In this episode of Puzzle Time,
we have the brand new puzzle that we just recently named,
called the Swift Shift. And that is thanks to a viewer,
Wes Prickett. Swift Shift. Check it out in this episode of Puzzle Time.
Welcome to Episode 112 of Puzzle Time. In this episode of Puzzle Time,
we have two puzzles for you guys. First,
we're gonna start with a Pelikan puzzle from one of my favorite designers.
This is Dr. Volker
Latussek. Now Dr. Volker Latussek does a lot of puzzles with Pelikan.
And this is a Pelikan puzzle. It's called the Tutu and it's a level eight. So,
this comes with, obviously, with four pieces. And here's the name,
right. T U T U. Tutu is how you get it.
So yeah, four pieces and they look,
these are exactly the same size and shape, obviously. They are.
So yeah, the trick is to pack these all in the, so they don't... I
was playing around with it and only got to like three pieces.
every single time. Yeah, I think that's probably gonna be the thing.
Three pieces would be easy. So the box is what?
A three by two by two? No, a three by three by two.
Yeah. So how much space are you gonna have inside there?
So how much empty space, I guess, is what I want to ask?
You can make the shape outside, right?
Is there... is it gonna be completely filled?
It's gonna be completely filled.
Yeah. Yeah. It's gonna be a solid. Wow.
I expected there was gonna be some dead space in this one. Okay. Well,
this is a level eight on the Puzzle Master difficulty rating scale. Again,
our scale runs from five to 10.
So this is gonna be on the more difficult side. So if you
could get the pieces in like this somehow.
I don't know. Oh, you've got it, like packed outside the... Yeah.
See that's that's definitely what I would try to do on this, is try to pack it
outside. It's not gonna be that basic. No, it's definitely... Well, probably not.
Do you think there'll be movement inside the box box much on this?
I feel like there
has to be some
movement, but... Yeah, maybe, but I mean,
I don't know if you can do a lot other than what you're saying here.
Kind of like putting it in and then like laying it down.
Can you do it the other way? Is it, is it on just a unit
the one direction?
You can do it, like in both directions, right,
if you put a piece in this way
or this way. Yeah, you can. You can flip, you can definitely flip both.
So, I mean, I would,
I would suspect that that flip is gonna be part of, part of some of
the early movements. It's where you're, you're putting it in and rotating it. Also,
you'll notice the pieces have a really, cool look to them. I like this.
This is that Zebrano, which we've seen in a fair amount of Pelikan puzzles.
I really like the look of this wood and then the,
the box itself is made out of American Walnut. Cool.
I like this puzzle. A level eight on the Puzzle Master difficulty rating scale.
By Dr. Volker
Latussek and from Pelikan. Pelikan makes some just phenomenal wooden puzzles.
We talk about that over and over again on here, but yeah, if
you haven't tried Pelikan, do that. This Tutu has been very popular for sure,
here at Puzzle Master. Yeah, so like, if you're gonna get this puzzle,
get, get it soon because it's,
it's been flying off the shelves for sure. Been very popular of the, the...
The most popular of the newest Pelikan release. I think there's what?
How many did we get in four, six of them in this latest release from Pelikan?
I'm not sure. There's a, there's a bunch of different puzzles.
We have a few more here. We've actually got a couple here;
you can see there's the den cube and the serpent, Serpentatrium.
Serpentarium. Cool, awesome sounding names. We'll shoot those maybe next episode.
Give you guys a little bit more of a view on what those look like,
but let's move on to our second puzzle.
And it's the one we talked about last week: Swift Shift. It's a level ten.
You may recognize the box. I think we talked about this last time,
but this is the same kind of box as the Taiji puzzle.
And that's one that looks like a,
looks like a Yin and Yang. Yeah.
So you'll recognize the box from there,
because it's made by the same company in China. So this puzzle is made in China.
It is designed by a Mr. Zhong, I'm told that, I guess, in,
in Mandarin (or Cantonese) whatever it is.
Zhong is Z H O N G. It is actually said, Jong. Okay.
That's what Dad said. Our Dad likes to kind of dabble in language a bit. So,
yeah, that's what he said. So it is a really hard puzzle. It's a level 10.
It is 33 steps to get the first piece out. Now, can you...?
Do you wanna show some of the movement off on this? So,
the first move I noticed is like,
you have to have the one piece forward and the two back and then the whole thing
kind of shifts over and slides over.
So that's kind of why I like the Swift Shift because it shifts over.
Right? Yeah. And it is a really nice movement. So I, I really, I,
I think the name actually tells you a bit about the movement. There's.. it just,
it moves very easily. Yeah.
Once you get a bit moving, you can see kind of inside; you can see how the burrs
are sitting in there. Yeah. Hold it up a bit, just so let's get it right, so
we can show it a little bit. Now to focus in. But, yeah.
So 33 steps to release the first piece,
71 moves total to get it apart. And essentially it's a,
it's a frame with these six, six burr sticks going through it.
And these burr sticks, obviously will interact inside the puzzle.
So it's a bit of a blind puzzle to start, at least. You will, like you said,
you'll get some, you get to see inside a bit as you move some things around.
But I quite like this and it's really heavy. Do you know,
is it made out of aluminum? Yeah, aluminum
alloy and then it's C and C machined.
Right, aluminum alloy. And it does have, you'll notice,
on the top of the box here. Let's see if we can get this to focus in.
There is some Chinese characters and yeah,
so apparently that says the
puzzle designers name. As well. It also, gives you the name of the puzzle.
So the, the name of the puzzle on here is not what we're calling it, obviously,
because apparently the name of the puzzle in,
I believe Cantonese. Do you think it would be Cantonese or Mandarin? I'm not sure.
Whatever whatever language it is, it,
doesn't translate well to English. So we had to,
redo that. It translated into some like long sentence that didn't make sense. So,
yeah, we renamed it, but thanks to Wes Prickett.
Figuring out the movements, right? Yeah.
I like, I like, I like how easy it moves. It is very difficult.
I think that's one of the beautiful things about what burr puzzles can do, is
give you a lot of moves in,
in something that's, I think, fairly small. So
awesome. Well, that is available at puzzlemaster.ca,
along with a whole bunch of other stuff.
Check out our new items section because that's where we put all the new puzzles
that come in and there is always new stuff.
I'm surprised actually that after Christmas here, how many new things came out.
I figured Christmas was kind of a,
a natural cutoff where we wouldn't get new stuff as much. But yeah,
stuff like this Swift Shift. Check it out on our website,
puzzlemaster.ca. But let's get into the Online Buzz.
Okay. Online Buzz. What do you wanna start with, Linnea?
So my favorite is the 3D Tangram puzzle. Okay.
So I was looking on Mechanical Puzzle Friends on Facebook.
And this... Now, that used to be Puzzle Friends,
but they recently changed the name to Mechanical Puzzle Friends. Interesting.
Yeah.
So this is like a big 3D... it looked like an acrylic,
I believe. It was like, kind of a plastic see through.
I don't know what it was. It looked like a resin to be honest, because it was...
Yeah, it was, and it was big.
I was surprised. Either that or the lady showing it off had tiny little wee
hands, but that puzzle looked freaking huge.
Yeah. So it was like a square essentially with... A cube.
A cube with triangle cutout pieces.
And then you had to fit all those triangle shape pieces into the cube. Yeah.
Yeah. So it was, it's designed by Miss
Miss Chloe
Gao. Chloe Gao. Yeah. And it was,
a post by a guy we'd never seen before. We translated his name because it was
like some sort of Chinese characters, Luo Guoshang.
But, yeah, like Linnea said it was a big, big resin puzzle.
It was like a semi-transparent resin that you could see through.
I thought they looked super cool. And then each side had a different like shape.
So they called it a 3D tangram, which I'm like, what does that mean?
Tangram essentially,
usually you've got like flat pieces and you're trying to make different shapes
on the table with like flat, like generally acrylic or wood pieces.
This one had like, each side of
the cube was like a different tangram shape, but it was three dimensional.
And then you had metal. I think it was metal pieces. Right? It looked very,
yeah, metal. Metal pieces that you're packing into...
So each side was a different puzzle essentially that you're packing that into.
So it's a flat pack. So it packed flat on the top. And so you had,
how many pieces? Do you know how many pieces it was? It looked like 6, 7, 8,
something like that. Yeah. And you were trying to pack them into that shape.
So I thought that was really cool because essentially, you're gonna get 6 different
puzzles on this cube. And like they said, 3D tangram,
which I thought was really cool.
So it ended up being a 3D packing puzzle and you get six different puzzles
inside of this, which was... It got my interest.
And I thought they did a really good job designing it.
The video they had with it, too, was really cool because
it was someone sitting on a thing here, all black background,
they were wearing black clothes. And then it looked like
they had like a cutoff sleeves here with no gloves on, when they'd play with it.
And it looked like the arms were just floating. I thought it was really cool,
cool the way they shot it because they showed off a bit of the puzzle.
They had some light going through it because the, the puzzle,
the box itself was clear or like semi transparent with color.
I just thought it was really, really neat. It got me interested.
And especially because of the size. When I initially saw it,
I figured this would be like a puzzle. I don't know, kind of like these,
the size of these things, but it definitely looked like it was,
I don't know, like it was big, like half a foot by a half a foot.
It was not small. So, yeah, that was interesting. Next,
we looked at the Hexabox. You looked at this one a bit.
Hey? Yeah.
This one was by Bruno Puzzle Maker. We had,
we had mentioned him on an Online Buzz, a few, quite a few episodes ago.
Yeah. That was that, that coffee one. Yeah, it was a
coffee cup. It was a packing
puzzle. Yeah.
And it had a coffee cup with the pieces that kind of spun out almost. Hey?
Yeah. So this one was a 3D printed one. It was a, it's called,
he called this a sequential discovery one. Right.
But you basically have to get all of the sliders out of the box and then it'll
open up and... Yeah. So there was a gray box with like three or four sliders?
I think it was four. Yeah. It was hard to tell totally what was all going on.
But yeah,
there was like red sliders that just kind of pulled out to each side and you had
to get them out. And then he said there was some sort of coin that released too,
right? Yeah.
There was a coin that sat in one of the
sliders. Yeah. So it looked interesting. Linnea found it. Where was that?
On the same page. The Mechanical Puzzle Friends, as well. Okay.
Cool. But this was on different website though. I think where we saw that. Yeah.
He has his own website. I think it's called Puzzle DD
D.com. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. That's what it was. Yeah.
So Bruno Puzzle Maker looked interesting.
I'd love to get some of the Bruno Puzzle Maker puzzles here.
We have not had them at Puzzle Master, but I thought they looked interesting; this one,
especially. So we'll, we'll pass it along. Who knows? Maybe we will see
this Hexabox here at Puzzle Master. I'd love to, to see that,
but for now go check it out. I believe he does have it off for sale on his site.
And then last, we're talking about a YouTuber named...
I had trouble with the name here,
but I think it's supposed to be braime, B R A I M E but instead of an a,
he put a four.
So I didn't totally know how to say the name Braime, Br4ime, but with a four.
So whatever it is. But we watched,
Br4ime do a bunch of solves of the escape room puzzles,
which have been wildly popular lately. I think, especially because we're in a,
with, with the COVID 19 pandemic and lockdowns and all those things,
this is a way to do an escape room without actually going to a place to do it.
So these escape rooms in a box, which are usually cut out of wood,
wooden plywood and yeah, they're put together
into a box shape and you gotta open the box or escape from the room. So, yeah,
he did. What was it, the Escape Welt? He did bunch of Escape Welt puzzles. Yeah.
He did a couple IDventure as well. Oh, no one IDventure.
I think it was the Davy Jones's locker.
And what I liked about his videos is that he did....
It would kind of speed up every so often. So it wasn't a straight solve.
He would kind of during some of the more like slower parts or where you're,
I don't know, he's figuring things out. He kind of speeds up the video, which I,
I really liked the way he shot it. He had music over top of it, no talking.
It was really fun to watch. He had just a great video. So, watch those.
I think he didn't have a lot of subscribers, but oddly enough,
he had a lot of views on his videos, which I understand,
because they were great videos. I enjoyed watching them. I like those
escape room boxes. I watched the Orbital Box, which... Yeah,
that one was fun. Yeah. It was good. It wasn't, I'll say this. I,
I still think IDventure's boxes are a little more complex than
some of the Escape Welt ones. Yeah, they're good. But
IDventure or IDventure is still the,
I think the premier like escape room box stuff. And I, I loved watching
him solve Davy Jones' Locker. He actually had Nautilus on there too,
if you noticed. Oh, he had Nautilus kind of in the corner on his shot.
So maybe Nautilus coming out soon from Br4ime,
I guess we'll call him But go check out Br4ime on YouTube;
great channel and probably a lot more coming because I enjoyed the stuff and he
needs a lot more subscribers because he has some great videos.
So go subscribe to Br4ime's channel, watch his videos, like his videos. And
yeah, check it out, escape room boxes. That's the end of our Online Buzz.
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Have a great week and we'll see you next time,
in Episode 113 of Puzzle Time,