The Ingenious Half H Puzzle - Always one piece too much! 

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'.

Nothing is as complex as Giraffe puzzle... Still struggling

After 6 years I'm really close to solving the giraffe puzzle

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.

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

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.

Step one: light fire Step two: throw extra piece into fire. BOOM DONE.

For me the giraffe puzzle is still a nightmare...

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.

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 highly recommend the letter “I” puzzled as well. It’s a whole new experience.

is it also "thinking out of the box" if I break out my Swiss Army Knife and have a go?

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.

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 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.

Hmm does this mean if u have two sets of this puzzle youll can have the "Whole H"?

I never would have thought to stack the pieces like that.

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" :-)

That's like telling an ancient riddle with a commonly known answer only to say a completely unconventional solution

This is already my favourite puzzle I've ever seen… Such a big "ohhhhhhh" from me!

In other words, if they gave a detailed explanation of what is considered the solution they would give away the 'trick'.

"what it actually looks like" not "how it actually looks like". Extremely common mistake for certain learners of English. Cool video. Thanks.

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.

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.

That is really cool.

Thumbs up to the inventor!

"... Always one piece too many!" is the proper construction in english.

Thats cool!!

Very clever little puzzle

Just love this puzzle.

That is so clever, it would've taken me days to even ponder that!

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.

Cool. Like always keep on puzzling

Hi Mr.Puzzle It's my first entry - just to say - best puzzle for decades...

I guess it’s a bit like a cube cut in half on the diagonal, maybe that’s where it got its name.

I love this! I solved it by the thumb nail great work buddy

this has to be the worst puzzle ever

Pretty cool

thats such a relief, i always thought i was just stupid, and now i realise the design is stupid

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.

Random guy sitting next to you on the Train: "Hey, wanna see my sick Puzzle?"

THATS AWESOME!!! :D

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.

That’s a clever puzzle with a clever name!

*Hershel Layton voice* Every puzzle has an answer.

wow you really have to think out of the box to solve this

that's so clever

that's incredibly clever

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.

It is now a half h that is cut on a diagonal plane from the top front to the bottom rear. Ingenious.

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. :)

that is so cool

Shape a normal H and put the last piece on top of another one.

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!

Hah nice work!

lmao im getting automatic german subtitles, love your accent xx

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.

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

Nice!

cool video bro!

Every time I read “ingenious” my brain reads “indigenous” and I’m like “wow I didn’t know the natives made so many puzzles!”

Very nice 👍👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌👌

I really like how you say hi

1:29 MAN DATS SUM GOOD ASS SHIT (like if you get it)

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!

Why I'm here my brain are shaking right now!

sehr schön

I think I could stay on this one for 1000 years :)

This puzzle can be solved by this logic in so many ways.. You can hide the extra piece under another piece and show it from above and claim you have solved it

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.

Awesome

Nice video and very ingenious solution. i did not manage that. But why is it the puzzle named "Half H"? (and not "H"?

In that case, leave the puzzle as it was at the start, place the extra piece anywhere on top of the other pieces and it will still look like an H if you look at it from the top 🙈 in my opinion is kind of a cheat puzzle, it is a given that is a 2 D puzzle, otherwise it needs to be said on the rules that the H can be read from a 3 D or 2 D perspective

Get 2 of these puzzles, glue them together and you have a full 3d *_H_* *_H_*

If I had a way where I can eat as much chocolate as possible...

this puzzle broke my brain

really lame solution, glad I watched and didn't buy it

Heck Yeah!!!

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.

Random American - ok New buzzle Every Finnish people - F... Yeah

because the answer allows "angles of viewing" you can actually love it many ways, including the way you had it at the very start. just place the left over piece on top of any block, look from above, and ur done.

Awesomeness

That's Kool

Nice

"*playing fast and loose with definitions*"

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I got bamboozled And so did you

Bait and switch puzzle.

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

Build tall. It's the secret of life..

I'm from finland it is funny to hear how you say our names

Sher gut mein freunde!!

You can also make a lower-case h in the negative space.

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.

Clever.

I had a feeling that rotating the pieces was part of the solution, but stacking them was not something I'd have concluded, not quickly anyway

Easy,Just THROW THE EXTRE PIECE ON THE *TRAAAAAAESHHH-* CAN!

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 must admit. I did not think to try that

This is the equivalent of a trick question. There is no true solution to this puzzle in my book. I'm glad I didn't spend a lot of time trying to solve it.

Wow!