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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I love these! I would watch them every single day!
i have seen lots of your ridles
This is the first riddle I solve by myself :’)
4:15 He had a voice crack lol
This artstyle is my absolute favourite. It’s like an awesome picture book.
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
somehow the main character keeps changing job, gender, and species
Ofc it was seed hence the name green beard
nice
1st time i got the solution!
5
i O
i 3
i O
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2 6
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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
This is the first riddle I solved =)
1. Grab a leaf
2. Shape it oval
3. assume its your eye
4. Get treasure ez
Wood is money
The intersection, which makes an x, marks the spot. Clever!
le me who forgets the riddle as soon as the video ends
Okay I found the island, now to go get the tre- never mind, the storm’s here.
Pretty easy one this time. I usually get skunked.
They don’t call him greenbeard for nothing
Think this one might have been the easiest Ted-Ed riddle I’ve seen.
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?
I like cheetos
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
A riddle i solved on my own
thumbs down for this one
GREENbeard… I get it now.
"Green"beard of course
I love these riddles! More!
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
There golden tree seeds that grow gold
STEP 1: [confirm] THAT [[Greenbeard]] HAS [[green eyes]]
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
This is either unsolvable or extremely easy
Pirates with seeds, I know, it’s torrent!
There is a solution with 4 and 2 combo too
If all we want is to find what the island looks like, then fact #4 is not needed
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.
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
The initial graphic made it appear that the pirates were tied to trees. You need to rectify this so the puzzle is actually solvable.
Are ALL numbers from 2-6 claimed? or could they have all said 6 and one said 2?
Maybe the real treasure… was the friends we made along the way
Blue
Finally a riddle I was able to solve on my own!
I love these riddles!
Can someone please tell me what the narrator’s name is?
i don’t remember this part in our flag means death
WAIT WHY GREEN BEARD?? ARE U A LOST FAN OF ONE PIECE
Weren’t the pirates tied to the tree though?
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