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From the Ted Talk by Dan Finkel: Can you solve the secret werewolf riddle?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
How can you divide the antidote into prfceet fifths, cure the secret werewolf, and save everyone?
Pause the video now if you want to figure it out for yourself.
ansewr in 3
Answer in 2
Answer in 1
When it comes to puzzles that involve cutting and rearranging, it’s often helpful to actually take a piece of paper and try cutting it up to see what you can get. If we cut BF and DH we’d get fourths, but we need fthfis. Maybe there’s a way to shave a bit off of a quarter to get exactly one fifth. Cutting BE looks good at first, but that last cut taeks a off a quarter of a quarter, lvnaeig us with a portion of 3/16: just smaller than a fifth, and not enough to cure a werewolf.
Open Cloze
How can you divide the antidote into _______ fifths, cure the secret werewolf, and save everyone?
Pause the video now if you want to figure it out for yourself.
______ in 3
Answer in 2
Answer in 1
When it comes to puzzles that involve cutting and rearranging, it’s often helpful to actually take a piece of paper and try cutting it up to see what you can get. If we cut BF and DH we’d get fourths, but we need ______. Maybe there’s a way to shave a bit off of a quarter to get exactly one fifth. Cutting BE looks good at first, but that last cut _____ a off a quarter of a quarter, _______ us with a portion of 3/16: just smaller than a fifth, and not enough to cure a werewolf.
Solution
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- fifths
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Original Text
How can you divide the antidote into perfect fifths, cure the secret werewolf, and save everyone?
Pause the video now if you want to figure it out for yourself.
Answer in 3
Answer in 2
Answer in 1
When it comes to puzzles that involve cutting and rearranging, it’s often helpful to actually take a piece of paper and try cutting it up to see what you can get. If we cut BF and DH we’d get fourths, but we need fifths. Maybe there’s a way to shave a bit off of a quarter to get exactly one fifth. Cutting BE looks good at first, but that last cut takes a off a quarter of a quarter, leaving us with a portion of 3/16: just smaller than a fifth, and not enough to cure a werewolf.
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