Ant & Honey Puzzle || A Challenge for your Genius Mind

Inside a rectangular box, with length 30 inches and height and width 12 inches, an ant is located at the middle of one side
1 inch from the bottom of the box.
There is a drop of honey located at the middle of the opposite side, 1 inch from the top.
Please note that the ant and the honey drop are at the middle of the sides, that means 6 inches from the edges.
Puzzle:
What is the shortest distance the ant would need to crawl to get the honey?
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[@loganwolfpack]

Stand the box up right, the ant drops straight down and only crawls 10 inches to the honey

[@bestiewolfsroadto200subs9]

My thoughts exactly

[@nahueljoelignacia2013]

I was thinking the exact same thing

[@user-me8hy8ew4o]

That's smart! I just thought that the honey will drop down, but that would have been 31 inches... But on the other side, will the ant fall down? I mean it is apparently crawling on the top

[@lukasgrofcik3536]

take the box and put it in a position where the honey will drop straight onto the ant. boom 0 inches

[@user-me8hy8ew4o]

@@lukasgrofcik3536 But then the ant will probably die because it drowns in the honey or it sticks there. And we like ants so that's not a good solution😂

[@dipaksen5077]

Both ant & honey are inside the box. How could I think outside the box????!?!?!?!

[@theManasMeher]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤭👏👏👏

[@samchop3755]

Talent

[@sovankundu1419]

Eki kotha🤣

[@renaldiadisaputra8903]

Exactly

[@thedirection6369]

Unfold the box and it will be out side😂

[@satyamsingh9167]

When your cable wire is short.. use this calculation...

[@aronblanche]

No we dont want to waste our time...i ll buy wire extender

[@ritika9631]

Lol smart

[@satyamsingh9167]

@@aronblanchewell.... that depends on the cost comparison b/w westing/investing time and the cost of the wire😁

[@satyamsingh9167]

@XII IPA 1_21 justin don't count in front of everyone 😉 calculated on paper...

[@satyamsingh9167]

@@ritika9631 thanks for commenting 🙂

[@mdfirdosh007]

My physics professor asked this question in 2016. That time i took one day to give him correct answer.Now i feel blessed

[@vickybhatnagar6479]

If only the ant had that much brains

[@ayushshaw6527]

the ant would hav taken the straight line path without thinking

[@ViXoZuDo]

there's something called "ant algorithm" that basically fix the path of the colony little by little until they have the best posible path...

[@medexamtoolsdotcom]

Certainly if it's no smarter than a housefly that can't manage to fly out an open window that is right next to it, the ant certainly won't be taking the optimal path.

[@jessicataylor7174]

Even running about exploring everything the ant would have got to the honey before I got the solution! :D

[@mickavellian]

LOL .. BRAINS? Do you think ants have a "brain" that will calculate shortest distance? Ants act on "instinct" and THAT instinct in a COLONY becomes VERY powerful when acting in groups. Watch a group of ants eating anything and the long line that forms from food to nest.. Ever see a colony of ants "stuck: in traffic" ? If humans used "collective experience" as our intelligence method , ALL human problems would disappear, however thinking in terms of "the colony" , ants (like bees) do not function in terms of "self" but in terms of "colony" so dying is just another day at the gig. VERY few humans would commit suicide to save their neighborhood. Ants & bees do it ALL the time. AInt nature AMAZING?

[@PlokgiH]

type of ant wasn't specified, 0 inches of crawling required, ant flies

[@ranjeetagupta9024]

Now that's something out of the box

[@bhargavshiroya6309]

And what if that ant was antman??😂😂😂

[@sachingajwa8839]

It is specified in the problem ant has to crawl not fly😂

[@j.b.335]

The first step in thinking outside the box is realizing that you are in one .

[@EddieOtool]

Fun fact: The ant on its trajectory, from P0 to P1 (given a point at every corner), finds itself effectively further away from the honey drop by nearly 3/8th of an inch (31.6227... at P0, 31.9618... at P1 according to my 3D CAD re-enactment). Conclusion #1: Sometimes, in order to attain your goal as quickly as possible, you have to seemingly move away from your objective for a short while (that's usually when you get others to complain about your incomprehensible behavior). Conclusion #2: Since I doubt an ant has the ability to suffer feeling itself drifting further away from its objective even for the smallest moment, I doubt the optimal solution be true-to-life. Question #1: I wonder what the path on the box would look like if the premise was instead that every step it took had to bring it the closest possible to its goal (3D straight line), no matter the total length of the path thus created. It would probably go up 10 inches right away because it would be the fastest immediate gain, but after that it would have to choose among multiple paths that would take it away from its goal for a moment. Without mathing it, I suppose it would still elect the 42 inch simplest trajectory... after going circles for half an hour trying to get immediately closer to its goal, to no avail. In fact, on this trajectory, it doesn't have to go more than 0.0166..." further afar from its goal when it has to. Question #2: I did wonder what the graph of the 3D distance to goal look like, but when I graphed it it was way less crazy than I expected (pretty much a straight line aside from the initial increase). Interestingly enough, whoever came up with the dimensions of this box did a good job in chosing easily computable figures: Apart from the sum of the squares which equals to an easy enough number to root without assistance, the 5 segments of the trajectory, albeit all diagonals, have lengths of 1.25, 8.75, 20, 8.75, and 1.25 inches respectively, for a sum of 40 inches. Pretty neat! Bonus round: If you've read all the way down here, here's one for you: A water lily double its size every 4th day. It starts up at 1 inch diameter, and after 60 days it completely covers the lake on which it is growing. Question: If the lake's diameter is one third that of an average lake on this county, after how many days will the lily cover half the lake's area?

[@IotaBlack]

56 days. Many people have heard this puzzle before. But i liked the extra red herrings.

[@EddieOtool]

@@IotaBlack Of course. I am no genius myself, so I need to borrow... or overanalyze. ;)

[@larsrikken4794]

Bonus question answer: 56 days Bonus answer to the bonus question. If it takes 60 days to cover the lake, with a starting diameter of 1 inch, the lake has a diameter of 32.768 inches. This corresponds 0.832km km or 0.518 miles. Lets stick to normal units and convert it to area (assume the lake is a perfect circle, it would be pi*diameter), thus our lake would be 2.61 km^2. This suffices since a lake has to be atleast 2 to 8 hectares big (which correlates to 0.08 km^2). But it is still relatively small for a lake. For the avarage lake in your country it would be 2.50km diameter and thus 7.84km^2 --> 784ha) Thus you are not in a country with some major lakes. you are not in monaco or the vatican since it is smaller then the lake described. You are also not in malta nor fiji since they have no (inland) lakes. Countries like belgium are also impossible since their biggest lake is too small for the avarage lakes. The ammount of lakes also highly differs per country and thus is it hard to correctly guess in which country you are, but my guess would be swaziland, their are a few lakes bigger but also some smaller then the avarage size.

[@aeromodeller1]

There is a very simple search method that makes it clear that 40" is the minimal path on the surface of the box. Roll the box along a flat plane and trace each rectangle onto the surface. As you trace each rectangular side, also fold the end panels out and down onto the surface and trace them, marking the start and endpoints. Roll until you have traced five sets of panels. You can see that as the end panel rolls along the edges of the center rectangles, the start point will have four possible positions, on each of the four sides of the end squares. Now by inspection you can connect each starting point with any of several nearby endpoints on the other side of the diagram. You can quickly establish a shortest path for each start point position and you find that the shortest of those shorter paths occurs when the start point and the end point are both 1" from the end of their respective center rectangle and the distance is 40". All other paths will be longer than that. This is not thinking outside the box, this is thinking on the box.

[@ellaenchanted2399]

My assumption was originally 31" assuming the droplet would drop; however, that assumes that the drop could fall faster than the ant could crawl. Even if the honey drops, it could just as easily still be halfway up by the time the ant reaches it. I would love to see this problem with added data asking for the time at which the ant reaches the drop i.e. if the ant can travel this quickly and the drop moves down at this rate, how long would it take the ant to reach the drop if the most effective route is taken/where will the drop be etc.

[@donaldbaker3702]

Why is everyone forgetting that the shortest distance between two points is that point. If you bend space the ant doesn't have to travel at all, it simply arrives at the honey.

[@Nellyontheland]

Zero if the box is tilted at an angle and it drops on his little ant head! I win.

[@schweppesyt]

n6lDG-bP3zg - watch this video (good movie) ;)

[@someshbalak7186]

He said what the shortest distance should ant crawl, (Without our Interfere)

[@MurtuzaBookwala]

Trial and error is fine, but how do you prove your solution is optimal? What if there is a better way to unfold with a shorter path?

[@stevethecatcouch6532]

I was wondering the same thing. With only 6 sides and in 3 dimensions, trial and error works, but if the ant and honey were on the surface of a football, the number of cases increases. Add a fourth dimension and I'm not sure I would even be able to easily identify all of the cases.

[@anialator1000000]

To put it simply, the ant can only travel in 2D as shown by the box being unfolded. Thus it has to travel 30 inches horizontally and 10 inches vertically to reach the drop. That is the absolute minimum. If it doesn't go 10 up and 30 horizontal, it can't possibly be at the destination in 3D space. IN the more restrictive 2D space, it cant possibly be any less.

[@markgearing]

anialator1000000 - That's an excellent proof, thank you. The fact that the optimal 2D path and the optimal 3D path are equal prompts me to ask similar question, though: will the optimal 2D and 3D paths between 2 points of a regular polyhedron always be equal?

[@anialator1000000]

Mark Gearing The optimal 3d path wouldn't really be 40 units though, since 30^2 + 10^2 does not equal 40^2. Its just that the 30 and 10 are the other parts of the right triangle for the most efficient 3d triangle. Thus a 2d representation requires the same movement minimum, at least in this case. not sure if it applies in all cases though.

[@markgearing]

Aaand next time I'll make sure my brain is engaged before commenting 😖. Cheers anialator1000000

[@bobofett4635]

39 3/4 inches. The ant's a quarter inch long. Even less if it has long lips.

[@jasonharris1636]

well said, mate!🇦🇺💜🇦🇺💜🇦🇺💜

[@erainion7543]

Man that ant must be a genius!!!

[@leepuihin]

The number of comments saying the ant can't unfold the box really kills me. It's a method for you to find a straight line (I.e. Shortest path) and the ant doesn't have to unfold the box to walk that path. The final illustrations clearly shows that the ant is crawling inside the box while it's folded. Both of these are very obvious and clearly explained in the video.

[@leso204]

Remarks from people with little or no mental agility ....

[@tanmaypalkar9861]

I stick to my theory:- 1. ANTS DON'T CRAWL 2. HONEY WILL EVENTUALLY DROP DOWN WITH TIME

[@camerongray7767]

I admit, I did not think of unfolding the box, great video!

[@rd9831]

Ants never ever walk in a straight line. Unless they are drunk.

[@avnishkumar7315]

Ant reached and ate the honey till the time you solved this

[@LBF_NotGnome]

Collapse the honey side down to the floor. This makes it 11in closer to ant. Then do same with ant side making it 1in closer to honey. We're left with floor 30in - 11in -1in = 18in

[@NitinSharma]

That's how you think outside the box #amesomebro

[@emmanuelfernando7939]

good thinking. But please note. The box has to stay as the box. if collapsing is allowed then i would simply tear the walls apart and brought them closer.

[@Sven_x]

Then the honey would be squashed under the wall and the floor. Unreachable

[@bakihanma7233]

Turn the box so the ant is on the bottom. Then the drop will eventually fall, making the shortest path 4 inches.

[@yehdekhlobhai.]

Wowww

[@soumayadeepganguly4074]

Thank you very much. Many a time I saw the lizard running for it's prey in a zig-zag way in the walls. I thought that , they doesn't have the brain. But today I realized that , they have the ability to sense the shotest path. Thank you very much for helping to choose my next topic for my research

[@ohWowYoutube]

Wait, does the ant know Pythagoras theorem?

[@MkChz]

Yes because the ant can fly

[@angeladzeiesebei3913]

The ant is known as the hardest working creatures surely it will know😂😂😂😂

[@jagatiello6900]

Most likely, just like a bee knows about hexagons...

[@biscuitsalive]

That was a really good one. I normally nail these things but I was wrong on this one. Good stuff!

[@kichukrish]

You can feel it good one, only if you couldn't nail it 😆. If you do then it's gonna be a boring one😅

[@christianfunintuscany1147]

Amazing problem! I had to think the box flat to realize there is a shorter path than 42 😬 ... I found min path = 40. I also fiund it does exist another path that is not the minimum but it is shorter than 42. Its lenght is 40,71.

[@davejoseph5615]

Interesting. I came close but did not consider all the unfolding variations.

[@unknowndragon2889]

@Dave Joseph, same, my first idea was something on the lines of “Imagine if it’s just a straight line.” But, I couldn’t understand how it would be possible to be the shortest, I guess? It was pretty cool.

[@arunhimane]

Ant : (waiting for the solution and then frustrated) Ant : Fuck brain.. I'm going straight 🤣

[@desialpha2331]

That's correct if you ignore gravity working on that honey drop. But gravity can't be neglected as such so it's more complicated than it seems. On Observing the honey's viscosity and gravitational pull it experiences (take g as 10) the ant would travel from below portion of the box and shortest distance would be approximately 33 - 35. Thank you ✌🏻😁

[@socrabate]

Geometrically yes. But in real life the total amount of energy is lower in going in a straight path( jump down + move 30 on the floor + 11 climb on the side). So, the energy in your path is ( 35Fh + 12Fv ), where Fh is horizontal force and Fv is climbing force. But in a straight path it is ( 30Fh + 11Fv ). Whereas physical time is comparable. All in all, a better decision for the ant is to follow a straight path.

[@shubhamborkar8810]

We can achive directly by making the cuboid smaller with dimension 10*12*30... N can find direct shortest distance as sum of two sides of cuboid as 10+30=40....

[@fCauneau]

This is an interesting problem of topology : in fact this box is a 2D closed-variety that we may represent 2 ways : immersion in 3D space brings the "box" representation, where no solution is obvious (in fact it has the total curvature of the 2D sphere !!). immersion in 2D eucldian R2 plan brings the unwraped box to be equivalent to a rectangular infinite grid, and the successive paths (go/arrive by ceiling, left, soil, rght wall) are simply geodesics (straigth lines) between any paired nodes of this grid. Thus you end with a simple graph problem : in this space, you may limit to the geodesics that may never go through more than 3 sides (to a void one full round trip), so there are simply 4x4 of those geodesics. Most of them are redundant in distance, due to symetries in the graph : in fact there are 7 different possible "shortest" paths. From there you get the solution you porvide in your interesting video, but this method gives also the proof it is in fact the shortest !! BONUS !! First, see that any geodesic between two any start and stop nodes are actual possible paths for the ants. Then remember that the grid is defined in the infinite 2D euclidian plan, and so the start and stop points of the box are represented by an infinite number of nodes in this space. Now you can demonstrate two additional funny facts : 1- There is no upper bound to the length of the possible rectilign paths joining the ants to the honey, in other words, there is a shortest path, but there is no longest finite straigth path in this tiny box, the longest straight path is infinite ! 2- Whatever the initial direction the ants chose, walking straigth will always bring them as close as they want to the honey !!

[@LOGICALLYYOURS]

Hi Francois, glad to see your opinion on it... I agree with some of the points, still going through the other point.

[@ahmadfauzan5141]

Plot twist, the ant cant do math, and he take the time enjoying his trip

[@priyanshiagarwal2291]

I thought of the displacement thinking the ant could also fly...

[@ShlokParab]

If the ant was a flying one, the answer is zero inches.

[@josephjorgensen3282]

Never said the ant couldn’t fly he just flys straight to the honey

[@Colosphonium]

my brain solved it and i was so amaze... its a optical illusion... the box will reverse... both the ant and the honey are inside thebox... but for this you need to focus outside the box... this is genius. love it.

[@diogeneslantern18]

I really enjoyed this. Thank you. Subbed.

[@BlacksmithTWD]

To me it looked as if the ant was inside the box, and the honey was outside the box. Meaning the ant had to crawl out of the box to get to the honey. Assuming the top was open, i got to a minimum distance of 44. A different riddle entirely than intended by the author of the video.

[@mikeries8549]

Whoever made this puzzle is wacked. There is no ant made that walks in a straight line ever.

[@mikeries8549]

In my solution the ant gets caught in an atomic laser beam with a spider. Gains webshooting ability. Shoots a web and takes direct path to the honey BUT a mutant honeybee got there first.

[@casmartin790]

I think I'm ready for my interview at Google now!!

[@samirshah6610]

I love these spiritual videos. To think outside the box, one must unfold the box.

[@dougl9862]

After seeing the solution, a simple way to think of it is to visualize the box as a tube, and think of the ant crawling to the other end of the tube while also constantly rotating around so that by the time it gets to the other end, it will be on the ceiling close to the honey drop.

[@theoriginalchefboyoboy6025]

The ant waited until Spring swarming season, grew wings, and flew directly to honey drop - just over 30"...

[@davidjames1684]

About 31.6227766 inches. Drop in a piece of wood (such as a cut down wooden yardstick) just a tiny bit shorter than this length (to compensate for the yardstick thickness), so that it is just below the ant on one side, and just below the honey drop on the other side, then the ant can crawl directly to the honey drop. Distance in inches is computed as Sqrt(30^2 + 10^2) = Sqrt(900 + 100) = Sqrt(1000) since the path of the ant is changing positions in 2D only.

[@Bartek-xr1qd]

The ant can walk 31'' to get under the honey drop, and then wait for honey to fall down.

[@camtech1190]

It's 31inches. The ant will turn around, go 1 inch down and then 30 inches straight. Then it will wait wait for the honey drop to drop and the voila

[@semsema20]

Thanks for sharing 🌹👍

[@Isambardify]

Upend the box and tap it. Ant falls directly onto honey. Can't be bothered to do the trig but that's going to be pretty direct.

[@WodernWarfareTree]

Look at me ,learning during leisure time 🤷‍♂️

[@jeffnarum1373]

Fill the box with dirt = 31.62" Neat video. Great illustrations.

[@loukas1036]

*Sorry, you do not match the IQ requirement for this puzzle.*

[@joseluispaukner7817]

Great! It is really genius.

[@spock7945]

00:42 paused! monsoons are in progress (here in the subcontinent).. it won't have to 'crawl' as it develops wings and fly in a straight line to the food!

[@sherwinreyes3736]

The ant won't care about the solution it will just walk until it reaches that honey dew.

[@YTGhostCensorshipCanSuckMe]

He could crawl 31 inches and wait for the honey drop to slide to the bottom like some pickle thrown on a McDonalds window.

[@colinderue8095]

The answer is zero, for two reasons: Ants don't crawl since they don't walk on their hands and knees. They walk. Second, if we're thinking outside the box then we can deduce that there is a hypothetical means to reorient the box in order to maximize the effect of gravity on the drop of honey. Therefore, if you tip the box to the right on it's end to make the honey drop from its current position to the same side as the ant, and then return the box to it's original position in order to make the honey fall, you will find that if enough time passes the honey will hit the ant right in the fucking face.

[@hiteshsolanki6841]

I think the drop will keep dropping till it reaches the ground of the box and the ant will reach drop in 31

[@chetanv2007]

Awesome - this was out of my class/calibre!!

[@jhoncarlbalanza438]

When you diagonally up right the box, the ant will fall down with 0 crawl distance

[@Rajesh-sh4qg]

I don't think ants give a fuck about short distance they just go for it.

[@camerondurow]

It would only be 31” because the any could crawl along the bottom and wait for the honey to drip down the side of the box wall

[@nishmadechamma5701]

By then d drop of honey vil flow down😜

[@dishaldevaiah5981]

Then the shortest distance is 31" well done 😂

[@yoshi_ninja0533]

English?

[@zanajaf]

I just found the 40 by assuming the the ant is on the base. Then the ant travels 10" on the base to a point right across the honey drop. Then, you just turn the box upside down so the ant will fall down to the honey! You will get 40. That is it!

[@draco18s]

I knew about unfolding the box, I just couldn't figure out *how* that would result in shorter distances. 👍

[@spong_bbx]

well, actually the shortest distance is 31" if the ant went on the floor right under the honey droplet, it will eventually fall and reach the ant

[@ravissoni8]

yes, speaking of thinking outside the box, why don't we follow a more practical approach to answer this? The ant would have to crwal 1+30=31" to reach the drop as the drop would eventually slide due to gravity. The only concern with this approach is the speed of both the ant and drop sliding, if that are well known then 31" is the answer.

[@hendrilibrata3353]

If the ant think outside the box, it will realise it was trapped inside the box and need to find a way out, not caring about the fuckin honey drop

[@tamirerez2547]

Beautiful! I solved it (:

[@dudewaldo4]

i wonder how this can be figured out in general? What is the shortest path (along the surface) between any two points on the inside of a closed surface?

[@vangildermichael1767]

I want to know the answer to your question. The way they show it. You must unfold the box in the the correct fashion, else you get an answer that is not correct. But how, are you to ever know if you took the optimal path. Or just a really good one?

[@sachinsharma8201]

It was very simple but it was shown with very complex method If the ant come to down means 1inch and goes straight means 30 inches and goes up mean 9 inches then 1+30+9 = 40 that's the right answer without theorem

[@MastaSmack]

I'll assume that this is a young queen, with wings and it flies straight to the honey.

[@GCULPEX]

The ant eats the box and the honey: distance traveled 0.

[@sudheerthunga2155]

Yeah...our physics sir taught us this type but I was stuck on the fact that won't the honey drop trickle down a bit...like it ain't gonna stay at that point waiting for the ant to come

[@abhishekshinde2411]

And my dumbass was thinking the honey drop will pour down the side and the ant will only need to crawl 31 inches

[@GamesRealmTV]

I stopped the video and think a bit, the shortest distance will be 31. Hope I'm right. Edit: I was wrong.

[@kingbonz380]

GamesRealmTV you’re right down one inch and across 30 while the drop of honey reaches the bottom from the other side

[@fakrudinally]

If it's original honey.. Ant will never go towards it

[@milindpathak-here]

Two more answers (on lighter note) : 1. Ant is inside and Honeydrop outside so ant can't reach there. 2. Honey drop will slide down so max distance = 30 + 1 Thanks for good info :)

[@Beevreeter]

Great video, nicely explained and contrary to immediate logic!

[@williamtraynor4350]

I was thinking 31 inches seeing as you said honey was a drop..ant climbs down one inch walks along the floor and waits for the drop

[@MastaSmack]

By the time the ant got all his plans and graphs together to find the shortest path, he could have just walked the 42 inches and got the honey.

[@sumitrahi1519]

One more OUT OF THE BOX way Tilt the box so that both squares are vertically opposite, now ant will fall on the other square and will only crawl 10 inches. Please like if you like

[@r.a.monigold9789]

Sweet. But it made me a bit antsy. Thanks for sharing...

[@saurabhnigam1797]

I would keep the box in a vertical direction in such a way that the honey on the top will come down and fall in front.of the ant..in this way it will travel the least distance..simple

[@benyounger5332]

I got the same answer but i took a different approach, the ant can jump diagonaly thus saving 2 inches of crawling and then take a stright line all the way to the honey, that way the ant "crawls" only 40 inches... 😅😅😅

[@jerrywalker6043]

18" is the optimum answer if we are unfolding the box. Fold the two ends of the box completely under the floor of the box while laying the top and sides down out of the way. Now flip the box over so the bottom is facing up, viola. The ant is now 18" away from the honey.

[@loganwolfpack]

No inches, tilt the box exactly that ant and honey are parallel and ant drops exactly on honey.

[@CstriderNNS]

im not sure if there is an easier way, but this type of problem can be modeled by Calculus of Variations, and the concept of "least action", it is going to take me a few days probably to work it out,(im slow at calculus CD), but if i can teas out a proof ill be back. TY for the challenge

[@1008sudhir]

1. make honey drop side on top.....distance is required 10" 2. unfold both side and put on top...... distance required 18"

[@AthleticRunerDude]

i’m confused on why it isn’t the vector between 36” and the 10”? aka 37.~? why does the ant need to travel down then up then down again? instead of the most direct route to the drop

[@spock7945]

pleasexplain !?

[@TheMeanderingduck6]

The ant isn't gonna jump or fly.

[@BlacksmithTWD]

because ant to side + box lenght + honey to side = 6 + 30 + 1 = 37 and not 36. In the solution the ant doesnt start by traveling down, it starts by going up diagonally , only once finished walking across the ceiling it goes down 1 inch to reach the honey. I suggest pausing the video at 3:32 so you can have a good look at the exact path the ant crawls.

[@AGOffice-Gwalior]

Mind blowing 👌👌

[@whitem00gle]

Crush the box together where both ends are touching, the aunt would travel 10 inches

[@nakkaharika1140]

Nice video Superrrr

[@MymindW]

I thought the same it should be a straight line but my problem was how to visualize it. I was close. Thank you.

[@mishtyverma9659]

the ant can just jump from its initial position. this will make the distance even shorter .

[@vsa3128]

Wait my question is who would unfold the box for the ant to reach the honey drop?

[@darengauthier522]

Not only did I know the correct answer, but I knew it was going to be exactly 40 in.. Almost instantaneously ...as if this information was stored in my subconscious

[@darengauthier522]

I also didn't have to mentally unfold the box at all.. But just know how the ants work, and the reasoning behind your specific math

[@jessestefan6177]

Wow. In my mind I saw the final path but didn't bother doing the math on it, i thought for sure it would be longer than 42.

[@neddludd6076]

Great fun, thank you!

[@Mate_00]

Hmmm... I thought about him going in a "straight" line but scrapped that up after calculating it would take him more than 42 inches. I should have thought about the unfolding trick instead of thinking about all those trajectories in 3D.

[@quin2910]

Same, I feel like unfolding is a cheat way.

[@quin2910]

Technically you could even fold the sides inwards to shorten it even more

[@Mate_00]

Well, the folding isn't changing the distance in any way, it just makes you easily see what the shortest way is. Folding it in a way that shortens the distance *IS* cheating though. What he's shown is just a trick for our brain to process it without much effort, it's not actually altering the way.