Can you solve this classic riddle about crossing a bridge?

Riddles can be fun but can also be really stressful when you start to sense your decent well - wrinkled brain shrivel into a prune . But hey ! rag the psyche and the satisfaction of solving it outweighs the unnecessary stress added to your life , right ? Right ! Here ’s the classical bridge riddle in animated form fromTed - Ed . How can you get a group of people across a nosepiece in a sure amount of time ?

The set up is this : there are four people who demand to get to the other side of the bridge , each with their own clip needed to get across said bridge . Even worse , the bridge can only digest two of them for each head trip ( and the mortal with the longer fourth dimension is consider when traveling in the pair ) . Oh and it ’s like dark and there is only one torch so a person who has crossed the bridge has to come back for a return trip-up so as to lead another mortal across once again . See , riddles are ‘ fun ’ .

Person A can get across in 1 second , Person B does it in 2 minutes , Person C cross in 5 and slowpoke sloth man needs 10 minute . You need to get everybody to the other side in under 17 bit . How do you do it ? Watch the video to find out . Or search your quickly pruning brain for retentivity on how to do this when it was like an SAT question or something in school .