Can you solve the buried treasure riddle? – Daniel Griller

Can you solve the buried treasure riddle? – Daniel Griller

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After a massive storm tears through the Hex Archipelago, you find five grizzled survivors in the water. As an act of gratitude for saving them, they reveal a secret – the island they were just on holds some buried treasure. But when the sailors try to describe the island, something seems off. Can you find the booty despite their strange instructions? Daniel Griller shows how.

Lesson by Daniel Griller, animation by Patrick Smith.

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50 Comments

  1. MARK ALFONS GARCIA on January 17, 2023 at 10:23 am

    I love these! I would watch them every single day!

  2. Chase S on January 17, 2023 at 10:24 am

    i have seen lots of your ridles

  3. Ahmed Al-Jailawee on January 17, 2023 at 10:24 am

    This is the first riddle I solve by myself :’)

  4. LittleLukeTheNinja 671 on January 17, 2023 at 10:24 am

    4:15 He had a voice crack lol

  5. AVIVA studios on January 17, 2023 at 10:26 am

    This artstyle is my absolute favourite. It’s like an awesome picture book.

  6. bruuh on January 17, 2023 at 10:27 am

    i just imagined the island so big and the trees so far away from each other, therefore depending on where the pirates are, the amount of trees they can see, bc some are just too far for a human eye to notice

  7. The catest guy on January 17, 2023 at 10:28 am

    somehow the main character keeps changing job, gender, and species

  8. Metzy on January 17, 2023 at 10:28 am

    Ofc it was seed hence the name green beard

  9. bryanwhale3 on January 17, 2023 at 10:30 am

    nice

  10. a sheep on January 17, 2023 at 10:33 am

    1st time i got the solution!

    5
    i O
    i 3
    i O
    i
    i O
    2 6
    i O
    i
    i O
    i
    i O
    4

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  12. Aurora on January 17, 2023 at 10:34 am

    Step 1: Confirm you have green eyes
    Step 2: confirm greenbreard has green beard.
    step 3: confirm you yourself have green beard.
    step 4: ask the island to leave
    step ???:
    step Omega: profit

  13. OP on January 17, 2023 at 10:36 am

    This is the first riddle I solved =)

  14. Barra Aaufa on January 17, 2023 at 10:36 am

    1. Grab a leaf
    2. Shape it oval
    3. assume its your eye
    4. Get treasure ez

  15. AGENT E 319 on January 17, 2023 at 10:37 am

    Wood is money

  16. the anonamoys kirby coder on January 17, 2023 at 10:38 am

    The intersection, which makes an x, marks the spot. Clever!

  17. Gowtham Jegathesan on January 17, 2023 at 10:38 am

    le me who forgets the riddle as soon as the video ends

  18. The Dragon Slayer Gamer on January 17, 2023 at 10:38 am

    Okay I found the island, now to go get the tre- never mind, the storm’s here.

  19. Keith Wood on January 17, 2023 at 10:39 am

    Pretty easy one this time. I usually get skunked.

  20. Monique Star on January 17, 2023 at 10:40 am

    They don’t call him greenbeard for nothing

  21. theluggage on January 17, 2023 at 10:43 am

    Think this one might have been the easiest Ted-Ed riddle I’ve seen.

  22. Ben Meaige on January 17, 2023 at 10:44 am

    This was a poorly worded puzzle. I thought the pirates were each tied to trees? If so how could they even be at the intersect?

  23. Jck Dnls on January 17, 2023 at 10:47 am

    I like cheetos

  24. Celetial on January 17, 2023 at 10:47 am

    good concept, but I think the context should have been a different storyline, because of the confusing graphic where they were tied to trees, and how it would be nearly impossible to tie a pirate to sand

  25. Raptor the Gamer on January 17, 2023 at 10:51 am

    A riddle i solved on my own

  26. Craig Slattery on January 17, 2023 at 10:51 am

    thumbs down for this one

  27. j w on January 17, 2023 at 10:52 am

    GREENbeard… I get it now.

  28. Kurorito 1123 on January 17, 2023 at 10:52 am

    "Green"beard of course

  29. SisiWen on January 17, 2023 at 10:56 am

    I love these riddles! More!

  30. David Case on January 17, 2023 at 10:56 am

    While I enjoyed your first few riddles, you consistently fail to provide all the details of your puzzle. The pirates were shown tied to trees at the start, restricting their movement. Can’t they look up and see their own tree

  31. alan gabreil on January 17, 2023 at 10:59 am

    There golden tree seeds that grow gold

  32. Spamton G Spamton on January 17, 2023 at 11:01 am

    STEP 1: [confirm] THAT [[Greenbeard]] HAS [[green eyes]]

  33. Human on January 17, 2023 at 11:01 am

    Plot twist: he buried the treasure on every island where you could see 6-2 trees, you just got unlucky and found the one where he buried tree seeds

  34. Perhaps. on January 17, 2023 at 11:03 am

    This is either unsolvable or extremely easy

  35. H. L. on January 17, 2023 at 11:07 am

    Pirates with seeds, I know, it’s torrent!

  36. kindinti udaykiran on January 17, 2023 at 11:08 am

    There is a solution with 4 and 2 combo too

  37. ChannelMath on January 17, 2023 at 11:08 am

    If all we want is to find what the island looks like, then fact #4 is not needed

  38. Petar Petrov on January 17, 2023 at 11:08 am

    I was able to solve the riddle with 4 and 2 trees where they still intersect (as opposed to 3×3 which was shown in the video). This riddle is not well thought out if there are multiple answers.

    The others have been great so far though.

  39. Michael Pereira on January 17, 2023 at 11:10 am

    Ahh so here I was thinking that each pirate couldn’t move at all and were stuck facing a certain direction, so the pirate who saw 2 trees just couldn’t turn around to see the other four. A few choices of islands would’ve really helped in this puzzle

  40. Abrahamdinian on January 17, 2023 at 11:10 am

    The initial graphic made it appear that the pirates were tied to trees. You need to rectify this so the puzzle is actually solvable.

  41. ChannelMath on January 17, 2023 at 11:10 am

    Are ALL numbers from 2-6 claimed? or could they have all said 6 and one said 2?

  42. Candaru's Collective on January 17, 2023 at 11:13 am

    Maybe the real treasure… was the friends we made along the way

  43. GEORGE MAROULAKOS on January 17, 2023 at 11:13 am

    Blue

  44. KodakYarr on January 17, 2023 at 11:13 am

    Finally a riddle I was able to solve on my own!

  45. Asrar Alzaher on January 17, 2023 at 11:15 am

    I love these riddles!

  46. Josh Lubold on January 17, 2023 at 11:16 am

    Can someone please tell me what the narrator’s name is?

  47. Jennya Alexeyeva on January 17, 2023 at 11:20 am

    i don’t remember this part in our flag means death

  48. Karokokolsss on January 17, 2023 at 11:21 am

    WAIT WHY GREEN BEARD?? ARE U A LOST FAN OF ONE PIECE

  49. PenguinMan on January 17, 2023 at 11:21 am

    Weren’t the pirates tied to the tree though?

  50. Sip Dhit on January 17, 2023 at 11:22 am

    See the thing about it is, this is just a points problem, you’re just supposed to find the item with the correct arraignment of points, that’s all the question actually is, however most people don’t want to answer bland guessing games, they prefer a story, and a reason to do all the work
    It’s like the math teacher asking, "if there’s 5 birds on a fence and the farmer shoots 2, how many are there left? The correct answer is 3, because all that is, is a math problem, the story is just there to make it more engaging

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