Welcome back to another episode of Puzzle Insider. I'm Greg from Puzzle Wanderer.
And today we have some very interesting and exciting news from the puzzle world
for you and for you only. For those of you who are new to the series,
here we gather
and publish the hottest news from the ever expanding world of puzzles.
I've got a few surprises for you today,
starting with this little venture that I found myself in.
You've probably heard of the puzzle Danlock.
Somehow I managed to find myself in Dan Feldman's house and behind me
is Boaz Feldman.
Hello everybody and welcome to Loki solution walk through.
So the first step is.... You wish! No, it's not
going to happen. Boaz tell us a little bit about behind the scenes.
What happened when you designed Loki? What was your inspiration?
After the... I came up with the both B-lock and
B-lock 2,
I wanted to create something more complicated. I've gained
much experience with the Danlock, since my father stopped producing it
and when I started producing it. Again, I faced a lot of technical issues.
So I wanted to design something of my own. I thought to myself,
how do I create a sequential discovery? Something that will take time to,
to solve. It took me almost one and a half years.
I got help from some good friends who tested my prototypes of this one.
And finally,
I came up with... Some of the parts I had to throw the whole batch and rework again.
I hope you love it.
I've solved a lot of lock puzzles, myself and some steps repeat themselves in lock puzzles.
So do you think that I will find something completely new in Loki?
Good question. So, Loki has relatively lots of steps.
And as far as I know, and I repeat, as far as I know,
because I believe we don't know all PuzzLocks. All the steps of this lock are
original.
That's amazing. Thank you. And last one,
I believe you didn't talk about it anywhere. Are you working on a new puzzle lock?
So right now I am not working,
but I have a few working prototypes that I hope
to come up with in the next year.
Thank you Boaz Feldman for tuning into our video today.
Boaz has just released his brand new puzzle,
Loki. I played with it and can confirm it's extremely unique and
extremely difficult. In the last episode,
I asked you guys to request articles for future episodes.
My favorite request was Dom AZ's, who requested a cool
extravaganza anomaly puzzle. The moment I read this request,
I knew what the puzzle would be.
Slideways Cube by Lee Krasnow.
So you probably know that this is a 3D printed puzzle from Lee.
He used to sell them as a retailer on Etsy,
but now apparently his shop closed and he only sells puzzles as a supplier
rather than a retailer. But some of you might not know though,
is that he used to sell the Slideways Cube in a different extravaganza
variation. He used three different materials.
One of them is really brilliant metal.
Second is aluminum and the third is joined wood. It looks fantastic.
And I know no other puzzle that looks this cool!
One of the most value packed 3d printed,
sequential discovery puzzles, Pair O' Dice has been announced to be re-released.
But guys tell me, after a long while of silence, American producer,
and puzzle designer,
Tye Stahly, announced that this puzzle was tweaked and is ready for the next
release.
This puzzle is living proof of the huge influence that 3d printers has over
this puzzle industry.
Apparently the Pair O' Dice would cost $600 to produce in wood.
And this was confirmed by Tye Stahly himself.
So, this means that this puzzle would cost $1,000, if it was made
in wood. Pair O' Dice is 3D printed,
which means that it doesn't have to cost so much.
Instead he printed it for around $120, I believe,
which is extremely cheap for the amount of puzzle you get in that puzzle.
The puzzle packs a wild amount of steps and tools,
which makes it one of the most value packed puzzles on the market. Tye is also a
skilled acrylic puzzle producer and likes helping puzzle designers,
release their puzzles, using his skills and machinery.
I know, he has already helped release acrylic versions of puzzles by
Haym Hirsh, Frederic Boucher, Alexander Magyarics and many more.
So if you ever come up with a cool puzzle idea, he's your man.
It turns out that one of the people who helped tweak this iteration of Pair O Dice
is Ryan Sinatra, which is coincidentally our new designer of the month.
Ryan is a young designer, age 31, from the USA. He does live
music production, tours and travels as a DJ, part time barista job,
and of course making puzzles.
Travelling and puzzle making are two opposing activities, as Ryan can naturally do one
while doing the other.
Yet he still managed to come up with a handful of designs that he designed
and made for his shop, Extrusion Solution.
He first discovered puzzles right here on YouTube. He watched some solve videos
and right after that, he bought a couple of Hanayama cast puzzles.
After that he got hooked.
I think a background in graphic design and being very tech savvy,
helped him dive right into the world of CAD and 3d printing in order to make
his own puzzle designs. The design he's most proud of is called Cactus Cube,
a three packing puzzle with a light dash of sequential discovery elements.
It combines the puzzle channels, Ryan
liked most into one compact portable puzzle. He's also working on a new coin
release puzzle called Behind Bars
which is still in the prototype phase. In Behind Bars will be completely new
mechanism ideas, according to Ryan. Ryan
currently only designs and produces 3D printed puzzles.
But if the opportunity presents itself, he might also come up with a metal or wooden
puzzle in the future.
3D printed puzzles have been starring on today's episode, as this will be their third
appearance. This month's
new exciting puzzle from Puzzle Master is Burr Lock E,
a puzzle designed by Christoph Lohe and made by Andrew Crowell.
Andrew has been designing and building 3d printed puzzles for a while now and has
been a very productive builder in the last years.
Some of his puzzles include TICS series, Turning Interlocking Cubes,
puzzles that many puzzlers really enjoy. Andrew has an area of not one,
two or three,
but four Prusa MK3 brilliant printers ready for puzzle production.
His favorite puzzle design is Burr Box, a sequential discovery burr puzzle,
and his other favorite puzzle is Daedalus by Gregory Benedetti, for its high
amount of discovery.
I will also add that Daedalus is an extremely tough and very playable puzzle.
I myself have the version that Eric Fuller made. Definitely try it out,
if you have the chance. Lastly,
I found a video of the type you want to see everyday.
It's not just a normal creator,
but very skilled and unique puzzle box designer that also
makes his own puzzles and documents the whole process. It's Jesse Born. Jesse
makes beautiful videos about his work process from prototyping to building,
fixing machinery.
I find it fascinating to see what's happening behind the scenes of puzzle makers,
especially when they're as skilled as Jesse. After thoroughly watching his YouTube
channel and reached out to Jesse and ask him a few questions that will be
interesting to you guys. It turns out he doesn't solve many puzzles by himself.
Instead he really enjoys making them and invests most of his money into puzzle
building. He did try some puzzles by Kagan Sound, Robert Yarger,
who's also known as Stickman and
Hideaki Kawashima of the Karakuri Creation Group. His goals in puzzle making
is to make a fun to have and solve puzzle.
So he tries not to match his work with any other craftsman.
Invoking curiosity is another one of his many talents, which worked well with
Sea Chest, a puzzle
he made and designed, that quickly became a hit in the puzzle community.
His biggest inspirations in his world,
are Kagen Sound and John Grimsmo. An interesting fact that John Grimsmo is
not a puzzle designer, but a knife designer.
And John also documents his whole working process behind the scenes.
And what's interesting is Jesse, while making puzzle designs as best as he can,
he shoots and plans the videos himself. It's a fact.
I hope more designers take this path and share the process on YouTube.
It's a great place to show valuable knowledge that cannot bloom anywhere else.
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