6 'Impossible' Puzzles Only A 'Genius' Can Solve

If you can solve these, you just might be a genius ;)

0:00 puzzle 1
1:39 puzzle 2
2:42 puzzle 3
3:46 puzzle 4
4:33 puzzle 5
5:26 puzzle 6

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[Seth]

Puzzle 4, there's a 7 upside down.

[crimson]

Last puzzle: move the last matchstick to the first two sticks diagonally crossing the sticks, making an N. Then the equation looks like:

N = v

Which is correct in the Greek alphabet—simply upper-and lowercase versions of the same letter.

[Dexaan]

#6 - Take a matchstick from the V and put it over the = sign, giving II ≡ II, or "2 is congruent to 2", which is true in any modulus.

[stephenbaines]

For puzzle 2 if E=1, L=4, I=33, O=7, S=77. Then multiplying those with the appropriate multiple of 10 depending on where the letter is placed gives ELI=173, LOIS=5107, LESLIE=487731

[smylesg]

In puzzle 4, you can use the bottom of the 8 as the crossbar of the 7 with its slant from the 4. No inverting necessary.

[verkuilb]

For puzzle 6: Take the far left matchstick. Light it. Use the lit match to light both of the matches in the “V”. Once the flames burn out, you’re left with 1 = 1, and you only moved one matchstick.

[The-EJ-Factor]

0:55 make one of the + sides a 4,
5+545 = 550 or 545 + 5 = 550
I came to this solution because I realized that no matter what number you change the 5s to would not be enough to make the addition big enough or the answer small enough, and there is no way to take away a piece from a five without re-adding it with it still being a number or a sign, as well as the zero and the addition signs. So there is no way to take a piece from one number/sign and put it in another. There is also no way to make one of the signs any other sign, given you can only remove one piece. But the only option is so change one of the signs to something. And there would always be one addition sign, so you have to make the other numbers something something = 550 - 5, from that I figured out you can change the + sign to a 4. This took me much longer to write than it did to solve.

[markphc]

I can usually do these matchstick puzzles - but this one was evil

[The-EJ-Factor]

2:52 I now understand that this video is all about visual puzzles,
And I was able to immediately recognize that this is just numbers 1-5 flipped and overlayed on itself. So the next number is 6 flipped and overlayed on itself
So my answer is: lol
😂

[The-EJ-Factor]

3:59 I see clearly 689 and 4, that’s 4 numbers, but you can also argue the leg of the 4 is 1 and the cross through the 4 is the bottom of a 2 half of the 8 is a 3 and also half if the 8 is 0, you can also argue that the angle of the 4 can be a 7 upside down
Which leaves me with
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 that’s 9 numbers
However since there is a clear 9 already that isn’t upside down and the 7 is it’s a bit iffy, as well as the fact you can already say 8 in itself already contains the curved versions of 6, 9, 3, and 0 when there is already clear deliberate versions already. making 0, 3 and 1 a bit iffy as well, and if you can argue that those numbers don’t count you can also argue that none of them do because this isn’t a number is just a mass of lines. But also if you do argue about numbers being able to be held in the same number, you can say a number contains itself as well as the fact you can hide any number within the white space. And if you say a number can’t overlap another number the the possible numbers are 6, 0, 4 that’s 3 numbers
Making my guesses for answers of the number of numbers as
{0, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, ∞}

[user]

So many possible solutions for the last puzzle, examples:
1. H = V where both are variables.
2. III = V, where only v is variable.
3. Move any match back and forth and all the letters are variables.
4. Move one of the matches into fireplace and thus you get II = V, which is also true because both sides have equal amount of matches.

And so on. These puzzles suck. I love it.

[BryndanMeyerholtTheRealDeal]

My solutions to the puzzles:

Puzzle 1: I moved the right hexagon from one of the plus signs to make a 4.
Puzzle 2: LESLIE upside down is 317, 537.
Puzzle 3: The symbol ô (This is the closest equivalent looking like a mirrored 6 I could find in Unicode. If you come across a better character, tell me as a reply.) comes next in the sequence.
Puzzle 4: Alongside the numbers you mentioned, I can somewhat see the number five where the bottom of the 6, and the 8 is, and the number seven in the 4, but upside down.
Puzzle 5: I removed the left, bottom, and right toothpicks of the first shape; the right toothpick of the second shape; and the top and bottom toothpicks of the third shape to make the word ten.
Puzzle 6: I moved the right toothpick on the V, and put it on top if the other to make 11 is equal to XI.

[qwazy]

@4:30 Puzzle 4: contains "7" when rotated upside down 180⁰

[The-EJ-Factor]

5:49 thinking of Roman numerals, you could count II as 11 and then make the other side XI.

[huzefa]

4:04 I found 7 & 100 as well .... rotate it 90° ... so from the right, the horizontal line of the 4 will make the 1 and the 2 round parts of the 8 will be the 0s ... so 100 = 100

[adventureboy]

The first puzzle was like this for me:
"5 hexagon form the number 5 and 4 hexagon form the"
Me: "number 4!"
"plus sign"
Me: "oh"

[The-EJ-Factor]

4:49 I could make 010 but that feels like cheating but the odd placement of the toothpicks made me think that this wasn’t supposed to be as simple as removing the middle lines and using the remaining 3 to rove the red from the center . Then I realized that you can make the word TEN. Which I believe is probably the intended answer.

[bendystrawz]

For the last one, all I could think of was taking any of the solo sticks and putting it over the equals sign to make it "does not equal, " but the prompt specifically says make both sides equal :/

[PetelProduction]

4:32 - there's an upside down 7, using a part of the 4

[TheLobsterCopter]

For the last one, I moved the first matchstick on the V to between the equals sign to make II ≡ II or 2 ≡ 2.