Spindly Tangram Puzzles

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In this clip we're going to example a tricky puzzle type, the spindly puzzle. The puzzle that looks like there's no possible way you can make it because it's simply too skinny. Here we have a candle. It looks impossible. So let's just assume that because it's so skinny that it must be gargantuan. The whole thing is gargantuan because you have to fit in those big triangles somewhere. You can see at the top it looks like a parallelogram. So let's go ahead and put the parallelogram at the top of the puzzle, get that out of the way. Now, let's go ahead and place those big triangles in the skinniest way we can which is to make a parallelogram out of them. Things are starting to come into view. Put the medium triangle at the bottom of the thing because we have those two little tails in the feet, and then go ahead and put your small triangle there to fill in the gap. All we have left are the square and another small triangle so place them next to each other on top of the parallelogram you've made with the big triangles underneath your little parallelogram, the little flame at the top. It's gargantuan, yes, and we finished it. We completed this puzzle and it wasn't impossible even though it was spindly.

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