, not even with special x ray or gamma ray reflective material since that is also so special that the riddle should have mentioned it that you also have those at hand. Normal mirror doesn’t reflect X- ray nor Gamma Ray but mostly only visible light and visible light would not go through the many organic layers like skin, bone…etc. thus would not work in the first place.

  • @silverspire5821
    @silverspire5821 7 лет назад

    about the match stick riddle, if you make a diamond/kite shape with some of the match sticks, then you can just make some sort of plus sign in the middle and then you have 4 equal sized triangles with 6 match sticks

  • @bradsimpson8724
    @bradsimpson8724 8 лет назад +6

    It's a flawed question that's lacking all the information. "But, you do have *A*(emphasized for clarity) ray gun..." Therefore, given the tools that we know we have to solve the problem, we have a ray gun. We don't have 2, or 5, or 10. We have A ray gun. That's pretty damn critical information. I thought for a little while about this problem, and couldn't figure it out. I'm not saying that I was going to get it if I knew that I had more tools, but my chances were definitely better. For people who actually listen to the way the question is phrased, this is a problem without a solution.

  • @tome4376
    @tome4376 8 лет назад +36

    What's your favourite idea? Mine is being creative.

  • @parabolicpanorama
    @parabolicpanorama 8 лет назад +15

    You have a ray gun
    Solution: Use 10 ray guns.

    • @madamelucy3626
      @madamelucy3626 8 лет назад +4

      +Ms. Chanandler Bong I thougt the same...

  • @lux2571
    @lux2571 7 лет назад +1

    But you could get the same outcome with only one ray gun going around in an exact circle while still aiming at the cancer because it would minimise the damage done to the normal cells because you wouldn't be hitting the same normal cells because the gun is moving around the body in a circle always hitting the cancer

  • @bangbangliu2146
    @bangbangliu2146 8 лет назад +17

    99.99999999999% of people:
    "You were implying that there were one ray gun, not ten!"
    Me:
    "I agree."

    • @alexcascione7478
      @alexcascione7478 8 лет назад

      100% agree I was mind pooped

    • @bangbangliu2146
      @bangbangliu2146 8 лет назад

      same

    • @ryanschulz7653
      @ryanschulz7653 8 лет назад +1

      Wait so does that mean 0.00000000001% of the people disagree or just the tips of their fingers disagree or what part of the people disagree? What 0.00000000001% of people disagree?

    • @angels3630
      @angels3630 8 лет назад

      But I got it right without focusing on the fact that he said A ray gun

    • @bangbangliu2146
      @bangbangliu2146 8 лет назад

      congrats :)

  • @porygon-z4503
    @porygon-z4503 8 лет назад +14

    Ten ray guns would damage, even at low intensity, but one ray gun shot in quick succession would do kt, try wording these things better

    • @someonenamevalencia7527
      @someonenamevalencia7527 8 лет назад

      actually no cause 3D X-ray are like this

    • @porygon-z4503
      @porygon-z4503 8 лет назад +2

      Mark Valencia He still needs to word this better

    • @timpowell4178
      @timpowell4178 8 лет назад +2

      Yeah but each section of tissue receives 10% of the radiation. The centre point of the cross gets 100% while the rest of the body only gets a small amount. What they do more in real life is rotate the ray gun around the patient if that helps it make sense

  • @sugarkitty2008
    @sugarkitty2008 8 лет назад +10

    the triangle puzzle answer is a square with an x in the middle right?

    • @breadc.8522
      @breadc.8522 8 лет назад

      Yeah, it is. Nice job!

    • @shanthanuashok9994
      @shanthanuashok9994 8 лет назад +2

      or a triangular pyramid... that too right?

    • @SO3rl
      @SO3rl 8 лет назад +2

      No, it's not. The two matches through the diagonal are not long enough.

    • @shanthanuashok9994
      @shanthanuashok9994 8 лет назад

      +Enemy MOAB correct👍

    • @kaine2694
      @kaine2694 8 лет назад +1

      oh.. i misread that.
      i made 6 triangles - david star..

  • @isaiahgomez5365
    @isaiahgomez5365 8 лет назад

    I would say bounce the low power off of a mirror or reflective surface then into the tumor so the tissue is safe, but since it has been magnified slightly by the reflective surface, it would still kill the tumor

  • @aarongould3538
    @aarongould3538 8 лет назад +12

    I thought it was a trick question since you said you had a patient that was about to die... So I figured no saving them

    • @lucamagnani5243
      @lucamagnani5243 8 лет назад +2

      actually that is right if he dies the tumor also dies and you dont damage the tissue

    • @richardhauer8391
      @richardhauer8391 8 лет назад +1

      If he dies the tissue rots (maybe it dies even before the tumor)......
      And if you can remove the tissue without killing him anyway, the whole question is nonsense.

    • @wowgrab7553
      @wowgrab7553 8 лет назад +1

      Aaron Gould Ohhhh good thinking!

  • @janzacharias3680
    @janzacharias3680 8 лет назад +33

    you do have A raygun. 1 and only one, i though

    • @janzacharias3680
      @janzacharias3680 8 лет назад +6

      quite misleading

    • @landonvago
      @landonvago 8 лет назад

      no it isnt...

    • @justabug1647
      @justabug1647 8 лет назад

      smh i thought the doctor only had one, too. I'm not very smart, so i was guessin' something like putting a magnifier in front of the ray. I don't evwn know if that would have worked

    • @loudrockacdc
      @loudrockacdc 8 лет назад

      Was going to comment this

  • @briddenattech
    @briddenattech 9 лет назад +12

    The question specifically stated "But you do have A raygun" meaning that I have but a single one...

    • @mathardo
      @mathardo 9 лет назад

      use mirrors ;)

    • @TheZerogravityzones
      @TheZerogravityzones 9 лет назад

      +mathardo a mirror cannot split a beam as far as I know.

    • @mathardo
      @mathardo 8 лет назад

      +TheZerogravityzones multiple mirrors can. Put them in a V shape and you have two put V shapes at the end of this and you have 4 etc.

    • @ifwz
      @ifwz 8 лет назад

      +mathardo Yeah, two beams each at half intensity...

    • @nickynick1507
      @nickynick1507 8 лет назад

      +mathardo it doesn't say you have mirrors.

  • @pyroinaustria2135
    @pyroinaustria2135 7 лет назад

    This is so true ,making music in your head is so easy you can make the most insane kind of beats in your head but most of the time they get lost cause you don`t have the time to write them down or stuff like that same with lyrical music