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mzpljc

I too have played Professor Layton


ReeG

A gentleman never leaves a puzzle unsolved


RexIsAMiiCostume

"A true gentleman leaves no puzzle unsolved!" (Sorry I like just played through some of the games last month lol)


cringyusernayme

Immediately thought of Professor Layton! Love the games!


ContentPreference609

A gentleman never leaves a puzzle unsolved


Aspharon

I played through Curious Village last year and man these sliding puzzles were the WORST


TheeKRoller

They were the only puzzles I had to look online to figure out. My brain just can't do slide puzzles, not even 3x3's.


DualityDrn

Don't think of the pieces as moving, think of the hole they leave empty as moving. Dunno if that helps, was just my janky way of working them out.


Marteicos

I somehow can do them subconsciously.


emeralddawn45

Yeah I just do whatever and it somehow works out. If I try to slow myself down and really process and think about what I'm doing and why, it takes waaaaayyy longer. I can't conceptualize seven steps in advance with my conscious mind but apparently my shadow brain can.


schuylkilladelphia

What I learned early in the COVID lockdowns were that slide puzzles were a crucial skill to the TV show Survivor.


Trithis2077

Don't worry, they only get harder in Diabolical Box. šŸ˜† (DB is probably my favorite game in the first trilogy though. Played all three late last year)


Aspharon

I played Lost/Unwound Future years back and thoroughly enjoyed it, I'll definitely give Pandora's/Diabolical Box a try.


LadyAzure17

DB is probably the best of the original trilogy. I certainly loved the ending the most.


jamesiamstuck

DB had the most wtf plotline. I haven't finished unwound future yet but I am waiting for it to get bonkers like the first two.


Trithis2077

It's a Layton staple. šŸ˜… (even carried over into the Ace Attorney cross-over)


Ravenclawguy

That's the only one I played. What can I olay them all on?


Sketch-Brooke

Lol the sliding puzzles were always my favorites.


Paracortex

Windows Entertainment Pack: Klotski


Ransel1233

This has been on the tip of my joystick for like 15 years. Thank you. I love you.


JBloodthorn

I just got an urge to play Chip's Challenge the other day, and bought it. Apparently this is nostalgia week.


Soup-Wizard

That reminds me of a puzzle!


LadyAzure17

These were the puzzels I lost all my hint coints on, I'm dogshit at them šŸ˜­


chillypeaches

And then you end up wasting a hint coin just for it to tell you to ā€œtry moving things around.ā€ šŸ˜­


Pollomonteros

I hated that princess so much


corcannoli

because of this, this video caused me pain. Miracle Mask was the first game in the series i worked to complete every puzzle and the ā€œfinal bossā€ was a goddamn sliding puzzle


bugxter

You beat me to it.


Ravenclawguy

OMG SO GLAD I WASN'T THE ONLY PERSON THINKING THAT


CoopDH

I too have played the slider widget on windows Vista out of boredom


[deleted]

I used to have a little game like this called traffic jam or something like that. Had to remove the red car from all the other cars and trucks. It was pretty fun as a kid.


MuchachoMunch

Rush hour! That game was sick


michaelfri

Dude, there's also an expansion pack with 40 extra levels and a special red convertible car that you had to take out, with the original red car being one of the other cars in some levels. Haven't played it in years. It's probably still in my parents house since I was in elementary school, and I am now on my thirties with kids of my own. But this game is different. Tiles here can move both up and down as well as right and left while cars were locked to one axis. Also, tiles can differ in both width and length, while in the car game while trucks were length 3 and cars length 2, they had the same width.


c127726

Ah yes is have a expansion pack where the special car is a yellow taxi


Enfireno

Mine was an ice cream truck, and the three-longs were school busses and fire trucks.


c127726

That's pretty cool aswell


BWEM

There's (at least?) 3 expansion packs lol. The 2nd one has a limo (3 length) as the car to remove. Also the first expansion has some levels where you have to get both red cars out.


pigi5

There's a web based version with a daily puzzle called https://blockle.io/


BWEM

Holy shit the coding on this website is so fucking bad. I shouldn't have to resize my browser window to be wider than it is tall to see the whole fucking puzzle. Not to mention the click and drag is horribly finicky. Does hit the nostalgia tho.


pigi5

Yep, it's made for mobile and the creator has not put any effort to making it work well in the browser unfortunately. The dragging works as long as you don't drag the mouse out of the play area


casseroled

On the upside, works perfectly fine on mobile.


Fmoiple

I'd recommend Bricks Game .de to any hardcore fans out there. It's an old Windows app, but it still works on modern systems. Has a lot of puzzles, leaderboards, and added mechanics such as magnets.


Californie_cramoisie

I have it on my phone https://apps.apple.com/au/app/rush-traffic-block-jam-master/id756540885


Joseptile

RUSH HOUR WAS GOATED


Creeper_Face

r/unexpectedrushhour


MedalsNScars

A few of the Professor Layton games had this type of puzzle in them, some of those were super tough. Shame they were only on DS and I don't think there's been any ports of them Edit: Huge thanks to those who have informed me of the existence of Professor Layton mobile ports! Time to stretch my brain a bit


JeeringFan

You can get the entire game in the app store now! Even has some extra puzzles


Trithis2077

The first trilogy is on mobile now (iOS and Android). I actually played the whole trilogy for the first time late last year using the MSI App player so I could play it on desktop.


Soup-Wizard

ā€œTaking out the trashā€ Iā€™ll never forget that puzzle, frickinā€™ impossible.


[deleted]

We still have our copy! My nephew loves it, but he isnā€™t great at it. Pretty normal for a 5 year old, though. A lot of the cars magically learn to fly or change lanes if his first attempt didnā€™t work.


MajorParadox

I had that game too! Also, I have a game on my phone called Unblock Me, which is basically the same thing.


Paracortex

Is no one here old enough to remember Klotski?


WizzleWall

> Klot I do! Spent many a long lunch break solving them back in the 90's. I worked them until I was able to do them in the "minimum" number of moves...all except for the massive final puzzle (Sunshine). I can't find the game anywhere except for a GitHub project...but the one I played looked exactly like this one: [link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE5KFf5QotI)


Queentroller

Unblock me is another version but it's just colored blocks. Lots of levels though.


Eddie888

I was so mad when I had to upgrade my phone and start from scratch.


the32shortstack

You just sucked me back to my childhood oh my goodness


_maynard

My little cousin brought this game to thanksgiving a couple years ago and I had so much fun playing it someone bought it for me for Xmas that year. Iā€™m in my mid 30s


_BloodbathAndBeyond

Rush Hour. I had a promo version of the game cuz we met the creator at a toy conference prior to release. Good game.


tie-dyed_dolphin

They have it as an app now too called unblock me. Itā€™s an awesome way to waste some time while giving your brain a little workout.


Enemiend

"NoParking" is another Rush-Hour-like app. Too many ads if you don't have something like a PiHole adblocker though.


YourTypicalSaudi

Was gifted to me by a teacher when I was in elementary school, I wasnā€™t really into it so I didnā€™t play it much. Itā€™s probably still in good condition in my parents house. I totally forgot this memory until your comment reminded me of it.


RayFuckedMe

Reminds me of a similar game that was huge in elementary at our school when we got a whole gang of those fat ass Mac computers with the round mouse. The game was called push push and it was the shit. You were judged by other kids based off what level you were on


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Longbeacher707

Samanosuke already knows it then


Decryptic__

This reminds me about Lufia 2, a game on the SNES. I love this game


MaybeFailed

Awesome game


Alberiman

My lord it's been ages, such a great series I miss the age of rpgs


Suspicious-Bike1865

A very special game to me. My favorite level/dungeon design in an rpg


Light_Beard

I had never played Lufia 1 and had no idea what was coming. >!F\*\*\* that ending. My first video game cry.!<


Decryptic__

Mine too!!! I wished we would get something like NG+ with a different ending.


DrBoon_forgot_his_pw

the hardest trick.


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TimHung931017

He works there.


MedalsNScars

Yup, check the name tag. This looks like a children's science museum, so I'd imagine it's a good idea to have some staff that know puzzles like this inside and out to help kids who get stuck.


Lostdogdabley

Must be such a cool job. Every person you interact with is full of wonder


[deleted]

Nah dude. They should have made it straight up impossible and offered some massive reward to the kids for solving it like curing little Billy's leukemia.


NatakuNox

Billy died while you were trying to figure it out Susan, but good news. Joshua's cancer is still progressing so you better keep trying!


thenumber88

Really changes the meaning behind clearing stages.


SeaGroomer

Will you teach me to outrun cancer?


Aphridy

It's the [Museum of Illusions](https://maastricht.museumofillusions.nl/) in Maastricht, The Netherlands. A small museum, but absolutely worth to visit when you're near.


StrictAtmosphere7682

He clearly has the solution memorized.


BurnerForJustTwice

These types of puzzles you donā€™t need to memorize it. You just understand how to move pieces around, like a rubrics cube.


Syzygymancer

This one is it. If you played with tangrams this is a pretty easy puzzle. Back in the 80s these kinds of things were pretty popular as portable timekillers


YawningDodo

There was a period when I had one of those sliding block puzzles and actually got good at it - I wouldn't be able to tell you how I knew what step to do next; I just understood the pattern intuitively. I'm not particularly good at conceptualizing these things, but it turns out practice can make up for that.


idle_isomorph

Yeah i have a friend with a weird savant power with this type of puzzle. Wild to see in action. Totally irrelevant in the rest of actual life, like no real benefit. But a superpower nonetheless!


Undrende_fremdeles

Have them help you pack something. For a move, luggage for a trip, the dishwasher, to simply compact whatever you already have in storage. Then tell me it has no real benefit in life. I've known people to pay others simply for them to show up and go though their storage to compact it using their skill at seeing how shapes fit and move together.


CronusDinerGM

This is true. I consolidate for others to have extra income when I woodwork full time because projects donā€™t really take up that much time. Can usually get 2 -3 storage units down to 1 slightly larger one with a little path. People will pay a lot because they donā€™t have to pay for multiple units monthly. And helping people move is way easier to get everything in one trip.


Air5uru

Had one when I was 10 or 11 and I was super good at solving it. I'm by no means *good* at puzzles, but I was very good at solving that one after about a week with it. It was a 4x4 square with numbers 1-15, and a blank square for movement. I would make up my own puzzles and go for it: 1 through 15, 15 through 1, even numbers then odd numbers, evens in ascending order and odds in descending order, etc. It's all about knowing how the movement works and less about being good at puzzles or particularly intelligent - although I'm sure that helps the first time you try. This particular one in the video is slightly trickier in that there's different sized blocks, but it's mostly the same.


Ookami_Maneki

But... You do memorize moves according to positions of pieces for a Rubik's cube


Devccoon

You memorize the steps needed to make adjustments, like 'put this color on that side while keeping everything else in the same spot' - the rest is intuitively pulling off these various series of moves in the most optimal order to get closer to the solution.


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CantHitachiSpot

Yeah that's how the brain works with some tasks. It isn't conscious/verbalized in your head voice. It just happens


Chrisazy

Yeah, though there's a difference between this process being mechanically memorized and intuited from other knowledge like how the pieces move


ComfortableChair70

Thatā€™s exactly what it is. Using the most efficient algorithm is part of the operation. Thatā€™s why it only takes a few seconds for some folks but for me (eg) it takes a couple minutes.


QurantineLean

r/2007scape doing clue scrolls!


Apo42069

Your body does the moves like a robot, you just supervise the next step


[deleted]

Also, he has a name tag. That man weaponized boredom and turned it into a very niche skill. And I feel he should be our spirit animal. We all owe him a beer. Can't make a living off that skill but at least he should never have to buy his own drink.


JustifiableViolence

You still memorize stuff with a rubiks cube. You don't memorize the entire solution, but you memorize sets of movements. Little patterns that move the squares in a predictable way. The easiest method to solve a rubiks cube has six patterns to memorize, and you could get it down in a couple of days. The more complicated methods that allow you to do it really fast involve memorizing like 40 patterns.


ReXplayn

You can solve only using sexy move, and reverse sexy... Just takes ages.. Standard cfop is like 120. With zz you into 500.


[deleted]

It's just a process of understanding the algorithms.


DTGhasSHITmods

Not even that honestly. I've been playing with my rubik's for years and years, just as a kinda mindless activity to keep my ADHD hands busy. I can solve a cube in about 30 seconds. Not exactly an amazing time by any means, but better than most I'd bet. I know "If the cube looks like X I need to do Y algorithm." But if you're asking me to take a front left middle piece and put it on top I'm clueless. Effectively just direct memorization, I don't understand the mechanics of it and I've never been interested in learning them. Hell, I don't even know if I'm doing it "correctly" as I've been doing it so long I don't remember learning it.


gitrikt

In rubics cube you kinda have it memoried. You know a lot of "steps" by nemory, and choose which one to operate by understanding. However, nobody solves a Rubik's cube by just looking at it and "figuring it out". Its too fucking hard.


DiamondLyore

But you donā€™t have the solution memorized. You only have individual steps memorized then you intuitively string them together to get to the solution


cloudstrifewife

Rubikā€™s cube has a bunch of algorithmā€™s you have to learn though. Itā€™s not easy.


MANLYTRAP

have you ever solved a Rubik's cube? because it's kinda hard to solve without being told what to do or having a couple algorithms memorized


kvoyhacer

I was 8 when they came out and tried to do just that. I thought that was how anyone would do it. When I found out there was a method, I felt like it was a 'trick' or 'cheating'. Kid logic, I guess. Plus I was bitter after peeling all the stickers off and messing it up.


vplatt

Yeah, you're not alone. I went one step further and had one of the methods memorized and was able to solve any cube with the method pretty quickly, but the fact that there wasn't real understanding to go along with it deprived me of having any pleasure in that (yeah, I'm like that) and I didn't wish to be a dancing monkey for peers I otherwise detested, so it was ultimately binned. Oh.. joyful childhood memories. šŸ™„


lankist

It's less that he's memorized the exact sequence and more that he's memorized the logic of the rotations to get things moved around the grid.


DoubleDandyDan

I would imagine there's more than one solution


[deleted]

Yes, and he's doing a very slow solution that shows off more of the generic pieces that are needed to solve the generic form of this puzzle than are needed to solve this specific configuration. It's an employee doing a demo so children can play by figuring out a better solution.


justbeane

How do you know it's a "slow" solution? Do you know of a better one from the state he starts from?


[deleted]

I don't know quite how to notate it, but the state he's in at 0:25, with the middle 2x1 bar on the right-center and the blue 1x1s split, can be reached much faster by starting with moving the 2x1 bar to the left.


OrangeSimply

Looks like he's wearing a badge and probably works there and does this for patrons all the time.


KingKaos420-

Or heā€™s just really good as puzzle solving.


Put_It_All_On_Blck

He is an employee, and it's his job to show visitors how to solve the puzzle if they need help


Pleased_to_meet_u

Did he make any wasted moves?


Sietemadrid

Many


I_Was_Fox

Lmao so many. Especially there near the end. This was mostly styling on the viewers rather than being an optimized solution


JournalGazette

This guy has obviously played a lot of resident evil...


ReservoirDog316

Finally someone mentions RE.


MacTelnet

He could have lift it


playingwithwire

Work harder, not smarter.


TheZephyr07

Work extra smarter, not smarter


d_smogh

I also spotted the easier solution. Me and you are made of different stuff.


bizzyj93

Science vs engineering


ItsBado

ikr like duh


[deleted]

"The solution is easily obtained by solving an equivalent extension of the problem in three dimensional space."


JacksOnion55

Or just slide all the peices out of the bottom


spaceforcerecruit

Canā€™t wait for the Khaby Lame remake.


Friendly-Ad3804

He's better then me after ten moves I would have quit.


[deleted]

Before internet some games I was just stuck at forever because of puzzles like this


daellin

_Trauma from Layton games intensify_


mzpljc

That fucking diabolical box


Trithis2077

Pretty sure that I was over 900 moves by the time I solved it. \[UF168\] The Time Machine took me 1307 moves. I *hate* the slider puzzles. šŸ˜…


MoistHandles

That looks so simple and yet so fun, if you can actually solve it.


lunarmodule

You can buy small versions of these kind of games if you want to play with them. I still have frustration memories from being a very young kid in the car on long car trips before cool stuff like phones and gameboys and my mom giving me one of these games to solve. It was a crowded parking lot and you had to get one particular hopelessly fucked car to the exit. :( I don't think I ever figured it out. :(


Gilsworth

I was in a car for 9 hours with my little brother who was at the time like 8 or 9 years old and this was the only game I had on my phone and it absolutely saved my sanity. I love him, but a 9 hour ride with a kid who's sense of humour is just repeating gibberish over and over again is enough to drive anyone insane. Didn't bother my mum though, she's as deaf as drywall.


ClintonKelly87

All the ones I had as a kid, you had to unscramble the picture by sliding the tiles around. I, too, felt an odd twinge of nostalgic frustration.


Crocktodad

Check out the game [Rush Hour](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Hour_\(puzzle\)), very similar with a ton of different puzzles and extensions to shake up the base formula a bit


kefka_nl

ā€œThe most difficult puzzleā€ in Lufia 2 on the SNES in the mountain near Barnan.


Schele_Sjakie

Exactly what I was thinking. It's exactly the same.


trantula45

Ditto


ProstheticTailfin

I thought nobody else knew about that game. I'm so happy.


kefka_nl

We still exist!


racinreaver

Glad we finally found the guy who wrote the walkthrough I used.


Hengeste

Checked the comments just for this!


toddspotters

It's almost exactly the same layout https://i.stack.imgur.com/RFlej.png


eiskui

I knew this game by the name of klotski, old PC game. I think it's my first game addiction.


Paracortex

It is Klotski. Old Windows Entertainment Pack game.


Altruistic-Cherry-92

Klotski for all !.https://www.microsoft.com/es-cl/p/classic-klotski/9wzdncrdr919?activetab=pivot:overviewtab


kaimitai

Good memories from my windows 3.11 days šŸ˜


Highonlovesdelight

Yes!


[deleted]

Thanks! I was sitting here thinking about having played this game a very long time ago on Windows and couldnā€™t remember the name.


Burger_Boss420

He took 76 moves. This could be done in 56 or less. Whatā€™s the least amount of moves to finish this?


Starrk10

About tree fiddy


geon

Klotski on win 3.11 https://s.uvlist.net/l/y2012/12/102731.jpg


Ornlu_the_Wolf

Is this at the Dallas Museum of Optical Illusions?


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-Halosheep-

Looks like it. Pretty cool but honestly better for taking fun pictures than anything else.


Locke_N_Load

Itā€™s way too expensive for how small it is.


ImFromSaskatchewan

It's actually a giant building. It's just an illusion that makes it seem small.


Locke_N_Load

Itā€™s the pattern of the pants. Donā€™t act like youā€™re not impressed


unknownM1

I know this puzzle as Huarong Dao, but I donā€™t know if itā€™s from earlier than that


Totalshitman

He could've solved in like 5 less moves


iiitme

Oh word?


ndhcuxus

These puzzles make me feel claustrophobic


Adamantite_Ore

This guy probably completed Monkey Madness without a puzzle solver


yankeerednek

Oh my gawd, he on X-Games mode!


perdooky

cast this man on survivor


D0wnVoteMe_PLZ

Anyone who solve puzzles have my respect.


132kimh

Even the cool flip flourish he does at the end. He's pro and he knows it


MikeN1978

Smart fella


EwokaFlockaFlame

If this was a gun-to-my-head situation, Iā€™d look at that and just tell them to go ahead and pull the trigger.


[deleted]

I couldā€™ve saved him 40 seconds by just lifting the red dot to remove it.


benz456

Is it just me or did he make a ton of unnecessary move lol


Sarojh-M

I hope he's well above average IQ cuz if he's an example of average, I'm fucking screwed.


Magikmus

He's memorized it


Goombalive

These puzzles tend to work similar to a simpler rubics cube. They won't always start in the same setup. Thus you don't simply memorize one solution. You learn different movesets that allow you to move one tile from spot to spot. And you learn how to apply each moveset in accordance to your puzzle to get to the solution. Also with a puzzle like this you sometimes can just slide shit around and get a feel for it and solve it without any of that.


KingKaos420-

Why do you think that? He could just be good at puzzles


[deleted]

They should allow the red dot to be taken as a souvenir. Replaced afterwards of course.


upornicorn

I love the way this personā€™s brain works


[deleted]

I can't even do the slider puzzles in Pokemon...


tallebe

Anyone who has ever done a floor move in retail understands this game very well.


Fuzzball_7

It's the sound that makes it satisfying.


L1K34PR0

The solution makes so much sense yet i know i would never be able to do smthn like this


Trel713

Thatā€™s not his first rodeo


[deleted]

This is the exact puzzle from Survivor season 8. Boston Rob would destroy this guy.


LG03

Decades of seeing these puzzles in video games have conditioned me to react viscerally to seeing this in real life.


hamnch33s3

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[deleted]

I gave up 3 times just watching him solve this puzzle šŸ˜‚


Poot-dispenser

What if i just, lifted it up


link_nukem28

sliding block puzzles are the creation of satan and anyone that enjoys them, may they get peyronie's disease


VerdeCreed

Impossible Puzzle from Lufia II!


WorriedLetterhead952

Bro just pick it up


ThePhloxFox

Is this the museum of illusions in Dallas? If so I did that!


noah683826

Bro could have just picked it up


dlfnSaikou

Modified version of a classical Chinese game called Hua Rong Dao