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- Yo, whatsup guys and welcome back.
Back for another puzzle on a Wednesday,
I hope everyone's doing fine,
hope everyone's staying safe out there.
Today we got a really cool puzzle for you,
we're looking at this little guy.
As you saw on the intro, this is known as Waves Puzzle.
But you can check it on Instagram @wavespuzzle
or on his site http://www.wavespuzzle.com
This is an iridescent jigsaw puzzle
and what that is, is this here.
You take a look how cool does that look?
So it goes from orange to purple to blue.
The difficulty level here is probably pretty difficult
because these pieces can be either side.
Puzzle 'n chill, no longer Netflix 'n chilling,
we're puzzle 'n chilling now.
He wrote me this letter as well,
it says "Hey Chris, big fan
and this is my first puzzle design,
we recently launched our small company, Waves Puzzle Co.
I hope you enjoy it and thank you
for everything that you do.
Benjamin Sachs."
So thank you you Benjamin, I do enjoy,
I think it's beautiful.
I think, you know, even on the box
it's just nice packaging, says here,
yoga for the mind,
which you know, we can probably all use right now.
So without any further ado,
let's get into solving this puzzle.
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Here we go, oh we got the good mic setup right now,
so we got this brand new mic that we're using.
By the way, I also fixed the timer,
I just put new batteries in it.
But this mic is pretty insane,
watch me get close, listen.
(smacking lips) I really like the taste
of octopus, nom, nom, nom, nom.
So it's like ASMR channels that do stuff like that,
isn't that weird?
That's me scratching my beard
here in ASMR (scratching beard).
This a wave puzzle, not the same wave by Yuu Asaka,
this is from an independent puzzle creator
that hit me up and this is his first puzzle that he created.
I just thought it was really pretty.
It's also really difficult because both sides are,
you could use both sides.
Here's a cool thing about it though,
they are iridescent, so when you
have a look at it in the light,
how sick does that look?
That looks absolutely insane,
that might be a thumbnail right there,
wow, it's so pretty.
So here we go, we're gonna lay these pieces out.
Look at that, look at the beautiful array of colors here.
Okay, this is a bigger puzzle than I thought.
Maybe I don't have enough room on this, oh God.
Here's the box it comes in.
(beeping) Timer's started.
Oh my God, yeah, I feel like I might need
to put this close up pad away.
I just flipped the close up pad
that I was using here upside down.
I thought it looked cool.
Okay, ooh, it looks like it's all like pink salmon,
but then you pick it up and it's,
it could be blue, it could be see-through,
it's so strange.
All right, so with any, like with any jigsaw puzzle,
I don't think there's anything strange
about this jigsaw puzzle in terms of like
how it's made, I don't believe, I don't oh what!
Look at this, we got a completely square piece.
That's a first, I've never seen that before,
that's a really cool touch.
I was gonna say I don't think there's anything special
about this, but obviously there is here.
But it does look like it has side pieces,
which is always good.
Always good to have those because
then you know where to start.
So let's get this rolling with maybe finding corners.
Again, not sure if the corners
actually fit in the corners,
or if they're there to deter us from the actual solution
and as I'm looking I have one corner,
so if we find four, I mean, we're pretty much,
I mean then we're pretty much set
on a standard puzzle solve.
Yeah, one, two, three, four, I don't see any other ones,
we got four corners here.
I would say, let's start and lets put this over here.
I would say let's start with these corner pieces
and try to build around them, again,
I don't know the orientation of these corner pieces
and oh my God, okay, that's not fair.
That's not fair, the pieces look like
they just fit anywhere, are you kidding me?
How's that possible, look at that.
(gasp) Are there more than one solution?
Is there more than one solution to this puzzle you think?
Interesting, how is that even possible?
How are we gonna, you know what, let's just start.
So, I mean, by looking at that,
that would mean that any sort of side piece
would fit in here and that looks to be correct.
Okay, so that's an interesting take.
You're gonna end up seeing my camera
in the reflection here, you know what we're gonna do,
we're gonna lock the focus
'cause I know what's gonna happen.
We're gonna start getting a mirror reflection
of what's going on up here.
So that means that any piece could fit there freely.
Even though they're a bit loose I feel like
they're all gonna be a little bit like that.
Let's go ahead and count the pieces
so it tells us how many we have in total.
40, 45, 49,
so it's seven by seven, okay (laughing) that makes sense.
Strange, five, six
and then I guess seven for the corner here, seven.
And let's just go down the sides here.
So, looks like we're off to a really easy start
with this puzzle, it doesn't look too difficult at all.
As we progress there might be some bumps
in the road here that we have to look for.
Like this one here could go there, yeah, that works.
Just don't wanna run out of these little side pieces here.
This one might fit actually.
There are these smaller openings
and there are these larger openings,
so that seems to be a,
there's a significant difference there.
Pretty much just gonna fall into place,
but we'll see I guess once we come to the middle
how hard this actually is.
Boom, so it's one, two, three, four, five,
we're missing two here.
Another one here, six, and now we need
a corner piece which is this one here, seven.
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And then this last one should be something like this,
but with a bigger sort of opening to it.
This one here.
So we have all of our edge done,
which I thought would be quite simple.
Now, it's filling in that's going to be
a little bit more difficult.
This can go here I believe.
So we are looking for a side,
oh something like this, there we go.
Beautiful.
(humming) another opening with a larger opening on the side.
Something like this think would be perfect here.
So something like this.
Okay, are these all the same you think?
Like just like back to back to back?
I mean, it's looking that way.
Except this one.
Is that where this guy comes in?
And then, we need something that
has both of those things.
It's flat on one side,
has a opening but also has, or sorry,
has like a male and a female, right,
does that even, do we even have that?
We don't even have that, oh!
The plot thickens, interesting.
You know what, here I'm gonna take this piece
and I'm gonna replace it with this piece.
Oh sorry, not this piece, this piece.
So that way, we can keep going
with our little pattern here.
Oh, there's none of those left.
What?
Okay, so there is a bit of a strategy here
I think with these pieces.
Becoming more apparent that this
isn't as easy as it looks or is it!
I mean obviously we're gonna have a problem here,
that's apparent but hopefully I can
just ignore that until it goes away.
I'm guessing this has to be like symmetrical then.
If this isn't working out 'cause it doesn't seem
to be working out I'm gonna be 100% left
with pieces that don't fit.
This side piece here, this one here
and this one here all have right angles
or straight sides, that one too, huh.
So this is also wrong, ugh!
This is tougher than I thought, okay.
And what if we start with this here,
does that even make sense, can we even do that?
Where those ones we had like this here.
These ones here didn't seem to fit on the outside
so maybe they're something like this.
'Cause those larger ones have the wrap around
as well as the smaller ones, these ones here,
you know, could sort of,
sort of fit on the outside here.
Something like that.
These four pieces cannot be on the outside
because of the smaller things that are there.
So, therefore.
Nope.
We might be on to something here though.
This one doesn't fit there but there's another one
like this that isn't, this, it's this one here.
Boom.
This one here.
So it'd be a flat sided one,
so I'm guessing one of these.
And then this one maybe here and this one maybe here.
Tell me we have, yes!
And this one maybe here.
So one, two, three, okay.
And now this one would be here.
This one would be here.
Oh this is fun.
Two sides, flat on two sides like this here, boom.
And then one last one that's like that.
If we have that, then I think
we're looking at a solution here.
We don't have it, do we not have it?
(gasps) oh yes we do, right here, boom.
Now we're talking.
Ah that's a weird piece,
we don't even have that piece.
Okay, so now we're running into
a bit of a problem here.
We'll address that problem when we get to it,
how about that?
Let's just keep going, I think we're on a right path.
Am I missing pieces?
No, they just don't fit,
okay so we do have a problem here.
And you'll see why in a second.
That is a problem indeed.
If I switch this one, with let's say one of
these side ones here, so we'll take all these out.
So that's the one that was there before.
See, this is a major problem.
Only because that one's double sided.
Are these the factors, these ones here,
are these the ones that don't need to be there?
No, that doesn't make sense.
So close, so close.
It's getting to the end and I think that
the mistakes that we've made have carried
themselves throughout this puzzle,
which makes it, it's going to make it,
I think impossible to solve.
All right, so (sighing) I think
I know where I went wrong.
If I look at here and here, notice how,
so I think I'm gonna have to break this thing apart.
Start over from the middle, like I did.
But this time, do it properly.
So we're gonna start with the square,
we'll do this quickly here I think.
Start with the square here.
And I had another one of these pieces.
I probably shouldn't have separated them like that.
Like this one here, which is identical.
This one here and I need the identical one.
Let's say even these two here, boom.
Boom, now they're fully symmetrical.
So let's try this instead.
Maybe this will work in our favor.
This has to be it.
It's gotta be.
I fear like it isn't.
I fear that it isn't, but, wait what was this again?
Or is it these ones that go here?
Let's do that, that should work here, fine, good.
Here we have something like this,
which should be the same as the other one, yes.
Over here kinda same thing going on.
I don't know if we have enough of those pieces however.
Might be a problem, I mean if there's a problem
I'm happy to address that problem right now
before moving on, that would be great.
It doesn't work because there are
no other pieces like that.
There are no other pieces like this,
like this one here, I need that exact piece over here.
I need it four times.
It's getting kinda hard with the reflections
and everything to really focus on one piece
but you see these pieces here are not quite it.
Because these ones have like a medium opening,
like a medium male and medium female piece,
these ones have small female, big male or medium male.
It doesn't work out.
Unanimous?
Okay, so that's not it.
So if I substitute these
for this and this,
let's try this, substitute that for that and that.
Do I have enough pieces to fill in this void?
Maybe that's the reason it can't be like symmetrical,
there's just not enough pieces.
And we kinda need that piece again and again and again.
'Kay, now we've ran out,
we only have two of those pieces as well.
Oh, okay, so what if it's actually symmetrical,
does that even work?
If I go here, so we still need them here.
So now we're like, opposites, you know what I mean?
Maybe that works.
I feel like mathematically that would work out
with the amount of pieces we have.
Let us have a look and see.
Oh I think this is it.
We've actually figured out the first part of it.
So the only ones left that can fit on the sides
are this one, this medium one, yeah.
This one, and there should be one more
that's like this, but the opposite.
I think that is now opposite
and that should now work mathematically, right?
And that's one, two, boom.
Boom, boom.
Ah, up here, we're going opposites now.
See that's the opposite of that
and that's the opposite of that
and so on and so forth.
So that one, we're gonna have to find the opposite of.
Which is right,
don't give me an odd number.
Don't give me an odd number!
Here it is, yeah, okay, that should actually work now.
We're gonna fill in these two pieces next.
Now we're gonna fill in these four pieces here.
That's really good so far.
Okay, let's fill in these corners here.
They all fit somewhere at this point.
Hoo hoo, hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo.
Oh, yeah baby!
Let's go!
Whoo look at that!
How cool does that look?
We did it!
This is a dope puzzle.
You know what's cool about this too,
it's actually see-through.
And you don't really appreciate that
as see-through until maybe, here hold on,
(paper tearing) take a piece of paper, isn't that cool?
Now you can actually appreciate the fact
that it isn't orange.
And it's, I dunno man, it's trippy.
So cool, such a dope puzzle.
I left the link below if you guys wanna check it out
as I mentioned, just under an hour to finish
a 49 piece puzzle, with a square piece,
I loved the brain tease in this because
going into it I thought there might be multiple solutions
because so many pieces fit together,
but turns out there wasn't and it's all,
it has to do with symmetry
and not exact symmetry but opposite.
It's actually not, it's not symmetric,
it's like opposite of, it's like a mirror effect.
So you have a line here,
that one's the opposite of this one,
this one's the opposite of that one,
that one's the opposite of this one
and so on and so forth.
So mathematically, you had to start with the opposites
because you had two pieces of each it seemed like.
There's a bunch of times that I was stuck
and I was like why do I have two of these,
two of these and that's when it clicked.
In that there's two, because they have to be opposite.
Further you go along, you get to really appreciate that.
So, very cool puzzle, ugh, so glad I'm done.
Pew.
Hot dang, this was a lot of fun.
Took me just under an hour.
I mean, if I'd have figured out,
if I'd have counted the individual pieces
that were like the same and stuff like that.
Might have figured it out a little bit earlier.
Here is what it looks like when it's all done.
Check this out.
Like, I can make it go like this,
you can actually see the colors
kind of shift before your very eyes.
So what a beautiful art piece.
Like, look at that, isn't that cool?
So many different colors going on there.
Really really pretty.
Anyways guys, thanks for watching.
I really appreciate you.
Hope you guys stay safe out there,
and thanks for watching this.
I hope it provided you with some refreshing content
in today's climate and we'll see you on the next video.
Peace, bye.