Hey Kickstarter you saw our first campaign with Slideways, Lattice and Dirty Dozen. Now
we're bringing you three new puzzles: Quintus Extreme, Total Eclipse and The Skull. Puzzles are
a niche industry that very few people know much about. We wanted to bring puzzles to the world, so
that everybody can enjoy playing with them. You helped us do that. First up is, Quintus Extreme.
It's a flat puzzle that kind of looks like a coaster; designed by Oskar van Deventer.
And it's made of five pieces that fold together to this flat shape,
but they easily come apart here, as you can see, and are very very difficult to get back together.
It's brass plated, made of metal and wonderfully, beautifully simple looking. This Total Eclipse,
also designed by Oskar van Deventer. It's made up of an outer frame; this kind of dark
colored metal, with two rings that mesh together by these little teeth there that you can see.
It's a three-piece puzzle and it's quite difficult. The idea would be to get the middle rings
apart and outside of the outer frame. Last, and surely not least, the two pound monster: The Skull.
Jerry Loo is the designer of The Skull. He is also the designer of a couple puzzles from our last
Kickstarter, Lattice and Dirty Dozen. This puzzle is made up of 67 pieces; totaling 116 moves to
solve it. There is a couple of pieces that are not included in the piece count and that's these:
the mouth and eye inserts, which we inserted just so it'd seem.... you could see the skull face a little
more. Here's a bit about what makes each of these puzzles unique. I'll start with Quintus Extreme.
Now this puzzle is made up of five rings which is why it's called Quintus. Quintus or five.
And they're flattened rings that all interlock together. Now I would open it for you,
but this puzzle is insanely hard and I've been told not to take it apart, but essentially they'll
open up into five connected rings and you gotta weave them all back together to this flat state.
So really unique and different. The Total Eclipse, it has... So like I said there's an outside
frame and then there's two rings inside; one gold ring and one silver ring. If you look close,
you'll notice that there's teeth here cut into the frame, which line up with teeth on the rings.
That'll allow you to move the pieces in and around the frame and get them off the puzzle.
And last, is The Skull. It's just, it's a monster; there's a ton of pieces and it's gonna be
really really difficult to put back together. I mean there's just no two ways about it
it's plain and simple very hard. Every puzzle you buy from Puzzle Master has a difficulty rating.
There's a scale that runs from five, the easiest, to ten, the hardest. These puzzles are definitely
on the harder side. Total Eclipse is a level nine, Quintus Extreme is a level 10 and The Skull is
a level 10. Now every so often there are puzzles that encourage us maybe to have a level beyond 10.
The Skull is definitely one of those. We decided not to though. It's definitely a level 10, but
it's harder than any other level 10 we've seen. Puzzle Master is a family run business. You've
seen myself and my cousin Tony on YouTube, on our YouTube channel, Puzzle Time with Tony and Tyler.
Our fathers, Leon and Allan, are the ones who started Puzzle Master in 1991, almost 30
years ago. We are based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. And from our roots as a small family-run
business, we have now become the world's largest online retailer of puzzles and brainteasers.
You can find us at puzzlemaster.ca. Puzzle Master's 30 years of experience have allowed
us to connect with a whole ton of designers, different manufacturers; we have opportunity to
connect into the puzzle world in a way no other business can. We're always looking for new stuff,
new innovations, new puzzles. We're connecting here in Saskatoon even,
with different manufacturers who can make in metal, who can do acrylic and
wood. There's just tons of opportunity and we are always looking for new and innovative ways to
create puzzles for you. You helped us bring puzzles to the world with our last campaign. Thank you. We look
forward to your support with this new campaign: with Quintus Extreme, Total Eclipse and The Skull.