Can you solve the control room riddle? - Dennis Shasha

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.

Lesson by Dennis Shasha, animation by Zedem Media.

[MariamDawa]

I'm getting dumber and dumber after each riddle that now I couldn't even understand the question. 😂😂

[gabriellec]

"or the spread of an epidemic though different locations". Well I guess that technique was useful.

[devinplaysstuff]

3:34 “Now, to solve the mystery of why your surveillance team always gives you cryptic information.”

[riatortilla]

“As your country’s top spy-“

Well there’s the problem. I’M the top spy. My country is doomed. R.I.P U.S.A

[nicksacco]

I can't fly to the top of the pyramid and destroy the death ray?

[Rubiksboi]

I was thinking actual rooms, like on a grid. I think the riddle could be explained a bit better.

[okiirus]

TED-Ed: Graph Theory can even be used to find out the spread of a pandemic

Me in 2020: *laughs quietly with mask on*

[mouthlesshater]

Step 1: Confirm you have green eyes
Step 2: Ask the alarm system to allow you to search another floor without it going off

[legofan]

I actually didn't understand what the puzzle was about until I saw the solution. Anyone else?

[cclover]

I didn't even understand the question...

[xpozm]

Can you solve this control room riddle? No I can not, but I can watch and pretend I understand.

[audreymorgan]

I really miss the old riddles, which were more logic-orientated, of the increasingly mathematical ones which are hard to explain the answer to in person

[Moon-Fang]

Is anyone else really confused? Maybe it's just because I'm tired, but still.

[massterproduction]

If anyone is wondering, the size and shapes of the rooms are completely up to you to decide, and there can be more than one door on each wall. ( the solution doesn't even use squares and rectangles as it suggested)

[janaleibaluma]

Visualizing it probably took you so long the alarm probably went

[VESPERTlNE]

Am I the only one that watches these to do them on my friends

[MrNacknime]

Well it never said that you couldnt have 2 connections between the same two rooms

[adrianderobles]

Screw that, taking out the Death Star was easier.

[felixkneipp]

I wasn't listening I was just reading the comments.😬

[marcosbeni]

My answer was the 4th level from the top. Never do they make it a requirement for two rooms to have only one door connecting them, so my imagination went wild.