The Soma cube is just so perfectly satisfying. Seems like the perfect weight on the magnets to have a pleasant snap in place without being hard to pull apart again, and the sound is great, too!
The "10 year old puzzle" is what lead to me to your channel when you first started out, I watch that video which was interesting then I found your channel at that time and now that your doing is really something! You come along so much and I'm really happy for you that you got this big doing puzzles that you love doing!
Do you did find A solution to the Soma cube, but not THE solution. If you look at the squares on the faces of the cube, you will see that some are darker than the others. Your solution has a mis-mash of some squares darker and some lighter. When you find THE solution, the all faces of the cube will have matching darkness in every square (with some faces lighter and some darker). Shape is the easy part, face color is the hard part.
Thank you Mr. Puzzle! You have yet again entertained me! I watch your videos after a long week of cooking, I very much appreciate you! - Augustus from Connecticut USA
The cube puzzle was very satisfying! It's pretty to look at with all the carving. They could have just made it out of solid pieces, but didn't. I love the sounds the magnets make, too. That would be a fun one to have.
I remember the video with the Japanese guy you are referring to. In that case they tried several people that had no clue but the expert solved it nearly instantly.
maybe because this puzzke is like 3000 years old (solomon rings) with 600 years of proof in historical documents) and if you an expert in puzzles you have to know about it and solution just because of respect to history of a sphere you are expert in.
Mr. Puzzle ASMR for the win!! The first one is like a Stewart Coffin Cubic Dissection with magnets; very interesting! But I love that loopy puzzle. You must twist your brain in knots with the puzzle to solve...! Excellent!
One of my childhood memories from roughly 40 years ago was of my maternal grandfather taking some small boards about the size of a six inch (15cm) ruler drilling two small holes near each end and a larger hole in the center. He then used a string and two hard plastic rings to create a in effect pocket version of the 10 year Impossible Japanese Puzzle.
The soma cube taking longer is something else. lol At first glance, I figured you'd need to do a switching using the knot by pulling it out somehow. But man you made it look easy. Fun video.
In any of the 240 solutions of the Soma Cube, it can be logically shown that the T piece must be placed so that its long edge occupies an edge of the finished cube, it cannot be placed in a middle layer.
Mr. P., if I'm ever on an airplane that goes down in a remote location, I hope you were a fellow passenger. Your ingenuity and engineering mind would have us saved in no time!
dissatisfying challenges today. the magnetic tetris was like a lego cube. the rope one reminded me of the bar puzzles with the iron with the chains- which i think would be a better solve(hint-hint)
@@joshuahoward2027 absolutely wrong. You may not have been watching very long, but Mr puzzle is the boss. Chris fumbles through puzzles, often breaks them. One time Chris failed miserably, on the "excalibur" puzzle. Then he attempted again and broke it. So Mr puzzle came to the rescue and let Chris borrow his copy, while Mr puzzle FIXED his broken one. Mr puzzle beat the Excalibur no problem, and to this day is the hardest puzzle I've ever seen. So yeah, sorry but you haven't a clue what you're talking about.
The explanation for the second puzzle may be even more simple is the rope was two colour, so you can see that every move bring the ring closer to the middle of the rope and at some stage you cross that middle then start moving back to the other end. I have had a puzzle with that exact mechanism for over 30 years.
The Soma Cube has Maths to easy solve it for every possible combination (no need to brute force tree of states). The Cord puzzle is easy to solve with 3D laberinth techniques, 3D nots maths. As you see your self, knownledge of such maths allows to solve them faster andmuch more easy.
@@Mr.Puzzle I know you are good - but still I could not believe how quickly you solved them both. Experience pays. (I hope the young " giraffe puzzler" is doing well)
Yeah the Solomon rings, one of the oldest puzzles known to himan history. I think you might knew how to solve it long before the video :) I own eureka wire 'racing' puzzle 26 which is slightly harder version becaise it also has a confusing big ring on a wire and also ring can go threw the base of puzzle. They rate it 2 out of 4 level but imo its 4 if person never saw original puzzle.
the 10 year puzzle is one of the first difficult puzzles i learned. the one we have only just has a thicker and shorter rope, which makes it much more difficult. i have shown it and taught it to many people over a couple decades. ours has just enough rope that if done correctly, can actually move the balls across as well, but even knowing the solution, it is tricky. i learned to do it behind my back, one handed, and still view it as difficult. i honestly think you rated it too low
How come the magnets on the Soma cube always attract? No matter the orientation of the pieces? Magnets only attract each other when N/S. And if it's done with a magnet on one side and steel plate on the other the same problem occurs - how to come it's always a magnet and a steel plate at every connection? I can see how you could orient them to be attracted to each other with the right solution. But how to make every wrong solution be magnetically attractive too?
@@jimmyporter8941 I think what you see is a metal casing, while the magnet is inside it and can freely rotate thus allowing it to auto align with the magnet in the other piece
Well, it did not took me 10 years, but it took me nearly 5 hours to solve..... i enjoyed it though 😁 ......for a reason rope puzzles seem to be the most difficult for me to solve.... 😵
Puzzlemaster should have warned you in advance to check if the puzzle was built well enough for the video. I had the exact same problem when I bought this puzzle several years ago. Buyer beware of the PM wooden produced puzzles. Best to invest in some wood glue.
I remember the school giving us a plastic version of the soma cube when I was 8. Fit the corners and odd pieces first… that’ll make it easier to solve.
Because english is not his first language, he won't always pronounce everything perfectly and that is to be expected and more than okay. He speaks really well, in my opinion :)
