http://www.grand-illusions.com/articles/russian_puzzle/

Have at it.

Great now my brain hurts. Me go lie down now. Me feel stoopid.:D

wow that took me like 20 freakin' minutes. These things are supposed to be easy and make me feel smart. :(

There isn't more than one way to do it, is there?

That really made my brain boil! Took 23 minutes. :@@:

grrrr.... It's SO easy once you figure it out. After messing with the thing for like 10 minutes I was almost certain that it wasn't possible

my head hurts

I gave up. I can always solve the actual physical wooden ones, but not the ones online.

Pfft. Took me five minutes.

I hate these things

Pfft. Took me five minutes.
WTF? How did you do that? I just tried again... It's so hard. :(

It's the easiest thing in the world. I dealt with shapes and shit in my gifted program when I went to elementary school, so, this is literally childs play.

It's the easiest thing in the world. I dealt with shapes and shit in my gifted program when I went to elementary school, so, this is literally childs play.
I did it when I was in elementary school too! And middle school!

I guess I just randomly turned into a fucking idiot for no reason.

Great now my brain hurts. Me go lie down now. Me feel stoopid.:D
Join the club. I spent an hour on it last night and 20 minutes on it today, so I guess I'm just too stupid. I give up.

I give up too. I can't seem to get it. Spatial geometry was never my strongest suit...

EDIT: I Googled for the solution and I have to say...I had the general idea once, but I gave up trying it and assumed I couldn't get it that particular way, and went on to other, misleading avenues of exploration, which did not work. Frustrating little puzzle.

I think the reason people here have said they got it as kids is probably because children find this sort of thing easier than adults. Something about the brain works makes spatial geometry puzzles like this more mentally challenging to the adult brain. Perhaps this explains Nappy's quick solution...he has the mind of a child. ;) Or maybe he remembers doing this puzzle as a youngster and thus remembers the solution. I'm pretty sure I did not have that advantage.

here's a hint, put the square in the center and twist it once

I give up too. I can't seem to get it. Spatial geometry was never my strongest suit...

EDIT: I Googled for the solution and I have to say...I had the general idea once, but I gave up trying it and assumed I couldn't get it that particular way, and went on to other, misleading avenues of exploration, which did not work. Frustrating little puzzle.

I think the reason people here have said they got it as kids is probably because children find this sort of thing easier than adults. Something about the brain works makes spatial geometry puzzles like this more mentally challenging to the adult brain. Perhaps this explains Nappy's quick solution...he has the mind of a child. ;) Or maybe he remembers doing this puzzle as a youngster and thus remembers the solution. I'm pretty sure I did not have that advantage.

Hahahhaa, I love how you turned 'achievement' into 'juvenile'

I give up too. I can't seem to get it. Spatial geometry was never my strongest suit...

EDIT: I Googled for the solution and I have to say...I had the general idea once, but I gave up trying it and assumed I couldn't get it that particular way, and went on to other, misleading avenues of exploration, which did not work. Frustrating little puzzle.

I think the reason people here have said they got it as kids is probably because children find this sort of thing easier than adults. Something about the brain works makes spatial geometry puzzles like this more mentally challenging to the adult brain. Perhaps this explains Nappy's quick solution...he has the mind of a child. ;) Or maybe he remembers doing this puzzle as a youngster and thus remembers the solution. I'm pretty sure I did not have that advantage.
I heard that the brain of an 18 year old is closer to the brain of a child than it is to a 25 year old, Nap still has a few years of development left. :D

"development" == getting purposefully dumber so you can fit in

OK, now I feel EXTRA stupid, because I still couldn't get it until I looked at the solution... and I realized that I had completely misunderstood. I couldn't understand how you guys were getting it because I thought you had to fill up the square with no white space... damn...

Wow, I showed that to my dad, and he literally solved it in under 10 seconds. Unreal.

Wow, I showed that to my dad, and he literally solved it in under 10 seconds. Unreal.How old is he?

Five?

Wow, I showed that to my dad, and he literally solved it in under 10 seconds. Unreal.
Maybe he'd done it before... I had too, but i have bad memory. ;)

How old is he?

Five?

Close, 55 :)

It's possible he did it before, but I'd like to think he would have told me if that was the case.

Fuck puzzles. I fucking hate puzzles.

fuck that puzzle

For the truly brain dead (http://photo.xanga.com/patrick/9fa2968961671/photo.html).

Yeah that wasnt too bad, i started with the square in the center seeing as it was the odd peice out. it didnt take long after that, you can pretty easily see the pattern once you get the square in the middle. Took like 15 minutes though.

For the truly brain dead (http://photo.xanga.com/patrick/9fa2968961671/photo.html).
Oh thanks a lot, I guess I'm brain dead. I didn't get it. I had to see the solution.
Granted it might be because I was under the impression, before I saw it, that the square had to be filled with no blank space. But that doesn't excuse me from being too stupid to solve it.

Oh thanks a lot, I guess I'm brain dead. I didn't get it. I had to see the solution.
Granted it might be because I was under the impression, before I saw it, that the square had to be filled with no blank space. But that doesn't excuse me from being too stupid to solve it.

Why do you think I went searching for the solution?

Why do you think I went searching for the solution?
Hah.

Oh fuck, I misread the instructions. I thought we were supposed to fill the entire square so I spent most of my time wondering what was going on and getting pissed off because I was certain it was impossible. Fit them in there... that sounds so much easier...

Oh fuck, I misread the instructions. I thought we were supposed to fill the entire square so I spent most of my time wondering what was going on and getting pissed off because I was certain it was impossible. Fit them in there... that sounds so much easier...
See, I did the same thing! Those instructions could have been a little clearer.

Heck, that was my first question, but I checked at the bottom and it said no such thing. And as soon as I was able to fit four in there, I saw there was more than enough room left over for the square. Thirty seconds later, I had the answer, because puzzles like this always have an artful solution, that you just have to find the trick to.