- Yeah, what's up guys and welcome back.
Oh, it's good to be back in the office.
I was on a long trip to Germany recently
and I'm really glad to be home
and really excited today to share with you
a brand new puzzle that I've been waiting for.
But, before I do that I just want to thank everybody
for entering the contest last week.
So many, so many entries, obviously not everybody
can win but I have posted the winners below.
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And, for those of you who participated but didn't win
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All right guys, today it was my pleasure to bring you
a very, very rare puzzle and a very,
extremely difficult puzzle.
This is known as the Revenge Lock or
the Traveler Lock puzzle.
This is a level 10 puzzle manufactured by Will Strijbos,
once again, or made by Will Strijbos.
He was also the one who did the Lotus puzzle
on the last video if you guys remember that.
So, we know we're in for a few surprises and
probably a lot of frustration with this particular puzzle.
The craftsmanship again is stellar.
It is all made of metal, very heavy and a lot of parts.
Without further ado let's get into solving
the Revenge Lock puzzle, let's go.
Oh, look at this baby. This is a nice lock.
It feels like a real lock, none of that wood stuff
you can just pop open.
Before we get into this lock it came
with this little letter.
And, this letter reads as follows.
"One, discover your number."
No idea what that means.
"Two, open the Shackle.
"Three remove the brass key.
"Four, find the tiny wanderer."
The second part, "Replace the wanderer,
"brass key, and shackle.
"Put the lock back in the frame.
"Fix the lock into frame."
I'm guessing that this is the frame and that's the lock.
So, we've gotta pop this.
So, what the hell does this mean, discover your number.
By the way, I cracked my phone on my recent trip to Germany.
I've got a cracked phone here so let's see if there's
any moving parts here.
So, this seems to go down a little bit when I push on it.
I'm not sure why.
It does not seem to rotate.
There are these pinpricks, these little pins
that go all the way through.
There's a little hole here where you can see
some type of mechanism, right?
It feels like, look, it feels like it's getting loose
when I push it down, see that, like it loosens up.
Oh, oh that just popped out, let's go.
(mellow music)
And bam, okay.
So, there's a little spring inside here, encased right here.
Look at the work on this. That is just great.
Okay, so that is the frame.
And now, this part of okay, so we have more details here.
We've got a few holes.
Why does it say discover your number?
Discover your number, open the shackle.
Discover your number.
(mellow music)
What does that even mean.
There also seems to be like a fine pin right there.
You see that little pin?
Discover your number.
See, these two pins I thought they might be able
to fit in here, but that's a no go.
And, there's also this extra hole, do not know
what that is, but it seems like you can see
the mechanism through there.
This seems to be like little allen key holes.
Okay, and on this side you have like a brass pin there.
And, that's this pin, seems to be stuck inside.
My guess is it's stuck by that.
Seems to be like a little bar going through here
that's probably connected to that somehow.
Discover your number. Oh, here you go 249.
No idea what that means, but I guess this is
like a rarity number I guess.
Okay, so number discovered.
Discovered the number now we have to open the shackle.
Oh, did this just come out?
What's happening? Things just keep happening.
Okay, so that's there, oh now it's stuck again.
Seems to be something on the inside, too.
If we go here maybe it can go through, no.
Why won't that come out anymore.
That was just out. It was just out now, just a second ago.
I literally just like, what did I do?
I picked up the paper and that's what I did.
I picked up the paper and it was solved.
I don't know how it happened.
When in doubt, spin.
(laughs)
That actually worked, okay.
Maybe now I can push this thing down further?
(mellow music)
Oh, here we go, this is unscrewing as we speak.
Oh, that is cool. Does this now come out?
Hole in there now. That's, it's in there.
And that just popped up.
By pressing down on it it just popped right up.
Now this is locked into place.
That doesn't seem to want to fit in there.
But, why does this come undone?
There has to be a reason for it.
As I move this back and forth there is a tiny,
here you can see it here, a tiny little piece
of metal structure that's in there.
If I go like this it goes out of the way.
My first initial thought was to take this,
which fits in here, and so now I can tilt it
without it dropping down and that might loosen
some other mechanism.
Then again, then again that doesn't seem to work at all.
The shackle did lift out of it's place and I think
that's a good sign.
I do believe that has to go there to block it.
Now it's not locking.
I think it only locks with that little pin.
With that little moving part that bounces back
and forth seems to be like a magnet which locks this down.
'Cause I can't open it but if you listen the pin
drops down here.
And, I was, oh there it goes.
So, I still don't know what this is for.
Again, I can see how someone would want to screw this
in these little octagonal, are they octagons?
I can't screw this in, like it's all crooked and weird
and I don't wanna damage the threading on the inside
of these little screws here.
So, that's definitely a no go, I don't wanna break it.
(clicks)
What if this goes back in here? It can't go back in there.
Spring, any other clues? Maybe I gotta put it in backwards?
They purposely offset these holes so that
you can't put it back in backwards it can only
go in this way.
I'm trying everything here guys.
What would you do right now, like what would you do
in this particular situation.
Comment below, timestamp, and tell me what you would do
in this situation before watching the rest of the video.
Don't cheat, we don't want no cheaters.
Is there a magnet in here?
Maybe wait, maybe this unscrews even further? No.
One thing about these puzzles is always look at everything.
That's like the biggest thing you have to remember
is don't get caught up in the obvious.
Look at everything, look at every little piece.
Every word, every engraved thing, everything has
a reason for it.
Why would this come out?
This being like a deadbolt here probably stops everything.
It probably needs to come out.
You probably only get that out if this comes out.
Okay I think that this needs to come out of here.
Now, this isn't opening any more.
There are little notches on this thing, too.
I don't know why. The latch won't open.
And, that goes back down. Hold on.
(clicks)
Did I break it?
So obviously, the spinning thing allows that
to go in and out.
But now, I guess I gotta shake it up, lock,
this doesn't lock into place anymore.
(clicks)
So, the latch would lift up before and now it doesn't
and part of that is because this is now loose.
And, that doesn't seem to want to lock in anymore.
(clicks)
This needs to come up for this to come out.
We know that, but now this isn't popping out anymore.
Oh, now this is stuck here, now it's all the way.
(clicks)
This doesn't make any sense.
(mellow music)
Why aren't you opening anymore? What's happening?
(mellow music)
There's also a pin here and this pin holds
these little notches.
I'm not sure why there's notches all the around this thing
and there's only one pin.
Kind of if I turn it it kind of locks into there.
I can pop it out and turn it and then boom that locks in,
it can't move.
So, this must be the brass key.
Open the shackle then remove the brass key.
So, the shackle needs to open before
the brass key is removed.
I just don't understand why before the shackle was opening
and now it isn't.
When that happened this wasn't moving.
Oh, there we go, okay so now okay.
Boom, see now the shackle's open,
but this thing isn't moving.
What? A little shaky shake, that's the crux here.
(clicks)
It's that this only opens when this is down
and this only comes out when this is up.
But, this only comes up when this is down.
This is a fun puzzle.
I'm trying to turn those notches to figure out why
this isn't opening anymore.
Like, it has to be a certain orientation of that key.
There's like an obvious ah ha moment waiting for me.
And, that's the fun with these puzzles is when
you really figure that ah ha moment out.
(mellow music)
Now, I'm in this position again.
The key is here and now it won't pop open again.
Why does it stay up there like this and now
it's only half way up, what?
Before it would come all the way up
and now it's only half way up and now it's all the way.
(mellow music)
Locked, if I turn it locked, turn it back, unlocked.
Okay, there is an orientation to this which
I've just figured out.
If I push on this lock and lock it I can open it
by sliding that inner piece like this.
Now it opens, however if I take this one to the lock
position and turn it and lock it now it will not unlock.
So, there is a specific orientation with this, boom.
There it is.
I'm gonna make a little dot, I'm going to make a small dot
just so I remember which, right there, just so I remember
which end needs to go in for the orientation.
(mellow music)
I thought maybe if I pushed this down while in
the locked position then turn it I'll be able
to lift both, kind of like if I do this.
(mellow music)
And then, turn it back, but that doesn't help.
And, this is locked here, like it won't go further up
unless, ooh, unless I spin it.
(metal clatters)
Now it will. This darn thing.
Also, what the hell is the wanderer?
I just thought about that.
There is I gotta remove and I've gotta find
the tiny wanderer.
There's a little man in here, I think.
(mellow music)
The other thing that I've noticed with this is that
in this position, oops, let's get it locked in there.
Here, see now it's locked for some reason.
It won't go down further.
Now it's even lower and it's locked there.
Maybe there are stages to this.
Maybe I need to start here as I just twist this
and pull it out a little bit like so you can hear,
right there. (clicks)
There's some type of little bead in there.
I think that bead needs to travel and I think
I need to do that blindly.
(mellow music)
Oh, I just heard something lock into place right now.
This piece also moves. There's another moving part in here.
In these holes you see that there are little bars
and these bars shift back and forth depending on
the orientation of this.
(clicks)
Bam, bam diggity, oh my god I jut figured that out.
Okay, I'll let you know what I just figured out.
I pushed it in, I was moving the bolts around
and that bolt dropped down.
I then locked it back into place inverted it so it couldn't
be blocked anymore and that allowed me to now open it.
Now, I'm not all the way done.
Boom, ho, ho, ho, ho. Okay, and oh.
Oh geez, this little bearing fell out, another spring here.
(mellow music)
And, there we go, where's the tiny wanderer?
He doesn't seem to be in there.
Okay, knowing from the other lock puzzles I've done,
I'm trying to unscrew everything.
Well, okay, we're this far now I can see
how the inner mechanics work, which is really cool.
As I said, those little bars shift
back and forth within this.
I'm guessing this is the brass key, so remove the brass key.
Find the tiny wanderer, hiding somewhere.
Where's the tiny wanderer? Mine's missing a tiny wanderer.
And, why did this come undone?
Is this the tiny wanderer, this little bolt?
There's no seams. Is this the tiny wanderer?
I'm confused, is that what wanders throughout this thing
and that's what I had to remove?
I guess so, so I guess that was it.
I guess this was the tiny wanderer.
A little disappointed that it doesn't have,
it should have like a little clue saying,
"Yes, this is the wanderer."
So, I'm guessing that these things here are simply
put there because there are matching notches that
match up with those rods that are on the inside here
and I guess that because this is one solid piece
you can't get in there and drill.
So, he had to drill through and then put these as stoppers.
That is the tiny wanderer.
I wish the tiny wanderer was a little person
not just a little piece of metal.
Everything else, these are all the pieces in this puzzle.
As difficult as this was to take apart it's probably
going to be as difficult if not more than to put together.
So, start it up.
(mellow music)
The holes are free, the pin is up, three hours of trying
to put it back together, one hour to take it apart.
(metal clatters)
And, there we go.
(sighs)
This, (metal clatters)
is now locked and this is and was the Revenge Lock.
The hardest lock puzzle probably I've ever had to do.
I hope you enjoy it.
(groans)
All right guys, that is it.
Oh my god, I'm so tired.
Getting to the end was very, very tricky because
you could not just reverse engineer it and plus
you're working blind.
So, a lot of the time you're fiddling around
with these things and listening for the clinks
and clunks and the orientation of lock itself.
And, it got very, very complicated.
I'm extremely tired, saturated, my mind is just
(groans) right now.
But, I really hope you guys enjoyed this video.
It was a lot of fun to open this lock puzzle.
Now, it goes on my shelf where I will never again touch it
for as long as I live.
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And, we'll see you on the next video. Peace, rock.
(mellow rock music)