This Seemingly Simple Puzzle Stumps Even the Smartest Minds!

Understand Part 4 - this is the hardest chapter to date, undoubtedly. These rules are insanely challenging to figure out, even with thorough data gathering. And once I learn the rules, the puzzles themselves can be just as challenging. This game really pulls no punches!
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[@Aliensrock]

Since the title reads like a mobile game ad, I should mention that this really would make a great mobile game.

[@justsomeoneelse5942]

You have to identify what shapes are pregnant at this point like ok game calm down.

[@jackalscry8173]

Breaking the streak of E before there is only E (Hopefully).

[@-NguyenQuangVinh-C-ec3os]

i agree

[@fanofindiegamesunpopulargames]

Where the fuck is my game variety? I want oil game again!

[@lukeseaman2994]

@@fanofindiegamesunpopulargames Just start watching his videos that aren’t understand and boom, puzzle solved

[@dorkygamer8626]

I never thought the day would come where I would hear Tyler say, “Oh no, 2 + 2 does not equal 4”

[@sreezonpanchbibi9932]

Neither did i

[@vii-ka]

no ny life is a life

[@Voron_Aggrav]

We all know that it's 5

[@ckinggaming5bucketmadness766]

Every 4th grader and their mom knows it’s 22

[@ballerbrick]

timestamp ? edit: 20:35

[@scorp-ion160]

“1+3=4- oh my god.” we did it bois he’s achieved 1st grade math

[@choco_jack7016]

horizontal 3 plus dot equals horizontal 4

[@MrLordZenki]

That whole section of the video had me going "quick maffs" every time he said an equation.

[@Mxolqi]

I actually think the rule was to create a rectangle with the squares and emptys

[@marofan47]

🤯

[@badrunna-im]

On 4-3: "They can't be connected" 4-9 and 4-10: *laughs in unison*

[@floxxergames2666]

"The Elbow Master" sounds like some kind of karate powermove

[@kyreevlade31]

sounds like Rendon Labador in the Philippines hahahahahaa

[@johan_r59]

Or some amazing masseuse

[@michagabo8819]

The Book of Truth When things were at their very worst: 2 Suns, Cross in the sky, 2 comets will collide = don`t be afraid - repent, accept Lord`s Hand of Mercy. Scientists will say it was a global illusion. Beaware - Jesus will never walk in flesh again. After WW3 - rise of the “ man of peace“ from the East = Antichrist - the most powerful, popular, charismatic and influential leader of all time. Many miracles will be attributed to him. He will imitate Jesus in every conceivable way. Don`t trust „pope“ Francis = the False Prophet - will seem to rise from the dead - will unite all Christian Churches and all Religions as one. One World Religion = the seat of the Antichrist. Benedict XVI is the last true pope - will be accused of a crime of which he is totally innocent. "The schism in My Church will be broken into different stages" Sunday, 20 October 2013

[@Yokozai]

this is literally just my favorite part of your channel: the game. watching you learn a games mechanics and see your line of logic is something that is just so enticing! great video, great editing by ben as always, over all just a great time:)

[@mahraba874]

Same

[@McMentall]

Relatable

[@otakuworm]

Did anyone else notice that the icons on the lvl select menu hint at the rules in their section, like the icon for section 4 has two elbows and that section is all about empty shapes while the icon for section 3 is the line separating a circle and a square and that section was the one with rules similar to the witness

[@syndere6755]

I think I'm most interested in that Munis World then

[@mahraba874]

On Friday amybe

[@sunbleachedangel]

Yeah, that's kinda the whole point of them

[@choco_jack7016]

that's why two horizontal 2 pieces didn't make an L piece

[@redpepper74]

In world -, Tyler will have to perform triple subtraction

[@zapdragon5942]

"Revenge of the Elbows" Absolute Hollywood movie title here

[@dairyqueenflashmob]

on today's episode: tyler solves the shape world by thinking about almost anything except shapes

[@DiegoGarcia-bd3wr]

As someone who’s done this world, trying to do 4-10 before 4-9 hurt me because the 4-10 rule is impossible to get without having done 4-9

[@Wedl_Lifts]

For not playing the game I would like to know, is the rule of 4-10 that the shape is divisible by 4

[@Wedl_Lifts]

Nevermind 4-10-2 proved me wrong

[@robinlindgren6429]

@@Wedl_Lifts spoiler for 4-9 and 4-10 below below below below below 4-9: all square symbols must be in the same empty space and that empty space must be composed of 2 identical shapes stuck together. 4-10: all square symbols must be in the same empty space and that empty space must be composed of 2 identical shapes stuck together but which have different rotation.

[@kingcobraarchie]

I couldn't do 4-9-8 so I looked it up and I still can't do it even though I know the rule. It feels like I've tried everything but it won't work.

[@robinlindgren6429]

@@kingcobraarchie solution for 4-9-8: spoiler spoiler spoiler spoiler start on the circle in column 2 (leftmost circle) lead the line down, left, down, right, right, up, right, up this solves the puzzle as it fulfills all of the rules: rule 1: pass through all circles rule 2: don't pass through any squares rule 3: have all squares be in the same empty space rule 4: the empty space with the squares is composed of 2 identical shapes connected to each other (2 elbow-shapes with 3 spaces each in this case) edit: drawing the same line in the reverse is also a solution: start on the rightmost circle lead the line down, left, down, left, left, up, right, up

[@mambodog5322]

Oh, 4-9 and 4-10 absolutely destroyed me and were a massive difficulty spike, so that'll be fun to watch him go through

[@bryanchen2713]

4-10 from what i saw was that the shape could be made by 2 different 1 by ___, idk 4-9 i didnt get to see it

[@herohalv4543]

you know things are getting serious when the old "**x time later**" "i'm coming back to this later" combo comes through

[@robinmurugadoss4758]

4-9 took me like an hour and a lot of luck, but when I got it 4-10 took me seconds. It’s interesting to see aliensrock struggle on 4-10 without 4-9.

[@daffa_fm4583]

(spoilers) 4-9 is 2 same shapes combined, 4-10 is 2 rotated shapes combined

[@nouration9685]

@@daffa_fm4583 can you explain, maybe I am getting it wrong, but it doesn't seem to work for me

[@infernorider123]

The video slowly but surely lengthen every time gives off some menacing energy.

[@oacmd282]

World 5 is pretty easy (other than the ? level) so it’ll probably be way shorter

[@zacklofton7211]

I think 4-7 required sections that added to square numbers. That worked for all your solutions even though I don’t think that is what you were thinking.

[@d.l.7416]

That doesn't work for the first one when vertical two and horizontal two didn't work Them combining into squares was required

[@StLucianFury]

@@d.l.7416 I think he means mathematical perfect squares (i.e. 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, etc.)

[@user-zg5oo5yk2v]

@@d.l.7416 Them combining into squares was just a more complicated way to say that they need to be perfect squares. If they combine into a square, of course they'll always make perfect squares, but it's more restrictive that just saying they add up, which is why Tyler had so much trouble with it. If he got to the level and said "oh they just need to add up to 25" he would've gotten the solution in a fraction of the time.

[@redpepper74]

They _do_ need to combine to make geometrical squares, see 17:20

[@d.l.7416]

@@StLucianFury No they need to be geometric squares. see 17:20 and also the first one

[@yungcricket2983]

To unlock 100 percent of your brain you will first find the theme of each set of levels, like 1-# being the basic circle to square, 2-# being numbers of shapes, 3-# being separating shapes etc.

[@conficturaincarnatus1034]

The icons in the level selection screen do tell you a hint on those themes

[@lucasc8972]

@@conficturaincarnatus1034 yeah they’re supposed to hint you at what the world is about

[@redpepper74]

what is the dash world then oh no

[@drvinylscratch1936]

"I see a macaroni and a big macaroni spooning each other."

[@jamjam8795]

This is my new favorite series on this channel, look forward to watching the video at midnight before I go to bed every night lol

[@itshonk7313]

I'd just like to say, I've noticed that each area has a visible theme that likely is the general rule for each area. In this case there were two elbows in a box leading me to believe, after some time, similar shapes

[@lucasc8972]

The icons on the level selection are hints

[@AndGoatz04]

On today's e;isode of "Baba is Witness" We question if Tyler has a new-found elbow fetish

[@DatHypnoboi]

The little icons on the level select screen seems to hint at what the theme of each "world" is, which could be very helpful for figuring out the more obscure rules

[@gamer3428]

I watched part of the first video in this series and immediately decided to get the game. Now, about a year later, I decided to revisit the game with the goal of achieving 100% this time, and also watch your playthroug, directly after finishing the corresponding world. So, on my old file, 4-9 and 4-10 were uncompleted. After the replaying I understood 9, but still had to brute force 10. But NOW, after seeing this video, I FINALLY understood 10!!! Anyways, I really have to thank for introducing me to this game. It currently is one of my favourites. Please do keep up the great work!

[@elmok]

You know a puzzle game is good when there’s levels Tyler has to stop and save for another time

[@bubbagamer7275]

My alternate hypothesis for 4-8 is that the two smaller shapes need to be able to be put together to form the shape of the biggest shape without being rotated, i.e. at 20:35 two two 2x1s can't be added into that L shape without being rotated, but when you solve it at 20:58 the single box and the L can add to the Z tetris piece. No way to prove that it wasn't your hypothesis of a 100% square-filled section, but I think mine is more likely, idk.

[@tubegerm6732]

aliensrock confirmed to not know what a perfect square is.

[@robinmurugadoss4758]

Sorry for not boosting the algorithm by watching these videos immediately. As soon as I saw a multi-part series on a minimalist puzzle game, I bought the game without even seeing the first level, and (six worlds in) I don’t regret that decision at all. There are few recommendations better than aliensrock uploading to his KZbin channel.

[@pentagonofpeople]

algorithm gang

[@denycast]

the main reason to subscribe to this channel, was getting info about new puzzle games... But after watching some videos, I realized, that it is also entertaining, to watch a puzzle game you already solved. ^^ And I try to beat the levels of understand before watching the videos. It worked for the first three sections and section five is finished too. But 4-9 and 4-10 i can't figure out. SO I watch Tylers videos to see, if I didn't learned a rule, form before.^^

[@explogeek]

I always admire your logic, so the fact that I solved 4-7 while watching you faster than you did feels so rewarding :)

[@appleportrait]

I love this series so much, keep up the great vids!

[@gawain855]

in the 4-8-x levels, it looked like if you combined the two smaller sections, you could create the same shape that the bigger section was in. That would explain why you didn't get the last one of that set on your first try. Still an interesting puzzle game that I'm enjoying figuring out along with you!

[@pikminman13]

I can't wait until we get to Tetris Land and Dorito Land

[@drcgaming4195]

cant wait until we get to the challenge puzzles

[@cparks1000000]

17:06 Indeed! They do form a square, a perfect square.

[@imdart6302]

19:40 tyler gets amazed that his puzzle game made him do first grade math

[@littleslimedude123]

im pretty sure any puzzle would destroy my mind in a matter of seconds

[@BobJones-cc8rk]

4:09 "I know what I have to do but I don't know if I have the strength to do it"

[@username5155]

My man legit said “smush ‘em together and they become a square” instead of “the number of empty spaces is a perfect square”

[@TNTspaz]

That was honestly the first thing I thought of when you were working through the last puzzles. Seemed like the most obvious way to fuck with people lmao

[@sleepy2947]

"Oh no, 2 plus 2 does not equal 4" Tyler 2021

[@thelittleterror]

It equals 5

[@weldy00]

This game is awesome, thank you for playing through so much of it!

[@aidennagy9597]

Love the vids bro I already know this one is going to be good

[@MaskOfStars227]

(0:04) 4-1: Don't touch Triangle (2:50) 4-2: Trial and Error (5:28) 4-3: Tile Filling Challenge dialed to 11 (8:41) 4-4: Guessing is meaningless (10:19) 4-5: World of pain (12:40) 4-6: Scaling Problems (15:06) 4-7: Be there or be Square (18:54) 4-8: Squaring Math (21:06) 4-9: [Hyperlink Blocked] (21:27) 4-10: Get even (24:05) Bonus: Rules don't like you

[@Cheesemongle]

aliensrock: master of the elbows

[@sodiboo]

For 4-7 your thinking was originally that "they add up to 4", but then later became "if you smush them together it becomes a square". When i saw the level that added to 9, i came up with a theory more similar to your first one: they add up to a square (i.e. the sqrt is an integer, so 2^2 = 4, 3^2 = 9). In the last level, i think you could probably have done it any shape, and if you really wanted to, maybe even isolated each square to make a 2x2

[@zestciety]

12:32 getting dangerously close to something there my friend

[@Jojogrec]

I was stuck on 4-7 for a long time; I'm happy Aliensrock didn't have as bad of a time with it.

[@Romashka_Sov]

I feel myself proud for solving 4-1-4 long before Tyler because i noticed a hint in previous video!

[@theotofte888]

In 4-7, the rule was the number of non-marked squares must be a perfect square, or the square of another natural number. Really clever thinking though, hadn't thought about it from a geometrical standpoint.

[@DeanTheGreat404]

even though i watched tyler play through the entirety of the witness, this game still confuses me

[@pikminman13]

funny, for me it's the opposite, i bought the game the day he started playing it and i had a relatively easy time with advanced segregation land, tetris land, and dorito land because i had a loose idea on how the worlds worked already.

[@lifinale]

@@pikminman13 segregation land? don’t you mean the early U.S?

[@pikminman13]

@@lifinale alternatively, apartheid south africa, or many other regions.

[@choco_jack7016]

tetris land: you add the blocks together to get bigger blocks here: two horizontal pieces equal an L piece

[@joshrussell4021]

12:15 Tyler: it seems like eat shit- each star

[@jerecakes1]

the ? levels are really fucking trippy everytime lmfao

[@KaeraNeko]

as a fellow puzzle lover, I am impressed. you sure are packing some IQs.

[@comet-travellerwes920]

I finally figured out the ruleset for 4-9 Don't press show more if you don't wanna see it In 4-9 the rules are: 1 : Hit all circles 2 : Hit no squares 3 : All squares must be in the same area 4 : The area has to be made out of a repeating shape, not rotated ( sorry if this one isn't the best to... _understand_ )

[@WampiGG]

For the thing where you put it together to make a square, its just mathematically adding up to perfect squares.

[@robinmurugadoss4758]

True, but not sufficient; the pieces need to be in the correct formation to physically create a square, and though aliensrock doesn’t show it, having the correct counts isn’t enough.

[@a_commenter]

16:45 The sum of all the empty area, meanwhile: n^2

[@thatkarldude]

Ah yes again, the game that f*cks with you.

[@abirdnamedsuki]

Is three a power of two? Think, Tyler, Think!

[@Mofuwu]

Tyler: *calculates complicated things out of thin air* "I used to be able to do that faster", Also Tyler: "2+2=4 OH MY GOD WE ARE DOING MATH". Lmao

[@MaybeMizuki]

Tyler "The Elbow Master" and "Macaroni Man" yeah I could get behind that :p

[@umchoyka]

4-8: Two regions have to add together to form the largest region, equal in shape. So for 8-9, you made a "z" shape as the largest region, the other "L" and single square could be used to create the "z".

[@MrRyanroberson1]

19:40 section 7 was a tutorial for section 8 and you're meant to basically take the previous section's rules as a hint for the next one

[@Drachenbauer]

4:4 I think, you made more path than necessary 4-4-7: I think, a straight vertical center-line will also do the trick. It splits the board into 2 vertical 2x5 rectangles, where both have each shape. not that sure (does it accept 180° rotated shapes): 4-4-8 I think it can be also solved with a pretty straight vertical path, just with 2 bends in the very center (around the right square-icon), that create a single horizontal unit inbetween. 4-4-9 Just start at the left edge at the 4. row and go straight right until passed between the squares, than 2 cells up to reach row 2, pass between the circles and go all the way to the right straight

[@rextanglr4056]

Tyler decides to watch more Numberblocks from that day on.

[@Muunio]

I think the icon by each level section gives a hint towards the rules for that section like if you look at the icon for section 4, you see that it's 2 elbows. I think it's meant to tell you that the puzzles will be about making shapes. and looking back, you'll see that for section 1, it's about connecting symbols. for section 2, it's about different numbers of symbols. for section 3, it's about separating different symbols.

[@fireballme1153]

So fun when I'm watching these videos and figure out the rules before Tyler.

[@owerio]

"I think I'm *understand*ing it" WE DID IT HE SAID THE TITLE

[@hexdebt7670]

The secret meta levels are actually so cool

[@YayoOver]

Chapter 4-7 i think was making a grid For example minecraft, your inventory has a 4 tile grid and a crafting table has a 9 tile grid

[@lucasc8972]

“It definitely had something to do with math” Narrator: It did not have something to do with math

[@lincolnbridge5237]

The level screen has icons for each “world” and they mean what the world is about, 1 is sequences, 2 is patterns, 3 is segregation, and 4 is matching shapes as far as I can tell, I have no clue for 5

[@BlackPawns]

18:54 Those were supposed to be rectangles/squares sliced into 3 pieces

[@perplexedon9834]

This is not correct, though most of the time that rule is sufficient. The actual rule is "two pieces fit together to form a third". You can test on 4-8-7 by separating it into a 1x1 in the tip left, a 3x1 in the top right and a 5x2 L in the bottom right. This first together to form a 5x2 rectangle, but the two smaller pieces do not form the larger and so it fails the third rule.

[@Bogglemanify]

I'm currently in world 6 and 4-7-9 is still my favorite puzzle so far.

[@lizhicao5102]

20:56 I think you have to put them together without rotating

[@plasmatize8494]

For anyone curious about the 4-8 rule, the idea is that you need 3 empty shapes where you can combine 2 of them together to make the 3rd. So the math idea was pretty close.

[@edwiinandresmosqueramarulanda]

Bro, i was screaming at 4-7-2 hahahaha Squares! squares! Come on, I'm loving this game

[@ShockMicro]

Understand is just "Now You're Just Fucking With Me - The Game".

[@HeavenlyDemonicKid]

Hey Tyler, guy here, thanks for the cool content

[@nico371]

Wait until he finds out the little images on the level select screen give a hint as to what the levels involve

[@kristinborn8882]

you not getting powers of two was killing me

[@cosmiccomputer9380]

this game makes me feel exhausted

[@donovanmahan2901]

This one seems to be themed on transformations.

[@ezra7088]

17:11 that's one way to say the empty space must add up to a square number

[@mmmmmmmmmmmmm]

no, it has to literally make a square. A horizontal line of 2 and a vertical line of 2 don't work

[@gabrielgomes242]

i realised that the game itself give a hint because every like section of the game have a image or something like that wich references to the theme of that part like 1 is about conections, 2 is about thesquares and triangles and other parts, 3 i do not know/remember and 4 is about the shapes

[@derfdadude]

CONGRATS ON 420K SUBS

[@brazen_helm]

SPOILERS FOR 4-9 AND 4-10 In 4-9, the final rule is that the area you make that's not part of the line must be possible to split into two identical pieces In 4-10 it's the same except one of the identical pieces must be rotated (rotating a rectangle 180 degrees to get the exact same rectangle is fine)

[@nouration9685]

how do I beat 4-9-10 and 4-9-11, I have been trying for hours

[@codesymphony]

that doesn't make sense because 4-9-8 and 4-9-9 both have a random single square and it still works, but it doesn't work on 4-9-10

[@brazen_helm]

I went back and played the level again and I see my comment was a little misleading. To be totally clear, the 4 rules for 4-9 are 1. The line contains every circle 2. The line contains no squares 3. All the squares lie in a single region bounded by the line 4. The region containing the squares can be split into two identical pieces So the single cut off tiles don't make a difference, as they aren't part of the region containing the squares.

[@andrewhubbard4043]

I feel obligated to point out that 4-8 has nothing to do with addition, but rather: * No touch square * 3 seperate sections * sections combine to any (non-square) rectangle

[@wenjinzhuo9199]

world 1: connection of shapes world 2: number of shapes in connection world 3: shape seperation world 4: Revenge of the Elbows world 5: mass multiplication

[@NIMPAK1]

I understood 4-7's rule instantly but would've never guessed 4-8.

[@jinxbattlz3002]

I love these videos this game is oddly satisfying

[@illusionist1872]

20:11 (insert Breaking Bad reference here)

[@238Hero238]

I think 4-10 was that the number of empty spaces needed to be divisible by whatever number of squares

[@zom7591]

i think the 4-7 puzzle answer was that the empty spaces had to add up to a perfect square, while avoiding the squares

[@dragonhunter485]

Whenever I mess up I'm just going to say "oh no 2+2 does not equal 4"

[@petrikhorr]

"I cannot believe it, 1+1 is 2. What on earth."

[@theangrypotato2.031]

I think the problem where he had to create squares with two sections was actually just prime numbers, and he found a work around lol

[@CitySailingBlue12]

Jesus the question mark level reminded me so much of one of the witness sections

[@eve_the_eevee_rh]

You should check out Lock (it's on Dreams). It's a very creative puzzle game in my opinion

[@olivierboo831]

the 4-10 is bein able to split a single piece of the shape that all the squares are in into 2 same shape pieces, they can be rotated :D

[@garvgupta3567]

22:31 a side ways F

[@420theacid]

This man is actually so smart

[@hatimzeineddine8723]

I have been following along with these figuring out the rules but 410 threw me for an absolute loop, and I have no idea what the rule could be

[@connersound8443]

Aliensrock: "its 4 times the other one" me: no the math: 2*(1*2) = 2*4 = 8

[@kinwawong6476]

4-8 rules is: 1. Do not touch square 2. Non-color space is a multiple of 2 3. HAVE CONTAIN AN ODD SPACE