Hello, my name is Tyler and I am your puzzle master insider. Today I'll be
giving you an inside look at five different puzzle boxes from around the
world. The aim of all these puzzle boxes is to open them and then close them back
up. Puzzle boxes can be used for hiding valuables or just as an interesting
conversation piece to have on your shelf or coffee table. There are many different
styles and difficulty levels of boxes, from around the world available on the
Puzzle Master website. Here are five with simple solutions. This is the triangle
trick box from Jean-Claude Constantine. It's manufactured in Germany out of
laser-cut wood. It's got a few steel posts on the corners, two screw heads
sticking out, on what I assume is the lid. And it's a little bit loose there, but
that doesn't come off. As well, in that lid piece is a metal pin that sticks out
when you turn it sideways or upside down. And that middle of that pin is threaded.
It looks like maybe a screw or something fits in there. Maybe these guys go in and
it's part of the solution. It's hard to tell. As well on the bottom is a metal piece
inset into the wood. It's in a deep hole. It's it looks like a ball bearing, but
it's hard to tell what it is. This is the triangle trick box. It has the most
variation of any of.... the most visible variation of any of the boxes that I
have today. It's also the smallest of the boxes. It's
a level six on the Puzzle Master Difficulty Rating Scale, which runs from
five to ten.
This is the Secret Box Good Fortune from Philo's. It's manufactured in China, but
imported from Germany. It's a level 6 on the Puzzle Master Difficulty Rating
Scale. I'd say this box has the most easiet, obvious solution of the 5 boxes
I'm showing you today. There's some cool laser-cut etched-in designs on the
outside. It says good fortune here on the front. These two are etched in there. You
can kind of feel that the design work on them. There's a hole in the side of the
box. I'm not sure what that's for. If you can see inside the box with that, is hard to tell.
And there's a couple lines etched on the outside here, as well. Overall it's a
really interesting, neat looking box with a fairly simple solution, but a good one
This is the Secret Opening Box Number 3 from Puzzle Master. It's manufactured in
China and is the heaviest of all five of these boxes. This puzzle box is made
completely out of wood other than some metal for the mechanism
inside. It's got a few different types of wood there. You can see kind of where the
openings are on the box. There's a few different parts, that obviously slide to
do the solution. And it's a level 7 on the Puzzle Master Difficulty Rating Scale.
This is the compass secret box from Enchanted World of Boxes. It's
imported by a US company, but made in Poland. It's got some really cool design.
Everything is etched-in and engraved into the box and just really feels
well-made. The thing I like about this box is that, not only does it look cool,
but it also looks like a normal jewelry box. It doesn't uh....the solution is
not instantly apparent when you look at it. And it's probably the most well
hidden, while maybe being the simplest of the five I'm showing you today.
This box is a level 6 on Puzzle Master's Difficulty Rating Scale.
This is the Romanian puzzle box from Transylvania Art it's manufactured in Romania and is
my favorite, of the 5 boxes I'm showing you today. It's predominately made out of
wood with metal hinges and a metal mechanism on the inside, to open it up.
Looking at it though, you can't see the the mechanism for opening it up, so it's
actually fairly well hidden. And it's a level 7 puzzle, but it actually is a
little more complex feeling than a level 7, but a lot of fun. They make a whole
bunch of these puzzle boxes all with the same solution. And they come in six
different colors and three different sizes. This is the green one and it's in...
this is the medium. So there's a small and a larger one and bigger than this
too. So it's a really interesting puzzle though. Something that's a lot of fun, well
made and and just looks cool. It'd be an eye catcher on the shelf if uh...if you
had this at home. Next I will show you the solution to each one of these puzzle
boxes. If you aren't interested in seeing these solutions, then please stop the
video here. Five. Four. Three. Two. One. Zero.
Next I'll show you the solution to the Triangle Trick Box. So, you'll notice that the lid is is loose and that pin,
essentially, in the top, is all that's holding the lid in. So if you flip the
puzzle over, this ball bearing in this hole, is only held in by a magnet. So what
you'll need to do is hit it on your hand and the ball bearing comes out. Now next
you'll notice, there's a lens, that when you slide the the puzzle back and forth,
goes over top of that magnet and would block the ball bearing from getting to
the magnet. So what you want to do is slide that lens, so it's over the magnet,
put the ball bearing back in that hole, flip the puzzle over making sure to hold
the ball bearing in with your finger, and you'll notice that that pin now falls
down and let's you open the top of the box.
So all you need to do to put it back - put the triangle piece back in, still holding
that ball bearing at the bottom and make sure to flip the puzzle over and
then take the ball bearing out. Make sure that that lens is not in front of the
magnet again and drop the ball bearing back into the hole. Flip the puzzle over and
it is back to its starting position. And that's the solution to the Triangle Trick Box.
Next I'll show you the solution to the Secret Box Good Fortune
from Philo's. So I don't know what this hole in the front here has to do with
anything, but the solution is based on this pin
right here. And literally all you do is, lift it up and it comes up and out there
and it's raised up, you can see. And there's a dowel that kind of
holds it in. So it's inset and the dowel holds it in place.
So when you have it up here it allows you to bring that piece up here in the
middle. So you bring that middle piece up and slide it sideways, which
allows you to move this lid and slide it up on the hinge. And inside you can see
see what's going on there. There's a dowel here, through the bottom and just...
So it's essentially a dowel with two small dowel pieces through it and that
just rotates on the axis there. So to put it back in, make sure that that pin is
sideways like that, close the box up, slide it in place like that, and turn. And
you have to lift up, turn that middle piece back into place, push that pin in
the middle down. That's the solution to Secret Box Good
Fortune from Philo's. Next I'll show you the solution to a Secret Opening Box
Number three from Puzzle Master. Now this puzzle you can see pretty clearly is...
there's a lid that jiggles around a little bit. Here.... there's an end piece on
this end that moves, as well as, a bottom piece... Well a little bit loose, but you
can that feel that they're still uh still closed. So what you want to do on this
puzzle, is you want to take the end with the bow closest to it and flip it over
and hit that end to your hand. That drops a pin in here, down and allows you to
move this bottom piece out. From there, you can move the end piece up and that allows
you to take the lid off... like that. Now what I'll do in this puzzle, is I'll
deconstruct it a little bit. You take the lid off. You see the grooves on the side,
that it runs in the track. And there's some tracks here and then you can take
this end piece out and you'll see that there's a pin on the end here or a piece
of dowel and that runs in this groove and that's why this can't move any
further down. And then... from there you can take this bottom piece out. The bottom
piece will slide out like that and here if you flip it over you'll see there's a
magnet in the bottom of this piece. And that's what holds the pin and why
you have to hit the puzzle, at the one point there, to get it out. And then from
there, there's a hole here with a metal pin in it.
And that's what locks your puzzle in place. So let's put that pin back in. I'll
slide the bottom cover on. And then...
slide this end piece on, slide that down, put this lid back on. Once you have the
lid in place, you just got to push that end piece up, push the bottom piece in,
and flip the puzzle over, locking that pin back in place. That is the Secret Box
Number Three from Puzzle Master.
Next I'll show you the solution to the Romanian puzzle box from Transylvania Art. And like I said before, this is my
favorite solution. I love this one it's got a lot of steps to it and it's just a
lot of fun. It's well hidden and... yeah... let's get into it here. So the bottom of the
box slides out, for your first move. You see it just moves out like that and then
from there you take a front part of that piece there, out, revealing a keyhole in
the front of the box. Now next there's no key, so you got to find the key. The first
move to do that, is to push the face of that bottom piece over to the left,
revealing a compartment here. And that middle piece slides up and out. Like I
said, it reveals a compartment in the bottom. So there's a compartment in the bottom
where you can feasibly hide stuff and up here in the top. Next - pull the front of
the puzzle out again, like that. And then there's a key in that piece you pulled out.
Pull that key out and slide it with the teeth of the
key, down, into the front of that box. Turn it one turn clockwise. From there you can
open the box. Revealing an inside with felt bottom and a little makeup mirror here,
so it could be used as, like a jewelry box or something. There's a little makeup
mirror in the top, or the lid of the box. So then to put it back on, you just close
the box grab that key, again with the teeth down. Put that into the box and
turn it one turn counterclockwise. Next you'll grab that key, put it into that
piece you had pulled out before. And you'll notice that the key is a little
wider than then the piece you pulled out. And what that actually does, is the key
slides into a groove there, that this piece goes in. You push that piece down and
then this front piece on the bottom slides over. Grab that little piece
you took out. Slide that in, covering up the lock hole. And last, push the bottom back
into place. And that is the solution to the Romanian Puzzle Box from
Transylvania Art. Each one of these puzzle boxes is available from Puzzlemaster.ca.
And you will find a link to them in the description below.
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