Can you solve the wizard standoff riddle? - Daniel Finkel
- 12,612,428 Views
- 6,695 Questions Answered
- TEDEd Animation
Let’s Begin…
You’ve been chosen as a champion to represent your wizarding house in a deadly duel against two rival magic schools. Your opponents are a powerful sorcerer who wields a wand that can turn people into fish, and a powerful enchantress who wields a wand that turns people into statues. Can you choose a wand and devise a strategy that ensures you will win the duel? Dan Finkel shows how.
Create and share a new lesson based on this one.
Additional Resources for you to Explore
Interested in solving more riddles? Check out the Worldplay column in the New York Times.
To get math games, lessons, news, and ideas, click here to explore the educator’s site.
Check out another riddle by the educator called The Squareable Puzzle.
To get math games, lessons, news, and ideas, click here to explore the educator’s site.
Check out another riddle by the educator called The Squareable Puzzle.

TED-Ed
Lesson Creator
New York, NY
Create and share a new lesson based on this one.
More from Math In Real Life
36,200,933 Views
Mathematics
The paradox at the heart of mathematics: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
Lesson duration 05:20
3,360,043 Views
4,814,962 Views
2,351,801 Views