In this episode of Puzzle Time,
we are showing you puzzles from a brand new company here at Puzzle Master called
Intrism. Now you may recognize these puzzles from Episode 110 of Puzzle Time,
because we talked about them in the Online Buzz.
Now we have them for sale here at Puzzle Master.
These are marble mazes that are both wood and acrylic. Check them out
in this episode of Puzzle Time.
Welcome to Episode 122 of Puzzle Time. In this episode,
we are talking to you guys about Intrism. Now let's,
let's pull out the mini to start. Intrism. Linnea, where are they from?
They're from Ohio. Columbus, Ohio.
In the United States. So it's a company that makes, essentially,
a wooden model inside of an acrylic box.
And it's a marble maze. So we've seen stuff kind of like this before.
So we've had, we have marble mazes here at
Puzzle Master that are called Perplexus. They have like a...
it's a marble maze, it's all plastic and it's inside of a ball.
This is a cube, as opposed to a ball.
And this is kind of a cross between Perplexus and
maybe another company we have called Ugears.
So Ugears is where you build wooden models that are laser cut,
plywood, I guess. Is it plywood?
Birch wood, they said.
Birch. Okay. So this is a laser cut puzzle, essentially. So what this is,
it's a marble maze that you put together on your own inside of an
acrylic cube. So yeah, let's check it out.
We've got two different versions here. We've got the mini version,
which is what Linnea has. And I have the... Is this the pro?
Is that what's called? Yes. That's the pro.
It says the pro. Okay. You tell, tell everybody about that.
How many pieces are in here.
So it's designed by a guy named Kyle Vandeveer.
Kyle Vandeveer, Vandeveer.
Yeah. Anyways. And so the mini here has 130 pieces.
The pro has a hundred and 50.
The difference in size is: this is six by six inches and this is eight by eight
inches.
Yeah. It's essentially the size of the box, right, in the end, like,
but just in a cube. Right? Yeah. So you can kind of...
So this one will weigh a
hundred eight pounds when you're done or not 108. 1.8 pounds.
1.8. Okay.
Then this one is three pounds approximately. Okay. So yeah,
there's 210 pieces in this; 130 in this.
This one's quite a bit more of an intensive maze as it does have
150 obstacles, you have to overcome in the maze. Right.
And this one only has a hundred or 50 obstacles. So it's three times as
much. Three times more.
So it'll be way, a way more difficult maze.
There is, there's a little key chain here that says, 'Intrism', that you can punch out.
So all these pieces will punch out. You can see,
they're all laser cut. You may not,
pick it up on camera super well,
but the black lines are all where the laser has cut and there's just
little breaks there. And then you
do you get your black marble
here The marble up top there. So how many boards are there in here?
Like I pull this marble out here. I just wanna see.
Six in the small.
6. 2, 4. I got eight, eight boards
in the big one.
So it's going to be quite a bit more in depth than that one.
Yeah, absolutely.
And as you can see, it is a little bit smaller than the box, like the acrylic. Oh
yeah. It's not quite meeting. So this is, this is the acrylic. And obviously,
there's just a peel off part here. So you'll peel off these,
these brown pieces and this is completely clear acrylic, which you will...
which will snap together here. So you can see that there's
tabs that snap into these holes and that'll make your outer casing for the
puzzle. And then, is there anything else in here? Is that it? That's...
That's basically it. Like, it just,
like a Ugears thing, you kind of... like a gear thing,
you have to kind of click together. Right? So you click all the pieces together.
I hope... One thing I do hope with this,
is that the instructions are well done because I
know with Ugears, their instructions are phenomenal and really,
really well thought out. These do look to be very similar,
really well thought out, but
I'm not sure what our levels are gonna look like. Like,
it's hard to rate something like this as far as the difficulty goes,
because are you rating the difficulty of the puzzle when it's put together?
And like, how, how hard is it to do the maze?
Are you rating the difficulty of how hard is it to build the puzzle? Right.
Like, I mean, that's is a thing, right? So I, I don't know what...
On Intrism's website, they rated it by the maze.
They said they're maze is a level 10 maze.
It's a level 10?
So that's kind of what they rated it. They didn't really...
They gave you not approximation of hours to build it,
like the big ones at approximately four to 10 hours, depending on if
you're like, if you're used to these models or if you're... You know,
your pace and everything like that. So, yeah.
And I'd recommend taking your time.
I've done some of the Ugears stuff and you don't want to zip through it fast.
You don't wanna be in a hurry because it is... like, I mean, it it's, it's...
these pieces are strong, but I mean, they're wood,
There is stuff that can break in here. So you wanna,
you do wanna take your time. I, I would definitely recommend getting some like,
things to help punch out the pieces too. Even just a little,
like a file or something, something to push, like just to push, like with,
with a little more precision It's cool. This is good. I,
I think there's a lot of detail.
Their packaging is good, too. I like.
look of it. Yeah. And it's heavy. It's hefty stuff,
but I really like that. They, seem like they have a good,
good drawings or good graphics of the build as you go through.
Yeah. And I checked them out on Instagram and TikTok and they do a pretty good,
views of different.... like the, the puzzle. They'll do different,
good videos on it. They did some where they built it. They did some where
they were playing around with it. They did some more, they dropped one.
It was pretty cool.
Yeah. They, they are on social media. They're on Instagram, on Facebook.
You said they are on TikTok too.
TikTok as well. Yeah.
There is a scannable thing on the front here, too, which you can scan and,
and I think it just takes you to their website. But I think that's,
that's all we have for puzzles today.
We just had these Intrism puzzles. We wanted to show them to you. The pro and the mini.
Again, you can get them at puzzlemaster.ca. And Linnea,
where can people go to find more of our social media stuff out there.
On TikTok, Instagram, on Facebook.
Yeah. And our website puzzlemaster.ca. So,
Linnea does do a TikTok live and a Facebook live;
keep an eye out for those. Are those on Thursdays only?
No TikTok is at two to three times a week.
Facebook is only one time a week on Thursday, so. Okay.
Interesting. The big one says ages 14 plus; the small one is ages 10 plus.
Let's get into the Online Buzz.
Okay. Linnea, this is, a lot of your research. So why don't you start talking about,
Puzzle Portal? You wanna talk about them? Okay. Puzzle underscore Portal.
Yep.
So this is an account on Instagram.
They did, like, just different puzzle photos of different puzzles that they have.
Yeah.
They have some really nice photos. I like their stuff.
Yeah. I, I really love their photos.
My favorite was the trick lock photos where they used like LED light strips.
Strip lighting. They wrapped it around and through the trick lock to kind of show off the
trick lock a little bit better. Yeah.
Kind of an artistic take on puzzles and puzzle photography. Yeah.
I think my favorite was: they had Quad L and Phantom,
two of our metal puzzles, that Puzzle Master makes. And they had them
on like a table,
but there was like wood shavings all around and not just like wood...
Not like sawdust, but like curled wood that had been like peeled off, like with...
What are those called? A planer or hand planer. Yeah.
Like they had hand-planed some wood. It was cool. They had lots of,
some fun stuff like that.
Yeah. Definitely check out their photos if you like photography. They're
really good. One thing I will say, they they have not posted for almost a year.
So it does maybe... It seems like maybe an inactive account, which is unfortunate,
but, Hey, here's hoping they do it again. And they are German.
There's a lot of German language stuff on there. Oh yeah. Cool. Yeah.
Puzzle_portal. I like that.
Okay. So the next one is a puzzle called Waves puzzle.
So it's this
iridescent, kind of clearish acrylic puzzle that... It's
a jigsaw puzzle, which you didn't say.
Yeah. Jigsaw. Yeah. Yeah. So like when you change,
put different lighting or change lighting in your area, that changes the color of
the puzzle. Just because it is iridescent, it'll shine off of it
different ways. If you have it on a different surface,
you'll see that kind of surface shine off through it in the light and stuff like
that. Cool. Yeah. So clear acrylic with like an
iridescent like finish on the top or something. So it was,
it was actually pretty neat.
Yeah. And then what I enjoyed about it too, is there's not just one solution.
There's actually multiple solutions. So you can do different puzzles with it.
Yeah, I saw that. They, so they...
I went and watched Karen puzzles do it and we have always enjoyed
her stuff with jigsaws.
Karen puzzles is on pretty much all the social medias out there, but she did it.
And there was... So you could make.... I think when she pulled it out,
she actually didn't do a lot of like, didn't read much about it.
She just kind of jumped in and...
So it makes like a seven by seven square and she had some trouble understanding
that at first because she didn't read the instructions.
Plus inside the instructions, there was a solution, which I don't love that.
But there is a solution to the puzzle.
But you can make like a seven by seven and there was like a few different sizes
of things you could make. And there was even like...
I think the middle had like a,
a completely square piece without any knobs on it or anything.
And you had to fit that into the middle of the puzzle.
Yeah, there was. Yeah.
Like it said that you could do it two different ways where you could combine...
like put all the square pieces straight in the middle and put all the pieces that
center around it.
Or you could do it the opposite way, where you leave all the square pieces to the
outer edge and don't put any in the middle. Right.
And then there's like a five by five solution
you can do, a three by three and then you can,
can also combine more than one puzzle together.
You can combine two or more puzzles together.
With their puzzle? Yeah.
To make a bigger version of it. So.
Yeah, these are interesting. Go check 'em out on Instagram. You know,
what their handle was on Instagram?
It was just wavespuzzle.
Waves puzzle. Okay. Yeah.
So I think that's the company and I wasn't quite clear,
but they have a website as well. But go check out Karen puzzles.
She did them and I enjoy her or watching.
It was part of a bigger video where she did a few different puzzles,
but the waves puzzle was in there. It was a good one. I, I enjoyed that. Next,
Linnea, how do you say this name? I, I have no idea.
I'd say kin KA Ka Ka.
Kin Kaka, Kaka.
Yeah. I don't know. It's K I N K a K a K a w w
No idea. Chinese. Chinese Tik Tokker. Yeah. Yeah. So,
we don't actually even know if it's Chinese. We,
we just like chucked some of the words on there into Google translate and it came
out as Chinese. So yeah. What that means, Mandarin or Cantonese. I have no idea,
but Chinese TikTokker and yeah,
at K I N Ka K a K a W W.
Weird. A long name. Yeah.
So what did he do?
So he did all different sort of brain teaser puzzles.
There was quite a few different videos there to watch.
There was some Hanayamas, there was some wood puzzles.
There was a lot. He had a lot of variety; a lot, a lot of stuff.
Like a fair amount of stuff I didn't recognize, again,
which, like we've said before, is rare for us to find someone whose
stuff we don't recognize or recognize what it is.
That's cause we have so much stuff.
Yeah. We do.
Puzzle Master, like the selection is definitely huge.
My favorite of them was: it's like this square wood frame. It's probably...
approximately this size and it has like wood pegs that stick up out from it.
And so there was like, just randomly set, it looked like at the beginning,
but then you have these like L-shaped pieces.
And I believe there was nine of them that you have to fit onto the
pegs. The pegs are attached to the L shapes
or not? No they're attached to the square frame.
And then you just have to... There's holes in the L shapes that you have to put the
pieces.
Oh yes. I did see that one.
So that was, that was like one of their first videos they did,
or it was like the third video they did on TikTok or something.
And so it was cool to see that like the holes in the L-shaped pieces...
So it's more just, more than just a packing puzzle. Yeah.
Where it has like the holes in there
and then you have to use the pegs to figure out how to fit them on frame.
It's not just fitting them into like a square frame. Right.
What I found with this guy's stuff is he did a fair amount of like,
I think, Chinese stuff. So there's
a lot of our stuff is just made in China's the way it is. Right? Yeah.
But this guy like pulled.... I don't know. Like there was a...
He had a fair amount of variety and some of it was like definitely knockoffs or
had some like English on it that wasn't great. I saw a few packed things or
the packages like that. But my favorite thing that he had
wasn't really even a puzzle. It was called Chest Memory. And so it was a,
a round board with holes in it, all over.
And then he had chess pieces with knobs in the bottom and now those knobs fit
into the hole. Now on those knobs though, each them were colored. There was red,
blue, green, yellow. There was like six colors, I think, because
what you were supposed to do is you put those,
all the chess pieces into the hole. So you couldn't see the colored nobs.
And then you rolled the die with all the six colors on it.
And you had to pull out a chess piece with that color on the bottom.
And if you did it, you got to keep it and keep going.
So it was like a memory game that was based on chess. Oh.
And so you didn't actually play chess or anything,
but it was just memory with like chess pieces. They all looked like pawns,
but I thought that was kind of interesting. I was like,
that's an interesting idea, but I don't know where it was from.
He didn't talk about it.
But the one thing I really didn't like about this channel,
every single video had the exact same song. Yeah. That annoyed me too.
It was the worst.
Like, if you wanna go through all his videos,
now you have to listen the same old song.
This song wasn't terrible in and of itself. But when you hear it like 20,
30 different times, cuz you watched a bunch of videos, it was really annoying.
Yeah. So didn't love that. I don't know, continuity, I guess,
but, hey, pick some different songs.
So yeah. That was it. I liked his stuff though. Kin Ka ka, Kaww.
Yeah. I dunno. But that's it. Online Buzz. We're done.
That's the end of the episode. Join us again
next time for Episode 123,
where we're gonna be shooting some new 3d printed stuff that I might have
made. So yeah. Join us next time. Episode 123,
we're gonna be talking about a couple 3d printed puzzles from a company that I
just recently started with, kind of with my wife and my father of sorts.
So yeah. Check it out. That's the end of this Episode 122.
Thanks for joining us. Check out these Intrism
puzzles on puzzlemaster.CA and we'll see you next time.