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- Guys and welcome back.
I hope you enjoyed that intro,
I thought you know what it's been a few days
I haven't posted some magic content
and I apologize for that.
I've been a little busy lately
didn't get out to perform anything.
And so I didn't really have anything new to add,
but I thought I'd put together a little routine,
that you might've enjoyed.
That being said this is a bonus video today,
thank you for joining me.
Today we're looking at a few puzzles
I told you that I would.
I've received this literally every Hanayama puzzle
I believe there are 72.
These were sent to me by Puzzle Master,
so thank you folks over at Puzzle Master.
The way the Hanayama works is you have puzzles
from level one to level six.
Six being the toughest, one being the easiest.
They're more difficult than your average puzzle
so a level six might,
might equate to like a level 10,
whereas a level five might also be a level nine or 10.
Even level ones can be very very tricky
compared to
just a average level one.
So the skill difficulty on Hanayamas
are definitely a little bit higher.
That being said, I'm gonna look at three
of my favorite level ones.
And uh next week hopefully we'll do the level twos,
and level threes and, and so on and so forth.
You're not gonna see me live solve them
because I kinda know how these work.
I'm just gonna show you quickly,
how they come apart and how they're put back together.
They're very simple.
And if you're a beginner getting into puzzles
just starting and you're looking for
a good spot to start, something that's not too expensive,
and something that is fun to fiddle around with,
these puzzles are perfect for you.
So ...
If you're just getting into puzzling
or just wanna have some things laying around
for your friends to play with, check these out.
Definitely do.
So first off we have the cast flag.
This is a really ingenious looking puzzle,
where you have to take out the two flags.
It looks really cool, looks like a little space ship
or alien relic, which I really like.
You know just something really curious to look at.
If you leave it on the table,
someone's definitely going to start
fiddling around and playing with it.
And eventually, hopefully solve it.
A very fun level one where
the whole point is to get these flags out of
the spaceship here.
And I've only ever solved it once,
so I'm gonna attempt to solve it in one swoop here
You wanna start off by
separating these flags.
Now important to note that these flags here,
they do not go into the other slot,
because there is a bit of a notch there.
So this one will not travel down there,
this one has to go over here.
And equally this one here, must go over here.
Now once you're here you have a few options.
One of those options
being if you rotate like this,
it allows this one
to come through here.
Now that can rotate down.
And now this one
can go up.
That has to come down.
As you can see, that is now stuck there.
So there's something that we did wrong
that we have to go back and figure out.
I'm guessing it has to do
with this move here.
And once you're here
now you can rotate
and now you can extract it.
It does require specific moves,
in order to complete.
If you do not complete those
specific rotations it will not open.
So it is quite tricky.
If we can get it back to working order here
(puzzle clicks)
Sort of on it's side, here we go.
And we're back
at
the beginning.
A very cool level one.
Kind of tricky.
Every time I do it it gets a little bit easier,
but it is uh a little bit fumbly,
because as soon as you do a wrong move,
you're on your way back to the beginning.
Very cool if you're looking to begin in puzzles,
this is a very very beginner basic puzzle
but a lot of fun to do and it looks really cool.
The next puzzle is the cast key.
Basically two keys are interlocked
and your goal is to take them apart and put them together.
Sounds simple enough and it is quite simple
but this one really is interesting because
it gives you the base knowledge of how
to solve these sort of maze puzzles.
This is a take apart and put together.
Uh a little bit of a maze puzzle.
I really do like the maze puzzles.
And as you progress in the Hanayama puzzles,
they do begin to get more and more difficult,
requiring more complicated movements to get them out.
But this is a really really good way to start
if you're interested in doing these take apart puzzles.
They will give you basically knowledge on how
these take apart puzzles work on a very base level.
So right now we have two keys, we have to extract them.
But if you notice
there are parts to this key which are indented here,
even here.
And so
if you were looking to take this apart,
those teeth on this one here,
won't fit anywhere.
They won't even fit over there,
I can't even make,
I can't even make it go through that.
Because I can't get to that, because of this bar here.
So the trick here is really really cool.
I like this move a lot.
So once you're in this position,
you notice that that teeth, can actually fit through,
not the bars here,
but actually this part here.
And it's not a move you would expect,
cause you don't quite see it at first.
So once you're here,
watch this.
Whoop.
It swoops through there.
Now we're kinda free, which is really cool.
We get to look for the next groove.
Which is right here on this side of the key.
So then you can bring it down through here.
And once you're over here,
you rotate the key.
Bring it into that groove.
Go all the way around.
And back out.
So to put that back together, simple.
You're in,
you just do all the moves backwards basically.
You're back here.
You rotate, oop.
Other side.
(keys clicking)
Right here.
All right, so you're here,
that goes through there,
the teeth come through.
And now you're back to the beginning of the cast key.
And lastly one of my favorite puzzles,
is the cast diamond.
I featured this one a few weeks ago on a video.
It's just probably the most satisfying
of all the Hanayama puzzles.
And again, you'll rack your brain around how it works,
until you get it and then ...
You'll just get it forever.
I love this one because the design is so cool and so simple
it's not your average take apart and put together puzzle
because it only has one simple move.
But that move can be,
can prove to be quite difficult if you are not familiar.
Most people,
see these grooves in the back
how they're supposed to like intertwine?
See most people would attack it at like an angle,
they would try to like
come in on this weird angle
and try to force it in.
All you have to rely on here is symmetry.
And so if you put it back to back,
and all you do here, once they're back to back,
this is the most satisfying thing you'll ever,
you'll ever do.
It rotates in, just like that.
Super satisfying.
You see how those grooves nestle neatly together?
From here you line up the base and
whoop.
Done.
Cast diamond.
So we still have a lot of puzzles on this channel
and some of them are extremely difficult.
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I'm headed to Toronto.
This video will be up while I'm in Toronto.
I'm ...
I'm doing a stage show with my buddy Wes Barker,
just for a day.
Uh so Monday I won't have any content for you guys.
Because I'll still be in the plane ride back.
But I wanted to be vlogging some magic
and hanging out with some magicians down there.
So be sure to check that out on Tuesday.
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Okay I think we nailed everything.
Guys thanks so much.
Have a great rest of the weekend
and I'll see you on the next video.
Peace.
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