Can you solve the jail break riddle? - Dan Finkel

Prevodilac: Kristina Radosavljević Lektor: Ivana Krivokuća

Your timing made you and your partner

Vremenska preciznost je napravila od vas i vašeg partnera

the most infamous bank robbers in the west.

najozloglašenije pljačkaše banaka na zapadu.

Now, you’ll need to use that timing to help you break out of jail.

Sada ćete morati da je iskoristite da biste pobegli iz zatvora.

At the appointed time, you’ll be walking in the yard near the electric fence.

U dogovoreno vreme šetaćete dvorištem, blizu električne ograde.

Your partner will flash you the signal,

Vaš partner će vam dati svetlosni signal,

and exactly 45 seconds later,

i tačno 45 sekundi nakon toga,

short out the fence circuit.

desiće se kratki spoj na ogradi.

It’ll automatically restart after a second or two,

Ona će se automatski restartovati nakon sekunde ili dve,

but as long as you move fast,

ali dokle god se krećete brzo,

you’ll be home free.

bićete slobodni.

And then you notice,

Onda primećujete,

to your horror,

na svoj užas,

that your watch is broken,

da vam je sat polomljen,

and there’s no time to fix it.

i nemate vremena da ga popravite.

The signal is coming,

Dolazi signal,

and if you make even a small mistake in counting off 45 seconds,

i ako napravite i najmanju grešku u brojanju tih 45 sekundi,

you’ll get fried.

bićete sprženi.

Searching your pockets,

Pretražujući džepove,

you find something that might help:

pronalazite nešto što bi vam moglo pomoći:

a lighter and two fuses you made earlier in the prison work program.

upaljač i dva fitilja koje ste ranije napravili u okviru zatvorskog programa.

Each fuse is a length of flammable twine,

Svaki fitilj je dugačko zapaljivo uže,

built to be lit on either end and burn for precisely one minute.

koje se može zapaliti sa obe strane i gori tačno jedan minut.

The problem is that even though the fuses look uniform,

Problem je što, iako izgledaju isto,

they don’t burn evenly,

fitilji neće goreti jednako,

so if you cut one in half, for example,

tako da, ako jedan presečete na pola, na primer,

one side might burn longer than the other.

jedan kraj može duže goreti od drugog.

Your partner is going to give the signal any minute,

Vaš partner će dati signal za koji minut,

and you’ll have to make your move.

i vi ćete morati da delujete.

How can you use the fuses and lighter to time exactly 45 seconds?

Kako možete da iskoristite dva fitilja i upaljač za merenje tačno 45 sekundi?

Pause the video to figure it out yourself.

Pauzirajte video da biste smislili.

Answer in 3

Odgovor za 3.

Answer in 2

Odgovor za 2.

Answer in 1

Odgovor za 1.

The length of the fuse may not tell you anything,

Dužina fitilja vam ne mora govoriti ništa,

but you do know the fuses take exactly 60 seconds to burn from end to end.

ali vi znate da im treba tačno 60 sekundi da izgore od jednog do drugog kraja.

Here’s the key insight:

Evo ključnog detalja:

If you start a fuse on one side and it burns for 30 seconds,

ako zapalite fitilj sa jedne strane i on sagori za 30 sekundi,

there’ll still be 30 seconds of fuse left.

i dalje će ostati 30 sekundi fitilja.

If you had started it from the other end,

Da ste započeli sa druge strane,

it would’ve reached the exact same spot in thirty seconds.

ponovo bi došlo do iste tačke za trideset sekundi.

That means that if you lit it from both ends simultaneously,

Što znači da će, ako ih zapalite sa obe strane u isto vreme,

it would burn out in precisely 30 seconds.

goreti tačno 30 sekundi.

But how will you time the last fifteen?

Ali kako ćete izmeriti ostalih petnaest?

That’ll have to come from the second fuse.

To će morati sa drugim fitiljem.

If it were a 30 second fuse,

Ako imate fitilj od 30 sekundi,

you’d be able to use that same trick again

mogli biste da primenite isti trik ponovo

to double the burning speed and make it last exactly 15 seconds.

da duplirate proces sagorevanja i napravite da traje tačno 15 sekundi.

And, you realize, you can shorten the second fuse

Shvatate da možete skratiti drugi fitilj

by lighting one end of it at the same time as you light the first.

tako što ćete ga upaliti u isto vreme kada upalite i prvi.

At the moment the first burns out,

U momentu kada prvi izgori,

you’ll be left with 30 seconds on the second fuse.

imaćete preostalih 30 sekundi na drugom.

Just when you’ve got this all figured out,

Taman kada ste sve ovo shvatili,

you see the signal from your partner,

vidite signal od vašeg partnera,

and spring into action.

i krećete u akciju.

You gather the four ends of the two fuses and light three of them.

Prikupljate četiri kraja od dva fitilja i palite tri.

The moment the first burns out,

U momentu kada izgori prvi,

you light the other end of the second fuse.

palite drugi kraj drugog fitilja.

When it flickers and dies,

Kada izgori i ugasi se,

you know that exactly 45 seconds have passed,

znate da je prošlo tačno 45 sekundi,

and the electric fence is dead.

i da je električna ograda mrtva.

By the time it hiccups back to life,

Dok se ne povrati u život,

you’re over the fence and home free.

vi ćete već biti preko ograde i slobodni.