Hello my name is Tyler, and I am your Puzzle Master Insider.
Today, I will be giving you an inside look at the puzzle: The Rack.
The Rack is one of the original 10 puzzles that Puzzle Master founder, Allan Stein, first produced in his
basement in 1991 during the inception of the company.
This is video Number 9 in a series I will be calling The Original 10
where I'll be introducing you to the very first puzzles from Puzzle Master.
This includes the puzzles: Cowboys Hobble,
Fantastic Five,
Scorpion,
Handcuffs,
Iron Maiden,
Heartbreaker,
A Puzzle,
Lion's Lair,
Wedding Vows,
and today's feature, The Rack.
The Rack is a wire puzzle made from three-millimeter or 1/8-inch thick
nickel-plated steel wire with two nickel-plated rings, a black nylon rope,
and two red-painted wooden beads.
The objective of The Rack is to remove the
rope and the beads from the frame.
It is a Level 8 on Puzzle Masters Difficulty Rating Scale, which runs from 5 to 10.
As I have said in previous videos, Puzzle Master used to manufacture their wire line of puzzles here in Canada,
but now, they are manufactured in China.
There are a couple minor differences between the Canadian and Chinese versions
when it comes to The Rack.
The nylon rope on the Canadian version is a tighter weave and the
beads are larger as well as being a deeper shade of red.
There are a couple other variations of The Rack available on the Puzzle Master website.
This includes four at "4 et 4" Vexier and N' U1, both from Jean Claude Constantin.
Next, I will show you the solution. If you aren't interested in seeing this,
then please stop the video here.
Five.
Four.
Three.
Two.
One.
Zero.
The first step in The Rack solution goes like this.
Take the rope on one side of the frame, put it up through the ring on
that side and over the opposite side of the frame.
Next,
grab that loop of rope again,
go at the bottom
of the frame on that side, through the frame,
and over the bead.
Releasing that and putting you onto one side of the frame.
The last step in taking the rope off is to go up through the ring on that side
and over the opposite side of the frame.
Taking the rope off.
Now to put it back on,
you wanna grab that rope, go up
through
the ring
and over
the opposite side of the frame.
Putting you back on to one side of the frame.
Next,
grab that rope about half way,
put it through the bottom of the ring
and through above the bead on this side through the frame.
Go over that bead
and release
and grab that loop again that you just made and go over that side of the frame
and back to the start.
The Rack is available at PuzzleMaster.CA.
That wraps up Video 9 of 10 in the Original Ten Video Series.
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Thank you for watching and I hope that you have a very puzzling week.