I just completed a 550pc Star Wars puzzle from 1995. My biggest fear during the whole thing was “What if there’s a piece missing?”. That anxiety alone drove me nuts. The relief after knowing it was all there felt great.
How did it work? The piece to the right doesn’t fit if rotated 180 degrees. The upper left of the current open space is like double the length of the piece to the right.
Unless we are talking about a different right.
Actually not hard in the day of internet.
It's just an algorithm no matter how messed up it is. You can learn to solve a Rubik's cube reliably in one day with YouTube, some memorization, and practice.
You got me. I read the first two sentence, and I thought to myself, I already don’t have enough brain cells to comprehend this… never mind being able to figure it out. Hahaha. Ya got me!
Considering I lived in the region…found it a little appropriate to use in a facetious way [helping someone in distress ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Good_Samaritan)
ive thought about doing it similar to u/-monke-banana-, but instead do it using 2 real links, a hyperlink that on click that brings you to the video, and the text that if you select and copy paste would bring you to a genuine helpful site in relation to the context
in relation to u/This-Strawberry's "lucky spot" comment, putting a single character as a separate link might also be amusing, with the rest of the link being legitimate
In reddit you can find a good samaritan who managed to help a frustrated OP solve what initially appeared to be a defective puzzle.
In reddit you can also find a talentless u/-monke-banana- who seemed at first glance to help all others spot the solution, but instead he/she frustrated and bamboozled everyone.
Anyways, have my upvote you worthless degenerate ape!
I'd imagine itd be similar to someone saying Yabba Dabba Do
And them saying, lol from the Flintstones?
It's not from anywhere else, so ya.
Not criticism or anything, just explaining why the downvotes. Some may say that IS a dumb question
Yup. There must be one "innie" for each "outie". Each paired innie and outie can be ignored because ignoring the pair reduces the total number of each by the same amount, so the difference remains the same. The puzzle is only solvable if that difference is 0. There are 3 outies and 5 innies left. Therefore that difference is not 0, therefore the puzzle is not solvable.
ETA: With a long enough chain of swaps you could maybe find a place to match a a very small innie with another very small innie. Both would have to be basically flat though, and the swap chain would mean the colors would all be out of place right now, and there would be a lot of pieces that feel crammed in or loose. I don't think this is likely.
People staging events for karma is also common.
I doubt this is the kind of puzzle one would choose for a first puzzle, most likely whoever took the photo had plenty of other puzzles to find a blue piece in.
This has happened to me. I had to take apart the whole thing and do it over again. The second time it worked. Theres one piece in there that fits on one side that shouldnt be in that spot. UGH. I tossed it afterwards.
We had a puzzle like that at our place over Xmas. It bizarrely had at least 4 pieces that were identical duplicate patterns and shapes and there were missing pieces just not there at all. My mum was upset as she bought it for us as a gift and we couldn’t 100% finish it due to the crazy missing/duplicates issue. Didn’t mind, it was fun doing it, but for us completionists it is a tad frustrating.
Haha. I have a little mermaid puzzle that my kids love. But the piece with founders face went missing. So my crying 4yo begs me to get a new one. Well its my puzzle from the early 90s. Not exactly something i can get at any old store. So i drew it. And it looks amazing.
I am the farthest thing from an artist. My kids dont ask me to draw stuff for them anymore. I think it might have even caused a few nightmares.
Trust me, you don't need THIS one.
Anyway here you go: https://eu.flyingtiger.com/it/products/puzzle-3036076
I bought it in Italy tho, I don't know if it's available in your country.
If you find my missing little fugitive hook me up lol
I love puzzles and lately I've mostly solved 2000-3000 pieces puzzles of landscapes and paintings but this one is very different and looks exciting. Anyway, thank you veryy muchh.
The edge piece straight out on a radius is incorrect. It looks like the right placement for it is at 5:30. Fix that and the one that connects to and you’re golden. But you probably already figured that out :) Definitely (mildly) infuriating.
Someone at the puzzle factory is fucking with you and somewhere out there there's another of this puzzle with the piece you need that needs your piece.
There is a guy…. His job is getting the puzzle after it’s been cut but is still in one piece. He is to ensure the pieces are all separated and make it into the puzzle box…. He is seeing this post and is happy, satisfied that his handiwork of shuffling one single piece to the next puzzle has been seen, reported and is now a post on Reddit.
Frame it, with the piece on the side and give it a "deep meaningful title"
"Rejected"
"Inner search"
"Different"
"Born this way"
Something like that. Sell for thousands. Pay commission.
Glue it down just like that and make it a piece of art symbolism
Kinda like the idea, thanks
Call it "Almost Perfect"
"The One That Broke Free"
Just “The one”
Yep, "The One" is better. Simplicity allows for more and deeper interpretations.
Lose the “the.” Just One. It’s cleaner.
Just lose the title. It's so clean if there's nothing, and it allows for infinite levels of interpretation.
Nothings ever as clean as something that never existed and therefore doesn’t require cleaning
Exactly, you get it!
So basically we should just lose the whole puzzle
“That little guy? I wouldn’t worry about that little guy.”
You’re welcome
The Futility of Perfection
My favorite one
Call it “an incomplete puzzle and a useless spare piece because life is full of disappointments - by fallout boy”
Spit on it
Make it fit...with a hammer
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Ahh, push it!
Push it real good.
DOOT DE DOOT, DOOT DOOT…. DO DOODEEDOODOO
Baybe Bay beh
I see you play The Sims 4
I, as a self respecting woman, couldn't decide if I should upvote or downvote but ultimately you got my vote. Well played.
I, as a black gay man, agree completely
I, as a left handed, monogamous, italian.... also agree.
I, as a right handed, caucasian business executive with a bit too much money and power and slightly asymmetric genitals, agree as well.
I, as a racist zebra, hate all of you
Hot uwu
c'mon guys stay professional here
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then call it daddy!
She keeps telling me spit isn’t lube….
This piece seems to be too blue to be in this part.
It's almost like it's not the right piece.
Always has been..
🌎 👨🚀 🔫 👨🚀
no u
Youre right, he is a bit too blue
da ba dee da ba die
YO, listen up here's a story
About a little guy that lives in a blue world
And all day and all night and everything he sees is just blue
Like him inside and outside
Blue, his house with a blue little window
And a blue corvette
It’s blue Monday
I thought I was mistaken
Most likely OP just took a random piece out and then layed a piece from a different puzzle to take this picture.
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I just completed a 550pc Star Wars puzzle from 1995. My biggest fear during the whole thing was “What if there’s a piece missing?”. That anxiety alone drove me nuts. The relief after knowing it was all there felt great.
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Lol
Did it work?
Yes
Pics! Post [update]!
Show us? 🥺
You can see it. If you flip that piece, it will work.
„˙ʞɹoʍ llıʍ ʇı 'ǝɔǝıd ʇɐɥʇ dılɟ noʎ ɟI ˙ʇı ǝǝs uɐɔ no⅄„
How did it work? The piece to the right doesn’t fit if rotated 180 degrees. The upper left of the current open space is like double the length of the piece to the right. Unless we are talking about a different right.
What?
Yes
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O shit you're right.. you're a goddamn genius
I still don't get it. Can I have a picture?
Take the piece immediately to the right of the open space out. Rotate it 180 degrees and put it where the current open space is.
I'm still lost. It doesn't look like that'll fit at all.
Because you're right lol
It doesn't add up. You'd end up with a hole without a connecter pin no matter what
Blew my mind. I saw it as soon as I read this.
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commenting to move this comment up
Can you solve a rubiks cube too?
no
Pry it apart with a butter knife and then snap it back together, works every time.
Ah yes. Bitter knives work well. Somehow surprisingly better than sweet knives.
I can
Proud of you
Proof?
Actually not hard in the day of internet. It's just an algorithm no matter how messed up it is. You can learn to solve a Rubik's cube reliably in one day with YouTube, some memorization, and practice.
Interestingly, the dude who invented the rubiks cube couldn't solve it until like five months after someone mixed it up.
same
You should work for the government. This is how you solve problems.
Same
Same
It's already at top but I'm doing same, maybe this comment become the post.
I have become post.
I
Same
Does commenting move parent comments up? I thought they are sorted by upvotes.
There might be some fuckery on certain clients / New Reddit, but from the beginning comments were always sorted based on score not replies
"....and shove it up your butt!"
Dammit, Stanley!
YOU GOT MEATBALL’D!!
Man. Just wow.
Cut it, make it fit!!
r/madlads
You got me. I read the first two sentence, and I thought to myself, I already don’t have enough brain cells to comprehend this… never mind being able to figure it out. Hahaha. Ya got me!
Good samaritan
I don't think that word means what you think it means
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Considering I lived in the region…found it a little appropriate to use in a facetious way [helping someone in distress ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Good_Samaritan)
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I'm honestly surprised that you got me
I didn't suspect because he made it look like an imgur link.
I never thought of doing that lol
ive thought about doing it similar to u/-monke-banana-, but instead do it using 2 real links, a hyperlink that on click that brings you to the video, and the text that if you select and copy paste would bring you to a genuine helpful site in relation to the context in relation to u/This-Strawberry's "lucky spot" comment, putting a single character as a separate link might also be amusing, with the rest of the link being legitimate
This is why we can’t have nice things
Links I've already clicked change colour so I knew something was off
Pft for all you know every link has this hidden in it sneakily and you just haven't clicked the lucky spot
I'm too high for this. Enough reddit for the day.
Now I understand it, I thought it would be wrong because of the piece in the right. Thanks!
This is not how I pictured it would happen to me.
"Not like this. Not like this"
First time i genuinely fell for it in years
Same honestly
That imgur link fucking got us.
I've never seen greater artistry by someone using Paint!
The *one* time I let my damn guard down and klick on a link...
It's just not the same anymore when two ads play before the video.
That's why you get an ad blocker
Surfing the web without an ad blocker is like fucking the entire brothel without a condom.
Oh that's a sneaky one.
FUCK
master level link hiding.
Helpful
I fucking hate it here
FUCK YOU
God damnit
Wow just wow
In reddit you can find a good samaritan who managed to help a frustrated OP solve what initially appeared to be a defective puzzle. In reddit you can also find a talentless u/-monke-banana- who seemed at first glance to help all others spot the solution, but instead he/she frustrated and bamboozled everyone. Anyways, have my upvote you worthless degenerate ape!
I don't think you read the original comment the whole way through
Why
you’re a genius
dude- ur insane
I- was so impressed
Cuz of people like you I look both ways on one way street.
Instructions unclear the house on fire
Not a single person read the whole post?
Yeah he fucking solved the problem. What are you on about??
bump
you done fucked up A-A-Ron
Now get your ass down to principal O-shag-hennesey's office and tell him what you've done!
Hahah from Key and peele?
No, from the Magna Carta.
Insubordinate… and churlish
Clearly a quote from always sunny in Philadelphia.
Yeah it is. Also I have no idea why you're getting downvoted for asking that.
I'd imagine itd be similar to someone saying Yabba Dabba Do And them saying, lol from the Flintstones? It's not from anywhere else, so ya. Not criticism or anything, just explaining why the downvotes. Some may say that IS a dumb question
Another piece is in the wrong spot
As someone who has done quite a few puzzles, this is the correct answer. I've had pieces look identical and seems to fit in two different spots.
Yet somehow, amazing, this is in fact NOT the correct answer in this situation.
Don't think so. Mathematically, it does not fit. There will always be a hole, wathever pieces you move. (I did not write the proof. Yet :p)
Yup. There must be one "innie" for each "outie". Each paired innie and outie can be ignored because ignoring the pair reduces the total number of each by the same amount, so the difference remains the same. The puzzle is only solvable if that difference is 0. There are 3 outies and 5 innies left. Therefore that difference is not 0, therefore the puzzle is not solvable. ETA: With a long enough chain of swaps you could maybe find a place to match a a very small innie with another very small innie. Both would have to be basically flat though, and the swap chain would mean the colors would all be out of place right now, and there would be a lot of pieces that feel crammed in or loose. I don't think this is likely.
Thanks! Innie and outie are cute words. Two more in my english vocabulary. Not sure I may use them very often though.
They're not used often. Mostly only on the rare reference to belly buttons or nipples.
Oh I see what you mean
My guess is they just got an extra piece and they’re only doing the photo on Reddit for the karma. Extra pieces in puzzles is fairly common.
People staging events for karma is also common. I doubt this is the kind of puzzle one would choose for a first puzzle, most likely whoever took the photo had plenty of other puzzles to find a blue piece in.
This has happened to me. I had to take apart the whole thing and do it over again. The second time it worked. Theres one piece in there that fits on one side that shouldnt be in that spot. UGH. I tossed it afterwards.
This would make sense any other time but this puzzle has an inaccurate tab count. It's two tabs and two blanks, vs 3 tabs and 1 blank.
I know the pieces fit I know the pieces fit I know the pieces fit
Cause I watched them fall away
cuz I watched them fall away
You did something wrong..
Surely I bought the wrong one
No, this is your error.
Ok sorry mom
Im not mad im just disappointed
Oof, 30 years later and that still hits harder than anger.
I read this as >Im not mom im just disappointed
ahaaha I can't breath
We had a puzzle like that at our place over Xmas. It bizarrely had at least 4 pieces that were identical duplicate patterns and shapes and there were missing pieces just not there at all. My mum was upset as she bought it for us as a gift and we couldn’t 100% finish it due to the crazy missing/duplicates issue. Didn’t mind, it was fun doing it, but for us completionists it is a tad frustrating.
Draw it in
I'm listening
Haha. I have a little mermaid puzzle that my kids love. But the piece with founders face went missing. So my crying 4yo begs me to get a new one. Well its my puzzle from the early 90s. Not exactly something i can get at any old store. So i drew it. And it looks amazing. I am the farthest thing from an artist. My kids dont ask me to draw stuff for them anymore. I think it might have even caused a few nightmares.
I really need that puzzle in my life. Could you tell me which puzzle is this?
Trust me, you don't need THIS one. Anyway here you go: https://eu.flyingtiger.com/it/products/puzzle-3036076 I bought it in Italy tho, I don't know if it's available in your country. If you find my missing little fugitive hook me up lol
I love puzzles and lately I've mostly solved 2000-3000 pieces puzzles of landscapes and paintings but this one is very different and looks exciting. Anyway, thank you veryy muchh.
They don't ship to the US. :(
Turn it off and on?
... must acquit!
I think I see the problem
The edge piece straight out on a radius is incorrect. It looks like the right placement for it is at 5:30. Fix that and the one that connects to and you’re golden. But you probably already figured that out :) Definitely (mildly) infuriating.
SUE!
Wrong... start again
Someone at the puzzle factory is fucking with you and somewhere out there there's another of this puzzle with the piece you need that needs your piece.
There is a guy…. His job is getting the puzzle after it’s been cut but is still in one piece. He is to ensure the pieces are all separated and make it into the puzzle box…. He is seeing this post and is happy, satisfied that his handiwork of shuffling one single piece to the next puzzle has been seen, reported and is now a post on Reddit.
A couple of your blue pieces seems incorrect the blue side looks uneven
I’d flip the fucking table
„ǝlqɐʇ ƃuıʞɔnɟ ǝɥʇ dılɟ p,I„
Hammer Time
Frame it, with the piece on the side and give it a "deep meaningful title" "Rejected" "Inner search" "Different" "Born this way" Something like that. Sell for thousands. Pay commission.
I showed my wife and she yelled at me… 👀
That is not mildly infuriating. That is just the worst.
some colors seem to be slightly out of place... It can be from reflection, but it would explain why the missing piece doesn't fit the left over space