I think the problem here in the comments is that people are not really understanding the name of the puzzle. It is not called "The Ingenious H Puzzle" it is called "The Ingenious HALF H Puzzle". 'HALF' is the key word clue here to its correct solution. If you took two of these puzzles and placed them facing together along the sloping 'H' plane what would you get? You'd get an 'H' shaped block. You can argue until you are blue in the face that "if you look at it from a certain angle you CAN'T TELL it is an 'H' shaped block" but it still IS one. This puzzle is HALF of an 'H'.
Actually, if you put two of these puzzles together, facing each other, you’d be left with 2 “half H’s” but forming a V shape.. like if this were in front of a mirror.
You are thinking in 2D - 180 degree rotation symmetry along an axis perpendicular to the hypotenuse across the 'H' plane produces a single solid block.
I thought it was going to be one of those puzzles where you turn a piece in an unexpected way to make a gap for the extra piece appear. For example, a piece placed on its side to make it a rectangle, or some of the pieces fit at a 45 degree angle.
This puzzle is what I call an "Invisible goalposts" puzzle. The solution is so obtuse, so far outside of the implied ruleset, that you're pretty sure you're just cheating if you solve it. What makes this puzzle bad is that when you solve it, it's not obvious that you've done it correctly. You have to be told when you've done it right.
Using the same logic - you can simply take the "extra block" and place it on top of your completed H such that you see a wooden "H" from your perspective. I tried rotating the blocks (such that it appears rectangular from the top down) and I was told that was against the rules -- yes the actual solution requires much more rotational manipulation than I attempted, and a perspective change. lol.
That doesn't really follow given that the mid-portion of the H must then rest on the ground. It would need to be suspended. It's clearly about perspective, then, in order to retain the appearance.
I find it is similar to the difference between a good and bad riddle. A good riddle usually only makes sense with it's given solution. A bad riddle has many possibilities that are correct given only the riddles requirements, but it is looking for a specific answer.
My problem with this is that it isn't a puzzle so much as a trick. This is no better than all the bar tricks out there that you perform to fool your friends. It feeds on an obvious assumption (in this case that it should be flat) and is deceptive in its premise. If I were to do this puzzle, I would assume that it was meant to be done laying flat, and even if I did come up with the correct solution somehow, I would second guess myself that I was correct. A puzzle should have a clear and definitive solution. One that leaves no question that it has been solved, and the rules of the game should be clear.
Of course, puzzles could also be defined as finding a missing/hidden rule. My favorite puzzles are guessing games like What Can Go Through Queen Anne's Door?, What Are You Bringing to the Picnic?, Black Magic, and so on and so forth...
That's a bit silly... If 3D is allowed like that why not just make the H the normal way and put the extra piece on top? "Thinking outside the box" on its own doesn't have any merit. The solution has to actually make sense.
but still.. love the rest of the puzzles! its a good thing for my wallet that most puzzles are out of stock as soon as they are featured on this channel!
Actually, in the clip at 2:54 in the mobile phone, I find more interesting the fact that you have placed coins on the edges of the camera's field of view rather than the solution itself, so simple yet so useful, I love it! 😂
I was wondering of going in that route, but dismissed it, as perspective can also make the piece "disappear" if you just simply put the piece on top of another.
ravi chandran nair I remortgaged my house which resulted me being made homeless and now live under a bridge because I employed the best scientists from all over the world to try and solve it....... Not even they could.... Now I sit under the bridge.... With jotting else to do.... And I have lost the ability to search for the original video to fund the solution..... On a good note.... I now have a purpose in life
I must admit, I am not very fond of such puzzles, where it is not obvious *when* the puzzle is solved. Would I happen upon this solution, I would not ever consider the puzzle solved, I would just observice the curious construction. After all, if it's not supposed to be an H more than from one particular angle, I could put the remaining piece anywhere on top of the H and take a snapshot from up high. It's like my three-year-old saying "look, an H", and I would go "oh, how neat ... although technically it is not, because an H is a geometric shape in one plane" (because I'm an obnoxious father, that have the right to educate my children). Well, to each his own. Glad I saw this "solution" before the actual puzzle. But nice video, though. Good watch.
I like the coins you have scattered about. Great visual cue for you so you know the edges of your overhead camera and can easily keep everything in frame.
Right away my solution was you can make the H lower case. When you said you have to think outside the box I thought for sure that was correct, and actually both are unless it states a uppercase H
You can also keep the pieces in the same lines or strokes of the H, but switch the pieces in the upright strokes so the flat ends are together, rotate all of the pieces except for the smallest one so the longer sides are up, and set the two small pieces in the cross-bar with their diagonal faces together to make a stable square at one side of the crossbar.
Oh man... REALLY glad I read some of the spoilers below, before buying this. I just had it all loaded up in my cart and was just about to submit too when I came back to read some comments. Man would I have been PISSED when this arrived. This isn't really a puzzle with an actual solution. You just have to not follow the common sense "rules" of puzzle building, and do something different, of which there are limitless solutions. Like one commenter said, how about just putting the last piece on top of one of the others in the H and view it from above? Hey, how about just hide the last piece behind your back, or feed it to your dog... are those valid solutions too? Terrible "puzzle" (quotes required). It's kind of like if someone made one of those puzzles where you have to disconnect something from something else, and the solution is to simply break it off. Wow! Thinking "outside the box". Paaaaa-lease. Ah well... like I said, very relieved I saved a Jackson, not to mention probably preventing a hole in the wall I probably would have thrown this 'puzzle' at. The rest of your vids, and most of the puzzles you show, are fantastic though. :)
Because if you just hide the piece you are not really solving it because its not actually using all the pieces. The point of this puzzle is not to make it just look like a letter H, in this solution there actually is a complete H there. In the 'putting the last piece on top of the others' you're just viewing it in a certain angle that makes it look like an H, even though there is none. In this solution, there is a real diagonal H there, no matter how you look at it.
If you take your starting position, with the H complete and a small triangle left over - just elongate the centre bar, turn one of the two pieces making it over to leave a small triangle shaped gap in it. Fill that gap with your spare piece. Easy.
or....take the upper left piece and turn if face down, than fill the space with the 'extra piece. It was not specified that the sides be equal and if you want to play with them, you can come very close.
After looking at the beginning for a minute, I saw a solution that keeps the pieces flat on the table. Hard to describe in text, but from the original layout: Remove the bottom right piece. Put one of the triangles there, so that it leaves a spot above it for the 2nd triangle (2nd triangle pointing to the left). Now put the piece that was at the bottom right where the first triangle was, in the horizontal bar of the H. This makes the horizontal line of the H longer, but it still works.
In my opinion, the problem with this puzzle is that it's poorly defined. There are lots of other ways to make a good looking "H" too but there's no indication of what is an acceptable solution and what is not. For example you can just stand all the pieces on their sides and use them as rectangles (because the angles would be hidden in the 3rd dimension). Would that be an equally valid solution, since the canonical solution also uses perspective to hide 45-degree angles?
I feel like the solution to this puzzle is dishonest. If it's implied that you need to make a perfect box H, but the solution is an "outside the box" 45 degree angle then that's not really a puzzle. This is an experiment in how far can you push the rules and does your solution still "count" if you do so.
One of the first things I considered was the fact that you had an odd number of diagonal edges. Therefore if you were to assemble it (at this point I'd only considered flat assembly) you would have to have one diagonal surface against 2 others, somewhere. But since all the diagonal surfaces are the same size, that's not possible. Now that solution... That's really really cool!
I believe there is one more solution not mentioned, which doesn't have to do with what one could call a "camera trick." I am not sure since I don't have the puzzle in front of me, but let's label the pieces from 1:35 starting with the upper right and moving through H: 1-7 (the extra piece is 7). I think the proportions might be a tiny bit off, but I can't measure it just from looking. Let's try: Pieces 1/2 = left side of H Pieces 3/4/6 = right side of H (put the longer pieces together edge-wise and fill with the triangle) Pieces 5/7 = H crossbar Hmmmmm.... PS Love your videos!!!
I did, It's terrible. Same as putting the first triangular piece anywhere on the top at the beginning. It will look like an H no matter what. Educate yourself.
@@coldfire774 This puzzle doesn't require you to think outside of the box, but you don't know when you have solved it or when you broke the rules. If someone came up to me with this solution, i'd say thats cheating.
Puzzles that require not only logic, but also imagination and creativity, are the greatest ones. I love the ones that leave all the people who think they're smart, feeling irritated because they hate using both sides of the brain. The more people that hate this puzzle and claim that it is “not a real puzzle” or that it's “just a trick”, the better I like it. Did you fail to solve it? Were you defeated by it? That's not the puzzle's fault!
my first though was just place the extra piece on top of any of the other pieces. from the over head view the appearance does not change. It's no different then the one you showed, other then yours is more pleasing.
I got this puzzle just a couple of days ago. It was a cold winter`s night; I had a few drinks of warm whiskey; a ring on my door - hey, the delivery guy - let the puzzle commence!! It took me a while, and a few more drinks, but the penultimate solution was "fuckit"; and I threw the 7th piece into the fireplace, and ultimately fixed myself another drink while relaxing infront of a slightly more glowing fire.
Please don't let the negative comments keep you from showing MORE puzzles like this one, Obviously this kind of thinking/understanding is SERIOUSLY LACKING in people today and will certainly be the demise of our current civilization (as apparent by world events). You are providing valuable problem solving/intellectual reasoning skills that most are to inept to appreciate but PLEASE continue...(I can tell by the comments, there has been much damage done by the indoctrination systems). Thank you !
You can keep the H flat on table . Look at first H and notice that each side is made out of 2 pieces of which one is shorter. Use the two longer one to make a taller side and flip over one of the shorter and put two shorter ones together , tip to tip . Use the extra triangle to fill the triangular gap and put it in place as the second side to the H . (Horizontal line remains the same) Or if unequal length sides bother you , with first H leave left side alone , swap longer right side piece into horizontal and use center one (flipped over) and place tip to tip with other filling the gap with the 'extra wedge , as before .
Well, considering that solution, couldn't I just take it in its state at 1:08 and place the extra piece pretty much anywhere else on top of the puzzle? It meets all the same criteria as the 'correct' solution, only resembling an H when viewed from top-down and such.
I had wondered briefly if the ‘half’ in the puzzle might actually refer to the puzzle bc you have two objectives: 1) make an H shape,2) with all the pieces and this is clearly impossible on the 2D plane. But I guess the 45 ° angle half cube H explanation works too.
the flat solution is easy in 1 sec. just put the free triangle piece into the middle to the other triangle piece to make a square. then you have an H but a little bit wider.
I cut pieces from paper and made a 2d solution that might work with the puzzle and could almost certainly work with carefully crafted pieces. Maybe I'll bust out the 3d modeling software and make my own version.
Do the instructions specifically say that the solved puzzle does not have to lay flat on the table surface? It seems to me that if the only requirement is that the puzzle use all the pieces and resemble the letter H - there would be lots of ways to "solve" it. For example, you could stuff the extra piece underneath one of the others - and then just view that "solution" from directly above. Another creative "solution" would be to grind the extra piece into sawdust and sprinkle the particles in all the cracks. Or one could simply carve a wedge out of one of the pieces, discard the excess, then slide the "extra" piece in that spot.
Ok... I'll stop at the spoiler break, click yer thumbs and leave a comment...... and sail on past as we travel our algorithmic journey though the Internets. Ciao.
Hi Mr Puzzle.. I have a Nintendo Barrel puzzle (10 billion barrel puzzle) but i have not been able to find a tutorial in English. Hope you can make a video on it soon.
Doing it the way the creator wants you to do it is good but the easier way is to just burn one of the small triangles because he said you must use all the pieces you have
I think the problem here in the comments is that people are not really understanding the name of the puzzle.
It is not called "The Ingenious H Puzzle" it is called "The Ingenious HALF H Puzzle".
'HALF' is the key word clue here to its correct solution.
If you took two of these puzzles and placed them facing together along the sloping 'H' plane what would you get?
You'd get an 'H' shaped block.
You can argue until you are blue in the face that "if you look at it from a certain angle you CAN'T TELL it is an 'H' shaped block" but it still IS one.
This puzzle is HALF of an 'H'.
Finally! Thanks! :)
Sounds about right
There is more than one half-H solution but this is amongst the most elegant and thus most correct.
Actually, if you put two of these puzzles together, facing each other, you’d be left with 2 “half H’s” but forming a V shape.. like if this were in front of a mirror.
You are thinking in 2D - 180 degree rotation symmetry along an axis perpendicular to the hypotenuse across the 'H' plane produces a single solid block.
Nothing is as complex as Giraffe puzzle...
Still struggling
Same :v
Sarfaraz Ahmed has anyone solved it?
yeah Mr. Puzzles little Shitling xp
Nothing to add here! :D
That was april fools joke
After 6 years I'm really close to solving the giraffe puzzle
Dr Korek ha I solved it after only 72 hours
How do you know you are close? 😁
Mr.Puzzle 6 years of work all my research and I made a break through but I'm not done yet
Dr Korek Keep at it buddy, I believe in you!
Dr Korek
Having NO kids, (hense key) guess I'll be stumped for good on that dam giraffe puzzle...
I stopped at the spoiler break and thought 'I bet the H is remade into a lower caps h' Time to press play and find out.
Ahhh, angulation. Good
I thought it was going to be one of those puzzles where you turn a piece in an unexpected way to make a gap for the extra piece appear. For example, a piece placed on its side to make it a rectangle, or some of the pieces fit at a 45 degree angle.
thats way to obvius...
dude, enough with the spoilers
carpii - No-one has delivered the spoiler in these comments. There are hints but NO spoilers!
That's what I thought too!
This puzzle is what I call an "Invisible goalposts" puzzle. The solution is so obtuse, so far outside of the implied ruleset, that you're pretty sure you're just cheating if you solve it.
What makes this puzzle bad is that when you solve it, it's not obvious that you've done it correctly. You have to be told when you've done it right.
Zoshi i agree with you they dint say anything about stacking it up that is allowed. i had this puzzle about a day ago and couldnt solve it
Using the same logic - you can simply take the "extra block" and place it on top of your completed H such that you see a wooden "H" from your perspective. I tried rotating the blocks (such that it appears rectangular from the top down) and I was told that was against the rules -- yes the actual solution requires much more rotational manipulation than I attempted, and a perspective change. lol.
It's not about perspective - it is about what it IS not what it LOOKS like.
You are not trying to build a 2D 'H' - you are building HALF of a 3D 'H'.
That doesn't really follow given that the mid-portion of the H must then rest on the ground. It would need to be suspended. It's clearly about perspective, then, in order to retain the appearance.
I find it is similar to the difference between a good and bad riddle. A good riddle usually only makes sense with it's given solution. A bad riddle has many possibilities that are correct given only the riddles requirements, but it is looking for a specific answer.
My problem with this is that it isn't a puzzle so much as a trick. This is no better than all the bar tricks out there that you perform to fool your friends. It feeds on an obvious assumption (in this case that it should be flat) and is deceptive in its premise. If I were to do this puzzle, I would assume that it was meant to be done laying flat, and even if I did come up with the correct solution somehow, I would second guess myself that I was correct. A puzzle should have a clear and definitive solution. One that leaves no question that it has been solved, and the rules of the game should be clear.
Kethmar:
Excellent explanation as to why this isn't a proper puzzle.
Of course, puzzles could also be defined as finding a missing/hidden rule. My favorite puzzles are guessing games like What Can Go Through Queen Anne's Door?, What Are You Bringing to the Picnic?, Black Magic, and so on and so forth...
Step one: light fire
Step two: throw extra piece into fire.
BOOM DONE.
you stole this joke lol
Stolen joke lmao
That's a bit silly... If 3D is allowed like that why not just make the H the normal way and put the extra piece on top?
"Thinking outside the box" on its own doesn't have any merit. The solution has to actually make sense.
RE i think the idea is that there must be a plane that contains the letter h
or just put the piece next to the H with small side on top.... that will make a H plane... worst puzzle on this channel.
but still.. love the rest of the puzzles! its a good thing for my wallet that most puzzles are out of stock as soon as they are featured on this channel!
hahaha lucky for youre wallet
+Ricardo
By putting a piece on top the horizontal plane contains the letter h
Actually, in the clip at 2:54 in the mobile phone, I find more interesting the fact that you have placed coins on the edges of the camera's field of view rather than the solution itself, so simple yet so useful, I love it! 😂
Haha, thanks! 😉
I highly recommend the letter “I” puzzled as well. It’s a whole new experience.
I was wondering of going in that route, but dismissed it, as perspective can also make the piece "disappear" if you just simply put the piece on top of another.
It's also possible to do it without putting pieces on to of each other. You see it if I show the other variant.
I'm not going to give it much thought, but I wonder if it could be assembled as a lowercase "h".
if this is based on prespective, you can just hide the last piece behind the other, and you'll end up with a complete H.
For me the giraffe puzzle is still a nightmare...
ravi chandran nair I'm still working on it, I didn't cheat and get help, nor did I watch the solution
James Collins if you can find a solution to the giraffe puzzle, it will be a great leap for mankind..
ravi chandran nair I remortgaged my house which resulted me being made homeless and now live under a bridge because I employed the best scientists from all over the world to try and solve it....... Not even they could.... Now I sit under the bridge.... With jotting else to do.... And I have lost the ability to search for the original video to fund the solution..... On a good note.... I now have a purpose in life
what is the giraffe?
allison lai look like n the channel for the giraffe puzzle
I must admit, I am not very fond of such puzzles, where it is not obvious *when* the puzzle is solved. Would I happen upon this solution, I would not ever consider the puzzle solved, I would just observice the curious construction. After all, if it's not supposed to be an H more than from one particular angle, I could put the remaining piece anywhere on top of the H and take a snapshot from up high. It's like my three-year-old saying "look, an H", and I would go "oh, how neat ... although technically it is not, because an H is a geometric shape in one plane" (because I'm an obnoxious father, that have the right to educate my children). Well, to each his own. Glad I saw this "solution" before the actual puzzle.
But nice video, though. Good watch.
That's why it's called "half H"
That's why it's called half h
I have little interest in solving puzzles on my own but for some strange reason, I can watch Mr. Puzzle do it all day! Great channel.
Thumbs up to the inventor!
Haha! That is exactly the puzzle I've been desperately trying to solve for the last 2 days. Thank you Mr Puzzle for coming to the rescue! ;-)
I never would have thought to stack the pieces like that.
Hi Mr.Puzzle It's my first entry - just to say - best puzzle for decades...
This is already my favourite puzzle I've ever seen… Such a big "ohhhhhhh" from me!
is it also "thinking out of the box" if I break out my Swiss Army Knife and have a go?
I like the coins you have scattered about. Great visual cue for you so you know the edges of your overhead camera and can easily keep everything in frame.
Hmm does this mean if u have two sets of this puzzle youll can have the "Whole H"?
lol - That is the logic behind the solution :)
Stephen Quan yeah,becouse this is half of H shaped bloxk
Have I gone completely insane? It's already a whole H. Why is everyone calling something with this shape: "H" a half H instead of an H?
jay pee Because the shape makes a right triangle which is half of a square.
no jay pee, you are only half insane. If there were two of you, then you would be completely insane.
Very clever little puzzle
Right away my solution was you can make the H lower case. When you said you have to think outside the box I thought for sure that was correct, and actually both are unless it states a uppercase H
You can also keep the pieces in the same lines or strokes of the H, but switch the pieces in the upright strokes so the flat ends are together, rotate all of the pieces except for the smallest one so the longer sides are up, and set the two small pieces in the cross-bar with their diagonal faces together to make a stable square at one side of the crossbar.
that's incredibly clever
Just love this puzzle.
That is really cool.
That’s a clever puzzle with a clever name!
Oh man... REALLY glad I read some of the spoilers below, before buying this. I just had it all loaded up in my cart and was just about to submit too when I came back to read some comments. Man would I have been PISSED when this arrived.
This isn't really a puzzle with an actual solution. You just have to not follow the common sense "rules" of puzzle building, and do something different, of which there are limitless solutions. Like one commenter said, how about just putting the last piece on top of one of the others in the H and view it from above? Hey, how about just hide the last piece behind your back, or feed it to your dog... are those valid solutions too? Terrible "puzzle" (quotes required). It's kind of like if someone made one of those puzzles where you have to disconnect something from something else, and the solution is to simply break it off. Wow! Thinking "outside the box". Paaaaa-lease.
Ah well... like I said, very relieved I saved a Jackson, not to mention probably preventing a hole in the wall I probably would have thrown this 'puzzle' at. The rest of your vids, and most of the puzzles you show, are fantastic though. :)
Because if you just hide the piece you are not really solving it because its not actually using all the pieces. The point of this puzzle is not to make it just look like a letter H, in this solution there actually is a complete H there. In the 'putting the last piece on top of the others' you're just viewing it in a certain angle that makes it look like an H, even though there is none. In this solution, there is a real diagonal H there, no matter how you look at it.
Actually you are trying to build HALF of an 'H' shaped block. The clue is in the puzzle name.
Feeding the extra piece to your dog
Rofl, classic solution
*half* H puzzle.
Keyword: *_H A L F_*
Exactly.
I love this! I solved it by the thumb nail great work buddy
You can also make a lower-case h in the negative space.
I really like how you say hi
wow you really have to think out of the box to solve this
Very nice 👍👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌👌
that's so clever
It is now a half h that is cut on a diagonal plane from the top front to the bottom rear. Ingenious.
I think I could stay on this one for 1000 years :)
If you take your starting position, with the H complete and a small triangle left over - just elongate the centre bar, turn one of the two pieces making it over to leave a small triangle shaped gap in it. Fill that gap with your spare piece. Easy.
"what it actually looks like" not "how it actually looks like". Extremely common mistake for certain learners of English. Cool video. Thanks.
or....take the upper left piece and turn if face down, than fill the space with the 'extra piece.
It was not specified that the sides be equal and if you want to play with them, you can come very close.
After looking at the beginning for a minute, I saw a solution that keeps the pieces flat on the table. Hard to describe in text, but from the original layout:
Remove the bottom right piece. Put one of the triangles there, so that it leaves a spot above it for the 2nd triangle (2nd triangle pointing to the left).
Now put the piece that was at the bottom right where the first triangle was, in the horizontal bar of the H.
This makes the horizontal line of the H longer, but it still works.
Cool. Like always keep on puzzling
Pretty cool
Outside of box thinking? Oh, that's easy, just...
2:17 oh
ooooooh
OOOOOOH WHAT?!
I love your videos, but that's the worst puzzle i've ever seen
Why? It's an incredibly ingenious puzzle that forces you to think outside the box.
This is one of those puzzles who's solution sounds like someone made a pun. You dont necessarily find it funny or interesting but it was witty
In my opinion, the problem with this puzzle is that it's poorly defined. There are lots of other ways to make a good looking "H" too but there's no indication of what is an acceptable solution and what is not. For example you can just stand all the pieces on their sides and use them as rectangles (because the angles would be hidden in the 3rd dimension). Would that be an equally valid solution, since the canonical solution also uses perspective to hide 45-degree angles?
agreed
like its just posible on a 2D prospective to see the H
worst puzzle ever
The "H" doesn't even have the same ratio. This is embarrassing.
I feel like the solution to this puzzle is dishonest. If it's implied that you need to make a perfect box H, but the solution is an "outside the box" 45 degree angle then that's not really a puzzle. This is an experiment in how far can you push the rules and does your solution still "count" if you do so.
That's why it's called "half H"
lmao im getting automatic german subtitles, love your accent xx
In other words, if they gave a detailed explanation of what is considered the solution they would give away the 'trick'.
The prediction I have is by making one verticle side angle onto the middle so you'll have to use three blocks on one side, allowing all to fit in.
I notice a lot of non native English speakers often say: "how it actually looks like" when it should be said: "WHAT it actually looks like" :-)
One of the first things I considered was the fact that you had an odd number of diagonal edges. Therefore if you were to assemble it (at this point I'd only considered flat assembly) you would have to have one diagonal surface against 2 others, somewhere. But since all the diagonal surfaces are the same size, that's not possible.
Now that solution... That's really really cool!
I guess it’s a bit like a cube cut in half on the diagonal, maybe that’s where it got its name.
I'm from finland it is funny to hear how you say our names
I believe there is one more solution not mentioned, which doesn't have to do with what one could call a "camera trick." I am not sure since I don't have the puzzle in front of me, but let's label the pieces from 1:35 starting with the upper right and moving through H: 1-7 (the extra piece is 7). I think the proportions might be a tiny bit off, but I can't measure it just from looking. Let's try:
Pieces 1/2 = left side of H
Pieces 3/4/6 = right side of H (put the longer pieces together edge-wise and fill with the triangle)
Pieces 5/7 = H crossbar
Hmmmmm....
PS Love your videos!!!
With such a solution one could fix its view from above and put the renaming piece on top.
Why I'm here my brain are shaking right now!
Thats cool!!
thats such a relief, i always thought i was just stupid, and now i realise the design is stupid
Just put any extra piece on top of the finished "H" and... WOW! You're thinking out of the box now!.. Crappy puzzle.
That's the first thing I thought. Same result. It's all cheating. If that is what they intended then this is a 1/5. Terrible puzzle
Maybe you should actually watch the solution because it’s pretty cool in my opinion
I did, It's terrible. Same as putting the first triangular piece anywhere on the top at the beginning. It will look like an H no matter what. Educate yourself.
@@coldfire774 This puzzle doesn't require you to think outside of the box, but you don't know when you have solved it or when you broke the rules. If someone came up to me with this solution, i'd say thats cheating.
PERKELE ÄLÄ DISSAA SUOMEE.
sehr schön
That's like telling an ancient riddle with a commonly known answer only to say a completely unconventional solution
this has to be the worst puzzle ever
ElysianDevil you have clearly not watched the giraffe puzzle video
ElysianDevil 9
If there's worse puzzles, I just don't want to know.
you are the worst puzzle ever
Why?
that is so cool
Puzzles that require not only logic, but also imagination and creativity, are the greatest ones. I love the ones that leave all the people who think they're smart, feeling irritated because they hate using both sides of the brain.
The more people that hate this puzzle and claim that it is “not a real puzzle” or that it's “just a trick”, the better I like it.
Did you fail to solve it? Were you defeated by it? That's not the puzzle's fault!
my first though was just place the extra piece on top of any of the other pieces. from the over head view the appearance does not change. It's no different then the one you showed, other then yours is more pleasing.
Hah nice work!
I must admit. I did not think to try that
I got this puzzle just a couple of days ago. It was a cold winter`s night; I had a few drinks of warm whiskey; a ring on my door - hey, the delivery guy - let the puzzle commence!! It took me a while, and a few more drinks, but the penultimate solution was "fuckit"; and I threw the 7th piece into the fireplace, and ultimately fixed myself another drink while relaxing infront of a slightly more glowing fire.
This is the most smartest puzzle!!!!😂😂😂😙😙😗😗😁😁😁
Or you could keep it the same way as in the begginng and just put the triangle on top of the h and it will blend in
Please don't let the negative comments keep you from showing MORE puzzles like this one, Obviously this kind of thinking/understanding is SERIOUSLY LACKING in people today and will certainly be the demise of our current civilization (as apparent by world events). You are providing valuable problem solving/intellectual reasoning skills that most are to inept to appreciate but PLEASE continue...(I can tell by the comments, there has been much damage done by the indoctrination systems). Thank you !
That's a tangram.
Every time I read “ingenious” my brain reads “indigenous” and I’m like “wow I didn’t know the natives made so many puzzles!”
Random guy sitting next to you on the Train: "Hey, wanna see my sick Puzzle?"
You can keep the H flat on table . Look at first H and notice that each side is made out of 2 pieces of which one is shorter. Use the two longer one to make a taller side and flip over one of the shorter and put two shorter ones together , tip to tip . Use the extra triangle to fill the triangular gap and put it in place as the second side to the H . (Horizontal line remains the same)
Or if unequal length sides bother you , with first H leave left side alone , swap longer right side piece into horizontal and use center one (flipped over) and place tip to tip with other filling the gap with the 'extra wedge , as before .
Thank god for the mini half h puzzle. How else would I always keep it with me?
Well, considering that solution, couldn't I just take it in its state at 1:08 and place the extra piece pretty much anywhere else on top of the puzzle? It meets all the same criteria as the 'correct' solution, only resembling an H when viewed from top-down and such.
I had wondered briefly if the ‘half’ in the puzzle might actually refer to the puzzle bc you have two objectives: 1) make an H shape,2) with all the pieces and this is clearly impossible on the 2D plane. But I guess the 45 ° angle half cube H explanation works too.
Rotate 1 small piece in midlle, insert small piece in created hole.
the flat solution is easy in 1 sec.
just put the free triangle piece into the middle to the other triangle piece to make a square. then you have an H but a little bit wider.
I cut pieces from paper and made a 2d solution that might work with the puzzle and could almost certainly work with carefully crafted pieces. Maybe I'll bust out the 3d modeling software and make my own version.
this puzzle broke my brain
nailed it in half a minute
my version was flat on the table
Awesome
I figured this one out before but it was made out of paper
I undetstood how the chocholate trick works
THATS AWESOME!!! :D
Do the instructions specifically say that the solved puzzle does not have to lay flat on the table surface? It seems to me that if the only requirement is that the puzzle use all the pieces and resemble the letter H - there would be lots of ways to "solve" it. For example, you could stuff the extra piece underneath one of the others - and then just view that "solution" from directly above. Another creative "solution" would be to grind the extra piece into sawdust and sprinkle the particles in all the cracks. Or one could simply carve a wedge out of one of the pieces, discard the excess, then slide the "extra" piece in that spot.
A good solution here might be to grind the whole thing in to sawdust :)
Do you use the pennys as a guidline for the edges of the camera view? That's ingenious!
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Gabe Hall
Good eye, I thought the same thing...
*Hershel Layton voice* Every puzzle has an answer.
Solved it in the first minute
cool video bro!
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Hi Mr Puzzle.. I have a Nintendo Barrel puzzle (10 billion barrel puzzle) but i have not been able to find a tutorial in English.
Hope you can make a video on it soon.
Awesomeness
Doing it the way the creator wants you to do it is good but the easier way is to just burn one of the small triangles because he said you must use all the pieces you have
Shape a normal H and put the last piece on top of another one.
Sher gut mein freunde!!
I actually got in under 35 seconds just looking at it...I like tho😉