Hey, it's Aaron and we'll be going through the solution for the Loopybox,
and this is a level six on the Puzzle
Master difficulty scale. This puzzle and many others are available at
puzzlemaster.ca. The main goal of this puzzle is to open the Loopybox.
Just taking a tour of the puzzle,
we can see lots of nice raised portions and
different stuff, but there's really not much going on other than this dial,
this rope,
and this slot.
And this slot is really preventing us from opening the lid.
The rope is acting as a pin.
We can also see that we have this magnet on the end of our rope for
seemingly no reason,
but I mean it kind of sticks to the side and keeps the rope in check, I guess.
So really what we end up wanting to do is, we want to take this rope and we
want to get it up through this slot. From there,
we're able to rotate the dial and it will unloop itself.
This is where this puzzle gets hard. This is really a dexterity puzzle where
you're trying to manipulate a piece of rope up through an eyelet.
So I'm just going to take one of the sides of the rope and I'm going to twist it
so that the piece of rope coming back towards this ball, is on top of the piece
of rope going into the loop. And I just find this is the easiest way for me to
manipulate this piece of rope.
So I'm just going to push this loop underneath
and I'm going to tug on the second one to tighten and pull it in.
And I'm going to tug on this rope here to kind of try to move it over.
And this is a lot of playing around.
You might not get it the first try, just reset the loop and
keep playing with it back and forth.
When it starts to look like it's heading up the notch,
you want to almost add more slack into it so it kind of pops up out.
So it almost looks like I got it now,
so I'm just going to start feeding it
some slack
and we can see it pops out.
So now that we've done that, we can take this horrible little pin that
anyone who's played with this puzzle has probably destroyed their fingers on
and we will go in the
same direction as the piece that we're...
So they made one full rotation
and now we can just pull the rope out.
And what's in the box?
Oh, it's my pained fingers. Oh... No, it's,
it's a neat box, but I wouldn't put anything in here that you don't want to
uh, you don't need immediately I guess. Yeah, it's not,
I wouldn't be opening this thing every day, that's for sure.
So to reset it, we will pull over, loop back through that,
that slot
and from here I'm just going to spread it out
and I'm just going to loop it like we did before.
Now, unfortunately, this time, when we're resetting it,
we no longer have the tension around the dial to help us,
which might be easier, might be harder really...
So we're just going to kind of make false tension here and kind of pull to the
side and feed back and push and pull and... It is really fiddly.
You'll... as much as I'd like to
give you an all purpose perfect solution, it is really gonna come down to
what you find works for you.
So this is the point where I fiddle with this for three hours trying to get a rope
through a hole.
And unfortunately it being a black rope, really isn't helping the situation for
you guys seeing what's going on in there. But
trust me, it's exhilarating.
Okay. I'll reset this.
At this point,
it really doesn't matter which side of the rope you're looping it over. It's,
Oh, that looks promising.
Okay. So I got my loop going and I'm just pushing more rope in.
And I got it again
And we'll pull it.
Oh.... pull it that way.
and pull that back through and we're back looped up.
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