Alex Rosenthal

Puzzle wizard, editorial director of TED-Ed Animations
ted.com/games YouTube: @TEDEd

Why you should listen

TED’s in-house puzzle wizard, Alex Rosenthal is actually the editorial director of TED-Ed Animations, producing the scripts for more than a thousand animated educational videos that collectively have been watched billions of times. He also leads TED Games, a new initiative that is extending the joy of TED Talks into smart games. His first board game, Pandora’s Legacy, is a critically acclaimed jigsaw puzzle/escape-room-in-a-box hybrid that raised more than a million dollars on Kickstarter.

Alex Rosenthal’s TED Talks

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Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan

The case of the missing fractals

Posted Apr 2019
11:42

Alex Rosenthal

The joyful, perplexing world of puzzle hunts

Posted Dec 2018
6:34

Alex Rosenthal

The Prison Break | Think Like A Coder, Ep 1

Posted Sep 2019
5:54

Alex Rosenthal

The Resistance | Think Like A Coder, Ep 2

Posted Oct 2019
5:55

Alex Rosenthal

The Furnace Bots | Think Like A Coder, Ep 3

Posted Nov 2019
5:43

Alex Rosenthal

The Train Heist | Think Like A Coder, Ep 4

Posted Dec 2019
6:25

Alex Rosenthal

The Artists | Think Like A Coder, Ep 5

Posted Jan 2020
6:24

Alex Rosenthal

The Chasm | Think Like A Coder, Ep 6

Posted Jan 2020
7:58

Alex Rosenthal

The Tower of Epiphany | Think Like A Coder, Ep 7

Posted Feb 2020
8:01

Alex Rosenthal

The Gauntlet | Think Like A Coder, Ep 8

Posted Apr 2020
5:36

Alex Rosenthal and Pall Thordarson

Which is better: Soap or hand sanitizer?

Posted May 2020
5:35

Alex Rosenthal

When is a pandemic over?

Posted Jun 2020
9:45

Alex Rosenthal

The Factory | Think Like A Coder, Ep 9

Posted Jun 2020
5:23

Dan Katz and Alex Rosenthal

Can you solve the sorting hat riddle?

Posted Sep 2020
11:45

Alex Rosenthal

The World Machine | Think Like A Coder, Ep 10

Posted Sep 2020
6:05

Alex Rosenthal

The world's largest organism

Posted Dec 2020
5:58

Alex Rosenthal

Can you solve the rogue submarine riddle?

Posted Sep 2021
4:51

Alex Rosenthal

Can you solve the human cannonball riddle?

Posted Nov 2021
4:07

Alex Rosenthal

Can you solve the secret assassin society riddle?

Posted Nov 2023
4:57

Alex Rosenthal

Sherlock Holmes and the crime of the century

Posted Nov 2023
4:31

Alex Rosenthal

Can you solve the magical maze riddle?

Posted Feb 2024
5:03

Alex Rosenthal

The dungeon master's riddle

Posted Oct 2024
5:40

Alex Rosenthal

Can you solve the trickster god riddle?

Posted Nov 2024
5:15

Alex Rosenthal

Can you solve the riddle of Pandora’s box?

Posted Apr 2025
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News

Radical Craft: An electrifying evening of talks from the TED World Theater

November 13, 2018

Craft — in the timeless, universal sense of making — connects us all. We craft our environments, our tools and toys, our transport and communications, our world. At Radical Craft — an evening of talks curated by TED’s design curator, Chee Pearlman, and co-hosted by Pearlman and Stephen DeBerry — seven designers, inventors, artists, musicians and storytellers took […]

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