Cyberchase
The Hacker's Challenge
Season 8 Episode 1 | 26m 30sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
Hacker challenges the kids and their friends to solve a series of puzzles.
To prove once and for all that he's smarter than the CyberSquad, Hacker challenges the kids and their friends to solve a series of puzzles. But this isn't just fun and games - the fate of cybersite Solaria hangs in the balance. Solve all the puzzles in under three hours, and Solaria is saved ... but fail, and the favorite vacation spot will be reformatted into digital garbage!
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Cyberchase
The Hacker's Challenge
Season 8 Episode 1 | 26m 30sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
To prove once and for all that he's smarter than the CyberSquad, Hacker challenges the kids and their friends to solve a series of puzzles. But this isn't just fun and games - the fate of cybersite Solaria hangs in the balance. Solve all the puzzles in under three hours, and Solaria is saved ... but fail, and the favorite vacation spot will be reformatted into digital garbage!
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♪ CYBERCHASE!
♪ WE'RE MOVIN' WE'RE BEATIN' HACKER AT HIS GAME ♪ DON'T TELL ME THAT HE'S TRYING TO HACK THE MOTHERBOARD ♪ WE'LL GET HIM EVERY TIME ♪ COSMIC WORLDS, FREAKY PLACES THAT WE'VE SEEN ♪ WE GOT THE POWER OF ONE TWO THREE FOUR!
♪ RUNNIN' IN A CYBERCHASE WE'LL MEET HIM FACE TO FACE ♪ WE'LL STICK TOGETHER, ALL THE TIME!
♪ ADVENTURES IN CYBERSPACE ♪ THE CHASE IS ON!
JUST WAIT AND C-Y-B-E-R- CHASE!
Welcome to the reunion... a time for old friends to meet new friends, and...
...Mother B?
Nope!
Just another old friend.
What did you do with Motherboard, Hacker?!
She'll be back shortly, my little cyberturkey - it's Solaria you need to worry about!
I'm about to reformat it into nothing more than bits and bytes of CyberCode!
You can't do that!
Oh, yes I can.
Behold, the latest and greatest invention from The Hacker...
The Reconfiguratron!
Omigosh!
That's terrible!
Isn't it?
From beautiful to binary in a matter of seconds!
Imagine what it will do to the rest of Solaria!
You know we're not gonna let that happen, Hacker!
Oh, of course not!
In fact, I'm going to give you every opportunity to stop me.
You are?
I am indeed!
This is The Hacker's Challenge!
It will test the brainpower of all you earthbrats - and cyberbrats too.
Once you arrive at Solaria, you'll have exactly three hours to disarm the Reconfiguratron!
By the way, all of Cyberspace will be watching.
I have cameras aimed across the site!
Once and for all, my superiority will be confirmed!
And your abject humiliation will be plain for all to see!
So what do you say?
Will you take the challenge?
YES!
Okay!
Now that we've split you up into three teams - let's see how smart you really are.
Here are the rules.
Each team goes to a different place - these thingies will tell you how to get there.
When you get where you're going, each team will find a different puzzle to solve.
If you solve it, you get directions to where the Reconfiguratron is.
And all three teams gotta solve their puzzle.
If not ...bzzzzzzt... Solaria turns to trash!
Oh, we almost forgot.
Teams can't talk to other teams.
So hand in your Skwaks - now!
Thank you... thank you... thank you... and thank you!
Good luck - you're gonna need it!
He-he.
Let's see where we have to go.
Yellow Team.
Travel two point on e cybermiles into the Jungle.
Find the Six Holes of Arachnipod Crossing.
Your puzzle awaits you there.
Purple Team.
Travel two point eight cybermiles to the caves of Solaria.
Find the Grotto of Sunken Skulls.
Your puzzle awaits you there.
Green Team.
Travel three point five cybermiles to the Lost Lagoon.
Your puzzle awaits you there.
According to the Solaria Fun Guide, those are the most dangerous locations on Solaria - and normally closed to tourists.
Guys, think positive - we can beat Hacker at his own game.
We have to!
It's all about teamwork.
All for one - and one for all!
YEAH!
And so, The Hacker's Challenge has begun!
Welcome to T-H-N...
The Hacker Network.
In two hours and thirty-one minutes, Solaria will be reduced to digital garbage.
Unless, of course, the three teams of simpering earthbrats and their pathetic pals unravel the prodigious puzzles produced by yours truly and shut down the Reconfiguratron!
But...as the wise man once said: Fat chance of that happening!
Let's check in and see how they're doing.
You have arrived at your destination: The Caves of Solaria.
Proceed to the Grotto of Sunken Skulls.
You are one cyber mile from your destination.
Travel by water to Lost Lagoon.
Down there!
A raft!
Push us off, Didge!
...Are we there yet?
Yellow Team.
You have arrived at Arachnipod Crossing.
And those must be the Arachnipods!
Ewww!
Those are some humongous spiders!
How are we supposed to get past them?
And where's our puzzle?
What's that?
Our puzzle!
And more spiders!
Yeah... but these guys are cute.
Thanks.
Here's your puzzle.
We're numbered one through six.
To cross the Crossing - put us in a triangle - so each side adds up to nine.
Good luck!
Look!
There are six holes in the triangle.
One for each spider.
Looks like we'll have to guess who goes where to make each side add up to nine.
We're gonna guess?
That doesn't sound like a good way to solve a problem.
I mean experiment... try some numbers... see what we find out.
Let's move some spiders around.
Come on, let's start experimenting.
Okay.
Let's try one, two and three.
So, each side has to add up to nine.
One plus two equals three... plus three equals... ahhh... six.
No good.
Out you come, guys.
So?
What did we learn?
That one plus two plus three gives us a number less than nine.
So putting the smaller numbers in a row won't work.
What if we put the biggest numbers in the corners?
Try it!
Look - four plus five is nine!
Oh wait, that's bad - there's a number missing.
The other sides don't work either.
They're too big - see?
Four plus six equals ten and five plus six equals eleven.
We need nine!
Sorry, guys.
Out again.
We're running out of time!
Are we really learning anything from our guesses?
Lots!
Now we know we have to mix big and small numbers on each side.
OK... so what if we try getting one side right... and go from there?
Primo idea, Fluff!
Let's try starting with two and three on one side.
Two plus three equals five... which means the middle one has to be four!
Yes!
Two plus three plus four is nine!
We've got one side working!
Yeah!
Now for the other two sides!
How 'bout if we try number one over here?
Three plus one is four.
We need a five to make nine!
Number five comin' in!
Now two sides add up to nine!
The only guy left is number six.
He's gotta go here!
Uh-oh.
Look what we have on the bottom.
Two plus six is eight... plus five is thirteen.
That's way too much!
What if we switch the one and the five?
Moving day, guys!
Two plus six is eight... plus one is nine!
Three plus five plus one equals nine!
Two plus four plus three equals nine!
We did it!
Gee!
Experimenting with different numbers really works!
Congratulations!
You solved the puzzle.
Follow path to the Reconfiguratron.
Lucky little brats!
But...there are still two puzzles to be solved - or I shred Solaria into digital bits!
The next puzzle won't be so easy!
I used to be afraid of dark caves, you know.
Not anymore.
AHHHHHHHH!
I think something just woke up!
And they don't look happy.
We've got to get them to move or we'll never reach the Grotto of Sunken Skulls!
Lights, please.
The Grotto of Sunken Skulls is guarded by Troglobytes.
Does it tell you how to get them to move?
Unfortunately... no.
Maybe if we just ask them nicely.
Come on, Inez... they're Troglobytes!
It's a worth a try.
Excuse me, but could you please move so we can get by?
The Grotto of Sunken Skulls!
What do you know - politeness worked!
Uh-oh!
I think we just got trapped.
Purple Team.
You have arrived at the Grotto of Sunken Skulls.
Find the Sedimentary Sentry.
The Sedimentary Sentry?
[LOUD BURP] Sorry, I have a slight bit of indigestion.
Who said that?
I did.
Hello, how are you.
I am the Sedimentary Sentry.
You're alive?!
If you call this living.
Hey, you're a wonderful audience!
How are you darling?
Hmmm, a talking rock.
Do you know the Jam Master of Jimaya?
Yeah, he's my cousin.
You know 'im?
No offense, Mr. Sentry, but we need to get outta here so we can save Solaria.
Where's the exit?
No exit darling, only entry.
Unless you can solve the puzzle.
That's what we're here for.
Tell us!
I am thinking... of a number.
What is it?
THAT'S our puzzle?
Guess a number?
It could be anything!
No fair!
Okay, fine!
The number is less than ten.
The number is less than ten!
And it's a multiple of three.
A multiple of three!
Subtract four from it, and it's divisible by five.
Subtract four - divide by five!
What's the number?
Ya get two guesses!
It's fine... We need to work through this together - experiment to find the correct answer.
I like your style, little lady.
Okay.
We know the number is less than ten - and it's a multiple of three.
Which numbers are multiples of three?
Those are the only ones we need to try.
Well... three times one is three.
Three times two is six.
Three times three is nine.
Three times four is twelve - oops!
Too big!
So the number is either three, six or nine!
Is it six?
Oh, baby, you ROCK!
Rock... am I the only one who's getting these?
Everybody's a critic!
However, six is the wrong answer.
One guess down, one to go!
Oh, no!
The next guess is our last guess.
We have to get it right!
OK, guys, what do we know?
The number is less than ten and it's a multiple of three.
What was the third clue, Jules?
Subtract four from the number and it's divisible by five.
Well, it can't be three... because subtracting four gives us negative one.
And it can't be six - we just guessed that.
So the right answer has to be nine!
Let's test it.
Okay... nine minus four... is five.
And five divided by five is one!
Nine meets all three requirements - and it's the only number that does!
The number is nine!
Bingo!
Good work!
[LOUD BURP] Sorry 'bout that.
Congratulations!
You have solved the puzzle.
Follow the path to Reconfiguratron.
Right this way, ladies and germs.
The Reconfiguratron is just a stone's throw away!
Stone's throw... Who writes this stuff?
Buzz!
Delete!
I told you to make the puzzles HARD!
But, Boss... you made up the puzzles!
I did?
Yeah, even we couldn't figure 'em out.
You two duncebuckets couldn't figure your way out of a wet paper bag!
As you've seen, two of the three teams have solved their puzzles in The Hacker's Challenge.
However, let me remind you, all three teams must solve their puzzle - or game over!
The question is, will the Green Team solve their puzzle before time runs out?
Or will The Hacker triumph and reformat Solaria into a giant ball of nothin'?
NOOOOO!
Dudes!
Only time will tell.
Uh oh!
This is gonna get bumpy!
I'm not afraid!
I am!
Whooooaaa!
YOIKES!
Whoo!
Whoa!
Cyboids were NOT designed for underwater travel!
Green Team.
You have arrived at the Lost Lagoon.
Catch a pair of LumaFish They must add up to nine And multiply to twenty To make them brightly shine!
LumaFish?
What's a LumaFish?
Oh.
You looking for us?
We are if you're a LumaFish.
Yep.
You've come to the right lagoon.
To solve the puzzle, we need to catch two of them whose numbers add up to nine.
And also multiply to twenty.
And when the right two are put together, they'll light up!
But which two?
I don't know.
Let's just catch a couple and try some combinations.
Wait!
The numbers have to add up to nine so those are the only fish we need to catch!
Um... which two numbers are we talkin' about?
Eight and one adds up to nine.
Let's try those!
Uggh... d'oh.
Got 'em!
But they aren't glowing!
What did we do wrong?
Eight plus one definitely adds up to nine!
But the numbers also have to multiply to twenty, remember?
Eight times one is only eight.
Sorry, fishies... Let's try some other combinations.
Time out.
Instead of trying to catch 'em all - it might be easier to draw up a little table and work with that first.
Hey, we can draw on this rock!
We already know eight plus one doesn't work.
What other combos add up to nine?
Seven!
Seven plus 2 equals nine!
But seven times two is only fourteen.
No good.
Try six next, TW.
Six plus three equals nine.
And six times three equals... eighteen.
Too small!
Yeesh!
We're never gonna get this!
Yes we will!
Each experiment cuts down on the numbers that are left.
We're guaranteed to find the right ones if we stay in order.
Try five next!
Five plus four equals nine.
And five times four equals... twenty!
YES!
We got it!
Okay, four and five... come to Didgie!
Ahhh... GOT 'EM!
YES!
Way to go, Didge!
Instead of just taking wild guesses, narrowing down our choices did the trick!
Congratulations!
You solved the puzzle.
Follow the path to Reconfiguratron.
What!
The three teams have somehow... managed to solve their puzzles - but The Hacker has one more surprise for them.
Yeah!
Finally!
We made it!
Hey, everyone!
Hello, Earthbrats.
You have reached the Reconfiguratron!
But there's something I neglected to tell you.
You have to solve just one more teensy puzzle before you can shut down the Reconfiguratron and save Solaria!
WHAT?
Another challenge?!
And you have just four minutes to solve the puzzle before Solaria becomes a data dump!
Okay, contestants... listen up.
Here's the final puzzle: Gnomie is wearing one hat, and two boots.
If you had sixty-six boots and hats combined how many Gnomes would you have?
Oh, and you only get one guess!
Enter the right answer before the time reaches zero... or you lose!
This is impossible!
No, it isn't Didge.
It's just like with the Lumafish.
We can use a table to organize our guesses.
Great strategy!
Let's start with one Gnome.
I'll draw a table.
One Gnome wears two boots and one hat, for a total of three boots and hats.
Way too few.
Let's try ten Gnomes!
Each Gnome has two feet and one head.
So ten times two... is twenty boots.
And ten times one is ten hats.
Ten Gnomes... Twenty boots...
Ten hats.
For a total of... thirty!
Still way short of sixty-six.
Since ten Gnomes is still too few, lets triple the number of Gnomes and see what we get!
Thirty Gnomes means sixty boots plus thirty hats.
Ninety total!
Whoa!
Too many this time.
We need to end up somewhere in between.
Since ten Gnomes aren't enough and thirty Gnomes are way too many, let's try a number right in the middle... twenty.
Okay!
Twenty Gnomes wear forty boots... and twenty hats.
Twenty plus forty is sixty boots and hats.
Sixty?
That's close to sixty-six!
Each time we add a Gnome to our guess, it takes our total up by three... cause it adds two boots and one hat to the total.
So adding one more Gnome would add two boots and one hat, giving us sixty-three!
And adding two Gnomes would add four boots and two hats.
Bringing our total to forty-four boots and twenty-two hats.
Forty-four plus twenty-two equals... Sixty-six boots and hats!
That's it!
The answer is sixty-six!
Didge, wait!
Look - we need the number of gnomes so the answer is - Twenty-two!
Yeesh!
Thanks, Nezzie!
You're welcome and don't call me - Oh, just hurry, Didge!
WE DID IT!
Not so fast, cyberbrats!
You may have followed the rules, but that doesn't mean I will!
Buzz, Delete... restart the Reconfiguratron!
What?!
Right away, Boss - Ugh!
OOOPS!
It's back on, boss!
Uh-oh... Ahhhhh!
The boss definitely isn't gonna be happy about that!
Stay right where you are!
It's Cyberchase For Real!
BOO!
HARLEY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?
I CAME TO CHECK OUT YOUR NEW BIKE.
IT'S REALLY NICE.
THANKS!
CAN I BORROW IT?
GEE, HARLEY.
I DON'T KNOW.
THE OTHER TIMES WHEN YOU BORROWED MY STUFF IT DIDN'T WORK OUT SO WELL.
C'MON, HARRY.
WE'RE FAMILY - YOU CAN TRUST ME.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!
OKAY, OKAY.
HERE'S THE KEY TO THE LOCK.
DON'T LOSE IT!
THAT WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN.
NO IT WON'T, BECAUSE THIS LOCK DOESN'T HAVE A KEY.
IT HAS A COMBINATION, THAT I PROGRAMMED.
HOW DID YOU UNLOCK MY BIKE?
IT WAS AN EASY GUESS - 1, 2, 3, 4?
I NEED A DIFFERENT COMBINATION - ONE THAT HARLEY CAN'T FIGURE OUT.
HEY, I WANT TO USE YOUR BIKE AND I CAN'T OPEN THE LOCK.
REALLY?
HMM.
TELL ME THE COMBINATION.
I REALLY NEED TO USE THAT BIKE.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!
WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?
THE GOOD FEELING YOU GET FROM HELPING SOMEONE IN NEED?
OKAY.
BUT YOU HAVE TO CRACK THE SECRET CODE TO GET THE COMBINATION.
THIS IS TOO HARD!
I CAN'T FIGURE THIS OUT!
YES YOU CAN.
JUST START BY GUESSING - LIKE YOU DID WHEN YOU FIGURED OUT THE FIRST COMBINATION.
I WILL HELP YOU, BUT YOU ONLY IF YOU PROMISE TO NEVER BUG ME AGAIN.
I PROMISE.
READ THE FIRST LINE.
THE NUMBERS ON THE FIRST AND FOURTH DIAL ARE EVEN AND THEIR SUM IS 12.
OK.
THESE ARE THE EVEN NUMBERS.
NOW, 4+8, 6+6, AND 8+4 ALL EQUAL 12.
THE LAST NUMBER IS GREATER THAN THE FIRST NUMBER.
THAT MEANS IT CAN'T BE 6 AND 6 AND IT CAN'T BE 8 AND 4.
SO THE NUMBER ON THE FIRST DIAL IS 4 AND THE NUMBER ON THE LAST DIAL IS 8.
THE NUMBER ON THE SECOND DIAL IS ONE LESS THAN THE NUMBER ON THE FIRST DIAL.
4 - 1 EQUALS 3.
IF YOU ADD THE NUMBERS ON ALL FOUR DIALS THE SUM IS 24.
IF WE TRY 7, THE SUM IS 22, WHICH IS 2 LESS THAN 24.
SO IT MUST BE 9!
THE COMBINATION IS 4, 3, 9, 8!
I'LL NEVER BUG YOU AGAIN.
AND I'LL TAKE GOOD CARE OF THE BIKE.
YOU FORGOT THE LOCK!
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