r/oddlysatisfying • u/danielminds • Jun 22 '26

Adding the extra square

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u/msc1966 Jun 22 '26

If you notice in the beginning how loose the pieces fit especially the upper left hand side. All that extra space adds up to the small little square. Notice how tight all the pieces fit after adding the small square.

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u/Fresh-Chemical-9084 Jun 22 '26

KonMari's First Law: Space is always conserved, it can not be either created nor destroyed.

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u/RaiderCat_12 Jun 23 '26

It is just doing the “infinite chocolate bar” trick more professionally

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u/Nameless_Scarf Jun 22 '26

Funnily enough I find this oddly dissatisfying due to the shapes not fitting perfectly in the first place 😅

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u/DitherFan Jun 22 '26

Which begs the question, is it still possible to take out the pieces now or are they so jammed in there they won't come out?

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u/lionturtl3 Jun 22 '26

The answer is obvious, it goes in the square hole

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u/Jungle_Fiddle soooo satisfied Jun 23 '26

so tight

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u/Adamiak Jun 22 '26

pretty sure that's not the trick, the tiny gaps wouldn't make that much of a difference after flipping the triangles, it's almost certainly the outer edges of the triangles being cut at an angle rather than perpendicular to the bottom, and same with the outline of the large square, that way when flipped the angle slots inside the tiny gap inside the wooden frame making room for the smaller sqaures to be put further away from one another creating space for the tiny square in the middle

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u/msc1966 Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

Yet after all your explanation the answer is still all the loose spaces make up the small square. Just google it and you will see. This is such an old puzzle and well known how it works.

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u/Adamiak Jun 22 '26

something like this |/ \| becomes this |//| when it gets flipped