Can you solve the sorting hat riddle? - Dan Katz and Alex Rosenthal

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It’s your first day at Magnificent Marigold’s Magical Macademy. But before you can learn your first spell you must get through the sorting ceremony. And the sorting hat has chosen you for a special challenge. The Macademy had 8 founders who established four houses, and there was once a mysterious fifth house. Can you figure out who founded what? Dan Katz and Alex Rosenthal show how.

Lesson by Dan Katz and Alex Rosenthal, directed by Artrake Studio.

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[raymondxu]

I'm assuming this is where Moldevort was taught?

[joliecrusoe]

All the clues about the house name: *points to the letter M and having 8 letters*
Me trying to guess the house name:

[jasonulloa]

0:13 "Made some fast friends"
5:11 "But being the first and only resident ... would come at a high price: loneliness"
Me: I guess those were some REALLY fast friends, if they didn't stick around that long.

[stephsaguudefan]

The first puzzle was easy, the second felt like kind of a stretch. I mean, I noticed all the founders had Ms in their names, but that's about as far as I got. There are so many possible combinations of what pattern could emerge with that many names and letters.

[jamesz]

This feels like one of those riddles that’s harder to design than solve

[thechargingturtle]

*You shout "Minatuor" and nothing happens, everyone in the room stares at you with confusion, you realize there was a typo with the founder's names, now you have lost riches, fame, and glory, all because of a typo*

[Nutririana]

Second one was a bit of a stretch, I got the answer, but i dismiss it as it was not able to tell why the other houses got their names, or why we had meramaid instead of mermaid...

[jakedesnake]

Me: "Mom, I want to go to Hogwarts"
Mom: "We have Hogwarts at home."
Hogwarts at home:

[moozieb]

Ted Ed: your first day at....
Me: *sees giant m* Mogwarts
Ted Ed: ....Magnificent marigold’s magical macademy
enough.

[IsimpforKavehandImnotashamed]

This is the only riddle that I took the time to complete myself. I’m officially one point more prouder of myself than I was before

[KnakuanaRka]

Does anyone else think the second part of this problem is totally different from anything else in the series? I mean, with all of the other riddles there’s a clear right and wrong answer and a series of logical steps to deduce it, but this one is more open ended. “Figure out the name of the secret house” could be anything; the solution just involves making a series of associations until you find something that makes sense.

[nicamarianosartandgames]

I managed to sort all the founders correctly, but I couldn’t find the name of the last house!

[daveya]

Introverts/unsociable people when seeing the last choice: “I see this as an absolute win!”

[idrinksandwiches]

i’m very proud of myself of figuring out each house each founder established without keeping track of things on a piece of paper

[LiamMcEvoy]

I don't need friends. They disappoint me. 💃

[konstantinosretzepis]

"Mom can we have Harry Potter?"
"No we have Harry Potter at home"
Harry Potter at home:

[SuicideBunny]

Harry: "Don't say Slytherin, don't say Slytherin, don't say Slytherin ..."
Sorting hat: "You're Minotaur, Harry."

[blueshadeseraphim]

Normally I’d choose “Meramaid”, given my affinity for water, and beauty. But in this scenario, I’d choose the Minotaur house. Just think of all the perks! Not only do you have riches and untouched artifacts, but you also get the entire common room to yourself. So you can have all the peace and quiet you want. Sure, said common room is probably covered in cobwebs and dust from being undisturbed all these years, but one can assume the school’s cleaning staff can fix things up in a jiffy. And if you’re afraid about being lonely, don’t be. You may be the only member of your house, but you can still converse and make friends with members of the other houses, one would assume. And given that you just discovered the secret 5th house, it’s safe to assume everybody’s curious about you and will want to get to know you.

It’s easily the right answer, in my opinion.

[mistingwolf]

I aced the first part about sorting each founder, but I needed a bit more help on the secret house. Stopped as soon as they mentioned "something critical about the houses, " then I nailed it! I give myself a solid B+!

[santiagonova]

This is the first riddle I actually managed to solve on my own, and it felt so good