Can you solve a mystery before Sherlock Holmes? - Alex Rosenthal
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One day in the fall, you called upon your friend, Sherlock Holmes, and found him in conversation with Jabez Wilson. Wilson had been working for the mysterious League of Red-Headed Men. Today, he arrived at work to find the group had disappeared, and now turns to Holmes to make sense of the events. Follow the detective and see if you can solve this adaptation of one of Sherlock’s most famous cases.
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Anyone else whose love for 19th-century literature was sparked by our wonderful detective?
The society of the red headed men is from a sherlock holmes of the twenty second century episode
please use simple English don't use heavy words i am not able to understand
I'd love more riddles like this!
I always love how this story opens with Watson witnessing an intriguing mystery... Of Sherlock talking to a ginger.
underrated comment (hes more of a redhead though)
@@desihirohamada What's the difference?
@@FREYALOVESSTRAWBERRIES gingers are more orange, redheads are more.... well... red
@@desihirohamada Ohh that makes sense. Thanks!
Even funnier the whole thing about "A" words Sherlock mentioned is about Wilson's time while reading an encyclopedia
“As a rule,” said Holmes, “the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.”
The Case of the Red-Headed League.
One of my timeless favourites.
Actually, Holmes never said a word...it was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
@@SMichaelDeHart Fiction is all about imagining a world where characters portrayed by the ink of pens are real.
But you are not wrong. In the end, it indeed was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who concocted these words and this spectacular chronicle of genius mysteries.
@@manhazaman4178 I was just teasing...
My favorite part of the story is when both Sherlock and Watson stop his story just to laugh at the guy for a minute for accepting the shadeiest job imaginable before letting him continue
I laugh so hard at that part😂
They seriously need to make more of these Sherlock Homes style mystery videos! They’re so good!
I agree 😃
I have read this particular Sherlock Holmes adventure a few times before, so I knew the answer beforehand. However, I really appreciate the setup to make it accessible to everyone instead of the standard "Sherlock solves it with his own intellect and intuition". A very well done video with excellent storytelling for a new audience!
So Correct. PLEASE MAKE MORE MYSTERY STORIES IN THIS NARRATIVE STYLE!
@@AbhaypratapKaramsot seconded
😊😊😊
I think it was nearly impossible to get without having all the answers, also it wasn't clear what they meant by clue
This was a real story? Dang. Were you able to figure it out from the book? I managed to figure it out from the video, but all the major clues were crammed into two minutes.
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth".
Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
from "The Sign of the Four", right?
@RenoApostoli yes and no. It's the most commonly used quotes/phrases that Holmes states in numerous stories, both in the novels and short stories.
Only if world is deterministic
I love this quote. It’s actually valid
@@user-zb8hc2im4e indeed
So, if they just left the League open for another day, they would have gotten away scot free? That’s gonna haunt them for a while, ouch
Yes, because it's closure was one big hint the tunnel was done. That's how Sherlock knew they're going to attack that night.
@@OreoFresa Also is why the client bothered to go to Sherlock at all.
This riddle was quite easy. You just had to ask the pawn shop owner "If i asked you "Is the person in your left green-eyed?". If the answer is "ulu", then you take the 23 "The Soul" card. If the answer is "ozo", then make all the population flip two coins. If they are both heads, then activate thrusters A, B, and D. If they are both tails, arrange the Greeks in such a way they don't know which color is their hat. Then, if you solved it correctly, they would enter the rave and you would have to go to planet 7. Assuming the Paradoxes start in a blue intersection, add one egg to the silver coins pile. After that you just distribute the dots in a way that you don't own any tax to Fate, and report to the police that everyone in the town is a werewolf. But, if your instrument is not in its box, open the prime numbers lockers and discover the password, which opens the fifth house of the MMM Macademy. You also have to account that it would take you 15 minutes to cross all the contaminated rooms without using snakes. That means that the fish tanks can only fall from the 27th floor. That's the only way you can create a blue triangle only being able to use the +5, +7, and √ keys.
By the way, there is a shortcut to solve this. You have to make sure you land on winning numbers and only flip the lever A. After that, just separate the batteries on groups of 3 and 2 to know which are the possessed ones. And congratulations, you just saved your town and your head.
Lmao the ozo and ulu💀
No way you just referenced the Alien Gods, Green Eyes, Tarot Deck, Fantasy Election, Death Race, Trojan War, Prisoner Hat, Giant Spider, Logician Rave, Seven Planets, Egg Drop, and Dark Coin riddles
All in one solution
Hats off to you
@@sihuahn99 And also the Paradoxes, Schrodinger's army, the fluffy creature, the coin dungeon, the interdimensional problem, the water escape, and like 5 or 6 more but I don't remember the names lmao
THE AMOUNT OF WORK IN THIS
What
I am a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes and have read all of these stories because my dad used to read them to me. It is crazy to me that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle could think up of these stories that made sense, were interesting, and created such a following back in his day. This was always one of my favorites. I like your riddle series but I already knew this one because I read it already.
Doyle was not the one to invent the mystery novel (in A Study In Scarlet, Watson mentions previous fictional detectives--C. Auguste Dupin by Edgar Allan Poe, and Monsieur Lecoq by Emile Gaboriau, which were important influences on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work), but he did improve on the formula and was excellent at writing works in that vein.
This is what the sherlock holmes stories should have been! The stories make you understand sherlock's thought process very well, but except for one or two, they don't let you be the detective. This video allows you to follow sherlock's thought process decently well but it lets observant people be the detective, and becoming the detective and cracking the mystery without help. The best.
Try Agatha Christie. There you get a fair chance of guessing the culprit
@@unemployeddude704yh they mentioned her before on the channel aswell in a video. Wonderful author
If you want a case of a genuine Sherlock Holmes mystery in the tradition of the "fair play" mystery, before those rules were codified, may I suggest "Silver Blaze". The only bit of information hidden from Watson before the conclusion is a relatively noncritical one.
I love how their hair is continuously flowing in the wind
TED-Ed animations are too underrated. Top notch work🩵
this story has a special place in my heart, seeing as it convinced me to read the entire series
Do you know which book this was?
@@tahlequah the adventures of sherlock holmes, if im not wrong
The most amazing part for me was Sherlock showing up in the middle of the night with the bank manager and chief of police. The man is so connected!
And them apprehending the robbers. Imagine nowadays how a bank manager and chief of police could even dare to do that.
Please bring more of Sherlock Holmes' stories. We all would be glad.😊
Please make more of these. It was quite fun and engaging. Also, loved the animation style.
You should do more of these. Sherlock Holmes is one of my favorite detectives, along with Lt. Columbo and Nick Charles.
I'd love to see more videos like this from Ted-Ed. I enjoy puzzles like this that reward attention to detail and lateral thinking, and they're a welcome break from the more involved Ted Riddles (most of which are too math focused for my tastes). I hope you guys create more of these!
I keep coming back to this video as I found it entertaining. I wish there was a channel dedicated to telling the story of Sherlock Holmes in this kind of manner; brief but detailed.
animation hits hard everytime! shoutout to the animators & the guy narrating this video👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you so much TED-Ed! I've been watching since the pandemic and you have saved me in school so many times with these videos, I stumbled on this one before a test on the book The Red-Headed League and its helped me understand it sooo much better. THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!!!
Absolutely love this type of video!! Make these for other mysteries please❤
I solved it! Sherlock tapping the sidewalk with his walking stick and the shot at the view of the buildings around told me it was going to be about the bank, and ofc, if it's about the bank, it must be about a robbery. I guessed Wilson's assistant is the thief and I quessed he is John Clay, but I completely forgot about the red-haired Duncan Ross. And I thought Sherlock asked about the directions to the Strand, which as I checked in google, is a river, because he wanted to check if the assistant knows the directions, 'cause that would imply he might want to escape on a boat with whatever he stole, but that wasn't even mentioned again xD
What is the relevance of the tapping of the sidewalk?
@@eugenetswong English is not my first language, I meant tapping on the sidewalk with his walking stick, I fixed it now. It's like when people are searching for sth hidden behind the walls in movies, they tap or knock on the walls and if the surface behind the wall or floor is hollow, it sounds differently than normal. So Sherlock gauged that a tunnel must have been dug. I'm sorry i kind of think you were confused because I forgot to mention that the tapping was due to the walking stick before, but I'm not sure so I explained it all.
You had me at Sherlock Holmes. Thanks for making this for a new generation!
Ted Ed, please, make more videos like this one!!
I remember this story as a kid. Proves information and small clues ain’t useleless
One of my favorite Sherlock Holmes stories in the book.
I always believe I'd be able to think of an answer to these puzzles/ riddles and I only end listening to the answer. Great animation!
I really liked this one! 😀 I've read a few Sherlock stories, but I hadn't come across this one. Still, the clues were well placed and I had fun searching for them and figuring out the culprits. I just didn't know the whole plan, but the mystery in itself felt very accessible. A professor of mine usually complained that since Conan Doyle is one of those who begin the detective novel genre, he didn't lay clues for readers to figure things by themselves, so sometimes it feels only Sherlock could do it and solve things. This was a really cool way of adapting the mystery. Hope you post more of these!
Please make a playlist for every Sherlock Holmes story, it's really good!
Pleeeease make this a series!
I really love the artstyle and animation of this.
I've both read this story and watch the Granada TV adaptation, so this is all intimately familiar to me, but I hope others who werent familiar with this iconic case enjoyed trying to solve the mystery!
More of these. Brilliant!
We need more of these !!!
Elementary my dear Ted! 🎩
Please do more of these!
Sherlock Holmes novel is always captivated me with his exceptional intellect and his ability to solve complex misteries❤❤
Love the art style
Your riddles are the best.
Amazing !! .. Sherlock Holmes stories always are the best!..
We need more of these
WE NEED MORE OF THIS!!!!!
2 riddles back to back? THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE.
Please do more of theseee!!
I loved this story when I read it. I listened to an audible book containing *nearly* every Sherlock Holmes book narrated by Stephen Fry. It only costed 99 cents! Absolutely worth it.
MORE OF THESE PLEAAASEEE
can you do more of videos like this? Featuring other sherlock holmes stories. Thank you!
I paused the video and solved it myself. I'm happy that I did. Thanks for this Ted Ed.
The fact that he got in touch of Sherlock Holmes is amazing
I am so pleased that one of my most satisfying cases has been turned into a Ted-ed video with incredible animation.
No way is this the REAL Sherlock?
@@suspiciousshadeofgreen don't be that suspicious
@@sherlock1854 Dude it’s in my name
@@suspiciousshadeofgreen And my identity is in my name as well....
@@sherlock1854 Yeah if your trying to solve crime maybe don’t put your name in your yt tag?
I really liked the beautiful artwork on this one!
I loved this, thank you!
do more of these. best riddles
@TED-Ed Please make more videos like this. But please take all the time you need.
Fun concept! Keep it up
Love the art !
We want more videos like this!!
This should be a series of videos.
Loved this book as a kid
I actually got this one, which really surprised me. It's very different to the riddles usually posted here but I was able to figure this out with relative ease.
ted told knows how to animate a vido its visually stunning! the hair! it moves!
I'm honestly proud of getting halfway there!
I do remember reading this some years back
i love this story but i think you could add more to make it even more impressive for example he pulled out his hare to test him thus leaving it at the seen of the crime as well as learning how to copy his hand writings through the book what he wrote all leaving a note in order to frame him from the crime this would work especially well since he use to be a mason and could dig the hole
This is a retelling of the original Sherlock Holmes story written by Conan Doyle so it wouldn't make sense to add extra stuff as cool as it might be
I guess it'd be too obvious to mention the supposed passion of the assistant with photography, and how this passion necessitated him to develop the film in the basement🧐📸
Or that Watson almost mentions the bank was almost back to back with the pawnshop.
@@OreoFresayou can see that in the video
It'd be so awesome if TEDED made a choose-your-own-adventure riddle video where every riddle character fights every riddle antagonist to save the riddleverse
I like these art more than yer previous videos that don't blend together
Love your content 😊😊😊😊
Didn’t ask liberal 🥱
I was close, but not right.
I thought Jon Clay disguised himself as the other guy with the fiery hair. He had the red headed man work at uncommon times, so his disappearings would seem strange to the people around him. Clay would then rob the bank and leave behind the strands of hair he took from the red headed man, who disappeared every day for a certain amount of time. And while everyone suspects the red head headed man, Clay would flee with his pockets full of loot.
I missed a lot of the clues😅
It's because there's a lot of missing details like that he was working for half of the real salary (which made him suspicious), that he almost pushed Wilson to the office to take the job (the people didn't part ways) that Ross supervised Wilson during the mornings at the start and the "photography hobby" done in the basement that alerted Holmes about the tunnel.
_Mysteries are marvelous_
Sherlock Holmes is ze best! :3 And not just coz of Sherlock himself and his cases--but also coz of the wonderful bromance between him and Watson.
Petition to cover more Sherlock Holmes stories! :D
Ted ed, this animated version of the Red-headed League is wonderful. Please make more videos about classic detective fiction ❤
P.S. I love this animation style so if you decide to animate more Sherlock Holmes stories, please keep it!
I learned this chapter during my English classes in the 8th Grade! we even acted it out as a play!
I love that the riddle is actually a logic puzzle and not a maths problem like in the past 😃
I have studied Psychology and Philosophy.You must have an Open-Mind,and
never leave any stone un-turned.
More Sherlock adventures😊
I had to make a plot diagram on this so I hated it but seeing this video has got me interested in Holme’s tales
I saw some stuff in the begining but I was confused until you mentioned there are clues. I got 4/7 of clues, still knew who has gonna commit the crime tho it was kinda obvious
me myself dont really watch or read sherlock holmes, but i do really loves mysteries... so question is, what is up with the french gold (named in the book), why is it a clue???
Jeremy brett's Sherlock Holmes shows this story in such a correct manner that it is uncanny to find it so similar to the words of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Jeremy Brett ❤
I knew this because there’s a game which has a mystery that starts similarly, and the Holmes-alike character jumps to this conclusion right away, but it isn’t true in-game and the game makes fun of it.
Something's off about the clues listed: Holmes commented that the peculiar job requirements were the first thing that shows something's going on, and since there're 2 clues about the gold (not sure if "Operation Midas" is in the original), it would be better to put that in instead.
Early Sherlock just hits differently.
I find this story very interesting.
Between taking a strand of his hair and large samples of his handwriting on every English word, I figured this was gonna be a framing of some kind
"Sherlock homeless"
Tf 💀
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Bruh
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can this be considered a wxs reference
astonishing, but sadly when the question was posed I already knew the answer. I had watched a future-ristic style cartoon episode about Sherlock in the future and a robot version of the long ago departed doctor Watson with this very mystery though different elements the cores of them remained the same but the story continued to what happened to the red headed bank teller afterwards and it was a lovely ending
Ah yes Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd century - after watching while sick I couldn't tell if the whole thing had been a bizarre fever dream
Not sure if anybody noticed but for Duncan Ross his hair isn't like Wilson's orange red hair like the rest that were of the "Red Sea" where his seems artificial with how red his hair is with not a trance of a bit orange.
Can we have more of Sherlock Holmes pleass
Holy heck, I actually got it.
EDIT: So apparently, this was an actual Sherlock Holmes novel, so I suppose it’s spoiled for me. Still, I’m glad they made this accessible version for people to puzzle away at. I had to run through the video about 3-4 times before I figured it all out.
i love sherlock holmes stories
I got confused and thought this was a ted ed riddle video and kept waiting for the question XD
What I got: the assistant is John Clay, the notorius thief from the body shape and left earring
He must be working with Duncan Ross for something, and wanted to distract Wilson from it, and the only crime shown that worth the effort must be the bank
So I just guessed John Clay wanted to rob the bank
I missed: french gold (I noticed the french flag, but never thought of it as gold), Dust and hollow ground (tunnel)
I guess I got half the riddle correct, loved the narration
This is the fastest I've ever clicked on a notification
Sherlock is the G.O.A.T of solving cases
He didn’t even ask if at least one of the red heads had green eyes. If the answer had been ozo he could have just used the checkerboard to trap the bad guys. If ulu he would have known which pirate had the treasure at his feet.
Can't believe they referenced this in The Great Ace Attorney 💀
Except, the solution is entirely different. And much more tragic.
heard of the red-headed league case via the great ace attorney
I read this before!!! OMG I KNOW THIS!!! I HQVE THE BOOK ABOUT IT!!!