A different but equally interesting strategy I've found is to randomly put pieces together without any kind of method or organization, get frustrated, and give up. Give it a try sometime!
another consideration that may help your solution is to calculate the volume of the final shape in cubes, and see if it equals the summed volume of the individual pieces. If it does then you know that any configuration with an unfillable cube are not valid even if the piece fits. If the volumes are unequal it at least informs you of the number of unfilled cubes in the final arrangement.
from looking at the video the volume of the combined shape is 80 cubed units, and the volumes of each piece as you labeled them are A=14, B=18, C=24, D=15, E=17, F=16, these sum to 80 cubed units. Assuming I've made no errors this confirms that any configuration with an unfillable gap is a nonviable solution and can be eliminated from the possible combinations
I believe that's correct! I didn't get a chance to talk about unfilled vs. filled, or levels of burrs, because I'm trying to keep the videos a reasonable length and focused. This is a great technique, though!
I like your approach to this. it involves a reduction of combinations along with building a decision tree of potential (and impossible) sets that may fit. It seems this how a computer program may attempt to solve an issue. Some of the negative comments said this approach was too involved. These puzzles could likely be solved more randomly or intuitively but your approach is more of a process or formula for how to approach it. I liked this insight.
I really love these videos showing showing the thought-processes behind solving puzzles. I loathed puzzles as a kid and never even thought about picking one up again until I randomly found a couple puzzle-solving channels here on YT. I always thought you were just supposed to fiddle around with the parts for absolute ages until you accidentally and randomly found a solution and I cannot begin to describe how mind-numbingly boring I thought puzzles were. But thanks to videos like this they actually look pretty entertaining now.
I've got one of these that dates from the 1910s! must have been an early model. I played with it a while and ended up writing a C++ program to brute-force the solution for me, cause I had trouble figuring it out
I've seen loads of puzzles like these and, usually, the solid piece is what holds it togrther.. it's like a pin on a grenade, it falls apart of removed..except no delay..
Every time I watch one of your videos it makes me feel dumb. You make puzzles seem so easy to figure out to where as I would never in a years time be able to solve or figure out half the puzzles you do. Lol
Do you absolutely want to drive your spouse frickin crazy????? Get him one of these puzzles and then have him watch this guy try and explain it to you, but put the video on at .5 speed. He will drive you insane like he did me and I have to thank my wife for that!!!!!
Hola, podrías haber sido menos explicativo y más práctico, enseñando las figuras y haciendo todo más despacio, el el último segundo lo montas todo y se ve nada de nada
This was easily the most obnoxious puzzle solution video I have ever seen! You literally couldn't tell what what the orientation of each piece was unless you rewound it 5 times. Sooooo frustrating
This is literally the best one lmao. All the other ones simply tells you step by step the solution. This one teaches you the thinking process to solve all different variation of the burr puzzle. “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man how to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”
when you see the video in the right bar saying no views and you think YORR! then you watch it and it has 500 views and you think 500TH VIEWER! and then you realise your the 501st viewer.
