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Professor Fukanō, the famous scientist, has embarked on a new challenge - piloting around the world in a plane of his own design. There's just one problem: there's not enough fuel to complete the journey. Luckily, there are two other planes to help. Can you help the professor fly for the whole trip and achieve his dream, without anyone running out of fuel and crashing? Judd A. Schorr shows how. View full lesson here: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-solve-the-airplane-riddle-judd-a-schorr Subtítulos en español. Duración 4:20.

In a dystopian world, your resistance group is humanity's last hope. Unfortunately, you've all been captured by the tyrannical rulers and brought to the ancient coliseum for their deadly entertainment. Will you be able to solve the passcode riddle and get everyone out safely? Ganesh Pai shows how. View full lesson here: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-solve-the-passcode-riddle-ganesh-pai Subtítulos en español. Duración 3:50.

As a wildfire rages through the grasslands, three lions and three wildebeest flee for their lives. To escape the inferno, they must cross over to the left bank of a crocodile-infested river. Can you help them figure out how to get across on the one raft available without losing any lives? Lisa Winer shows how. View full lesson here: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-solve-the-river-crossing-riddle-lisa-winer Subtítulos en español. Duración 4:00.

As your country's top spy, you must infiltrate the headquarters of the evil syndicate, find the secret control panel, and deactivate their death ray. But your reconnaissance team is spotty, and you have only limited information about the control panel's whereabouts. Can you solve the control room riddle and deactivate their weapon in time? Dennis Shasha shows you how. Teoría de grafos. View full lesson here: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-solve-the-control-room-riddle-dennis-shasha Subtítulos en español.

You're stranded in a rainforest, and you've eaten a poisonous mushroom. To save your life, you need an antidote excreted by a certain species of frog. Unfortunately, only the female frog produces the antidote. The male and female look identical, but the male frog has a distinctive croak. Derek Abbott shows how to use conditional probability to make sure you lick the right frog and get out alive. View full lesson here: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-solve-the-frog-riddle-derek-abbott Subtítulos en español. Duración 4:15.

Your rich, eccentric uncle just passed away, and you and your 99 nasty relatives have been invited to the reading of his will. He wanted to leave all of his money to you, but he knew that if he did, your relatives would pester you forever. Can you solve the riddle he left for you and get the inheritance? Lisa Winer shows how. View full lesson here: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-solve-the-locker-riddle-lisa-winer Subtítulos en español. Duración 3:47.

Your research team has found a prehistoric virus preserved in the permafrost and isolated it for study. After a late night working, you're just closing up the lab when a sudden earthquake hits and breaks all the sample vials. Will you be able to destroy the virus before the vents open and unleash a deadly airborne plague? Lisa Winer shows how. View full lesson here: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-solve-the-virus-riddle-lisa-winer English subtitles.

Your expedition finally stands at the heart of the ancient temple. But as you study the inscriptions in the darkness, two wisps of green smoke burst forth. The walls begin to shake. The giant sandglass begins flowing with less than an hour before it empties, and a rumbling tells you that you don't want to be around when that happens. Can you use math to escape the temple? Dennis E. Shasha shows how. View full lesson here: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-solve-the-temple-riddle-dennis-e-shasha Subtítulos en español. Duración 4:05.

Your favorite band is great at playing music... but not so great at being organized. They keep misplacing their instruments on tour, and it's driving their manager mad. Can you solve the brain-numbing riddle their manager assigns them and make sure the band stays on their label? Yossi Elran shows how. View full lesson here: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-solve-the-prisoner-boxes-riddle-yossi-elran Subtítulos en español. Duración 4:32.

You and your team have crash-landed on an ancient planet. Can you appease the three alien overlords who rule it and get your team safely home? Created by logician Raymond Smullyan, and popularized by his colleague George Boolos, this riddle has been called the hardest logic puzzle ever. Alex Gendler shows how to solve it. View full lesson here: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-solve-the-three-gods-riddle-alex-gendler Subtítulos en español. Duración 4:40.

The city has just opened its one-of-a-kind Faberge Egg Museum, with a single egg displayed on each floor of a 100-story building -- and the world's most notorious jewel thief already has her eyes on the prize. Can you help the thief formulate a plan that will drop the most expensive egg she can get safely into her waiting truck? Yossi Elran shows how. View full lesson here: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-solve-the-egg-drop-riddle-yossi-elran Subtítulos en español. Duración 4:30.

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 turn them into working beehives by filling every hex with wax. Can you help the bees create producing hives? Dan Finkel shows how. View full lesson here: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-solve-the-honeybee-riddle-dan-finkel English subtitles. Duración 4:55.