I'm old. I first played this in Howard Johnson's. When I was 7 or 8 I could solve it, and thought it simple. Now that I'm in my mid-forties, I watched this with amazment that anyone could ever figure it out. I hope I don't find my old Rubik's cube, my head may explode.
Hey Mr. Buffington! I go to k12 and I was looking at the video ' The role of a teacher' and you were in it, and you know kids are always online and besides doing my work I am on youTube. Any who I noticed that you had said you "make videos to show kids how to use math in real life" and I saw how you had the video in the class connect.. And to put a video on a CC you have to get it from youTube! (Because I am in cc's all the time.) And BOOM here I am! I just wanted to say I respect that you ..
There are 6 possible starting points: the top three rows. If the empty hole is in the bottom two rows, just rotate the puzzle and it will be in the top three.
We just used this to solve the puzzle while we're at Cracker Barrel. Thanks for posting this!
Nice!
Same here!
I'm old. I first played this in Howard Johnson's. When I was 7 or 8 I could solve it, and thought it simple. Now that I'm in my mid-forties, I watched this with amazment that anyone could ever figure it out. I hope I don't find my old Rubik's cube, my head may explode.
.. I respect that you make videos for your students to help them learn better!
Hey Mr. Buffington! I go to k12 and I was looking at the video ' The role of a teacher' and you were in it, and you know kids are always online and besides doing my work I am on youTube. Any who I noticed that you had said you "make videos to show kids how to use math in real life" and I saw how you had the video in the class connect.. And to put a video on a CC you have to get it from youTube! (Because I am in cc's all the time.) And BOOM here I am! I just wanted to say I respect that you ..
Thanks for sharing your good at puzzles like my cool gym teacher mr lowery at SEC school
Thank you for putting this up. I have solved it a few times,but I never knew how I did it.
That's really funny! I've done the same thing. Even after making the video, last time I went into a Cracker Barrel it took me two tries to get it.
Those things are fun. I remember in a place I used to work,someone had one in there and a lot of us would spend our breaks trying to figure it out.
Brilliant!
Thank you
You are welcome! :)
Works!
Thanks dude
Happy to help
Do you know the solution for a 7 x 7 version of this puzzle?
I've never seen one that is 7x7. I'll need to look for that.
Where to buy it from?
You can get it here: amzn.to/3cbHRuv
Actually you can have your starting point ( the empty hole) anywhere on the board, so there is several different solutions
In all cases you can use this strategy if you just adapt it a bit for the first 3 or 4 moves.
@@EricBuffington how would you start if the empty space was in the middle of the row of three?
There are 6 possible starting points: the top three rows. If the empty hole is in the bottom two rows, just rotate the puzzle and it will be in the top three.
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I am here because I am an egnoramus! Not anymore. I will now place wagers with the people dining with me at Cracker Barrel