(jazz music)
- Yo, what's up, guys?
And welcome back.
Good to be back here.
I hope you guys are having a great day.
Now in honor of Valentine's Day coming up,
I have a special puzzle for you guys today.
This is known as the Heart in Heart puzzle.
Aw, hmm, love.
This is a creation by Will Strijbos,
famous for tons of other puzzles that I've solved.
One of my favorite puzzle creators,
because I'm just a fan of, like,
the brass and heavy metal look.
This thing actually weighs a lot
as the outside casing is made of brass.
And inside is this, what appears to be
a three-piece sort of aluminum heart.
Now the whole goal of this puzzle
is to take the heart out, disassemble it,
reassemble it, and put it back in.
So it's a take-apart-and-put-back-together puzzle.
It has the Streetwise brand logo in the back,
which is, I believe, Will's brand.
Retails at about roughly 100 bucks,
which is a lot for a puzzle like this.
This looks like a Hanayama creation,
but you can tell by the weight of it
that it is definitely made of higher quality
than most Hanayama puzzles.
Now this is said to be a level seven,
although Will Strijbos is known
to be tricky with his solutions.
So we might be in for a little bit
of a harder puzzle than a level seven.
We've been led astray before by puzzle levels,
so I'll come up with my own leveling system.
Anyways, guys, let's get into solving
the Heart in Heart puzzle.
Okay, this little heart puzzle.
This is an interesting little puzzle
because it looks so simple, and it isn't.
It has literally a heart on it.
You see this heart is broken up into three pieces.
You can probably see that here.
And that's all I got to go on.
You gotta take it apart and put it back together.
Problem is, I don't know how to get this out.
Let's start the timer, by the way, before I forget, boop.
Okay, take apart and put together.
There is some rattling inside here.
I can hear that; I do hear.
Spinning it doesn't work.
There's like, there's no other, like, seam
or button or anything, so I don't know what to do,
other than just, like, tap it.
Now if you shake it,
(rattling)
you can kinda hear that, right?
It seems like it's, like, up and down,
like a pin up and down,
which makes me believe that I would have to spin it.
(sighs)
(laughs)
I can't press the middle.
What would you guys do in this instance right now?
You hear this; would you just keep banging it?
Let me know in the comments.
Okay, there's a little wiggle.
Maybe that's what I'm hearing.
You know, that's definitely it.
(sighs) This is proving to be a little bit,
I mean, no, this is exactly as complicated
as I thought it would be,
because I've nothing to go on right here.
There's this little moving sound.
It seems to be just the pieces rattling around.
I can make them rattle.
I just can't make them unhinge themselves
from whatever's holding it.
So there has to be a mechanism
holding these pieces together,
and I don't know, I don't know how to get
that mechanism to unhinge these pieces,
other than bang it,
'cause there is no other apparent solution.
This is, I'm sorry for those of you
who have to sit through this right now,
of just me staring at this thing.
I don't know what to, I don't know what else to do.
I hate to leave you, I hate to give you nothing to go on.
So apparently no force is required to open this thing.
There's nothing, there's no clue anywhere.
(sighs)
I don't see how this can't be a spinning puzzle.
Like, there's (sigh)
there's no way to get this out.
This is frustrating.
If you're planning on giving this to your valentine,
I definitely wouldn't do that
if you want to keep them as your valentine.
There's nothing to go on.
I'm, so I'm thinking there's something
underneath this metal thing or in the sides of this
that's preventing this from extracting.
And other than banging it to let it out,
like, spinning it is the other obvious solution,
and none of those are working,
so I don't know, I don't know where to go from here.
So I do feel like there's more moving parts,
because I'm holding these very tight as I'm banging,
and I still hear, like, a little click sound.
So there's something underneath.
(sighs)
Oh, oh, here we go.
It's coming out.
It says no force required.
Boom, ooh, look at that.
Look at that; look at the inside of that. That is pretty.
So now we're left with this.
And we gotta take this apart
and apparently put it back together.
You thought the puzzle was over.
Here we go; why won't these slide apart?
To have a look, there's, like,
all sorts of little seams here.
And there seems to be three layers interlocking.
So this layer is actually underneath this layer,
and this layer is actually underneath this layer,
and this layer, you know what I mean?
So, like, they stagger.
So my initial thought is that
you gotta twist it somehow.
There's gotta be, there's gotta be a twist here somewhere.
This is turning out to be
actually a pretty difficult puzzle.
I mean, they're saying level seven,
but I mean, to be quite frank,
I would give this, maybe it's just me,
I don't know, maybe an eight.
'Cause right now taking it apart
is not the easiest of tasks.
So that's there, okay.
So literally all I had to do to get this out
was just to, like, slam it until it came out.
And that took me, like, 15 minutes to figure out.
(mumbles) this layer is underneath that one.
I'm trying to use this as kind of a wedge.
Maybe I put it in halfway and start to, like, twist it.
It doesn't seem to want to do anything.
I kinda want to put it back in there.
It's so satisfying; look at that.
This is, like, super lightweight, too.
This is not made of, like, heavy brass or anything.
This is, like, aluminum, so it's very lightweight.
I'm having the hardest time, though.
It gives you a nice little heart blister, bing.
Spinning it might work.
Oh, that's an idea.
What if I spin it and bank it off this thing?
It might just give it the shock that it needs.
Oh, it's coming apart.
This is, this is a good idea.
Here we go.
Just gotta hit on the right angle.
This is actually working, I think.
I don't know what side to spin it on.
Boom, it's starting to go apart.
Have a look.
There we go, oh, ho ho.
Okay, I have to watch it not to put it back.
That's crazy; look at that.
Oh, now it's, oops, now it's going back.
This might not be the smartest way
to get this puzzle undone,
but it's proving successful.
So I'm working with what I got.
It, like, starts to come apart, but then it doesn't.
(phone dings)
No messages right now, I'm busy.
It's still not coming apart.
It's, like, fragmented.
It's not coming apart, 'cause, like, every piece I push
counter-pushes the other piece and keeps it together.
So I don't exactly know, oh, here we go, here we go.
Here we go.
Boom.
Okay, so about half an hour.
I'm gonna keep a piece exactly here
'cause I want them to go back.
That is interesting.
That is really interesting; look at that.
Look at those pieces; that's super interesting.
And the fact that it's shaped as a heart is very cool.
Now hopefully, hopefully this all goes back together.
And it probably has to be super precise.
(sighs)
That one there.
And this one here.
You gotta find that exact point.
Boom, ooh, and we're back in that.
You can go back in there from whence you came.
28 minutes 34 seconds.
That is the Heart in Heart puzzle by Will Strijbos,
super, super clever
and painfully, ridiculously difficult, surprisingly.
Maybe just for me, I don't know.
My banging technique seemed to work.
Smash it to get it out.
Smash it to, like, take it apart.
Then I guess once you, once you know what the, oh, yeah,
see, this comes out super easy now.
I don't know why I spent so much time not getting it open.
And then once it's, see, I don't,
oh, here we go, see?
I'm getting, now I can, like, undo it properly,
I think, without banging it,
because I understand how it's made, right?
I don't know, maybe not.
I'm gonna leave that there. (laughs)
Thanks for watching.
All right, guys, that about wraps it up for this video.
That was a lot of fun, actually.
I, fun, I mean, by fun I mean it was frustrating
and time-consuming, but definitely fun.
Super satisfying, I did have to bang it around quite a bit
to get that heart out, you know,
as opposed to just, like, shaking it out.
That obviously didn't work.
I tried everything, so maybe it was just, like,
maybe it was just my puzzle
that was a little bit more difficult to get out.
Once that came out, I thought it was
really interesting the way it's made.
And I still kinda have a hard time figuring out
how to perfectly undo that heart.
But spinning it and banging it against the brass casing
seemed to work, so that was my attempt at a solution.
I would give this, personally,
like, a level 8 1/2 out of 10,
because I thought this was quite difficult.
Maybe I'm exaggerating, I don't know.
You be the judge.
Anyways, guys, thanks for watching.
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and we'll see you all in the next video. Peace out.
(funky music)
(singing in French)