Can you solve the dragon jousting riddle? - Alex Gendler
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After years of war, the world’s kingdoms have come to an agreement. Every five years, teams representing the elves, goblins, and treefolk will compete in a grand tournament of dragon jousting. You have the important job of recording the scores for the inaugural tournament. But, you overslept and the games are already underway. Can you figure out the real score of each match? Alex Gendler shows how.
Lesson by Alex Gendler, directed by Artrake Studio.
This riddle is adapted from a puzzle that originally appeared in Puzzles for Pleasure, by E.R. Emmet.
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I like to think that Gorbak genuinely wanted to help you and knowing about his curse, he figure out a way to lie such that we were able to find the actual values.
How to be sure ? I mean if 1 match played is false then it cud be either 2 matches are played .. or no match is been played both .. how do u conclude 1 option
@@insiya_taj The scorecard says the elves played 1 game and won none, meaning you know they have played either 2 or 0 games, and won 1 or 2. Because you know they have won at least 1 game, you can rule out that they have played 0 games because you can't win the game if you don't play. Therefore the elves have played 2 games. You also know from the scorecard that the goblins have not played two games. With that knowledge the only possible answer left is that the elves played 2, the goblins played 1, and the tree folk played 1.
@@insiya_taj because each team had played at least once and no team can play more than twice.
But you could only answer the riddle with the info you got from your boss, which was completely unrelated to Gorbak
@@hrianboyer928 well if Gorbak wrote 10 to every number then you didn't have any clue also
ted ed: can u solve the dragon jousting riddle?
me at middle of night with my two remaining brain cells: *No*
Too true.
it's 2:49 am rn
Useless.
It’s 4:25 am lol
I actually did it guys
Plot Twist: The Boss was the one, in reality, who was cursed to lie.
so if ur fail the riddle, u can still keep ur head
Ya because he won’t review your card, and even if he did, he would lie about it being correct.
*yep*, **_that's_** ***_me_*
wait but since you got the scorecard correct, wouldn't you die?
Plot twist both of them lied
“Hey Gorbac, can I have my money back?”
“No.” “God damn you”
-Gorbac proceeds to hand you the money
-you forgot he only lied
"yes"
ulu
This is beautiful.
@@RafaelMunizYT okay
@@RafaelMunizYT hmmm ozo
Dang he offered his life savings to solve a riddle
His life savings ended up saving his life
Better than losing a neck lol
Brilliant.org in a nutshell
@@Noone-rl8db Nice.
But the wizard is a liar and therefore didn't take his life savings. That's why he got the money back at the end!
_"No one has noticed your absence"_
I felt that.
Summary of my life.
Press Y to same
Me: Y
I get it u r very sad in ur life.......
I'm onestly very quiet and don't get involved in stuf so,nowon wod notice me eather
Pretty much my actual job
@@aideng-0.033 Y
What gives people feelings of power
Money:
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Status:
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Solving TedEd Riddles:
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Memes
winning the dragon jousting match
Aaron Jarvis that gives you status
This was one of the easier riddles, actually
Being the First to Make a Green Eyed Joke in a TedEd Riddle:
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moral: either be smart or wake up early
Oh no I’m failing at both
*S (H) AME*
@@jacobclements3652 Well then off with your head!
@@topanimation9554
What if his eyes were green?
@@jacobclements3652 TO THE GUILLOTINE!
The riddle was so interesting that everyone forgot that they got clickbaited about dragons.
:(
It's a riddle about dragon jousting soo where's the bait
Neither the dragons nor the jousting play a role in the riddle. In fact they are barely mentioned. It could be chicken racing and nothing would have changed.
@@NPCrash that is the name of the riddle, what you gonna call the riddle then? Lying wizard trick to lose scores of three magical creatures jousting competition that you sleep late and still manage to be there or your head will be cut? I don't get the clickbait. It still a riddle. You Click the video because you want the riddle, and pretty much, everything is mentioned
@@loljay3281 scoreboard riddle?
“If your boss, the head tournament official, find out you’ve been sleeping in the job, you’ll lose your-“
Me: job?
“-head.”
*oh.*
Lol! I was thinking the same thing.
i mean tenlcy you lose yoru job to then
I mean if you get it wrong that's a political struggle you're possibly sparking
I was like “eh, I can get another job” and then I was told I’d lose my head.
No I could not get another job.
don’t lose ur head.
Yo my mans ankles broke when he heard
“All he does is lie, even in *writing* “
1:55 "You laugh along" (DIES INSIDE)
The premise of this riddle is amazing, enough to turn into a full story.
Nova Terra blessed be
Indeed, squirreling this away for my DnD campaign
Nova Terra hi
I dare a DM to use it. Although I feel like it would take the players at least three sessions to figure it out
Harry Potter and his low budget team
I solved this at work while hoping my boss didn’t catch me. Irony is fun.
Wow
You solved this
@@SongokuJidai lol.
Not irony
@@SongokuJidai hahaha
This is exactly why I like these Riddles; They're not obtuse, and are actually connected to the senario at hand.
That said, I would wanna see more riddles in this setting specifically; a world formerly ravaged by eternal war, put into an uneasy peace, with riddles and puzzles around every corner that have real consequences for failure, be it minor or major, for both you and the world itself.
Sounds like it'd make great D&D.
No Game No Life, but Ted Ed basically
Well, you got your wish
@@kojibrosasaki9856 is no game no life similar to what op described ? if it is i might start watching it because i really find it interesting..
Hope everyone is doing good. Sending support and hearts! ❤️❤️❤️ Stay safe!
Step 1: Confirm that you have green eyes
Step 2: Ask the boss if you can leave.
wat
Why is eveone referencing that one video?
@@Mihau_desu I'm curious as well...
@@mikemagnus9447 he/she is telling us that from the "green eyes riddle" you can leave if you have green eyes [but at night :( ] so you can escape the tournament if you have green eyes so you can avoid being beheaded
Basically it's, "i didn't do my job so I'm dead to my boss, to avoid that I'm going to escape through that window *points*"
@@princessevangeline410 I was wondering which video it came from...
Give Gorbak a break, ok? He didn't choose to lie, he was cursed with it. He wasn't trying to hurt us, and I don't blame him. Love you Gorbak!
Ozo
@@ringwormboy1575 uh oh not that one
o7 Gorbak
Maybe he was practicing to start a new career in politics?
He knew he was cursed, and provided you exactly the information you needed despite it. Gorbak is a champ.
Friend: wyd?
Me: laying in bed watching ted ed riddles that l can never solve
Time well spent
@@TEDEd indeed, indeed my friend
I've watched every ted ed riddle but I never solved one
@@user-sg6ss1ux1w lol same
Ed Caluag lol.
Life savings that actually saved your life
*"Impossible"*
Tree folk and Elves ended up getting the same score, and center realm's new owner could not be chosen. This sparked a catastrophic war between the two, which is on track to wipe out both nations. You, as a goblin war tactician (and former jousting score keeper) must decide when the tree folk and goblins are weak enough to be attacked and destroyed by your armies, and do it as soon as possible, to minimize damage dealt to center realm. The cursed wizard "helps" once again, and another riddle begins!
And so another riddle begins...
I was actually able to solve it. Great riddle.
Same haha. This one was comparably easy tbh.
@@dragonoid296 I agree. Finished it in 5 minutes. :D Usually I take a stab, get lost and say I have better things to do... to make myself feel better lol
Lucky
Haha me too...... It was easy though
Yeah!! It is my first riddle that I solved
This felt like a weird version of Sudoku.
I've been playing alot of Sudoku recently and I thought the exact same thing. This riddle is about as hard as a Medium difficulty Sudoku.
I literally thought the same thing
Cry Whit It's Medieval Sudoku
@@VCardGaming I'm glad I paused the video to read the comments. I actually love sudoku which means I could actually solve this one if I tried. Guess I'll actually give it a shot and see if I could solve at least one TED-ED riddle
Thought it was only me...
1:35
I think if the Head Tournament Official had a bit more time, he would’ve narrated the entire history of Earth.
Took me a moment to figure out that the tournament was still going.
Me: *sees new riddle*
Riddle: *Can you solve this riddle?*
Me: *offers life savings*
just put them in a bag, take them, out, repeat this, and you got two extra live savings
Looking up from my paper I exclaim: "I solved it"
The tournament headmaster looks at me, "I've been watching you mapping out the numbers for a while now, your minute ended long ago. Hope you're not too fond of your head".
Pretty much. I felt great finally being able to solve a riddle without any help (meaning it must be ridiculously simple), then realised it took me way too long...
Alternately:
You: *solves it very quickly, before the head official gets back*
Head official: Why are so many of these numbers crossed out? Did you mark the scores wrong?!?
@@epikitee2186 You have to change it as it goes anyway, since it asks for totals.
@@Enaronia Some numbers are going to raise a lot of suspicion if changed, namely the scores of the already-completed games.
@@epikitee2186 Not if they're greater than one. You need to mark it for each score. The scorecard is poorly designed, which you can probably turn around and blame on your boss to protect yourself.
Or, I was actually thinking it's a well-designed card for a fantasy setting and you can alter it once you have the correct answers.
1:42 ok, by this point is evident that the boss is just trolling him...
4:54
"The first 833 of you to visit..."
That's an oddly specific number. Is there some mathematical significance to it?
5/6 of 1000
Umm thanks?
833 is approximately 5/6 of 1000
This is the first ever Ted ed riddle I was able to solve
Same here
It's my seconds first was einstein's riddle... But the joy is beyond anyhting
Me too
Congrats!
2nd to Einstein riddle, love these kind of riddles
When you can’t call it middle earth, so you call it central realm...
The in between Area
C o r e s e c t o r
@@cadenarmistead2633 _C o r e R e a c t o r C r i t i c a l , M e l t d o w n I m m i n e n t_
I bet the boss is going to be real suspicious about these X's on my scoresheet...
In all seriousness, love this one. Been watching the riddles since before the dinosaurs. These riddles have a very nice, fun, and cute exterior with logical puzzles on the inside make me very excited to try and solve every one that is thrown my way.
One of my favorites! It’s fun, simple in its concept, and great characters.
This one was pretty fun. Didn't think I could do it until I started to eliminate possibilities.
Anyone else just watch this for fun and never actually try to solve the riddles cause you know you’ll probably never ever solve it or is it just me
ME EVERY SINGLE TIME
Lol me too its so hard
Yeah sad ain’t it lol
Nah bro. I try every time.
Wanna know my success rate ?
0% 😔
Me
Ted Ed: You've been given a job to record the scores
Also Ted Ed: **Shows a troll**
Truth Hurts
I actually think that character is supposed to be a halfling, not a troll...
So... if this wizard is one of the refs, and he says everything all good-
iSnT hE lYiNg?
Maybe everyone knows about it, so he just says the opposite of what he means at all times and people get it?
@@washada but then that would be violating the curse. At least depending on how the curse actually operates. Like for example how roundabout you need to be to convey true information? I imagine a curse like that would easily block that, but maybe a method that has a extremely roundabout to convey info might work. We could try testing these methods by questions with answers are obvious. For example 'is the sky blue?'. If these methods are proven to work, there. But what if it doesn't work like that. What if the curse looks at the mind directly and sees if it should be modified. What if it just alters it directly? Well getting a working method would be very hard. Very, very hard.
he just doesnt say
Thank you TED for always making these riddles so exciting and tough.Dragon jousting is now a hobby, I am willing to look in to!
Keep posting these Ted-Ed
We love them
0:32
"The games are to be conducted in absolute secret!"
*NEARLY 1.5 MILLION VIEWS*
So much for absolute secret.
he actually didn’t give away *all* of his live savings, as he spared one silver coin for some reason
but was it gold on the other side?
@@hi-wu7ju good one
Why do dragons often sleep during the day? So they can fight knights.
This is a much much much better riddle!
🤣🤣🤣
I solved it! Yaaayy!
This is the only good thing that has happened in 2020 so far.
I love Ted-Ed riddles, please keep publishing them!
I'm so proud of myself, I never manage to get these! Would have liked to see the full completed card somewhere in the answers though, so it was easier to be sure I was 100% right without basically doing half the work a second time.
*The Dragon Riddle:* _* exists *_
*Me:* O_O
As a dragon, I can say the same
I kno how you feel
LOL
"Knowing that something is false, is a meaningful information in its own right."
Ok quarter of a Boomer.
@@obamabinladen2206 alright, karen
I love how they believe in me enough to solve a riddle. It’s so sweet! And very insulting because I can never solve any of these
First time I can solve SOME part of the riddle. Loved it, I NEED MORE OF THESE
He spent his life savings to literally save his life.
My head got chopped off :(
🤔
My head got chopped off because I forgot to write the scores at the bottom.
Uhm F
hmmmm i know! *gets doll head and stitches on* now haunt people!
0:14
Sounds like a fair compromise.
These riddles teaching me so many ways to get out of deadly situations that I will def get into some day
This is the first Ted riddle I have actually solved it myself.
Ted-Ed: "Can you sol-"
Me: "No, but i will still watch the video and try"
Haven't watched one of these in years! Glad I came back to them on a relatively simple one... I remember having a fairly poor strike rate in the past.
I've been watching these riddle videos for I don't know how long and I finally actually solved one correctly! I'm so happy!
These riddles are always a pleasure to watch and solve! Thank you for uploading those!
Solved it...
We really love to solve these logic puzzles. Please keep uploading more riddles.
"Come here solve our riddle about jousting dragons!"
*rirddle is actually about correcting a scoreboard*
This was the first one of these riddles I was actually able to solve on my own wow.
Ted-Ed: Can you solve-
Me: Unlike some people, I will at least try to solve it, but if I’m wrong I will not be ashamed...
Every time Ted-Ed uploads a riddle, the comment section is filled with people making joke about how they can't solve the riddle. It's gotten so old/annoying at this point.
Noodle Expanding at least some people will try but yeah the comments section is toxic AF
1:02 "no one has noticed your absense so far"
Uhh...that hurts...
Less so than the headmans ax I image.
no one can see you man, how you will get noticed even if you were there....?
According to this, man, we're also supposedly a troll...
Hope everyone is doing good. Sending support and hearts! ❤️❤️❤️ Stay safe!
This riddle was one of the only ones I got right, and my whole process was basically the whole video. And it feels good.
0:56 "WHY DO I LIKE MORE PRETTIER THAN USUAL THIS MORNING?"
This time I will solve it by myself!
That one was pretty fun, huh. It might need pen and paper but still!
This is the only ted riddle I’ve ever solved. Happy!
Your riddles give me chills stop the scary plots!!!!!!!!!!
I got everything he just said. That's the story and I'm sticking to it.
At this time :- 2:13
Me :-
**Grabs pen and paper**
Also Me ( after 0.001 sec ) :-
**Confused Screaming**
Same bro
Nice and simple riddle for us to solve!
Good job to people who tried (& solved it)
I loved the animation 🤘🏼 appreciation for the guy how made this
*Me, board AF with 3 last brain cells*
*Ted_Ed uploads Riddle Fiddle Video*
*My Brain : they are grooving*
Yo I can never do these but today I was like “NO IM GONNA DO THIS ONE!” And I actually did it!!!!
Can't believe I solved it! After a few tries between matches I got it. Amazing riddles!
Super important tournament that decide the ruler of the realm, also no one noticed the guy who's supposed to be keeping score is absent
omg i took 30 minutes to solve this and the way he explained is so simple, easy and fast lol
0:43 Wow, that's the finest I've ever looked
WOw. That was really a wild riddle there. Wild set up and crazy eventual solution. Straight what to that.
massive motivation boost for me there, i actually solved this one! I wasn't going to solve it until i realized that solving "games played" was trivially easy.
Thank you! This was actually a solvable riddle it's like a reverse SUDOKO!!!
My first time I answered correctly 100% in this channel (well 2nd time but that riddle ages ago was very easy so it doesn't count 😂).
1:01 why am I holding the finger at the sky?
First time actually really trying to solve one of these and being successful. Neat riddle!
About time you guys released a new riddle! XD
1:49 who speaks like that!!!, if i spoke like that in school i would have been bulied for sure
1:15 wow I'm also involved in corruption as I am bringing someone there
solving this riddle restored my self esteem after the twin paradox video. Thanks TED-Ed!!!
I’d really like to solve this for myself, but I have no idea how the “hits scored” and “hits received” relate to the wins and losses. Am I the only one who doesn’t know the rules to jousting? Is it first hit wins? Best two out of three? First to be two hits ahead of your opponent? I can’t help feeling that the narrator should have explained this.
You can solve it without knowing the rules. Doesn't matter how many passes, most hits wins.
In real jousting, they do 3 passes. 1 point for landing a hit on your opponent, 3 points for breaking your lance on your opponent, and 5 points for knocking your opponent off their horse. Both opponents can score on the same pass, i.e. if they both get knocked off their horse it's 5 points each.
This scorecard however is only marking hits dealt and received, so point values don't matter.
I had exactly the same problem, glad I wasn't the only one being confused
TED-Ed: Can y-
Me: No, please leave my 2 braincells alone
Random user under every_single_TED-ed_riddle video: "TED-ed: Can you...? Me: NO"
In the meantime: Literally nobody: HAHAHA, very funny!
Ok memer
I have waited long for the next riddle
Hands down my favorite puzzle!
Tedx: *"Dragon jousting!*
But... It may have nothing to do with jousting and is about the scores..."
_Why am I not surprised._
....Would you have preferred a case study of the dangerous effects of jousting on the bodies of elves, goblins, and trees?
@@Irondragon1945 I would’ve preferred more intimate scenarios rather than a sidelined character
I understood everything up to and including "after centuries of war"
This is the first TED-Ed riddle that I've managed to solve! 🎉
This riddle is cool and all, and definitely a fun brainteaser. Gives me some sudoku vibes.
But I'm lowkey just proud that my elf lads/lasses are winning. XD
Agree! I was thinking Sudoku or Sherlock vibes.
I feel like a genius. I got it all correct.
1: confirm you have green eyes
2: ask the wizard to leave
Definitely one of the best riddles
YAY! I DID IT! Thank you Ted-Ed. Keep em coming.
"Yet not a single match with a combined score of more than 5 hits" seems like an odd thing to say when there hasn't been a match with 5 hits.