Dot-2 dot. A new skill every day. In five minutes. Hey guys, today we are looking at a skill called mathematical maze, and I think it's good.
Probably wouldn't go so far as to say amazing, but good. Hello, Exa, open, mathematical maze. Okay, here's mathematical maze. You stand next to the mathematical maze.
Enter the maze, here instructions, or run away. Here are instructions. The maze is a place of wonder where animals from Fables test your mathematical powers. Answer the riddle in each room correctly and you might find your way to the treasure, but we warned.
Enter the maze correctly and one of your precious magic handles will blow out. When all the candles are gone, only darkness will remain. If you need to hear any room's description again, just ask me by saying, again, you stand next to the mathematical maze. Enter the maze, here instructions, or run away.
Enter. Upon entering the maze, you come across a great hall with three doors leading further into the maze, large, medium, and small. The small door is just an open doorway big enough for a chart to crawl through. An inviting smell of freshly cut grass emanates from the other side and you can see a butterfly sitting on the door frame.
The medium door is wouldn't and plain looking. You could push it open fairly easily if you wanted to. The large door is a honking mass of metal. It is partly covered in darkness and looking at it makes you uneasy.
You are unsure if it's strong enough to open it. Which door do you choose? Small, medium, more large. Medium?
As you pass through the medium door, you enter a small room with a table with three strange candles on top. A sign above the table says, magical candles for protection. You decide to pick the candles up, and as soon as your hand touches them, they lit up. You make your way to the next room.
Your three magical candles chung brightly. You see a king be the pacing around the room, making marks on the floor every five tiles. So far you can see eight marks on the floor. How many tiles has a king be the traveled?
Thirty-five. The beaver keeps pacing, but looks more depressed now. That wasn't correct. One of your candles goes dark.
Your two magical candles still like the room. You see a king be the pacing around the room, making marks on the floor every five tiles. So far you can see eight marks on the floor. Oh, thirty-six.
How many tiles has a king be the traveled? Thirty-six. The beaver keeps pacing, but looks more depressed now. So is it?
That wasn't correct. Forty then. One of your candles blows out. Your last magical candle flick is slowly in the darkness.
You see a king be the pacing around the room, making marks on the floor every five tiles. So far you can see eight marks on the floor. How many tiles has a king be the traveled? Forty.
The beaver looks at you cheerfully and is really to appreciate the hard work it is doing. You wave goodbye and move on. No one has cleaned the corridor leading to the next rooming years. You carefully thread through the debris on the floor.
Your last magical candle slowly lights the room. This room's floor seems to be only half filled with tiles and there is a great grandfather's clock ticking on one of the walls. There is a slow-fox fixing more tiles to the floors. The time in the room seems to move faster than elsewhere and you observe the slow-fox adding tiles for what seem like days.
Every day at eight a.m. the fox starts, pauses for an hour at midday and finishes four p.m. in the evening, adding four tiles every hour. Yikes.
How many tiles does the slow-fox add in a day? I'm gonna bottle it. Stop. Thank you for playing the mathematical maze.
Let's play again soon. Sorry about all the hoovering noises and other noises. So I've got an issue with this because you just think that five eights are 40, but originally I said 35 because I thought well it's only every eighth one. So there's kind of seven gaps between eight marked tiles.
So I did 75 to 35. Then I said 36 because oh he had to have at least stood on the 36th one to mark it to make eight. But this assumes that he's gone the other four as well. So 36 plus 40 is 40 so he's gone as far as he can possibly go.
He's about to mark the ninth one. But actually that's poor logic because it could be anywhere between 36 and 40. So I'm not particularly impressed with that one, although I did obviously make a big move at the beginning saying 35. If you're not following me, don't worry.
But this probably isn't the skill for you. If you're not following me. There was a very confused explanation there. So yikes.
This is, I don't know, it's got it's got a quirk factor. Hasn't it anyway? No sound effects, which would make it infinitely better. But still, mathematical maze guys, give it a go.
This is Robin signing off. We'll speak tomorrow. Bye. Feedback comments demos.
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