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How to make a 3 piece puzzle impossible to solve

How to make a 3 piece puzzle impossible to solve
In this indestructible i will be explaining how to make a 3 piece puzzle (or any puzzle really) impossible to solve even for an 38 year puzzle pro.
 
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Step 1Find a puzzle

Find a puzzle
First off you need to get a puzzle, around your house, at the store, friends house, etc...
It doesn't matter how you get it as long as you have a puzzle with all the pieces.
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Jun 20, 2009. 1:23 PMXkidXhavocX says:
what kind of loser does puxxles
Aug 21, 2009. 12:33 PMStephen D. Alverez says:
losers that know how to spell!
Sep 7, 2009. 10:02 AMDJ Radio says:
And that have proper grammar.
Mar 23, 2010. 11:57 AMMillawi Legend says:
And that like chicken.
Nov 15, 2011. 8:00 AMtan123 says:
mmmm... chicken...
Aug 5, 2010. 5:04 PMaxel nader says:
Who also like bacon
Sep 20, 2009. 11:42 PMknex_mepalm says:
Actually this instructable has some ingenuity to it, but why is the rating so low? I don't know why I am replying to you..
Sep 21, 2009. 1:03 PMDJ Radio says:
Because its so idiotic in every way. Taking away a puzzle piece is in no way a creative way to make an unsolvable puzzle.
Nov 3, 2011. 3:03 PMRobert595 says:
Is there a report button on this wonderful webiste? In two years I have never felt a need to use one. That is until this garbage was created.
Nov 3, 2011. 3:04 PMRobert595 says:
Nevermind! I found it! :D Cheers.
Nov 3, 2011. 2:57 PM~Vortex~ says:
Oct 7, 2011. 11:47 AMdr. richtofen says:
you have the lowest rated instructable in the play section, congrats!
Oct 2, 2011. 11:49 AMdoctor who fan 123 says:
sorry but that kinda sucks
:(
Apr 21, 2011. 1:17 PMmasterchief1257 says:
ya man sorry to ruin your day but this instructable stinks
Apr 14, 2011. 3:34 PM08motooley says:
it is unfortunately not very original but there is one unique thing about this instructable... you PURPOSEFULLY lost a piece
Mar 22, 2011. 9:31 AMdadokon6 says:
I'd have to agree with the other posters. This did not make a puzzle impossible to solve, it breaks the puzzle. No one is adverse to a little humor, but this is more like false advertising. If you don't have anything constructive to add to this site, build something! There's only about 400,000 useful instructables!! Try one!!
Mar 20, 2011. 4:16 PMIcalasari says:
...Really? I was expecting at LEAST remaking one piece to be slightly too large
Mar 20, 2011. 12:29 PMvoxelator says:
Where is the site moderator when you need him?????
Mar 4, 2011. 7:38 AMmrmerino says:
oh, try this: take two puzzles with roughly the same number of peices, take out about half the peices of each puzzle, shuffle the opposite ones in, and then give a victim the puzzle.
Mar 19, 2011. 2:52 PMtanmanknex says:
I have a puzzle that is two combined in one box!!! It's really hard to do because the sky is basically the same color. I tried a while ago and got about half of it done but my mom made me take it apart because it was taking so long :P Some day though... ;)
Feb 8, 2011. 4:04 PMNegdub says:
I love this site and have made many projects ranging from puzzles to infinity light boxes to bookshelves. Bravo to all posters, you ingenious lot, you! But this is the dumbest instructable I've ever run across.
Jan 10, 2011. 7:13 PMPuzzleJenn says:
I once had a puzzle that was a horrible trifecta of impossibleness. Repeating pattern, no 'edge' pieces, and six extra pieces in the puzzle. If you really want to make a simple jigsaw puzzle less likely to be solved easily, simply buy a second copy of exactly the same puzzle, and mix the two. ;) Or just toss a handful of pieces from one into the other.

My sister and I used to take the 100 piece children's jigsaw puzzles, mix two or three of them, then put them together upside down, that is, from only the brown side showing. THAT was confounding for our brothers. ;)
Jan 9, 2011. 4:19 PMjmonty says:
i like my duct tape satchel more
Dec 29, 2010. 1:03 PMMattrox says:
Unfortunatley no negative five star so I'll just have to go with 0.5 of a star.
Thank you for wasting my time.
Dec 28, 2010. 6:27 PMwhait86 says:
how bored were you when you made this?
Apr 6, 2009. 6:16 PMOroka says:
Ohhhh... I get it, this Instructable IS the puzzle! How clever!
Dec 18, 2010. 2:36 PMJynx. says:
I really wanna find out what you mean! :(
Dec 18, 2010. 3:24 PMOroka says:
As in, you take a perfectly good puzzle, and remove a piece. The puzzle becomes un-solveable because it is incomplete.

IE, it is kinda lame.
Dec 22, 2010. 5:16 PMJynx. says:
Oh i was thinking there was some secret meaning to this instructable...dang i read it like 15 times trying to find the secret meaning
Sep 6, 2009. 4:28 PMZaphod Beeblebrox says:
:(
Dec 19, 2010. 6:02 PMgoeon says:
Half a star... your basically ruining a perfectly good puzzle
Dec 19, 2010. 1:38 PMDanno_B says:
I've had several pre-school children figure out how to do this, successfully, without really trying.

I'd like to be positive or constructive - or, better yet, both - but this is, easily, the most useless Instructable I've ever seen.
Dec 16, 2010. 4:09 AMBongmaster says:
you've ruined christmas! D:
Dec 12, 2010. 10:47 AMthe poodleo says:
so basically you lose peices of a puzzle? thats lame.
Dec 5, 2010. 11:22 AMMplinnc says:
thats REALLY stupid.
Dec 4, 2010. 11:03 PMrabbitman says:
nice i saw this looked at it and i wasted ten minutes of my life please give me something bak in return!! of this stupid so called "instructable"
Sep 13, 2010. 11:34 AMGpaSteve says:
What a waste.
Sep 6, 2010. 1:44 AMguipozjim says:
Sorry but It is impossible to be positive and constructive. This is nos a instructable but a "miserable". It is not usefull at all and what it explains in 5 step can be explained in one step: How to make a puzzle impossible to solve? Removing and loosing one pieze. What a fake instructable. Just to delete!
Aug 9, 2010. 2:56 PMbigt4616 says:
what is this, i dont even...
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