The joyful, perplexing world of puzzle hunts

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The joyful, perplexing world of puzzle hunts | Alex Rosenthal

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5 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the strange, deviously difficult and incredibly joyful world of puzzle hunts. Follow along as Alex Rosenthal lifts the veil on one of the world's most complex puzzle hunts, the MIT Mystery Hunt -- and reveals how puzzles can be found in the most unexpected places. (Hint: see if you can spot the puzzle hidden in this TED Talk.)
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@cavv0667 5 жыл бұрын

I sincerely wish to arrive at MIT during this competition with a small group of "seekers" to find this coin and replace it with a Chuck-E-Cheese token.

@alexandrapanzer9745 5 жыл бұрын

Getting the obtuse-to-elegant ratio just right = creating the most satisfying "A-ha!" moment. So cool!

@EricBZink 5 жыл бұрын

Have to find the small joys in life! Great share and always find inspiration here for my own videos and channel!

@puzzleperson2007 5 жыл бұрын

Could not have loved this talk more! :)

@yomstarr 5 жыл бұрын

So joyful but insightful

@timbeer8266 5 жыл бұрын

This video contains a clue to one of the puzzles in their hunt

@michelangelolocatelli2747 5 жыл бұрын

I was just about to coment that haha. I bet it has something to do with that image with the red grid

@Sancsentity 5 жыл бұрын

And so does one of these comments

@derpyllama1885 5 жыл бұрын

Great talk, described by Elton John as "Simply the best talk of their kind in the world".

@jamiehay1027 5 жыл бұрын

Very interesting.

@OutChillinMedia 5 жыл бұрын

Love TED videos

@Freef_01 5 жыл бұрын

Goddamn this Ted Talk gotta be a puzzle

@alphastrength3402 5 жыл бұрын

This guy is great

@bowenliu4443 5 жыл бұрын

I am very glad to leave a message here. I am a student from China.I am keen on your lecture about the puzzle world. I've heard that you and your team have won several puzzle competition in MIT. Now I want to invite you and your team to engage in the puzzle game which was to be completed in the Summer Place on 2019, launched by country. This is the first time that The Summer Place is available to be explored in a way of puzzle game. It's memorable and unmissable if you are interested in Chinese history. Wish your attention.

@huhwhat1704 5 жыл бұрын

What is the difference inbetween a thought and an idea? Belief(faith) Who am I?

@magicgina2024 Жыл бұрын

The tortoise shells really can be a puzzle，Chinese words are first found as inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells, but a lot differernt from the words they are today ,though some simple words are similar if you try recognizing it hard.

@HumansOfVR 5 жыл бұрын

*The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it - Socrates*

@crazyprayingmantis5596 5 жыл бұрын

I get high and stare at turtles asking myself 'is this a ninja?'

@davec8473 5 жыл бұрын

IS THIS A PUZZLE!?!?!!?

@stoleurmoney 5 жыл бұрын

Thats a clever trick in the source code there guys lol.

@geoffrygifari4179 5 жыл бұрын

plot twist.... the URL of this ted talk contains a puzzle

@cavv0667 5 жыл бұрын

I feel sorry for some people now... you're a twisted one Geoffry... very, very twisted! ;)

@johnclark3720 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder if the current puzzle will offer this video as a clue...

@BlueyMcPhluey 5 жыл бұрын

how do these people have the time for this oh wait they're at MIT, I know how

@user-so3nc3ge3v 5 жыл бұрын

aha idea is spring

@mdrabioulislam1087 5 жыл бұрын

Great

@fep_ptcp883 5 жыл бұрын

I prefer puzzle hint

@milesgolding118 5 жыл бұрын

It's the guy from the inbertweeners

@spakwi 5 жыл бұрын

early to TED video?!

@jeevansubedi5436 5 жыл бұрын

life is also Puzzle?

@andrewkelley7062 5 жыл бұрын

Look up

@genhen 5 жыл бұрын

CICADA is the real puzzle

@breaneainn 5 жыл бұрын

MI6 calls....

@foysalmohammad.5796 5 жыл бұрын

Hit like 👍 if you think that TED's videos are helpful and inspiring.

@ChessMasteryOfficial 5 жыл бұрын

*Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. ₩*

@LughSummerson 5 жыл бұрын

Then why do you spam the same channel over and over?

@ChessMasteryOfficial 5 жыл бұрын

@@LughSummerson Man, believe or not, I am so glad to see your comment! I hope you are doing great. :)

@DanielSantanaBjj 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting #1

@SANKALP667 5 жыл бұрын

Nerds😂😂😂

@brianboru175 5 жыл бұрын

They are government funded. They spread lies. Propaganda. Do not listen.

@miabua73 5 жыл бұрын

@@brianboru175 is that part of a puzzle?

@wordbomb1064 7 ай бұрын

@@brianboru175 that must be a puzzle right?

@crimzikk 5 жыл бұрын

American in-betweeners

@XWurstbrotX 5 жыл бұрын

Finally a talk that isn't about sexism, racist or women!

@baflange6477 5 жыл бұрын

The cringest thing to me is the popularity of the oprah version of the word epiphany... did everyone forget we already have an actual word for "aha moment "??? Sound like school children ffs

@cavv0667 5 жыл бұрын

Even Eureka is a good one! "A-ha" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mtCGZJSJx8mdYWg.html or at least that's what it equates to for me!

@FlamingsauceHD 5 жыл бұрын

You must be fun at parties.

@baflange6477 5 жыл бұрын

Flamingsauce don’t worship catchy pop culture.. it’ll get you a lot further than being a party favor

@huhwhat1704 5 жыл бұрын

I created alchemical algebra today (R)Gx=the Alchemist