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An Ant Farm Harvester ant solves the ant maze. Ants seem to solve this maze the same way people do by remembering where they have been and moving to where they have not been. If an ant does this it will solve any maze including this one.

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  • How was the ant supposed to know where the end is?

  • @MIDNAq1LINK

    The ant does not know but the idea is that smarter ants know where they have been and if are in an unhappy state of ant mind will try hard to avoid familiar places.

    This particular ant had never been in the maze before but somehow it made very few wasted moves to get to the last place it had not been. The odds of doing that randomly are pretty remote thus the name Einstein who never did anything random in his life except all of a sudden come up with the theory of relativity.

  • Proves nothing. I was hoping the ant would eliminate its previous steps. And the " finish " seems no different than the other 3 corners. It would arrive there anyway. Just looks like a trapped insect trying to get out. At least twice it tried to get out thru the ceiling.

  • @Noodles37UK

    It did eliminate many "unnecessary" steps. Most ants doing this maze don't do nearly as good as Einstein. He is in charge of my tax returns now and I do better at the Black Jack tables.

  • The ant is still smarter than the guy who posted this video.

  • @PreppyPoser1

    You are right, it took me around 40 hours to make the maze, it only took the ant a few minutes to solve it.

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  • If there isnt a treat at the end the ant has no motivation to go in one specific directing... this isnt an IQ test its a how many people can you get to watch this vid test...

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  • good job ant give me a leg five:D

  • Hey, I just bought a gel ant farm, does any one know how to catch a queen?

    I live in Florida, so I want a harvester ant queen.

  • The ant looks like a mutaded spider more than an ant...

  • The cool thing is that if you put a second ant, it will finish the maze faster than the first and the third will finish faster. They follow chemical trails and the one that leads to the finish will have a stronger scent.

  • Increible.... poco terreno se a dejado por inspeccionar.

  • . . . I'm no genius but even I can see there is no end to that maze

  • it went backwards

  • wow die amaeise spührt den luftzug und läuft dem hinterher^^

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