If they're going to cut the pieces from one piece, maybe cut it in pieces that can be rearranged into a square but in a different way. Then they could just add the nuts afterwards.
I really like the added challenge of the pivoting arms on this one, but I do think the wood grain thing is a problem. Not that it would be particularly more challenging with painted wood or acrylic or something once you found the first key piece(s), but it definitely would make finding that just a little harder.
The wood doesn't need to be painted, they just need to cut the puzzles with the grain in a random direction and make them in batches of 7 so they can take each puzzle piece from a different piece of wood.
I personally feel it's the responsibility of the puzzle maker to ensure elegant solutions, not the solver. If you can use the woodgrain to essentially cheat, that is the fault of the maker.
I don't think puzzle makers should have to sacrifice aesthetics in order to make this kind of cheat irrelevant, it's more of a good faith thing because if you're cheating at a puzzle you're really only cheating yourself out of appreciating the beauty of a puzzle
@@TheMCEnthusiastPlays It is a problem when the cheat is too obvious. Seeing the woodgrain in this puzzle is too obvious. It's almost unavoidable, so you as the solver can't even truly act in good faith if you wanted to. If you have to force yourself to act in good faith then the puzzle just isn't correct.
When I first saw the wood grain, all I could think of was 'I hope this puzzle has been made out of different sheets of plywood and not a single sheet' 🤔😂
6:12 Before even watching my first thought is that you could easily solve it by using the wood grain making it a simple 6 piece puzzle. That's incredibly disappointing but some manufacturing changes would easily fix that problem.
@@JasonTHutchinson I was thinking a more elegant solution would be to cut them out as they do now but chuck all the same pieces into 6 separate bins and just use a random part from each bin when assembling a puzzle.
@@tinwhiskerSC that would make it more challenging but I think it would be unpleasing to look at. Chunked-up wood grain isn't attractive in my opinion and having a puzzle that looks like it was made out of 7 different pieces of wood would feel unfulfilling. Unless it was made out of different wood types and intended to be more mosaic/broken up looking.
I like this one! Seems fairly simple and kind of reminded me of playing with a magnetic tangram puzzle I had as a child, I think the shapes are very similar?
I don’t think that the wood grain lining up makes this a flawed puzzle. After all, Mr. Puzzle himself took a while to catch on. I think there’s a place for puzzles that are simpler and more easily solvable than others; not every puzzle has to be a nerve-wracking uber-challenge. Still, I think Mr. Puzzle overrates the difficulty level; given the grain factor, I would rate it 2/5 at the most.
A very satisfying concept. Solving it by grain-matching is a fairly easy 'cheat' to remedy, and I think putting some extra aluminium bosses at random around the perimeter of the frame would complicate things nicely. 🙂
I thought you were going to say level 3/10. The pattern of the wood grain makes it too conspicuous. You could assemble the square outside of the frame and then just keep rotating it until the loops line up.
Das Wort Elegeion (auch Elegie) wird in der Dichtkunst verwendet und ist eine Mischung zweier Reimformen. Elegisch geht auch, könnte also eine Form davon sein. Sah richtig spaßig aus, aber war zu schnell vorbei. Das ist schade. Danke für das Video!
"Elege" I see it's related to "elegy" which is a sorrowful piece of writing. I actually first came across the word in the super Nintendo game "Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars." It was a special attack used by an undead preacher character. Seems it is a sort of mournful poem in a similar vein to an Eulogy.
Nice looking puzzle but since the wood grain gives the solution away (first thing I saw when you showed it) it'd get a 1/5 rating from me. If they used different pieces of wood it's be harder and still look interesting.
Hmmm... Immediate points said to me 'Follow that woodgrain pattern'.. Maybe it would be better to use rotated sheets, different wood types or acrylic in future constructions of this puzzle
Great idea. The grain pattern is really a dead giveaway though... there were pieces that were evidently neighbours beore you put the together, because of the distinct grain pattern matches. That should really be addressed - unless it is meant to be a help, of course.
This is such a nice addition to a traditional tessellation puzzle, it's a shame about the wood grain. I'm guessing a little extra human intervention at the assembly stage would eliminate the issue outright.
To me it sounds more like portuguese "a liga", whats i think means something like "the link" or "the vinculation". I'm not english nor portuguese native, so maybe I'm wrong.
@@Mr.Puzzle Hmm, i have seen so many explenations from people by now in different languages which it perhaps could mean... But by simply just following the link you put in the description for this puzzle is says this in the very first setence: "Elege ist ein Legepuzzle in besonderem Design. Jedes Puzzleteil verfügt noch über einen Arm, der um 360 Grad drehbar ist." Since the producer is german, I would say it is just that, lege for a legepuzzle. only with an extra e added infront. And since you are german yourself (right?) I would have actually expected that you would have noticed this directly lol.
I hate every puzzle that ship in the solved stage, it feel like you got scammed. Specially when they come with an transparent package. It's okay if you buy it as a gift, but instant spoiler if you want to solve it yourself. Even if you wait weeks to solve your mind just keep make you remember. If you're a puzzle maker, and you have to put it in the solved stage to be able to shipping without any damage, at least put a warning on it and don't use transparent cover, and design it in the way it would fall off when unpacking. Some package were so bad, they leave the stain/imprint marks on the box of the solved stage.
I haven't watched yet, but my guess to the title question is no, I would not. I will edit this comment after I finish to see if I was correct. EDIT: no I would not
Constructive criticism: Idk if your overhead camera is mounted to the table and you bounce your leg a bit or something which was causing the camera and table to ` a little bit, but it caused me a little bit of nausea to watch this video because of the shaking. I think it would be good to find a way to minimize the shaking of the camera, possibly youtube's stablization thing would work for that, idk.
They should have cut it out of a wood without such a visible structure. Or at least painted it. The structure makes it too easy to find out the orientation of the pieces and you can even see which pieces are next to each other.
Elege kind of sounds like a german pronunciation of "illegal", which may be referencing that this puzzle has some "illegal" moves, since where the pieces can go are restrained by the loops connected to them.
Wow, the store listing also shows it in solved condition.
The person that created this puzzle definitely needs to mix up the pieces between board cuts. Having the grain match up like that is a bit easy.
Agreed 👍
@@Watchyn_Yarwood Or make it out of plastic, something that has no grain, or metal.
@@The_Totes_Adorbs cut any amount (say 4-10). Mix pieces and make sure you send out a full puzzle.
Was gonna say that too
If they're going to cut the pieces from one piece, maybe cut it in pieces that can be rearranged into a square but in a different way. Then they could just add the nuts afterwards.
I really like the added challenge of the pivoting arms on this one, but I do think the wood grain thing is a problem. Not that it would be particularly more challenging with painted wood or acrylic or something once you found the first key piece(s), but it definitely would make finding that just a little harder.
I agree!
The wood doesn't need to be painted, they just need to cut the puzzles with the grain in a random direction and make them in batches of 7 so they can take each puzzle piece from a different piece of wood.
@@MarcusTheDorkus That would be ugly, though.
I personally feel it's the responsibility of the puzzle maker to ensure elegant solutions, not the solver. If you can use the woodgrain to essentially cheat, that is the fault of the maker.
It should be painted.
I don't think puzzle makers should have to sacrifice aesthetics in order to make this kind of cheat irrelevant, it's more of a good faith thing because if you're cheating at a puzzle you're really only cheating yourself out of appreciating the beauty of a puzzle
@@TheMCEnthusiastPlays It's not even cheating. It's right in front of your eyes, you cannot ignore it.
@@TheMCEnthusiastPlays It is a problem when the cheat is too obvious. Seeing the woodgrain in this puzzle is too obvious. It's almost unavoidable, so you as the solver can't even truly act in good faith if you wanted to. If you have to force yourself to act in good faith then the puzzle just isn't correct.
or maybe it's not even a cheat; it could be intended, like jigsaw puzzles with a picture on them 🤷♂️
Definitely would have been tougher had it not been for the wood grain.
Maybe a flat acrylic would be better.
I think just making several plates in different orientations and then interchanging the pieces between them would do
When I first saw the wood grain, all I could think of was 'I hope this puzzle has been made out of different sheets of plywood and not a single sheet' 🤔😂
6:12 Before even watching my first thought is that you could easily solve it by using the wood grain making it a simple 6 piece puzzle. That's incredibly disappointing but some manufacturing changes would easily fix that problem.
Yeah, a can of spray paint would fix that.
@@JasonTHutchinson I was thinking a more elegant solution would be to cut them out as they do now but chuck all the same pieces into 6 separate bins and just use a random part from each bin when assembling a puzzle.
@@tinwhiskerSC sure, I thought of that as well. Of course, you could just make the pieces out of plastic.
@@tinwhiskerSC that would make it more challenging but I think it would be unpleasing to look at. Chunked-up wood grain isn't attractive in my opinion and having a puzzle that looks like it was made out of 7 different pieces of wood would feel unfulfilling.
Unless it was made out of different wood types and intended to be more mosaic/broken up looking.
Puzzle maker needs to decide between the aesthetic of having the woodgrain look nice once it's solved, or making it a decently hard puzzle.
@@gregoryford2532 They chose.... Poorly
It sounds like you're saying the word: Illegal in English. As in: Not Legal. lol, youre great Mr. Puzzle! Nate, Oregon, USA
That’s what it sounded like to me too
Very cool puzzle. the word "Elege" means fed up in Hungarian or choose in Portuguese.
"the word "Elege" means fed up in Hungarian"
More precisely, "elege van" (literally "(s)he's had enough").
For shure its not german
It is Illegal and means ilegal 😊 (I know it because I'm from Germany) And it is german
Mp, do you have a list of your favorite puzzles that viewers can access?
I love that they’re all essentially modified tangram pieces
I like this one! Seems fairly simple and kind of reminded me of playing with a magnetic tangram puzzle I had as a child, I think the shapes are very similar?
Seems unfortunate that the wood grains do actually line up, but that was SO fun to watch you solve!
Thanks for another awesome puzzle video little guy.
👌
The wood grain does line up so they should paint the pieces to make it a little bit harder to solve.
I don’t think that the wood grain lining up makes this a flawed puzzle. After all, Mr. Puzzle himself took a while to catch on. I think there’s a place for puzzles that are simpler and more easily solvable than others; not every puzzle has to be a nerve-wracking uber-challenge. Still, I think Mr. Puzzle overrates the difficulty level; given the grain factor, I would rate it 2/5 at the most.
For the puzzle maker: Please produce, maybe, 10 or 25 puzzles using different grain orientations, then, switch similar pieces between puzzles.
I love it. Great puzzle. 👍
the link to purchase the puzzle aslo shows it in solved condition!
Thanks for your sharing
Maybe elege is his version of the word elegant?
I was about to make the same comment.
I love you Mr. Puzzle!!! I wish you could release a video every day!! 💘💘
Very cool puzzle!
Elege in Yoruba (an ethnic group that inhabits western Africa) means delicate in English. It kind of makes sense as the puzzle is delicate in a way.
Fun to watch and the grain of the wood was consistent.
And the grain structure did match, ill remember that one.
this is quite an interesting puzzle with the added on attachment! thanks for the video!
There is another puzzle very similar to this one on puzzlemaster, called 7 perlen I think.
AHH THIS LOOKS SO COOL. cant wait for it.
Dude! You could be a hand-model and make a mint! Honestly!
A very satisfying concept. Solving it by grain-matching is a fairly easy 'cheat' to remedy, and I think putting some extra aluminium bosses at random around the perimeter of the frame would complicate things nicely. 🙂
I'm ready for this.
I thought you were going to say level 3/10. The pattern of the wood grain makes it too conspicuous. You could assemble the square outside of the frame and then just keep rotating it until the loops line up.
whoooo...the finished puzzle has aesthetics.
A simple way to mix up the grain patterns might be to flip half the pieces over before attaching the arms.
Cool one!
Das Wort Elegeion (auch Elegie) wird in der Dichtkunst verwendet und ist eine Mischung zweier Reimformen. Elegisch geht auch, könnte also eine Form davon sein.
Sah richtig spaßig aus, aber war zu schnell vorbei. Das ist schade. Danke für das Video!
"Elege"
I see it's related to "elegy" which is a sorrowful piece of writing. I actually first came across the word in the super Nintendo game "Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars." It was a special attack used by an undead preacher character. Seems it is a sort of mournful poem in a similar vein to an Eulogy.
I'd personally try create the puzzel outside first before doing the bars. To see how each pice worked before u need do the swing Arms.
Line patterns on wood helps to solve it very fast
I would make the square outside. Then try 4 rotations. It there are multiple squares you will have to go through them
In Portuguese elege means choose or elect.
Nice looking puzzle but since the wood grain gives the solution away (first thing I saw when you showed it) it'd get a 1/5 rating from me. If they used different pieces of wood it's be harder and still look interesting.
Great video
Thanks
das Wort illegal bedeutet das Gesetz
This is a very interesting puzzle.
Why isn’t the name of the puzzle in the description
Can’t wait to see my puzzle… once you buy the paper.
Wood grain ended up being aligned too!
the texture of the wood make it so easy, should use other materials.
Hmmm... Immediate points said to me 'Follow that woodgrain pattern'.. Maybe it would be better to use rotated sheets, different wood types or acrylic in future constructions of this puzzle
In case you have not counted, this is your 299th video. So please have something special for your next 300th video !
Wie heißt der Song
Ich finde ihn auf der verlinkten Seite leider nicht
Welcher genau?
@@Mr.Puzzle 6:28 danke jetzt schon mal 😊
The wood grain Was the clue!!
It’s interesting how you struggle with the simpler puzzles but excel at crushing the more difficult ones.
In fact he mostly struggled ununderstandably. Like watching the videos though
Is the Treasure Map puzzle still in the works? The anticipation is killing me!
Could be interesting if they had multiple perimeter holes and you had to also place the pegs.
Great idea.
The grain pattern is really a dead giveaway though... there were pieces that were evidently neighbours beore you put the together, because of the distinct grain pattern matches. That should really be addressed - unless it is meant to be a help, of course.
7:15. Am i the only one who immediately tought that was a bad idea because of the pink bearing that, at my eyes, became unreachable ???
Interestng puzzle! Great vid as usual. Btw according to google one meaning of elege is something like Enough as in I've had enough in Hungarian
the wood grain for sure killed this one for me :/ makes it way too easy to solve because once you see it you really can't get your mind off it
seems intersting
The wood grain should be a dead giveaway.
it is a wooden square cut into pieces, it was enough to see how the patterns are arranged on it
This is such a nice addition to a traditional tessellation puzzle, it's a shame about the wood grain. I'm guessing a little extra human intervention at the assembly stage would eliminate the issue outright.
I have ascended while watching.
it would've been hilarious if the pieces made a square if you matched up the grain, but the arms didn't connect
To me it sounds more like portuguese "a liga", whats i think means something like "the link" or "the vinculation". I'm not english nor portuguese native, so maybe I'm wrong.
That makes sense though
@@Mr.Puzzle Hmm, i have seen so many explenations from people by now in different languages which it perhaps could mean... But by simply just following the link you put in the description for this puzzle is says this in the very first setence: "Elege ist ein Legepuzzle in besonderem Design. Jedes Puzzleteil verfügt noch über einen Arm, der um 360 Grad drehbar ist."
Since the producer is german, I would say it is just that, lege for a legepuzzle. only with an extra e added infront. And since you are german yourself (right?) I would have actually expected that you would have noticed this directly lol.
Yes
I think that Elege is Spanish for "Choose"
This idea has an incredible amount of potential…
6:30 I think it is OBVIOUS solution
This is an interesting twist for the puzzle to have those pivoting arms, but I don't like that the solution is not elegant or even symetrical
If he mixed and matched peices between dofferent cuts it would be similar but not matching lol
Now imagine a second tether on each piece connecting to another piece.
My first instinct was to match the grain.
Wood Pattern
Grain matching, yet another reason to dislike laser cut wood puzzles.
best way to solve : look at the grain pattern match lmao
“Elege” is Portuguese for “Elegant”
Cool
Elege is West African for "Delicate"
No offence to your puzzling skills but the thing I like most about your videos is your voice.
I hate every puzzle that ship in the solved stage, it feel like you got scammed. Specially when they come with an transparent package. It's okay if you buy it as a gift, but instant spoiler if you want to solve it yourself. Even if you wait weeks to solve your mind just keep make you remember.
If you're a puzzle maker, and you have to put it in the solved stage to be able to shipping without any damage, at least put a warning on it and don't use transparent cover, and design it in the way it would fall off when unpacking.
Some package were so bad, they leave the stain/imprint marks on the box of the solved stage.
"Elege" sounds like "Gelege" without the G but I dunno
it kinda seems like it shouldn't be made out of wood or at least one piece of wood because the grain all lines up
"Elege" is Portuguese for "choose."
Pieces need to be swapped a bit so the grain cheat doesn't happen when people attempt to solve this
Elege ist nicht Deutsch but Portugese. It means select.
I haven't watched yet, but my guess to the title question is no, I would not. I will edit this comment after I finish to see if I was correct.
EDIT: no I would not
😁
When you say Elege, it sounds like you are saying illegal
So maybe it's a play on how it sounds
Constructive criticism: Idk if your overhead camera is mounted to the table and you bounce your leg a bit or something which was causing the camera and table to ` a little bit, but it caused me a little bit of nausea to watch this video because of the shaking. I think it would be good to find a way to minimize the shaking of the camera, possibly youtube's stablization thing would work for that, idk.
it sounds like the idea of the name was for it to sound like "ilegal"
Wow
Illegal? If so sometimes that isn’t braking the law
Have someone that isn't stupid open and assemble or disassemble your puzzles for you, then solve it
They should have cut it out of a wood without such a visible structure. Or at least painted it. The structure makes it too easy to find out the orientation of the pieces and you can even see which pieces are next to each other.
Elege kind of sounds like a german pronunciation of "illegal", which may be referencing that this puzzle has some "illegal" moves, since where the pieces can go are restrained by the loops connected to them.
I want one…
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True, they shouldn't have made the puzzle from the same one piece of wood.