On today's episode, we do a Kumiki car. Kumiki car.
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Welcome to Episode 81 of Puzzle Time. He's Tony. I'm Tyler.
We have a bunch of fun stuff today. We got a wood. We're doing a,
what do you call it again?
Kumiki. Kumiki. Yeah.
That's what the wood is called?
That's the style. We'll get into. We'll get into it here. We'll get into it,
But okay. Episode 82 next week.
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They are good stuff. Okay. Next let's go on to... Let's go on to
today's puzzle. We'll just get into it. This is Kumiki right here.
This is the retro Kumiki Car puzzle. Tony, why don't you...
Do you know what Kumiki stands for? So yes, yes I do. Oh you do. Okay.
Why don't you, you play with that and I'll, I'll explain a little bit here.
I did figure out a few things on this. You did? Yeah, that is the first move.
Do I have
to use these things to keep taking it apart or no? No, no, you don't.
So you just take it apart and put it back together?
Yeah. Yeah. Essentially. It's just..
It's essentially a... Let's go into this. Kumiki is a Japanese word.
So this is a Japanese style puzzle and it means to join wood
together. So, and
it's kind of actually like.... Not for sure on this,
but Kumiki's kind of like a Japanese burr puzzle. Really.
That's kind of what it is. It, traditionally, I guess it,
it often refers to figural wood interlocking puzzles.
So it's like a wood interlocking puzzle where, it looks like something.
This one, obviously it looks like a car, but I've seen, there's like a pig.
There's a robot. There's, there's lots of different ones.
So this is from Recent Toys.
Recent Toys is not like the only one who makes Kumiki stuff,
but this is one that they're kick-starting.
So this is going to be on Kickstarter. When this episode comes out...
I mean, as we shoot this, now, this is just like a prototype.
So we don't actually have the packaging and stuff.
But this is just like the prototype of what, what they're going to be doing.
And it will be released on Kickstarter starting June 24.
So that's when that's when their Kickstarter kicks off.
Is this the only puzzle in their Kickstarter? I believe so. I'm not,
not a hundred percent sure about all that stuff.
Do they come with a full automotive line? It would be cool if it did. I suspect not,
but yeah. Maybe
I got to put this thing in backwards. It does go in backwards.
That's interesting.
It does go in backwards, but no. Yeah. I had trouble.
This is where I got stuck too. Cause the next move is kind of hard.
It's like tight. So you gotta,
you can't be afraid to like pull on this puzzle a little bit. Not like majorly,
but it is tight. It is tight. It's well-made and I would venture to say like,
it's... We guess that it's a level seven. We didn't get a level with it. Oh,
there you go. There it is. So we didn't get a level with this, but we... I talked to Allan,
the Puzzle Master, Tony's father, my uncle. He said level seven.
Level seven. Yeah, he said it's not exceptionally hard.
And I would say that this is less of a puzzle, more of an art piece.
That's what I would say.
Oh, oh, there you go. Oh, baby.
So there is 11 pieces.
So let's count them out: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Is this two pieces? No, that's one. Oh
5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Maybe there's more than 11. 2, 4, 6.
Maybe it's 11. And this is like the frame.
Oh yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah. Put it all back together.
Oh, you can. Yeah. We have more information on the Kickstarter. You can,
you can try putting it back. Putting it back together is not as hard,
I don't think. But the Kickstarter, you can get your own copy of this.
I believe it will be for 35 euros. You can get it. So they will have it on there.
The inventor of this puzzle. And I,
I guess I should say this puzzle's a redesign of like, another one.
There's a...
We'll put a picture up here of the original kind of Kumiki car and what it looks
like. They've done a bit of a remodel on this one.
And I think the guy's name is... I don't know how you would say this?
J A A P. How
would you say that name? J A A
P. Jap.
Jaap.
I don't know whatever that name is. Goslings.
That's the guy who kind of like did some of the design work.
I think it's the redesign work on this.
I don't believe he's the original designer of this, but I could be wrong.
You're putting their own piece in there. That's the problem. Am I?
This piece? Ah, this is the one. There you go.
Okay. So, I think that's about
all I have for information on it. Let's go through it. Here.
Ahhh, I'm trying, man.
There is. There's a move you're missing there. I need that piece together there.
Really well-constructed. I thought this was Oak at first.
It's definitely not Oak. It's some sort of like other wood,
but it's really heavy duty and it's like a pretty dense wood.
It's not a soft wood at all. So I like that. I like the feel of that.
The base is a different wood too, hey. It's like some sort of,
I'm trying to move that guy up. There you go. Yeah. It's that up move on
that piece that kind of gets you. I think you might need that on the first.
No. Oh, there you go. Make it.
Should be able to.
And down. It should go down. Should go down, right? Yep. It should.
Make sure everything else is lined up.
Okay. Everything is quite tight, so it's quite tight. Like that,
that's the thing I like on this. It's like really tight on it.
Everything. Put this on first. That guy goes on first? On that back.
On the back, yeah.
There you go. Then she slides in.
There you go. All right. Car in. There
she goes. That is. I think that's technically backwards,
but I'm not a hundred percent sure. I don't remember which is forwards and
which is backwards. It goes both ways. I think it goes like that. I think it goes that way. Okay.
Let me just show... I'll show a bit of the details on this now.
So this piece comes out and this is all interlocking stuff. Okay.
So you notice that it has that L shape on the bottom and it hooks in. Once you have
it in, like when you have it in, actually, you can't pull that back piece off, right?
It locks it in. Cause it locks it into the base. So each piece locks in the next piece.
I don't know about that, but see,
it sits in that groove and then doesn't allow you to pull it back. Right.
So that's, that's, what's happening there. So you take those two apart,
those three apart. Now the next move is,
I think... Up. I'm pretty sure it's up. See, that's why I had missed that.
So that goes up and that's, that's your next move. And then it allows you...
So this one will take... Oh boy it's tight.
You almost need....
There we go. Okay. There. So then that releases you to move this forward,
right? Because when, when you're pushing it up,
you're actually releasing it from that hook. So that hook is going in.
But the interesting thing is that this piece actually has those little things.
So it has to go in and then it has to go down because those....
You can't go, you can't go straight down, you have to go in and then down.
So that's interesting cause they interlock there.
And so then that front grill comes off,
the two side pieces come off and then the wheels come off. These side pieces
actually interlock into the bottom of this.
So it's a ton of interlocking stuff and it just...
It makes you do kind of like a step-by-step release on this.
And obviously, these interlock the wheels in. Yeah.
So yeah, I like it. It's a really unique, unique puzzle.
I like the idea of like the, the Japanese kind of
tradition on this. Right. Cause it's,
obviously, a Japanese tradition passed along generations.
Yeah. I think, I think they counted 11. Are they counting this?
Or are they counting this as one? Maybe,
but I'm pretty sure the frame would not be a piece.
So I think that's how they're counting it. They said 11,
but it is 12 pieces kind of the way I look at it. So yeah.
That's the Kumiki Car. Again,
available on Kickstarter recent. This is Recent Toys
and it's on Kickstarter. 35 euros, starts June 24.
So you can definitely get your own copy of this
on the Kickstarter website. So let's move this along to the front. Okay.
And then we'll move on to our next puzzle, which is not a Kumiki puzzle.
But it is this one. I actually really like this. Not a hard puzzle,
quite simple. I figured it out in a few minutes. Quite simple? Yeah. It's quite simple,
but it's from Siebenstein Spiele. It's a level six.
It's called Baskerville. I don't know why that is though.
The only thing I can think of is the hound of Baskerville; like that hound.
Isn't the hounded Baskerville...? Is that like a Sherlock Holmes thing?
Or is that the dog that like... No Cerberus is the dog that guards hell, yeah.
Baskerville is like... I think there's like a Sherlock Holmes book, The Hound of
Baskerville or something. Okay. So I'm not sure.
I don't know where the name comes from, but Siebenstein Spiele.
Jurgen Reiche is the guy who does their stuff.
I believe he's the designer and the maker of all of these.
So you're just trying to get the ring off? Just trying to get the ring off. Yeah.
Really pretty simple. It's a level six. You should be able to figure it out. Pretty simple?
Yeah. You know the funny thing is when I opened these two puzzles up, one....
They were in different. They came in different ways. Bam. There you go.
So it's not hard, but okay. So
I think this is actually the way it's supposed to come,
but when I opened them up, one of them had flipped this around.
Which I think is kind of what you're supposed to do maybe in the first move,
but I'm not sure. Cause it does give you a bit more rope length. I mean,
essentially yeah, you found it. Right? You like just pull a bead out. Yeah.
And and then yeah, the ring hooks over there.
What am I missing here? Sick and then we're back together.
I like doing the easy ones, man. Oh, a pin just fell out. Oh, you popped a screw out. I did it just unscrewed.
Look at that. But yeah, it's easy. It's a fun, fun puzzle though. I liked it.
I thought it was cool design. I think I like the look of this one.
I think that was probably my favorite part. That's why I picked it. I'm like,
it's not going to be hard, but it looks neat. So... Just wanted
to feel like I accomplished something today. Yeah. I mean,
it's always nice when we can solve a puzzle on our episodes. It is nice.
But it will feel good for us. So. It rarely happens. It does rarely happen. I mean we had
that streak here a few episodes ago. I know. I know we had that
four episode streak.
I know, solving stuff. But yeah,
that's the Baskerville from Siebenstein Spiele. It's level six and these are both...
This one's available on puzzlemaster.ca, on our website.
Again that Kumiki Car,
the retro Kumiki Car puzzle is available on Kickstarter from Recent Toys.
So yeah, that's all the puzzles we got for you today. Let's move into the,
Online Buzz. Today actually is going to be very,
Kumiki centric. I tried to make it that; run with a theme here.
Let's run with the theme of Kumiki. So first Mr. Puzzle.
This is one of the first places I actually saw a Kumiki puzzle, was on Mr.
Puzzle's channel.
He did the Oddly Satisfying Elephant Puzzle and it's just called The Elephant
puzzle. But his video is called the Oddly Satisfying Elephant Puzzle.
It's from Pelikan. Do you remember this one? It was like an elephant.
It's got, it's got the ear. We've had it here before. Oh, yeah. I've seen it.
It's got the ears, that kind of turn on it. Okay. There's movement on it.
It's got tusks. It's interesting looking.
But that was kind of my first experience with Kumiki and seeing them. So go
there and check out his video. Next, I found another one,
by a guy named Chandler Little. Now Chandler,
I first have seen on Tik Tok, cause he has a really good Tik Tok
channel or Tik Tok. What do you call them?
I don't even know what they call that on Tik Tok, but his page on Tik Tok.
Check him out there.
But I watched him on YouTube and he had the Kumiki Pig
puzzle. Oh, nice.
Now Kumiki Pig puzzle is by Winshare. He bought his at a garage
sale. Oh sweet. And he got it for free. It sounded like at a garage sale. Nice.
So,
the funny thing is though I watched his video and he actually....
He takes it apart and then puts it back together.
He says he looked it up and it was a level nine,
which he didn't agree with, the level. And I get that.
It's not a super hard puzzle. I mean, it's about the difficulty of this,
the car here.
But in his video he actually did the puzzle wrong. And now it actually wasn't his
fault because it came to him. I think he got it and it was put together wrong.
A piece missing. It's not missing,
but I actually want to challenge everybody watching this, to go watch Chandler's
video. And tell me, tell me the comments, what you think is wrong in the video.
Cause he definitely does it wrong. I would actually,
I would suggest going to, just do a Google image search for the
Kumiki Pig. Like, how it's supposed to come? Yeah. Because he did it wrong.
He actually... But he wasn't.... Like I said,
it wasn't his fault because he got the puzzle together wrong. So check it out,
see if you can figure out what's wrong. It's not major, but there is something.
Last and now this was the best video,
I think, of all the ones that I watched on Kumiki stuff. I watched a few,
there was a few different ones.
There was one where like, some Nippon TV in Japan did like a little thing on
Kumiki. And what Kumiki, kind of,
I think more traditionally is, is used in construction. So I mean,
I think puzzles have used the idea, but the construction stuff.
And you've seen this before, right?
Where they do like weird interlocking joints and things. Yeah like the dovetail and stuff.
That's like, I think that's more like the traditional Kumiki stuff, which is crazy.
So if you watch Dylan Iwakuni;
he has a channel on YouTube and he has a video called the Traditional Japanese
Wood Joinery. Crazy video. Honestly,
it's awesome because he does a whole bunch of the traditional stuff and it's
really cool joints. So many, like just amazing stuff. It takes this,
but it's like to another level from this Kumiki Car.
Now the really interesting thing that they talked about,
when I watched it was: in construction
the idea behind using Kumiki, because they don't use nail screws, glue,
none of that.
It's all just wood and you pound it in and it holds together. Yeah. The idea when,
with using it in wood,
like building construction is that, say you have a piece that breaks,
you just take it apart. Yeah. And then you replace it.
So you don't have to scrap the whole building. So I mean, you can,
you can take a whole building apart,
move it to a new place and put it back together. Yeah. Right?
Because you're not using wood screws or screws, nails, glue, any of that,
it all just holds together and you can like take it apart with a hammer
and like, a peg of some kind to punch pegs out.
So it's really unique because you can use it that way. And I, I think it's,
it's almost, into like the,
like being really smart with your resources. Right?
So very little waste.
You're not wrecking things and like fixing stuff like renovating. For
instance, it doesn't have to be this whole process where you wreck everything.
I actually saw where they built an entire tiny house out of that
style. Kumiki? Yeah. Yeah, that'd be cool. Yeah. So, I mean,
it'd be neat to like do some more. Like this is interesting,
but to take it to the next level and use some of that really crazy Kumiki
joints. In construction. In a puzzle even. Just like to do it in a puzzle would be so cool.
I don't know how you use that, but yeah.
So that was it. Check out Dylan's video. It was really good.
I quite enjoyed watching and he had probably like a dozen or so different
kumiki joints that he did.
And it looks like he found a book and like made them himself. And traditionally
like the, the stuff is done, with like a hammer and chisel. Yeah.
You can do it now with computers and there was... There's different computers,
I'm sure you can get that, like figure it all out and like cut it.
And I think that's how this is probably done. Like probably not,
I almost guarantee this is not done by hand with this done by computer and like
a CNC machine. Yeah. So yeah.
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