The secret of the Setting Sun

[@Mr.Puzzle]

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[@raelynharmon8509]

Mr.Puzzle you are stupid

[@HienVu-ow7cy]

ACAB\\ Mela BAKAta Its not, he even said it at the beginning of the video

[@HienVu-ow7cy]

Chicks You think hes stupid but he has a channel which is about puzzles that you probably can't slove? Pathetic.

[@raelynharmon8509]

Hien Vu Actually I am a very smart human being you probably cant solve the puzzles

[@jaydurach5201]

Chicks Er ist definitiv nicht dumm!! Versuch du mal beinahe perfektes Deutsch zu sprechen wie er englisch!! Wahrscheinlich kannst du das hier nicht mal lesen...

[@321bytor]

Interesting. I live in Britain so I've never seen the sun

[@juilescieg]

321bytor , so nice one, man ^^ i live in germany. we rarely see it too.

[@Amy-si8gq]

Damn I live in Britain too and I've even stared at the sun. One time it was bright red and the sky smelt like the sea. It wasn't as bright as usual so I could just stare at it. It was beautiful. Wish you could have seen it :(

[@Saif-zf9vb]

Lmfao

[@TheLankieMidget]

Some people go their whole lives without seeing the sun... I am one of those people 😫😂

[@TheVoltaire1]

😂

[@Zenzibar5]

My uncle made this puzzle himself some 40+ years ago and it's still in the living room at my grandma's house (unfortunately couple of the pieces are missing). I never asked where he got the idea, but I remember playing with it as a kid (we made the missing pieces from cardboard).

[@tinchote]

I cannot say about 40, but I knew this puzzle 34 years ago. I played it on paper, and I also wrote a short BASIC program to play it. In later years, I've had both windows and Android versions.

[@profreeman]

I played it when I was a kid too. About 20+ years ago.

[@FilipWahlberg]

I also remember it from my childhood. I had a plastic one where the "sun" piece contained sweets that you could only access if you managed to get it to the bottom. I think that the pieces had interlocking ridges on the sides so you couldn't cheat by removing them arbitrarily as in this one.

[@Dargonhuman]

I just made a practice version using the Draw function in Microsoft Word. Just had to turn on Snap to Grid to keep the pieces "on track".

[@mikkomannonen2331]

I also made my own version of this some 35 years ago. It was desribed in Finnish play/puzzle book "Antero Vipunen". Made my version with Lego bricks and it took me while to solve.

[@khicks72]

I was given this puzzle about 10 years ago, and I still keep it on my desk at work. Even though I have solved it many times, there is still a zen-like quality to doing it. I've gotten a lot of enjoyment out of this.

[@PhillipH-san]

I absolutely love these sorts of puzzles. I used to play Unblock Me on iPhone which is basically the same as this puzzle. I played through thousands of them.

[@juilescieg]

Phillip Ech , try the onimusha series for ps2 ;)

[@thecoldone6319]

i was going to use a hammer but your solution works too

[@pepperonipizza8200]

Hammers are ineffective against wood. Use an axe instead.

[@DuckLover-tz7bd]

depends on how hard you hit, doesnt it?

[@zachxydas4481]

Thanks Jesus

[@goggleassistant]

I think the pieces are removeable.

[@vysearcadia522]

Don't need a hammer. This puzzle doesn't have Anti-Cheat program installed. So you can just "hack" the game and remove pieces. Therefore, an axe is required.

[@marcelvdberg]

I used to have this puzzle on my iPhone, but unfortunately t's not working anymore in IOS 11. It was also called Setting Sun. I remember it took me much more moves then you just showed. I bought some puzzles at SiamMandalay as well. I can recommend them to anyone.

[@sniperblast]

There is a game on the app store called "CrossFingers" that has loads of similar wood sliding puzzles.

[@marcelvdberg]

Thank you very much! I will definitely check that one out. Kind regards.

[@kaartikavennelakanti1921]

Sauce

[@quitefranklybb]

Great video as always! I've always enjoyed slider puzzles

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Glad you like it!

[@Robertlavigne1]

Reminds me of the game rush hour.

[@mitchkatz4918]

exactly as they are both sliding puzzles, though I did find the car puzzle more visually pleasing then the dots. on a frame. leads to more challenges without boredom. I have most of the card sets- this setting sun is more closely related to the "safari" themed sliding puzzles, also by think fun.

[@leslieb6881]

That is an old American puzzle used once by a furniture company. The puzzle pieces were representing furniture, and a piano. The object was to move the piano out. Probably from the 40s.

[@jagmarz]

I have this puzzle, only it's called escaping jail. One thing that you don't show is that you can turn the cover upside down and place it under the puzzle so that the slot in the cover aligns with the slot in the base.

[@Haolit]

I used to have the puzzle... 35 years ago... I got it as a birthday gif when I was a child... and after 35 years I stil remembered how solve it... btw... it was in Chile! Where I live! Regards!

[@harryandruschak2843]

A modern version (plastic) of these slider puzzles is RUSH HOUR.

[@Mr.Puzzle]

This is also available in wood.

[@ironcommando2]

Oh my gosh. This brings back so many memories. I used to have this puzzle as a kid and I loved playing with it!

[@mercymatthew77]

A plastic version of this puzzle was available in Australia mid to late eighties, when solved would dispense small sweets.

[@frankhooper7871]

I remember a version of this puzzle being available in the UK where the "sun" contained a few sweets (candies to you Americans) and you had to solve it to get them out.

[@domini1337]

6:54 is why it's called the setting sun. The yellow are the rays of light coming off of the sun in the last move.

[@galacticswinedroid9877]

siammandalay has so many versions of this same puzzle, I have the golf one, where instead of a sun piece, there's a white ball in the large square and a hole at the bottom where the ball can come out.

[@SiamMandalayWoodenPuzzles]

Yes, we have many variants of the Klotski style :).

[@megatronopera]

When you look straight down at the puzzle it's an interesting example of orthographic perspective. the circles on the blocks look boot protruded and recessed at the same time.

[@WisdomVendor1]

The best general strategy with this type of puzzle is to get the smaller pieces next to the piece you want to move so that they can 'flow' around the object piece like a thin fluid.

[@tygrahof9268]

This is a good one to make out of scrap wood if you are a carpenter. Made many like it for my nephews.

[@sammysu5694]

Solution: Simply take out the yellows and blacks, and let the sun go thru the gap, no problem!

[@3_Circles]

The rule says no taking out pieces!

[@thejummyjum6207]

Screw rules

[@sajmon313]

This puzzle can be easily built with lego, no werid shapes.

[@gingin4471]

If you've ever played Professor Layton game, you would know this sliding puzzle by the name 'Princess in the Box'

[@Qacinia]

This puzzle was on the SNES game "Lufia 2: the rise of the sinistrals" there was 4 treasure chests on the big piece and was able to do it when I was a kid back then :D

[@Armbrust666]

This is essentially klotski. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klotski

[@robertmaupin1547]

I've never tried a puzzle, but your channel is very entertaining! Keep up the amazing work!!

[@CommieBastard-dj9ot]

There used to be a whole series of puzzles like this called "traffic jam". I loved it as a kid, but when I just downloaded the app I found that (like all phone games now) it's made boringly easy..

[@micregil]

That's another cool one, I like slider puzzles.

[@CDJCDJ81]

I love these puzzles. I used to do them all the time on the computer

[@willpascarella4509]

I keep finding new puzzle videos I haven't watched

[@Montisaquadeis]

I have played similar sliding puzzles on linux myself so yeah you can get digital versions quite easily if you look online.

[@AnJo888]

It looks a lot like Klotsky(?) and old Polish game adapted for Windows, some decades ago. That game had a lot of different levels/initial configurations. Some toy company sold the game as 'traffic controller', shaping the pieces as cars, trucks and buses. In all cases the objective was the same, remove the 'master' piece from the frame...

[@cxpKSip]

A symmetrical puzzle should be able to perform the moves but starting with the left, and not the right

[@tonywang9026]

This puzzle originated from an ancient Chinese puzzle called HuaRongDao

[@steamer1]

This one I'd have constant fun with.

[@LyingSecret]

Oddly I played this almost exact same game in a video game form on the BBC Micro, it was called 'cark park' and had these pieces as cars trying to get out of the car park in question. The game can be played on the bbcmicro dot com website still.

[@andrestricker4118]

Watching the solution in double speed is hilarious. Thanks :)

[@PaulySoccerKid13]

I’ll stick to playing unblock me on my phone, it’s free and there’s over 1000 levels lmao

[@skakdosmer]

I count 112 moves in the included solution - I can do it in 100 moves. I had this puzzle as an old PC program, and I solved it years ago. Of course I couldn't remember my solution, when I bought this very nice wooden version, following one of the links in your description (by the way, it arrived surprisingly quickly). But after a little struggle I found it again, and then - only then - did I check the “official” solution. To my surprise I found that my solution has fewer moves and is, I think, a little more elegant. But now that I think of it, I seem to remember that the PC app gave the fewest possible number of moves as ninety-something (94 maybe?), and eventually I did work it out back then, but I no longer remember how.

[@skakdosmer]

I've trimmed my solution to 97 moves, but I think it can be done even quicker.

[@Amir24901]

That one is easy, sometimes i find 3/5 easy af, sometimes i find ut harder than 4/5

[@DaneliusUK]

I wonder what the sequence would look like in numbers? Very interesting.

[@josephpaterson8274]

Hi, and welcome to another episode of Mr.Puzzle.

[@CV_CA]

I have seen this puzzle 50 years ago in a book. Most likely it is much older than that.

[@KayvonJavid]

You sound so excited in the beginning

[@Nahfam143]

I havent done many puzzles but solved it multiple times 1 out of 5 for difficulty... maybe 2 but 5 of 5 for entertainment

[@stylis666]

_This block is a 2 by 2 block._ _This is a block._ - points at a 2 by 1 block - Well, yeah, it's a block :p You're not even wrong XD Your maths just amazes me XD

[@Darkstar-ux5yo]

It reminds me of those old school number puzzles as a kid where you have to line up the numbers in order from 1-9 by sliding them. And sudoku.

[@bhektiivan9505]

I have to say, that puzzle looks like unblock me free game

[@TheZenytram]

took me years to solve this as a kid.

[@skakdosmer]

There is a free puzzle app for iPad called CrossFingers, this puzzle is level 6, number 26.

[@MsUltrafox]

There is a free app for your smartphone with lots of sliding puzzles.

[@pepperonipizza8200]

And I'm here wondering how empty space and stars presumably light years away block our sun from setting.

[@Mr.Puzzle]

👍🏼😆

[@2512Eu]

PP LOL

[@unknownunknownseries2098]

NOW I REMEMBER!! This is the reference of the puzzle of this from Clubhouse Game DS!!

[@lolabandola3250]

💚 I want this puzzle too! 💚 😭😭😭

[@9h-06elangbagaskaraputra9]

1:18 BOOM Puzzle done! Cause dat the way we can get things done and thats how i doit Its easy and simple if you know what to do

[@daleftuprightatsoldierfield]

ElangGentan bye I’m Steve

[@sandramartinez1802]

Thank you!😁

[@sniperblast]

There is a game on the app store called "CrossFingers" that has loads of similar wood sliding puzzles.

[@TheMeteoDragoon]

This puzzle was a secret puzzle in lufia 2... I freaking realized when I saw it.

[@bojackson3073]

i solved it by dumping all the pieces out and putting them where they go.

[@fizixx]

I like these kinds of puzzles. There's an online game called Klotski. It is a collection of puzzles like this arranged in order of complexity and difficulty. I solved a lot of them, but I eventually get stuck. It's frustrating at times.

[@jwstanley2645]

This classic puzzle may be the inspiration behind a computer game called "Unblock Me," which has a very similar combination of sliding pieces and the goal of sliding one piece out through the bottom. The game is free* (in app ads), and comes with about 150 variations grouped by difficulty. By purchasing the app, the user can get more collections of variations. With each puzzle, the game counts the player's moves and when the player solves the variation, the game shows that count and the least number of moves necessary to solve the solution, after which the user may replay the variation, attempting to solve it in that minimum number of necessary moves. As well, if one grows frustrated, many of the perfect solutions are available free online by a general search (Yahoo!, Google, etc.) of "Unblock Me" and the variation number. I found the game fun enough to play all the free variations, frustrating enough to search for solutions, but not so really great as to buy additional variations, though the price was quite tempting. Thanks for showing us how classic this puzzle is. I do so enjoy all your posts.

[@BoBz013]

i'd just spin the box 180 degrees

[@redxgrey]

Can you rearrange the pieces and solve it in different ways?

[@hugh6025]

I used to have one of these, but I never knew what the goal was

[@motnosniv]

It reminds me of the 1-15 sliding number puzzle.

[@dewinmoonl]

The puzzle has some disputed origin. In China we call it "hua rong dao" which is a mountain pass which the general (the big square) had to escape the enemies blocking his escape path. read more en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klotski

[@AyushGupta-yj8jz]

How many of you actually buy these puzzles?

[@aljanvivar4494]

solution: take all pieces out but the sun and slide the sun in the middle. boom thats ur solution

[@JustFun-iz9rf]

Wow great work thanks

[@XuroX.]

This one would piss me right off

[@GSS1Sirius]

This puzzle was in Lufia 2. So frustrating.

[@WishMasterLP]

me at 6 pm: i really need to study for my test for tomorrow and get to bed early me at 3 am: "hi, and welcome to another episode of mr. puzzle"

[@erske]

i got this in present as a kid some 30 years ago. there was candy in the sun..

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

I actually didn't find that one that difficult, although I am fairly familiar with this style puzzle so the concept isn't that foreign to me.

[@miked7091]

Are the colored portions of the pieces indented or raised. I just bought one and am very excited to receive it.

[@grandexandi]

Klotski! I love it!

[@prem_tamilsiddha8987]

A beautiful puzzle.

[@swmeaney22]

Who else recognized this puzzle from Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals? So much nostalgia!

[@Mr.Puzzle]

:)

[@vynalexithymia5684]

The second I saw this, I started having flashbacks to that puzzle. I was like "Oh wow, so this is the origin of that mini game."

[@samking2094]

there's a phone app called blocks which is exactly the same as this but with hundreds of variations

[@31431415926]

I think it's imitating the original Chinese puzzle called “华容道”.

[@twentytwo_22]

love this puzzle!

[@RabbitsInBlack]

If they are talking about THE SUN. Japan. It's on their flag.

[@BrentAlanBeck]

Amazing. Extra good one. Is there any application for labeling the colors as their enumeration? Yellow = 1, etc. Thank you

[@ivantheczar]

This is Klotski, you can find its history on wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klotski

[@GrouperLoop]

great vid! i think i'm actually gonna buy this puzzle

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Have fun with it!

[@devilevic]

I have solved this in the past, in 86 moves. Long time ago, on my Palm Pilot

[@liangjiang3122]

just search for "华容道", you will find a ton of similar games.

[@marvins8420]

Great Video ! I like shifting puzzles

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Thanks! The ISIS Orb is still unboxed!

[@TheFloMachine]

I had an app on my phone that was basically this concept! was very frustrating at times lol

[@CrazyneroLP]

Reminds me of the hardest Puzzle in lufia 2

[@l1ght775]

I luv you mr puzzle Are there lots of ways to solve

[@bug94599]

It’z Timps because earth is flat

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

Or buy Traffic Jam, which is a cheaper plastic version popular in the US that comes with dozens of different puzzle cards for different setups. There's lots if other versions too.

[@alexandergoldthorpe4585]

It's called rush hour over here. Got it already.

[@watertemple399]

Very cool puzzle. I wonder where it came from. It does seem likely it came from Japan or China.

[@zhaoxiangzang1320]

It is from China, a different version. It is called "华容道", Hua Rong Dao, a traditional puzzle in China.

[@2uneek]

i remember this puzzle in a game called lufia 2.

[@perfection4749]

Cool puzzle

[@CenturianEagle]

That’s a cool puzzle

[@MissMaryanne1]

This reminds me of Klotski, I used to watch dad play that on windows :)

[@shiyurin60]

That game is quite easy actually , I played that before and it took me less than 30 moves...I guess... I never counted

[@kolorless-cat]

Looks interesting