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@NxVernxual

3 жыл бұрын

First to reply

@bishalgaire735

3 жыл бұрын

wow it was great

@jaximations9793

3 жыл бұрын

3rd to reply

@yufendyyufendy8964

3 жыл бұрын

alexa

@pvvineet1722

3 жыл бұрын

Ok... I just realised... This is my 2nd straight win... I got last riddle right, and now this one too... Edit: to be fair... Out of all the riddles this was the simplest

Plot twist: Cassandra doesn't care that she didn't get to be queen because she's so lucky that she ends up walking into Paul Rudd whenever she goes anywhere.

@brunonotthemars7856

3 жыл бұрын

She should play lottery.

@EGRJ

3 жыл бұрын

Is that Paul Rudd?

@lakshshergill9637

3 жыл бұрын

you are motherfreaking avocado

@Blanabaman

3 жыл бұрын

I think it might be

@zoesy952

3 жыл бұрын

ur pfp 😳

If Cassandra did, in fact, play fair, she would be the unluckiest luckiest person ever. Imagine you win fair and square in a 1/13 nonillion chance just to be disqualified because someone isn't sure whether you cheated or not.

@BladeNgames

3 жыл бұрын

Marko Gjakovski that isn’t completely true. There are more permutations to achieve a sum of that but only one such set of numbers that add to be 700. Therefore, 385 is more common

@EntertainmentBooster

3 жыл бұрын

*IF* Cassandra was TRUE, *THEN* she was : - Good at *Arithmetic* (Addition) - *Lucky* (To get Least Possible Number) - Honest But, again *UNLUCKIEST LUCKY*

@PaoloGame450

3 жыл бұрын

@@mihir1181 oh god, it ACTUALLY DOES

@Longy04

3 жыл бұрын

If she did get a score of 700 she was damned either way. Either she tells the truth and no one believes her, or she lies and gives a lower score (in which case she's dishonest). The smart thing to do would have been to make up some score that was possible (i.e. a multiple of 5 between 100 and 700) that is greater than 400 (the expected value, and therefore being deemed lucky), but not so high that it would have

@jalapenogaming9740

3 жыл бұрын

Well she was not lucky then

So, just a reminder: Draco would have won if he had picked 420

@justanelk2096

2 жыл бұрын

o-o

@Tino7100

2 жыл бұрын

nice

@Cheerios100

2 жыл бұрын

or 425. Edit: Nvm.

@joei2649

2 жыл бұрын

@@Cheerios100 You missed the joke

@Cheerios100

2 жыл бұрын

@@joei2649 Oh I just realized what he wanted to say.

90% of comments are about cassandra, so they're disqualified.

@mathguy37

2 жыл бұрын

cassandra exists, so they're disqualified.

@Mona-ni6jx

2 жыл бұрын

My sanity exist, so it's disqualified

@johnhenryjones4887

2 жыл бұрын

Charles Blow got Pepe le Pew banned from future projects,so he is disqualified

@RichRBLX

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnhenryjones4887 i exist, so i am disqualified

@spamtongspamton9900

2 жыл бұрын

WHAT IF THEY HAVE [green eyes]?

Draco's father will hear about this.

@paepapig

3 жыл бұрын

But the king is his father...

@aditimuthkhod1252

3 жыл бұрын

Nice one😂😂

@blueeye2281

3 жыл бұрын

Brother is that u?

@Handsome_Thanos

3 жыл бұрын

Lucius!

@minhaiqbal8096

3 жыл бұрын

@@blueeye2281 Reunited at last.

Plot twist: The king wanted to test you. You are: 1. Arithmetic 2. Honest and 3. So lucky that you spotted Paul Rudd randomly twice.

@aloserdontsubscribe485

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I am arithmetic

@backspace7909

3 жыл бұрын

Are you a mathematician? No, but I am arithmetic

@burhmoment6850

3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, I'm an arithmetic

@wr.en.

3 жыл бұрын

Guys, this is a simple mistake. S/he meant to say good at arithmetic.

@thatnike2604

3 жыл бұрын

@@wr.en. what are you talking about? I'm definitely arithmetic

“Upon inspection, most of these scores are concerning.” Hilarious line. No idea why, but it’s comedic gold. Incredible.

@antarakmit4114

Жыл бұрын

Psuedobulbar effect.

@user-ci3zb7wp9q

8 ай бұрын

XD

@TheVoicesOfTheBeyond

5 ай бұрын

The deadpan way it was said is just *chef's kiss*

After this riddle, Cassandra lives a luxurious, yet depressing life with no meaning as she won 13 lottery tickets in a row, met a perfect husband that she doesn't know if she loves her for who she is or money and has perfect children that stop visiting after she destroyed them in every game they played when they were young(can not lose even when she wanted)

@akisa7865

11 ай бұрын

DJ Cassandra: Suffering from success

@TunaBear64

2 ай бұрын

She should have played Chess, no luck involved in that.

@mrTvguyman

2 ай бұрын

@@TunaBear64” huh wait is that a bomb omg it just sent all our pieces flying and now you have a checkmate on me”

I feel like Cassandra did actually roll a 700 just because her name is Cassandra, like the Cassandra from Greek mythology who was cursed with having accurate prophecies that no one believed

@madhir1716

3 жыл бұрын

May be thats why the character is named cassandra

@ondrejvolecek7215

3 жыл бұрын

Whaaaat!

@annaliu2746

3 жыл бұрын

whoa that’s a really good point, great observation!

@NapaCat

3 жыл бұрын

@@zoe1701 Percy Jackson isn't canon to the Greek mythology.

@ntm4

3 жыл бұрын

@@NapaCat Technically there is no canon for Greek mythology.

Please make Paul Rudd a recurring character

@Liz-lq8hw

3 жыл бұрын

This got liked by Ted, so I think it might just be possible

@casparvoncampenhausen5249

3 жыл бұрын

Yes please

@Longy04

3 жыл бұрын

Someone should get in touch with him, I'm sure he'd be willing to make a cameo appearance in one of these.

@Scientificmethods

3 жыл бұрын

I'm Paul Rudd, I say it's fine.

@maheshpatel7691

3 жыл бұрын

It is recurring number

alexa was unlucky with the dice but she was "lucky" that everyone else disqualified. (king wanted heir to be lucky)

@marcusscience23

2 жыл бұрын

And honest

@Mona-ni6jx

2 жыл бұрын

And good at math

@bobguy4855

2 жыл бұрын

Ye but Cassandra was even luckier yet she got eliminated

@marcusscience23

2 жыл бұрын

@@bobguy4855 using the same logic as Alexa, Cassandra was lucky with the dice but she was ‘unlucky’ that she got disqualified

@alexawongziyi6641

2 жыл бұрын

My name is Alexa

This is a theory that Cassandra is not faking. At 2:43, you can see Cassandra changing her smile in a seemingly anticipated way when the narrator says "That's theoretically possible". This indicates that she knows how absurd the odds are, and is hoping that they might believe her. And we know that Cassandra can hear the narrator speaking, because, at 4:39, unlike the rest, Draco is doing a facepalm, indicating that he knew he was close, and the only thing he needed to do was to be good at math. Also, at 3:43, she seems genuinely sad. Like in a "Nobody believes me!" sad. But the biggest piece of evidence is in Greek mythology. Cassandra is a prophet who was blessed by Apollo when Cassandra was in a relationship with him. When Cassandra decided to break up with Apollo, he cursed Cassandra to speak true prophecies, but nobody believes her. And as the saying goes, history repeats itself, so coincidence, I THINK NOT!

@MrH4nky

Жыл бұрын

Chill, my dude, it's just a Number Theory video D:

@firephoenix7788

Жыл бұрын

@@MrH4nky Yes, I am looking way to deep into this, lol.

@ericd1022

Жыл бұрын

You put an insane amount of energy into this one comment and i just wanted to say that i see you

@IsAnInstrument

Жыл бұрын

Cool theory man, I like it!

@lukiwei9468

Жыл бұрын

@@firephoenix7788 Can I get a SIMP in here?! Come on, everyone, with me now!! S I M P

Everyone expecting the Kingdom of PI to be RATIONAL is asking for the impossible

@clairenakisitu5620

3 жыл бұрын

But it can't be terminated

@scribbler_crowe

3 жыл бұрын

@Max Wang The kingdom of 3 sounds good too

@medexamtoolsdotcom

3 жыл бұрын

Who needs to be rational, when you are transcendental af.

@adathecheeseburger8490

3 жыл бұрын

Well, they are quite an odd bunch over there...

@scribbler_crowe

3 жыл бұрын

@@Randomuser-dl5mx I'll make it happen

Cassandra's score is still more likely than finding Paul Rudd in Mali, and then finding him again in Brazil five seconds later.

@shen144

3 жыл бұрын

As of right now that’s impossible since you can’t travel from anywhere on Africa to anywhere on South America in 5 seconds.

@Marshall.R

3 жыл бұрын

@@shen144 Yes congratulations on figuring out what Mark Sommerville said in his comment

@perakojot6524

3 жыл бұрын

@@shen144 Why, it's certainly physically possible, light can make that distance in well under a tenth of a second? :D

@stinkybean1

3 жыл бұрын

@Shen, teleporter comin right up!

@Alfa-uu7zb

3 жыл бұрын

Pera Kojot the problem is that we have to carry around our mass...

Remember! The rules wasn't just about luck, it was about logic too. Even IF Cassandra played fair and got 700, she would have OBVIOUSLY known that it is an unbelievable number, and faked it to a lower one. The only real rule was to get a number that is the highest multiple of 5 that stays within the general bell curve of the probabilities of the total score. Picking 495 would get you an easy win. Even picking 425 instead of 423 would've won.

@ShockRox

Жыл бұрын

hey, you're right!

@circleluff7384

Жыл бұрын

@Sohanur Rahaman the thing is you need to be 90% sure they cheated, if it’s below that and is a reasonable answer then even without honesty you can win.

@circleluff7384

Жыл бұрын

@Sohanur Rahaman yes

@sparkyshore3543

Жыл бұрын

No, the real thing to do is halfway through your rolls exit and say "hey, I keep getting 35, I think there's something wrong with the dice!"

@dragorn3212

Жыл бұрын

I used z-distribution to approximate though, the probability of getting 700 or more is around 1/trillion squared. You haved better chances of winning the megalotterly 3 times in a row. Anything above 470 would have less than 1% chances. best chance to win would be to fabricate 435 based on z score

Honestly, it's not the worst method of selecting a heir. It picked out three people who for various reasons, shouldn't be rulers.

@divergentlife493

Жыл бұрын

Wrong. Cassandra for life. She got 700. She should go to war if Alexa don't abdicate. Cassandra was higher.

@madnessstudios5950

Жыл бұрын

@@divergentlife493 I can tell you are a glupi idiota

@treehugger0241

Жыл бұрын

@@divergentlife493 Even if she did legitimately get 700, it's still unlucky that she got a high enough score to be suspected of cheating. So eliminating her was still valid.

@Kizaco

Жыл бұрын

@@divergentlife493she should have realized that it’s not believable.

@benjaminmclaren8782

Жыл бұрын

​@@divergentlife493 did you know the probability for flipping a coin and getting heads is 50%? And did you know the probability for flipping 100 coins and getting heads 100 times is also 50%? But I can assure you, if people saw someone flip a coin 100 times, and every time was a head? Those people would riot. No one would believe that was not rigged.

Cassandra stans be like: "1 in 13 nonillion is still possible."

@fal4thought

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@DeathnoteBB

3 жыл бұрын

Cause I mean yeah, it is. Humans seem to think improbable is impossible.

@saulmoment4008

3 жыл бұрын

It's possible but the feasibility is what really matters. If you win a lottery thrice in a row in a week, everyone will likely believe that you did something behind the scenes

@fora1924

3 жыл бұрын

@@DeathnoteBB Just because it's possible doesn't mean you will get jt it's like guessing a number i'm thinking between 1- 1 trillion Sure it's possible but the chances of guessing correctly is so unlikely that it may as well be impossible

@DeathnoteBB

3 жыл бұрын

@@fora1924 But my point is if it ever happens, that was always a possibility.

Imagine the advisors just going: “ Too high, too improbable, not a multiple of 5, and your the only one left standing.”

@schwa6275

3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully, they'd know to say "you're" and not "your."

@parkerdude5682

3 жыл бұрын

PastaSauce 7 thank you

@nemo6261

3 жыл бұрын

*𝒔𝒂𝒅 𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈*

@skhooldays6075

3 жыл бұрын

@@schwa6275 i swear to mother hacking hen no one cares that they made a grammar mistake

@schwa6275

3 жыл бұрын

@@skhooldays6075 I mean, they're advisors to royalty. They should know better.

I'd like to add that Alexa revealing her TRUE SCORE, no matter how low it was comparatively, shows great honesty. She could've easily brought it up a few digits in the hope of beating her siblings for the highest score, but she was honest with the value she earned, even when it was the lowest of all.

@pawncube6787

Жыл бұрын

Either that or she intentionally picked a low multiple of 5 knowing 3 of her siblings would try to cheat.

@crazyman7615

Жыл бұрын

Or maybe she got an absolutely horrible score and bumped it up

@dragorn3212

Жыл бұрын

The highest score you can get away with is 435. So if by luck you got 450 you should lower this. I calculate using z-score approximations

Imagine being Cassandra: You actually get 700 with absolutely insane luck then get disqualified for being too lucky which is literally what the king is looking for in an heir

@Peter_File69

Жыл бұрын

But he looked for honesty above all, and since the probability of Cassandra not being honest was very high, it’s understandable why she was disqualified

@catkid3456

Жыл бұрын

Also if she was disqualified, she’s not the luckiest. Alexa is.

@dragorn3212

Жыл бұрын

Only way to get 700 is 35 on every roll, which have 1/36 probability per roll. (1/36)^20 about 1/100 trillion squared. Better chances of winning mega jackpot 4 times in a row and getting struck by lightning in one month than that. But i'd put 700 just to troll them

@BigHH88

Жыл бұрын

​@@dragorn3212it's still not impossible

@ConfusionUwU

11 ай бұрын

@@BigHH88 the rules never said that they only get disqualified if it was impossible, it only said that they'd be disqualified if you can reasonably say that you're 90% sure they cheated

Casandra: *:(* Casandra: *Oh its Paul Rudd. Again* 👁👄👁

@TaylanKapcik

3 жыл бұрын

LMFAOOOOOOOOO

@janicedsilva16

3 жыл бұрын

Advisor: Uh............ Maybe u are too lucky.

@-ana_banana-2098

2 жыл бұрын

DAMMIT, PAUL, I WANTED CHRIS PRATT

@bluebod2264

2 жыл бұрын

Haha funny emoji face lolololllllllllll

@catitse2

2 жыл бұрын

Mike lol

After the event, Cassandra goes to a cassino, win everything. Then buys a lottery ticket, that she also wins. She may be not the Queen but she owns most of the kingdoms net worth 👍🏻

@joaquinm9148

3 жыл бұрын

Good ending

@yourself9525

3 жыл бұрын

with the luck she had, I think she would be extremely unlucky for the rest of her life.

@richardgibson8403

3 жыл бұрын

Cassandra then went on to get the wr on Minecraft. possibly.

@yummyshape3908

3 жыл бұрын

And then Casandra beat every speedrun possible with the best rng ever.

@aperson8077

2 жыл бұрын

After that, the king begs for all of her riches, and even says she could be the queen if he had all of the money. Cassandra agrees, making her the queen. Due to this, the whole kingdom is lucky, and keep surviving meteors, tsunamis, tornadoes and hail with minimal damage and no deaths while doing absolutely nothing

As a programmer, I thought "I'll just simulate this instead of thinking about it logically" On my first run of 20 rolls, I got 385 as a result, and I was pretty sure I knew the answer from then.

@bluejay9638

Жыл бұрын

The way you could have solved this in like 3 minutes but bro was really like "no no no, let me think about this"

@pustota7254

Жыл бұрын

Programming moment

@dragorn3212

Жыл бұрын

As a low level stats student i use z distribution to approximate and find that 435 is the highest score that gives more than 10% p-value. 470 for example is less than 1%

@lisahenry20

8 ай бұрын

​@@bluejay9638why spend 5 mins on a task when you can spend 30 mins writing a program that will do the task for you

Think the servent dude should be heir. Man was lucky, can do math like a mad man and was honest about who he thinks should be heir. Easiest riddle of my life. Lmao

@justanelk2096

2 жыл бұрын

dynasty shift

@thegamergirl6164

2 жыл бұрын

ya

@pustota7254

Жыл бұрын

Yes

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was cursed by Apollo to say perfectly true prophecies but be ignored by everyone. Perhaps her name and her "false" score were not coincidentally given...

@zack-ronald259

3 жыл бұрын

that would be genius

@skywarslord4680

3 жыл бұрын

Epic

@_H0X

3 жыл бұрын

Now, this is a 500 iq move by TedEd

@sumitjadhav3112

3 жыл бұрын

Ohh my ❤️ this is great

@shreayyy9473

3 жыл бұрын

Omfg

"All hail Queen Alexa" "My queen, play despacito"

@realm0dev515

3 жыл бұрын

@@brighterblack6546 self promotion

@priyaarti

3 жыл бұрын

I snorted and now my dads looking at me weird- 🤣😂

@dimasramadhan8955

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao 🤣

@Kiddocarus

2 жыл бұрын

Hehe

@cozyflurry

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

dream: 1 in 7.5 trillion odds cassandra: *hold my juice box*

@ultragamer4514

6 ай бұрын

Lol 😂 tru

Eliminating Cassandra is still fair according to the rules of the King, since he said you had to be above 90% sure, and Cassandra’s result was extraordinarily unlikely. So even if she was honest and got 700 she still fairly lost because the kings rules were that you had to more than 90% sure

@Inkyminkyzizwoz

10 ай бұрын

Not to mention that getting disqualified simply because no one could be sure whether she was honest would make her unlucky anyway!

Draco is like: I took a risk, but damn. I'm bad at math.

@lauren9536

2 жыл бұрын

"The risk I took was calculated." "But man," "Am I bad at math." ~Draco

@cameronballz6154

2 жыл бұрын

"I'm doing several equations in my head and they're all wrong!"

@qwertyuiop.lkjhgfdsa

2 жыл бұрын

"I'm good at quick math." 'Ok, whats a possible number from the criteria in the video.' "423" 'That's wrong.' "But it was quick."

@PeterLarge_6

2 жыл бұрын

Plot twist: Draco forgot to roll the red die on one of his turns

@BiyanLintang

2 жыл бұрын

Ha ha

Plot twist: None of them played fair; Alexa just picked a random number that just happened to be the most reasonable compared to everyone else.

@danielyuan9862

2 жыл бұрын

Or you could just roll the dice and get a random number that way.

@fictionfan0

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielyuan9862 Wow, way to miss the joke.

@msolec2000

2 жыл бұрын

@@fictionfan0 Still, you can't be 90% sure she did that. So she wins.

@fictionfan0

2 жыл бұрын

@@msolec2000 😧

@MalekitGJ

2 жыл бұрын

1. She was smart, knew the other would cheat. 2. She knew math, since also calculated the probabilities. 3. She was lucky, was the only one left.

If only Draco had decided to be memetic and go with 420, he would've gotten away with it.

If I had the logician skills of Amaro, Bart, Charlotte, Daniel or Elisa, I’d write down a number like 565 or something.

@hello_i_exist_uwu

2 жыл бұрын

Smort

@blookarakal4417

2 жыл бұрын

There still is a less than 10% chance of getting at least that. 440 is the best roll. It's the highest total that has an ever so slightly higher probablity of coming up.

@kohikappu

Жыл бұрын

@@blookarakal4417 Actually, 500 should be safe, or 450.

@JWNimble

11 ай бұрын

there is around a 90% chance that the score is less than 440.

As punishment for cheating, Cassandra was sentenced to execution by firing squad. But all the guns kept jamming.

@orihallmark

3 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAH

@MagyarGaben

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/eqiNqq-ocsXSn6g.html

@cedriccox9480

2 жыл бұрын

Funne Ace Attorney

@OrsonKrennic57

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha

@winnersduplicate554

2 жыл бұрын

Cassandra went on to become the heir due to her luck in every single execution attempt and early life.

Everybody gangsta until Cassandra hires an mathematician who has PhD in astrophysics.

@baguettegott3409

2 жыл бұрын

I still can't believe he actually did that. The whole controvercy was by far the funniest youtube drama I have ever witnessed

@yuutsukariyuzuki6904

2 жыл бұрын

damn this is good

@blatantslander

2 жыл бұрын

This is SO GOOOD

@icewing202

2 жыл бұрын

@@baguettegott3409 wait what is this referring to

@baguettegott3409

2 жыл бұрын

@@icewing202 this guy called dream, a very popular Minecraft KZreadr, had a bit of a controversy a while ago where he was accused of cheating at speedrunning Minecraft. The issue was, like with Cassandra in this video, that he was being wayyyy too lucky to be mathematically plausible. So some people wrote a big maths paper to accuse him. And he, in turn, hired an anonymous astrophysicist to mathematically prove his innocence. He was not innocent though. The maths was pretty clear, despite the astrophysicist, and eventually he also admitted to cheating I think. (He lied and said it was somehow an accident or something, but he did admit that the speedruns weren't legit)

King : wants his children to be honest and good at maths Also king : we will decide by a game of chance

@youtubeuniversity3638

7 ай бұрын

Also lucky. Also the game of chance required extensive arithmetic and tested honestly by being easy to lie about your score you get during it.

@samyakbankar5022

7 ай бұрын

@@youtubeuniversity3638 it's a joke

I struggled deciding between A and C, specifically because being lucky was considered important, but the whole statement of 90% sure kind of dictates that incredibly good scores are no good.

@prcervi

Жыл бұрын

to good to be true is the phrase, plausible but utterly improbable

@dragorn3212

Жыл бұрын

the 90% means that from random chance there's still a 30% chance probability that someone gets disqualified even if everyone plays fair. The best strategy would be to play the number 435 no matter what

@Inkyminkyzizwoz

10 ай бұрын

​@@prcervi *too good

“Dracos score looks reasonable,” It’s Draco. He is lying.

@trenaka9430

3 жыл бұрын

“My father will hear about this!”

@idkhonestly7163

3 жыл бұрын

13 nonillion points to Gryffindor

@Drklra

3 жыл бұрын

Aye don’t diss on my favorite wheels in rocket league

@yingo4098

3 жыл бұрын

@@trenaka9430 lol

@zahranikpour3886

3 жыл бұрын

IdkHonestly Snape: 14 nonillion points *from* Gryffindor

Fact: Even if you picked Paul Rudd a 3rd time, that's still about 30 times more likely than getting a score of 700.

@mrbetboxer7551

2 жыл бұрын

What’s the math tho. Just curious

@rithikguntur

2 жыл бұрын

7,500,000,000^3 = 421,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 which is 30 times less than 13 nonillion.

@mrbetboxer7551

2 жыл бұрын

nice

@falkorornothing261

2 жыл бұрын

The heir was supposed to be picked based on arithmetic, luck, and honesty. We know Alexa isn't lucky and might not be good at math. But she is honest. Cassandra is good at arithmetic and the odds are she is luckier than Alexa. But probably not honest. The only way Alexa wins is if honesty was the only factor.

@Jepsonduel

2 жыл бұрын

@@falkorornothing261 She wins because of the 90% rule.

What's more likely: Cassandra's rolls or tripping and falling through a foot of stone floor by having all your atoms sync up with the atoms in the floor and phase through? (btw due to quantum physics both are technically possible lol)

@Idontwantahandle11

2 жыл бұрын

Cassandra's roll

@marcusscience23

2 жыл бұрын

The atoms one is basically impossible because atoms never touch they push back. Even if your atoms align they will push back and stop you from falling through.

@frost_co

2 жыл бұрын

what's more likely: cassandra rolling 700 700 times or the universe randomly collapsing (both are possible) ps: this is pretty easy to answer ngl

@NullWes10

2 жыл бұрын

That's some backrooms type stuff right there

@Eledan13

2 жыл бұрын

@@NullWes10 I didn't know backrooms existed when I made that comment but you are right.

If Cassandra did honestly score 700, she would not just be lucky, she would transcend the metaphysical principle of possibility. She could beat an omniscient, omnipotent being at a game of poker with royal flushes with every hand; she would be born with a genetic mutation that makes her immortal; she could deflect a comet hitting the Earth with a feather; she would not only be a queen but an empress of humanity itself, billions worshipping her as a goddess for all eternity.

Comments be like: "Who let's their heir be chosen by a random dice roll?!" Actual Kingdoms: "Let's choose the heir by who got lucky and was born first!"

@asheep7797

3 жыл бұрын

Im guessing they were quadruplets and escaped being slain by the king’s guards.

@TotallyNotBrad123

2 жыл бұрын

Strange take on succession

@dsamurai4725

2 жыл бұрын

Well there's still a chance you can become a king without being the oldest so it's fairer

@RafaelMunizYT

2 жыл бұрын

@@dsamurai4725 killing your older brother

@TotallyNotBrad123

2 жыл бұрын

@@dsamurai4725 You misunderstood- I'm saying the idea that he thinks that "the eldest gets the throne" was a popular method of succession, historically, is strange.

Plot twist: Draco was the honest one but he is just not good at math so he miscounted

@notrowerz4654

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah but the king specified that they have to be good at arithmetic so it doesn't matter whether he was honest

@tpose8280

3 жыл бұрын

@@notrowerz4654 yeah

@yasminlakeman8017

3 жыл бұрын

@@notrowerz4654 That is true, although it complicates it since it said they need to be "above all honest", thus his honesty would be more important than his arithmetic skills

@scarletfever3086

3 жыл бұрын

@@yasminlakeman8017 howeverrrrr you are wrong about it being complicated. the three qualities were honest, good at arithmetics, and lucky. honesty was above all else so we can assume arithmetic skills and luck are even in his book. _both_ alexa and draco were honest so the advisor had to look at the other attributes. alexa was good at arithmetics, although unlucky. draco was bad at arithmetics and.... we have no idea how lucky. so alexa wins.

@yangnicole904

3 жыл бұрын

@@notrowerz4654 true

Imagine getting disqualified because you’re just bad at maths

@megarockman

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, a big part of running a kingdom (or any large organization) is making sure the bookkeeping is done right.

@franzicoy

Жыл бұрын

If you're bad at maths, your people are gonna have to tank the consequences. Assuming you haven't died already.

@jordanhelaine

Жыл бұрын

got this right bc i have a bias towards ppl named alexa🤪

@NowNormal

3 ай бұрын

They must be good at addition, the rules say.

The real winner is the advisor. Only someone with outstanding arithmetic can figure out that 3/4 of them cheated, and that the only one that likely didn’t cheat got the average score. Plus, he was very honest, not lying about the math to pick someone he wanted to win.

You can win the competition to get the Throne Or *You can just eliminate the competition to get the Throne*

@its_secret5375

3 жыл бұрын

*Yeah* *this* *is* *big* *brain* *time..*

@CheshireCad

3 жыл бұрын

Or, in this case, just depend on your siblings being both dishonest, and bad at math.

@suzanneclark7706

3 жыл бұрын

Egypt has entered the group chat

@haeretean9012

3 жыл бұрын

It is indeed a Game of Thrones?

@cl9596

3 жыл бұрын

CGP Grey agree

Cassandra : OMG I scored 700 now I can show father how capabl- Me: _DISQUALIFIED_ *Sad Cassandra Noises*

@monitor4984

3 жыл бұрын

Since she got an unlikely score, she's unlucky be the terms of the contest ;)

@zahranikpour3886

3 жыл бұрын

The unluckiest unluckiest person

@random20000

3 жыл бұрын

@@zahranikpour3886 the unluckiest luckies person alive***

@zahranikpour3886

3 жыл бұрын

Ragini Omg You mean, the unluckiest unluckiest luckiest person alive 😌

@syingxi

3 жыл бұрын

The unluckiest luckiest person 😉😌

Step 1: Confirm you have green eyes Step 2: overthrow the king and declare yourself as the new king.

@kahootking7367

Жыл бұрын

Step 4: put blue egg in dispenser

@livesports6325

6 ай бұрын

Step 5: betray player 2 and your owner as the spy

@aurorawizard7045

3 ай бұрын

Step 6: Choose the Noether 9000 and banish the other heirs to a mountain

@NotPythagoreas

Ай бұрын

I feel like the green-eyed puzzle is the most common riddle to make comments on other riddle videos

@NotPythagoreas

Ай бұрын

Step 4: trap the king with length 43 wall segments

Plot twist: Draco forgot to add the 2 when he rolled a 3 and 2

Who doesn't answer the riddles and just watches it and be like "hmmm very interesting"

@alexanderjoseph5380

3 жыл бұрын

That's me most of the time, but I actually got this one.

@pageturner2958

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah...

@randombanana640

3 жыл бұрын

not me

@JTD_64

3 жыл бұрын

I feel like the odd one out D:

@theamazingcatwizard3654

3 жыл бұрын

I just had a mega brain moment and new it would be Alexa just from looking.

Shouldn't you be his successor, doing all this math and all? The advisor fits the conditions perfectly!

@vari1535

3 жыл бұрын

You're not one of his children though

@leosong829

3 жыл бұрын

@@vari1535 lol

@EGRJ

3 жыл бұрын

You can be the Grand Vizier or Chancellor. The real power in the kingdom. Or maybe you and Alexa just make a highly-competent team. Who knows?

@spmagic9083

3 жыл бұрын

@@vari1535 There are instances like that where the king can appoint someone who is not his child.

@adityamohan1773

3 жыл бұрын

Another life ruined by Nepotism.

Genuinely can't believe how stoked I was at getting this right. I think this riddle just single-handedly rekindled an interest in mathematics my middle school teacher killed stone dead 17 years ago.

I’ve gone through 4 videos now and I’m so happy I finally got one right! Even if it was a tad easier than some of the others it made me feel smart lol

Minecraft speedrunning mods: Dream had a one in 140 billion chance to get RNG this good, he's obviously cheating Cassandra's dice: Allow us to introduce ourselves.

@LegitSiForNow

3 жыл бұрын

knew this would come up, good job snatching the chance

@DeathnoteBB

3 жыл бұрын

I was looking for this comment. Thank you

@pepper4632

3 жыл бұрын

Still 1 in 140 billion is still a lower chace than pulling Paul Rudd twice

@Ripurlife

3 жыл бұрын

@@pepper4632 it's 7.5b multiply with itself, not 7.5b multiply with 2

@saulmoment4008

3 жыл бұрын

"iT's sTiLL a pRobAbiLiTy sO iT's pOsSiBLe dReAm diDn'T cHeAt bRo biLL nYe cOnfiRmEd iT"

Poor cassandra, she may the luckiest person alive but her the luck was beyond our logic so she got disqualified. Someone now write a book named cassandra's Redemption.

@daviddoesstuffandthingigue966

2 жыл бұрын

"DrEaM dIdN't ChEaT hE wAs JuSt VeRy LuCkY"

@mslilymadeline

2 жыл бұрын

but think this way, if she was the luckiest person... she would've won the competition

@marcusscience23

2 жыл бұрын

She was UNLUCKY fro getting disqualified when she would have won. So, she doesn't meet the criteria anymore

@drippychoco3057

2 жыл бұрын

@@mslilymadeline she is the luckiest person, but not just not smart. now if she showed them her rolling the dice again 20x, I’m sure they would then know she didn’t cheat. But she wasn’t smart

@marcusscience23

2 жыл бұрын

@@drippychoco3057 What if she rolls a 100 (FYI, it's equally as rare but the lowest possible total instead of the highest)

I mean, this is actually a very good way to choose your heir. It tests literally everyone. King is the real insanely inteligent person there.

Usually the odds are the number of sides, plus 1, times the number of dice, all times the number of rolls... But in this test, draco is obviously a wizard and a Slytherin at that... We all know who won

Tbh, the adviser should’ve been the King if he was that good at Math, that lucky to be the King’s Chief Adviser and that honest to the King.

@gpaderx6105

2 жыл бұрын

so, it means, it's you.

@gpaderx6105

2 жыл бұрын

this comment should be on top too.. lol..

@marowakcity3727

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but, y’know *Nepotism*

@ptgram24

2 жыл бұрын

@@marowakcity3727 more like *monarchy*

@littlekuribohimposte

2 жыл бұрын

Advisor is a safer posotion. If things go bad the people don't want the advisor's head on a pike outside the Bastille.

Man i chose Cassandra because she was the only one that kept her eyes steadily on the screen at 2:00 and thus wasn’t lying like the rest of her shifty-eyed siblings

@PtylerBeats

2 жыл бұрын

That’s not how tells work lol

2:33 the smiles on those kids while showing their bogus numbers

Imagine you were Cassandra and actually got that score, I would be so MAD

@marcusscience23

2 жыл бұрын

You would be UNLUCKY to be disqualified so you wouldn't be so lucky after all

I feel bad for Cassandra. Next time they should install CCTVs into the rolling rooms and have a close up recording of the dice.

@cursedgame3874

3 жыл бұрын

@Burning Rubbish I agree.

@nathanjohnpalaogaming4872

3 жыл бұрын

@Burning Rubbish windows would work.

@daryfitrady7590

3 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of a certain standupmaths video

@daryfitrady7590

3 жыл бұрын

@Burning Rubbish Sure is, the advisor found Paul Rudd

@yuichitwong9629

3 жыл бұрын

I have a feeling that it was the king who was lying. This test is meant to pick out the most able advisor, not heir.

Plot twist: This was a trick of the king for testing you as a trustable advisor.

@Sonofsun.

3 жыл бұрын

Its good test

@Sonofsun.

3 жыл бұрын

Its a pretty good test for selecting an adviser

This is the first Ted-Ed riddle that I've ever solved. I'm totally cool with watching them and living with the fact that they don't make sense, but this one made me proud.

The best number to pick in my opinion is 630 as this is 90% of 700 and therefore the highest number you can have and be within the 90% confidence interval. The adjudicator may disbelieve you (as I would) but he isn’t allowed to disqualify you according to the rules.

@SocialistNerd

3 ай бұрын

But the 90% confidence is based off advisors personal opinion

If Cassandra was just so lucky that she actually got a 700 but because of how unbelievable it is she is disqualified. DJ Khaled - Suffering from Success

@marcusscience23

3 жыл бұрын

Emerald's Studio that makes her unlucky and not meeting the criteria Edit: she was unlucky from being disqualified, not from getting a score of 700.

@yashtheandroid3855

3 жыл бұрын

@@marcusscience23 wtf is your logic that makes her super lucky

@potatoman8609

3 жыл бұрын

@@yashtheandroid3855 Because she was unlucky to get disqualified from being lucky.

@winnersduplicate554

3 жыл бұрын

@@potatoman8609 no, it’s logic.

@lucykitsune4619

3 жыл бұрын

I mean at that point you can always be dishonest and make your score 400. If you're smart enough to calculate the highest possible score you should be smart enough to calculate the expected average score if you repeat this dice-rolling infinite times...

Imagine Draco's result was 425 but he wrote it wrong and so he lost the throne .

@Hewhoroamstheinternet

2 жыл бұрын

But they have to be good in arithmetics.

@Someonew-hs8zg

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hewhoroamstheinternet Huh, that's true!

@scarfedblade

2 жыл бұрын

he should've had 420 man

@nyanSynxPHOENIX

2 жыл бұрын

@@anishmitra8567 It didn't say they have to be the closest to average, but they had to be believable. Even 500 would be within a 90% probability.

The second riddle that i was able to solve. It feels so good. I love your riddles, they are so good

I'm actually really excited I got this right in actually pausing the video. Draco got me to actually consider the math.

Nah I’m gonna take the chance that Cassandra is literally the luckiest person alive, can you imagine having someone like that in charge of the country?

@asheep7797

3 жыл бұрын

She probably used up all her luck points, so there’s probably going to be a civil war the day after she is crowned.

@soulreaverable

2 жыл бұрын

@Roselle's Fantasies hol up

@milk-om7ll

2 жыл бұрын

She luckiest in getting the rarest number but also unluckiest for getting the least believable

@tyrannicalmuffin1442

2 жыл бұрын

Improbable is not impossible

@filipfilip1507

2 жыл бұрын

@Roselle's Fantasies you need to expand on this

Imagine, Cassandra did in fact play fair but you thought she was lying, she goes on to get orphaned and adopted by another royal family and rolls the exact same and that royal family also thinks she is lying then orphaned again but adopted by a normal family, she goes on to get struck by lightning and gets superpowers then gets a lottery ticket and wins.

@zyxasry

3 жыл бұрын

Wot?

@nadian848

3 жыл бұрын

SOMEONE- SOMEONE WRITE THIS

@thursdaythursd

3 жыл бұрын

Nadia N I did

@nadian848

3 жыл бұрын

Ella McNoname like- a book. I want a b o o k . You wrote a book?

@thursdaythursd

3 жыл бұрын

Nadia N it was a very short one in the comments of this video, it’s the one we’re replying to.

Yo this video was awesome! Thank you

This is the first (and only) TedEd riddle I’ve been able to solve!

You know, all this heir selection does is pick either the most honest candidate, or the one who's best at lying, and it's way more skewed toward those better at lying. Bertram made an unbelievable lie, Draco made a more believable but still impossible lie, Cassandra either told the truth and was really lucky or didn't quite lie well enough, and Alexa either told the truth and was slightly unlucky or was the best liar of the heirs. Considering how many of the others did or probably did lie, Alexa lying and picking a smaller, reasonable, and more probable number would actually make her way more likely to become queen if she had any idea that the others would lie.

@Cysfer

3 жыл бұрын

Ummm. Yes

@annettesnyder3451

3 жыл бұрын

"All hail Queen Alexa" "My queen, play despacito"

@numbernumber25

3 жыл бұрын

Yup, Alexa and Cassadra are only ones that could be telling truth as both have numbers within the realm of possibility. But there is no sure way that we would know that either of them is lying so we would go with the most likely odds, even though luck could have given Cassandra the edge on hitting the highest score or giving Alexa the odds on hitting a reasonable score. Or the way their luck is seen is that the luck will get the person to win rather than just a highscore. Either way this really could go two ways, just one more likely than another.

@jammer523691aj

3 жыл бұрын

Or they could just actually roll their dice. Alexa would have no real reason to spend time making up a reasonable number when she could generate a legitimately reasonable number in a few minutes. With the premise that she would know the others would lie, it would actually be very detrimental to lie.

@BartixShieldsmen

3 жыл бұрын

Alexa would still be the best candidate as she is both least likely to lie since she chose to fake a score below average and second because she either had the arithmetic to figure out the average score and that the answer must be a multiple of 5 OR she actually rolled the dice.

My favourite part of this riddle is Paul Rudd.

*Narrator:* "All hail queen Alexa!" *The Alexa on my counter:* I accept your fealty.

Meanwhile, poor Casandra who got picked by the god of luck to be queen and is genuinely amazed at her own luck is feeling cheated in the corner.

Bertram achieving 840 is like that one time as a kid I was playing a card game and announced that I had "5 aces" before promptly being called out for it, LOL

@poisonedmaple6874

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, if its one of those decks you find at a school that are really screwed up then...

@xlsfd

3 жыл бұрын

That depends if it is a game played with more than one deck or not.

@loveslycooper

3 жыл бұрын

First time I played liers dice, I said that I had 72. To be fair, I was quite drunk.

“Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony!” “Well, I suppose we could roll some dice...”

@bravomike4734

3 жыл бұрын

"Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!"

@IrvingIV

3 жыл бұрын

@@bravomike4734 (Transforms you into a jpeg, reduces quality, and reuploads you.)

@bravomike4734

3 жыл бұрын

"Did you see that? Did anyone see that?"

@iamhub2736

3 жыл бұрын

but what if its an African swallow

@omaralawadhi6903

3 жыл бұрын

@@iamhub2736 then we will be rolling coconuts

I got this but for a different reason - I added up all the dice numbers for 120, times by the number of rolls for 2400 and divided by the number of sides on a side for the likelihood each side would show - 400, and 385 is the closest to this average

Meanwhile in a realistic scenario, the servant hears the results and chooses the one who will benefit him the most.

No one will believe Cassandra anyway. And Draco’s father will hear about this, obviously. 😂

@xxx_these.flightless.wings_xxx

3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes I was waiting for this comment

@funtm7

3 жыл бұрын

yeah, Draco's father is the king.

@Baby1234Blue

3 жыл бұрын

@@funtm7 Ummm... You don't get the reference.

@hilal_younus

3 жыл бұрын

HP reference ;

@WlngDlngBat

3 жыл бұрын

@@brazenRenascent, its cause he thinks it matches his eye color. ;D

Plot twist: Cassandra was the luckiest human ever who would discover a cure-all drug for human-retated diseases by pure chance had she been made queen, so you just missed out big time.

@TheGreatDrake

3 жыл бұрын

But the very fact she rolled a 700 and was disqualified because of it means she wasn't the luckiest she was the least lucky so yeah she would of created the cure all drug and then accidentally spilled it all over her notes destroying them.

@Inkyminkyzizwoz

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGreatDrake *would have

@yummyshape3908

3 жыл бұрын

@Fernando the Boomer Knarmd Then by pure chance it was flammable and it got burned into ashes

@emanueltheodorus1056

3 жыл бұрын

That's also what happened to Cassandra in Greek myth who was curse with telling true prophecy but will be ignored by everyone.

@ashn7146

2 жыл бұрын

Plot twist: the king was unluckier than Cassandra was lucky because he made the rule to find the luckiest child, but accidently disqualified his luckiest child instead for his least lucky child.

Supprisingly, this was easy! Lucky: The child should roll the dice with the highest numbers 20x in a row cauculate the highest score u can get for 1 roll and multiply it by 20 and honest will follow along

Imagine the lottery never cashing out because the winner is always too lucky.

Even if Cassandra did really get 700 and then got disqualified because the advisor felt she was cheating then that makes her unlucky and so she doesn't meet the criteria to be the next ruler.

@matyan5170

3 жыл бұрын

thats ingenius man

@greywaren6034

3 жыл бұрын

Not really, the adviser didn’t decide wether to disqualify Cassandra by flipping a coin, he used logic. Anybody else would have been disqualified, not just Cassandra.

Ted-Ed: Can you solve the- Me: Not a chance, but I'll watch it anyways

@Irondragon1945

3 жыл бұрын

For once, I tried the riddle and got it right!

@shikhasinha736

3 жыл бұрын

@@Irondragon1945 You are too dangerous to be left alive

@Irondragon1945

3 жыл бұрын

@@shikhasinha736 _good luck i am hiding behind 500 more riddles_

@chiragcrao160

3 жыл бұрын

this was one of the easiest puzzles

@microz0258

3 жыл бұрын

This one is actually easy 😃 unlike some of their older ones 🤩🔪

I had acually solved this on my own, the first too exactly as he had described. The last one, the 423, I used a formula to prove it was impossible. A2+B7+C12+D17+20=E with the condition of A+B+C+D=40. When thrown into a calculator correctly you can see all of the possible outcomes WITH what numbers rolled and how many. For those that may inquire about the red dice numbers, that is what the +20 covers as each red dice number is just 1 more then the closest blue dice number. So we can understand that a red dice is functionally the same as a blue dice +1 so with 20 red dice rolls thats +20.

@-M-0-T-H-

Жыл бұрын

Bro just explained what my math class expected us to learn in 1st grade

@mmmmmmmmmmmmm

8 ай бұрын

by number theory that's impossible even without the condition that they sum to 40

i really love the way of teaching this mathematical problem/stuff, All the education system should follow this style.

Is Cassandra named this way because nobody believes her score, in reference to Greek mythology? (I have understood that her name must begin by C of course ...)

@leorettie2252

3 жыл бұрын

You've cracked the code

@siegfried1422

3 жыл бұрын

I spy with my little eye The Izzet League

@leorettie2252

3 жыл бұрын

@@siegfried1422 yay another magic nerd

@siegfried1422

3 жыл бұрын

Dang right

@rxlu

3 жыл бұрын

Izzet True?

Damn, Dream has some competition from Cassandra

@JTheMelon

3 жыл бұрын

@@bisqkuit1882 This was the reason why I looked for this video again Lmao

@Hyyacinth

2 жыл бұрын

what does this mean?

@512theVagabond

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hyyacinth Basically at the end of last year Minecraft speed runner Dream was put under investigation for cheating and manually altering variables in a couple of his speed runs (specifically the ones that determine the odds of Piglins giving ender pearls in trade of gold and the chances of a blaze dropping one of its rods, both of which are necessary to beat the game). The speed runner admins said he altered the variables and cheated while Dream said that he just got lucky and both did research into their arguments. In the end they both decided to drop the debate and it’s basically become a meme in itself.

@Hyyacinth

2 жыл бұрын

@@512theVagabond Ohhh okay, thanks for telling me :D Did he actually cheat tho?

@Hewhoroamstheinternet

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hyyacinth He admitted to it, so yes.

I finally got one of these riddles before watching the answer!!

That was really cool, I was able to calculate out that the average expected score would be 400, but realizing that possible answers had to end in a multiple of 5 totally went over my head! Number theory is like magic.

@StarSpark3071

Жыл бұрын

I applaud you for still figuring some of it out

Cassandra and Dream should both have a party and win the lottery together.

@lucinda_null

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@gokaytaspnar1355

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@marcusscience23

2 жыл бұрын

Cheat it to beat it

@xhqrry-san

2 жыл бұрын

LOL

The easier answer: Step one: Check that you have green eyes Step two: Ask the cheating children to leave

@rania9534

3 жыл бұрын

What?

@sellin8483

3 жыл бұрын

I found the reference!

@iamhub2736

3 жыл бұрын

no talking about eye colors!!!!!!!!

@sellin8483

3 жыл бұрын

@@iamhub2736 that's the way we do it here

@underrated1524

3 жыл бұрын

@@rania9534 Let me fill you in on the in-joke here. One of the earlier featured riddles on this channel boiled down to: "There are 100 prisoners on an island and all have green eyes. Any one can ask to leave at any time; if they have green eyes, they will be freed, but if they do not, they will be executed. None of them know their own eye color, none of them can check their eye color or communicate with each other, and none of them are willing to risk leaving unless they know for certain their eyes are green. What one statement can you make to the 100 prisoners that results in their escape *without* giving them any new information?" So the in-joke is to apply the "green eyes are a free ticket to leave" logic to every other riddle in some form or another.

This one was pretty easy, though 423 tricked me for a couple seconds. I was thinking of factors of 2 and 3, but realized that individually it didn't matter, because it really has to be a factor of all of their combinations. Actually adding a few of them made it obvious they were all multiples of 5. Doing 35 x 20 was also really easy (just multiply by 2 then add a zero). Am I getting smarter? Idk.

I’m so proud of myself for getting it right even though my only analysis was it being a multiple of 5

King: "I want my heir to be lucky" Royal Vasir: Nope, can't have that!

Dream with Cassandra "Finally a worthy opponent! our battle will be legendary!"

@mathguy37

2 жыл бұрын

oh also those elderlies

@creepervideo1106

2 жыл бұрын

More like wife

@real9106

21 күн бұрын

000😅😮😅😅😅😊

Plot twist: Cassandra actually played fair and got lucky while Alexa just picked a random number that turned out to be the most reasonable