Can you solve the egg drop riddle? - Yossi Elran

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.

Lesson by Yossi Elran, directed by Artrake Studio.

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**14 eggs drop**
*Guard* “such a wonderful day”
**15 eggs drop**
*Guard* “WAIT HOLD ON A SECOND!!!”

[automanic]

City: let's build a 100 - floor building. And display just ONE EGG on every floor.
Builder: sounds good to me

[rageldith]

my favorite part of the ted-ed riddles is the “don’t cheat” rule

[djlazzlow]

With this much wisdom, I suggest she applies a PHD on mathematics rather than a life of stealing eggs

[pompeijwag]

*throws egg at 14th floor*
*breaks*
*throws egg at 1st floor*
*breaks*
Thief:" Well guess I just wasted 30$"

[aarnzoo]

*Just casually walking into the gift shop with my crime-suit on*

[dakshbadal]

The real world application for the concepts discussed in this video is finding the right shower temprature while wasting the smallest amount of water possible.

[benjaminm]

In theory terminal velocity of a falling object can be achieved at about 167 metres equivalent to roughly 54 floors. Technically A fall from 100 floor and 55th floor makes no difference in impact. So if the egg survives at 60th floor you might as well pick the most valuable egg.

[hrishikeshpurohit]

Thief: Throws 14 eggs out of the window.
Guard: Ah! 14 eggs! Had it been 1 more, I would be getting suspicious.

[insertkahootname]

*an egg gets thrown off a building 19 times*

Staff : same as usual

[sophiesmith]

This is a very well thought out museum let me say.
"Let's sell perfect replicas in the gift shop! No criminal would _ever_ use these for *anything!"*

[HeadCannon]

"Throwing too many eggs will cause suspicion among the guards"
"You can do it in 14 throws or less using this method"
Hold on, how many throws is too many then?

[nineteenyearold]

Easier solution-
Step 1: steal the top egg and replace it with the replica
Step 2: leave

[fishyplayz]

Step one: Go to the top floor
Step two: Grab the egg
Step three: Take it to the window and rappel down while holding it

[pyrosyphon]

TED-Ed : "dont drop the egg to many times"
Solution : *drops it 14 times*

[ErmisSouldatos]

Me, an intelectual: *steals egg from floor 100 and takes the elevator down*

[randomcommenterheredontmin]

"Throwing too many eggs out the windows will atract the guards attention"
Says the guy who threw 2 eggs 14 times.

[AlwaysLoisLane]

If the security is non-tight enough that she could throw 14 fake eggs, she could've thrown 14 real eggs.

[shranikdua]

If the thief knew this much math, she would not be stealing

[jamesdarylgalvez]

Step 1: confirm you have green eyes
Step 2: ask the guard to have all 100 eggs
Step 3: stonks