Fascinating wooden puzzle

The dimensions are now on my website:
http://tomlancaster.weebly.com/other-projects-and-puzzles.html
A puzzle you can make that's defies all logic. The overall size is always the same but a gap appears when when re-assembled.

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• cardboard

[moglei]

So first position we have 8x5=40 units² (middle plus big triangle) and 5x2=10 units² .

In second position we have 8x3=24units² and 5x5= 25units² and so the one unfilled square is now there.

It’s just about extreme-values. ^^ hope I could helped to understand it.

[Tomlan2007]

@moglei Nice one, moglie. That's the most elegant and accurate solution. Excellent!

[msericisgodly]

god i feel dumb after watching the vid and reading the comments...........

[Tomlan2007]

@msericisgodly Lol. Me too! :[)

[magicalorigami]

nyc combination of song n vid!!

[Tomlan2007]

@magicalorigami That's weird. It's not my soundtrack. I love the Carmen the opera but I never put it on! I wonder where that came from? Even more spooky!

[ehaughey]

I'm not the most intelligent person in the world and i'm also not dumb, but I believe the angles on the 2 triangles are slightly different, over the space that they span will cause a gap between them which is the equivalent to one small square... Would that be right?

[SLICKRICKDESIGNS]

@axke I think u r right when it comes to da slopes of da triangles but I think da anles r da same and bcause both triangles have the same angles they could alternate positions but when u put da bigger triangle @ da bottom of da rectangular frame then u leave a big gap @ the top so the 2 L shapes are not long enough to fill their original place. Is easier to under stand it than to explain it, not that is hard to explain. I think my explanation was more quirky than the actual puzzle... lol.

[SLICKRICKDESIGNS]

Since both triangles have the same angles they could alternate positions but when u put the bigger triangle at the bottom of the rectangular frame then u leave a big gap at the top so the 2 L shapes are not long enough to fill their original place. Is easier to under stand it than to explain it, not that is hard to explain. I think my explanation was more quirky than the actual puzzle... lol.

[frostyh81]

I don't get whats so "fascinating" about the puzzle.

[SeeingWithOneEye]

Thumbs up if you recognize the opera that this came from!

[EmperorAst]

The gaps play the most important role. If the frame was exactly 5*13 inner dimensions it wouldn't work at all. So I think it's a matter of accurate construction.

[wantstoScooter]

dosnt work no more.....god patched it

[NLShArKNL]

dudes! at the right of the "squire" block you see a gab, this gab is just replaced and reformed, duhh

[Power2theSlinkey]

this is stupid..

[sublimehypocrisy]

@moglei You couldn't be more wrong. You can't add surface area by moving objects around. There's a sliver on the far right that he fills after replacing the blocks.

[sublimehypocrisy]

Before he moves the first pieces look to the far right of the enclosure. There is a long sliver that must be the same surface area as the box that's left over, because when he replaces the pieces, he justifies them to the far right, and even spaces them out a bit.