3blue1brownSolving the Hat Puzzle Using Logic
Some hats of different colors are placed in a box and a few people pull a hat at random at the same time.
The video highlights how logic could be more useful than probability when trying to figure out the color of your own hat using proof by contradiction.
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7.1
Nice problem, nice explanation, and nice visualizations. Liked your submission. Keep it up.
5
This video is clear and easy to follow and it does a good job of presenting the idea of proof by contradiction. But, it isn't exciting.
6.7
Cool logic puzzle. Though the solution does assume that Friend 2 is employing perfect logic. It's possible that Friend 2 didn't try to extrapolate anything from Friend 1's response and passed when they should have deduced their hat's color, which means you would have the incorrect deduction. You're basically betting your life on your friends deduction skills.
9
Animations were great, explanation was simple yet complete. I really enjoyed this. The only thing was the paper background animation was a little distracting. Other than that, I loved it!!
6.9
I think that you might be slightly overestimating the deductive powers of some of my friends…
6.9
Nice video.
Only problem I see is these kind of logic broblems are little too useless in real life application or scenarios and thats why many people would instincly pass logic videos and watch something else.
6.1
motivation 8/10 clarity 8/10 novelty 5/10 memorability 8/10
5
The fun hat puzzle is great.
7.7
I liked it and understood it!
2.9
The video is able to give a good explanation to the problem but when judging on the novelty aspect, the video was not able to present a unique topic or the explanation did not contain a new way to present the topic.
6.8
A nice video that solves a classic logic puzzle.
7.9
Great puzzle and great explainer! The problem setup with the death vs the medal really helped to motivate the puzzle. Wonderful example to explain proof by contradiction.
7
Cute.
6.5
Truly entertaining video on logic. Animations and graphics are really clean and simple. Very well done.
If there would be any points of feedback, I'd suggest changing having variable tone when you are speaking.
4.8
Problem statement doesn't clarify that each player should say which hat he wears on his turn if he can logically deduce it.i
5.9
The explanation is very intuitive and clear, the video is well edited
6.2
I enjoyed the puzzle and the solution, and the graphics are super clean! I do think that the connection to propositional logic and proof-by-contradiction is a bit of a stretch. I mean, of course this puzzle is solved using logic, but it's the "intuitive" kind of reasoning, and formalizing the reasoning isn't *that* important for solving the puzzle.
7.9
great but quite less useful...