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Jared Schreckengast I guess this will be faster and easier to solve with a computer. Maby you let the computer calculate all possible combinations of squares to get 6400 and then try to arrange them on the 80×80 grid yourself (because this step could be difficult to code).
I stopped at the “pause here” and basically spent 5 hours of my free time in the next 2 days trying to solve this and I finally got the best solution possible!! I was so proud of myself and I love this riddle and their riddles in general.
You don't solve them because they're boring. That's my opinion. This one is not about creative thinking , it's about doing a lot of high school math for nothing. No one wants to do that. Some of the older riddles were more creative, that's why we couldn't help trying to solve them.
That's wrong You have to DIVIDE the rectangle so the smallest rectangle has size 0 Score is 64, the max possible If smallest is 64 and largest is 64, total area is 64n, Ave repetitions aren't allowed
There seems to be a growing trend of RUclipsrs using these really creepy, unnatural, slightly arrogant, emotionless, grating voices for their videos. I don't like it and don't see why people can't just speak nicely. You wouldn't speak to a person this way in real life, so why speak to thousands of people this way on RUclips?
@@Scripture-Man I think it's a really soft voice and I quite like it. Also, how is it any of those things you suggested? Maybe it is just his natural voice? Maybeits his equipment? I don't know, and i don't know why you do.
What I did: I wrote out the possible areas and ordered them. Then I tried to make 64 using various combinations. Through desperation and figuring out the "odd rule" mentioned in the video's solution, I came across the 8-8-10-12-12-14 combo. It fit in fine, but I still felt like there was a better solution. I tried for quite a while after that, but I didn't even find the second solution in the video. In the end, I felt I had failed, and even when the answer came up in the video, I feel more like I lucked out than figured out.
"Cover a square with non-identical rectangles" Uh... How about the entire square? Squares are rectangles, so that is one too. It's unique since there can't be two of the same if there's only one. Its sides are whole numbers. It covers the entire area. The score is 0, you can't go lower than that since MAX >= MIN, so MAX - MIN >= 0. It doesn't even matter what size we're supposed to cover (assuming it's whole by whole, which it has to be or you'd never cover the entire thing no matter what), we're done here.
@@StefV153 That is the intention for this problem, yes. But the usual convention in math says that any number is good (including 1, or even 0 though that's not applicable here), unless specified otherwise. The point is they technically should have specified it's 2 or more, and no, using a plural of "rectangles" here is not good enough.
@@abdulmasaiev9024 well thats the problem with videos like these: the problems arent written in mathematical language but in English, which automatically makes it dependent on it. In English, a plural in this situation always means more than or equal to 2. In this type of problems, English conventions > math conventions
@@StefV153 Almost all problems are written in some spoken language, so that would mean that math conventions almost never trump in math. This is an absurd idea. Domain specific conventions always trump more general conventions when they're in conflict within that domain. This is a math problem so the math convention trumps, and not at least acknowledging the math convention is sloppy at best.
In my head I can get 9 on the 10x10: 20,24,21,20,15. 10,2. 8,3. 7,3. 5,3 5,4. You can reput it together by matching pieces with a common number and adding the others. 10,10 becomes 10,2 and 10,8. Which further becomes 10,2 3,8 and 7,8. 7,8 becomes 7,3 and 7,5. 7,5 becomes 3,5 and 4,5.
1. You must cover a square canvas with non overlapping rectangles 2. A(largest) - A(smallest) = score The lowest score you can get for a square is 0 by simply not dividing. For an 8x8 (largest = 64) (smallest = 64) so 64-64 = 0 3x3 squares are aloud and as such a square with full dimensions should also be allowed. It fits the rule stated by covering the entire canvas and never overlaps.
I studied Piet Mondrian's art and even did one like hime, and now I hear there's a whole complicated math stuff and now I'm just... clueless. Either humans are creative, or creative in finding ways to make easy stuff hard. either way, Ted-Ed helps me learn :D
Score 4: 2×7, 2×8, 4×4, 3×6 But there is no possible way (configuration) to get these parts into the 8×8 square. Score 6: 2×4, 1×8, 2×5, 3×4, 2×6, 2×7 (The configuration is pretty easy, since there is always only one sensible option to place the longest part left. There is another way to get 6 (with 2×8 instead of the two pieces with area 8), but I didnt look for a configuration. Score: 7 1×5, 1×6, 2×3, 2×4, 1×8, 3×3, 2×5, 3×4 or 2×6 (I didnt find a configuration, but maby there is one.) Score: 8 1×4, 2×2, 1×5, 1×6, 2×3, 1×8, 3×3, 2×5 (Almost the same as the one before, but I found a possible configuration for this one.)
I think you must be missing a rule from this. Regardless of the grid size, you should have one rectangle occupying the whole grid. It will be both the largest and smallest rectangle you have, which awards the perfect score of 0.
Anthony El-Khoury I don’t think you understand. It’s a bonus for a reason; not all videos *has* to have a bonus. And even if it doesn’t that doesn’t make it click bait, since the video solved the problem stated by the title...
I agree that it's not a riddle. Riddles involve solving a particular problem or conundrum with a particular solution or explanation. This is more of a game than a riddle. Plus the video completely fails to give the best answer, which is to always use a single square, giving a score of 0 every time.
*TED ED SJR /MAM* i don't know how many times I have made this request.. But again.. *Sir please make a lesson on why different countries have different economy... What it means and related information... Please sirrrr/mammm*🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇
Light Yagami why do you say sir/mam LOL. Its not one person that's behind these wonderful and intricate videos but a whole team of people working together with the goal to educate.
I have the lowest score ever at every size! Heres one of them: Lets take a 5 by 5 grid. Now put a 5 by 5 square in there. Now all the surface area is filled. The biggest area is the 5x5 square. The smallest area is the 5x5 square. This gives us the sum (5x5)-(5x5) = 0 So I got zere which is I think the best you can do! (For the people who dont get it, this is a joke)
Sack Monster if the smaller square is size 0, then all of the answers would be simply the size of the larger rectangle, since it would be: Larger - smaller= Larger - 0 = Larger
Every time I go to brilliant.org it always displays easy problems to me.i can't find any difficult one. I will rate those questions 1/10 and your video 10/10 on basis of hardness
Christian What a square is a rectangle and is allowed 0:28 . And an answer with score 2 is impossible using an area 9 rectangle, since that would mean that the biggest and lowest area used were between 7-10, since there are no rectangles of size 11 that fit in the 8x8 space. there is 1 possible rectangle for sizes 7,9[the 3x3 one], and 10, and 2 of area 8 [2x4 and 1x8]. 7+8+8+9= maximum of 32 of total area, only half the space you needed to fill. 8+8+9+10= maximum of 35. If I have made any mistake, then please tell me what is wrong with my argument. And sorry for bad english
CubeChickN you get the smallest rectangle and subtract it from the largest. So if you do 8×8 you will get 64 which is the biggest and subtract 0 from 64 equals 64 in math it's 64-0=64
Can you stop calling your titles riddles, and call them math puzzles. I know it’s a mind teaser, but this isn’t a riddle. It’s not a play on words, idioms, and concepts. These are all advanced and interesting math problems. Not riddles.
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3rd! I will sign up!!!
Bad typography. Please don’t confuse × (multiplication sign) and the letter x.
Did you forget to add the bonus riddle?
00:30 2X2 is not a rectangle I believe. It’s a square.
"What should we do for the bonus riddle?"
"Lets take the riddle and just make it bigger"
*Brilliant*
Lelouch Yagami Try the 80 × 80 & 60 × 60 squares.
Lelouch Yagami everything is bigger in texas
Jared Schreckengast
I guess this will be faster and easier to solve with a computer.
Maby you let the computer calculate all possible combinations of squares to get 6400 and then try to arrange them on the 80×80 grid yourself (because this step could be difficult to code).
You could've made a pun aswell
"Brilliant" instead of "Genius"
nooooooo
I stopped at the “pause here” and basically spent 5 hours of my free time in the next 2 days trying to solve this and I finally got the best solution possible!! I was so proud of myself and I love this riddle and their riddles in general.
Josh Schilling Well done!
Congratulations!
I don’t have that kind of dedication, good job mate.
Josh Schilling good for you dude! Proud of you
I did the same exact thing except I got 8 so I was close enough 🤷🏽♀️😭😩
“Can we do even better? No.”
Me: Oh thank goodness
I know that I will not take the time to solve this, but I still watch it anyway!
Tc I tried and got 8 as the lowest. Pretty sure I could do better but eh, I'm bored right now :P
I solved the fish riddle and Einstein’s riddle but thats all
same
You don't solve them because they're boring. That's my opinion. This one is not about creative thinking , it's about doing a lot of high school math for nothing. No one wants to do that. Some of the older riddles were more creative, that's why we couldn't help trying to solve them.
Yeah me too.
Cover the entire canvas with a single 8x8 rectangle.
Largest rectangle: 64
Smallest rectangle: 64
Score: 0
I win.
@@ravikotapati9253 All squares are rectangles, even if not all rectangles are squares.
They are overlapping
For some reason I can’t argue with that
That's wrong
You have to DIVIDE the rectangle
so the smallest rectangle has size 0
Score is 64, the max possible
If smallest is 64 and largest is 64, total area is 64n, Ave repetitions aren't allowed
Bruh i know this is a joke but read rule 3 again 😂😂
These riddles are my favourite type of Ted-ed videos, anyone else?
me
Another One!
Yup
Same
I love them!!!
With this kind of voice narration, this question feels like a matter of life and death.
There seems to be a growing trend of RUclipsrs using these really creepy, unnatural, slightly arrogant, emotionless, grating voices for their videos. I don't like it and don't see why people can't just speak nicely. You wouldn't speak to a person this way in real life, so why speak to thousands of people this way on RUclips?
@@Scripture-Man I think it's a really soft voice and I quite like it. Also, how is it any of those things you suggested? Maybe it is just his natural voice? Maybeits his equipment? I don't know, and i don't know why you do.
More riddles please I can't get enough of them! They're my favourite type of video you guys make.
I never even attempt these riddles cause they melt my brain, but i absolute love watching them. So satisfying.
Anyone else always just watch these riddle videos till the end but never even try to resolve them ?
yes hahaha
Egy Rinaldi-Putra same
Me😂
Yes
yeah
Step 1: Confirm you have green eyes
Step 2: Ask the canvas to leave
You got an achievement! (Impossible Green Eyes Comment)
Step 3: Escape the temple with two fibbers.
@@NeonBigDummy Step 4: Take 98 coins to yourself, give 1 to Charlotte and 1 to Eliza
@@bazibon1506 Step 5: figure out mask color
Step 6: Dance
step 7: ask the smallest rectangle if they would reply Ozo if 2 + 2 = 4
I get anxiety from riddles.. Still great video Ted :)
I get anxiety from math. And I think I just went psycho...
Harshil Patel dude you're everywhere
Harshil Patel
Argh I just blew my brain cells
Wait, i see you everywhere
What I did:
I wrote out the possible areas and ordered them. Then I tried to make 64 using various combinations. Through desperation and figuring out the "odd rule" mentioned in the video's solution, I came across the 8-8-10-12-12-14 combo. It fit in fine, but I still felt like there was a better solution. I tried for quite a while after that, but I didn't even find the second solution in the video. In the end, I felt I had failed, and even when the answer came up in the video, I feel more like I lucked out than figured out.
Yay!!! A New Ted Ed Riddle!
😊
"Cover a square with non-identical rectangles"
Uh... How about the entire square? Squares are rectangles, so that is one too. It's unique since there can't be two of the same if there's only one. Its sides are whole numbers. It covers the entire area. The score is 0, you can't go lower than that since MAX >= MIN, so MAX - MIN >= 0. It doesn't even matter what size we're supposed to cover (assuming it's whole by whole, which it has to be or you'd never cover the entire thing no matter what), we're done here.
umh...U got a point...
Rectangles, not rectangle
@@StefV153 That is the intention for this problem, yes. But the usual convention in math says that any number is good (including 1, or even 0 though that's not applicable here), unless specified otherwise. The point is they technically should have specified it's 2 or more, and no, using a plural of "rectangles" here is not good enough.
@@abdulmasaiev9024 well thats the problem with videos like these: the problems arent written in mathematical language but in English, which automatically makes it dependent on it. In English, a plural in this situation always means more than or equal to 2. In this type of problems, English conventions > math conventions
@@StefV153 Almost all problems are written in some spoken language, so that would mean that math conventions almost never trump in math. This is an absurd idea. Domain specific conventions always trump more general conventions when they're in conflict within that domain. This is a math problem so the math convention trumps, and not at least acknowledging the math convention is sloppy at best.
Ted: *Goes into lots of math to determine smallest possible number*
Me: *Draws chart and gets 12-12 on the fourth try*
Yay another TED-Ed riddle video
This channel is becoming mathematics riddles channel
That opening quote tho
rising raisings Your profile pic made me wonder if there was a hair on my screen
Ha you never got me with the hair trick cuz I put my settings on dark mode
Don't cut it. That's how you get the lowest score. Say it has an area of 8. That'd be the smallest and the largest, meaning your score is zero.
Uh
Love Your Riddles
These puzzles are the best thing of this channel!
*_Answer: No, I can't_*
Wow you copied every part of that
235 likes and one reply? Strange... Oh, I guess two now.
Not so fast, Kevin!
Only five comments...
Justin Y. *WHY DO I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE? You watch everything!*
I love the animation style on this video!
I've never been feel so confused in my life
same.
Three gods riddle - Amateurs
I always wait eagerly for ted-ed riddles.
In my head I can get 9 on the 10x10: 20,24,21,20,15. 10,2. 8,3. 7,3. 5,3 5,4. You can reput it together by matching pieces with a common number and adding the others.
10,10 becomes 10,2 and 10,8. Which further becomes 10,2 3,8 and 7,8. 7,8 becomes 7,3 and 7,5. 7,5 becomes 3,5 and 4,5.
Thank you very much TedEd!🤗🤗
Please keep uploading riddle videos.
Love from India❤️❤️
Why you gotta poke my brain, Ted-Ed
Why do you use like bots, Software Man?
easy, fun, comprehensible. great as always :)
Being a web developer, every canvas reminds me of CSS Grid.
New challenge. Sneak Mondrian square solutions into the layout of websites.
Chris Daley that would be a cool idea
Doing this on a website will make it look aesthetic
Being A Pro what’s CSS Grid?
If you want people to hate you web site, you can put modern art on it. I would recommend against it though :x
I’ll just leave the canvas full. 64 - 64 = 0, perfect score.
RIDDLES MY FAVOURITE!
I love ur guys’ riddles!!!
3:04
Is nobody gonna talk about the two rectangles with an area of 48 having the same dimensions?
bruh your right
Yes
Wow this is making my brain burst. I come every day to ted to learn something. It helps a lot in your knowledge and english!
Ridddlllleeeesss... I like those but your are on next level🔥
Got the right answer in allmost the exact same way, using the exact same reasonings along the way! Quite proud :D
*_Best and (by far the most) beautiful Ted-Ed animation!!_*
Nah
This is one of their better ones, imo.
ruclips.net/video/VLkKiVIBxXU/видео.html
*Fake* *Justin*
Brilliant is really an great app
1. You must cover a square canvas with non overlapping rectangles
2. A(largest) - A(smallest) = score
The lowest score you can get for a square is 0 by simply not dividing. For an 8x8 (largest = 64) (smallest = 64) so 64-64 = 0
3x3 squares are aloud and as such a square with full dimensions should also be allowed. It fits the rule stated by covering the entire canvas and never overlaps.
I studied Piet Mondrian's art and even did one like hime, and now I hear there's a whole complicated math stuff and now I'm just... clueless. Either humans are creative, or creative in finding ways to make easy stuff hard. either way, Ted-Ed helps me learn :D
I tried it, and I got a score of 2 on a 100x100 square
how pls tell us
Yay 😁 another riddle!!
Ted-Ed:A 2*2 rectangle will be fine.
Me:That's a square
Same!
Squares are a subset of rectangles. All squares are rectangles; not all rectangles are squares.
Do you know that.....
Squares are literally rectangles?
Piet Mondrian is my favorite artist of all time 🖤🖤🖤🖤
Score 4:
2×7, 2×8, 4×4, 3×6
But there is no possible way (configuration) to get these parts into the 8×8 square.
Score 6:
2×4, 1×8, 2×5, 3×4, 2×6, 2×7
(The configuration is pretty easy, since there is always only one sensible option to place the longest part left. There is another way to get 6 (with 2×8 instead of the two pieces with area 8), but I didnt look for a configuration.
Score: 7
1×5, 1×6, 2×3, 2×4, 1×8, 3×3, 2×5, 3×4 or 2×6
(I didnt find a configuration, but maby there is one.)
Score: 8
1×4, 2×2, 1×5, 1×6, 2×3, 1×8, 3×3, 2×5
(Almost the same as the one before, but I found a possible configuration for this one.)
At quick glance I thought the title read "Can you solve the Mandalorian's squares riddle?"
This is the first Ted-Ed riddle that I actually solved and got 6! which was the right answer!!! I feel so accomplished 🤓
In the words of Rick Sanchez: "Sometimes science is more art than science."
Some people don’t get that
@@littlefishbigmountain like me please explain
Nice riddle I liked it!
I think you must be missing a rule from this. Regardless of the grid size, you should have one rectangle occupying the whole grid. It will be both the largest and smallest rectangle you have, which awards the perfect score of 0.
Huh?
Love these riddles
Damn, one time I open a video from Ted - ed with less that 100 comments. GREAT VIDEO, keep it up
I finally have a ted-ed riddles success streak of 3! Not tryna brag, just happy that i actually got some of them xD Kudos to you if you got it too!
Where’s the bonus riddle?
waiting so long for this
"Can you solve the Mondrian Squares Riddle?"
Me: No.
How did i never know this video existed
I got 10 :'(.... lol at least i tried
Noor Khudair I got 8 but don't worry, you get better each time :)
I.T Siddique oh you were so close! ...thank you
I managed to get 6... am I the only one?
@@nishantbalajee6908 which one
@@nishantbalajee6908 8x8?
I got 6 for 8x8 and 3 for 4x4
Just liked the riddle!
Where is my bonus riddle... Even TedEd is clickbait now wow
Anthony El-Khoury bonus riddle is at the end of the video.. The advertisement hahahhah!!
the bonus riddle is to try to get the lowest score for a 4x4 grid, 10x10 grid, and 32x32 grid. watch from 4:06 - 4:22
Anthony El-Khoury I don’t think you understand. It’s a bonus for a reason; not all videos *has* to have a bonus. And even if it doesn’t that doesn’t make it click bait, since the video solved the problem stated by the title...
bob Bob 0:02 "Stick around after this episode for a bonus riddle"...
Subscribed for riddles!!!!!!
I can never solve these but I always watch to see how a genius would solve things 😂😂
Loveeee your videos!!!!!!!!!
Keep up the awesome work!!!!!!!!!!
This is not a riddle. Its more of a math lecture.
As a math lecture it's pretty terrible. No theorems, no proofs, no algorithms.
Jonathan Sharman yeah. The numberphile video on the same topic is a better watch..
But... this is not math channel... of course the explanation isn't detail....
I agree that it's not a riddle. Riddles involve solving a particular problem or conundrum with a particular solution or explanation. This is more of a game than a riddle. Plus the video completely fails to give the best answer, which is to always use a single square, giving a score of 0 every time.
Lee Bee from first rule it states "rectangles" which means there must be more than one rectangle.
The pain from previous riddles actually made me this excited for getting it right. *Ted-Ed, what have you done to my brain?*
*Understand=yesn't*
love how he says a "2x2 rectangle", i think you mean a square
It is technically a rectangle as well.
*TED ED SJR /MAM* i don't know how many times I have made this request.. But again..
*Sir please make a lesson on why different countries have different economy... What it means and related information... Please sirrrr/mammm*🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇
Light Yagami why do you say sir/mam LOL. Its not one person that's behind these wonderful and intricate videos but a whole team of people working together with the goal to educate.
Kitty Max I only see Indians saying, sir/madam in videos like these. Would love to know why this "sir/madam" thing is so widespread among them.
Light Yagami
Here’s a video mate
ruclips.net/video/9-4V3HR696k/видео.html 😉
Hope it’s of some use to you
Thanks Hana 🤗🤗🤗...btw we say sir/mam bcoz we are taught that in our school 🙃
Too bad you aren't taught how to compose text decently. Or even spell.
Yay! Another riddle!!!!!!!!!!!!
Simple differentiation and you're done!
I have the lowest score ever at every size!
Heres one of them:
Lets take a 5 by 5 grid.
Now put a 5 by 5 square in there.
Now all the surface area is filled.
The biggest area is the 5x5 square.
The smallest area is the 5x5 square.
This gives us the sum (5x5)-(5x5) = 0
So I got zere which is I think the best you can do!
(For the people who dont get it, this is a joke)
Strange Animations actually even tho it is a joke ur score would be 25 because ur larger square is 5x5 and ur smaller square is 0
Sack Monster I’ve drawn it, and I don’t see a smaller square ;)
He should have mentioned "natural numbers" in the instructions instead of "whole numbers" .
Sack Monster
if the smaller square is size 0, then all of the answers would be simply the size of the larger rectangle, since it would be: Larger - smaller= Larger - 0 = Larger
u r genyus
Every time I go to brilliant.org it always displays easy problems to me.i can't find any difficult one.
I will rate those questions 1/10 and your video 10/10 on basis of hardness
Whaaaaaaaaaat
Omg actually got this one right
Love these
My score is two.
I have to scroll down this far to find the right answer.
Christian What, i think the ans can be 2 in 8×8 board...
My answer is 2 if 3x3 rectangle is allowed, and if it's not allowed since it's technically a square, then my lowest answer is 6, too.
Christian What
a square is a rectangle and is allowed 0:28 .
And an answer with score 2 is impossible using an area 9 rectangle, since that would mean that the biggest and lowest area used were between 7-10, since there are no rectangles of size 11 that fit in the 8x8 space.
there is 1 possible rectangle for sizes 7,9[the 3x3 one], and 10, and 2 of area 8 [2x4 and 1x8].
7+8+8+9= maximum of 32 of total area, only half the space you needed to fill.
8+8+9+10= maximum of 35.
If I have made any mistake, then please tell me what is wrong with my argument. And sorry for bad english
Abhinn Krishn Show/describe us your canvas then
I JUST BACK FOR WATCHING TAD-eD AND I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING AFTER THE INTRO.
If You do a 8x8 square the score becomes 0. Because 64-64 is 0.
CubeChickN but the square has to be covered by multiple rectangles and 8×8 would only be one
The score will be maximum not minimum in your case 64-0=64
Did it it did not say at 1:38
(largest) - (smallest) 64-64 right
CubeChickN you get the smallest rectangle and subtract it from the largest. So if you do 8×8 you will get 64 which is the biggest and subtract 0 from 64 equals 64 in math it's 64-0=64
Yay! I got it. Good riddle, it was fun to solve
Please not math
0:29 wouldn't a "2 by 2 rectangle" be a square?
Squares are a subtype of rectangles so any problems with it?
Can you stop calling your titles riddles, and call them math puzzles. I know it’s a mind teaser, but this isn’t a riddle. It’s not a play on words, idioms, and concepts. These are all advanced and interesting math problems. Not riddles.
I'm sorry for thinking irrelevant thoughts but my eyes literally widened when I saw "Gordon Hamilton".
Not a fan of these overly mathematical riddles. You used to be so much better TedEd.
Waaaaah this doesn't appeal to me personally so TedEd is worse!
The mathematical riddles are great!(unlike this one) This follows no formula so is hardly mathematical.
Harder is better, since you think the mathematical riddles are hard or bad, I'm guessing you aren't the best at them, and thus could use some practis.
True "mathematical riddles" are just math. They are not fun and usually quite simple.
I'm not a fan of the Islamification of Europe but sometimes you just gotta deal with it
yay new riddle!
*_No_*
oh my good..this is so cool! Once you understand how it works it's a superb brain game 😊 thanks!
I couldn't couldn't find this one on the riddle playlist... you mind adding it?
Ted-Ed: Try this 8x8 canvas one!
Me: I don't have a damn 8x8 canvas
Why is this video not in the riddle playlist?
Is it a coincidence I literally was learning about Piet Mondrian in art at school before watching this
You should do more vids on gods and heros and stuff. I love them.
Keep it up Ted Ed!
Cool How Math and Art connect!
I think it can be solved mathematically as an integer linear program (ILP) with objective function of minimizing the sub within the constraints.
For a 4x4 I’d use a 2x3 (area 6), 1x4 (area 4), 2x2 (area 4) and 1x2 (area 2) for a score of 4, I couldn’t find a lower score
for the 4x4 I got a score of 4.
I used a 1x4, 3x2, 2x2, and1x2.
Yes and I am pretty sure that that is optimal because I tried all the ways I could possibly get a score of 3 and they all failed.
I LOVE youer videos
omg i love the minimalism