Can you solve the fish riddle? - Steve Wyborney

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As the cargo director on the maiden voyage of the S.S. Buoyant, you’ve agreed to transport several tanks containing the last specimens of an endangered fish species to their new aquarium. Unfortunately, the boat is battered by a fierce storm, throwing your precious cargo overboard. Can you get the fish to safety and save the day? Steve Wyborney shows how.
Lesson by Steve Wyborney, animation by Artrake Studio.

[@vizualedit0r481]

- Hits storm. - Loses the cargo. - Rare fish species chance of going extinct by sharks. - information for the quantity of fish tanks gets lost. - Only enough fuel for 1 trip to the ocean floor. - Sonar malfunctions. - Poor informitive shipping notes. - There is a timelimit to solve the problem. - You have to do this all by yourself while It's still storming. _"All in all, not a bad day."_

[@artofsue4320]

Vizual Edit0r hahahaha exactly

[@blunderblitz]

this needs to become a movie. Hell even battleships got a movie like whut.

[@mrvaldemar66]

It was part of earth's natural plan for those fish to go extinct but no matter how hard mother nature fights, man will always over power her, for better or for worse........

[@phzzydrinks2325]

That part killed me.

[@jackthorndyke3390]

Philosophical Savant Calm down he was talking about that specific species of fish. Also, it was a joke. 😕

[@muenk2477]

Narrator:Unfortunately your sonar malfunctioned Me: Of course it did....

[@pratulanand4476]

S.O.N.A.R.

[@alejandroquesada]

🅱️.O.N.A.R

[@jasminesofela5724]

Alejandro Quesada aa

[@thalespro9995]

Me: *blames whoever made the sonar for losing the fish*

[@brysonashcroft527]

How about how they put a near endangered species on top of a stack where it could easily fall off

[@naamagordon4175]

Me: just trying to look at some riddles stress free TedEd: THE FATE OF AN ENTIRE SPECIES IS ON YOUR HANDS

[@jonahboerboom7169]

Lol

[@nahidbakhshandeh7844]

Yea, very relaxing.

[@user-jy5dg5vs3r]

Me: just let them die lmao it’s just a fish

[@soulofflame9999]

@@user-jy5dg5vs3r How would you feel if YOU were being transported by an alien ship, accidentally lost in space, and you hear the aliens say (rough translation): "Let it die, it's just a human."

[@THEWITCHSTICK]

True!

[@joemama5850]

"Hurry, the fate of an entire species depends on you" Pause button: allow me to introduce myself

[@Someone.....................]

ZA WARUDO

[@agenti4734]

@@Someone..................... Toki yo Tomare

[@tinytime3362]

✨pausing time✨

[@queenWillowwww3893]

I just said “I guess they’re going extinct”

[@SleepyPanda-co3iy]

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[@nosjdu]

To be honest after all that information I didn't even know what the question was

[@saphricpcgaming5182]

I still don't know what the answer is and I finished the video.

[@deetz23]

bida ma lol same

[@chevyDboyMike]

riddle turns into a story

[@galaxygirl2701]

bida ma same -_- IM NOT THE NERD OF THE CLASS

[@bethsieb7373]

bida ma same

[@netalivo]

4:18 "you've saved the species" i didnt do shit

[@jotrick3r355]

😂

[@toomemeforyoud8702]

netalivo its 4:19

[@kingvideogames]

Step 1: Confirm that the fish have green eyes Step 2: Ask the sharks to leave.

[@razormoos]

@ehud kotegaro see the green eyed riddle video

[@razormoos]

@ehud kotegaro it's. a. joke.

[@casuallyexisting2401]

Ok this is getting out of hand

[@k-874]

Lmao

[@mengjiasun3404]

OZO

[@zacharygaming4330]

Ted-Ed: Hurry, the tanks won’t withstand anymore pressure Dude: Hold up just got to make a table real quick

[@happymeal2159]

lol

[@Rippleskip]

good job. but then one of them got stolen by a german in a green house

[@laurendyer2838]

Heh heh, good one! Good reference, as I am binging on all the riddles in the playlist and this makes sense to me 😁😁

[@diannekaw7808]

Good

[@Green24152]

RIDDLE CONNECTION

[@laurendyer2838]

kenny park maaaaggggiiiiiic

[@notjustastopmotion6493]

Shoulda been more careful

[@pranavmullappalli6708]

I just watch these without even knowing what the heck im doing. his voice and the animations are satisfying

[@emmatara9293]

Lunar Pancake yaaaasss I know right!! I've been binge watching all these 'can you solve the .... riddle??' And I'm like heck no - I'll wait three seconds and find out

[@inniuy1794]

Lunar Pancake yeah

[@DiKayPugh]

I'm with you i watch these for the same resin

[@raunakkumar9110]

Lunar Pancake I totally get u they make it sound so easy and I still don't get it

[@falcons0116]

Lunar Pancake everytime I'm solving a math question I try to explain it in my head using his voice

[@sophiesmith9300]

"There are no other organisms..." Dang those sharks really do be hungry

[@todd3143]

they also guest star in a lot of yo mama jokes

[@riyakore3565]

The first riddle that I solved on my own!! Can't be prouder

[@sjfrench8034]

Bro me too! If you need me I'll be hanging out wherever all the geniuses go

[@sushmita4713]

Ya finally understood why we need algebra in life.

[@lisahenry20]

Well done! To you and everyone else who solved it

[@equuleusp3150]

same :))

[@liltaco2985]

Same. Well not first but got it

[@shrimpchimp8415]

If no-one knew how many fish there actually were, couldn’t you just collect, say, half the fish and lie that those were all the fish?

[@lebrawnjemz4339]

Hugh Wilson the people who aren’t on board (sending and receiving the fish) know, just nobody on the boat knows

[@MandrakeGuy]

"not a single fish can be lost"

[@ssrini2002]

I think you’re missing the point here...

[@hpds3133]

@@MandrakeGuy then why did he didn't get the fish in the gamma section?

[@ImTheBluestBird]

Ayy :D he did

[@cs889201a]

plot twist: you spent so much time doing the table that the fuel ran out for the sub

[@jakeboynton]

Lmao I was able to do it in my head in 5 min I could've done it quicker if I was really locked in

[@Thestin]

@@jakeboynton r/iamverysmart

[@instantramen7074]

meanwhile there am I crying in the corner not being able to visualize how would my hand look without my thumb... :(

[@wayway7017]

@@instantramen7074 same

[@cartergray8563]

i would like but its at 420

[@kaiserwilhelmiiemperorofge2801]

“There is no time to waste” “Pause the video if you need to”

[@whatsthereinaname-shakespe1805]

Guys i solved it on my own... My first.... But i used a different method... it's algebraic . . Let total no of fishes in each aquarium be f... Than 2+4f+4+2f+x+yf= 50 where x and y r the no of sharks and no of tanks respectively . (6+y)f=44-x f=44-x/6+y Now f can't be a fraction,it can only be a whole no And x+6≤7 and x can't be 2and 4, only possible values r 1,3,5 and 6 Subtracting by 1 and 3 gives us a prime no so impossible and by 6 gives us 38 as numerator which has to be divided by 6+y so y should be equal to 13 which is not possible.. leaving us only with 5 Substituting this value we can get . . 44-5/6+7=3 Hence no of fish in each tank = 3 and total tanks in sector gamma is 7 and shark=5 . Ps:- I couldn't resist myself sharing my solution and it's also the first comment i wrote... hope it doesn't goes unnoticed.

[@fgorn]

I did the same thing!

[@yashicaagarwal7909]

I went through it the same way .... But got confused because of so many variables and possibilities.... I missed getting the point of the whole number

[@jonathanzuckerberg8850]

My methodology wasn't exactly the same but using your letter scheme I started with 50 = 6 + 6f + x + yf and then used the rules to see which values of f,x,y were allowed in the rules. Then I went through each remaining possible value for x after reading the rules (1,3,5,6,7) and plugged them in to that equation while moving the constants all over to one side of the =. We know there were 6 sharks in the first two sectors so 50 went down to 44, and then plugging in the possibilities for x, I found that a constant c would be equal to f*(6+y) and values of 1,3,7 for x made the constant c prime so it could not equal f*(6+y) which is a product of f and (6+y) so by definition it is not prime. This left x to be either 5 or 6 but if it is 6 we have the constant c equal to 38, whose only factor pairs are 1/38 and 2/19. By the rules of the problem, neither f or (6+y) could equal 19 or 38, so we see x cannot be 6. Taking x to be 5 we get 39=f*(6+y), and since the factor pairs of 39 are only 1/39 and 3/13, we can deduce that the only possible answer we can get within the rules is that f is 3 and (6+y) is 13 so y is 7. We can check this by plugging everything into the original equation so we get 50 = 6 + 6*(3) + 5 + (7)*(3) which is correct.

[@unicorncupcakies]

_um_ I’m confused.

[@yawningtho]

That’s legit

[@john_hunter_]

This is one of the most convoluted scenarios I have ever seen.

[@Schwallex]

This. And it's not like it's convoluted in interesting ways. It is convoluted for convolution's sake. And It's not that you can't understand it, it's that you don't want to because it's not worth it. It is pointless, steals your time and bores you to tears. Halfway through the setup I stopped listening and started thinking about what groceries I need to buy tonight. And that turned out to be a much more productive exercise.

[@imasepan]

John Hunter it's not convoluted, you could solve this using your head and memory within a few minutes dude. You're just not trying hard enough!

[@fleaflyfloflum3625]

Hurry Calls yeah, i just solved it using only my head in 4 mins

[@mathmusicminecraft]

I don't think the problem is that the answer is convoluted, but the situation. There are just do many arbitrary and unlikely rules.

[@philipripper1522]

It's a math problem, not a logic puzzle.

[@fennxfox6241]

Answer: Get a more complete shipping report

[@thedarknight5714]

Exactly. What kind of cargo manager (or whatever he was since I and most people forgot) doesn't know what cargo he's responsible for? Amateur problem. A riddle based on stupidity can only yield a simple answer.

[@dimaignatiev6370]

and never resort to only one copy...

[@washyourhands]

or ya know... look at the fish

[@ralphnortham1314]

FennXFox show me the carfax

[@69op2gg1005ify0m]

I'm sure he said that the shipping report was torn in the storm...

[@fal4thought]

"Not one can be lost" German in the green house: Hehehe.

[@rage_2000]

*Narrator:* Hurry, the fate of an entire species depends on you *Me:* _[Pauses the video]_

[@Puggo77]

Simple answer: no, I'm too dumb

[@loocie4636]

•:Puggii:• you edited

[@Puggo77]

-Lucy- -He- I know I edited That's kind of obvious

[@Puggo77]

AlzarCat what? What who said?

[@brooks1052]

•:Puggii:• I

[@faizanm1563]

•:Puggii:• u just need to organize the problem there isnt a lot of logic involved

[@starvetodeath123]

1:31 "Your sonar has malfunctioned" Me: Well clearly, God doesn't want me to take these fish to the aquarium. Time to go home.

[@amanofculture4892]

After my cargo flew off the boat and my sonar machine suddenly exploded I'd be looking at that submarine with a little more skepticism

[@real_1llusi0n15]

Maybe to solve the problem, butcher all the crewmates. Sincr you are captain, you can sail the ship. Afterwards, say that the flesh is the dead fishes' remains. Then you are done. You didn't save them, but hey. Atleast you get some healthy fish flesh :)

[@shiningemeralds8024]

@@real_1llusi0n15 Impostor victory

[@MaxGamin69]

Me:did it malfunctioned or f###ing exploded

[@miguelm4991]

It seems a lot of people overcomplicated this. The first thing I did was 50-6 = 44, the value of the fish in the tanks and the sharks in gamma sector. Now all I had to do was find a number that multiplied with 7,8,9,10,11,12, or 13 equaled an odd number less than 44, or equaled 38 (since the value of the sharks in gamma sector must be odd, with the exception of 6 sharks). I know instinctively 8, 10, 12 cannot be odd, and 7*6=42, 11*4=44. That leaves 13*3=39, with 5 sharks, 13-6=7 tanks in gamma sector, and 3 fish per tank. It made more sense in my head, but yeah.

[@purplebunn]

When he said "hurry the fate of an entire species depends on you" was when I realized I'd zoned out and hadn't heard the riddle

[@dbg537]

So in conclusion, it was Mrs. Peacock in the bathroom with the candlestick.

[@ezramahle1472]

rofl

[@gracehanlon4820]

Dbananaguy53 I just read that and I'm now laughing hysterically very late at night and my family probably thinks I'm crazy

[@Jhopemmaa]

Hhahahhahah

[@oliviac5165]

Dbananaguy53 It's always Mrs. Peacock, I swear.

[@Plebasaurus5179]

Dbananaguy53 conservatory*

[@1nkFalcon]

If there are no extra organisms, then what do the sharks feed on.

[@stephendonovan9084]

If there's only enough fuel for one trip, how do we search three areas?

[@LordRetro-zh7er]

EpicGamer425 the poor unfortunate people who were cursed to pass that area and crash

[@methyllithium323]

you see why the sharks were starving and need to eat the endangered fish?

[@LordRetro-zh7er]

Wait, does this mean Shark cannibalism

[@mandy2917]

Exactly like plankton and other stuff

[@sev1011]

The answer was much simplier than the work I've done to solve the riddle. The method I used, after organizing the possible number of tanks(13 or less), fish(5 or less), and sharks(1, 3 5, 6, or 7), was to go from the maximum possible combination and go down from there. Midway through 7 tanks and 5 fish, I discovered three points that help sped up the process. 1: Alpha and Beta values of fish/sharks are always the same for the certain Tank and Fish Combo 2: When there are less tanks, the of organisms in Gamma are lower compared to tanks+1, and the data doesn't repeat numbers(rarely atleast). 3. Because of the pattern, symmetry with any other number of tanks helps eliminate any future values. As discovered when I did 9 tanks with 4 fish(meaning A=18 and B=12, with the equation (S)harks+((T)anks×(F)ish)), and saw that the maximum number for Gamma was 19, which couldn't add up to 50 organisms, nor will it ever for future values with less tanks. Finally I reached 13 Tanks and 3 Fish, with A=14 and B=10, and found that Gamma can possibly have 26 organisms(7 Tanks with 3 Fish, and 5 sharks), which would add up to 50. And too double check I did 12 tanks with 3 fish and discover the maximum value is 25, proving that 13 tanks with 3 fish was the maximum possibility, and giving me 7 Tanks in Gamma(Each with 3 Fish, plus 5 Sharks swimming around!)

[@mr.blueitachi5258]

Ñ

[@MathAdam]

I love how realistic these scenarios are

[@cat_sandwich]

Ikr 😉😅

[@kevinshah8656]

I love the riddle videos but I never actually pause and try it myself. xD

[@viorp6982]

I do, and I fail.

[@lightninghoodie9408]

Me to lol

[@OSRS_KQs]

I pause. I used to find the answer. I even found 2 answers for the poison cave riddle within a minute or 2. Now I usually just work out HOW to get the answer and then leave the boring table making or number crunching to the video. I don't have time to force check petty riddles. I love the puzzles, however. =)

[@fannubannu25]

Kevin Shah actually got it right this time! :D ( but it was in 5 mins so the fish are all dead oops )

[@emilyl3358]

Kevin Shah I SOLVED IT I GOT 21 FISH IN SECTOR GAMMA IN SECTOR ONE THERES 4 TANKS AND SECTOR TWO THERES TWO TANKS, ADD THEM TOGETHER TO GET 6 TANKS, THERE ARE ALSO 6 SHARKS IN TOTAL. THERE IS IN TOTAL 1-13 TANKS ON THE SHIP. 6+7=13 AND 13•3=39 FISHES, 39 FISHES +6 SHARKS = 45 CREATURES, 45+5= 50 CREATURES IN TOTAL, SO 7•3= 21 FISHESSSSSSSS PS. TOOK ME LIKE HALF AN HOUR

[@rustbucket1043]

Video “ Hurry, the fate of the species depends on you.” Me “I CAN’T HANDLE THIS!” *Dives into ocean*

[@awesomegaming-yourfavorite714]

Me: I can handle it.

[@legreatpotato8888]

Me: eats tuna sandwich uhmmmmmm whoops

[@imquirky8243]

@some French fries you're just copying that from the second reply.

[@amirasarahkanita8759]

well i'll just be like "NOW HE'S TALLER THAN ME-"

[@anormalandnon-suspiciousbo5290]

Hwownensmaazlzlslns Qosk xmakeodswo who poke your bee hive? Why are you so mad?

[@gavinandal4611]

“Your sonar malfunctioned” Me: Yah, more like exploded

[@muslimabumuslimow5654]

I approached this problem, a little bit different. Because of the rule : each sector has different amount of sharks, I thought this way: if we subtract from 50 the amount of 🦈 it should result in a non-prime number, because if it's a prime number ( like 43 for example) we can't divide the amount of fish equally. After we eliminate all possible prime numbers, we see that in sector Y there are 5 or 6 sharks. If it's 5 , then we have 39 fish and 38 for 6 sharks. From here it's easy to see that the only number which can be divided by (1-13) is 39 with 13 tanks. So 39/13 gives us 3 fish in each tank.

[@God8-O]

That's a not riddle that's a math problem.

[@TasX]

If you think about it, math is just a systemic way to solve riddles

[@hijabnaqvi4432]

Radi Bear You mean....use meth?

[@breathing9127]

+marxxmann Mr Bing

[@SYSTEM__32]

God :-O Definitely requires some basic math skills to figure out. But it's oddly still a riddle. Riddle: A question or statement intentionally phrased so as to require ingenuity in ascertaining its answer or meaning, typically presented as a game.

[@HerosBane2854]

I was expecting for there to be some kind of word play or trick way of solving the riddle. I could have worked out the math if I had wanted to, but I thought there'd be something more clever

[@2k7Bertram]

Them: "Your sonar has malfunctioned...." Me: "And I thought this couldn't get any worst"

[@jessicaexe-gc1gf]

"Hurry, the fate of an entire species depends on you." The Honeybee Riddle:

[@joyshi6952]

years after years I have attempted and failed to solve a TED-Ed riddle, but today I'm glad to say that's finally changed (ok I may have used trial and error but nOt tHe pOiNt cuz I still got the right answer heh)

[@undergroundmonorail]

nothing wrong with a little trial and error if it saves a whole species of fish

[@KR3WN30N]

The horse's name was Friday

[@zebo3289]

Ralph Giron now i get it!

[@Ravenroxy]

Ralph Giron ohhhhhh

[@maxie1199]

Knew it

[@altairyoshimitsu9066]

you da real MVP

[@GreatJobTy]

IF YOU want to be a better person,if you're looking for confidence, advantage, meaning in life, whatever it is you want I make videos on it. *Come watch my videos* . They're videos are easy to grasp, you just gotta come to the channel!

[@1manApocalypse_CP]

Couldn't you just . . . count the fish in one of the tanks you picked up?

[@x6568tank]

All the tanks have the same number of fiah so you'd be able to find how many sharks there are in total.

[@shelan7058]

I know right?

[@lazarhrebeljanovic1389]

But you have enough fuel for only one dive.

[@ultimateunclegene7428]

Killshot SRB count in the water

[@troller7779]

@@ultimateunclegene7428 You can't count in the water You have to open the seal and the fishies will escape...

[@jamespotter1436]

1:04 Microbes: are we jokes to u?

[@Niiue]

1:31 *that doesn’t look like a malfunction*

[@hi86065]

Oh this is easy. "The sub only has enough fuel for a trip to the ocean floor"..........that means the sub isn't coming back....BOOMMMM

[@pestcontrol7823]

hi86065 *xD*

[@eggyrepublic]

hi86065 no fuel is needed to decend, only ascend, he should have said it only can make one trip

[@derekf512]

hi86065 😂😂 u smart man (*_*)

[@jaisonparker4992]

It doesn't even ask this though dumb ass

[@hadierturk4693]

This is more of a math problem than a riddle. I just guessed the number of sharks until all the conditions were met

[@CiorbaAnimation]

I didn't think of something so simple as the number of fish in tanks divided by the number of thanks should be a natural number.I complicated this riddle so much.Firstly i made some math getting the equation and then playing with the minimum and maximum of that equation as well as the minimum and maximum of the sharks and number of tanks i got that the number of fishes inside a tank should be between 2 and 8,then I made a C++ program to verify the information and give me the number of sharks,number of tanks and number of fish inside a tank for every combination that gives the sum 50 and i got 5 results,2 of which had 2 sharks in sector gamma,other 2 had 4 sharks,but we know that there can't be the same number of sharks as in the other sector so only remaining result was correct:5 sharks and 7 tanks of fishes in sector gamma,each tank of fish having 3 fishes

[@BodhiGeraci]

Jesus dude

[@Lashnakh]

Yeah. I tried tanks with 5 fish blindly, adding up the first 2 sectors and seeing whats needed to reach 50 organisms in the last sector. They don't divide cleanly and you end up needing there to be 4 sharks in gamma when that's not possible. Same with 4 fish per tank, it needs 2 sharks in gamma to add up to 50. 2 fish per tank means too many tanks overall to fit 50, so it ends up being 3 fish per tank as a solution, mostly by elimination. I guess a table works too but that seems more complicated somehow.

[@Inkyminkyzizwoz]

Can't it be both?

[@dinanhafizh1433]

@@CiorbaAnimation wait whaaaaatt? Did you really made an app/program only to solve the riddle?

[@matiasgatica5319]

I really want to know where they find such imagination for the riddles. It's amazing!

[@LevelUpLeo]

Woo! I solved this one! I didn't get this exactly how they showed it, but I basically got it. What I did was calculate the number of fish that were left with the number of sharks possible (50 - Sharks possible in other words) , and eliminating the prime number results (43, 41 and 37), leaving only 38 and 39. 39 is divisible by 13, but 38 was not divisible by any WHOLE number between 6 and 13, the minimum and maximum number of tanks respectively.

[@demitreburger707]

1:54 What kind of fucking ocean has these magical properties!?

[@Suzduko667]

Then, upon returning to port, berate the people responsible for loading the cargo for not making sure the almost extinct fish were so thoroughly secured that it would take Milo Murphy's impossibly horrible luck for this to happen.

[@Alex-rg5yb]

Maybe Milo WAS on the boat

[@megamudskipper316]

Who let him on then?

[@sharebear9165]

Such a victory when I solve one! But then I see how you’re “supposed” to solve it and I just get a headache lol

[@Max_Miles]

This was the first TED riddle I found the approach for first try. Love these!

[@yummyos]

Don't you hate it when TED-Ed tricks you into learning with a riddle.

[@jagrubster]

OrangeSlush How can Ted-Ed trick you into learning? It's got "Ed" right there in the name what did you expect

[@miu__m]

Pheobe Owusu I mean I thought Ed was just a name not an abbreviation for "Education" at first

[@markcross2304]

Pheobe Owusu a guy named ed?

[@iminni3459]

Mark Cross Short for Edward.

[@AniketBhatP]

What exactly did you learn from this? Basic math? Lol..

[@JoshWomble]

I just watch these for the animations, I never try and solve the riddles 😂

[@adiank1247]

Josh Womble So true lol

[@SteppingStone445]

Josh Womble i start off thinking im gonna do it but then I get lost lol

[@elijah-he975]

Josh Womble I think 50% of the ones in here solve it or at least try to solve it and the other 50% just watch it without even trying.

[@JulianKlimczyk]

Josh Womble same

[@peppygrowlithe]

I ended up solving this one by basically creating a math formula, where x is the fish in each tank, y is the number of tanks in Gamma, and z is the number of sharks in gamma, so 6x + yx = 44 - z, and just kind of going from there. If I'm ever transporting endangered fish through stormy, shark-infested waters I'll know exactly what to do. And they say algebra doesn't help in real life!

[@joshuawilmot7468]

Drawing the table takes unnecessary extra time, especially if pencil and paper aren't available (seems nothing works right on this vessel, so why expect the pencils to be sharpened?). The riddle is easily solvable in one's head: 1. Subtract the number of known sharks from the total number of organisms: 50-6=44 2. Subtract possible number of Gamma Sector sharks from 44 to "guess and check" for a number that can be evenly divided... 1 shark, 43 is prime; 3 sharks, 41 is prime; 5 sharks, 39 is a bingo. 3. Double-check your work with the time you saved not searching for pen and paper.

[@sansamman4619]

then the sharks starve and the sharks become endangered

[@JoshSideris]

Nothing's changed. They didn't take away the sharks' natural food, they just didn't give them new food.

[@sansamman4619]

Josh Sideris funny things aren't meant to be true...

[@scarcehere3715]

san kitty good because i hate them

[@sansamman4619]

Scarce Here hate wat?

[@scarcehere3715]

san kitty i am really fucking scared of sharks

[@clayel1]

Short answer: you get fired, return home as a laughingstock, and remain forever sad. Long answer: watch this video

[@AdityaSingh-uh9lq]

I made an equation with the no. of fishes in each as x, no. of tanks as y+6 (6 already in alpha and beta) and no. sharks as z+6 and applied same conditions :)

[@louisondessus]

first ted-ed riddle that i figured out! im so proud of myself. even pulled out excel to solve it haha

[@Ivcota]

Why is the dude from Pink Panther in this video?

[@Theraot]

Messing with Endangered Spieces... Pink Panther... Makes sense

[@mambodog5322]

except he turned yellow.

[@iMaChkN]

Ivcota perhaps he got fired and got a new job?

[@breadguy7962]

Ivcota IKR!!!

[@frogsaregood4183]

What is the heck is the pink panther?

[@dannyha7255]

Not even gonna bother remembering the question after all that stuff thrown at me.

[@NJA2k8]

The pause screen is all you needed lmao

[@campr1198]

NJA2k8 The pause screen doesn't have the question. So no, it doesn't have all you need

[@Fearofthemonster]

Pause screen should have the question. I was puzzled at first. I was like, what was I supposed to figure out?

[@missionpupa]

That's why you use a godamnit table

[@mrvaldemar66]

i agree, they could have worded this video a bit better

[@twinkiebeyond]

I don’t trust any submarines, anymore.

[@alexargueta5775]

I literally feel so proud this is the problem on this channel I was able to solve by just doing the math in my own head, I started my assuming the maximum number of tanks would be 13 and starting from each tank having 1 fish and moving up from each outcome to match 50 organisms

[@twistedstrength.]

"Thermal imaging shows 50 organisms in the area". Sharks are cold blooded so their body temperature would be the same as the ocean water surrounding them. They would not show up on that scan.

[@alexwang982]

thetwistedstrength but heat propagates slower through the sharks

[@cinnakincat4260]

Through that logic, neither would the fish.

[@twistedstrength.]

MEG G Fair enough

[@Tyler-lx2df]

ITS JUST A RIDDLE

[@icedragon7908]

Ok, paragraph long rant on biology incoming: Cold blooded doesn't mean that the blood in the shark is as cold as the water around it. Cold & warm blooded refers to whether or not that animal's body can regulate its internal temperature on its own. Lizards, for example, need to sunbathe because without it, their bodies don't generate enough warmth to function properly. This doesn't mean that lizards are the same temperature as their surroundings- the process of chemical reactions producing the energy needed for the cold-blooded creature to survive does produce heat, just not enough to keep the temperature that said chemical reactions need to continue the way they should. That said, if you're sure the sharks are the same temperature as their surroundings and are still moving, then that sounds like a code B-movie: zombie sharks (not to be confused with code Bee Movie). In that case, I'm done. Forget the fish, forget biology, I'M DONE, AND I AM FREAKING LEAVING!

[@hymnsoncheung1681]

Why do I watch watch riddles? 1.Can strengthen my English listening skill. 2. Can blow my mind. 3.Can laugh at funny comments.

[@thomassteward9382]

Hydrogenn 😂

[@pseudolemon8272]

hymnson Cheung it's funny because the riddles are simple as fuck but I don't want to waste 10 minutes analyzying the possibilities to give them an answer

[@pamsinclair2634]

hymnson Cheung I

[@lg6126]

Solving these is one of the best feelings ever

[@NoBux241]

0:33 If you pause, you can see the original chart is empty so even the people sending the fish didn't know how many there were

[@Allison-zp5ch]

This isn't my problem I'm just in bed watching on my phone

[@angie-qb4vh]

Allison same 😂

[@hannahrepollo]

Allison Ikr 😂

[@rednasxela6031]

I'm about to do the same but I already watched the video

[@ishasaleem6297]

Litterly same

[@karasuarez5509]

Allison same

[@James8hg]

Or you could just fix the radar machine

[@yeyoremix]

James 8hg The tanks can't stand the pressure much longer, so no time no fix that shit.

[@hotweeaboo3475]

Diego Velez but u have enough time to make a long as chart and do math in your head?

[@CaesarTheGreatGaming-Julius-]

faster than fixing a radar :/

[@tifef8925]

Hot Weeaboo it depends how good you are at math

[@APerson-pd6ws]

Gryffindor girl 1+ 1 = 2 :D

[@shins0ub0y]

This is the 1st riddle I've completely solved on my own after watching a ton of these.

[@TigruArdavi]

You, the captain: "Ah, what could possibly go wrong". The inexorable odds of nature: "Murphy's law strictly enforced ahead!"

[@rosstheboss3747]

One of the few riddles I solved.

[@Idisagreethisisnotanon]

Ross the Boss same

[@flyingpan3907]

Me too

[@owo554]

Same! :D I didn’t use a table tho I used circles..

[@babsds0]

Same :P

[@TheLemonyBard]

Same

[@dreamscapeai7]

You know what's rare........ Ted ed riddles.

[@Gilgameshh]

You know what's even more rare? Ted ed riddles that don't require you to sit down with a pad and a pen for at least 20 minutes before coming near to a conclusion. Riddles should be fun and have relatively easy math problems so you can solve it in your mind.

[@gianreyes3762]

niga, i solved this with my mind lol

[@Gilgameshh]

I stopped watching this video just 50 seconds in so perhaps this might be one of the more rare riddles Ted ed makes but majority of their riddles are just ridiculous.

[@gianreyes3762]

They're not really 'riddles,' per se. I suppose it's a fault on their side for calling them riddles, but it's just their way to make things more interesting as the so-called riddles are just ways to educate the viewer about different problem-solving methods. If you really don't like it, maybe you should try not to expect a proper riddle, so you won't be disappointed :))

[@jinglemich4941]

Ladder Part of the solving problem with Ted ed videos is being able to skip over all the mushy unimportant stuff in the begining, and pick out the important information.

[@tai9165]

the satisfaction I felt after solving this riddle is beyond words

[@noahmasoodi1035]

Ted-Ed: There are 50 fish and sharks in the water The one octopus chilling:

[@justderp5713]

Storm should have been predicted ahead of time by meteorologists if these fish are THAT important... seriously

[@jianlofi]

*Video Starts* You are the Cargo Director. Me: No I'm Not!

[@felixlee9645]

nice to meet you not, I'm dad!

[@PuzzleAdda]

There are 10 Fish in a tank, out of which 2 have drown, 4 have swim away and 3 have died. How many are left? kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYPMoJiwj96FgZo

[@monicaburrull1860]

This is the first time I solve a ted-ed riddle by my own, not exactly using a table but using a similar method of what's the only posible combination

[@tracydu8052]

Step 1: Confirm you have green eyes Step 2: Tell the fish to come back

[@Intradiction]

And then your ship gets sucked into the whirlpool on the map at 0:22, drowning the entire crew and releasing the fish containers, and eventually the sharks eat all the rare species of fish, leaving humanity with no cure for the rare disease that will spread across the world 10 years into the future.

[@brasilballsinternational2477]

How can you escape the whirlpool and save the world? *The Whirlpool Riddle*

[@empresselilyho8425]

LOLOL that's cool

[@rydemk4168]

FlowerFox Gaming are you suicidal?

[@cyrnisu]

|Innovation| .

[@hermionegranger-hd9er]

Me before video: another riddle yay! Me after video: huh?

[@juliavanderkris5156]

I thought Hermione was smart...

[@shirmeimartin7642]

Sam van der Kris Whahahahahaha made my day

[@hermionegranger-hd9er]

Sam van der Kris i've been laughing for 10 minutes now. help me

[@juliavanderkris5156]

u ok m8

[@hermionegranger-hd9er]

I'm good I'm laughing at something else now

[@staranimations677]

im impressed he didnt just snap and go insane from all the maths that was being thrown at him.

[@destroyerofworlds4663]

Ted-ed:Hey, You have to save an entire species of fish and not a single one can be lost. But you know... NO PRESSURE.

[@olmomiau]

Plot twist: the fish are actually baby sharks

[@cinnakincat4260]

LOL

[@itsoracle]

olmomiau Plot twist twist: the sharks are actually giant fish

[@felixlee9645]

not that again

[@couldntthinkofanamesoiwent2942]

Dodododo

[@TheKelliestKelly]

I finally solved one of these! It feels good. And my logic was mostly the same as was displayed in the video. It didn't occur to me to set my information up in a table. But had I used the table (especially since I don't have any graph paper handy) it would have taken me just as long to prepare the table as opposed to keeping the numbers straight in my head. And I definitely reached the correct answer quicker than a table would have provided but I was making sure there were no other possibilities. Haha, not that anyone else cares. I'm still proud of myself tho

[@iamthepersonwhoasked5639]

I mean i care i asked u if u succeded...after all thats what my name is

[@antarctica0061]

Hi I care

[@antarctica0061]

Maybe

[@antarctica0061]

I'm just gonna spam your comments

[@antarctica0061]

So it looks like alot of people cate

[@Gaxi2]

Well I solved it little different way. 2sharks + 4sharks 4tanks + 2tanks If we take 1shark or 3sharks in Gamma then the remaining organisms would be 43 or 41 which aren't maybe divisible by 1-13. Now if we take 5sharks in Gamma, The remaining organisms are 39 which can be easily divided by 3 and gives the number of boxes 13 which is acceptable. So, each tank would contain 3fishes.

[@FunnyTeamVN]

This riddle is the first time i can solve Ted-ed's Riddles by myself

[@justafranz2420]

"the sonar has malfunctioned" *blows up*

[@elainejiang7998]

This is like math class all over again

[@ryanvick2480]

but I think this is better then math class cuz your not being controlled by a teacher.

[@EverythingCreARTy]

APPLE PIE ikr

[@nikhilgarg9618]

Me: Collects half the fish and hope they breed well.

[@mikealasmar3818]

This isn't the first riddle I've solved on this channel.... But it's the first riddle I solved in my head. I'm blown away by my own potential 😂 super happy right now.

[@_dr_ake]

I solved your riddle but I'm not saving the fish. I'm sailing this ship to China, can you imagine how much they'd pay to eat something this rare?

[@dan-gy4vu]

the fish can be poisonous though, or not safe for consumption.

[@PikaPluff]

You know what i’ll do? i would pretend i only retrieved one tank, so the price of the fishes in there will surge up. Sell the rest on the black market. Jk

[@dan-gy4vu]

PikaPluff2040 now THAT is smart. you earned a star 🌟

[@cmhan1997]

PikaPluff2040 but the fishes will die or can reproduce either way puts them at extremely high depriciation or loss of value really quickly

[@floriath]

you brute! they would eat them alive. 😢

[@benjaminwikoff2826]

Easy, you only need to find one male fish and one female fish, they do the do and you can be on your way.

[@asd6484]

Species still goes extinct cause that's not how repopulation works.

[@supercomputer5607]

And then the entire species is inbred to the point of sterility in a couple of generations. Congratulations.

[@derekf512]

Sooper Compooter well than how tf did we come from Adam and Eve

[@dawsongranger4940]

iDerek Plays Adam and Eve is fake.

[@joshmchenry3049]

Dawson Granger even through evolution, there has to be incest

[@mogenoof]

"your sonar malfunctioned" the sonar in question: 🔥💥💥🔥⚫️🌚💥💥🔥

[@paxarcana5811]

I've watched this episode 4 times and I still can't solve it myself

[@mr_easy]

I solved a ted riddle for the first time.!! Yeah!!!

[@atharvadeodhar5332]

Rishabh Gupta same here

[@albertnoble2727]

Same :) Maybe this one was more soluteable

[@herrxerex8484]

Waited so long for this , like for more riddles

[@dez5232]

#MoreRiddles

[@6022]

I worked it out a little differently. There's 50 creatures. You know about 6 sharks. That leaves 44. From the possibilities of how many sharks can be in that last area, you can have 37, 38, 39, 41 or 43 fish. BUT, three of those numbers are prime, so you can ditch 43, 41, and 37 immediately, leaving 38 or 39. 38 has prime factors of 2 and 19, which can't work, so you must have 39 fish, and 5 sharks in that last zone. 39 has only got factors of 3 and 13, so 13 tanks of three fish each.

[@witcherredacted8761]

One of the puzzles I've answered on my own... A proud moment for me

[@julialagrone589]

God damn it I’m a hungry shark

[@SpeedyCheetahCub]

This made my day! Thanks for the amazing laugh!

[@dunnoreally1060]

No you're a smol introverted bean

[@SpeedyCheetahCub]

LOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOL!

[@oracle372]

hungry hungry Hippo your a hungry hippo

[@unicorncupcakies]

I thought you were a hungry hungry hippo.

[@LegendDuoKeeper7]

Finally solved a riddle myself, sadly I didn't use a table because I thought there would be too many details for one, so I just wrote out logic to find the solution. Now I see how taking the time to organize a table would have made it so much easier.

[@rv3427]

Nice, got it right the first time without writing anything down. Feels pretty good. However this one was easier than some of your other riddles. Since there is only one option that gives you a divisible number when you substract the sharks.

[@joyh.9663]

got one! didn't want to dedicate too much time on this in case I was wrong so I had to keep track of the numbers in my head..and gave up after calculating w/ 3 fish in each tank, but turns out it was correct! definitely not defendable in court though lol