The Ingenious Half H Puzzle - Always one piece too much!

The task is simple. Use the seven parts to build the letter H. The solution requires creativity and thinking outside of the box. A really great puzzle!
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[@ThePodVon]

I think the problem here in the comments is that people are not really understanding the name of the puzzle. It is not called "The Ingenious H Puzzle" it is called "The Ingenious HALF H Puzzle". 'HALF' is the key word clue here to its correct solution. If you took two of these puzzles and placed them facing together along the sloping 'H' plane what would you get? You'd get an 'H' shaped block. You can argue until you are blue in the face that "if you look at it from a certain angle you CAN'T TELL it is an 'H' shaped block" but it still IS one. This puzzle is HALF of an 'H'.

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Finally! Thanks! :)

[@bl_ss]

Sounds about right

[@ThePodVon]

There is more than one half-H solution but this is amongst the most elegant and thus most correct.

[@scottlesage9846]

Actually, if you put two of these puzzles together, facing each other, you’d be left with 2 “half H’s” but forming a V shape.. like if this were in front of a mirror.

[@ThePodVon]

You are thinking in 2D - 180 degree rotation symmetry along an axis perpendicular to the hypotenuse across the 'H' plane produces a single solid block.

[@sarfarazahmed2662]

Nothing is as complex as Giraffe puzzle... Still struggling

[@cavemann_]

Same :v

[@toddhowardforreal3912]

Sarfaraz Ahmed has anyone solved it?

[@Leo-pr7ly]

yeah Mr. Puzzles little Shitling xp

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Nothing to add here! :D

[@FplusETVChannel]

That was april fools joke

[@Dovwah]

After 6 years I'm really close to solving the giraffe puzzle

[@WildeBob]

Dr Korek ha I solved it after only 72 hours

[@Mr.Puzzle]

How do you know you are close? 😁

[@Dovwah]

Mr.Puzzle 6 years of work all my research and I made a break through but I'm not done yet

[@TomO-if7nh]

Dr Korek Keep at it buddy, I believe in you!

[@grantkeller8024]

Dr Korek Having NO kids, (hense key) guess I'll be stumped for good on that dam giraffe puzzle...

[@CathodeRayKobold]

This puzzle is what I call an "Invisible goalposts" puzzle. The solution is so obtuse, so far outside of the implied ruleset, that you're pretty sure you're just cheating if you solve it. What makes this puzzle bad is that when you solve it, it's not obvious that you've done it correctly. You have to be told when you've done it right.

[@soojandie]

Zoshi i agree with you they dint say anything about stacking it up that is allowed. i had this puzzle about a day ago and couldnt solve it

[@Sanguine_Entertainment]

Using the same logic - you can simply take the "extra block" and place it on top of your completed H such that you see a wooden "H" from your perspective. I tried rotating the blocks (such that it appears rectangular from the top down) and I was told that was against the rules -- yes the actual solution requires much more rotational manipulation than I attempted, and a perspective change. lol.

[@ThePodVon]

It's not about perspective - it is about what it IS not what it LOOKS like. You are not trying to build a 2D 'H' - you are building HALF of a 3D 'H'.

[@Marcosaur03]

That doesn't really follow given that the mid-portion of the H must then rest on the ground. It would need to be suspended. It's clearly about perspective, then, in order to retain the appearance.

[@agentmikster44]

I find it is similar to the difference between a good and bad riddle. A good riddle usually only makes sense with it's given solution. A bad riddle has many possibilities that are correct given only the riddles requirements, but it is looking for a specific answer.

[@schtinky1151]

Step one: light fire Step two: throw extra piece into fire. BOOM DONE.

[@1bruce-]

you stole this joke lol

[@dabs5081]

Stolen joke lmao

[@KomradeKD]

My problem with this is that it isn't a puzzle so much as a trick. This is no better than all the bar tricks out there that you perform to fool your friends. It feeds on an obvious assumption (in this case that it should be flat) and is deceptive in its premise. If I were to do this puzzle, I would assume that it was meant to be done laying flat, and even if I did come up with the correct solution somehow, I would second guess myself that I was correct. A puzzle should have a clear and definitive solution. One that leaves no question that it has been solved, and the rules of the game should be clear.

[@kethmarhkfy7luf.263]

Indeed, by the parameters that the puzzle is solved, you can just throw the extra piece on top and look top-down and it would count.

[@MichaelHarrisIreland]

Kethmar: Excellent explanation as to why this isn't a proper puzzle.

[@mrs.manrique7411]

Of course, puzzles could also be defined as finding a missing/hidden rule. My favorite puzzles are guessing games like What Can Go Through Queen Anne's Door?, What Are You Bringing to the Picnic?, Black Magic, and so on and so forth...

[@reggiep75]

I stopped at the spoiler break and thought 'I bet the H is remade into a lower caps h' Time to press play and find out. Ahhh, angulation. Good

[@CathodeRayKobold]

I thought it was going to be one of those puzzles where you turn a piece in an unexpected way to make a gap for the extra piece appear. For example, a piece placed on its side to make it a rectangle, or some of the pieces fit at a 45 degree angle.

[@DanielHertz]

thats way to obvius...

[@carpii]

dude, enough with the spoilers

[@reggiep75]

carpii - No-one has delivered the spoiler in these comments. There are hints but NO spoilers!

[@PragmaticAntithesis]

That's what I thought too!

[@grivar]

That's a bit silly... If 3D is allowed like that why not just make the H the normal way and put the extra piece on top? "Thinking outside the box" on its own doesn't have any merit. The solution has to actually make sense.

[@ricardolc814]

RE i think the idea is that there must be a plane that contains the letter h

[@MatthysStigter]

or just put the piece next to the H with small side on top.... that will make a H plane... worst puzzle on this channel.

[@MatthysStigter]

but still.. love the rest of the puzzles! its a good thing for my wallet that most puzzles are out of stock as soon as they are featured on this channel!

[@mirangames6642]

hahaha lucky for youre wallet

[@Pumbear]

+Ricardo By putting a piece on top the horizontal plane contains the letter h

[@ADSaaron]

I highly recommend the letter “I” puzzled as well. It’s a whole new experience.

[@kastro4460]

Actually, in the clip at 2:54 in the mobile phone, I find more interesting the fact that you have placed coins on the edges of the camera's field of view rather than the solution itself, so simple yet so useful, I love it! 😂

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Haha, thanks! 😉

[@thomassynths]

I was wondering of going in that route, but dismissed it, as perspective can also make the piece "disappear" if you just simply put the piece on top of another.

[@Mr.Puzzle]

It's also possible to do it without putting pieces on to of each other. You see it if I show the other variant.

[@thomassynths]

I'm not going to give it much thought, but I wonder if it could be assembled as a lowercase "h".

[@SiriusV23]

if this is based on prespective, you can just hide the last piece behind the other, and you'll end up with a complete H.

[@glenna.jaspart1391]

Haha! That is exactly the puzzle I've been desperately trying to solve for the last 2 days. Thank you Mr Puzzle for coming to the rescue! ;-)

[@theoriginalchefboyoboy6025]

is it also "thinking out of the box" if I break out my Swiss Army Knife and have a go?

[@ravichandrannair2615]

For me the giraffe puzzle is still a nightmare...

[@jamessteven711]

ravi chandran nair I'm still working on it, I didn't cheat and get help, nor did I watch the solution

[@ravichandrannair2615]

James Collins if you can find a solution to the giraffe puzzle, it will be a great leap for mankind..

[@jamessteven711]

ravi chandran nair I remortgaged my house which resulted me being made homeless and now live under a bridge because I employed the best scientists from all over the world to try and solve it....... Not even they could.... Now I sit under the bridge.... With jotting else to do.... And I have lost the ability to search for the original video to fund the solution..... On a good note.... I now have a purpose in life

[@allisonlai1351]

what is the giraffe?

[@jamessteven711]

allison lai look like n the channel for the giraffe puzzle

[@gordibito]

Thumbs up to the inventor!

[@lawndogmoon2]

I never would have thought to stack the pieces like that.

[@sophiegrey9576]

This is already my favourite puzzle I've ever seen… Such a big "ohhhhhhh" from me!

[@Habreno]

I like the coins you have scattered about. Great visual cue for you so you know the edges of your overhead camera and can easily keep everything in frame.

[@jonasbrinkworse5436]

I must admit, I am not very fond of such puzzles, where it is not obvious *when* the puzzle is solved. Would I happen upon this solution, I would not ever consider the puzzle solved, I would just observice the curious construction. After all, if it's not supposed to be an H more than from one particular angle, I could put the remaining piece anywhere on top of the H and take a snapshot from up high. It's like my three-year-old saying "look, an H", and I would go "oh, how neat ... although technically it is not, because an H is a geometric shape in one plane" (because I'm an obnoxious father, that have the right to educate my children). Well, to each his own. Glad I saw this "solution" before the actual puzzle. But nice video, though. Good watch.

[@luuttaja]

That's why it's called "half H"

[@mytasteinmusicisyourface3020]

That's why it's called half h

[@bosoundaries]

Hi Mr.Puzzle It's my first entry - just to say - best puzzle for decades...

[@jaynbob42]

Just love this puzzle.

[@imanalius7691]

I have little interest in solving puzzles on my own but for some strange reason, I can watch Mr. Puzzle do it all day! Great channel.

[@HolyShitSticks8D]

That is so clever, it would've taken me days to even ponder that!

[@whiskymylove]

Very clever little puzzle

[@TheBongConnection1410]

Cool. Like always keep on puzzling

[@jintzie1950jth]

You can also keep the pieces in the same lines or strokes of the H, but switch the pieces in the upright strokes so the flat ends are together, rotate all of the pieces except for the smallest one so the longer sides are up, and set the two small pieces in the cross-bar with their diagonal faces together to make a stable square at one side of the crossbar.

[@Chris_Cross]

That is really cool.

[@NickRoman]

"what it actually looks like" not "how it actually looks like". Extremely common mistake for certain learners of English. Cool video. Thanks.

[@R-L-D]

I notice a lot of non native English speakers often say: "how it actually looks like" when it should be said: "WHAT it actually looks like" :-)

[@phillwainewright4221]

If you take your starting position, with the H complete and a small triangle left over - just elongate the centre bar, turn one of the two pieces making it over to leave a small triangle shaped gap in it. Fill that gap with your spare piece. Easy.

[@squan888]

Hmm does this mean if u have two sets of this puzzle youll can have the "Whole H"?

[@ThePodVon]

lol - That is the logic behind the solution :)

[@maxx-er3fj]

Stephen Quan yeah,becouse this is half of H shaped bloxk

[@jaypee9575]

Have I gone completely insane? It's already a whole H. Why is everyone calling something with this shape: "H" a half H instead of an H?

[@thedarkspeedninjashadittsux]

jay pee Because the shape makes a right triangle which is half of a square.

[@ddebenedictis]

no jay pee, you are only half insane. If there were two of you, then you would be completely insane.

[@kjamison5951]

That’s a clever puzzle with a clever name!

[@rred4923]

I love this! I solved it by the thumb nail great work buddy

[@skakdosmer]

Puzzles that require not only logic, but also imagination and creativity, are the greatest ones. I love the ones that leave all the people who think they're smart, feeling irritated because they hate using both sides of the brain. The more people that hate this puzzle and claim that it is “not a real puzzle” or that it's “just a trick”, the better I like it. Did you fail to solve it? Were you defeated by it? That's not the puzzle's fault!

[@1gnore_me.]

that's incredibly clever

[@edubz1906]

Right away my solution was you can make the H lower case. When you said you have to think outside the box I thought for sure that was correct, and actually both are unless it states a uppercase H

[@cjpenning]

In other words, if they gave a detailed explanation of what is considered the solution they would give away the 'trick'.

[@moonymoons]

I really like how you say hi

[@jilaniniyascp785]

Pretty cool

[@chado3000]

It is now a half h that is cut on a diagonal plane from the top front to the bottom rear. Ingenious.

[@SuperPussyFinger]

Bait and switch puzzle.

[@finhazel]

Thats cool!!

[@NicolasSilvaVasault]

wow you really have to think out of the box to solve this

[@ukar69]

I guess it’s a bit like a cube cut in half on the diagonal, maybe that’s where it got its name.

[@eivarden]

because the answer allows "angles of viewing" you can actually love it many ways, including the way you had it at the very start. just place the left over piece on top of any block, look from above, and ur done.

[@gralnrath]

I feel like the solution to this puzzle is dishonest. If it's implied that you need to make a perfect box H, but the solution is an "outside the box" 45 degree angle then that's not really a puzzle. This is an experiment in how far can you push the rules and does your solution still "count" if you do so.

[@luuttaja]

That's why it's called "half H"

[@bazza5699]

that's so clever

[@Kalfaboy]

this has to be the worst puzzle ever

[@WildeBob]

ElysianDevil you have clearly not watched the giraffe puzzle video

[@nataliacatharina8251]

ElysianDevil 9

[@ryanm5578]

If there's worse puzzles, I just don't want to know.

[@renewings]

you are the worst puzzle ever

[@luuttaja]

Why?

[@alexpurtle7293]

I got this puzzle just a couple of days ago. It was a cold winter`s night; I had a few drinks of warm whiskey; a ring on my door - hey, the delivery guy - let the puzzle commence!! It took me a while, and a few more drinks, but the penultimate solution was "fuckit"; and I threw the 7th piece into the fireplace, and ultimately fixed myself another drink while relaxing infront of a slightly more glowing fire.

[@mightyd33r]

That's like telling an ancient riddle with a commonly known answer only to say a completely unconventional solution

[@ashfaqkhan2259]

Very nice 👍👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌👌

[@ibgruntled1]

or....take the upper left piece and turn if face down, than fill the space with the 'extra piece. It was not specified that the sides be equal and if you want to play with them, you can come very close.

[@BigDBrian]

One of the first things I considered was the fact that you had an odd number of diagonal edges. Therefore if you were to assemble it (at this point I'd only considered flat assembly) you would have to have one diagonal surface against 2 others, somewhere. But since all the diagonal surfaces are the same size, that's not possible. Now that solution... That's really really cool!

[@chrisjones245]

thats such a relief, i always thought i was just stupid, and now i realise the design is stupid

[@cheem2952]

THATS AWESOME!!! :D

[@gogolego7869]

Nice!

[@ErossMcCloud]

lmao im getting automatic german subtitles, love your accent xx

[@MortStrudel]

You can also make a lower-case h in the negative space.

[@allisonlai1351]

that is so cool

[@emilrytkonen3254]

I'm from finland it is funny to hear how you say our names

[@sym667]

I think I could stay on this one for 1000 years :)

[@culwin]

After looking at the beginning for a minute, I saw a solution that keeps the pieces flat on the table. Hard to describe in text, but from the original layout: Remove the bottom right piece. Put one of the triangles there, so that it leaves a spot above it for the 2nd triangle (2nd triangle pointing to the left). Now put the piece that was at the bottom right where the first triangle was, in the horizontal bar of the H. This makes the horizontal line of the H longer, but it still works.

[@ReinerEvans]

The prediction I have is by making one verticle side angle onto the middle so you'll have to use three blocks on one side, allowing all to fit in.

[@marknic]

Oh man... REALLY glad I read some of the spoilers below, before buying this. I just had it all loaded up in my cart and was just about to submit too when I came back to read some comments. Man would I have been PISSED when this arrived. This isn't really a puzzle with an actual solution. You just have to not follow the common sense "rules" of puzzle building, and do something different, of which there are limitless solutions. Like one commenter said, how about just putting the last piece on top of one of the others in the H and view it from above? Hey, how about just hide the last piece behind your back, or feed it to your dog... are those valid solutions too? Terrible "puzzle" (quotes required). It's kind of like if someone made one of those puzzles where you have to disconnect something from something else, and the solution is to simply break it off. Wow! Thinking "outside the box". Paaaaa-lease. Ah well... like I said, very relieved I saved a Jackson, not to mention probably preventing a hole in the wall I probably would have thrown this 'puzzle' at. The rest of your vids, and most of the puzzles you show, are fantastic though. :)

[@Xandawesome]

Because if you just hide the piece you are not really solving it because its not actually using all the pieces. The point of this puzzle is not to make it just look like a letter H, in this solution there actually is a complete H there. In the 'putting the last piece on top of the others' you're just viewing it in a certain angle that makes it look like an H, even though there is none. In this solution, there is a real diagonal H there, no matter how you look at it.

[@ThePodVon]

Actually you are trying to build HALF of an 'H' shaped block. The clue is in the puzzle name.

[@FelixTheGhost]

Feeding the extra piece to your dog Rofl, classic solution

[@masomirmanic3771]

*half* H puzzle. Keyword: *_H A L F_*

[@staticklingon2182]

Exactly.

[@tinkertailor7385]

Ok... I'll stop at the spoiler break, click yer thumbs and leave a comment...... and sail on past as we travel our algorithmic journey though the Internets. Ciao.

[@mdstarfaith706]

*Hershel Layton voice* Every puzzle has an answer.

[@freemanedwards5663]

Awesome

[@xcryptic2308]

Shape a normal H and put the last piece on top of another one.

[@xsickamvs278]

cool video bro!

[@WnRT]

Hah nice work!

[@thenewoldman8334]

Awesomeness

[@WoWSamanix]

Random guy sitting next to you on the Train: "Hey, wanna see my sick Puzzle?"

[@saotaku8035]

sehr schön

[@floydhelms44]

Heck Yeah!!!

[@jwo7777777]

"... Always one piece too many!" is the proper construction in english.

[@AI_ART_LIBRARY]

In that case, leave the puzzle as it was at the start, place the extra piece anywhere on top of the other pieces and it will still look like an H if you look at it from the top 🙈 in my opinion is kind of a cheat puzzle, it is a given that is a 2 D puzzle, otherwise it needs to be said on the rules that the H can be read from a 3 D or 2 D perspective

[@jeanfrancisco610]

Why I'm here my brain are shaking right now!

[@jojojorisjhjosef]

With such a solution one could fix its view from above and put the renaming piece on top.

[@wilsonteocm]

This is the most smartest puzzle!!!!😂😂😂😙😙😗😗😁😁😁

[@gotcha8642]

the flat solution is easy in 1 sec. just put the free triangle piece into the middle to the other triangle piece to make a square. then you have an H but a little bit wider.

[@serendal]

Wow!

[@alimasoumy3031]

This puzzle can be solved by this logic in so many ways.. You can hide the extra piece under another piece and show it from above and claim you have solved it

[@user-gc2ez9eo3m]

Nice

[@RaindropsBleeding]

I must admit. I did not think to try that

[@EliasAxelPettersson]

I believe there is one more solution not mentioned, which doesn't have to do with what one could call a "camera trick." I am not sure since I don't have the puzzle in front of me, but let's label the pieces from 1:35 starting with the upper right and moving through H: 1-7 (the extra piece is 7). I think the proportions might be a tiny bit off, but I can't measure it just from looking. Let's try: Pieces 1/2 = left side of H Pieces 3/4/6 = right side of H (put the longer pieces together edge-wise and fill with the triangle) Pieces 5/7 = H crossbar Hmmmmm.... PS Love your videos!!!

[@illhave2number9slol23]

I undetstood how the chocholate trick works

[@minigolfkid]

I had wondered briefly if the ‘half’ in the puzzle might actually refer to the puzzle bc you have two objectives: 1) make an H shape,2) with all the pieces and this is clearly impossible on the 2D plane. But I guess the 45 ° angle half cube H explanation works too.

[@jimbob-1]

Doing it the way the creator wants you to do it is good but the easier way is to just burn one of the small triangles because he said you must use all the pieces you have

[@Gantzz321]

my first though was just place the extra piece on top of any of the other pieces. from the over head view the appearance does not change. It's no different then the one you showed, other then yours is more pleasing.

[@hj8607]

You can keep the H flat on table . Look at first H and notice that each side is made out of 2 pieces of which one is shorter. Use the two longer one to make a taller side and flip over one of the shorter and put two shorter ones together , tip to tip . Use the extra triangle to fill the triangular gap and put it in place as the second side to the H . (Horizontal line remains the same) Or if unequal length sides bother you , with first H leave left side alone , swap longer right side piece into horizontal and use center one (flipped over) and place tip to tip with other filling the gap with the 'extra wedge , as before .

[@user-yf7dj4vw8c]

Thank god for the mini half h puzzle. How else would I always keep it with me?

[@DespOIcito]

Clever.

[@remanjecarter2787]

this puzzle broke my brain

[@medicalmanport1136]

That's Kool

[@cavemann_]

Outside of box thinking? Oh, that's easy, just... 2:17 oh ooooooh OOOOOOH WHAT?!

[@zzanatos2001]

Do the instructions specifically say that the solved puzzle does not have to lay flat on the table surface? It seems to me that if the only requirement is that the puzzle use all the pieces and resemble the letter H - there would be lots of ways to "solve" it. For example, you could stuff the extra piece underneath one of the others - and then just view that "solution" from directly above. Another creative "solution" would be to grind the extra piece into sawdust and sprinkle the particles in all the cracks. Or one could simply carve a wedge out of one of the pieces, discard the excess, then slide the "extra" piece in that spot.

[@AnthonyCassidy50]

A good solution here might be to grind the whole thing in to sawdust :)

[@RyanStonedonCanadianGaming]

Get 2 of these puzzles, glue them together and you have a full 3d *_H_* *_H_*

[@serlinas]

Rotate 1 small piece in midlle, insert small piece in created hole.

[@DeathBringer769]

I figured at the start it had to be some type of "trick" question and I wasn't too far off, lol.

[@dennisunderscore]

Incredeble