Can you solve the secret sauce riddle? - Alex Gendler

As a top spy trained in infiltration and safecracking, it’s up to you to steal the competition’s secret sauce recipe. Can you figure out where it's hidden?

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One of the top chefs from Pasta Palace has been kidnapped by operatives from Burger Bazaar hoping to learn the location of their secret sauce recipe. Little do they know that a third party— Sausage Saloon— has sent you, their top spy, to take advantage of the situation. Can you figure out the location of the secret recipe and steal it for yourself? Alex Gendler shows how.

Lesson by Alex Gendler, directed by Artrake Studio.

This riddle is adapted from a puzzle that originally appeared in Puzzles for Pleasure, by E.R. Emmet.

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[TEDEd]

Riddlers, we have one more thing to add to the rules! Read this while you pause: the last thing the interrogator says to the chef is: "If you just tell me whether or not the number’s second digit is one, we’ll be done here.” You don’t know whether the chef answers that truthfully, but whatever he says, that makes the interrogator think he knows where the recipe is.
Thanks everyone, now back to riddling!

[videogamemusic]

“Is the number a perfect cube?”
“I don’t know! I’m a chef!”

[devdattajoshi]

The real question is, why did "burger" bazaar and "sausage" saloon want the recipe to a pasta sauce?

[ainzoshle]

"is the number a perfect cube"
"ozo"

[tabitha]

If an interrogator asks questions like “is its second digit a 1”, they deserve to get the wrong answer

[knightoftheson]

The real riddle is how did the Sausage Saloon convince a highly talented spy to do a job for $90.

[taran]

When the guy said "is it below 500?"
I knew this riddle is out of my league

[thecreator]

Step 1: Confirm you have green eyes

Step 2: Kindly ask for the secret sauce

[drgyn]

Why dosent the interrogator just ask “what’s the number”

[joeking]

What kind of interrogator is this? Who asks these type of questions?!

[Puppeteer_in_the_Void]

Can we just take a moment to talk about the fact that the restaurants in this universe are serious enough to hire professional spies.

[aayushrathod]

Me : **A spy who can infiltrate, safe crack and read faces for signs of deception**
Also me : *does math at a random rooftop*

[RutherfordB]

I challenge you to do the “make a riddle that isn’t an elaborate math problem challenge”

[Nobody]

She can perfectly tell if someone is lying or not but she CANNOT read lips.





That goes against protocol.

[carlosmattessich]

Plot twist: Plankton stole the secret formula while they were interrogating the chef.

[Ignacio_Moral]

This whole riddle falls if he answered "No" to the perfect cube, since he could technically not be lying

[ossen]

Can we just appreciate the creativity in animation.
The dedication to their craft is impeccable.

[spicysand]

imagine stealing the recipe to a best-selling sauce and your boss give you 90 bucks

[cupcake_]

The answer could also had been 729, just because the interrogators have 4 options doesn't mean it's not the correct way, I mean they could have asked if the second number was 1 anyway and their conclusion would be that the number is 216 right?
I solved the riddle in paper and I got to the conclusion of 729, but when they said "the interrogators must have been undecided between 2 numbers" I said wait what wasn't it 4
Then I went back to the paper and saw it also worked with the 512 and 1000. I'm so confused rn

[alinkbetweengames]

This is the first time in a very long time that I have been able to solve one of these riddles. The amount of joy I am feeling is intense.