6 Impossible Puzzles With Surprising Solutions

➡️10:33 skip to puzzle of preview. How many of these "outside the box" puzzles can you solve?

0:00 puzzle 1
3:00 puzzle 2
5:06 puzzle 3
7:26 puzzle 4
8:53 puzzle 5
10:33 puzzle 6 (puzzle in thumbnail preview)

Thanks to Tom for suggesting puzzle 1 and providing its solution!

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[MindYourDecisions]

➡10:33 skip to puzzle of thumbnail preview. (Sorry for any annoyance. Next time I will put the thumbnail puzzle first and see how YouTube algorithm gods respond)

[Krishna-Govender]

Some of these solutions sound like the arguments that a lawyer would use.

[MovieRundowns]

Puzzle 6: Pick up one matchstick, light it on fire and draw a square by charring wood

[aarcaneorg]

Me immediately after puzzle 1:

"This goes in the square hole!"

[wiseoldfool]

From a woodworker's perspective, the solution to puzzle one is not two cuts, unless you are using a scroll saw!

[maximepaccalet]

In riddle 5, i have just a small issue with the second solution : if you're allowed to move the coin with a match, i have another one using just one match : you grab a match, shoot the coin and put the match back to its place... 😂

[gblargg]

0:11 I know this one! Everything goes in the square hole.

[jonathanweintraub]

I’m no mathematician, but I do know how to cut wood, and that’s a lot more than two cuts.

[christianbolt]

I assumed only straight cuts were allowed. Cut vertically down a piece that is 9x1. Rotate it this piece 90 degrees, now cut again down vertically another 9x1 piece, but you will also cut the first 9x1 piece into 8x1 and 1x1. Use the 8x1 to cover the hole in the wood which is now 10x9, and use the other 9x1 and 1x1 to make a 10x10 piece of wood.

[brain_snakes]

For puzzle 6 I would have broken one of the sticks in two and used the halves to make a square.

[drlongwind]

The say out loud sequence can go love itself, honestly.

[richard_zeller]

First puzzle is an example of how we place constraints on our reasoning that are not required. When I heard a "single" I was thinking in terms of one cut MOTION and not one cut ACTION of any or multiple movements. That changes how you would look at the puzzle entirely.

[byczakrew]

puzzle 5. my son's thinking out of the box: make cup upside down and coin will drop down by itself

[Typical.Anomaly]

On puzzle 6, I was screaming and swearing at the screen when he made the little square gap with the matchsticks, "NOOO!!! MAKE THE NUMBER FOUR!!!"
Then he did it. It was very satisfying.

[Qettec]

I do not know if anyone has already said this, but the first puzzle can also be solved by doing a vertical cut 1 unit from the edge. if you then rotate this piece and move it to the bottom of the wood so that the former top of the piece is now at the uncut side, you can make a new cut similar to the old one, another vertical cut 1 unit from the edge. however, this cut will also cut our other piece, making it 8 units long. This piece now fits in the hole of the wood! And we are left with 2 pieces, one with length 1 width 1, one with length 9 width 1, and the wooden structure being length 9 width 10. the 2 pieces can be moved to make the entire structure length 10 width 10. Really happy I found this solution :)

[LokiDaFerret]

#1 is a good one. However I would argue that it is cheating since you cannot make a 90° turn cutting wood. Therefore it is not two cuts. "2 cuts" implies putting your wood down on a bandsaw and making a cut twice.

[maurojose]

The second puzzle is like "think outta the box" reasoning.Gracias amigo.

[Brion]

Puzzle 1 can solved in a single cut - make a rip-cut so you have two identical, but thinner, boards, and overlap them to cover the 1x9 hole. As a bonus, this covering is larger than the hole, so it can't fall in.

[stuartmcconnachie]

Being a pedant, but wouldn’t the piece of wood fall in the hole, being the same size as it?

[Killerpixel]

Puzzle 1: Had a rough time visualizing and gave up because I am too tired xD
Puzzle 2: Took some objects to build it in front of me. Had to shuffle them a bit around until I found the solution to put two on top.
Puzzle 3: Makes sense how you explained it, but I did it differently. I was like first row is a 1. So we have 1 times 1 (which builds second row). That again is 2 times 1, which is then the third row and so on. Same result in the end.
Puzzle 4: That one was easy for me. Was immediately thinking of a dice in form of a tetrahedron xD Having a dice collection payed off here ^^
Puzzle 5: This one was a regular puzzle I came across as a child, so I knew that one because of earlier solvings in my life :D Interesting second solution. It wouldn't have been allowed in the one I knew, because the first move, moved a second matchstick from it's original position. In the version I know it's specified that you should pick up the matchstick and put it into a new position.
Puzzle 6: Took me a bit longer, because I didn't see the lines properly, but when I made the video fullscreen, I saw it quickly :D Another interesting second solution!