Hi guys, a new puzzle to show you. Da daa, look at that! Made of wood and I think it's
called a 12-pointed star. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
eleven, twelve. Twelve points and it's a star. Comes coated in this sort of film,
plastic film, looks very pretty. Quite big quite big. So let's open it up. Okay so
now I'm going to open it up. Film comes off to reveal this star. A nice
light-colored wood, pine I’m guessing, with a shear of, a sheen of varnish on it
and rattles slightly and I believe it breaks up into six pieces. You can make
that shape out of, believe it or not, paper. I think you can make this shape
out of paper, origami. I haven't done it myself though. Now the question is how to
take it apart and how to put it back together. So if you don't want to know
the answer, look away now.
Okay I'm guessing to take it apart - whoa Did you see that? It just literally fell
apart in my hands. One, two, three, four, five, six. So it's not very stabIy
secured but who would have thought these six pieces of wood the same lengths can
make such a beautiful star! That's a great puzzle. Each wood has got a kind of
saw shape, sawtooth shape, to it. Are they Identical? I think they are. They're
identical pieces of wood. Gosh that’s simple isn't it? Just six pieces
of wood this shape can make the star. Yeah that's great. Okay.
Okay, so here's the answer. You take your six pieces and I think you'll need
fairly big hands to do this. So if you look, each piece has got a middle section, a
middle little pyramid shall we say. A little pyramid in it and those pyramids
line up the faces so you make a shape like that, and you take another piece and
the middle pyramids you put it in there so the pyramids are touching like that and
if you have a look at that it looks like a triangle doesn't it?
Not exactly straight but it's a triangle and you can hold it in one hand like that. So that's
the kind of shape you get. So here's the tricky part--once you've got that with
one hand you have to make the same shape with the other hand while you're holding
It, and, and that's not easy but it can be done. So I'm going to have a go. Okay so
let's line up the pyramids. Okay so can you see you've got you've got those
shapes? So this one the hook part at the top is
pointing that way, and this one, the hook part at the top is pointing that way. So
they're kind of symmetrical. And then what you do is slide them over. That's it.
So that hook parts gonna go onto there and you see that and then you push it on,
you push it on. Wow that's pretty difficult. Now they're all hooked. Now
that my, what I think would be better with this puzzle is if there was some way to
lock it more securely. But that is loosely hooked together as a puzzle. You
can pick it up. You have to push together the sides and then you come pick it up. If I
let go that's gonna fall apart. You can hold it like that. Okay let's take it
apart! Let's do that again. So the center point of each pyramid
lines up, so three in this hand, and hold it. Okay so we've got that shape and now
you want to hook them on to each other. So this hook part goes on the non-hook
part there. I slide it together and that's how you do it!
Yeah if only you could secure it how could how could we do that? I can't think of a
way.
Now to put it together. This way if you're right-handed then I
find easiest way is to first make this shape in your left hand and hold it like
that. And then take another piece and put it
not in this right hand side but in the left hand side and it slots in like that.
So you want that shape and hold that with your left hand then with the other
side you make the same initial shape. You can kind of hold it in the palm of your
right hand and then this side goes in that side. This part goes in that side so
there we are. Now you've got two kind of opposite parts, the sticking out part is here on
the right-hand side with this one, and on the left-hand side for this one. So it's
a kind of mirror image. This is if your right-handed. And then this
hook, the top hook is going to go on the bottom of this part. So carefully
maneuver them. You can see the hook goes in there and it just slides into place
like that. When you pick it up you have to just pinch these two points and then you
can pick it up. If you pick it up this way, it will fall apart. But it stands on
the table on its own. That's a neat little puzzle. Hope you enjoyed it and
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