The hardest part of solving these riddles is understanding the explanation of what you are trying to solve.

I don't agree with your solution to #3. Yes, the first prisoner can ensure that no loop exceeds fifty boxes. So there will be two or more loops. That doesn't guarantee that any prisoner will find his own name. To do that he'd have to work the correct loop, and he has no hint on where to find it.

@MrEragar

7 жыл бұрын

Exactly right. I'm disappointed no one else has realized this yet.

@DocScience2

7 жыл бұрын

I agree with you... I think the person posting the riddles is suffering from brain scramble on #3... I started reading through the comments to see if someone agreed with me ... If we give this thread a thumbs up, others will find it faster ...

@anadawaween

7 жыл бұрын

yea exactly, wtf? you can't gurantee that everyone will find their name in under 50 boxes by cutting 1 loop

@funkmasterjones

7 жыл бұрын

The prisoner will always be in their own loop. It is necessarily true that their start box and name box must be in the same loop, since their name box is the one that comes before their start box (thus forming the loop)

@Juify

7 жыл бұрын

They are always in their loop because they start with their corresponding number.

3rd one is formulated really Bad. The prisoner who can look in all boxes is he one of the 100 prisoners? So only 99 should know the number of the Box with their name in it. because the prisoner who can look in all boxes has a 100% Chance

@kerrishashack3315

6 жыл бұрын

So true

@Sumit-MMA

3 жыл бұрын

No they are not allowed to communicate

took 15 mins...but i solved the 2nd riddle!!!!! YESSSSS!! Finally one video where i solved something

@FoodieTravellerbysidhupuspa

6 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/nXh_rq-vYc2xddaR.html try this new challenge if u r really genius..

@catuwu4444

2 жыл бұрын

I solve every riddle without pausing

I got the last one correct but the first 2 I failed EDIT: THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE LIKES GUYS😃😃😃😎😎

@riddlechannel3270

7 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you got a weird brain ;)

@yyy2410

7 жыл бұрын

Riddle Channel yep

@londheyash

7 жыл бұрын

Same with me !!

@yyy2410

7 жыл бұрын

VKarl exactly

@yyy2410

7 жыл бұрын

Yash Londhe glad I'm not the only one

first 2 are too ez, but the third, iyes they are smart, but they're not good memorizers, so they cant memorize the names, cant the first one just walk in and align the names in alphabatical order and then let the prisoners go in, in alphabatical order too?

@xyatamiata

7 жыл бұрын

AFK able the first can only swap two names once.

@bigm9123

7 жыл бұрын

AFK able there isnt 100 letters in the alphabet

@PaulSmith-nw3ho

7 жыл бұрын

But not all names are ONE LETTER LONG DINGUS

@afkable6241

7 жыл бұрын

mR Dub and Paul Smith , no there arent 100 letters in the laphabet, but if 2 ppl have the same letter, then u order them according to their seccond letter's alphabetical order, and in case the second is also the same, u do the same process with the third letter, and so on. example: if there are 3 people names: nelson, nijel, jeffery first is jeffery then is nelson, because letter (e) comes before the letter (i) in the alphabets and last is nijel

@afkable6241

7 жыл бұрын

Tabirca Radu ah ok, makes sense, can u explain the solution though? i dont see how doing what he explained garuantees in all of them finding there names.

On the last riddle Prisoner: LETS RIOT

The biggest question is, how is her room pitch dark in the morning when she overslept?

@Red80008

7 жыл бұрын

Because she usually gets up at 3. happy now?

@amandabarrett1656

6 жыл бұрын

Or maybe she sleeps in the basement with no Windows. That could be a reason as to why it is still dark

@alexortiz9777

3 жыл бұрын

She lives above the arctic circle so uses blackout curtains

@TangoNevada

2 жыл бұрын

3rd Shift

Why not: • Every prisoner gets his number • First prisoner swaps names that Prisoner 2 gets his name in box 2. Prisoner 3 gets his name in box 3 100% wins

@to_5bg

7 жыл бұрын

Jakub Mroczek you can swap 2 names only once

@jrockhardest

6 жыл бұрын

switch the boxes not the names

@TennisballAnimations

6 жыл бұрын

To_5BG- Казармата на Крийпърите he was talking about if it would be like that

@shanelinehan4852

6 жыл бұрын

Jakub Mroczek that’s what I thought I was totally lost on that last one

@risyyaa_1523

6 жыл бұрын

Me too

So this "Anna" wakes up in the morning and cannot find her socks. Wtf is there no light in her room? Or even a window?

@Ninjacakester

7 жыл бұрын

God,

@NovaAeternus

7 жыл бұрын

if she lives in a basement, where's the stairs or at least the door out? i mean how could she find her clothes or the socks, IN THE FUCKING DARK.

@fancyooh1689

7 жыл бұрын

lol and she can just crab like a couple socks and go outside in the sunlight to see!

@Red80008

7 жыл бұрын

okay... just say, she's blind. feeling better now?

@mattluxford3808

7 жыл бұрын

Then she wouldn't know which one of the three is incorrect, since she can't see,

I confirm the solution is perfectly viable. The ones who disagree simply have to reflect on the riddle a bit more and understand it. The most frequent argument is that even if the first prisoner will guarantee there's no loop of more than 50 names, it's not guaranteed each and every prisoner will pick the loop with his name in it, thus finding it. This argument is fully invalid, as it is guaranteed he will pick the right loop simply because the box with his name always leads to the box of his number (thus they're in the same loop) and every prisoner starts looking into the box of his number.

@alexandrecuchi2400

Жыл бұрын

There is the thing. if the first is in a smaller loop, that is inproblable, all die. there is no chance of full success. It can be a chance of all go througt or all die. Even if the first on identify that there is a loop bigger than 50. He is alredy dead. Becouse he doesn't know wich box replace.

On the first one i just said take all the socks...😂

@mikeforrest5912

5 жыл бұрын

No light in their room, no job, getting up late for an interview, not having their clothes already laid out. If a person can't get their stuff together that would be their best option.

Ok, The first on my me laugh so hard, it was just so stupid and I know it's a riddle but still like who does that

@uncledavid5344

7 жыл бұрын

When I've heard the sock riddles it's always with at least 6 or more colored socks, not just black and white lol.

@evanolds9991

7 жыл бұрын

Carter learn how to use grammar bitch

@evanolds9991

7 жыл бұрын

Carter and general spelling you capitalized the for no fucking reason

@MothGirlHina

7 жыл бұрын

Killua Zoldyck and if you want to nit pick about capitalisation, I'll nit pick about your lack of punctuation. Shouldn't it be: You didn't need to capitalise " the "?

@freakishlegiontheif936

7 жыл бұрын

Killua Zoldyck It should be: 'Learn how to use grammar bitch.' 'And general spelling; you capitalized 'the' for no fucking reason.'

I got number 2 and number 3.

@riddlechannel3270

7 жыл бұрын

good job :)

I think Anna is a doctor because i can't understand her writing

@mrpizza-fw8py

6 жыл бұрын

lmao ;)

The third one was easy, I got stuck on the freaking socks

@Eli-qg2no

6 жыл бұрын

I said 4

@copyermanhen1133

6 жыл бұрын

_ TheBigPig _ same

@fal4thought

6 жыл бұрын

Yup ikr

@dshawandunwell8542

6 жыл бұрын

_ TheBigPig _ mine was the other way around

@joosh9802

6 жыл бұрын

Same!!!

I only got the 2 one right

@peterkirby980

7 жыл бұрын

mackayla campbell BAAAAAAD CHANNEL number one was wrong number 3 was long

@marshallpeters7174

7 жыл бұрын

Number 1 was correct. You only need to grab 1 more sock than there are colors to guarantee at least 2 will match. Number 3 was confusing.

The third one wasn't as hard as I thought it would be

Prisoner Riddle: The first one puts all names into Box 1. Done.

@sureshms3071

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

6:15 "If there's a loop that is over 50 steps long, there can only be 1" I don't understand. A loop can even be 99 steps long, say if each box contained the name of prisoner "n+1." If we are to proceed with the strategy, many prisoners will miss their names because the can only open until the 50th box. In fact, I believe almost all of them will miss their names. EDIT: Figured out how to close 100 step loop into 2 loops: The 100th box is supposed to contain what should be in the 1st box. Just switch the contents of the 100th box and the 50th box.

Riddle 3: The first guy puts the names in alphabetical order.

@Juify

7 жыл бұрын

you can only switch 2 names, once.

@10midgits74

7 жыл бұрын

Lin J 4:30 read the bottom rule

@barmanitan

7 жыл бұрын

Now realise that he made a typo and the prisoner could only switch 'two names', not 'to names'

@revolution277

7 жыл бұрын

Bodelicious that what I thought too

@nicolebuhendwa8342

7 жыл бұрын

but they didnt say anything about switching the boxes

I got the 2nd one right but before hand my first thought was to get the king to execute all 3 of them 😂

Riddle 3: Another way to solve it that makes it easier for every prisoner except the first one: The first prisoner memorizes the order of the prisoners entering, and each prisoner memorizes their own number. The first prisoner puts the second person's name in the second box, third in the third box, etc. The prisoners open their own box and immediately leave.

@Yuvgup

Жыл бұрын

Exactly that’s actually the solution

Michael:Jeff is the knave Julien:Michael is the knight Jeff: My name is jeff

2riddle is easy he said there is a spy BETWEEN his men and there is only three so it got to be the second one

@chextex4147

7 жыл бұрын

Family's Kids Nice one.

@redacted6813

6 жыл бұрын

What funny is I heard his name was Julian and my first thought was "That's the name a damn spy would have." and by Jove I was right...

@rossanavictores7121

6 жыл бұрын

Tomiho

the first riddle was a no shit

I don't get what you are trying to say for the last one ?

4:38 he spelled two wrong (to)

YES I GOT THEM ALL...I'm way too happy about that aren't I

The wording of the last riddle gives you way more possibilities to solve it. The first person can just arrange all the names in the same order the prisoners will enter the room so they just look in the box numbered with their entering position. Or if the first person can't memorize that many names in order, the first prisoner can just organize the names alphabetically and the others just have to remember how many names come before them. And so on... If they can set the order of the prisoners and change the order of the names in the boxes there is really no need to do this with a sorting algorythm. They don't even have to be abled to open 50 boxes, after the first persone opening one box each would be enough.

@Jay-tx4em

7 жыл бұрын

asssssssssso he's only allowed to chance two (he said that in the video)

@asssssssssso

7 жыл бұрын

Oh my bad, I was just pausing the part where the rules are written down, where it says '...[he] can look in all 100 boxes and change any to names he wants to". I assumed that meant to change any names toboxes of his choosing, but I guess it was just a typo and it's supposed to say two. Thanks mate for clarifying.

@thatangrybaneguy5104

7 жыл бұрын

asssssssssso I heard he could switch any of them to

@aniresi3736

7 жыл бұрын

bullshit, he can swap them as many times he wants, if he couldn't then the solution presented in the video also wouldn't work because he changes them in the right order,watch the video properly before argumenting ;) (im here to say facts, not for an text war)

@thatangrybaneguy5104

7 жыл бұрын

Ani Resi yea

About that last one riddle - there is one much better solution. Everything starts with mutual agreement, a week before the game. Every prisoner will have his unique number. For example - prisoner John Smith will have the number "6". When the game begins, some prisoner goes to the boxes, opens them all and finds the name "John Smith". After that, it's enough to knock on the lid of that box for six times. His friend John Smith will understand that in exactly THIS box is his name. This ''knock-guy'' prisoner will knock on the other boxes in this way, sending the relevant signals to other prisoners each according to the number of knocks. In this way, everyone will know where to go and which box to open because everyone has his own unique number that is the same as the number of knocks, and that ''knock-guy'' knows them. And even if the prisoners were wrong to see it, just go to the area where it was knocked - each of them has 50 attemps.

why the fuck would you say your the spy?!?!?!??!?!

@Leo-ds7oj

7 жыл бұрын

people like you make me want to shoot children.

@srajanchoubey

7 жыл бұрын

Meaty one 😂😂😂😂😂

@juliuswitter9030

6 жыл бұрын

It's a riddle, it's not real life

@Eric0225

6 жыл бұрын

Yay een nl

@darwinkc1212

6 жыл бұрын

Ik ben een pedofiel he would need to memorize the order of the 100 prisoners

The first one is somehow incomplete. Yes you took 3 socks and for sure two are matching colours. Still, in the dark you can't tell which ones, so you can't wear them before lighting the room. You should have stated clearly that the riddle was only grabbing a matching pair with 100% sure, not actually put them on.

2nd is the easiest

Julien may be the spy but because Jeff CLAIMED to be the spy he can be held as an accompanist

If there was no prisoner No.1 who can limit the largest possible loop to 50, the third riddle would not have 100% efficiency, but only about 30%. This way, it is ensured that each prisoner's number will begin at the end of the loop which is 50 boxes or less.

I knew the second one was jullien!!

@anthonykwasigroh9819

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's wrong, bud.

Riddle 3- Easiest way As 1st person can change any box and can look them He will plan with other mates that he will arrange everyone name from 1-100 acc to alphabet sequence (like dictionary). As everyone know there name they will able to know the box Number with there name as already discussed with eachother . Quite easy

@subhanamir3432

2 жыл бұрын

Any two boxes

@subhanamir3432

2 жыл бұрын

Not every box

The first prisoner can't switch more than two names from the boxes, but there is no rule preventing him from rearranging the boxes themselves. He can just put the boxes in the order the prisoners come in starting from the box containing the name of the first prisoner and they will all just need to open one box to find their names. Think outside the box, lol.

It was amazing.Specially the prisoner loop .Just amazing!

Dude I have found another strategy... When they discuss the strategy they tell the first prisoner that is aloud to switch all boxes as he wants to put every prisoners name in alphabetic order....the alphabet is like 21 letters long sooo every prisoner can open 50 boxes and the possibility to find his name is tooo high

@mehdi8714

2 жыл бұрын

Bro it was mentioned that he can only open the boxes and have to leave em just the way they were

1:41 MY NAME IS JEFF XD!!?>>>

1) Alternative: Black socks are pretty much thicker than most white socks, let alone how she should at least identify which is lighter and darker. 2) The guy in the mid. 3) If the first pri. Can arrange it, they should just arrange it chonologically, different from yours though..

Got first two. No way I'm getting the third. Having hard time even after the explanation lol

i got 1 and 2 but 3 was too hard

I don't get number 3?

@tanyavats4367

7 жыл бұрын

shadow nova neither did i

@maartos

6 жыл бұрын

Think its fake :)

In riddle 3: In the explanation or solution there was no hint that the first prisoner has a limit of swapping names. So it could be very simple to solve just by swapping the names of the prisoners until they are in the same order as the order they enter. This way only the first prisoner would open all the boxes reorder the names in them and than all of the other prisoners would solve the riddle by opening only the box corresponding to their order number. They could even order themselves alphabetically so that the first prisoner doesn't even need to remember their names, but only order the names in the boxes alphabetically. The other prisoners would not be required to remember anything else than their number in the order.

julien is the spy, Jeff is a knave , michale is a knight

@mrkattvideos1989

7 жыл бұрын

OMG OMG he ANSWERD, you are the BEST

With the third, why can't the first prisoner check who's next, find their name and swap it with box 2? Dunno id i'm missing something but it says he can check in all of them and swap two around, this should work. (Hopefully)

@michaeldog123ful

7 жыл бұрын

I mean, he could but all that does is leads number 2 to getting his name. It doesnt bring any security to prisoners 3-100

@SJ-hw7bx

7 жыл бұрын

only 1 prisoner can look in all 100 boxes and cqn only switch 2 names. the rest can only open 50 boxes and have to leave the boxes exactly how they were.

@Anna-hp4zq

7 жыл бұрын

or since they numbered and he/ she memorized numbers with names. he would just put them into numbers... idk if ui make sense, but you are allowed to switch as many times

@seatul4690

7 жыл бұрын

Mr Neos48 THE FIRST PRISONER JUST DOESNT CHANGE ANY NAMES BC IT WOULD BE STUPID TO ENDANGER HIMSELF

@hameed3312

7 жыл бұрын

So does everyone need to get their names or is it like an every man for himself thing where if u get ur name u live?

the last riddle is stupid.. lol are there cameras or something.. is there no rule in changing the boxes themselves... lol if not.. the first guy should be someone who knows everyone's name.. and put the boxes themselves in the order the prisoners came up with.. id say best to put them in alphebitcal order lol... the numbers are irrelevant here.. just like they were in the sock riddle... lol how are the numbers on the boxes.. can't you just swap the numbers and organize the boxes in alphabetical order.. so the prisoners are guaranteed to know it's their box no matter what lol... haha all this lies on number one prisoner lol he can't mess this up or everyone is executed

@tuerda

6 жыл бұрын

There is a typo in the statement of the rules. The first prisoner can swap any *two* names. No more.

@tomf3150

6 жыл бұрын

one prisoner writes the 100 names on 100pieces of paper and give each other a paper with is name. they each chose a number from 1 to 100. Prisoner k removes and eat the original paper from box k and replaces it with the paper with his name written on.

damn, I chose correctly on the second on because you said 'there is a spy between his men' and Julien was in the middle..

Did nobody else think about the fact that on the last riddle the first.prisoner could just open every box find his name, and leave it that way seeing as how they could but didn't have to close the boxes again?

I'm high asf Wutttttttt?????😰

3:47 so if they couldnt communicate how did they come up with a plan EXPOSE HIM!!!!!!!

@nero7436

6 жыл бұрын

+Sweet Niya, He said you can't communicate in cells, however the warden gave them some time (Break actually to make a Strategy ) Which they did , i mean you can't like a prisoner go to pick his number (Name then come back and tell the next cell "Hey.. i got no.1 , try picking the other one" That what he meant

@InfernosReaper

6 жыл бұрын

I don't know if it wasn't communicated well or what, but even if someone can swap 2 names at he very beginning, there's still the chance for failure. There are effectively 99 boxes and 99 people each only only get 50 tries at once, since only the first person can swap names & look at all boxes. All it takes is for 1 person not finding their own name. Maybe I'm just misunderstanding the solution or something

Never heard the swap variant of riddle 3. Very cool!

Anna wakes up from a nap and just like "OH SH*T I NEED TO BE AT AN INTERVIEW"

I thought the prisoners had planned their order so couldn't the first person change the boxes by order, so third person would pick box three? I probably am missing something and sound really dumb

@toatahu2003

7 жыл бұрын

You are correct. I think he misspoke in regards to the rules of that riddle...

@XImaPlayerX

7 жыл бұрын

He can switch 2 boxes only once

Riddle 1: what if there's 5 black socks in a row

@iWillQwerty

5 жыл бұрын

Then obviously you’ll have a pair of black socks?

"What's in the box?!!!" (Brad Pitt quote from the movie Seven)...look it up.

the 3rd one was easy af. I'd say that the first one put the name of each prisoner in the box with the number of the prisoner (every prisoner has a different number).

1: fail 2: fail 3: literally the hardest one..... I got it 🤦‍♂️

What if there's 3 socks in a row that are all the same color? Not really thought out I see

@mxchitokki

6 жыл бұрын

You really did not get that one didn't you? That's not how it works. Since there are only two colors and if you get two socks that are diff colors then the possibility of getting the same color of either one of the previous two socks is 100% since you used up the 1/2 probability. You're using a paradox to the riddle saying that you can get three of the same color when in the riddle it starts off of grabbing only *two* socks.....and by obvious means, if the two socks are both the same color then what is the point of getting a third sock in the first place-disregarding if it might be the same color or not.

@zarkleftys9186

6 жыл бұрын

rivetRose No I got it, I just wrote a comment saying that it doesn't make sense, that's sarcasm if you didn't get that either

@josebatxu32

6 жыл бұрын

Christian Maund he doesnt

@cadenmadden8588

6 жыл бұрын

What if you're not certain that you got 2 different colored socks at the start?

@bl4ckm4jor90

6 жыл бұрын

IEatWhenI'mBored it still doesn't matter like explained before as long as you grab 3 socks your good 1. If you grab white then white your already good 2. If you grave black then black your already good 3. If you grave black then white or white then black guess what when you grave the third it has to be either white or black now you have a pair for sure hence why yo u wanna just grave 3 it's a paradox by grabbing 3 your 100% to have a pair in your hand with the info the riddle gives us we are assuming she's grabbing these socks n putting them on in car where she can see but she wants to be sure when she make it to where ever she can see she want to have a pair

That “easy” one was still difficult lol

Isn't there another solution for the 3rd problem using the time each prisoner spends in the room with the boxes? So the first one checks all the boxes and since they all know the names of the others and made an order, he puts the name of of the following prisoner in Box 50. The following prisoner checks the first 50 boxes of the name of the following prisoners name and if he finds it, he waits an addition 15 mins for example. The next prisoner now either checks the boxes 1 to 50 or 51 to 100 and waits accordingly. This way everyone would find his name aswell, even tho it's not so smooth obviously

You don't know how to tell these riddles my friend. No disrespect to you, I swear I don't mean any disrespect but I've heard them before and you're not doing a good job saying them. People can get confused because you can not articulate the riddles correctly.

@jigyasasethi3264

6 жыл бұрын

Aaron Monroe I don't think that is really nice

@sujatharamakrishnan3498

6 жыл бұрын

JIGYASA SETHI yeah that is not

@jigyasasethi3264

6 жыл бұрын

Sujatha Ramakrishnan I know. He's just being a bully. It doesn't matter if he talks funny or is not good. At least he's trying!

@joosh9802

6 жыл бұрын

JIGYASA SETHI WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU? Get tf out of here, if this guy is a KZreadr and is trying to entertain people he should be prepared for criticism. Go hide in ur safe space you snowflake

@joosh9802

6 жыл бұрын

JIGYASA SETHI I’m not trying to be “mean” but I just get sick of this political correctness now. Merry Christmas and God bless you!

How did i get the hardest one right, but the other 2 wrong??

@Ninjacakester

7 жыл бұрын

One*

@akhtar7574

7 жыл бұрын

your mind is mad

@cassiehills2375

7 жыл бұрын

Deadliestrex4 same here

@TheDeathstriker123

6 жыл бұрын

Deadliestrex4 because you've seen the solution to the hardest one before

For the last one, the first prisoner can just put all the names in one box and everybody their name will be in the box so they will all get out.

I was right on the 2nd one WOOWHOO ._.

i sorry but i dont get it!

my name is jeff

@skifrosty8612

6 жыл бұрын

Shane Kim ugly fat kid

@gtahackman3051

6 жыл бұрын

are you the same jeff of coc? i am abig fan of coc

@Csyxp

6 жыл бұрын

What does my name is jeff have to do with riddles, ugly and you stupid

The 1st riddle actually became a test in my school XD on the combinatorics chapter, pigeon hole principle section. The 2nd riddle is actually easy. It's only hard if you refuse to do it in the first place XD My way of thinking: If Jeff were the spy, then the other two are liars - won't work since both of them can't be the knight. Since Jeff told the lie and is not the spy, then Jeff is the knave. Julien's statement revealed that he can't be the knight therefore he must be the spy. For the 3rd riddle... Thanks, minutephysics.

100 prisoners, one guard. Just bust out already.

How come I got riddles two and three right but not riddle one

The first one you can turn on the light or get a flash light

@Red80008

7 жыл бұрын

Oh really, smartypants? What if you don't have one or the electricity went out? Do you really think you're smart?

@amandabarrett1656

6 жыл бұрын

If you were listening clearly it said that the girl's lamp was broken so she has no light.

Third was interesting, first two were easy, not need to pause video even. Got all three of them anyway :-)

If the prisoners were so smart they wouldn't have got caught

Pshh, I knew all of these immediately, so easy. somebody get me a thrid grade tutor fast

@gotroppo100

7 жыл бұрын

Gabriel [REDACTED] I

@collin5157

7 жыл бұрын

you must have an IQ of 130

Too easy (all of them)

@thegreenavengerx1625

7 жыл бұрын

Kinghakaka explain the 3rd please...in more detail.....eh, nvm, you'll just Google

@DylanCJ9

7 жыл бұрын

The third one was pretty easy actually. So, the prisoners can enter the room in any order they'd like. And since the 1st prisoner can change the names in each box, this becomes pretty easy. Just assign each prisoner a number (1-100). This will be the box they open, and the order at which they enter the room. The first person needs to memorize this order, and switch each name to match it. Then after that, they enter the room in their assigned order, and open the box which has the number at which the person entered the room. So, person 2 would open box 2, person 3 would open box 3, etc.

@KalOrtPor

7 жыл бұрын

No, the 1st prisoner is only allowed to swap just 2 boxes, not all of them. What he does is swap two names to ensure that each prisoner following the pattern of opening their own box followed by the box of whatever name was in the last box they checked doesn't need to check more than 50 boxes to find their own name. If there was one chain of more than 50 boxes it would be the only one since the remaining boxes would be 49 or less, so he only needs to eliminate that one possibility when he checks every pattern starting from each of the 100 boxes. (he's #1, box #1 has #7's name, he checks #7 which has #13's name, he checks #13 and so on until he finds his own name. Then he pretends he's #2 and does the same thing until he finds #2, and then #3, checking to make sure there's no 51 or greater loops or else he switches the names to break it up). Everyone's name is part of a loop, if #1 has to open 14 boxes to find his own name, then all the prisoners whose names are in those 14 boxes will end up opening the same boxes to find theirs (#7 opens his box and sees #13, he follows the pattern until he gets to #1's name, and then he opens #1's box to find his own name. #13 opens his own box and follows it to #1's box, then #7's box and finds his). Video explanation could have been more thorough.

@SteveJames-nn9hp

7 жыл бұрын

Slushy Mods - GTA & CoD Mods no dude u midunderstood the rules...the first prisoner cam only switch TWO names. I think the typo at the end messed everyone up. Re-listen to the rules

@Anna-hp4zq

7 жыл бұрын

no.. they are allowed to swap as many times as needed. thats what he said. Although the solution only needed one swap

final riddle: who ever is first to go in puts all names in one box, then they just find their name from there

I believe the problem with #3 is how does Prisoner#1 know everyones cell# and name by memory? (you might say "extremely intelligent") which leads to the question many people have wondered, why tf can't prisoner 1 just remember the names in each box? i'm sure prisoner#1 isnt allowed multiple days, nonetheless hours to go through all loops starting with #1 ect ect which like stated above, once opened box 1 he would have to know the corresponding Cell# with the name in the box. Which if he can remember 100 names and each of their corresponding cell#s, then why couldn't he just remember the names in each box... I suppose the only workaround for this, is if the piece of paper also INCLUDES the Cell# with their names, but that wasn't stated within the riddle.. EXTRA: even if the paper had both the Name and Cell# for each prisoner, the question still remains how long does he have to go through all 100 and choose the 2 swaps..? given enough time sure it could be done but ONLY if the cell# was given as well because if its not, then that would mean he remembered everyones cell# as well as their names for each cell, and idk about anyone else, but remembering 100 names is hard enough but adding in a 1-100 number to go along with those 100 names...not happening, besides in prison they probably don't use their real names all the time. oh well.

1st is wrong

@AppleOfThineEye

7 жыл бұрын

No, it's not. If you grab two socks, you have a chance of having two of opposite colors. If you grab three, you will always have at least 2 of the same color.

@OrchidAlloy

7 жыл бұрын

But you have the chance of picking up three black socks

@AppleOfThineEye

7 жыл бұрын

You just need to have *at least* two of the same color. If you end up having three of the same color, you just got lucky. The point of the riddle is that, when picking up two socks, you have the chance of picking up two opposite colors. When picking up three, the chances of not having a matching pair is nullified.

@morgard211

7 жыл бұрын

She needs to have two same colored socks, so she will take two black socks and go.

@AppleOfThineEye

7 жыл бұрын

Tomas Do keep in mind that, as the riddle states, the room is dark, and she must put on the socks at a later time (on her way to work: in the car, eating breakfast, etc.). Because of this, she has to know quickly how many socks to grab to prevent a mismatch.

Holy shit I solved all three. The third was easier for me then I thought it would be.

The third one makes no sense because the warden said only the 1st prisoner could look through more than one box.

I got no.1 & 3 easily But lost no.2

But the final riddle you must know all 100 prisoner name

guys try to combine the given info in 2nd quest this helped me solve it

I have better solution for this riddle first one can arrange it in the form of alphibitic form souppose, if someone name starts with A he should numbered at starting few boxes and next B and so on. by this others 99 can open 50 boxes in which they can open according to their first alphabet so by this they don't need 50 boxes to open they can easily find by just 25

For the prisoner name riddle: couldn’t you just alphabetize the names of you and your fellow 100 and find the midpoint, assigning 2 groups, one with the first fifty names alphabetically and another with the last fifty alphabetically? Then, all the first prisoner has to do is put all the names in order alphabetically and take his own name, then every prisoner after that just opens whichever group of boxes his name falls into alphabetically (group 1: first 50, or group 2: last fifty) and takes his name which is guaranteed to be in that group.

If they know each other’s names and what room each other are in why can’t you just match the box number with the order that they are in?

Bro, the answer to the first one is "EFF THIS! IT DOESNT MATTER IF YOU EFFING WEAR MIX-MATCHED SOCKS!"

riddle 3: wouldn't the warden see the order that everybody is going in and get suspicious

i didnt know 1 or 2 but figured out 3 so easily

One more strategy for the third one, prisoner one would give the prisoners a no. Acc. To their cells or they would remember it, prisoner one would arrange the Names from 1-100 and all the prisoners would have their names in the no. Of the cells or the no. That was given to them.

Michael Knight.... I see what you did there. :D

Last was actually easy.

my favorite riddle is the one with a man in a room and he only has a mirror and a table.

the first one... Just take all the socks out of your room and pick out the two you want then put the rest on your bed to fold later

For third riddle. Why not just first prison do Quick Sort and the rest do Binary search?

I was so mad at myself when I missed the first one, but I got the second right.

@deviljho4260

4 жыл бұрын

Dan Jordan first one and the last were explained pretty badly

The sock rental is only solvable if you assume the pattern is black white black white or white black white black if it's random and there's no pattern, then you have no idea how many socks it'll take to get to matching.