This guy has mad precise cutting skills. First, that perfect rectangular hole in the middle. Then those steps. How he cut such perfect right angles with the scissors is the real puzzle here.
This show was a hit when I was a kid. The two old codgers on it were unbelievably dexterous and seemed to know how to do everything. They probably made the cameras filming them out of bits of stick and packing fluff. I think they were ex army, anyway I wouldn't like to be in a knife fight with them. I sure they'd be very polite and explain the procedure but I'd still be dead.
Yeah exactly, when he did the initial cutout I though they had switched it for a premade one. But then he perfectly nailed the zigzag. I bet this guy IS allowed to run with scissors.
@@magnuskallas I like the dude who just jumps off the bike and eats it. I guess there is no better way to test the laws of thermodynamics than to fly as fast as you can into a barrier and hope it is quick enough to dissipate 0 mass into frictional heat lol. High stakes conservation of matter proof lol. If the idea was indeed to land back on the bike, then this is a brilliantly stupid stunt seen through our lens in time. But damn, what a cool ass stuntman.
@@googleisfascist9278 Nonsense, it's now a skinny parlor since the sofa was installed. The tapestries also do a great job covering up the holes in the wall -- well, except for that one with a hole in it. But you can put a picture over that.
The smaller carpet be like: "Hmm, yeah, you're such a gorgeous carpet!" to the main carpet. I think you meant to say "complements" instead of "compliments"
@@hockdudu lol I didn’t catch that. Now I’m chuckling at the absurd image of a throw rug just tossing out periodic, nice compliments to the wall-to-wall carpet 😂
I am very fond of puzzles and riddles including this puzzle about repairing a rug. This is very brilliant and this is why I love watching the "Curiosity Show."
If you're fond of puzzles, try this Same problem Same solution ONLY..... solve it with less cuts I'll give you a hint Are the stairs REALLY NECESSARY ?
Wow, this reminds me of the chocolate problem: adding an extra piece by cutting it up, as well as the World's Best Liar paradox. This is totally going into my repetoire of stories.
@@eidolor I think that's the one where there are 2 paths, and 2 men who are presenting as a liar and a truth teller. You only get to ask one question, to one of them, and then choose your route, one going to your location safely and one leading to certain doom. The solution is to ask either of the men what the other one would say, and then do the opposite. If that's not the paradox in question, well, there's a new one for you that I very much enjoy.
@@emlyfox Geometry.... also Could have developed an interest in a field of maths called Topology ( which one might not know the name of but still can have an interest in)
Wild to think these kind of shows do not exist. I remember watching mid day TV on abc in the mid 00s/late 90s was full of educational shows. They tricked me into learning.
Just cut off a few feet from two adjoining ends. There, now there's no hole in the center! It's now in the corner. I'm sure a king would be impressed with my cleverness and not mad in the slightest, right?
@@allenu It only works if the whole is exactly a 3rd of the length or width of the carpet, while the zig-zag works as long the length/width of the whole is an integer factor of the whole carpet.
The real detail of course is not covered. Of course not. How to determine the exact size of the cut rectangle in the middle based of course on the size of the rug?
Ok, that puzzle was way too vague because there weren't enough constraints. My simple solution was to simply cut a strip off the edge and then use it to cover or overlap the hole. You end up with a rectangular rug with no holes. Where's my half of the king's wealth??? 👑
This requires the distance to the edge of the paper from the hole has to be divisible by the width of the hole. Since the girl didn't cut the hole, this is highly improbable.
@@wrestleroni but what if you lost the improbability module for the drive THERE'S NO TELLING WHERE YOU WOULD END UP AND HOW MANY HIGHLY IMPROBABLY SITUATIONS YOU WOULD HAVE WHEN YOU GOT THERE or... are you going to tell me that that is highly improbable
you could also just cut two cuts in line with the long edges of the hole, making 2 large pieces on the sides and 2 small pieces on the ends, remove the 2 smaller pieces and slide the two larger pieces together ....
The King burnt the rug himself as he wanted to know who in his kingdom was smart enough to solve the puzzle and be worthy as a future successor. And, true to his word, the King gave the 9 year old girl half his estate. The King also unstitched the rug into halves as a memento.
In problems like these you need to find more informations regarding the rules and conditions. In this rug situation, you need to ask that: can the rug change shape? And can the rug change size? After these two questions, there will be opened more options to solve the problem. Don't stuck on a problem, not asking more, and look like an idiot.
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Yes but the patterns in the rug wouldn't match, i thought that was the biggest problem.
This guy has mad precise cutting skills. First, that perfect rectangular hole in the middle. Then those steps. How he cut such perfect right angles with the scissors is the real puzzle here.
I can’t
@@lmao4439 Obviously!
He threatened the coal dropping servant with medieval torture and hey presto.
This show was a hit when I was a kid. The two old codgers on it were unbelievably dexterous and seemed to know how to do everything. They probably made the cameras filming them out of bits of stick and packing fluff. I think they were ex army, anyway I wouldn't like to be in a knife fight with them. I sure they'd be very polite and explain the procedure but I'd still be dead.
That rug really tied the room together.
Yup, it was a valued rug
They call Los Angeles the "City Of Angels." I didn't find it to be that, exactly.
you’re out of your element!
@@neszero Yeah? Well, you know, that's just like uh, your opinion, man.
Fuckin' A
The end is pretty important "because she had solved a difficult problem". Solving hard problems can be their own reward.
Micah Chase, so true
"She was happy because she solved a hard problem"
Its not its own reward, no one said that.
@@AkshayShukla. yeah it is, the reward is being happy you figured it out. In other words, figuring it out is its own reward
@@invalleria I am a bit embarrassed, because I mistakenly read "can't be" and replied 😶
Uh no way, half of the wealth of the kingdom is WAAAAYYY better than the reward of knowing you solved a difficult problem.
Dude this man is a god with his scissors, every single cut is perfect
He may have marked on the scissors where to cut... either that or he just spent 10,000 hours cutting shit with scissors
These are clever people...lucky to have them...
If it was me with the scissors it would have taken at least 15 takes 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Pretty sure he made faint pencil lines before, nobody can cut that exact and fast if one doesn't do the same thing all day everyday.
You can tell they made an edit after he first cuts around the hole. Probably did a poor job and replaced the paper with a better version.
he has a mark on the scissors that show him where to cut
@@allenu I was about to ask if no one else saw what a perfect rectangle he cut out but I saw this
Off with the heathen's head for fucking up my rug even more!!!
Thats was impressive scissor work!
Yeah exactly, when he did the initial cutout I though they had switched it for a premade one.
But then he perfectly nailed the zigzag.
I bet this guy IS allowed to run with scissors.
@@DutchFurnace wow I didn't think anybody was aloud to do that...🤥
There are#$%&# @#&^&%@ paper; he can see the $**.%@$ but you #&*%#^ see them on the #&*&%
[Edited so as not to ruin the magic]
Awww don't ruin the magic!
Haha, I already $%^% your #$%#^, because %^$^$%^ showed your initial #$%$% in my #$%$#%.
The that’s impossible cutscene was the best part
Absolutely! Just when I started losing interest, explosions and car crashes kicked in!
@@magnuskallas I like the dude who just jumps off the bike and eats it. I guess there is no better way to test the laws of thermodynamics than to fly as fast as you can into a barrier and hope it is quick enough to dissipate 0 mass into frictional heat lol. High stakes conservation of matter proof lol. If the idea was indeed to land back on the bike, then this is a brilliantly stupid stunt seen through our lens in time. But damn, what a cool ass stuntman.
The music too...👍👍
Horse: says goodbye to the owner
Old TV shows are so lovely.
Thank you
Wait... if hundreds of people tried to no avail, did they have a lot of test rugs or was the original absolutely shredded into pieces!?
Valid point, good Sir!
They couldn't come up with a way to do it so they never tried
They were given the servant's wages in notes to practise on.
They had pieces of paper like this to test.
😀
Whoa the 'thats impossible' cut scene threw me for a loop
Wish I'd remembered this when I lived in my last rental property... It's great to see these again, thanks Rob and Deane
It would look better to leave the hole in the middle of the carpet with a smaller carpet under the hole that compliments the main one
I would just push the sofa over the hole.
@@presto709 if it’s in a hallway?
@@googleisfascist9278 Nonsense, it's now a skinny parlor since the sofa was installed. The tapestries also do a great job covering up the holes in the wall -- well, except for that one with a hole in it. But you can put a picture over that.
The smaller carpet be like: "Hmm, yeah, you're such a gorgeous carpet!" to the main carpet.
I think you meant to say "complements" instead of "compliments"
@@hockdudu lol I didn’t catch that. Now I’m chuckling at the absurd image of a throw rug just tossing out periodic, nice compliments to the wall-to-wall carpet 😂
This is a really good show. Not enough reckonition and appreciation is given to our friends down under, including NZ.
I am so glad I found this channel!
I just found it
Lol, I'm 40 years old. I'm still wow'd by these videos.
Ok grandpa
@@oinkooink haha 😂
You spelled that wrong.
Ok but if the king loved this rug so much it probably has some incredibly intricate pattern on it which has now been destroyed by this girl
I believe it was a solid red design.
Or perhaps he was a simplistic fella?
Perhaps the king loved the minimalistic design
Unless it was an intricate pattern of square blocks of colour that exactly fitted the cuts to be made.
Maybe the king is her own OCD and half the kingdom is half her brain getting it's peace of mind back.
I am very fond of puzzles and riddles including this puzzle about repairing a rug. This is very brilliant and this is why I love watching the "Curiosity Show."
If you're fond of puzzles, try this
Same problem
Same solution
ONLY..... solve it with less cuts
I'll give you a hint
Are the stairs REALLY NECESSARY ?
I may be 27 years old but I'll never not be amazed when riddles like these arise and are solved in such simple ways that my brain cannot comprehend
Ok this won't fix the cig burn on my car seat.
Not with that attitude!
@@BubblewrapOracle yes attitude is too observant
@@BubblewrapOracle but with a different attitude it might? Lol
For half your wealth, I’ll fix it!
Uncle Creepy Hehe.. Very good.
Thumbnail kinda spoils it
Not really, but this comment does.
I love this man's sweater
"So just remember, kids... look, it's not about the money, okay! This is about puzzles!"
- Gregory House, MD
A REAL king would have beheaded the fool who burnt it in the first place!!! Who's this? the king of nicey nicey land.
They _did_ say he was eccentric.
To be fair, they never stated otherwise. Perhaps the cloth-makers also got beheaded. We'll never know :P
Maybe he already did?
Am I the only one who laughed my ass off at this comment ? Lmao
I love the Yamaha DX7 bumper music in this video. 🤗
wow, what a gem of a channel i just found!
It would have been more of a puzzle if the thumbnail didn't show us the solution.
I don't know which was better ... the cutscene or the cut scene.
Wow, this reminds me of the chocolate problem: adding an extra piece by cutting it up, as well as the World's Best Liar paradox. This is totally going into my repetoire of stories.
Looking In With Victor B
Your repetoire of stories???
You’d be fun at parties.
@@larjkok1184 you bet.
I need to look up this liar paradox to stash in my own arsenal
@@eidolor I think that's the one where there are 2 paths, and 2 men who are presenting as a liar and a truth teller. You only get to ask one question, to one of them, and then choose your route, one going to your location safely and one leading to certain doom. The solution is to ask either of the men what the other one would say, and then do the opposite.
If that's not the paradox in question, well, there's a new one for you that I very much enjoy.
Have you seen the right triangle one? It's similar to chocolate one
Half the wealth of the bloody kingdom? You would assume it would have been cheaper just to get another rug.
This Curiousity guy is so good with scissors; imagine how he'd play Paper-Rock-Scissors!
The days when tv shows taught something
what could this have possibly taught you?
@@emlyfox
1. How to repair a rug
2. How to obtain half of the wealth of a kingdom
@@emlyfox Geometry.... also Could have developed an interest in a field of maths called Topology ( which one might not know the name of but still can have an interest in)
Taught something And it wasn’t indoctrination , amazing
@@Fortnitekid1427-o5k I assume you're talking about when shows have LGBTQ people in it, or god forbid people with skin darker than yours...
I wonder if Deane still has all his awesome woolly jumpers? Hehe.
Deane? I'm sure moths have eaten them by now
MichaelKingsfordGray It took you 5 years to come up with that one?
Great burn mate, great burn.
I used to have that jumper. Wish I still did! Awesome.
Glad I found this channel
It really tied the room together.
I tried this in my rental apartment, but the landlord took my deposit anyway. He said and I quote, "Get the f#$* outta here."
But that does leave holes on the edge. It also makes it so the rug doesn't fit in the same dimensions. It's longer and thinner than before.
I'm not trying to be rude, but i think you missed the point of the story.
@@kurdtpatton5039 perhaps. what was the point?
I think the challenge was just “make it into a perfect rectangle of some kind”
Very ingenius. Great video.
Wild to think these kind of shows do not exist.
I remember watching mid day TV on abc in the mid 00s/late 90s was full of educational shows. They tricked me into learning.
Maybe not on TV but on TH-cam there is tons freely available knowledge. Everyone can choose to either educate themselves or to waste their time.
Bring back this program.
The ending song jingle was outstanding. 🎶😌
Just cut off a few feet from two adjoining ends. There, now there's no hole in the center! It's now in the corner. I'm sure a king would be impressed with my cleverness and not mad in the slightest, right?
Oh, for sure! I'm certain he'd even give you a lifetime stay in the castle tower! The security there is some of the best!
This King has some good rug taste
This was the best show!
I wish I had this show as a kid!
Holy shit I just had my mind blown I love this “little girl”
Another servant burned a hole in a circular rug... now repair it in 3 days
It can be done with one cut (and many hours of stitching). Anyone care to guess how?
@@leoangere5310 Could you cut the rug into a spiral and then re-sew the spiral a but tighter so that you eliminate the hole in the center?
This needs a to be on TV for the kids of today.
The whiplash after the "that's impossible," is unmatched
TH-cam algorithm coming in clutch recommending this series
Glad the kings rug is just plain red rug without pattern on it, and the coal burn just nicely at the centre of the rug.
I think this host could not have been more australian.
he bloody well could've been
I had the same problem in my hotel room.
I solved it by leaving very early in the morning.
For some reasons this is the kind of channe lyoutube recommend's me at 1am and I dont want to sleep anymore! haha
Interesting magic rug trick
can we appreciate how clean he cut that piece of paper.
1:30 why is no one talking about this part?
Moral of the story: Solving difficult problem gives more happiness than wealth
This show can teach College kids better than the system now
Wow!! What a genius.
This show is awesome
Now days this would be cancelled for calling her “a nine year old girl”
The that's impossible montage really goes hard huh
That king was tolerant I could not allow any change on size on that! :P
Is it possible to repair the rug while also keeping the ratio of the side lengths the same?
Although this does fix the hole, if the rug had an intricate pattern, the pattern would be ruined
Ruined?
Or upgraded?
Yeah, rug repair is what I do for a living, and I'm a little triggered by thos
Childhood memories ❤
I am mad jelly of that awesome jumper.
If it would cut if after showing the words that’s impossible it would be comdy
Fantastic!
That nine year old girl's name? Albert Einstein.
If you want another puzzle, do it with just 2 straight cuts.
Is it possible?
@@jeevunvethanayagam6536 Yes
I initially thought that’s what he was going to do. The zig zag is more theatrical though.
@@allenu It only works if the whole is exactly a 3rd of the length or width of the carpet, while the zig-zag works as long the length/width of the whole is an integer factor of the whole carpet.
Anyone know that fil from the 20s or 30s being shown, I had that on 8mm when I was a kid and loved
He's really good with scissors
I'm interested in how the perimeter of the rug didn't change, but the area did.
The perimeter did change
the long sides are not a bit longer
and the short one's a bit shorter
.......it changed
@@martinkuliza With the way he cut it, it doesn't look like it did. Short sides became 1 step shorter. Long sides became 1 step longer.
nevermind receiving half of almost limitless wealth...
I finished a page of my sudoku book
That rug pattern gonna look funky
King says: Cut into 2 pieces and rearranged so there is no hole in the middle.
Host says: It has to be a rectangle.
1:54 this music sound so much like the track from the old Aperture Labs section of Portal 2
The real detail of course is not covered. Of course not.
How to determine the exact size of the cut rectangle in the middle based of course on the size of the rug?
Why did it boys, we finally found a math problem irl
haha wow thats fantastic! I wonder which King loved his rug so?
King of Persia.
Ok, that puzzle was way too vague because there weren't enough constraints. My simple solution was to simply cut a strip off the edge and then use it to cover or overlap the hole. You end up with a rectangular rug with no holes. Where's my half of the king's wealth??? 👑
This requires the distance to the edge of the paper from the hole has to be divisible by the width of the hole. Since the girl didn't cut the hole, this is highly improbable.
But not impossible if you have an infinite improbability drive
@@wrestleroni
but what if you lost the improbability module for the drive
THERE'S NO TELLING WHERE YOU WOULD END UP AND HOW MANY HIGHLY IMPROBABLY SITUATIONS YOU WOULD HAVE WHEN YOU GOT THERE
or... are you going to tell me that that is highly improbable
the music reminds me of portal 2
you could also just cut two cuts in line with the long edges of the hole, making 2 large pieces on the sides and 2 small pieces on the ends, remove the 2 smaller pieces and slide the two larger pieces together ....
But the king wanted it to be cut into only 2 pieces
But then the patterns would be messed up. I'm curious why wouldn't they build the rug hole with new material and sew the edges carefully.
Which king was this?
Love how they casually cut to footage of people in horrible accidents in the middle of the kids show.
I hope he wasn’t too hard on his servant. It seems the king REALLY liked that rug❤
*I LOVE LATERAL THINKING!!!*
Cool story bro
*"You watch what it achieves."*
Classic tv format: start with the setup to a geometry puzzle, then do a montage of firery car and plane crashes, then finish with the solution.
The King burnt the rug himself as he wanted to know who in his kingdom was smart enough to solve the puzzle and be worthy as a future successor. And, true to his word, the King gave the 9 year old girl half his estate. The King also unstitched the rug into halves as a memento.
2:18 It even has the music from Portal 2 :)
If the problem involved a rectangular rug, then why did I hear some notes of "Bizarre Love Triangle" at the end of the video haha
In problems like these you need to find more informations regarding the rules and conditions. In this rug situation, you need to ask that: can the rug change shape? And can the rug change size? After these two questions, there will be opened more options to solve the problem.
Don't stuck on a problem, not asking more, and look like an idiot.
Yes but the patterns in the rug wouldn't match, i thought that was the biggest problem.
"Forsooth, it broughteth thy room together, Squire."
*pauses video
*Professor Layton puzzle-solving music playing in my head