Can you solve the magical maze riddle? - Alex Rosenthal

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Today is the annual wizard tournament featuring competitors from three schools, and you’re in charge. The wizards have entered the maze and compete in your chosen events in utmost secrecy; only you and they see what happens. But a dark wizard appears and casts a forgetting curse- throwing the results into question. Can you figure out who won the tournament? Alex Rosenthal shows how.
Lesson by Alex Rosenthal, directed by Igor Coric, Artrake Studio.
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[@ThrillSeeker3524]

That little goblin can't ever catch a break

[@user-er1ih6xt9x]

Lol fax 😂....😭

[@jagirl966]

Way too true. He must be cursed.

[@Luckycharm754]

It's so sad 😭 He needs a name!

[@4444Ferris]

Join us next time When after getting a peaceful quiet job in the normal library A shipment of coursed books is there by mistake and you have to guess how to put them back in the box knowing they will eat you unless they are in a pile with at least 1 smaller book on top of them

[@mauschen_gaming]

He's got a death threat every time he's in a riddle i kinda feel bad for him tbh.

[@justapt01]

It’s official. Moldevort is canon to the TedCU.

[@Ya-boy-BoM]

😂

[@historynerd556]

He showed up before, I'm pretty sure.

[@zesnowpea6347]

@@historynerd556twice actually

[@Epee2134]

As well as the 4M academy--sorry, MAcademy

[@thenovicenovelist]

​@@Epee2134 I guess the chosen one from house Minotaur didn't compete in the tournament and that's why the macademy didn't win.

[@Leron...]

"Do you often find yourself in this kind of predicament?" Yes, I find myself struck by a forgetting curse many times each week actually...

[@Minetendo_Fan]

Story of my life

[@Jake28]

get a carbon monoxide detector

[@pjabrony8280]

How do you know?

[@stm7810]

that could be long covid.

[@TheSoulCalledZuzia]

dont we all

[@shinyagumon7015]

I like that Moldevort had literally no reason to get involved here besides causing chaos.

[@lukecox6317]

Perhaps, rather than having one or more horcruxes, Moldevort is immortal so long as once a month he causes harm to the magical community. He is vicious both by choice and by circumstance, required to be due to the conditions of his survival

[@metal_pipe9764]

Unluckily for them I have a brain and knew I might forget the scores so I wrote down the scores during the game

[@thenovicenovelist]

He's like the Joker of whatever realm they're in.

[@mariustan9275]

Sounds accurate to the books kinda

[@Bladethird]

Well, it said the first Great Wizarding War was set off by failing to determine a winner. Maybe he hoped to start another Great Wizarding War?

[@amateraceon5202]

“Why are you so bad at taking notes?” Do I sense a potential character development arc in the future?

[@hexretro8112]

riddle where you take too many contradicting notes.

[@thenovicenovelist]

"After too many close calls due to your poor note-taking skills, you decide to take a note-taking course at your local college. "There's just one problem: Moldevort switched out your caffeine potion with a chamomile potion and you fell asleep. What's worse is you woke up just minutes before your final test and if you don't pass it then the Ogre's army of fire, ice, and lightning dragons will throw the Tree folk president into a prison camp and form a dictatorship. And the Tree folk president doesn't have green eyes." Then insert some riddle here for the protagonist to solve. Preferably something involving a score card and flipping a coin.

[@wafflecitty6078]

@@thenovicenovelista real ted ed fan 😂

[@Minetendo_Fan]

The goblin wants to train note taking ability but forgot about it

[@JH-cp8wf]

"There's just one problem -- your memories were erased. Luckily, you look copious notes, and there's no problem whatsoever"

[@agrv9527]

This has to be the most ambitious Ted-ed fantasy riddles crossover yet....

[@familydeevey3379]

All the harry potter parodies and goblin man 😁.One of the best crossover in edutainment😁😁

[@Purple_Mesh]

If the numbers were 4 3 and 1 then there could have been a NIM riddle reference :(

[@metal_pipe9764]

I still just cheated by just doing the easiest possible solution

[@user-fs4jp3tu8g]

Harry Potter thing, goblin man, Sorting hat, and wizard duel, the last two are really old.@@familydeevey3379

[@tostadojen]

*Ted-Ed:* Nobody can see what happened and the contestants can't remember. *Me:* _scribbles random numbers on scoresheet_

[@cami7436]

No one needs to know 🤫

[@FreefanofPI]

@@cami7436 As much as I love this joke, I am pretty confident that the spectators saw and know the results of the previous 4 games, so they may call shenanigans.

[@BirbWhoLikesDragons]

@@FreefanofPI i see where you're going, but i'm pretty sure the spectators couldn't have seen them

[@pianissimo7121]

​@@FreefanofPIIt was said at the start that spectators saw absolutely nothing. Not sure why they were spectating but that's the story

[@jai-kk5uu]

​@@FreefanofPIjust ask the spectators then who won

[@gkjaerby2441]

I LOVE it when Ted Ed does riddles.

[@The.Nasty.]

I love it when people call wordy math problems “riddles” 😂

[@dashyz3293]

these problems are the only time i pop into the channel.

[@gkjaerby2441]

@@dashyz3293 really?

[@LiteraIIy_Nobody]

Same.

[@riverkath]

Love the fact that TED has its own bits of lore that it throws into their theories like the goblin, Moldevort and the wizard and the schools.

[@HarrisonLuiEKYiss]

@GameTheory moment

[@SacsachCCABP]

@@HarrisonLuiEKYissPerhaps the new Game Theorist will cover this.

[@HarrisonLuiEKYiss]

@@SacsachCCABP if its not MatPat who is it

[@aotea6983]

"Do you often find yourself in this kind of predicament" 😂😂 love the link to the sponsor!

[@SpencerTwiddy]

Triforce

[@OriginalElysian]

Yesss, more TED-Ed riddles! I know how much effort goes into these, but I wish they weren't so few and far between. They're my favorite aspect of the channel! This particular one I loved for its lore expansion. The wizarding schools, our poor halfling scribe friend, and Moldevort up to his tricks like usual. Also, Addison's voice continues to be the perfect fit for these so I want to give him his credit where it's due!

[@jboygaming5024]

How to win the Tournament Step 1: Confirm you have green eyes Step 2: Ask the competitors to leave

[@lakshya4876]

LMAO🤣

[@smnio5619]

Problem: the MMMM wizard claims the Newtniz wizard ate the fire crystal, and the Liebton wizard said Ozo

[@GoofyGangster-bo4zn]

I love that the names of the wizarding schools are Newton and leibnitz, but newtniz and leibton

[@thenovicenovelist]

This reminds me of "Epic Rap Battles of History: Bill Nye vs Sir Issac Newton." Especially the end when NDT mentions that Newton was "stabbing daggers in Leibnitz and hiding up inside his attic on some Harry Potter business."

[@bbqtong148]

I was sitting in a lecture on calculus when this riddle popped in my mind. Love these little Easter eggs by TED

[@justanotherdamnerd4434]

Crossover of the century! So we have Moldevort existing in the same universe as this poor goblin (so treefolk, ogres, elves and dragons are all in), as well as other wizards (i.e. the wizards in the chess Moldevort riddle), and three wizarding schools - Newtnitz and Leibton from the duelling wands riddle, and the Magnificent Marigolds Magical Macademy from the secret house riddle.

[@CertifiedCommentBotHater]

So how many riddles has it been featuring this goblin? Four at this point? First writing the scores for dragon jousting, then counting votes for an election, then arranging dragons to their territories (also creating new ones when necessary), and now this; all the while his life/head is put at risk in the first three situations.... GIVE THEM A BREAK

[@alice-cu2jr]

him

[@Tuturial464]

​how do we know he wasnt killed off and replaced with another goblin? @alice-cu2jr

[@TuxedoDogss]

@@alice-cu2jr are you referring to the "GIVE THEM A BREAK" part? if you are, the pronoun 'them' is perfectly fine, because there is both a plural and a singular version of 'them'

[@iamgay453]

Even if the goblin got a break, he might still end up finding himself in a riddle with his life/head at risk

[@shiwalikaushal9718]

Most of the times i just watch these riddle videos without pausing but this time i paused the video, took out a pen and paper, tried and actually got the right answer! Gotta do this more often

[@anthonyvsrobloxtv4418]

Congratulations!

[@eugenetswong]

Yeah, I got this answer, too. It felt good.

[@gunnersg2700]

Same i usually watch without pausing but for this one i guessed the answer. Assumed 5 events because i didn't want to take time to solve the 4-event table, even though it's super simple as the video pointed out. But i figured that since i found a possible solution with 5 events, that had to be the one. Took me 15 minutes though, even for that incomplete guess, so i should probably have taken notes. Need practice

[@gdcustoumz2534]

Yeah me too! Except i did it without pen and paper

[@gunnersg2700]

@@gdcustoumz2534 Wow you must be a superior human being

[@eliagrosso420]

The TEDx riddles are fire!! And this dropped just as I am reading the Goblet Of Fire

[@evenultrapawn8677]

Coinkidinky

[@thituannhanguyen2056]

Same❤

[@ed_cmntonly]

I hope this entire lore development will result in a crossover of all of the riddles TED ED has made, with the riddle itself being the most challenging out of the entire series

[@nerdyboy5490]

(I didn't see any comments regarding this old joke) Here's how to solve it: You just have to ask the pawn shop owner "If i asked you "Is the person in your left green-eyed?". If the answer is "ulu", then you take the 23 "The Soul" card. If the answer is "ozo", then make all the population flip two coins. If they are both heads, then activate thrusters A, B, and D. If they are both tails, arrange the Greeks in such a way they don't know which color is their hat. Then, if you solved it correctly, they would enter the rave and you would have to go to planet 7. Assuming the Paradoxes start in a blue intersection, add one egg to the silver coins pile. After that you just distribute the dots in a way that you don't own any tax to Fate, and report to the police that everyone in the town is a werewolf. But, if your instrument is not in its box, open the lockers with a perfect square and discover the password, which opens the fifth house of the MMM Macademy. You also have to account that it would take you 15 minutes to cross all the contaminated rooms without using snakes. That means that the fish tanks can only fall from the 27th floor. That's the only way you can create a blue triangle only being able to use the +5, +7, and √ keys. By the way, there is a shortcut to solve this. You have to make sure you land on winning numbers and only flip the lever A. After that, just separate the batteries on groups of 3 and 2 to know which are the possessed ones in the wanted poster. And congratulations, you just saved your school and your head.

[@therealelement75]

The shortcut won't work because the lightning dragons trigger Thruster 37 and make your friends put a mask on and see if they have green eyes but with more steps and that means we have to pick 1,3,4, and 5 to trap Moldevort and not let him take the keystone (drink a luck potion to unlock Minotaur in MMMM) and pick the wand with 60% chance to get a cuddly

[@Your_Local_Insect_Lover]

Actually, a more efficient way is to guess 15 rubies then play death an amazing tune, after you find out how many nano nodules it takes to go back to the era in which you ate the poisonous frog, thus unlocking the ability to slay the final vampire.

[@stanislavgalev9458]

Yall forgot to mention the pirates and the counterfeit coin.

[@nerdyboy5490]

@@stanislavgalev9458 bro, it's really hard to fit them in. Also, there are like plenty of pirate riddles.

[@Your_Local_Insect_Lover]

@@stanislavgalev9458 after doing so, you must reason with the pirates for at least 20 gold coins. Then, you must take exactly 2 counterfeit coins from the greedy king and embark on your journey. Done :)

[@abdulalan7479]

you should release these riddles more frequently as i really love 'em

[@itz_mm_sisterz6770]

What I love about Ted Ed's riddles is that they put in references to their older riddle videos

[@DiegomemesStand]

You see the correct answer can be reached by asking the wizard overlord whether your eyes are green , if the second frog is female, then goldie locks is lying and if the fish is in the german's house then you need to lower the water level by 2 and NIM will say ozo which can only conclude to the lighter coin being the counterfeit.

[@Becky_Cooling]

don't forget to check how many coins are silver side up

[@connorbeighley6981]

@@Becky_Cooling Then find the planet the rebels are located.

[@Becky_Cooling]

@@connorbeighley6981 And then pick disc A

[@connorbeighley6981]

@@Becky_Cooling Then find out which players are victims and which are assassins so you can find out which thrusters to activate

[@divyanshusharma6749]

Puzzles are how I found ted-ed first time. Their puzzle series of 4 seasons was simply amazing. You can't find puzzles as good as those anywhere else. ❤❤❤

[@corsinhidber591]

I like that you mix up your riddles! This time it was a systematic approach of trying to limit the possibilities by finding contradiction through assumption just like in the elemental riddle. Great Content, please never stop.

[@Jessica-yv3id]

Finally!!After 3 months we have a ted ed riddle🎉🎉 I love these❤❤

[@Angellll336]

Took me 40 minutes but I solved it! I love this basic math, elimination type of riddle. Please do more!

[@tlxyxl8524]

I figured this out myself pretty much the same way as the answer shown in the video. Many years has passed, and I still enjoy solving TedEd riddles

[@darkhawk155]

I love the expanding lore of our magical mystery solving friend, the MMMM and Moldevort showing up from their own various puzzles is brilliant.

[@Ravenfoxy11037]

Omg TED ED riddles are my childhood! I loved and still do love watching them!

[@blythepineda9929]

Did anyone notice that the Newt-Niz magician turned the banana into a fish? Because that was the Newt-Niz champion's signature spell from the wizard duel riddle!

[@christopherearth9714]

Then that means he canonically WON.

[@mikulaggarwal4954]

Finally a new TED-ed riddle

[@onal12345]

I love it when Ted-Ed does crossovers among the riddles ( The M.M.M.M. was in another riddle, so was Moldevort and the little goblin us. ). 😁😁😁😁❤

[@Andre_Mations]

I love Ted ed riddles! They should make more!

[@mirandayan8664]

Yes ,I love these Ted-ed riddles！

[@alfrancisbuada2591]

Riddles like this always make me love TED ED

[@unbaked_plankton]

Wow, TedEd riddle expanded universe is expanding exponentially, I recognize MoldeVort, she schools from the Wizard Duel Riddle, the Secret House riddle, and it's the little score goblin man!

[@wherestheerror]

new ted ed riddle just dropped, had to watch instead of doing assignments🔥

[@m90e]

I love all the call-backs, like how the schools are from the wizard duel riddle (Newt-niz and Leib-ton) and the sorting hat riddle (Magnificent Marigold's Magical Macademy)

[@stephanietaylor6069]

“Do you ever fine yourself in this sort of predicament” uhhhhh only when I watch these videos

[@smameann]

After the start of the answer which explained how many points there could be, I was able to work out the rest. Very good one.

[@smallestratmonster]

yayy more riddles!!

[@anthonyaddo958]

I do get into these situations with wizards a lot. Thanks Ted-Ed😁

[@theshadowofmango9209]

Love this series!

[@bra24hnt52]

TedEd: "can you solve...." Me: Probably not, but lll watch anyway

[@Kosteru-des]

These deduction from only a limited amount of clues are some of my favourite riddles!

[@SuperMewKittyKatGaming]

1- ask Moldevort if he has green eyes 2- ask each wizardry school if they would say ozo if they won 3-ask Moldevort to leave

[@lakshya4876]

But what if he says ulu?

[@user-do5rq3cq3m]

I want this little goblin to have one final riddle. And by the end make him competent at writing scores.

[@myfriendtata6386]

I love the relations between each riddle

[@CyberGW30]

I think this is the first time my solution was almost exactly the same as the one described, must be tidying up my problem solving slowly!

[@sammiecakie8973]

Little Goblin voice reveal at 4:28 Omg omg

[@benaronson2410]

New riddle!!

[@Supreyo]

I swear solving a Ted-Ed riddle gives you such feelings of absolute power Like you feel like a immortal deity afterwards

[@shreeshshiji9275]

Love this

[@meltedwaxx]

I MISSED THE TED-ED RIDDLES THANK YOUUUUU

[@maruthuk]

Looks like a simpler one, but excellent one to give food for the thought process!

[@lovely-yj6zy]

How many jobs does that goblin have?

[@ggyt1234]

Too many

[@connorbeighley6981]

Twice, he's been a score keeper, then a polling agent and a cartographer. Who knows what he'll do next.

[@Thatoneconlanger]

Every job that includes counting and/or charts

[@christopherearth9714]

He gets paid well.

[@thenovicenovelist]

I'm guessing they're part-time jobs.

[@ber2996]

There are 5 events The scoring is 5, 2, 1 The event winners goes like this: Event #1: Newt-niz, Leib-ton, MMMM Event #2 - #5: Leib-ton, MMMM, Newt-niz Final tally would be: Leib-ton with 2, 5, 5, 5, 5 = 22 MMM with 1, 2, 2, 2, 2 = 9 Newt-niz with 5, 1, 1, 1, 1 = 9 Leib-ton is the winner. I solved it by figuring out that the highest score attainable for an event multiplied by the number of event must be greater than or equal to 22, since a lower product would mean attaining 22 would be impossible even if a team wins all events. And the total score attainable through all events must be 40 since it's the total score gained by all teams (22 + 9 + 9) So the formula should be: aN + bN + cN = 40 Where a, b, and c are scores given for an event while N is the number of events. Let's say the scores are 3, 2, and 1. The minimum number of events possible to reach >=22 is 8 events. Let's use the formula: 3*8 + 2*8 + 1*8 = 48 The scoring of 3, 2, and 1, is wrong since the final sum of the score is 48, which is greater than what we want which is 40. Working your way through it you'll find that a scoring of 5, 2, and 1, for 5 events works perfectly. Ps. I'm writing this comment during the pause, I don't know if there are other possible answers.

[@aaravmehta1099]

Was waiting for a new riddle for so long.

[@lisawichman2571]

Crossover with some others in the series! Nice!

[@Readingclubwithanvita5048]

I love Ted-ed as I’ve watched all your vids.

[@TakanashiYuuji]

There is an omission in the explanation, or at least room for ambiguity. It's not clear that each event has the exact same score attached to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. It just mentions the 'system' is the same. It's not uncommon for competitions to have unbalanced rounds, so that's not a strange assumption to make. If you can't make that assumption, there is no single solution.

[@panampace]

I’m pissed about this too. Took me forever to find someone else who pointed this out.

[@AnonymOus-ss9jj]

If the events have different scores attached to the places received, then by definition that is a difference in scoring.

[@31_sourabhgoel_9d2]

TED-Ed consistency🌟🌟

[@lollol-gj9vw]

yes, i always encounter these magical things. thats why i need brilliant, ted

[@marcusblacknell-andrews1783]

I just love it when Ted-Ed does “Wizard” Riddles. A Magician’s Enigma!

[@avoprim5028]

Speaking of, did you do any of the quizzes in the Harry Potter Fan Club app? Meaning, which Hogwarts House were you Sorted into, and, what did your Petronus turn out to be, as in, which animal does it look like?

[@marcusblacknell-andrews1783]

@@avoprim5028, I do remember doing a sorting hat quiz and was sorted into Ravenclaw. As for my Patronus, I believe that mine is in the form of a wolf 🐺.

[@avoprim5028]

@@marcusblacknell-andrews1783 I like, that, especially, because, it reminds me of @Ryutube, yes, Ryutaro Okada, the Japanese actor who is most well known for playing Isamu Fuwa, also known as Kamen Rider Vulcan, in the Tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Zero-One. Why does it remind me of Okada-San, you ask? Well, simple, Vulcan’s forms are based on wolves.

[@jasperedwards7029]

I drop everything to see the new riddles

[@virgieuy7007]

THIS WAS THE FIRST RIDDLE I SOLVED BY MYSELF YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!

[@lunaticludwig8311]

Wohoo! That's the second TedEd riddle I solved before watching solution

[@RandomStuff0714]

Doesn't this mean that Drumbledrore exists too? So the Dragon Jousting tournament and the fantasy election thing are connected to Drumbledrore? And MMMM is connected too. I think Drumbledrore is headmaster of MMMM

[@betterchapter]

"Can you solve..." title made me clicked immediately

[@marcuspate1309]

Why would anyone set up a tournament that spectators can't see? This was always an issue with Goblet of Fire to me, too.

[@fawkestheplotphoenix964]

I love how these vids have become a full extended universe

[@FelipeFrotaBass]

this was a fast one, yet still fun!

[@danzananimYT]

FINALLY NEW RIDDLE

[@StephenEuanTalua]

I liked the references to older riddles, tying together a riddle canon.

[@pageturner2958]

The crossover I didn't know I needed

[@rookie1753]

I'm so happy riddles are back

[@rookie1753]

even though I can never solve them 😂

[@emilyli8003]

“Why are you so bad at taking notes?” Wow, I never knew I and the goblin had so much in common 😂

[@skylarwilliams7744]

"Do you often find yourself in this sort of predicament?" administrating wizarding tournaments that may or may not cause an all out war? all the time man, all the time

[@andrebrooks9153]

I love your riddles

[@ParanoidGoblinoid]

2:03 I’m going with Liebnuts as the winner, over 5 events, with a point distribution of x, y, z = 5, 2, 1z

[@gingerinajacket8519]

I got lucky, I was on the same path as you, except that I started with 5 simply because there were smaller round points meaning I had less permutations. When I went to test the first and most unfair setup on the board, I noticed that it aligned. My first test, on the first third of possibilities, on what was a decent starter. I'll take it.

[@firefly4f4]

So there were a total of 40 points to won. So assuming the number of points available is the same per event, that gives: 40e,1p 20e,2p 10e,4p 8e,5p 5e,8p 4e,10p It's safe to exclude 40 and 20 events, as there's no feasible way to divy up the points meaningfully into 3 places. There also has to be at least one position that awards an odd number of points, as that's the only way for any team, let alone 2, to end up with an odd number of points. We also know that since MMM only came in 3rd once, some other team won at least once, so the maximum points for 1st cannot exceed 9.

[@LavroseRovender]

Yay a new riddle

[@jjunkong]

I love the little goblin is constantly promoted😂

[@jamesgarzillo4851]

I love the reference to the Newt-Niz school!

[@Becky_Cooling]

Can you solve the wizard tournament riddle? No, but I'll watch the video anyways.

[@curiouschurro7148]

yesss we're back

[@MatthewGriffin-xl2jg]

I liked the references to other riddles: that same character from the dragon jousting riddle, and Marigold’s Magical Macademy

[@Maxawa.]

the music during the explanation is lowkey a banger, does anyone have it or is it a teded original

[@Nguyenzander]

This video simultaneously merged the Goblin Scorer Universe, the MMMM Universe, the Moldevort Universe, and the Wizarding Tournament Universe

[@bivcbmtgstgtssscqcrddgtrsm2257]

I... kind of solved it? I needed a lot of information from the answer portion, but I did figure a few things out on my own, and what the final solution was.

[@GamerMario18]

I like how the goblin is always in a life-and-death situation 💀

[@Quackleb]

I'm so proud of myself I finally figured out one of these! :D

[@maxandlily6074]

0:14 gasp, the Magnificent Marigold’s Magical Macademy! It’s back!

[@ThrillSeeker3524]

This reminds me of the Wizard Duel and Dragon Jousting riddles

[@nathanbohannan7956]

Yeah Same

[@limkailuen3022]

Because this is the third installment in this now trilogy

[@nevereverr]

@@limkailuen3022Actually this is the 4th in this series. The lil Goblin dude was also in charge of counting votes for an election

[@unrellated]

@@nevereverr And he did a stint as the royal cartographer. Plus Moldevort appeared in two other riddles, and his name was on the invitation for the Monster Duel one. I'm also pretty sure that the treasure room at Marigold's Macademy holds the Crystals from the Element Temple riddle, which itself also had some eggs from the Museum Thief riddle.

[@arfaouiaymen7142]

Happy to say i found it this time 🎉🎉🎉

[@kitrinamuniz6668]

Ok, I wanna write it down and see if I got it right. I don't know how to come up with formulas for this type of stuff, so I just made a chart. L wins at 22 (a second place win and then the rest first place); M gets 9 (a third place win with the rest second); and N gets 9 (a first place win the rest third). There's 5 events with first place receiving 5 points, second place receiving 2 points, and third place receiving 1 point. L = 2 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 22; M = 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 9; N = 5 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 9.

[@michaelporter7629]

Goblin bro has a whole story arc at this point. 😭

[@kurtmatteson4914]

Who let Moldevort out of the chessboard?

[@Dexaan]

He figured out he had green eyes, so we had to let him go

[@puneetsingh2251]

Leib ton is the winner This riddle involves concept of manupulation and probability And permutation and combination