The Heart Puzzle

Design and Diagram - Ilan Garibi

Origami puzzles are usually paper variations of wooden puzzles. While trying to create new origami
puzzles I realized I can exploit the color change feature of Kami. This simple heart shaped unit does
just that.

Your challenge is to create a white square with 4 heart units without overlap! Units can touch each
other only at the edges.
1 2

Precrease the median. Now the diagonal, and

Unfold. unfold.

3 4

Bring the median (red) to Now bring the marked left corner
the diagonal (green), and to the top marked corner, by
make sure the new fold line folding it to the back!
goes through the centre

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5

Valley fold the left marked Now tuck the front two layers
corner to the right marked behind.
corner.

Turn it over and you get a lovely

Make four units like this. simple heart. Turn it back to get
the side with the white triangles
for the puzzle.

Your challenge is simple - create a white square, but you can not afford overlapping of any unit or part of a
unit! Units can touch each other only by the edges.

For the advanced solver, can you do it with only two units, following the same rules?
Hint - if its not forbidden, you are allowed to do it!

Good luck!

For verifying your solution, contact me here: garibiilan@gmail.com

Special thanks to Dáša Mrkvičková Ševerová, for the advance version!

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© Copyright 2013 by Ilan Garibi
This document was published by OrigamiUSA’s online magazine, The Fold, with permission from the author.
If you did not obtain this document from The Fold’s website, you may have infringed upon the author’s copyright.
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