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- 'Sup guys, and welcome back.
I am back from Las Vegas.
Hope you guys enjoyed some of the Vegas videos.
I got one more coming up which involves
an epic prank on my buddy Wes.
I'm not gonna give you guys too much information,
but it was pretty epic, and he
was pretty stunned, to say the least.
So I'll post that probably Friday,
but that's not why we're here today, no sir.
We are here to solve another puzzle.
This week, as you saw by the intro,
we're gonna be tackling another mini jigsaw puzzle.
This one, however, not by Yuu Asaka,
but by Brian, hold on, Brian,
Brian Young.
He put together this puzzle, which is
apparently extremely difficult for IPP 39.
Still can't say it with a straight face.
Okay, IPP 39 in Kanazawa, Japan.
My bad, it was actually designed by George Sicherman
and then exchanged by Brian Young at the IPP 39.
Looks about as similar as the other ones do.
All the other little Yuu Asaka puzzles where you just
gotta fit the puzzle pieces in.
Obviously there's probably a tricky solution here.
I can't wait to get my hands dirty and dig in.
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Without any further ado, let's get
into solving the Martian Diamond.
(whistles)
Oh, this is interesting.
You can see the camera.
You can see my overheads.
Can you see me?
Oh, hey, what's up guys?
So this puzzle is called
the Martian Diamond.
This is by Brian Young from mrpuzzle.com in Australia.
I ordered this, just saw this on his site
and I thought it was interesting.
I'm really enjoying jigsaw puzzles recently,
so I thought that I'd give this a shot.
Here we go.
So the whole point is to fit all the pieces here.
Of course, you have one piece with a little alien on it.
That's a little alien piece.
I'm guessing that one goes here,
but I'm probably wrong, as there is no piece
that's gonna fit there.
Okay.
So what it says here is,
"Fit the six spaceships into the Martian Diamond.
"You may flip the pieces over."
Okay, that's it.
Do they fit snug?
Or not snug?
Just randomly go about it, see what happens.
So it doesn't look like they fit snug.
Looks like there might be some room left.
Buh, buh, buh.
Okay.
Doesn't seem to be another piece that fits up here.
Ooh, this and this go together nicely.
Or not.
That reflection's kind of very annoying.
Yeah, I can move it over here, get it out
of the reflection a little bit, hold on.
And, nope.
Still the reflection, okay.
Okay, so...
Maybe...
Maybe that?
Maybe...
That's so bizarre.
Okay.
Oh, that fits.
Okay, that fits.
That's nice.
Actually, that one is the only other one
that would fit there, but I don't think
anything would fit over here.
Ooh.
Hmm.
Why?
I don't understand.
Oh, that's kind of symmetrical, there.
Okay.
All right.
Actually doesn't look like it fills up the whole space.
Which I think makes it even more difficult.
Just feel like its more random in that case.
Do you know what I mean?
This is okay.
Looks good.
The top piece there.
That's pretty close.
Pretty close.
Ooh, a star configuration.
Maybe that is the secret.
It's kind of a cool configuration.
I'm not sure if that's the way to go.
Probably not, but it looks cool.
Ooh.
Hmm.
Well, oh well, oh well.
This piece is hard to, this one's hard to fit somewhere.
Ooh, I like the way that looks.
Can we do this?
That's kind of cool.
(sighs)
I'm trying some weird configurations out here.
Hopefully this does something.
(groans)
Okay, so what do we know about these things?
We know that only this one and this one go in the corners.
We should take up the least amount of space as possible,
so that would make sense if they're there, but also,
it would make sense that they wouldn't be there,
because that would maybe be too easy for me to figure out,
catching my drift, here?
These pieces are so big and annoying.
They don't fit anywhere.
(groans)
Maybe the final shape shapes, like, a diamond, you know?
Like an actual diamond.
This puzzle's proving to be a lot harder
than I thought it would.
I mean, I know these jigsaw puzzles get pretty hard,
but they always seem easy.
Just 'cause the amount of pieces
that are involved are so little.
You're always thinking, "nah, it can't be that hard,"
but proven wrong
once again.
This is getting frustrating.
Oh my God.
That looks like...
That looks like it's good.
Oh!
Oh me, oh my.
There's actually, like, so many orientations
to, like, one piece.
You know?
There's obviously, like, every side of it,
then, like, you turn it around, it's got more sides.
It just doesn't stop.
Oh, that would have been nice.
That would have been nice.
Bam.
Ugh.
So close.
Come on!
Bam!
That's it!
Boom, baby!
Thirty minutes.
Here you go, that is the Martian Diamond.
Kind of strange that there's, like, all those...
You know, that's one of the things
about these types of puzzles.
Although this one is pretty difficult,
I still think that these types of puzzles
should be filled entirely, just because
there's something satisfying about jigsaw puzzles,
you know, you don't do a jigsaw puzzle
to have pieces in the middle that aren't filled.
I just think its unsatisfying,
even though they all fit into this piece,
I still think that, like, this looks like
there could be another solution here.
Maybe, maybe not, I don't know.
But I feel if this was all full,
kind of like Yuu Asaka's puzzle,
its just a little bit more gratifying
than seeing those holes and stuff.
But very cool puzzle nonetheless.
There you go, the Martian Diamond.
Well, hot dang, there you go, ladies and gentlemen.
Woo!
We have solved the Martian Diamond in about a half an hour.
I may add, as I said in the outro,
not so much fun
for the solution, I have to say.
Although, you know, it was tricky and it was frustrating,
the solution doesn't give you a complete puzzle.
It does have holes in it, which makes me believe
that there might be another solution.
I can't be sure on that, however,
you just don't get that satisfying, you know,
when that final piece fits into a jigsaw puzzle,
you get that satisfying rush of "endorphine."
I didn't feel that here.
I kind of felt underwhelmed.
However, still pretty cool.
I left the link below if you guys want to check it out.
Guys, thanks for watching.
We'll see you on Friday for that epic prank.
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Peace, rah!
I totally missed the camera.
Okay.
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