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Can you solve the prisoner boxes riddle? - Yossi Elran

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Your favorite band is great at playing music...but not so great at being organized. They keep misplacing their instruments on tour, and it’s driving their manager mad. Can you solve the brain-numbing riddle their manager assigns them and make sure the band stays on their label? Yossi Elran shows how.

How many different possibilities are there to arrange 10 instruments in 10 boxes?

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Meet The Creators

  • Educator Yossi Elran
  • Script Editor Alex Gendler
  • Director Outis
  • Narrator Addison Anderson

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