- Yo, what's up guys, and welcome back.
Hope everyone's having a good holiday season.
Today I got something very interesting in the mail.
It is very interesting.
I don't know why I'm speaking in the Russian accent,
but is interesting.
It is a Curiosity Box.
What, may you ask, is a Curiosity Box?
I have no clue.
We're gonna find that out together.
We're gonna unbox this curiosity
and show you guys what lays wait inside.
This is, of course, from my friends over at Art of Play
who always have something interesting to send me,
this time hopefully being no exception.
So, I have no idea what's inside.
It's a beautifully designed box,
something that looks nice under the tree.
Let's have a look and unbox this thing
and see what lays wait.
Quick update for V2s on the first playing cards.
They should be released up and around Christmas,
so obviously you won't get them for Christmas,
but no presale, once again.
These are gonna go straight to market as soon as I get them.
I don't wanna hype, I don't want you guys
paying for something you're not gonna get,
so I want them in my hands before we send them out.
So, as soon as I am ready to sell them,
you will know first via this channel,
so make sure you stay subscribed and notified
so you don't miss out on the launch of
the first playing card V2.
That being said, let's get into unboxing
this box of curiosities.
(cloud poofs)
Curiosity Box.
Let's see what's in here.
Nice box, by the way.
Their packaging's always pretty much on point.
Ooh, got a nice little wax stamped seal.
Look at that, let's try not to.
Look at that, that's cool.
(light piano music)
What's in this?
Got a nice, what is this, like a stamp?
Oh, there's an illusion in itself.
Check out the elephant, how many elephant feet do you see?
Yeah.
Mind blown, that's kinda cool, I might leave that
like somewhere on my desk or something,
it looks really cool.
Okay, here we go.
So, in this Curiosity Box, I guess this a,
you don't know what you're gonna get kinda thing,
they kinda just send you one of these
and you get a lot of this green stuff, ooh.
Oh, what?!
No way!
DKNG mini playing cards, what?
Get out of here, look at this!
This is honestly one of my favorite decks in the world.
It was in my top five last year,
it was like my number one in the top five last year.
Oh, the stock actually looks pretty good, oh my.
Yes!
The stock is actually great, look at this!
(cards flipping)
Oh God.
It's actually a lot harder to spring than you might think.
Takes a lot more strength.
Look at that fan, look at that.
Zhoop.
Quick mini card card stream montage, go.
(hip hop music)
(cards flipping)
All right, we're back, that was fun.
That's actually really cool.
I like that they actually went the extra mile.
Like, this is embossed, then they're actually
printed by USPC, I'm pretty sure,
because air-cushion finish, made in the USA.
Very cool, very cool, Kanye, very cool.
What else we got in here? This thing looks cool.
It says STEM Science, 150 piece jigsaw puzzle.
It comes in a little test tube.
That's actually quite cool,
and I guess that's what it looks like. (chuckling)
Oh my God, so complicated.
I mean that's just something fun to have around,
like lying on the table if you ever get bored.
I don't know if I'm ever that bored. (laughs)
Still cool.
Oh, this little guy!
Oh, the Cubebot, Cubebot.
I wanna see what the Cubebot's all about.
These are the instructions, I guess.
This, huh, huh?
And then the arms.
Oh, the hands, oh, what?
I don't know what I'm doing.
The Cubebot is born.
The Cubebot, look at this guy.
(peaceful music)
I don't know what that's for, but he is made.
(box clatters)
Next.
Also have one of these mystery tops,
which I've reviewed before.
They've sent me some mystery tops in the past.
Maybe this is a new one.
Ooh, I don't have this one.
Oh, look at that, look at that little thing.
Whoop, made of wood.
I like, actually, the color of it.
That's very cool.
Got like four different mystery tops right now.
I don't know how many they've produced.
♪ Doo doo doo ♪
Ooh!
Sick!
This is a bookmark.
We love books.
So, how this works, this is kinda cool.
Again, with the printing,
and the logo, and everything's super clean.
Art of Play really,
they always go out of their way for this stuff.
So, let's get a book here.
The way this works is you keep your page like so.
Booya.
You could put it to the side, you could put it at the top.
That thing keeps your page.
Also, a fun fact, it can be used as a shuriken,
and you can probably impale someone with this if you.
(man screaming)
Yeah that'll kill someone for sure.
This, what is this?
Again, with the little bags, their packaging is so cool.
Oh, sweet!
A little Art of Play pin, a little pin.
I never know what to do with pins, by the way.
I guess you can wear 'em on your lapel.
I just don't have enough lapels going around, that's cool.
Also, what are these, stickers?
Ooh, it's elephant illusion postcards,
this guy here, they made stickers.
And another couple elephant stickers.
Can't get enough of those elephants, what's this?
Ooh, a mini puzzle, let's go.
Let's go.
All right.
(soft piano music)
(metal clanking)
Hm.
Okay, we're here.
Yeah, we're getting there.
Boom,
and boom.
Now, to put it back.
I think we were somewhere here,
and these went together, yep.
Yeah,
and then those,
and there we go.
Simple enough, but fun.
Lastly, and here you have the Matchbox Pyramid,
which also comes in the big Matchbox Puzzle Box.
I know it's a little late for Christmas,
and I don't know if you would get it on time,
but what a great gift.
Like, you could just literally
take this gift apart and fill your whole family's stockings.
(chuckles)
Build a pyramid, they say.
Three pieces, seems simple enough.
Oh okay, yeah, something like this,
like this. And you have also a bunch of little
matchstick puzzles on here,
so if you have matches at home,
you got a couple puzzles you can figure out.
I don't understand how this is
supposed to make a triangle, or a pyramid.
Oh, that's good, that's good.
I mean, I feel like this is good.
For some reason, I feel like,
just like I am not understanding one,
ah, there we go, boom, triangle is done.
As simple as it looks, it can be quite complex, still cool.
Next there's just more!
We have this, I don't know what this is.
Pyramid puzzle, using two wooden blocks to form a pyramid.
Okay, I mean if I did three, I can do two.
That's actually hilarious (laughing)
that these two make a pyramid, what?
Okay it's gotta be something like this.
There we go, boom.
Again, super simple, but,
you kinda wrack your brain for a second.
You're like, "How does that possibly make a pyramid?"
Well it does folks.
Big pyramid, little pyramid.
And when people come to my house,
they're just gonna be like, I'm gonna be like,
"Here, solve this, do this, do these things."
My house is gonna be like Willy Wonka's place,
minus the creepy Oompa Loompas.
What's this, a good luck charm wish bone, that's it?
It's a wish bone?
Did I break it, don't know.
(package rattling) What do I do with this, do I eat this?
(package rattles)
(chomping) (spits)
Definitely not.
Okay, I'm guessing,
oh, so one of them, I see!
So you have someone else pull one side,
and whoever gets the bigger piece has their wish come true.
It's kinda just like a little novelty
(clicks tongue) wish bone.
Not gonna lie, kinda useless as well,
but, I mean, for all the stuff
you should have on your coffee table by now,
after watching my videos, you need a bigger coffee table.
Still cool.
How to lock the envelope.
There's a puzzle envelope.
Oh that's cool!
So you can, oh sweet!
So you can send off a letter,
and you can lock it off with this, which is also a puzzle.
That's kinda cool.
We have this, jeez.
Tangram sticker sheet.
Peel and stick your own tangram figure
like the examples on the back.
Oh!
So you can just make your own
sort of like little origami shape
using these, which is kinda cool, very retro.
I feel like this is like very 1970s.
And lastly, but not leastly, the piece de resistance.
We have a sealed mystery deck.
So the mystery decks, as some of you know,
I've mentioned in the past,
you get a rare deck inside,
you never know what you're gonna get.
I don't know if they,
I don't know what they put in this one.
Oh the illusion deck, very cool.
So I talked about this in the past.
I'm glad I got another one, now I got a sealed one.
A whole bunch of different illusions on the back of these,
on the face of these cards.
Illusion d'optique playing cards.
That about concludes this unboxing of the Curiosity Box.
All right folks. (claps)
That about wraps it up for this unboxing.
Hope you enjoyed that.
By the way, quick side note,
doing cardistry or any type of magic with a small deck
is extremely difficult.
So for all of you complaining,
"Oh, my hands are too small for cardistry."
Well, news flash for ya, if your hands are too big,
it doesn't work well either.
That being said, I hope you enjoyed this video.
Hope you enjoyed the contents of this box.
And again, I'm not sure if every box
has the same curiosities, who knows?
I'll leave the link below if you guys want to check it out.
Something interesting, like I said,
stocking stuffers or just a gift for a friend
or someone you want to see be tormented
by the brain-wracking puzzles that lay inside.
Regardless, thank you for watching,
and like this video if you did enjoy the contents,
subscribe to new year and we'll see you on the next video.
(hip hop music)