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- Yo, what's up guys?
Welcome back.
Wednesday, puzzle day.
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I got a special one for you.
Today we're looking at a puzzle by Yuu Osaka.
Yes, another Yuu Osaka puzzle.
This is the most difficult of all the Yuu Osaka puzzles
and it only has nine pieces.
This is a jigsaw puzzle with nine pieces
that is probably the most difficult
jigsaw puzzle in the world.
But if you've all of his other puzzles, it's not too hard
to believe.
There is always some sort of twist with his puzzles.
They're great, they're simple,
but yet you can rack your brain
over these things for weeks and weeks on end.
We don't have that time,
so we're gonna crush it today, hopefully.
I left the link below down to some of Yuu's other puzzles
you guys can check out.
Without further ado guys, let's get into solving it.
(imitating explosion)
So here we go, Ice 9.
So we have to put all these pieces into here
no point in goofing around.
Let's get the timer.
Where's the timer?
All right got the timer, everything is good.
(beeping)
Here we go.
Okay.
(beeping)
Boop.
No rhyme or reason here.
Let's maybe inspect the pieces here a little bit now
this guy likes to think outside the box.
I don't think that--
Okay, my first assumption because I know that this guy
likes to do weird things,
my first assumption is that my corner pieces
are probably like this.
They're not going to be like this.
That's like the only thing I can gather from this
but however, doing that makes the puzzle have more
sort of space, so it might be counterintuitive
but I think that's the way it should go.
So let's try to find some round pieces
that may fit in the corners.
And it looks like that is about it.
Okay, well maybe that is not the solution.
Not...
This is good.
Oh, these two fit together actually quite nicely.
That's a nice start, wouldn't you say.
So far so good.
Imagine if I solved this just like, straight away.
(groaning)
Look at this.
This is actually, this is going a lot better than I thought.
Famous last words.
Heh.
It's called Ice 9.
Why ice though?
Just 'cause the color you think?
Or is there some type of deeper meaning here?
That is pretty close, look at that, I mean, c'mon.
Okay, not bad for a first attempt,
not bad for a first attempt.
But not great.
That's actually really good, that's actually really good.
It's crazy because this puzzle,
the pieces actually fit in really weird and satisfying ways,
which is cool.
Okay, let's start with an actual corner piece.
Let's see if that works out over here.
There was, where was the one that fit nicely?
Was it this one?
No.
This one?
No, that's weird.
Oh, that's a nice fit.
It's so weird to look at these pieces
because you're honestly not sure of anything.
I'm realizing just how difficult this is
because you just have no idea
what to start with, you kind of just have to go.
I guess, trial and error.
I think once we find two pieces
that fit really well together
we should probably keep them aside.
I don't know if there's anything that really would
logically fit there.
Not a bad fit.
He says.
That's nice.
Oh, look at that.
Look at that, that's actually really close.
Like it wasn't for that part, that would be a fit.
Wonder if there's more than one solution here.
So maybe we can play with this, make it fit somewhere else.
Maybe here, oh, no.
Oh.
Hmm.
That, look at that.
Let's keep track of that.
That looks really good.
There's like a very minimum amount of space here.
Which is really great.
Just trying out some weird stuff here.
There's that whole space.
So I like this configuration,
but maybe this has to be like on the bottom,
maybe that's what we're looking at now.
These two pieces seem like they belong together.
Oh this can't be, this can't be.
Okay.
Ugh.
Ice 9.
Ice, why ice?
All right, let's look at this logically for a second.
Usually, mostly built on length,
we have these pieces which are mostly girthy.
And we have, so that's kind of what it's showing.
So maybe without the frame
we can look at a few pieces that might fit well together
find a nice little balance here somewhere.
These like, these pieces here are interesting,
because they're like little steps.
You think that's the piece
you would wAntoine to start with, right?
Kind of tells me that it might not be.
And also one thing is
you don't know if you're on the right track
at all, at any point, so it's like,
do you start over?
Or do you start with pieces that look like they fit,
but then, you know, kind of a conundrum.
I just wanna find a few pieces that fit perfectly,
'cause then I'll just think, you know,
that I'll be on the right path.
'Cause if you do things like this,
like that corner right here,
it feels like it's a waste of space.
'cause there's nothing that is gonna fill that up.
Please don't tell me it's one of those things
where like the middle piece is diagonal.
This looks like the odd man out.
This one or this one.
You know, if that was like this or like this?
That makes sense.
Not really.
Trying anything at this point.
I don't know what to do.
How many pieces that are just meant to be?
Slowly losing my mind.
Ugh.
It always comes down to one little piece.
Okay, so one thing that I figured out,
the only thing that I figured out
is that it doesn't matter if you have little spaces,
i.e. spaces like that's too big of a space,
but this space here for instance,
that's okay.
Because in the end, what we've done,
we can see that even though there are those spaces,
that that doesn't actually matter.
Wonder how long it's gonna take me
until I realize that the solution has nothing to do with
what I'm trying to do.
You know?
That's nice, or is it?
Wish I had that one tetris piece that just, you know?
Okay, obviously not.
Man, I really thought we had something going on here.
Okay, so see here.
We're only missing like this little quarter piece here
and that happens to be here.
It's all about playing around these,
and trying to get those into the right places.
We're always going to have a piece missing
because of how these are angled.
So those need to fit.
We're gonna try a new tactic.
Maybe two heads are better than one.
Ladies and gentlemen this is Antoine.
He's gonna help me out here.
Do you want to step out of the light?
Just, there you go.
All right, drop a piece, go for it.
Oh yeah, sure that piece.
- [Antoine] Easy one.
- [Chris] Maybe this was the wrong.
This one is hard to start with because it's so easy to put.
- [Antoine] This one really should be the last one.
- [Chris] I feel like we should
solve the biggest problem first, right?
So maybe like one of these,
we should put ones, right?
And the, I feel like this one is gonna have to go here
but wait, there's...
All right, go again.
Got denied, nope, nope,
look at this one.
Weird?
Maybe this one?
No, that leaves us with a hole there.
This one here?
Something that we can, oh, that's weird.
I wonder if that works out
in the long scheme of things.
And just, you know, that wouldn't surprise me,
to have a piece like that somewhere.
- [Antoine] Maybe they all have to be that way?
- [Chris] I think that would mean that the corners
would all be empty
and there wouldn't be enough room.
Do you know what I mean?
- [Antoine] Mhm.
- [Chris] Because there's no piece that can go
other than something like this,
and then where's the weird piece?
You're always left with holes.
We have to make just straight corners.
Here we go.
- [Antoine] No, that can't, that can't be.
All these aren't gonna fit there.
- [Chris] If we just cut this piece.
See look, there's two gaps, for two slots, right?
So these holes don't matter.
I feel like this one needs to go here
because that one would be the obvious choice.
- [Antoine] In there?
- [Chris] Well, it has no choice, right?
Unless that one goes here.
- [Antoine ] Yeah, but then you can--
- [Chris] Nothing can fit there.
- [Antoine] But if you did that in there.
- [Chris] Oh, so close.
Again, but see, one square.
(gentle instrumental music)
There needs to be an ah-ha moment.
I'm not getting it.
This piece here, is the most intriguing piece I find.
'Cause it's the only piece that's completely symmetrical.
Kind of looks like the top of a mountain,
this one here.
Ice on a mountain.
You know what I mean?
Maybe that's the meaning of it?
And that's, you have to build the mountain.
Okay, one thing that I've gathered,
that we haven't sort of put together before is this.
There is a circle.
The hole, and this might be a stretch,
but it actually might be borderline genius.
Maybe, we're thinking about the corners all wrong.
Maybe these are the corners.
Somehow.
Obviously not going to fit here but..
Oh.
I think we're finally onto something here.
Okay, let's look at which corners make sense together.
For this to be a solution,
Everything would have to have no spaces.
There would have to be zero spaces, I think, in total.
What does this mean?
The other idea I have is that maybe
all the little round bubbles end up on the side somehow.
Because if I do this, I'm not losing any space.
This edge might as well be flat.
Right, so maybe all the round sides
have to line up on the sides somehow
but then how does the corner end up finishing?
I don't know.
Let's look for some round pieces here.
Don't judge me, but how does this end then?
Do you know what I mean?
And what the heck do I do here?
(groaning)
I don't know what to do anymore.
I've exhausted all my resources.
I've tried diagonally, that doesn't seem to get me anywhere.
Because if I go diagonally,
there's nothing left to put in the corners.
Then I'm losing a ton of space.
So that can't work.
Ugh, God.
(sighing)
(slow instrumental music)
(groaning)
All right, so I'm still...
So far, I really like the look of this,
there's not a lot of space to go around,
which is really nice to see.
Oh!
Did it!
Not 'til the last piece was in, did I have any idea
what was going on.
Oh my God, what a surprise.
(beeping)
Two hours, nine minutes, plus off-camera
probably another hour.
Three hours.
Oh my God, I'm so done with this puzzle.
Look at all this space left too.
Tons of space left.
(groaning)
Yeah, I knew it.
I knew, see, I knew this was the outlier
and I knew it had something to do with that.
But I didn't think it was the only piece
that would have to be in that direction.
Here's me trying to fit this in, look at this.
Look at how close this is.
Like, oh, I'm just missing a square,
oh I'm just missing a square,
oh, oh, yes, no, bam, there it goes.
Ice 9.
The hardest jigsaw puzzle I've ever had to do
it's pretty wild.
Well, hot
dang.
Guys we did it.
I honestly didn't think I'd ever get to the end of that.
I have a headache,
a mild headache.
Timer shows two hours, I would say probably collectively
about three.
'Cause at one point I just shut off the camera
and I just like sat back and fiddled around with it
a few times.
It just madness.
I've kind of spiraled into a little bit of madness
during that whole thing.
But I'm really glad it's over.
I knew that that piece,
this piece here.
You know, it kind of almost looks like a devil?
All right, that's how I see this guy.
Or maybe a mountain top.
All right, ice, get it.
So this piece was the only symmetrical piece
in the entire thing.
Which is why I knew that it had something to do
with the solution
I didn't know, and I knew diagonally something was up.
It's just finding that one thing
and just following your gut because
going down the road of I'm going to solve this
with the least amount of space possible,
that's kind of the opposite of what he normally has you do.
You're normally starting off at some weird angle
or something.
So, really difficult because it's not your standard puzzle
obviously, not your standard puzzle piece.
But fun nonetheless
probably one of the funnest of the whole series.
Guys thanks for watching, I'm exhausted.
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Peace, rock.