Age of Puzzles - Origami Strip Puzzles

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Origami Strip Puzzles

For this new Origami puzzles you will need just a narrow strip of paper colored on one side and white on the other. Let's consider the width of the strip as 1 and its length as long as you need. Using such an Origami strip you can form different flat and three-dimensional signs and shapes with plain colors or different color/white patterns on their surface.

To solve Origami strip puzzles only simple folds with no twists or bends (so-called “book folds”) are allowed. Note, that during every single fold you can fold only one(!!) single layer of paper at a time. At the same time you can perform such a "single-layered" fold so that after it is done its parts may cover/envelop some other parts of your sign/shape.

Finally, you should see every sign/shape as it is shown; its color/white parts may be either plain, or composed of several respective elements.

You can mark out, cut off, and precrease your colored paper strips before the final folds as you need, keeping in mind that your main and the only challenge is to achieve a chosen sign/shape in the least number of simple ("single-layered, book") folds. You are not limited in length of used strips, but try to use a strip as short as you can to form every single Origami strip sign/shape. And remember that a strip you use should be always in the form of a narrow rectangle.

The respective pages of this website present all updated results for all known Origami strip puzzles. Write us if you can improve any of these results.

Toy Strip Origami

by Peter Grabarchuk

Using three Origami strips, each colored at one side, and white on the other, and performing just "single-layered, book" folds, get a three-letter word TOY in the minimal number of single folds...