Hello and welcome to Puzzle Master.
This is the puzzle guy and in this video I will show you how to solve Tough
Measures,
puzzle creating by Jean Claude Constantin and produced by Recent Toys.
Difficulty level of this puzzle is eight out of 10 and the object is to pack
those rulers into the tray. As you can see,
we have two rulers,
they're a little bit different
and what do we have to do is to put them back into this tray.
This puzzle is difficult,
but you don't need to have a lot of experience in puzzle solving, uh,
to solve this puzzle.
All what you need is logic and you will see why when I show you the solution.
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And now I will show you how to solve it. As you can see, there are two rulers,
each is different and each of the rulers consists of many different parts and
then like a different length.
We'll take the longest ruler first.
And let's start with the biggest part in this row here.
As you can see, we can fit it
only somewhere in here. If you put it on this side,
it's not going to fit
because the tray from this side or this side of the tray is small.
So we can put it here or here and so there are six possibilities.
But if we use logic and start thinking, okay,
there is another part goes next and this part can fit only in here or it can go
right here and
now we have only two possibilities where we can put this first part here or
here.
But if you use logic again you will find that there is a space
on the ruler and we are not going to fit any other ruler there.
So, uh,
the logic says that we have to put it right here so that other rulers can go
under this one, like this for example.
So this is the only place where you can put it. Oh the second part goes right
here and this small part goes right here to the left.
There is no other way you can put it. Next,
there are a lot of possibilities where you can put all other parts.
So we will leave this ruler and we take another one.
Um, this, this ruler, you can use logic again.
Uh, in a description of the puzzles of the puzzle, it says that,
uh,
number 1550 supposed to be in one of the corners and it fits perfectly in this
corner
since the next part goes under this long piece.
And the next part, which is six
centimeters long, it can go only this direction.
You can't put it here because it's too long. So it goes right here.
And now using the logic, you can
put the next part only down here.
It's not going to fit this way. So next,
what you have to do is to
put that three centimeter part right here.
There is only one way we can put it. Next goes this long part and it can go only
up here. So we will put it under the
rulers like this.
And now you see that we have only two centimeter piece left.
And, another part left. And uh,
again you can put it on the right, but then when you put all these parts, there
will be no space left for other rulers to go to this empty space.
So we have to
put it right here again under that big
ruler part and like this.
And as you can see we have this small part left of the first ruler.
It goes right in this corner.
So now we are coming back to the first ruler and you may see that now we have
less options. We can put this three centimeter apart here,
this part will go here.
But next there will be a problem to put this four centimeter part, since it's
not, since it's not going to fit anywhere.
So the logic says that we have to this part up here,
the next part goes only one way right here and this four centimeter piece
supposed to go up there. So again, we have to
put it
right there to the top.
And next what you have to do is to turn this right,
this small piece and this long piece will go down here.
And again,
there is only one way where you can put these two parts that we have left.
Right here. As you can see, uh,
no need of experience in puzzles,
only logic will help you to solve these nice puzzle.
It's one of my favorite puzzles designed by Jean Claude Constantine.
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designed by Jean Claude Constantin, go to puzzlemaster.ca
See you next time.