# Can you solve the jail break riddle?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED-Ed
- Speaker: Daniel Finkel
- Year: 2019
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Mathematics, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_finkel_can_you_solve_the_jail_break_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: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Your timing made you and your partner infamous bank robbers. Now, you need to use that timing to break out of jail. Your partner is about to flash you a signal, and exactly 45 seconds later the electric fence circuit will short out. Then you notice that your watch is broken, and all you have are two 1-minute fuses in your pocket. Can you time your escape and get free? Dan Finkel shows how. \[Directed by Artrake Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson\].

## Lectures

1. [Can you solve the jail break riddle?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/daniel_finkel_can_you_solve_the_jail_break_riddle/2cffef1ad0f2), 4 min (TED's player)