Can you cheat death by solving this riddle? - Shravan S K

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    You and your best friend Bill are the greatest bards in the kingdom- but maybe not the brightest. Your hit song has insulted the king and now you’re slated for execution. Luckily, Death is a connoisseur of most excellent music and has decided to give you a chance to escape your fate. Can you beat him at a life-sized game of Snakes and Ladders and live to sing another day? Shravan S K shows how.
    Lesson by Shravan S K, directed by Igor Coric, Artrake Studio.
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  • @TEDEd
    @TEDEd  Před 2 lety +1587

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    • @user-ed2pw1ne7ve
      @user-ed2pw1ne7ve Před 2 lety +5

      The king has instructed you that if you're at least 90% sure a contestant mis-added or cheated, you should disqualify them. The highest-scoring player who remains will be the new heir to the throne. After you explain the rules, the children run to their rooms. When they return, Alexa announces her score is 385

    • @user-ed2pw1ne7ve
      @user-ed2pw1ne7ve Před 2 lety +2

      *The king has instructed you that if you're at least 90% sure a contestant mis-added or cheated, you should disqualify them. The highest-scoring player who remains will be the new heir to the throne. After you explain the rules, the children run to their rooms. When they return, Alexa announces her score is 385*

    • @gabrielcurraj3994
      @gabrielcurraj3994 Před 2 lety +2

      These puzzles are the best thing in your channel

    • @ItsJericho
      @ItsJericho Před 2 lety +2

      :)

    • @QuikArabicLessons
      @QuikArabicLessons Před 2 lety

      "Every soul will taste death. And you all will be paid your rewards on the Day of Judgment
      So whoever is pushed away from the Fire and is made to enter the Gardens (Paradise), he has gained success.
      And the life of this world is nothing but a comfort of illusion". (Quran 3:185)

  • @viiranen
    @viiranen Před 2 lety +18107

    "-theyre not the brightest-" well theyre definitely brighter than me

    • @shakezmaybe3192
      @shakezmaybe3192 Před 2 lety +78

      @peepeepoopoo man is coming hmmm yes

    • @bdr1414TV
      @bdr1414TV Před 2 lety +352

      @peepeepoopoo man is coming I guess that proves his point 😂

    • @Puppeteer_in_the_Void
      @Puppeteer_in_the_Void Před 2 lety +12

      same

    • @Windja69
      @Windja69 Před 2 lety +32

      @peepeepoopoo man is coming r/woosh

    • @enbyfrogz6766
      @enbyfrogz6766 Před 2 lety +47

      @peepeepoopoo man is coming it's a single apostrophe on the internet man... chill

  • @youjustgotgooped
    @youjustgotgooped Před 2 lety +14566

    i like how according to this they somehow wrote an epic song about snakes and ladders

    • @hazelnut2457
      @hazelnut2457 Před 2 lety +245

      i swear i knew a song called snakes & ladders but now i can't find it anywhere

    • @tabcat
      @tabcat Před 2 lety +45

      @@hazelnut2457 Well, there's one by Joni Mitchell.

    • @hazelnut2457
      @hazelnut2457 Před 2 lety +131

      @@tabcat no, that's not it. it goes something like:
      let's play a game of snakes and ladders
      ... (something i don't remember) again
      can you keep it secret
      don't tell your friends
      don't tell your friends
      and it has kinda like a pop rock vibe
      i can't find it anywhere it's so weird 😳

    • @veryangrytomato
      @veryangrytomato Před 2 lety +26

      @@hazelnut2457 Did you look up the lyrics?

    • @hazelnut2457
      @hazelnut2457 Před 2 lety +19

      @@veryangrytomato yup

  • @honeycomb7332
    @honeycomb7332 Před 2 lety +2767

    Imagine playing music so good, even Death loves it

  • @dimitristripakis7364
    @dimitristripakis7364 Před rokem +682

    Fun fact = The chances to actually roll these sequences needed without magic dices are 1 in 7776 each.
    Chances for both of them to get out alive without magic dice are 1 in 60,466,176.

    • @vibwio.
      @vibwio. Před rokem +27

      r/theydidthemath

    • @valentinoromitti6005
      @valentinoromitti6005 Před 11 měsíci +37

      ​@@vibwio. 6^5 and 6^10, nothing complicated.

    • @agentoothbrush
      @agentoothbrush Před 11 měsíci +5

      @@valentinoromitti6005 sounds complicating

    • @chess1272
      @chess1272 Před 10 měsíci +4

      ​@@valentinoromitti6005 I think your answer of 6¹⁰ is incorrect

    • @Inkyminkyzizwoz
      @Inkyminkyzizwoz Před 10 měsíci +10

      There's no such word as 'dices' - 'dice' is already plural

  • @squishytoyfish
    @squishytoyfish Před 2 lety +5269

    Bold of you TED-Ed, trying to trick me into doing maths.

    • @hashblack11
      @hashblack11 Před 2 lety +13

      4:05 the guy in red takes more than 5 moves to reach the end. How is it possible? Someone explain plss

    • @tamirpolyakov1122
      @tamirpolyakov1122 Před 2 lety +29

      @@hashblack11 It's exactly 5

    • @chriswebster24
      @chriswebster24 Před 2 lety +32

      @@hashblack11 He makes 5 moves. He rolls 5,4,6,6,6
      + 5 = 5 (ladder to 15)
      + 4 =19 (ladder to 41)
      + 6 = 47 (first player already used snake so he stays on 47)
      +6 = 53 (ladder to 94)
      + 6 = THE END

    • @KingMatthewXV
      @KingMatthewXV Před 2 lety +3

      first time

    • @whoasked3677
      @whoasked3677 Před 2 lety +3

      @@hashblack11 read Chris Websters reply.

  • @S_A_L
    @S_A_L Před 2 lety +8162

    Alternative title: Bill and Ted-Ed’s Excellent Adventure

    • @ericstelzman5190
      @ericstelzman5190 Před 2 lety +149

      It certainly wasn't a Bogus Journey.

    • @ForAnAngel
      @ForAnAngel Před 2 lety +81

      @@ericstelzman5190 The Bogus Journey one was the one where they actually had to compete against death though.

    • @That_One_Gaming_Guy
      @That_One_Gaming_Guy Před 2 lety +45

      Don't you mean "Brilliant Adventure"?

    • @misterbrick4276
      @misterbrick4276 Před 2 lety +20

      I realized everything except for the fact that Our name could be Ted-Ed

    •  Před 2 lety +5

      "COOL"

  • @cozyflurry7807
    @cozyflurry7807 Před 2 lety +324

    0:45 I like how they are just happily vibing to the music not like theyre about to take part in a game that defines whether they die or not

  • @raptorthegamer5524
    @raptorthegamer5524 Před rokem +238

    You clearly mentioned that the musicians weren't the brightest, so them solving this puzzle is almost impossible

    • @DendrocnideMoroides
      @DendrocnideMoroides Před rokem +51

      They could be the second and third brightest people in the world though

    • @GustavoSilva-ny8jc
      @GustavoSilva-ny8jc Před rokem +15

      He just have high standards

    • @yayhina
      @yayhina Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@DendrocnideMoroidesthe first being the princess for having escaped death herself

    • @Misteribel
      @Misteribel Před 2 dny

      It's a simple puzzle that doesn't require math, specially for them.

  • @ayaanz350
    @ayaanz350 Před 2 lety +2260

    *Unfortunately, they're not the brightest*
    Also them: Figures out a ted-ed ridle

    • @bonegem2989
      @bonegem2989 Před 2 lety +10

      yeah wth?

    • @wowie357
      @wowie357 Před 2 lety +6

      I knowwww

    • @noob1n8or
      @noob1n8or Před 2 lety +2

      This one is really easy though.

    • @destinyjewel2588
      @destinyjewel2588 Před 2 lety +7

      They got High Int, Low Wis. Smart enough to solve a Ted-Ed riddle, yet not wise enough to not insult the King when he's right in front of them.

    • @psyche1182
      @psyche1182 Před 2 lety

      @@destinyjewel2588 👍

  • @proudbox5091
    @proudbox5091 Před 2 lety +2888

    And I thought my whole childhood that I have to avoid snakes.

    • @sharzo7728
      @sharzo7728 Před 2 lety +263

      You still have to avoid snakes because you can't predict or make the die role according to your favour..

    • @ManvinderSinghWalia
      @ManvinderSinghWalia Před 2 lety +136

      You don't have a magic die, so...

    • @MuhammadHanif-bx4pb
      @MuhammadHanif-bx4pb Před 2 lety +38

      well you at the mercy of your dice roll so...

    • @ValkyRiver
      @ValkyRiver Před 2 lety +21

      Snakes and ladders is usually a "zero-player" game.

    • @aakashmathur228
      @aakashmathur228 Před 2 lety +9

      Can we even avoid anything in game

  • @theogbatman9663
    @theogbatman9663 Před 2 lety +248

    Why did it take me so long to find out it was a little spoof of Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure?

  • @onetwothreefour386
    @onetwothreefour386 Před 2 lety +104

    Anyone else noticed the fact that when the reaper said “oh and btw” at the end of his explanation of the rules, he probably realized that the solution share a similar path, so he added the disappearing rule at the end to make it more challenging for the dudes.
    If this isn’t a coincidence then we’ll played

    • @deggery-oneaboveall3365
      @deggery-oneaboveall3365 Před rokem +2

      You are probably right , they did it to make it more difficult

    • @asdfqwerty14587
      @asdfqwerty14587 Před 3 měsíci +5

      I mean, if that rule didn't exist then whether there were 2 players or 1 or 999999 players would make absolutely no difference, as obviously if one player could escape then any additional players could use the exact same path.

  • @jovansoh
    @jovansoh Před 2 lety +4672

    Instructions unclear: Death didn't play snakes and ladders with me when I died

    • @EmperorProtects1
      @EmperorProtects1 Před 2 lety +44

      The lies...

    • @honkhonk877
      @honkhonk877 Před 2 lety +100

      did you instead go to hades and solve the hades riddle?

    • @satriyanto6741
      @satriyanto6741 Před 2 lety +29

      so how did you came back and manage to write this comment?

    • @jovansoh
      @jovansoh Před 2 lety +39

      @@satriyanto6741 I made a deal. One with a price to pay for the next time I die

    • @magiciansmagicmayhem5813
      @magiciansmagicmayhem5813 Před 2 lety +4

      @@jovansoh how much?

  • @nanopopquiz7460
    @nanopopquiz7460 Před 2 lety +2234

    Me: can't solve the riddle
    Also me: "Guess I'll die!"

  • @kenhaley4
    @kenhaley4 Před rokem +60

    This would be a great puzzle to solve with a computer program. So many things to consider (1) how to model the initial setup, (2) how to modify the model to make snakes and ladders disappear, (3) optimizing the search strategy, etc.

    • @asdfqwerty14587
      @asdfqwerty14587 Před 3 měsíci +2

      I think a computer wouldn't have much trouble brute forcing it. I mean, you only need to roll 5 times, so there are only 6^5 possibilities to check, which is easily doable by a computer. Once you've done it for the first player, you can discard all of the ones that didn't reach the end, and then repeat it for the 2nd player after each winning strategy for the first player.
      There are more efficient ways of doing it (well.. efficient in processing time anyway, probably not efficient if you include the time spent programming it since a computer can easily roll a die 6^5 times in under a second.. so if it takes you more than an extra second to program a more efficient one then it's probably not worth your time), but it's not really necessary to use them for this problem because there just aren't that many possibilities to check.

    • @kylethornburgh
      @kylethornburgh Před měsícem

      (1) The model could just be a simple array of size 100. A snake or ladder would be represented by an element containing the index of the player's target destination. All other elements without a snake or ladder would just be empty.
      (2) When a snake/ladder is used up, add a flag indicating which turn player 1 used that snake/ladder. If player 2 gets there on the same roll or after player 1, the snake/ladder no longer exists.
      (3) An optimized search strategy is the hardest part, of course, but you can break the problem into smaller chunks that are easier to manage. Like the video mentioned, you could work backward and keep a record of how many moves you are from the goal ("Okay, from these 6 spots, I can make it to the end in one roll. Which other positions allow me to get to any of these 6 spots by using one more roll?"). Or you can work forward and record how many rolls an optimized path would take to get to each successive element. If you reach a ladder path, record your current roll count in the destination position, but don't take that path quite yet. If you reach a snake path, check to see if that would lower the recorded roll count in that destination position. If so, follow that path and continue forward from the destination position with your newly optimized roll counts and update any previous records that are sub-optimal.
      I haven't fully worked out how to figure out player 2's optimized path when it requires a snake/ladder to be used up. But my hunch is just to remove the snakes and ladders player 1 used and re-run the algorithm again for player 2. If player 1 has multiple working solutions, run the algorithm for player 2 for each new setup. Not sure if this would work in every case though.

  • @alexkazama
    @alexkazama Před 2 lety +74

    I solved in reverse, starting from the top and going down. I figured there are only two set of stairs that can lead you to 100 hundred within a six dice throw. The "complicated" part was discerning which route could work if the other one goes first, but there is only one possible solution so i eventually figured it out (to my understanding at least)

    • @jiogcyihsugyiocjfdoivhphvw6821
      @jiogcyihsugyiocjfdoivhphvw6821 Před rokem +2

      yep and the video covered the solution, so u didnt get it

    • @davidsorensen2116
      @davidsorensen2116 Před 7 měsíci +2

      Both routes end turn 3 on 47 (prior to accounting for the snake). It doesn't matter which route is taken first to get there.

  • @boblackross3571
    @boblackross3571 Před 2 lety +2045

    Ted ed: Pause here if you want to figure it out for yourself
    Shrek: Closes book* Like that's ever gonna happen

  • @ClairandHerImaginaryCat
    @ClairandHerImaginaryCat Před 2 lety +2219

    Wow Ted Ed is getting more and more creative with these riddles

    • @ItsJericho
      @ItsJericho Před 2 lety +4

      :)

    • @Kermitthegod
      @Kermitthegod Před 2 lety +15

      I smell sarcasam

    • @Tengaii
      @Tengaii Před 2 lety +34

      @@Kermitthegod Yup, I prefer psychological riddles, but they do more of these mathematical ones.

    • @paluckkulkarni2524
      @paluckkulkarni2524 Před 2 lety +5

      Or maybe I'm just getting dumber :'(

    • @johnmeo1532
      @johnmeo1532 Před 2 lety +1

      Honestly they've always been top-notch in quality

  • @literallybest4482
    @literallybest4482 Před 2 lety +20

    A perfect example of gotham's "one step backward to make two steps forward"

  • @KyuuTomoyaki
    @KyuuTomoyaki Před 2 lety +24

    This is the easiest one I came across. My only hiccup was thinking about the "ladders and snakes disappear after one use" rule as only pertaining to ladders. It's also like 4am and I'm tired. But this is still the only TED riddle I've solved on my own.

  • @serhat757
    @serhat757 Před 2 lety +1280

    The takeaway message: Sometimes in life, you have to be eaten and then excreted by snakes to avoid death.

  • @AlfikaFYusuf
    @AlfikaFYusuf Před 2 lety +752

    "So.. can you solve the riddle?"
    "Well ozo, but actually ulu"

  • @goosifyed9717
    @goosifyed9717 Před 2 lety +8

    1:27
    Dream luck? More like nightmare luck.

  • @puppet4978
    @puppet4978 Před rokem +7

    "A true gentleman never leaves a puzzle unsolved." -Prof. Hershel Layton

  • @akashwalavalkar7313
    @akashwalavalkar7313 Před 2 lety +695

    The band: Defeats death itself
    Also the band: Insulting the king is definitely a good idea!

    • @MarMoif
      @MarMoif Před 2 lety +13

      Bands, am I right???

    • @driveasandwich6734
      @driveasandwich6734 Před 2 lety +12

      It's common practice in music

    • @predwin1998
      @predwin1998 Před 2 lety +12

      I mean, why worry about insulting the king when Death itself is on your side?

    • @KoyasuNoBara
      @KoyasuNoBara Před 2 lety +12

      To be fair, there _is_ a difference between intelligence and wisdom.

    • @jonquilgemstone
      @jonquilgemstone Před 2 lety

      They were too based to resist roasting a politician.

  • @typingname6276
    @typingname6276 Před 2 lety +561

    Moral of the riddle: Sometimes the obstacle is the way

  • @drwillfulneglect
    @drwillfulneglect Před 2 lety +23

    “It can land any way you wish”
    ok then, for me or lands on 99. game over

    • @johnnykirk1501
      @johnnykirk1501 Před 2 lety +1

      Yea cuz 6 sided die are known for landing on numbers bigger than 6.

  • @delphy2478
    @delphy2478 Před 2 lety +4

    it took me around 10 minutes but i figured it out before finishing the video and confirming my answer. it made me realize, the rules themselves often give away the solution. if you want a really hard puzzle like this, probably putting in a rule like 6 into a puzzle where it doesn't actually restrict the solutions or hint at the correct solution, to throw people off who try to use it in some way

  • @s.c4754
    @s.c4754 Před 2 lety +8317

    What I find most interesting about this is the princess. She gave the boys the magic dice. Which means she knew about the game. She knew what tools to use to escape death so she probably had to face death herself once and managed to escape. But that brings out another question where does she have the magic dices from?
    And also isn’t it beautiful how she gave them the one tool which could basically lend her immortality? If the boys failed the test she would never have gotten her dice back thus being able to die her next death.

  • @imeldasuryanti2335
    @imeldasuryanti2335 Před 2 lety +5274

    Ted Ed: "You won't find five turn routes anywhere else"
    Also Ted Ed: proceeds to explain another 5 turn route

    • @mrmurpleqwerty4838
      @mrmurpleqwerty4838 Před 2 lety +191

      the snek was in the way

    • @prakriti3702
      @prakriti3702 Před 2 lety +161

      they said we wont find five turn routes using exclusively ladders

    • @goosifyed9717
      @goosifyed9717 Před 2 lety +9

      (Proceeds to only use 5 turn routes)

    • @enlongjones2394
      @enlongjones2394 Před 2 lety +61

      @@prakriti3702
      The line was from later. After explaining the ladder/snake routes, he says that one of them is blocked by a disappearing ladder and snake, and that you won’t find another 5-turn path from the starting state. The answer is in *not* using the starting state; instead using the disappearing snakes and ladders to open a path that wasn’t there before.

    • @julianooms327
      @julianooms327 Před 2 lety +10

      “…exclusively using ladders.” This is why reading tests are important I guess

  • @chillstoneblakeblast3172
    @chillstoneblakeblast3172 Před 2 lety +11

    This was a really fun but easy riddle. The 75 Ladder really twisted my head as to how he will ascend, but then I realize, a snake will disappear and it opened the world to me

  • @matteo2042
    @matteo2042 Před rokem

    Ah I loved figuring it out. It felt so rewarding, when all of the rules applied to the solution!

  • @katelynwang4141
    @katelynwang4141 Před 2 lety +488

    The people who aren’t the brightest are certainly brighter than me

    • @deng7879
      @deng7879 Před 2 lety +5

      Is that really saying much though :p

    • @hashblack11
      @hashblack11 Před 2 lety +4

      4:05 the guy in red takes more than 5 moves to reach the end. How is it possible?

    • @TMD2352
      @TMD2352 Před 2 lety +7

      @@hashblack11 if you roll the dice 5-4-6-6-6 then it's 5 moves

    • @TMD2352
      @TMD2352 Před 2 lety +3

      @@hashblack11 no prob bro

  • @MocaHere
    @MocaHere Před 2 lety +482

    "imagine a real life snakes and ladders contest, there would be gigant snakes that you can slide on!" -theodd1sout

  • @StraightUpDoor
    @StraightUpDoor Před 10 měsíci +3

    within seconds of exiting the cavern, they sing a song about their adventure, which they could've planned beforehand
    this means they are both masters of improv

  • @jonathansmith4634
    @jonathansmith4634 Před 2 lety +5

    I found paths to get both of them out in four moves each though. Correct me if I'm wrong and explain why, please.
    Player 1:
    roll 1: 5 right
    roll 2: 4 left
    roll 3: 6 left
    roll 4: 4 left
    Player 2:
    roll 1: 4 right
    roll 2: 5 right
    roll 3: 6 left
    roll 4: 3 left

    • @ruin4805
      @ruin4805 Před 2 lety

      (A, on player one, you would end up at 26. (B, on player 2, you direct one up the board backwards

    • @kohwenxu
      @kohwenxu Před 2 lety

      What do you mean by left and right?

    • @Gotouchsomegrass-bs9nu
      @Gotouchsomegrass-bs9nu Před 28 dny +1

      Uh... You MUST move in the Ascending Order of Numbers.

  • @augury6840
    @augury6840 Před 2 lety +898

    The new “Bill and Ted-Ed’s Righteous Riddle” looks sick!

    • @raven4k998
      @raven4k998 Před 2 lety +2

      people cheat death all the time it's called suicide lol

    • @royalaza
      @royalaza Před 2 lety +3

      What i was thinking lol

    • @DarthVizzle
      @DarthVizzle Před 2 lety +5

      Outstanding movie reference!👏

    • @raven4k998
      @raven4k998 Před 2 lety

      @@DarthVizzle you cheater I will get you for that!

    • @louisedriscoll3227
      @louisedriscoll3227 Před rokem

      Beautiful reference

  • @shinyagumon7015
    @shinyagumon7015 Před 2 lety +679

    1. Confirmed that you have green eyes
    2. Ask Death to leave
    Also Excellent Bill and Ted reference TEDed!

    • @hashblack11
      @hashblack11 Před 2 lety +14

      Speed wagon ?

    • @reneiracurtis9198
      @reneiracurtis9198 Před 2 lety +9

      It doesnt work like that. YOU ask Death if you BOTH can leave NOT ask death to leave.

    • @julioaditya5876
      @julioaditya5876 Před 2 lety +1

      No they have red eye

    • @tiefighter3506
      @tiefighter3506 Před 2 lety +1

      Speedwagon best waifu

    • @molchat139
      @molchat139 Před 2 lety

      @@reneiracurtis9198 Yeah, that's what they said. Ask Death to leave. "To leave" is referring to you, the player, not Death.

  • @Pokestar732
    @Pokestar732 Před 10 měsíci +1

    That death was such a chill guy,man...
    I'd like to meet him someday.....

  • @soup9242
    @soup9242 Před rokem +2

    Step 1: Confirm you both have green eyes
    Step 2: Ask death if you can leave

  • @sukrati.2637
    @sukrati.2637 Před 2 lety +460

    This RIDDLE has a clear message: If you want to SUCCEED in life then you will need to face OBSTACLES.

  • @nHans
    @nHans Před 2 lety +322

    After 10 years of asking programming questions in job interviews, my mind is going:
    _"A backtracking graph search algorithm might work. Represent the game as a directed graph, with the tiles as vertices ... "_

    • @hashblack11
      @hashblack11 Před 2 lety +7

      @@shravansk hey so u r the one who created this riddle. Cool man

    • @hashblack11
      @hashblack11 Před 2 lety +1

      @@shravansk 4:05 the guy in red takes more than 5 moves to reach the end. How is it possible?

    • @shravansk
      @shravansk Před 2 lety +1

      @@hashblack11 no, he takes exactly 5 die rolls. Check again

    • @hashblack11
      @hashblack11 Před 2 lety +1

      @@shravansk sorry, my bad. Thanks fr explainin😄

    • @karenjeandiez8967
      @karenjeandiez8967 Před 2 lety +1

      @@shravansk there are other ways to get past this, right?

  • @martinstu8400
    @martinstu8400 Před 2 lety +1

    for all computer science junkies - it's a maximum flow problem: build a graph of all reachable nodes in 5 moves or less from the source, and then, find two non-edge intersecting paths in this networking using a maximum flow algorithm: set capacity of edge between rooms equal to some big number and capacity of edge on snake or ladder equal to 1. maximum flow on such network will yield two paths that do not intersect on edges. in fact this is extensible to N non-edge intersecting paths.

  • @Femaiden
    @Femaiden Před 2 lety +7

    took me till 0:52 to realize the 2 "bards" look like Bill and Ted. .

  • @splogxyz3339
    @splogxyz3339 Před 2 lety +118

    normal riddles: i walk on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three at night…
    ted-ed: can you CHEAT DEATH through this riddle?

    • @winnersduplicate554
      @winnersduplicate554 Před 2 lety +1

      but what does walk on four in the morning, two at noon, three at night?

    • @anubritsaha861
      @anubritsaha861 Před 2 lety +1

      @@winnersduplicate554 Ligma

    • @winnersduplicate554
      @winnersduplicate554 Před 2 lety

      @@anubritsaha861 but ligma died out entirely years ago. it was terrible.

    • @napoleon3026
      @napoleon3026 Před 2 lety

      It's the human life cycle 4 legs in morning means when you are a baby, 2 legs in afternoon when you are grown up and 3 legs in night means when you are old and use a walking stick
      Originally the riddle was 3 legs in evening and no leg in night where the latter means death

  • @yelloe_birb
    @yelloe_birb Před 2 lety +36

    imagine if you're about to be executed, and a princess who is one of your fans just gives you 2 dice

  • @muhammadzaydahmed3218

    I found the riddle answer. Completely delighted after solving my first Ted-Ed riddle. 🤗

  • @ayushtiwari8190
    @ayushtiwari8190 Před 2 lety +2

    Me:- _tries to dance_
    Bill:- *ye main kar leta hu, aap dream 11 pe team banao*

  • @anamsamiha7704
    @anamsamiha7704 Před 2 lety +199

    Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. - Langston Hughes

    • @kl4pp3d_78
      @kl4pp3d_78 Před 2 lety +10

      Sheeeeeeesh. I like that lol

    • @informationkidunya2
      @informationkidunya2 Před 2 lety +2

      Ops Life is meant for ladder. And death is meant for snakes. Let life be like getting higher and Higher and Death a begining of new life.

    • @informationkidunya2
      @informationkidunya2 Před 2 lety

      Ops Life is meant for ladder. And death is meant for snakes. Let life be like getting higher and Higher and Death a begining of new life.

  • @pietrosmusi6348
    @pietrosmusi6348 Před 2 lety +384

    I never thought that the actual grim reaper could be a Metallica fan, but hey, that's pretty cool.
    I love your riddles Ted, keep up with the good work

  • @chris_redd2453
    @chris_redd2453 Před 2 lety +2

    Playing games with death: Best five out of 7?
    Death: damn right!!

  • @jazzmarauder
    @jazzmarauder Před rokem

    I’m so excited, this was one of the first Ted ed riddles I solved on my own the first try!

  • @user-ed2pw1ne7ve
    @user-ed2pw1ne7ve Před 2 lety +286

    "Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is to relax"

  • @kishoureb6833
    @kishoureb6833 Před 2 lety +141

    Life is also just like this. Everything happens for a reason.
    1). You get ditched down in life (by snakes in video), so that you rise faster in some other ways.
    2). You miss an opportunity (disappeared ladder in video) so that you will get something even better.
    So, be positive even in hard times. Where there is a will there is a way.

  • @a_angry_bunny
    @a_angry_bunny Před 2 lety +8

    This riddle is actually pretty easy because you can literally just trace each path until you find two unique paths that reach the exit within 5 turns.

  • @arniclebarnold
    @arniclebarnold Před rokem

    Great video! I’ll make sure to remember this for when I die and need to play against Death in snakes and ladders using magical dice

  • @justinehercthehuman6941
    @justinehercthehuman6941 Před 2 lety +386

    Can't believe I was able to solve this one. My love for board games and dice has influenced me to do maths.

    • @elijahronbelt3407
      @elijahronbelt3407 Před 2 lety +3

      Awesome

    • @yYSilverFoxYy
      @yYSilverFoxYy Před rokem +12

      I can easily believe I could solve this. It’s been a long time since I played board games, and math is basically my oldest enemy, but...
      It’s 2 am and I’m bored. Meaning I can do anything as long as it’s completely useless.

    • @jiogcyihsugyiocjfdoivhphvw6821
      @jiogcyihsugyiocjfdoivhphvw6821 Před rokem

      everyone is able to solve it, drunkard

    • @giia9404
      @giia9404 Před rokem

      Yep

    • @neighbourskid
      @neighbourskid Před rokem +2

      nah, it's just too simple to solve

  • @tonyrogers4908
    @tonyrogers4908 Před 2 lety +198

    I know I can never solve these riddles but for some reason I still click it

    • @DanksterPaws
      @DanksterPaws Před 2 lety +3

      The curiosity

    • @meghana1113
      @meghana1113 Před 2 lety +3

      So that we can ask the same question to our friends 😉

    • @mywayforum
      @mywayforum Před 2 lety +5

      This one was actually pretty easy considering that all you had to do was to solve it backwards ;)

    • @marinvracevic
      @marinvracevic Před 2 lety +9

      @@mywayforum I solved it forwards, that disappearing snake almost got me.

    • @deaconblackfire2896
      @deaconblackfire2896 Před 2 lety +3

      Same I solved it forwards too, but not in the way the video showed

  • @Ichiy0k
    @Ichiy0k Před 7 měsíci +1

    Didn't know death was chill like that

  • @emretekmen1602
    @emretekmen1602 Před 2 lety

    This is the first and probably only ted ed puzzle ill ever get!!!

  • @sunandmoon139
    @sunandmoon139 Před 2 lety +14

    0:43 This is what my parents think of Rock/Emo Music 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

  • @langdonyeo8289
    @langdonyeo8289 Před 2 lety +78

    If I ever got dice that could land on any number I wanted, I'd go to the casino and make tons

  • @debayeuxchats5607
    @debayeuxchats5607 Před 2 lety

    I sat here and did my darndest to figure it out, and I thought I succeeded! So then I played the video and got the narrator straight up telling me one of my solutions doesn't exist...now I'm sitting here, counting boxes, frantically trying to figure out what the mistake was because I actually am TRYING to solve this one!

  • @samno2088
    @samno2088 Před 2 lety +2

    Wow. I’ve watched like 30 of these now and this is the first one I’ve been able to do lol

  • @ChronusZed
    @ChronusZed Před 2 lety +688

    I solved it by guessing that the gimmick involved using the disappearing objects to your advantage. I looked for a snake head which had a ladder 6 spaces away in each direction, since this is the only configuration in which a disappearing snake would save a turn. I then knew that the first player needed to use that snake and the second player needed to skip past it, and working from there it's easy to find the routes.
    I call this method "middle-out" deduction.

    • @williamhood7548
      @williamhood7548 Před 2 lety +45

      Winning like that always feels so cheap. I mean, I do it and its still winning, but its detecting and solving for tropes and likelihoods in the question itself, and considering the context in which the question was presented.
      Sorta like when your friend says, "You'll never guess how many apples I can juggle..." and you say, "6," based on a number that seems impressive to brag to a friend about, and you are correct. lol

    • @zyaicob
      @zyaicob Před 2 lety +3

      Brilliant, well done

    • @oktoay5865
      @oktoay5865 Před 2 lety +2

      Dude you are the real life L Lawliet

    • @addisonmarriott6131
      @addisonmarriott6131 Před 2 lety

      🧢

    • @Legovenom86
      @Legovenom86 Před 2 lety +6

      You’d make an excellent programmer!

  • @steeledminer616
    @steeledminer616 Před 2 lety +14

    Death: *Forces people about to die to play him in a contest, knowing they're musicians*
    Musicians: *Plays song about their contest*
    Death: "ALL ACCORDING TO PLAN!"
    Death doin the big brain plays

  • @RandomName87126
    @RandomName87126 Před měsícem +1

    This gon' be the start if my next dnd campaign

  • @claradipaolo571
    @claradipaolo571 Před 2 lety +34

    I’ve lost track of how many times cheating death has played into a Ted Ed lesson or riddle.

    • @99897767
      @99897767 Před 2 lety

      maybe, just maybe, they have found a way to cheat death

    • @claradipaolo571
      @claradipaolo571 Před 2 lety

      @@99897767 Idk I mean they haven't done a lot of research and thinking on this. ( Not to mansplain even though I'm a girl but that was sarcasm in case by some rare circumstance you didn't know that )

    • @torazely
      @torazely Před 2 lety +1

      Plot twist: the TEDed narrator is casually cheating death every day and these videos are his first hand accounts of how he did it.

  • @ghostderazgriz
    @ghostderazgriz Před 2 lety +57

    "Most EXCELLENT Music"
    hehehe Bill and Ted

  • @juicywumbo984
    @juicywumbo984 Před 2 lety

    Pretty simple, small thinking for about 5 mins but enjoyed it thank you ! Merry Chrysler

  • @TheStupidRaptor
    @TheStupidRaptor Před 2 lety +1

    It feels good to solve one of these riddles myself. Makes me feel smart.

  • @summerrocha-araujo6490
    @summerrocha-araujo6490 Před 2 lety +97

    I don’t know if my friend Bill and I could solve this but if we could, it would be a triumphant cheat! And a most excellent turn of events.

  • @ikigai47
    @ikigai47 Před 2 lety +29

    _"they're not the brightest"_ They figured out the puzzle AND wrote a song about it at the same time that was so good the king himself rocked out to it. I'd say they're genius

    • @themadvirus613
      @themadvirus613 Před rokem +1

      they wrote a song to save themselves because they did insult the king

    • @Abisso666
      @Abisso666 Před 3 měsíci

      It was not the best song in the world, it was just a tribute.

    • @ikigai47
      @ikigai47 Před 3 měsíci

      @@Abisso666 - So? Besides, no song, is 'the best song in the world.'

  • @gustakh83
    @gustakh83 Před rokem +1

    Finally, I have solved one after trying so many riddles of yours

  • @zeideortega6536
    @zeideortega6536 Před 3 dny

    I like that every riddle, each has a different drawing style

  • @Rantandum
    @Rantandum Před 2 lety +31

    I like this puzzle because it not only tests your problem solving skills, but also your ability to think backwards.
    Also, sick Bill and Ted reference. Most excellent! *Air-guitar riff*

  • @imajinerydeveloper3509
    @imajinerydeveloper3509 Před 2 lety +12

    That riddle contains good philosophy inside.
    Sometimes we need a ladder (success) and snek (fail) to reach the main goal (100)

  • @kyuboxincubox7556
    @kyuboxincubox7556 Před 2 měsíci

    This is one of the very few puzzles I was actually able to solve. I'm awful at maths so I'm usually out of the running for this, I just had to rely on brute forcing solutions until I figured out the optimal routes.

  • @zaneypal
    @zaneypal Před 4 měsíci

    This is the first TEDEd riddle I was able to solve!!!

  • @eddycabreja3332
    @eddycabreja3332 Před 2 lety +48

    Finally, after so much time, I've solved another riddle

  • @imafireingmylasar
    @imafireingmylasar Před 2 lety +60

    For once I actually spent the time to figure this one out, and it was pretty fun to solve.

  • @taninsabbir2464
    @taninsabbir2464 Před 2 lety

    It changed my insight and perception about Snake and Ladder game for ever...

  • @thegr1mr3ap3r8
    @thegr1mr3ap3r8 Před 2 lety

    Nice puzzle, solved it last second, after that last reminder of the disappearing snakes and ladders, it was harder than I thought it would be honestly

  • @dhruvkumarkanaujia
    @dhruvkumarkanaujia Před 2 lety +216

    death is so depressed he just want friends to play with him sNakes aNd LadDers

  • @andy19il
    @andy19il Před 2 lety +43

    I see, TedEd also enjoys fantasy and Bill & Ted

  • @athenaclark2567
    @athenaclark2567 Před 8 měsíci

    I solved it! On an unrelated note, this riddle's premise would make for an excellent prog rock song

  • @TurtleneckToby
    @TurtleneckToby Před 2 lety +1

    William and Theodore's Most Amusing journey

  • @thewaterleaf7929
    @thewaterleaf7929 Před 2 lety +26

    patch notes:
    the grim reaper will no longer be prevented from reaping souls due to band affilitiation

  • @daytonaa.
    @daytonaa. Před 2 lety +20

    These type of riddle videos are one of the absolute best from ted-ed.

  • @hateem8287
    @hateem8287 Před 7 měsíci

    The way i figured the puzzle out was by realising that most likely there was a success condition that needs to be created, so what i thought of was that this condition would be a snake that would come between two 6 rolls to get to the ladder, so the 'condition' snake would be one that's 6 tiles away from a ladder, which is only the one at 47. Then based on this condition i would assume a route that eliminated that snake while reaching the top in max 5 moves. Feels great when it all connects together 😍

  • @afrinchowdhury204
    @afrinchowdhury204 Před 2 lety

    I don't know why this was popping in my home for like months,i was just (i don't know the word) to watch this!

  • @nanwijanarko1969
    @nanwijanarko1969 Před 2 lety +6

    Thanks TedEd! Keep them riddles coming. This is fun. Seriously considering the annual Brilliant subscription.

  • @imcatwoman3738
    @imcatwoman3738 Před 2 lety +11

    The animation here is so funny yet the artist is massively talented

  • @GreenCat42
    @GreenCat42 Před 2 měsíci

    In this video, you are the perspective of TED, and your counterpart is Bill. The allusions in this video are great.

  • @antonioaes
    @antonioaes Před rokem +1

    I am Brazilian and here this game is unknown. It was a pleasure to learn it here. I have heard about it only in american cartoons

  • @katsukibakugo6157
    @katsukibakugo6157 Před 2 lety +16

    That was a most excellent adventure, ted-ed! *epic air guitar*

  • @Masterhene3
    @Masterhene3 Před 2 lety +70

    A: throw 1 die to get to that rly big ladder, then just keep throwing double 6's with the 2 dies.
    Sure your partner is gonna lose with out a die to throw, but you're gonna beat death easily.
    EZ

    • @yuvrajbaheti6867
      @yuvrajbaheti6867 Před 2 lety +2

      cant use two dies lol

    • @Masterhene3
      @Masterhene3 Před 2 lety +12

      @@yuvrajbaheti6867
      1:58 where in the rules does it state that you cant have 1 person throwing 2 dies?

    • @Szobiz
      @Szobiz Před 2 lety +1

      @@yuvrajbaheti6867 that rule is not specified

    • @copterinx0468
      @copterinx0468 Před 2 lety +12

      @@Masterhene3 Actually it does. Rule 2: A move consists of rolling A DIE...not dice.

    • @Lucario0007
      @Lucario0007 Před 2 lety

      The real treasure is the friendship you made along the way

  • @HikiOmo
    @HikiOmo Před 8 měsíci

    Glad I wasn't too dull

  • @AfaqueAhmed_
    @AfaqueAhmed_ Před 2 lety +1

    Man , that princess's got confidence lending you the dice of immortality itself .