Impossible jigsaw trick revealed and how to make.

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]Hello there. Welcome everybody. It's Don here once more. Not so much a magic trick this time so much as an anomaly. I call it that because I've no idea how this works. Okay? So, I'll show you it.

[00:00:12]I'll demonstrate it and maybe there's someone out there can explain it to me because I have no idea.

[00:00:18]Okay, so it can be made quite easily with just a piece of A4 paper which I will explain a little later. So, then you can show your family and friends and amaze everybody. I've only made it like this just for the YouTube video just to make it look a little more presentable. That's all.

[00:00:40]Okay, so we've got an ordinary piece of thin card. And then I've just cut a great big hole in the middle of it.

[00:00:47]Okay? It's not There's no trickery involved. It doesn't get bigger or smaller or or anything like that. It's just a just a straight piece of card.

[00:00:55]Okay, and then we've got these four pieces of a jigsaw, I suppose you could call it.

[00:01:00]So, we've only got four pieces though.

[00:01:02]So, it's 1 2 3 and 4 pieces like that.

[00:01:07]So, if we put these pieces into the frame like that.

[00:01:13]That goes there.

[00:01:15]Number three in there. And number four there. They fit quite tightly into the frame.

[00:01:23]Exactly.

[00:01:25]Okay, no problem with that.

[00:01:27]But if I was to take this piece out and turn it upside down and did the same with this piece and then turn that piece over and that piece over strange things happen when you put them back into the frame.

[00:01:46]It goes like that.

[00:01:49]That goes in there.

[00:01:51]And that fits in there like that.

[00:01:55]And they all still fit into the frame.

[00:01:58]And yet, we've got a 1-in or 2.5 cm square in the middle.

[00:02:05]Now, I can't explain it. I have no idea how this works.

[00:02:09]Uh but again, if I turn each piece over, like so, like how we started and put them back in there, we see we get rid of that square in the middle.

[00:02:26]Okay, that's uh well, that's the trick, if you'd like to call it that. Um I will explain or I will show you how to make this for yourself.

[00:02:35]Uh in the meantime, please subscribe to the channel.

[00:02:38]Uh okay, without further ado then, let's see how to make it.

[00:02:42]So, all we need to demonstrate this is a piece of A4 printing paper. It will take you a minute to prepare, and then you can uh amaze your friends. Okay? So, just a piece of paper, but we need to make a square of it.

[00:02:57]Okay? So, we need to measure the the width, and uh I used my tape measure uh on a project a couple of videos ago.

[00:03:07]Now, I had a lot of comments saying how terrible saying how terrible my tape measure was.

[00:03:13]I don't get it myself. I don't see what the problem is.

[00:03:17]Uh but uh everyone said, "You should get a new tape." So, I have. Okay? So, if I measure the width of an A4 sheet, it is 21 cm.

[00:03:28]Okay? So, if you measure 21 cm that way, and along there, and draw a line, cut that.

[00:03:36]I won't do, otherwise I'll cut through my cloth. But cut about there, and you'll have a square.

[00:03:42]So, once we've got a square, we need to find the center.

[00:03:46]So, from diagonal to diagonal, draw a line.

[00:03:51]Diagonal this way, draw a line and that will be the center of your square.

[00:03:56]And then you need to measure 94 mm from the top corner edge there down this edge 94 mm.

[00:04:09]From that point there and through the center point it's going to be a slight angle like that.

[00:04:19]Uh just draw a line.

[00:04:22]Okay? And then from that line, I'll leave my ruler there.

[00:04:27]We need a 90° angle from that center again.

[00:04:32]That needs to be 90° up there.

[00:04:37]Okay? And then once you've got that line, then you can extend extend it down there.

[00:04:43]It'll look a bit like that. And draw a line down there. Then we can cut into four pieces.

[00:04:51]And you will be left with four pieces like this.

[00:04:56]So number one uh number three, number two, number four, like that.

[00:05:03]So if we put those four pieces together that will make up our square again.

[00:05:11]And we can test that with the width of the A4 paper there, that bit there, and that's the same there.

[00:05:21]Okay? And now turn that round.

[00:05:24]Turn that around. Turn that around. Turn that around.

[00:05:28]Now put them back together.

[00:05:32]And we'll still have the same size, but we'll have that square in the middle.

[00:05:40]And we can prove that it's the same size cuz it's still the width of that uh piece of paper and still that way, that 21 cm. And yet we've got that square in the middle.

[00:05:56]Okay.

[00:05:58]I can't explain it, maybe you can.

[00:06:01]Okay, I'll leave that with you.

[00:06:03]It'll give you a few sleepless nights, that will.

[00:06:06]Okay, I'll leave it with you. Thanks for watching the video, I appreciate it. Uh I'll see you in the next video with something new. Don't know what it'll be yet, but something just as exciting as this.

[00:06:18]Okay, I'll see you next time. And until then, it's bye for now.