# Can you solve the alien probe riddle?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED-Ed
- Speaker: Daniel Finkel
- Year: 2018
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Mathematics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_finkel_can_you_solve_the_alien_probe_riddle)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Your team has developed a probe to study an alien monolith. It needs protective coatings — in red, purple and green — to cope with the environments it passes through. Can you figure out how to apply the colors so the probe survives the trip? Dan Finkel shows how. \[TED-Ed Animation by Anton Trofimov\].

## Lectures

1. [Can you solve the alien probe riddle?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/daniel_finkel_can_you_solve_the_alien_probe_riddle/e0dd2c67f188), 5 min (TED's player)