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NPR Will Shortz puzzle (If Eli is 173)

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[basil-vander-elst]

"If you can solve these puzzles, you are a genius"

Proceeds to show puzzles that have little to do with intelligence

Btw I know you aren't saying that, but the fact that other people are...

[tayahrautenbach]

for the first question you could move one part of = and change it to a < (5+5+5<550.)

[purity_one]

I've got another solution of the second puzzle.
ELI is 173, which is 125 in 12-base notation.
LOIS is 5107, which is 2B57 in 12-base notation.
Suppose letters means the corresponding digits in 12-base notation.
Surprisingly, the same letters in both words (L and I) coincided by the value.
So, E = 1, L = 2, I = 5, O = B, S = 7 in 12-base notation.
Thus, LESLIE = 217251 in 12-base notation.
Transferring it to a standart decimal number, we finally get the answer - 530, 845.

[imauz]

my dumbass thought hexagon as in 6 of those pieces 😭

[hoennianturnip]

Very cool! These are good and interesting teaser puzzles. More please!

[Phymacss]

Your channel is my favorite! Thank you for always benefiting us with your helpful videos.

[merrynoise]

Trouble with these "shorts" is that there isn't even enough time to hit pause before the solution appears...

[netherite]

2nd is 317, 537
3rd is 6 merged with mirrored 6

[motormouthalmighty]

I'VE GOT TO SAY, THAT IS JUST ABSOLUTELY SUPERB THERE ARE SOME REMARKABLE MINDS OUT THERE.I COULDN'T THINK MY WAY OUT OF A BROWN PAPER BAG.I'D BE TRAPPED THERE FOR EONS!

[SchoolTube]

We proceed to get 0.001 seconds to solve something only a ‘genius’ can solve

[JuanJose-tnyd]

Lisa Simpsons had a hard time solving the last one xD

[marcusscience]

For the first puzzle I did 5 + 5 - 5 =/= 555

[amechaniaa]

I thought the second one was a system of equations with each letter being a variable

[guigui]

More a trick than an actual math puzzle

[vallisparmentier]

A "creative" solution if one considers the 6-segment 0 as a "hexagon" and "move" to mean "move its segments anywhere":
45 + 5 + 9 = 59

[puspamadak]

So, I am 1/3 (one-third) genius because I was able to solve only the last one.

[heferh]

on the first one I did this:
5 + 5 + 5 < 550 by moving the "-" which makes the statement true but it's not an equality

[ariesmars]

I'm not genius, but then again I didn't really have time or put much thought into it. I just watched the video.

[darkflare]

Pretty sure 3rd is a circle with triangle on top

[collingallaway]

I actually got the second one but through the wrong method: I figured out that there was probably a correlation between the numbers and the letters since the digits matched up, I then noticed that the letters L and I were found in both words, and lo and behold there are only 2 numbers that were in both of the composite numbers. I then noticed that if you read the name in reverse they matched location of the number in the composite number, I then pieced it together backwards in my head since the 2 names had all the characters used in the last name. (Also, the first question was a bit mean, because I couldn’t even see that the dashes used to make the numbers were 6 sides making them hexagons so I just assumed it meant it had to be zero since it had six dashes in a similar shape to a typical hexagon but then couldn’t figure out how to make both sides equal with just moving the zero) also there wasn’t anytime to solve the 3rd one before the answer was given :/ (although I probably wouldn’t have thought to do that anyways😅)