Can you solve the dark coin riddle? - Lisa Winer

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    Solution to the bonus riddle mentioned at the end: brilliant.org/tededcoinflip
    You heard the travelers’ tales, you followed the maps, and now, you’ve finally located the dungeon containing a stash of ancient coins. The good news: the wizard who owns the castle has generously agreed to let you have the coins. The bad news: he’s not quite as generous about letting you leave the dungeon ... unless you solve his puzzle. Can you solve it and get out alive? Lisa Winer shows how.
    Lesson by Lisa Winer, animation by Artrake Studio.
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  • @TEDEd
    @TEDEd  Před 6 lety +748

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  • @chrisj403
    @chrisj403 Před 6 lety +5834

    If my nose came out of my forehead I wouldn't be so generous either.

  • @theob3515
    @theob3515 Před 6 lety +6954

    When the torches went out, there shouldn’t have been a problem. His eyes and teeth glow in the dark

    • @cyclops6506
      @cyclops6506 Před 5 lety +92

      Actually, yeah

    • @326inminecraft
      @326inminecraft Před 5 lety +23

      Theodore Budgen so is his eye

    • @monticha3274
      @monticha3274 Před 5 lety +9

      Theodore Budgen lol

    • @aregulargamer4144
      @aregulargamer4144 Před 5 lety +16

      What is he a garden dragon from how to train you dragon books

    • @tracydu8052
      @tracydu8052 Před 4 lety +23

      Maybe you have GREEN eyes. So you should just ask the Willard to leave do you won’t be tossed in the volcano

  • @meatman6908
    @meatman6908 Před 5 lety +7338

    step 1: confirm you have green eyes
    step 2: ask the wizard to leave

  • @robyyc4960
    @robyyc4960 Před 4 lety +3411

    Riddle: "There is a surprisingly easy solution."
    Me: OH I KNOW!
    (Pulls out quantum physics manual)
    Me: Now, let's see here...

    • @tomcarr7732
      @tomcarr7732 Před 4 lety +27

      i'm sure you will get it now lol

    • @Kirtan007
      @Kirtan007 Před 4 lety +88

      Well if the velocity of the coins is zero then the position of the coins is not defined.(assuming that you don't affect the coins while observing)

    • @NuggetOG
      @NuggetOG Před 3 lety +19

      i will use quantem magnetism to make the heavier side go down, leaving all coins to be in the same side, and then count the amount of coins andthen split it equally

    • @prerakgames4668
      @prerakgames4668 Před 3 lety +4

      Nothing has anything with quantum physics

    • @jeremythomas4744
      @jeremythomas4744 Před 3 lety +14

      Actually if you toss the coin the gold side should fall on the bottom, as gold is denser than silver. Do that with every coin a few times just to be sure then split them in any pattern, then you get 0 silver sides up on both sides

  • @rohanjeetdas5707
    @rohanjeetdas5707 Před 6 lety +6629

    "You just realised there's a surprisingly easy solution."
    No I didn't.

  • @dudeitsmilena
    @dudeitsmilena Před 3 lety +1932

    this is the only riddle i have ever actually solved from ted ed. i just want to mark this moment with a comment. amen.

  • @keheck
    @keheck Před 5 lety +1560

    The real riddle is: How did I remember seeing 20 silver-up coins, when clearly I was occupied with other studd?

    • @Ponera-Sama
      @Ponera-Sama Před 3 lety +87

      And some of the silver facing coins were underneath other coins

    • @RafaelMunizYT
      @RafaelMunizYT Před rokem +54

      this man's eyes are like a fourth of his total height, they gotta be good

    • @reprochr2804
      @reprochr2804 Před 5 měsíci +3

      studd=stuff

  • @pahoellyyy
    @pahoellyyy Před 5 lety +1238

    "You just realized there's a surprisingly easy solution"
    Of course!!
    Keep watching the video

    • @anuragshukla1891
      @anuragshukla1891 Před 4 lety +2

      hahaha.....good one

    • @joeypencil5368
      @joeypencil5368 Před 4 lety +5

      In any Ted-Ed riddle, there is always at least 2 guaranteed treasures: how to solve the riddle, and comments like these HAHAHAHAHA!!!

    • @shadowshot347
      @shadowshot347 Před 3 lety

      Haha good one

    • @poisonedmaple6874
      @poisonedmaple6874 Před 3 lety

      iTs ACTuaLLy sUpRIsINgLY sIMpLE

  • @wingeddance
    @wingeddance Před 6 lety +1652

    Plot Twist: it wasnt made out of real gold or silver and the true treasure was knowledge

    • @robsonneves6189
      @robsonneves6189 Před 6 lety +35

      Sara Zeru Does not make sense because the wizard did not share any knowledge with the explorer, the explorer just knew the solution to the riddle.

    • @enodragon9635
      @enodragon9635 Před 6 lety +103

      The real treasure was the friends we made along the way

    • @jedidiahslaboda5620
      @jedidiahslaboda5620 Před 6 lety +5

      No, it was the Stygian coins.

    • @pedrogomes5796
      @pedrogomes5796 Před 6 lety +22

      The real treasure is the knowledge that wizards are douchebags.

    • @rawnuhld
      @rawnuhld Před 6 lety +3

      headass

  • @risingraisings7012
    @risingraisings7012 Před 6 lety +2876

    I'm starting to think I'll never pause one of these

    • @mountain_pro
      @mountain_pro Před 6 lety +59

      rising raisings your profile pic is trigring my OCD

    • @mango6418
      @mango6418 Před 5 lety +32

      Also looked like hair

    • @chandlerbing3723
      @chandlerbing3723 Před 5 lety +25

      I use the dark theme.😂

    • @tantiwahopak101
      @tantiwahopak101 Před 5 lety +6

      @@chandlerbing3723 same mate. 😁

    • @KGNYC112
      @KGNYC112 Před 4 lety +1

      dat potatoe
      And I tried turning your potatoe into chips.

  • @drewhuang5517
    @drewhuang5517 Před 4 lety +164

    Me: ok so I'm gonna count out 20 coins and flip em' over
    Me: drops the coins
    Eccentric wizard: so you have chosen...death

  • @majesticduck1534
    @majesticduck1534 Před 4 lety +110

    "He's not as generous about leaving the dungeon"
    (Locks the already locked door with chains.)
    Me: what are you doing?

  • @Buzzgrim
    @Buzzgrim Před 6 lety +693

    "He's not gonna let you leave the dungeon. Because he wants to do a puzzle with you.."
    .....Of course he does.

    • @TheKYLEdavid
      @TheKYLEdavid Před 6 lety +38

      When you have infinite power and time, you get bored.

    • @oldcowbb
      @oldcowbb Před 6 lety +7

      i want to play a game

    • @GTron13
      @GTron13 Před 6 lety +4

      **tries to like a million times but CZcams won't let him :(**

    • @bitter-unicorn
      @bitter-unicorn Před 6 lety +10

      "THIS REMINDS ME OF A PUZZLE"
      "...But can I just leave?"
      "NO IT'S PUZZLE TIME PEASANT"

    • @ryantan3841
      @ryantan3841 Před 6 lety

      lol i have the same name as you

  • @dumptruck3591
    @dumptruck3591 Před 6 lety +1011

    What I learned from watching ted ed riddles:
    I'd have to be a genius mathematician to easily solve everything unrealistic

    • @audreydeatherage2131
      @audreydeatherage2131 Před 2 lety +15

      most of them yes. this one tho is more about understanding a simple concept. all the math was only them proving that concept, the math isnt needed to solve the puzzle

    • @liviorocco7817
      @liviorocco7817 Před 2 lety +4

      Solved this, never had been any good in maths. I just questioned why the rules were formulated that way

    • @chattyclan9320
      @chattyclan9320 Před rokem +1

      true

    • @m3mori
      @m3mori Před rokem +4

      @@liviorocco7817 yeah there’s explicit emphasis on the fact that you can flip coins, once you figure that out you’ve got more than half of the answer

  • @readoesstuff8171
    @readoesstuff8171 Před 4 lety +213

    3:08
    He shouldn’t be interested in gold
    He should be interested in magic tricks

  • @petercarney5928
    @petercarney5928 Před 5 lety +132

    For the final riddle, you have to have an odd # of gold coins to be able to flip them to all gold. Including the #'s 1 and 3. If any of the 3 coin piles start with an odd # of silver coins, it wont be possible. This includes starting with 3 coins facing silver up and 1 coin facing silver up. This means that 4 out of the 8 3-coin piles are able to be turned to all gold solutions

    • @pradithhindupur6295
      @pradithhindupur6295 Před 2 lety +5

      Thank you for telling the answer

    • @richardl6751
      @richardl6751 Před rokem +1

      Also, only six of the seven combinations are shown. The right column contains two duplicates and the two combinations are missing, gss and sgg.

    • @imAnonymous_19
      @imAnonymous_19 Před 4 měsíci

      ​@@richardl6751gss is shown as ssg and sgg is shown as ggs to denote the fact that the pairs are the same point in the riddle because of parity symmetry, for anyone who is flipping and jumping between the 8 combinations shown there. Thus confusion is avoided.

    • @Aunini
      @Aunini Před měsícem +1

      Essentially, since silver coins can only be removed in pairs (flipping one of each becomes...one of each), there needs to be an even amount of silver coins showing.

  • @sushiroll7013
    @sushiroll7013 Před 6 lety +194

    1:40
    Look at that smile....
    It will haunt my nightmares forever.

    • @bobjoe1832
      @bobjoe1832 Před 3 lety +1

      I think it’s kinda derpy lol

  • @hvonwolfenstein2638
    @hvonwolfenstein2638 Před 6 lety +864

    This riddle is much more impressive (fun to show people) if you do it with a deck of cards.

    • @BrettAbaurrea
      @BrettAbaurrea Před 6 lety +2

      Oooh how do you do that?

    • @mintmayden
      @mintmayden Před 5 lety +6

      The number of face up coins or cards is arbitrary

    • @janjeikobu5163
      @janjeikobu5163 Před 5 lety +4

      So you do it with 21 cards? Instead of 20? Right? Right? RIGHT?

    • @lizard_ow7145
      @lizard_ow7145 Před 5 lety +19

      @@janjeikobu5163 no, so u basically take any number of cards, and flip any number of them over, then you blindfold yourself or something and take the exact number of the the cards you flipped over from your pile. (it could even be all of them)

    • @justjuniorjaw
      @justjuniorjaw Před 5 lety +7

      It happens that I watched Michael's video before this so, here's how it is done with a deck of cards : czcams.com/video/aqKkwTKWWUQ/video.html

  • @ariamae2034
    @ariamae2034 Před 3 lety +66

    Man, imagine if this person hadn’t had the magic ability to see and count exactly 20 coins being silver side up initially

    • @erickpoorbaugh6728
      @erickpoorbaugh6728 Před rokem +1

      Technically, it doesn't say you only have one chance. You could flip one coin into a new pile, then flip a second coin into the new pile, etc., and when the number of coins in the new pile is the same as the original number of silver-side-up coins, you'll win.

  • @thevioletspiral
    @thevioletspiral Před rokem +15

    TED-Ed should get an award for their loyalty to brilliant

  • @ZHBG-ll7fy
    @ZHBG-ll7fy Před 6 lety +1070

    Did this expeditioner seriously not have a flashlight on them wtf

  • @himanshu6188
    @himanshu6188 Před 6 lety +341

    Finally a riddle video after a long time! Make more of these please :-)

    • @bonbonsquad7465
      @bonbonsquad7465 Před 6 lety +1

      himanshu sarin I agree I miss these riddles

    • @tristinmccleaf3968
      @tristinmccleaf3968 Před 6 lety +3

      Me too, once I saw this I got excited. I’ve literally watched all of them and I have just been waiting for them to post riddles

    • @bonbonsquad7465
      @bonbonsquad7465 Před 6 lety

      Tristin McCleaf me too

  • @jasonzhou8274
    @jasonzhou8274 Před 4 lety +275

    Why don't you just bring one or more of the following:
    1: Flashlight
    2: Matchbox
    3: Cellphone
    4: Literally anything that can create light
    Edit: Wow, I make a list of things people should have while exploring and it gets more then 150 likes. Not that I'm complaining.

  • @xck
    @xck Před 5 lety +73

    The real question is:
    Why are your maps crumbling?

  • @pedrogomes5796
    @pedrogomes5796 Před 6 lety +916

    Actually, because pure gold used in old coins is soft, you can bite both sides of a coin and the one with a dent is the gold side, so there IS a way to determine which side is facing up.
    According to the riddle, that's cheating, but if you're stuck in an underground dungeon in total darkness cheating is the best option 😁.

    • @lancerlord9939
      @lancerlord9939 Před 6 lety +81

      pedro gomes
      Or, since gold is denser, you can lay the coins on their sides, and the silver side will be on top

    • @pedrogomes5796
      @pedrogomes5796 Před 6 lety +89

      Puzzles should prize the most creative answer instead of the "right" one.

    • @PXDessert
      @PXDessert Před 6 lety +17

      Gold is "soft". But you can just bite into it. It's called soft because It's not as dense as other metals.

    • @kevinlam1956
      @kevinlam1956 Před 6 lety +35

      James K. No the material of your teeth has a higher hardness scale than gold, which means if you bite it the gold will give

    • @yourmom-hm1hn
      @yourmom-hm1hn Před 6 lety +21

      But would you REALLY want to bite a bunch of coins?

  • @supercanadian0640
    @supercanadian0640 Před 6 lety +3058

    Another riddle I can't solve :D

    • @aaltynkaldybay48
      @aaltynkaldybay48 Před 6 lety +1

      The Ace Of Spades Hucknall the same time and money to you are looking at the moment and I have to travel around the world of work

    • @hannapy303
      @hannapy303 Před 6 lety +2

      You are not alone.

    • @Gilgameshh
      @Gilgameshh Před 6 lety

      this one was one of few riddles i got everything correct in. It was a dead giveaway when he said there was a surprisingly easy method of getting it right.

    • @alxxanderr
      @alxxanderr Před 6 lety +1

      Same 😂😂😂

    • @bearheart2009
      @bearheart2009 Před 6 lety +15

      Just bite the coin. If the gold side is real it will be softer than the silver side and make a dent =D

  • @MasterTrickShot
    @MasterTrickShot Před 6 lety +15

    Bro watching these riddles high is such a mind blown moment

  • @savanareherman654
    @savanareherman654 Před 4 lety +17

    “You realize there is a simple solution” Yea, relight the torches with the embers in then

  • @WiWillemijn
    @WiWillemijn Před 6 lety +1484

    Just use your phone light

    • @completevoidinpfp7129
      @completevoidinpfp7129 Před 6 lety +24

      He has no phone

    • @Anonymous-hv2zc
      @Anonymous-hv2zc Před 6 lety +15

      Well, it looked like he was in a forest and last time I checked there is no signal nor internet in the forest.

    • @ItzRoger
      @ItzRoger Před 6 lety +20

      The year is 1985

    • @theluckygamer10
      @theluckygamer10 Před 5 lety +4

      Wimsem - Tekenen & Knutselen no phone ignaramus

    • @clementejoseph3854
      @clementejoseph3854 Před 5 lety +59

      Ciel Moro you don't need a signal to use your phone light lol

  • @parkchanyeol1544
    @parkchanyeol1544 Před 6 lety +1508

    Although I didn't understand anything, I'll still pretend I got smarter just by watching this

  • @ThechiefCE117
    @ThechiefCE117 Před 5 lety +14

    There is a way I have found out, but a little more difficult. Stand the coins up on its side. Since gold is more dense than silver, it’s side is more massive, assuming that the silver and gold go right down the middle of the coins in equal volumes. That means when you put the coin up on its side, it will always land gold side down and silver side up.

    • @abhie8898
      @abhie8898 Před 2 lety

      The thing is its not the material gold its the color gold and the same for silver

    • @eduardoxenofonte4004
      @eduardoxenofonte4004 Před 2 lety +1

      @@abhie8898 nah they'd probably use the material instead of paint based on how old they seem to be

    • @sidg3003
      @sidg3003 Před rokem +1

      It said in the rules that you cannot put the coins on their sides

  • @owenharris9690
    @owenharris9690 Před 3 lety +13

    For the bonus riddle:
    If I am not incorrect, any pile with two silver coins can become all gold. If the two are adjacent you simply flip them and leave the initially gold coin alone. If they are on opposite sides of a gold coin then you flip each of them over once, the gold coin is then flipped twice since flipping coins on either side flips the middle coin and this remains gold, this leaves you with three gold coins.

  • @TheHealthyCow
    @TheHealthyCow Před 6 lety +1203

    What about the giant hole he fell through and just using that as light lol

    • @wrylysmiley
      @wrylysmiley Před 6 lety +39

      Yeah i thought that as well, a much slower alternative to the video's solution.

    • @wrylysmiley
      @wrylysmiley Před 6 lety +6

      We can hardly ask questions, can we?

    • @golatificon
      @golatificon Před 6 lety +19

      There is no light at night :p

    • @theflyingtofu-4487
      @theflyingtofu-4487 Před 6 lety +7

      TheHealthyCow OMG YOU WATCH THIS TOO? #NOTICEMESENPAI!

    • @Minty_Mentos_
      @Minty_Mentos_ Před 6 lety +16

      golatificon wait until day

  • @HORRIOR1
    @HORRIOR1 Před 6 lety +74

    I misunderstood the given riddle and thought both piles had to have same amount of coins :/ Still that is a very clever solution.

  • @Munchkin.Of.Pern09
    @Munchkin.Of.Pern09 Před 4 lety +11

    Me looking at the bonus question: “If the number of gold coins facing up at the start is one or three, then it can be made all gold.”

  • @some_random_human_being1891

    TED-ED: pause the video to figure it out yourself Me: NOPE!! no way am i figuring this out

  • @alexchen2519
    @alexchen2519 Před 6 lety +67

    This is the first puzzle I could do in the entire series. I tend to overthink problems, so when he said there is a surprising solution it was actually a huge help.

  • @theoverseer393
    @theoverseer393 Před 6 lety +455

    I just though "ill try spinning, thats a good trick!"
    i mean, gold is denser, right?

    • @joeyg2488
      @joeyg2488 Před 4 lety +1

      That’s not how that works

    • @SonicLoverDS
      @SonicLoverDS Před 4 lety +8

      Even if that worked reliably, you now have no idea whether that coin was silver or gold to begin with, and with hundreds of coins in the pile it's not plausible to spin every single one of them.

    • @Amnesia1998
      @Amnesia1998 Před 4 lety +37

      @@SonicLoverDS Why not? It's not like you have anything better to be doing.

    • @CavCave
      @CavCave Před 3 lety +2

      I thought they were just painted silver, not actually made of silver

    • @alanjones8573
      @alanjones8573 Před 3 lety

      I don’t think so?

  • @Edivelsandoval7994
    @Edivelsandoval7994 Před 4 lety +12

    0:35 when wizard does middle finger

  • @shawnfunny2540
    @shawnfunny2540 Před 3 lety +53

    There is a surprisingly easy solution:
    Cut all the coins in half

    • @cjfdnqkn4374
      @cjfdnqkn4374 Před 3 lety +1

      lol ur a genius

    • @kaboomwinn4026
      @kaboomwinn4026 Před 2 lety +1

      Or biting the coin and if what ever the the top or bottom coin Is soft then it Is gold if it hard the it silver. This way I can I can divide equally with silver side up and gold side down.

  • @psalmdealer
    @psalmdealer Před 6 lety +403

    0:35 the wizard is giving you the finger

  • @arcticwind1368
    @arcticwind1368 Před 6 lety +345

    plot twist :
    the silver coins at the beginning weren't 20.They were 21

    • @kaliyanelson6106
      @kaliyanelson6106 Před 4 lety +22

      That...
      O.o
      Uh...
      That's an odd number...
      *THE GAME IS RIGGED!*

    • @KineticManiac
      @KineticManiac Před 4 lety +17

      @@kaliyanelson6106 Not really, since you can flip any coin you want, you can still win. You can start with 21 silver side up coins and have 0 or 100 silver side up coins in each pile.
      Doing this in the dark is an issue though.

    • @nero9506
      @nero9506 Před 4 lety +5

      @@KineticManiac Yeah, as long as you are able to count them beforehand though, otherwise it would be useless

    • @Victoria3WorldConquerer
      @Victoria3WorldConquerer Před 3 lety +4

      @@nero9506 No you could just take one random coin and flip it over then do the same thing over and over until the door opens

    • @nicholaspratt8473
      @nicholaspratt8473 Před 3 lety +3

      @@Victoria3WorldConquerer yeah this is one of the riddles that are someone open-solved with a loose end-point

  • @Mananpicar
    @Mananpicar Před 4 lety +27

    Answer for last riddle: The ones with 1 or 3 gold coins, since you always move 2 coins. An even number + another even number, will always be an even number, therefore, you can never make 3 gold coins, no matter what you do, you can only get 0 or 2.

  • @zanonymousruiz9697
    @zanonymousruiz9697 Před 4 lety +1

    This solution is so elegant and obvious in hindsight- Colour me impressed!

  • @mariasennani4089
    @mariasennani4089 Před 6 lety +108

    0:18
    Good news: Yeees! Another riddle!
    Bad news: I can’t solve it

  • @kumarshumar
    @kumarshumar Před 6 lety +33

    I'll just lay down on my bed, and not solve anything. But watch the full video, and feel a sense of accomplishment.

  • @ch_etz
    @ch_etz Před 3 lety +2

    if you scroll down enough in any of ted-ed's riddles, you'll find someone saying just confirm you have green eyes

  • @RobjectionableContent
    @RobjectionableContent Před 5 lety +8

    For the bonus riddle, I figure that if there's an even number of silver-side-up coins in the arrangement, then it is possible to make them all gold-side-up, whereas if there's an odd number then it's not possible. This is because each flip you make always affects exactly two coins, and adding 2 to or subtracting 2 from an odd number will always leave you with another odd number but 0 (the number of silver-side-ups you want) is an even number.

    • @t_kon
      @t_kon Před rokem

      That's correct, but a better reasoning is as follows
      Assume the number of face up silver coins to be x
      At any operation, you're either
      1. Adding 2 to the number of face up silver coins (flip 2 golds)
      2. Subtracting 2 to the number of face up silver coind (flip 2 silvers)
      3. No change (flip 1 silver 1 gold)
      Thus you'll always change the number of face up silver by 2, and no matter move you do, you can't change odd into even just by adding even numbers, so that proves it's impossible if the number of face up silver is not odd.
      Then you'll only need to prove it's possible for all odd configuration.

    • @someone.-gi7zr
      @someone.-gi7zr Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@t_konso the answer to the puzzle is 3?

  • @AAG414
    @AAG414 Před 6 lety +516

    "You just realized there's a surprisingly easy solution"
    next time, bring tnt to blow the walls up

  • @firstnamelastname8684
    @firstnamelastname8684 Před 6 lety +321

    heres a tough riddle
    How many shrimps do you have to eat, before you make your skin turn pink?
    ok ill stop

    • @cheerfulgoat
      @cheerfulgoat Před 5 lety +32

      How about this riddle: Hit or miss? I guess they never miss, but I'm not sure.

    • @zytlib6758
      @zytlib6758 Před 5 lety +3

      cheerfulgoat
      come on

    • @axelpetersson5787
      @axelpetersson5787 Před 5 lety +10

      First Name Last Name idk, wouldnt wanna try. If i eat too much i’ll get sick (Cus shrimps are pretty rich)

    • @cheerfulgoat
      @cheerfulgoat Před 5 lety +6

      I have another riddle. Can I be Tracer? They're already Tracer though...

    • @KGNYC112
      @KGNYC112 Před 4 lety +1

      Audrey ARNOLD
      Shrimp is my weakness
      👀
      👅💦
      🍤

  • @9393abhi9393
    @9393abhi9393 Před 4 lety +1

    This is the only riddle I was able to solve, felt great for a change

  • @Sawdustier
    @Sawdustier Před 2 lety

    Wow! This is the only TedEd riddle I’ve ever been able to actually solve!

  • @MrAndrewaziz
    @MrAndrewaziz Před 6 lety +158

    I would appreciate a logic riddle every once in a while instead of constant math riddles

    • @mme.veronica735
      @mme.veronica735 Před 6 lety +16

      Logic they omitted because it would mess with the riddle, silver has a taste, gold doesn't.

    • @derekstanyer
      @derekstanyer Před 6 lety +21

      This is a logic riddle, the only math is counting to 20 haha.

    • @ClickBeetleTV
      @ClickBeetleTV Před 6 lety +9

      Math is just a formal notation for logic with numbers

    • @Trainwreck3000
      @Trainwreck3000 Před 6 lety

      Wow way to

    • @NoobOfLore
      @NoobOfLore Před 6 lety +1

      Algebra is used to prove what you should be able to tell intuitively. Advanced or difficult math is not actually required to solve the riddle.
      If you make a new pile of coins (Pile B), the original pile (Pile A) will have one less silver coin for every silver coin you took. So if 1 of the coins you take is silver, Pile A now has 19 silver, and if 3 of the coins you took were silver, Pile A now has 17. This is true no matter how many coins you take, and it's actually pretty obvious. Subtracting numbers from 20 may be a math operation, but it's not exactly a riddle.
      If you form Pile B from 20 coins, you're also guaranteeing that the number of gold coins in Pile B is equal to the number of silver coins in Pile A. This isn't a complicated math problem either. The number of silver coins in Pile A is 20 minus the silver coins you took, and the number of gold coins in Pile B is 20 minus the silver coins you took, because you took 20 coins and all the non-silver ones in pile B are gold.
      Once you determine these two numbers have to be equal, all that you need to do is flip Pile B. This makes all the previously-gold coins in Pile B silver, and you don't need to worry about any of the previously-silver ones, because the same motion turned them all gold.

  • @atat707
    @atat707 Před 6 lety +96

    YES RIDDLES THANK YOU TED ED!

  • @shubhamdas4916
    @shubhamdas4916 Před 3 lety +1

    I appreciate the man's ability to think in an unthinkable situation, a complicated formula

  • @lizapiashko9105
    @lizapiashko9105 Před 4 lety +6

    he is ROCKING that unibrow though

  • @christineng5392
    @christineng5392 Před 6 lety +670

    Who else thinks the detective's face is upside down?

  • @NarutoUzumaki-nx1bh
    @NarutoUzumaki-nx1bh Před 6 lety +95

    3:20 OH, HERE'S THE ALGEBRA.....

  • @4llowyourdream
    @4llowyourdream Před 2 lety +6

    I gotta say the more I actually solve these riddles by myself, the easier they become.

  • @Andrux0821
    @Andrux0821 Před 3 lety +6

    Gold and silver have a distinctive sound. You can use the ping test to decide which one is silver and which one is gold. Silver will usually sound like a C and gold will usually sound like an A. This is usually the case no matter the size of the coin, unless the actual silver/gold content is super low. Even then, a 35% war nickel has a distinctive sound over a copper-nickel nickel.

    • @finchfamily7268
      @finchfamily7268 Před rokem

      Non-perfect pitch people tho

    • @Andrux0821
      @Andrux0821 Před rokem

      @@finchfamily7268 perfect pitch does help, but you don’t need it. You can do it just fine using relative pitch if you have a sample sound and you compare it to the one in question.

  • @tay-gr4mn
    @tay-gr4mn Před 6 lety +40

    Yes ! I've been waiting forever for a new riddle!

  • @Dalen22_W
    @Dalen22_W Před 6 lety +176

    Before I watch the video:
    Gold is heavier than silver. You put every coin on it’s side and gently spin it. Whichever side it lands on is gold. Then you just sort them.

    • @BaBooTubeVideos
      @BaBooTubeVideos Před 6 lety +43

      That's a good way of doing it, and it works in theory, but not in the video's scenario.
      Great scientific thinking, though!

    • @acousticpark6881
      @acousticpark6881 Před 6 lety +25

      Sounds great on paper, but it won't always work

    • @scumbagel8518
      @scumbagel8518 Před 6 lety +22

      They say in the rules that you can't put the coins on their sides.

    • @thelog4005
      @thelog4005 Před 6 lety +22

      Even so, there is still a chance that the coin will land on silver.

    • @n_u001
      @n_u001 Před 6 lety +20

      you already watched the video, thats how you know there were gold and silver coins involved, because it doesnt say so in the title.

  • @hi00118
    @hi00118 Před 6 lety

    I think this is the first one of these where I’d never seen it before that I actually was able to figure it out first time

  • @gemsngold
    @gemsngold Před 4 lety

    The first riddle I solved by TedEd. Yay!

  • @chipmunklukeskywalker6914
    @chipmunklukeskywalker6914 Před 6 lety +592

    My brain hurts

    • @Trainwreck3000
      @Trainwreck3000 Před 6 lety +3

      Lol I got the riddle

    • @fulcrum2951
      @fulcrum2951 Před 6 lety +2

      My hurts brain

    • @twistedwonderland9378
      @twistedwonderland9378 Před 4 lety +2

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  • @celeste5230
    @celeste5230 Před 6 lety +13

    These riddles are so much fun, please make more :)

  • @treefrogg
    @treefrogg Před 3 lety +4

    oh yeah you can take my coins i don’t really need them anymo- HEY WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU CAN’T LEAVE HERE

  • @danmanproking2179
    @danmanproking2179 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Bonus riddle solution: as long as the top has 1 gold-facing coin, you can always make it into 3 gold. Never with 0 or 2. This is because of parity. If we start with 3 silver, flipping 2 will make it into 2 gold. Flipping the same coins sets us back to all silver, so if we flip 1 gold and 1 silver, we still have 2 gold coins face up. Every flip movement has the capability to either +2, -2, or +0 to the value of gold coins facing upwards (depending on which coins you flip). This means that even-facing trios will forever stay even, and same thing with the odd-facing piles. Knowing how to solve Rubik’s cubes, surprisingly, helped me to solve this, since certain puzzles, like 4x4 and square-1 have their own parity cases, since doing any turn on the cube changes the parity of all edges and corners on the cube. The solved state has 0 swaps of edges and 0 of corners, and doing a turn adds 3 swaps to corners and edges at the same time, which works similarly to this riddle, except every turn (or flip) changes the parity, rather than keeping it the same.

  • @ContinualImprovement
    @ContinualImprovement Před 6 lety +741

    The dark coin riddle - secretly a Bitcoin 😁

    • @franciscopatino5803
      @franciscopatino5803 Před 6 lety +11

      Continual Improvement not going to lie I thought this was going to be about Bitcoin 😅

    • @timothychhor9868
      @timothychhor9868 Před 6 lety +3

      lol i agree, bitcoins!!!

    • @sadcat5293
      @sadcat5293 Před 6 lety

      The like he has is my like

    • @raniabashar7955
      @raniabashar7955 Před 6 lety

      yeah! bitcoin!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😄😄😄😂😄😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😁😆😆😁😁😁😆😁😊😀😆😁😆😁😆😁😆😆

  • @AlfaEcho
    @AlfaEcho Před 6 lety +85

    Bonus riddle: odd number of gold

    • @AlfaEcho
      @AlfaEcho Před 6 lety +2

      ...I think

    • @RedcXca
      @RedcXca Před 6 lety +2

      That doesn't affect the silver coind (odd/even) since we dont know the original total number of coins and thus will not affect the solution XD good try

    • @brucetucker4847
      @brucetucker4847 Před 6 lety +4

      In the bonus riddle there are always 3 coins total.

    • @sidthevar2679
      @sidthevar2679 Před 6 lety

      Jay Wing same solution.....

    • @KuroroSama42
      @KuroroSama42 Před 5 lety +3

      You're right. If they started with an odd number of gold sided coins, then you can make them all gold sided.

  • @clarinetowl7554
    @clarinetowl7554 Před 2 lety

    this is the most brilliant solution i have ever seen

  • @Zorgdub
    @Zorgdub Před 4 lety

    Ooooh, that was smart. This one had me totally stumped, but the solution really surprisingly simple when you see it.

  • @gaganbharadwaj7559
    @gaganbharadwaj7559 Před 6 lety +81

    1:34 When suddenly my dad enters my room at 2 am.

    • @lionelprk4088
      @lionelprk4088 Před 6 lety +1

      Gagan Bharadhwajsuchi lol

    • @lucaslayton3974
      @lucaslayton3974 Před 6 lety +11

      Thats disturbing that your dad would go into your room in the middle of the night

    • @jayfawn8478
      @jayfawn8478 Před 6 lety

      why your daddy going to your room at night ???? that's weird

    • @gaganbharadwaj7559
      @gaganbharadwaj7559 Před 6 lety +1

      Phương Nguyễn guessed right .

    • @qaisersyed110
      @qaisersyed110 Před 6 lety

      Your real father or your step father?

  • @goblingimp195
    @goblingimp195 Před 6 lety +99

    How tf you do algebra on a chalkboard if the lights are out?

    • @Monochrome2004
      @Monochrome2004 Před 6 lety +10

      it... that.. it isnt part of of the riddle it is just demonstrating how exactly this works

    • @hoveringvan9961
      @hoveringvan9961 Před 6 lety +6

      he/she's kidding you know

  • @gameknight9263
    @gameknight9263 Před 6 lety +51

    Just pull out your flashlight or did you expect that the dungeon would always be lit?

  • @karlnikolasalcala8208
    @karlnikolasalcala8208 Před 5 lety

    This is one of the best riddles ever

  • @cydixa9869
    @cydixa9869 Před 6 lety +13

    *gets the answer wrong*
    "Well I mean- my first guess was kinda close.."

  • @rituchandra6325
    @rituchandra6325 Před 6 lety +9

    well the bonus riddle is simple... any pile with an odd Nimber of gold up coins can be made into an all gold pile while piles with an even number of gold up coins can't be made into all gold up since there are an odd no. of coins in each pile

  • @BomazXD
    @BomazXD Před 3 lety +1

    Wizard: YOU HAVE FOUND THE GREAT TREASURE TROVE...
    Adventurer: hold on one second, let me count how many of these coins are silver side up.

  • @user-nl4rb4eb3y
    @user-nl4rb4eb3y Před 7 měsíci

    Aaah, finally got one of these riddles done in under a minute

  • @TheTukkia
    @TheTukkia Před 6 lety +15

    Usually I can't solve riddles, but this one was extremely easy

  • @lindayantilindayanti2585
    @lindayantilindayanti2585 Před 6 lety +74

    Another riddle that I will try to solve but will be proved wrong

  • @bestjoyce4563
    @bestjoyce4563 Před 6 lety

    Make more riddles please I love them!

  • @ktchimmy5823
    @ktchimmy5823 Před 4 lety

    Every time I’m excited about these riddles I remember... these are unsolvable math problems

  • @jessetorres8738
    @jessetorres8738 Před 6 lety +19

    I love these Ted-Ed riddles!

  • @jammyonrice3904
    @jammyonrice3904 Před 6 lety +13

    Am I the only person that thinks the guys face looks better upside down?

  • @lezzatltd
    @lezzatltd Před 4 lety

    Took me a day to solve this, loved it! :)

  • @Adityagarg0
    @Adityagarg0 Před rokem

    This is the first Ted-Ed riddle which I figured out on my own!

  • @sims3man1
    @sims3man1 Před 4 lety +3

    For the bonus puzzle, you can tell whether you can flip all the coins in a trio to gold side up if two of the coins are silver side up. Otherwise, if there are one or three coins silver side up, you can't make them all gold side up.

  • @zekekang9425
    @zekekang9425 Před 6 lety +3

    These riddles with limited options is best solved with the process of elimination. Just think about what you could possibly do, no matter how ridiculous. In this case, first thing I thought is take 2 piles of 50, but that obvious does not work.
    The only thing left to do then, is to flip coins, just the question of how many. First thing that comes to mind is again, 50, but that doesn’t work obviously, so next best number is 20, which I didn’t think would work but when thought through, did work, and it solved in 5 minutes for me

  • @TakeruDavis
    @TakeruDavis Před 5 lety

    The bonus riddle was easy (well, I just happened to tackle the same problem before).
    In odd numbered arrangement like this, you can never change which side has odd number of occurences in the sequence.
    Two differently sided coins will always just exchange their sides, two of the same will just change the count by two, so the odd sum will remain odd.
    So the only option is to see which side is shown odd number of times, either just on one coin or already on all three, then flip accordingly.
    - for one that has the odd one on the edge, flip the other two,
    - for the one that has the odd one in the middle, flip any pair you want, then follow the instructions in the above line

  • @kentowaugh8338
    @kentowaugh8338 Před 4 lety +2

    For the bonus riddle, all the arrangements with a odd number of gold coins up can be made all gold and all the arrangements with an even number of gold coins facing up cannot. This is because whenever you swap, you either swap two gold and subtract the number of gold coins up the same, one gold and one silver where the number of gold coins up stays the same, or two silver where the number of gold coins goes up by two, all even differences. Since the final result must be 3, an odd number, you have to start with 3 or 1 gold coins up.

  • @matrixphijr
    @matrixphijr Před 6 lety +5

    Bonus solution:
    I don’t know if this is exactly the logic to it, but it’s the best way I can think of to describe it. The piles with an odd number of gold-facing coins (or even number of silver) can be converted to all gold, the others can’t. Because you flip two coins each time, there are 3 possibilities for a given flip:
    - If you flip two gold, they become two silver (-2 gold)
    - If you flip two silver, they become two gold (+2 gold)
    - If you flip one of each (in either order), the ratio stays the same (+0 gold)
    And because of the math principle that “odd + even = odd” and “even + even = even”, any trio with 0 or 2 gold at the start cannot be made into 3 gold.
    So in essence, exactly half of these scenarios can be made into all gold (the others can be made into all silver since they begin as opposites).

  • @CKTDanny
    @CKTDanny Před 6 lety +477

    When you leave with the coins, make sure to HODL

    • @GraveUypo
      @GraveUypo Před 6 lety +5

      gold is a bubble.

    • @doobick1898
      @doobick1898 Před 6 lety +4

      SDG Danny what is a HODL

    • @CKTDanny
      @CKTDanny Před 6 lety +6

      DooBick Use Google, my friend. This one's worth it :)

    • @KuZiMeiChuan
      @KuZiMeiChuan Před 6 lety +33

      For the sake of others who also don't want to Google it: it is a term in the cryptocurrency world which originated from a misspelling of the word "hold" meaning to hold on to the coins in hope that they will appreciate in value.

    • @NothingMoreThanMyAss
      @NothingMoreThanMyAss Před 6 lety +2

      酷子梅川 it means hold on for dear life

  • @harshhh7926
    @harshhh7926 Před 3 lety

    Whenever I am free I watch these small riddles for more knowledge

  • @Captain-Jinn
    @Captain-Jinn Před 6 lety

    I'm conflicted on a lot of these videos as "riddles", but I like this one a lot. :)

  • @Differentstuff112
    @Differentstuff112 Před 6 lety +29

    Ive seen a card trick like this once but still couldn’t remember the solution nice video

  • @S.A.M-MK3
    @S.A.M-MK3 Před 3 lety +5

    1:02 gOoD thINg i BrOUghT A LiGHtEr

  • @anooshkumar7870
    @anooshkumar7870 Před 3 lety +1

    man i got asked this question in a final round interview for a consulting group and i had no idea what to say and even after watching this i still have no idea what's going on