oh and also, for last 2 rows it's better to solve from left to right, not leaving last row scrambled, because you have no space after that and also you can use fringe pattern (do top line, left column, repeat for smaller puzzle) that is better in terms of moves
WTF, it become so easy to solve 3x3 puzzle with this trick (~60 sec now instead of 1200 sec in my first try). I red many blog articles and watched videos but you are the only guy that teach this even though it is the best. Thanks!
i don't think it can be useful in regular solves It is not necessary to be limited to a full cycle, because it is very rarely necessary to save All elements of the area, since their positions may either be not important, or moving these elements will have a positive effect on how many moves are required for further solution: for most of the time you should move as much pieces as you can at the same time to their places, and if you need to save some pieces at the place (usually it is only about cases when pieces are where they should be in solved state, in other cases you move them somewhere else) it's quite intuitive how to avoid moving wrong pieces, or just getting them back after moving some number in "knight move" (or any other place actually) it could be usefull for blindfolded solves, but there are better ways to do that, because you usually want to safe the place of the blank piece on right bottom, and change 2 pieces per cycle - buffer (next tile to go) and some new tile, after that get next to buffer and repeat (but in this method after each cycle 2 on the buffer place would be also swapped, but you don't have to worry about them, because they will be fixed eventually after whole solve) as for beginners level solve, the trick is a funny way to fixing patterns at the end of the line, but after some practice you can learn how to make pares of 2 elements in right order to place them at the same time without any problems 7:59 - no, you can't swap blank and 17 only, (5 and blank also impossible) because you would need to swap 2 other pieces at the same time (wrong parity) interesting video to think about after all, thanks!
Yeah, I'm sure it wouldn't be as helpful for more pro-level solvers, as there's bound to be better algorithms. But for casual solvers it can be good, especially for that end of the line pattern like you said. One of the benefits of this move is that it's really easy to remember. Interesting point about the parity for moving those other two pieces. I hadn't really thought about that, but it makes sense, and it fits with what I was intuiting from playing around with it and trying to move those pieces into the gap.
Still don' t have it. I couldn't fine any other than the cheap plastic slo-mo slide on Amazon. Really Jicky! Thanks! I gotta watch it again👍👍👍. Last 2 lines are killer!
Thank you! I got an infection, was misdiagnosed, was given the wrong meds, loss my leg and had seven strokes 4 years ago and cannot for the life of me do these puzzles. Thank you for this. I used to be great in math and puzzles, but was stuck on these puzzles. This is very helpful! THANK YOU SO MUCH! Now, do you have a trick for learning to walk again, as a 63 yearold woman?😆👩🦽 Peace
It's essentially a commutator like with rubik's cubes. Pretty efficient honestly!
oh and also, for last 2 rows it's better to solve from left to right, not leaving last row scrambled, because you have no space after that
and also you can use fringe pattern (do top line, left column, repeat for smaller puzzle) that is better in terms of moves
Ah, good idea, doing the last two rows from left to right, as opposed to individual rows. I should have thought of that!
WTF, it become so easy to solve 3x3 puzzle with this trick (~60 sec now instead of 1200 sec in my first try). I red many blog articles and watched videos but you are the only guy that teach this even though it is the best. Thanks!
As a self taught solver of these puzzles... im glad to hear i didnt screw up too badly
You my man are amazing. This helped me sooopo much
Thanks for the trick, it's definitely useful.
Thanks! This was really helpful
i don't think it can be useful in regular solves
It is not necessary to be limited to a full cycle, because it is very rarely necessary to save All elements of the area, since their positions may either be not important, or moving these elements will have a positive effect on how many moves are required for further solution: for most of the time you should move as much pieces as you can at the same time to their places, and if you need to save some pieces at the place (usually it is only about cases when pieces are where they should be in solved state, in other cases you move them somewhere else) it's quite intuitive how to avoid moving wrong pieces, or just getting them back after moving some number in "knight move" (or any other place actually)
it could be usefull for blindfolded solves, but there are better ways to do that, because you usually want to safe the place of the blank piece on right bottom, and change 2 pieces per cycle - buffer (next tile to go) and some new tile, after that get next to buffer and repeat (but in this method after each cycle 2 on the buffer place would be also swapped, but you don't have to worry about them, because they will be fixed eventually after whole solve)
as for beginners level solve, the trick is a funny way to fixing patterns at the end of the line, but after some practice you can learn how to make pares of 2 elements in right order to place them at the same time without any problems
7:59 - no, you can't swap blank and 17 only, (5 and blank also impossible) because you would need to swap 2 other pieces at the same time (wrong parity)
interesting video to think about after all, thanks!
Yeah, I'm sure it wouldn't be as helpful for more pro-level solvers, as there's bound to be better algorithms. But for casual solvers it can be good, especially for that end of the line pattern like you said. One of the benefits of this move is that it's really easy to remember.
Interesting point about the parity for moving those other two pieces. I hadn't really thought about that, but it makes sense, and it fits with what I was intuiting from playing around with it and trying to move those pieces into the gap.
Still don' t have it. I couldn't fine any other than the cheap plastic slo-mo
slide on Amazon. Really Jicky! Thanks! I gotta watch it again👍👍👍. Last 2 lines are killer!
check out the Qiyi slide puzzles. they are magnetic blocks and are 1000x superior to the plastic interlocking puzzles of old
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At this point I think the generalised move is VOODOO!!! 👍👍👍
A knight can reach any square!
You will never move the tiles on the puzzle I got from Amazon with your fingers. It's too jicky. Use a toothpick!! 😡🤬🤬. . 👍👍👍
Yep, if you want an easy-to-move puzzle, just use tiles that aren't tethered together by tongue-and-groove joinery.
Thank you! I got an infection, was misdiagnosed, was given the wrong meds, loss my leg and had seven strokes 4 years ago and cannot for the life of me do these puzzles. Thank you for this. I used to be great in math and puzzles, but was stuck on these puzzles. This is very helpful! THANK YOU SO MUCH! Now, do you have a trick for learning to walk again, as a 63 yearold woman?😆👩🦽 Peace