WWW Cube - How can you solve this without Burrtools?

[00:00:04]Hi, I'm Oscar van Teventer and this is the WW cube and it was inspired by a puzzle by George Miller. George Miller was really fond of eh the Pentomino W piece and he made a puzzle where you take a lot of these pieces, 36 of them, and you put them into a cage that is 6 by si by f.

[00:00:34]And yes, eh you can do the math they fit.

[00:00:38]And eh surprisingly there are two solutions. There is a symmetrical solution and there is an asymmetrical solution. And yes, box for this puzzle gives the hint how to solve it. So this puzzle is actually not really a hard puzzle if you know how to read the softbox. But that was just for my convenience to design this variation. The WW cube and that is this one because one thing that was a bit awkward about George's design is it's not a cube and puzzlers like cubes. So this is a bit more of a flat cube. So I pushed it, squeezed it from the sides to turn it into a cube. But obviously then eh the pieces are no longer eh cubic but they have different shapes. Moreover, I put eheh pins it. So, let me scrum it for you.

[00:01:43]There we are.

[00:01:46]Come on.

[00:01:50]And the object of the puzzle is to get all the pieces.

[00:01:55]First of all, get them all out. They slide nicely over the pins. Once you have them out, you need to get them together again like what you're seeing here.

[00:02:08]So yeah, eh you slide the pieces because of the holes and the asymmetry, you can't just slide them in any direction. You can't slide them in like this, but you can slide them in in this direction. And for the red pieces, obviously they don't go in like this or that or that. You need to go in this way but you can't turn them by 90 degrees.

[00:02:33]So this eh but you can turn it upside down by the way. And so this gives this puzzle some limitations but effectively it's very similar to the design of George Miller.

[00:02:48]And my question to you is about solving.

[00:02:53]Millerves desving