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@TEDEd3 years ago Can’t wait to keep solving puzzles? Visit to check out Brilliant’s 60+ courses in math, logic, science, and computer science. They feature storytelling, code-writing, interactive challenges, and plenty of puzzles for you to solve. And as an added bonus, the first 833 of you to use that link will receive 20% off the annual premium subscription fee. ... 1587
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@viiranen3 years ago "-theyre not the brightest-" well theyre definitely brighter than me 18068
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@youjustgotgooped3 years ago i like how according to this they somehow wrote an epic song about snakes and ladders 14548
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@honeycomb73323 years ago Imagine playing music so good, even Death loves it 2755
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@dimitristripakis7364last year 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. 670
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@S_A_L3 years ago Alternative title: Bill and Ted-Ed’s Excellent Adventure 8149
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@squishytoyfish3 years ago Bold of you TED-Ed, trying to trick me into doing maths. 5256
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@cozyflurry78073 years ago 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 319
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@raptorthegamer55242 years ago You clearly mentioned that the musicians weren't the brightest, so them solving this puzzle is almost impossible 235
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@ayaanz3503 years ago Unfortunately, they're not the brightest
Also them: Figures out a ted-ed ridle 2252
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@proudbox50913 years ago And I thought my whole childhood that I have to avoid snakes. 2881
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@theogbatman96633 years ago Why did it take me so long to find out it was a little spoof of Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure? 243
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@onetwothreefour3862 years ago 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 ... 101
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@jovansoh3 years ago Instructions unclear: Death didn't play snakes and ladders with me when I died 4668
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@nanopopquiz74603 years ago Me: can't solve the riddle
Also me: "Guess I'll die!" 2232
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@kenhaley42 years ago 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. ... 59
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@alexkazama2 years ago 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) ... 73
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@boblackross35713 years ago Ted ed: Pause here if you want to figure it out for yourself
Shrek: Closes book* Like that's ever gonna happen 2043
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@AlfikaFYusuf3 years ago "So.. can you solve the riddle?"
"Well ozo, but actually ulu" 749
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@literallybest44823 years ago A perfect example of gotham's "one step backward to make two steps forward" 19
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@puppet4978last year "A true gentleman never leaves a puzzle unsolved." -Prof. Hershel Layton 7
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@s.c47543 years ago 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’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. ... 8316
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@ClairandHerImaginaryCat3 years ago Wow Ted Ed is getting more and more creative with these riddles 2217
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@goosifyed97173 years ago
Dream luck? More like nightmare luck. 7
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@KyuuTomoyaki3 years ago 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. ... 23
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@imeldasuryanti23353 years ago Ted Ed: "You won't find five turn routes anywhere else"
Also Ted Ed: proceeds to explain another 5 turn route 5274
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@serhat7573 years ago The takeaway message: Sometimes in life, you have to be eaten and then excreted by snakes to avoid death. 1280
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@drwillfulneglect3 years ago “It can land any way you wish”
ok then, for me or lands on 99. game over 23
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@delphy24783 years ago 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 ... 4
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@akashwalavalkar73133 years ago The band: Defeats death itself
Also the band: Insulting the king is definitely a good idea! 695
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@typingname62763 years ago Moral of the riddle: Sometimes the obstacle is the way 561
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@StraightUpDoor10 months ago 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 3
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@shinyagumon70153 years ago 1. Confirmed that you have green eyes
2. Ask Death to leave
Also Excellent Bill and Ted reference TEDed! 679
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@augury68403 years ago The new “Bill and Ted-Ed’s Righteous Riddle” looks sick! 898
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@Pokestar73210 months ago That death was such a chill guy,man...
I'd like to meet him someday..... 1
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@matteo2042last year Ah I loved figuring it out. It felt so rewarding, when all of the rules applied to the solution!
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@sukrati.26373 years ago This RIDDLE has a clear message: If you want to SUCCEED in life then you will need to face OBSTACLES. 460
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@katelynwang41413 years ago The people who aren’t the brightest are certainly brighter than me 488
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@Femaiden3 years ago took me till to realize the 2 "bards" look like Bill and Ted. . 7
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@juicywumbo9843 years ago Pretty simple, small thinking for about 5 mins but enjoyed it thank you ! Merry Chrysler
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@MocaHere3 years ago "imagine a real life snakes and ladders contest, there would be gigant snakes that you can slide on!" -theodd1sout 482
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@nHans3 years ago 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 ... " ... 322
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@samno20883 years ago Wow. I’ve watched like 30 of these now and this is the first one I’ve been able to do lol 2
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@muhammadzaydahmed32182 years ago I found the riddle answer. Completely delighted after solving my first Ted-Ed riddle. 🤗
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@yelloe_birb3 years ago imagine if you're about to be executed, and a princess who is one of your fans just gives you 2 dice 36
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@splogxyz33393 years ago 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? 118
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@jazzmarauderlast year I’m so excited, this was one of the first Ted ed riddles I solved on my own the first try!
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@chillstoneblakeblast31722 years ago 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 11
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@pietrosmusi63483 years ago 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 384
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@user-ed2pw1ne7ve3 years ago "Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is to relax" 286
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@chris_redd24533 years ago Playing games with death: Best five out of 7?
Death: damn right!! 2
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@jonathansmith46342 years ago 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 ... 5
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@anamsamiha77043 years ago Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. - Langston Hughes 199
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@justinehercthehuman69413 years ago Can't believe I was able to solve this one. My love for board games and dice has influenced me to do maths. 386
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@a_angry_bunny3 years ago 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. 8
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@ayushtiwari81903 years ago Me:- tries to dance
Bill:- ye main kar leta hu, aap dream 11 pe team banao 2
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@kishoureb68333 years ago 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. ... 141
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@ChronusZed3 years ago 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. ... 688
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@arniclebarnoldlast year 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
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@martinstu84002 years ago 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. ... 1
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@tonyrogers49083 years ago I know I can never solve these riddles but for some reason I still click it 198
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@fard27803 years ago "they are not the brightest"
*casually beats death in snakes and ladders using 5 moves with dissapearing snakes and ladders* 227
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@emretekmen16023 years ago This is the first and probably only ted ed puzzle ill ever get!!!
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@langdonyeo82893 years ago If I ever got dice that could land on any number I wanted, I'd go to the casino and make tons 78
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@sunandmoon1393 years ago This is what my parents think of Rock/Emo Music 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ 14
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@gustakh832 years ago Finally, I have solved one after trying so many riddles of yours 1
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@taninsabbir24643 years ago It changed my insight and perception about Snake and Ladder game for ever...
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@Rantandum3 years ago 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 31
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@ghostderazgriz3 years ago "Most EXCELLENT Music"
hehehe Bill and Ted 57
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@RandomName87126last month This gon' be the start if my next dnd campaign 1
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@zaneypal4 months ago This is the first TEDEd riddle I was able to solve!!!
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@dhruvkumarkanaujia3 years ago death is so depressed he just want friends to play with him sNakes aNd LadDers 216
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@eddycabreja33323 years ago Finally, after so much time, I've solved another riddle 48
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@steeledminer6163 years ago 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 ... 14
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@thatfamousscientist97862 years ago I am highly impressed, the amount of complexity to these riddles are so great....Not gonna lie, out of the 15 riddles I've watched I got 0 correct. Base on my thought experiment...I can solve this in 1 week of intense thinking and lots of scratch papers. ... 2
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@claradipaolo5713 years ago I’ve lost track of how many times cheating death has played into a Ted Ed lesson or riddle. 34
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@summerrocha-araujo64903 years ago 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. 97
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@afrinchowdhury2043 years ago 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!
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@soup92422 years ago Step 1: Confirm you both have green eyes
Step 2: Ask death if you can leave 2
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@andy19il3 years ago I see, TedEd also enjoys fantasy and Bill & Ted 43
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@imafireingmylasar3 years ago For once I actually spent the time to figure this one out, and it was pretty fun to solve. 60
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@Ichiy0k6 months ago Didn't know death was chill like that 1
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@Code-0022 months ago "Yo death, I got this, play Free Bird for me."
Starts horizontally spinning and ascending
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@imajinerydeveloper35093 years ago That riddle contains good philosophy inside.
Sometimes we need a ladder (success) and snek (fail) to reach the main goal (100) 12
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@ikigai473 years ago "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 30
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@kyuboxincubox7556last month 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.
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@harshagrawal34415 months ago Bill and you insulted the king and are about to be executed but are given two magic dice.
Escape Death by winning a game of Snakes and Ladders.
Survive the cavern game with fewer rolls than Death.
Solve the puzzle to exit the cavern.
Using snakes in the game opens up more opportunities
How to get to a single roll from the exit
Strategies to overcome ladders and snakes in the game
By choosing a 5-roll path, you can win without using any snakes or ladders. ... 2
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@thewaterleaf79293 years ago patch notes:
the grim reaper will no longer be prevented from reaping souls due to band affilitiation 26
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@katsukibakugo61573 years ago That was a most excellent adventure, ted-ed! epic air guitar 16
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@PiePierrot2 years ago Very interesting and fun little riddle! I personally found another way of defeating the riddle: nothing says you and your friend can't give each other piggy back rides lol. You could give each other piggy back rides to counter the problem of snakes/ladders disappearing after one of you uses them and both take the same path, no? Still, it will require taking one of the two paths you mentioned and purposely going backward which as you say is counterintuitive. ... 6
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@nanwijanarko19693 years ago Thanks TedEd! Keep them riddles coming. This is fun. Seriously considering the annual Brilliant subscription. 6
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@imcatwoman37383 years ago The animation here is so funny yet the artist is massively talented 11
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@gojobollo2 years ago This is the first time I solve a riddle in the channel, I feel so proud of myself 1
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@thegr1mr3ap3r83 years ago 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
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@niobearbuckle3 years ago Ted-ed: Can you solv-
Me: Nope, but I can try! 19
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@plasma555cathode73 years ago Scientists: trying to find a cure for cancer
Ted Ed: how to cheat death 54
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@TurtleneckToby3 years ago William and Theodore's Most Amusing journey 1