Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle? – Alex Gendler



View full lesson:

Want more? Try the buried treasure riddle:

You and nine other individuals have been captured by super-intelligent alien overlords. The aliens think humans look quite tasty, but their civilization forbids eating highly logical and cooperative beings. Unfortunately, they’re not sure whether you qualify, so they decide to give you all a test. Can you solve this hat riddle? Alex Gendler shows how.

Lesson by Alex Gendler, animation by Artrake Studio.

source

34 Comments

  1. If you love solving puzzles (and puzzles within puzzles), we have something for you! It’s our first ever physical game: Pandora’s Legacy. Play as Pandora as you try to set right the chaos that has been unleashed by Zeus' box in a beautifully illustrated jigsaw-puzzle-escape-room game. Learn more and sign up for notifications about the game’s release here: https://bit.ly/TEDEdPandoraKS

  2. j'ai pensé à deux autres solutions, le premier dit la couleur de la personne 2, si la personne suivante à la même couleur, il prononce sa couleur rapidement sinon il attend un peu avant de le dire et ainsi de suite

    sinon tout simplement crier sa couleur quand la personne en face a un chapeau blanc et ke dire normalement si il a un chapeau noir

  3. Why would they not just say the color of the hat in front of them? The 1st guy would be wrong, but everyone else would hear which color to say.

  4. So there’s another solution if the tallest one say the color of the worm that’s in front of him and the worm that’s in front of him say the same color and this pattern continue until the last one I think that’s some of the solution

  5. 10 years ago this was possible. Today with tiktok kids, good luck with half the people forgeting what it meant bc they got distracted 30 seconds into the conversation of the plan XDD

  6. Ten of us against three aliens – I'd just play along until the first person has to guess – and when he yells NOW we rush them and pistol-whip them to death with their rayguns
    Really, we shouldn't be humouring aliens like these. If they're peaceable that's fine. But if they're intent on eating us we just shouldn't stand for it, and I'm outraged that this video is endorsing compliance! 😡😡😡

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

You might like

© 2026 Cantinho do Vídeo - WordPress Video Theme by WPEnjoy