In today's episode,
we show you two brand new escape rooms in a box from a company called Escape
Welt from Germany. We have the Fort Knox Box and the Space Box.
Hey, welcome to Puzzle Time today. Today is episode 94.
We got Tyler and I'm Linnea.
Today we will be doing some escape room in a boxes. So there's
sequential discovery boxes by Escape Welt. So Tyler,
which one would you like to start off with today? Let's do.
Let's do Space Box. I like... I'm a Sci-fi buff a bit. I enjoy that.
This one was my favorite video. I watched a bit of Ivan solving it.
I didn't go through the whole video, but I saw a little blurbs of it.
So it was fun to watch him do it.
Yeah. Why don't I open it. You show the box off.
I think the box is actually quite unique.
The box is basically probably what esthetically pleases me the most
about it. Yeah, I like these.
They've done a nice job on the look of the puzzles.
They did really good. On the boxes especially.
This is a new designer for us, Escape Welt or
Escape Welts. Escape Welt is what it should be. Right?
So this one's a level nine on the Puzzle Master difficulty level. Yup.
So basically there's so much stuff to open on it.
It makes it very hard.
You kind of have to go with the backstory of it to understand what the puzzles
are and what the theme is on it.
I'll say this, these puzzles have a little bit more, with the wood that they use,
have a little more, a bit more of an unfinished feel than some of the,
the IDventure stuff. I will say,
I think these are a little more complex maybe than the IDventure puzzles.
There's a lot more going on, but it's very similar, similar design.
So if you like those, they are really... these are really good puzzles.
I love this kind of stuff. The IDventure stuff is great.
These are a little bigger too than IDventure, I'd say, hey. Oh yeah.
They're good. They have a bit more of a larger size.
Do we, we want to try solving these?
I don't know how far we'll get, like there's so much stuff going on. How, like,
how do you determine where do you start on it? Right.
I guess you got to look at what matches with each item on it.
Honestly,
these feel a bit like something you'd find in some sort of like Egyptian
sarcophagus and it's like
Pharaoh had this built for him and was buried with it and like some sort of (inaudible) you have to figure out
You can see keyholes. This one has a keyhole right here and then
some sort of a hole down lower here.
And there's a lot of things moving around inside the box, which I find interesting.
Lots! Like there's a whole... Oh yeah, there is something
bunch of different little pieces moving around in there.
They are a little bit more expensive than IDventure. I'll say that,
but I think it is... that it's more complex and there's..... I'm going to guess
they're a little harder. Yeah. Just, just based on an initial look,
but there are they're great. And these escape rooms in a box are fantastic.
Do you know what the time limit on these generally is?
This one, I think, was around 60 minutes.
60 Minutes?
I think that's most of these guys stuff. They kind of plan for about an hour
long puzzle. Yeah.
So you were saying Puzzle Guy has solved this before on his channel?
Yes. This one and The Pyramid.
I don't think he did the other one we're doing in the video today, but....
Let's move onto that one.
He di this one for sure.
Okay. This is called the Fort Knox Box.
This one looks pretty cool too. I haven't even.... Like this one,
you can't even see a peak of what's inside.
This one kind of gives you a little bit of an idea.
So I haven't even checked this one out at all, but yeah.
And now there is a third one we're not showing called The Pyramid. Right?
Yeah. So it's a bigger, it's a little, a little wider than these.
I feel like that one's the most aesthetically pleasing of them all,
but they all look like really cool and have such a cool feel to them too.
Right? Yup. Yup. And how they come up with all these puzzles to lead to
it, is just crazy to me.
I actually think visually just on an inspection,
this is the one that intrigues me the most of all three.
This one had a really cool backstory actually. Oh really.
Each one comes with a little card that you can read the backstory on.
And this one actually kind of struck me the most is it's about,
a mafia family breaking into Fort Knox building, whatever that is.
Fort Knox is where they store gold and stuff.
Yeah.
And so you're supposed to go and find a coin and it has something to do with...
like the coin, has something to do with a mummy or something like that. Right.
So actually it was a pretty interesting backstory to it. Hmm.
Which I thought was pretty cool.
Yeah. Well, which is similar to what the escape rooms do, right.
When you go to an escape room, they've built a story.
Usually they have some videos or something that you watch and your,
a character in this story. So that's, that's kind of delving on that. Right.
And again, it's that escape room in a box thought. Yeah. So I like that.
Hmm, cool. Hey, Fort Knox Box. So what all do you see here, Linnea? I,
the first thing that strikes me, like I said, is this, this dial. I like it.
I don't know what this is. It really intrigues me; that dial on the bottom.
I will say this one has a few less symbols. If you look at the Space Box;
Space Box, has a ton of symbols and different things going on on it.
This one has left of that. But I feel like there's some more interesting stuff.
There's also these three wheels here on the side. And when you play with them,
they do seem to move together. Pull yours right in here, Linnea. There you go.
And then there's another wheel here.
Now this is where you see a few symbols on this wheel, I think is where,
when you turn it... Ah, it doesn't even turn. Oh, there you go. There's some... Oh
it's not symbols. It's letter, there's numbers here.
Look at that.
There's a number inside that thing
and the dial moves the number. But I actually can't seem to get any other numbers.
other than that one to show up.
Yeah. I think you kind of have to move something around to get this one to work.
What I think you might start with here is the Roman numerals connect here to
here.
So you have to do something with where they connect all the way. There's lines,
all the way along the side that they connect to. Right.
And so something with these Roman numerals will connect to the bottom. Yup.
to do this puzzle. But I don't know if that's a start point or if that's just...
I also wonder about this too. You saw in the Space Box,
there was some sort of coin slot,
and this one kind of has that, too; again, some sort of a slot in there. Again,
you'll see a three here. You'll see a one there. Is there a two? Do you see a two
anywhere? I don't see a two.
I think in the Space Box, when I was watching Ivan,
something came out of the puzzle that you put into that slot.
I wonder if it's the same thing in this one, is that you have something that
comes out first and that you can use to help you solve the puzzle in that.
Yeah. This one does have something. I think there's
one thing... Maybe that's that tool
float around in there. You can hear kind of banging around as you play with it.
Well, I know at the end,
there's a little guy in the whatever spot it is to find. At the end,
you'll find a guy that comes out.
So I wonder if that's the same thing within this one.
This one does have a pyramid on it, too. I didn't even notice that. There's a pyramid.
All seeing eye, that's from National Treasure. I know that story a bit because...
Well, if you want to see the pyramid go to puzzlemaster.ca
and you'll see the third,
a third version or the third puzzle in this recent shipment we got
from Escape Welt. I'm hoping to see more from these guys, cause I actually really,
really do like these escape rooms in a box.
They are great. Let's move into the Online Buzz.
Yeah. So these ones are actually quite interesting to me this time.
Usually it takes me a while to find something good,
but I was actually just scrolling around in the first one I seen the other day,
which actually stood out to me quite a bit,
is Jake Willis. On YouTube? Yeah. Willis. Yep.
I don't know. He has an accent, so I don't know how to...
if there's a different pronunciation to it or if it's Willis. So anyways,
what I found was Kepler by Felix Ure.
I find that... That was such an interesting puzzle.
That puzzle was super frustrating. Yeah.
Yeah. That's the one with the, it's just like a little box with like
ball bearings in it. Right?
Yeah. And you have to fit all the ball-bearings in, but there's a....
I've watched Ivan solve that one. So I kind of,
I couldn't repeat it myself,
but I kind of understand where you go with that one. Right.
But he has such like a clear understanding and explanations of the puzzles he
does on YouTube. Very easy to follow,
kind of has a little Chris Ramsey esque to it where he has his nice intro with
the music and does something cool at the intro.
And then kind of does his very clear....
The other one I found was on Instagram.
So I was just scrolling through Instagram,
looking for a new... There's suggested accounts
you can follow. They say,
you suggest these people look at them and see if you want to follow them.
The one I found was Douglas Clark. Now his Instagram account is,
it's like a good tale puzzles, but there's underscores in between each word.
It's underscores, not dashes? Yeah, underscores.
So A underscore dash or good underscore tale,
underscore puzzles.
Yeah. So it's kind of a long name, but his name is Douglas Clark.
He actually makes puzzles. I don't know if he sells them anywhere.
I couldn't figure out; couldn't find his website or anything for him.
But, what stood out to me. Does he have any puzzle boxes that he makes? He has
three different puzzle boxes that he started with and what kind of struck me
about the puzzle boxes. There's kind of easier solves of what he said.
They weren't very hard difficulty levels, but what he does inside each box.
He'll hide a tool for his next box. So you kind of have to buy the next one;
buy the one previous to get the tool to help you solve the next one. I like that.
So it's kind of like you have to buy the set of three, essentially.
Well you don't have to, but like if he's giving you a tool... So okay now, hold on.
If I bought the second one, I might not solve it, if I didn't have the first one?
I think you need the first one to solve the second one.
So I think you have to buy them in order,
which is kind of a flaw if you're not going to buy all three,
but it's a cool idea in it.
You could sell them as a three pack.
Yeah. Right? That works. Yeah. I like that idea. I really do that.
I think that's actually quite interesting. Yeah.
Like the third one you need... like there's little... It's a maze one,
and there's little steel balls that you need to put through the maze. And if you
don't have those steel balls, you can't solve the
maze. Right? I'd be disappointed in having one
I couldn't solve until I bought the first one,
but... But I hope like that would probably be a good description,
but it just struck me as something different. Right. Something interesting.
But the one I liked the most about him, was his
Fit layer. It was a packing puzzle called Fit Puzzel 2. Okay.
Is that another one he made?
Yes, he made this one as well.
I think he made about eight puzzles on his Instagram account or whatever.
This one, again, wasn't super hard. I think it was like a level,
it would be like a level of seven on our scale or something like that.
Seven or eight. Okay. And so what was interesting about this one, is that
it's just the normal square packing puzzle, but you have different objectives.
So there's an objective for a three by three objective by four by four,
five by five, six by six and seven by seven. So the frame's a seven by seven,
but you have objectives for different ones to fit the pieces in.
It's flat or like...
It's a flat, flat packing puzzle.
And what kind of was a little bit different about it too, is it's a two layer,
but it's not one layer.
You have to fit the pieces together and you have to kind of right. Yeah.
I've seen that before. The two layers. That's good.
Yeah. And his stuff was all wood? Yes.
All wood.
I think it's kind of like this style of plywood stuff for the most part.
So yeah.
Cool.
Well definitely check out Douglas Clark on Instagram and that is all we have for
Online Buzz. Right? Yeah. Okay. Cool. Well, thank you guys for watching.
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