Knowledge of the ruleset of Origami Puzzles is assumed.
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At first glance, these origami puzzles seem easy to solve. There are even solutions posted for them in the answers to Sny's other posts:
Hooray! That was simple!
Looking at the letters crossed by the "folds", we get R-E-D H-E-R ...
Darn it! They just spell out red herring (with an extra T, which might have been unavoidable...).
What is the solution, then?
It turns out that
Each of these shapes has an alternate solution using diagonal folds instead of orthagonal ones:
If we look at the letters crossed by the "folds" here, we get T-E-S-S E-L-A T-I-O-N
So the solution to the puzzle is
TESSELATION, which seems apropos.
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3$\begingroup$ Ah, sorry, the T was my problem – I think I forgot to mark that crease. But I'm glad that it didn't impact the solve! Your solution is correct. That was quick! The answer is a reference to a problem-solving technique for such diagonal puzzles, and I plan to retract some previously-made promises and gatekeep it for now. $\endgroup$Sunny– Sunny2025-08-01 15:44:22 +00:00Commented Aug 1 at 15:44
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$\begingroup$ I'll make a post-solve right-up write now. $\endgroup$Sunny– Sunny2025-08-01 15:48:10 +00:00Commented Aug 1 at 15:48
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Here's my post-game commentary. Here be dragons:
I am a huge fan of "redo" puzzles that forces the player to re-solve a certain puzzle with new constraints
which is why when I first saw the Puzzle 30 cheese:
which is
an unintended reduction from this thickness 4 puzzle and thickness 2,
I saw the potential in
orthogonal-diagonal duality.
At that time, origami tech (which I'm gate-keeping) is advanced enough to easily solve diagonal puzzles, and so
I found those puzzles that can be solved two ways in thickness two.
The title is a nod to
The concept of the second "take" or attempt at a puzzle,
as well as an indicator for the thickness:
tstands for thickness, and so the title suggests that the thickness is two.
Here's a revised puzzle, fixing the extra T:
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4$\begingroup$ Note to voters: wrap-up posts by the creator i.e. "Making of" posts, are explicitly allowed as answers, in an exception to the normal Q&A format. $\endgroup$2025-08-01 22:00:15 +00:00Commented Aug 1 at 22:00