How can this be possible?

Beats me how this works:scratch:

Well, if you stare at the shapes long enough you can see that there is no trickery going on here. Just shapes fitted in a different way. It is just like when somebody moves and uses a rental truck, one guy (#1) can fit alot more stuff in that another guy because #1 guy just took more time to make sure there are no open spaces or voids.

maxum1989 wrote:Well, if you stare at the shapes long enough you can see that there is no trickery going on here. Just shapes fitted in a different way. It is just like when somebody moves and uses a rental truck, one guy (#1) can fit alot more stuff in that another guy because #1 guy just took more time to make sure there are no open spaces or voids.

Does this mean then, that guy #1 voids in his rental truck?

TC

Wow,
One word spelled wrong sure changes the meaning of that whole thing! I had to read it twice to pick up where I messed up.

That is very interesting. Quite a puzzle.

Here's my stab at it....Has to do with the height and length of the red and green triangles. Switching the two triangles allows the yellow piece to be moved down...I could be wrong, DW says i am all the time...

I'll give this a try.

First, don't think of this as two colorful triangles. Think of them as two rectangles. By moving the pieces around, it appears that the triangles are still the same size, but one has gained a square. Well that square had to come from someplace. It came from the top half (white) part of the rectangle. I've copied the puzzle, but added some little black squares. Look at the white spaces that touch the colorful pieces right below the black square and compare them in the two rectangles. They are slightly different - the added square came from the white portion of the rectangle a little bit at a time.



Tater