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Can you solve the giant iron riddle? - Alex Gendler

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The family of giants you work for is throwing a fancy dinner party, but there’s a problem — the elder giant’s favorite shirt is wrinkled! To fix it, you’ll need to power up the giant iron. It needs two batteries to work, but the baby giant mixed the working battery pile with the dead pile. Can you test the batteries so that you get a working pair in seven tries or less? Alex Gendler shows how.

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Meet The Creators

Educator
Alex Gendler
Director
Outis
Narrator
Addison Anderson
Animator
Nemanja Petrovic
Sound Designer
Nemanja Petrovic
Content Producer
Gerta Xhelo
Editorial Producer
Alex Rosenthal
Associate Producer
Bethany Cutmore-Scott
Fact-Checker
Brian Gutierrez

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