The Match Bar Trick Solution

Video Transcript

"In this clip we are going to have Richy take a stab at it. So here I have the matches set up just like I explained to you earlier. Twelve matches setup into four boxes. Now I have have my friend Rich here who is a give a stab at trying to make these four boxes into three boxes. Have at it. Remember no breaking no bending no overlapping and all twelve matches have to be used in the final product. Alright let me get this straight I am moving three matches and trying to put them back in the this scenario somehow to make four boxes into three. Right. Why do I always get stuck with these? Alright I am going to give it a shot. You know I could be at this all day. I am just not a very good puzzle person so I am going to have to say i give up. How is it done? Well as you can see here there are three black matches which I color coded to help you see. All I have to do is move the three that are black. I am going to move it around to here and move that to there. So now you have one, two, three boxes instead of the four that we originally had. It's a very simple maneuver to go from four to three and you're going to baffle so many people who are going to try for hours to do what you did in just one minute."