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Curated Video

21 Riddles to Pump Up Your Detective Muscle

6th - Higher Ed
Hey there! Ready to test your brainpower? We've got 21 riddles that'll really give your detective skills a workout. These puzzles are perfect for sharpening your mind and having some fun at the same time. Gather your friends or go solo,...
Instructional Video4:19
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Dennis Shasha: Can you solve the stolen rubies riddle?

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Townspeople are demanding that a corrupt merchant's collection of 30 rubies be confiscated to reimburse the victims of his schemes. The king announces that the fine will be determined through a game of wits between the merchant and the...
Instructional Video4:32
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Daniel Finkel: Can you solve the alien probe riddle?

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Your team has developed a probe to study an alien monolith. It needs protective coatings — in red, purple and green — to cope with the environments it passes through. Can you figure out how to apply the colors so the probe survives the...
Instructional Video13:44
SciShow

SciShow Talk Show: The Mice of Riddle Place & Bindi the Bearded Dragon

12th - Higher Ed
This week on the SciShow Talk Show Andrij Holian and Paulette Jones talk about the development of a new video game designed for middle school students in order to increase their interest in STEM careers. Then Jessi from Animal Wonders...
Instructional Video3:39
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Daniel Finkel: Can you solve the unstoppable blob riddle?

Pre-K - Higher Ed
A shooting star crashes onto Earth and a hideous blob emerges. It creeps and leaps, it glides and slides. It's also unstoppable: no matter what you throw at it, it just re-grows and continues its rampage. The only way to save the planet...
Instructional Video3:23
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Daniel Finkel: Can you solve the cuddly duddly fuddly wuddly riddle?

Pre-K - Higher Ed
You've promised to get your son the cutest creature in creation: the cuddly. It's part of the Wuddly species, cousin to the terrifying duddly and the hideous fuddly. To make one, 100 eggs are placed in an incubator to undergo egg fusion,...
Instructional Video4:30
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can you solve the secret sauce riddle? | Alex Gendler

Pre-K - Higher Ed
One of the top chefs from Pasta Palace has been kidnapped by operatives from Burger Bazaar hoping to learn the location of their secret sauce recipe. Little do they know that a third party— Sausage Saloon— has sent you, their top spy, to...
Instructional Video4:37
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can you solve the world’s most evil wizard riddle?

Pre-K - Higher Ed
The evil wizard MoldeVort has been trying to kill you for years, and today it looks like he’s going to succeed. But your friends are on their way, and if you can survive until they arrive, they should be able to help stop him. Can you...
Instructional Video5:58
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can you solve the rogue submarine riddle? Difficulty level: Master | Alex Rosenthal

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Smuggling yourself aboard the rogue submarine was the easy part. Hacking into the nuclear missile launch override — a little harder. And you've got a problem: you don't have the override code. You know you need the same numbers that were...
Instructional Video4:24
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can you solve the giant spider riddle? | Dan Finkel

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Once every century, the world's greatest spiders gather to compete in a series of grueling games. The winner will become the next arachnomonarch, able to command all the world's spiders to their will. That day is today, and for the first...
Instructional Video5:23
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can you solve the sorting hat riddle? | Dan Katz and Alex Rosenthal

Pre-K - Higher Ed
It's your first day at Magnificent Marigold's Magical Macademy. But before you can learn your first spell you must get through the sorting ceremony. And the sorting hat has chosen you for a special challenge. The Macademy had 8 founders...
Instructional Video4:29
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can you solve the birthday cake riddle? | Marie Brodsky

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Your friend's birthday is tomorrow, and he's turning... well... you've forgotten. A ginormous cake has been prepared and your job is to sculpt his age as the chocolate centerpiece. The birthday boy is a giant, and you're afraid that if...
Instructional Video4:45
TED-Ed

Can you solve the logician's rave riddle? | Edwin Meyer

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Once a year, thousands of logicians descend into the desert for Learning Man. At the center of that gathering is the world's most exclusive club, where under the full moon the annual logician's rave takes place. The entry is guarded by...
Instructional Video4:34
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can you solve the Ragnarok riddle? | Dan Finkel

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Ragnarok: The fabled end of the world, when giants, monsters, and Norse gods battle for the future. The gods were winning until the great serpent Jörmungandr emerged. It swallowed Valhalla and contorted itself across the land. Odin has...
Instructional Video4:58
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can you solve the honeybee riddle? | Dan Finkel

Pre-K - Higher Ed
You're a biologist on a mission to keep the rare honeybee Apis Trifecta from going extinct. The last 60 bees of the species are in your terrarium. You've already constructed wire frames of the appropriate size and shape. Now you need to...
Instructional Video5:28
TED-Ed

Can you solve the fantasy election riddle? | Dennis E. Shasha

Pre-K - Higher Ed
After much debate, the realm has decided dragon jousting may not be the best way to choose its leaders, and has begun transitioning to democracy. Your company was hired to survey the citizens of the land and predict which candidate will...
Instructional Video5:10
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can you solve the Trojan War riddle? | Dennis Shasha

Pre-K - Higher Ed
On Olympus, you've been waiting for an opportunity to bring the bloody Trojan War to its conclusion. The two sides have agreed to a brief truce, and when you consult the Fates, they advise: should the peace last for 10 days, all will end...
Instructional Video5:10
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can you solve the cheating royal riddle? | Dan Katz

Pre-K - Higher Ed
You're the chief advisor to an eccentric king who needs to declare his successor. He wants his heir to be good at arithmetic, lucky, and above all else, honest. So he's devised a competition to test his children, and ordered you to...
Instructional Video4:25
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can you solve the riddle and escape Hades? | Dan Finkel

Pre-K - Higher Ed
The underworld is overcrowded, and Zeus has ordered Hades to let some spirits out. Hades arranges all the souls of the dead in a line before Cerberus. When one of his three heads bites down on the soul in front of it, they'll get...
Instructional Video4:53
TED-Ed

Can you solve the monster duel riddle? | Alex Gendler

Pre-K - Higher Ed
You've come a long way to compete in the great Diskymon league and prove yourself a Diskymon master. Now that you've made it to the finals, you're up against some tough competition. In round one, you'll face a single opponent and get to...
Instructional Video4:37
TED-Ed

Can you cheat death by solving this riddle? | Shravan S K

Pre-K - Higher Ed
You and your best friend Bill are the greatest bards in the kingdom— but maybe not the brightest. Your hit song has insulted the king and now you're slated for execution. Luckily, Death is a connoisseur of most excellent music and has...
Instructional Video4:52
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can you solve the human cannonball riddle? | Alex Rosenthal

Pre-K - Higher Ed
They call you the human cannonball. Your act involves flying through rings of fire, bouncing through a trampoline course, and catching the trapezist in the grand finale. Today's pre-flight test fails dramatically, and upon inspection,...
Instructional Video4:25
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can you solve the Alice in Wonderland riddle? | Alex Gendler

Pre-K - Higher Ed
After many adventures in Wonderland, Alice has once again found herself in the court of the temperamental Queen of Hearts. She's about to pass through the garden undetected, when she overhears the king and queen arguing that 64 is the...
Instructional Video5:15
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can you solve the risky disk riddle? | James Tanton

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Your antivirus squad is up against a code that's hijacked your mainframe. What you've learned from other infected systems, right before they went dark, is that it likes to toy with antivirus agents in a very peculiar way— and you're the...

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