This is the intro. We're looking at Karakuri Creation boxes today.
Karakuri Creation Group. It's like a tongue twister for Tony here.
Yeah, a little bit. We got the Double Box.
Double Box: box inside a box inside a box. Level six.
I got this Ripple Out. Also a level six.
Together, a thousand dollars worth of puzzle.
A thousand Canadian dollars worth of puzzle.
Welcome to Puzzle Time. I'm Tyler. He's Tony. We got puzzle boxes.
Puzzle boxes. Yep. Let's start with... These are from Karakuri.
The Karakuri Creation Group. They're a Japanese puzzle box maker out of Japan,
obviously. Japan, yeah. Really, really good stuff.
We have a thousand dollars worth of puzzle boxes for you today. Two boxes. Two puzzle boxes.
So expensive, high end stuff. This is Chris Ramsey level things.
Yeah. We'll hit you with the appetizer on the first one, right? Right.
So Double Box. Double Box. Yeah, and it's got like woods.
Really nice. Great finish. Different types of wood. I think that's
like purple heart probably. Yeah. That one looks like wenge.
Dude, I've been learning woods with the Pelikan series. That's been nice.
Yeah. Yeah, it is. You'll learn.
So nothing to do with this top piece? We're all done with this. Okay.
There is something to do with it. Ok, I get you.
Alright. A level six? Yeah. So I've solved these before.
Tony hasn't. So Tony is going to be the guinea pig today doing the live solve.
I'm a level sixer, about that. level six.
I figured level seven is like pushing us a little bit at level eight is going to
be complete luck if we get it. Yeah, we ain't doing that.
So this is right up our alley and it... Ok, the thing I like about these,
they're different; like it's a different solution.
And I actually can't figure out how they did this one. I know what to do.
But like the way they... how did...
I don't know how they created this, cause it's crazy. It's pretty,
it's pretty cool.
So it's designed by a guy named... he put... Akio... Akio Kamei.
It's the guy who did the Karakuri Dice.
So if you've seen those... the Karakuri Dice I think Chris shot that. Mr Puzzle
probably did too, I think. So it's been around. It's a good puzzle.
This one's also really good. So a great puzzle.
And it's apparently based off some like older design of his,
Oh, Oh. What do you hear? Dude!! There we go. All right.
So there's a magnet. Oh you got it.
No, no, you're... Stay there? Just wait. Put it, put it on screen here.
We got to be able to see what's happening. Oh, okay, I got it. Okay, there we go.
Look at that. Ok, now... Now do I flip it? You can flip it over. Yeah. Flip it over.
You can see. So it's like a box in a box, in a box.
And then this like little piece opens up. That's pretty cool! Pretty sweet, hey?
That's like that's the whole thing? That's it. That's it. Ok, cool! It's a level six.
It's not like super hard.
Obviously I gave you a big hint with the lid thing cause I,
that's what I would have done. I would just taken the lid off and then whatever.
So now, here's my thing. There's magnets in here.
So there's a magnet that releases that to open up.
You gotta put it upside down and you got to pull that lid out.
Where are the magnets? Like I don't see magnets cause cause there's,
there's gotta be a magnet in here, but there's gotta be a magnet in there.
But I don't know where. So maybe, maybe it's like in these...
cause there's these pieces here that are cut on the bottom.
Maybe there's a magnet that is pushing something up here.
I would assume it's in the side though. Like... Ok let's see,
Can you... See, and you can't... like it doesn't even work...
Like there's nothing here. It just works when it's in there.
Like that's a crazy design. So I have no idea how they're doing it.
I can feel a little bit of magnet
Yeah, that's cool. It's a sweet box.
That's pretty cool. So I don't know how they made it. That's the Double Box.
Karakuri Double Box. It's a level six. Get it on puzzlemaster.ca.
They also have that little thing. I don't know if that's their symbol.
The Karakuri symbol. Is that the Karakuri symbol? Yeah, I think that's on all of theirs.
Ok. Yeah they stamp it in. Okay, that's cool. So that's box number one.
Box number two; the big guy. Pull it out too.
So I know the solution to this one, too. I've
just played around with them a bit. Okay. So very cool.
This is the Karakuri Ripple Out.
Now this stuff on the front looks cool and it's not a veneer or anything.
This is literally layers of wood they glued together and then cut in this crazy
pattern Yeah. And the pattern... So... Before we even get to that,
Like we got... there's a drawer... a drawer on the front. Yep. No false bottom.
Always check for a false bottom, right. So again... see if there's anything on the sides. Again,
it's a level six, from the Karakuri Creation Group.
This one's done by a new guy though. I've never heard this guy's name.
Osamu Kasho. Kasho. I'll take that. Yeah, I don't know who he is.
This is only thing that we have designed by this guy. So,
let's start with... show the mechanism here. Ok, this, this don't move.
We'll go with that first, right? Yeah. Ok now... there's So it like clicks.
It's like notches, hey? Yeah.
So there's the first click; everything lines up, right? And it lines up again. I love it.
The next click... and you can see... it lines up again, too.
So now looking, looking at the pattern here, like, see,
I don't even know if I need to be able to do it.
What you got to do is.... see there's these two little donut shapes in the
middle. You got to get those together and so it makes like a circle.
It looks really crazy when you do it. So
there... Right there. So it makes like this.. like bulls-eye shape and then try the
drawer. The drawer opens! It's super cool! So it's just a little pin in the back.
So there's just a pin in the back and you can see the pin actually just moves
with one of these. I think it moves with the back one. There. Sorry.
So you can see there's a pin back here and it just...
I think it just moves with this... Yeah. ...this one here.
And so you just... just getting that one in the right spot. ...just got to get it... But how do they do it, that
like different movements... allow... don't like... like how is this not free moving,
so it just comes in? That's what I don't understand.
I don't know what the mechanism inside is... I bet you this piece here.
I bet you there's a little maze on it that like, I don't know. I don't know.
It is a cool puzzle I really like how the design kinda...
comes together to that like bulls-eye and it's sweet.
So... Cool. It's like a fun little like jewelry box for someone or
something to have. I think we should,
if we ever get to redesign our set and something like that,
have this in the background. I think this is a cool puzzle.
So not super hard. It's a level six. But these...
I feel like both these puzzles are level sixes, but they're unique
level sixes. Yeah or it's more about the design than the puzzle itself. Yeah. Yeah.
But I appreciate that they're like,
they're easy and attainable but like different,
it's not a... And the craftsmanship is just on a whole different level. It is, man. There is,
there is nothing like this. I don't even know what this is,
but there's a little like cash cash thing. I don't know. It's on
some of their things. Maybe it has something to do with.. Could be
one of the designers could be one of the brands. I have no idea.
But it is sweet. Whoever's manufacturing them. Karakuri Ripple Out.
I really appreciate the name too, how it lines up with the design. Very cool.
If you are a puzzle collector and have some money to spend, this is...
I would highly recommend this. This is a great puzzle. Well designed.
It's cool. It's time for Aaron's Anomalies. There it is, yeah.
Aaron's Anomalies. We shoot puzzles that are very unique.
I sit down with Aaron who solves our puzzles.
The guy's fantastically good at puzzles and today we are shooting
or showing you the Schloss. Schloss. Schloss 250. Yeah, it's a...
by Jean Claude. Is it Jean Claude? Yeah
Yeah, it's a lock puzzle. It's like a, what do you call those?
Sequential? It's not sequential. No.
I forget what it's called,
but it's the same kind of moves over and over again,
but it's 250 moves to solve it. It's like a really cool lock puzzle.
Check it out. Aaron's Anomalies.
Welcome to Aaron's Anomalies. I'm here with Aaron and we have what puzzle today,
Aaron? So he got Scloss 250. Scloss.
Schloss 250. Helps if
you have a speech impediment, right? Yeah. Schloss. Yeah.
Okay. So tell me about this Schloss 250. Who makes this? So this is our
good friend, Jean Claude Constantin. Classic Jean Claude. I love his stuff.
And I believe the 250 refers to how many moves it takes to open this lock. Really?
Yes. Okay. And what level is this?
Level eight? Nine? Ten? Level eight looks like, yeah.
level eight. I'm seeing level eight there.
Well that's kind of interesting, cause it's...
I feel like this is very similar to Voidlock and Voidlock's at a level 10. So
you think this should be a harder difficulty then? Either that should be a harder
difficulty or Voidlock's should come down.
Okay. So show me a bit of this. Tell me about the puzzle.
What makes it fitting of the Aaron's Anomaly
moniker here?
So I really like how the puzzle moves.
Like you slide the piece across and those slotted wood pieces kind of
move with... It slides
fairly easily too. Like actually I'm surprised....
I would think that like maybe the movement would be hard, cause you're actually
moving... essentially layers inside the puzzle, right? Yeah, for sure. Okay.
So do you want to jump into the solution a little bit?
I mean you don't have to do the full thing. I don't want to see 250 moves here,
right, but
yeah,
so more or less you take the first piece all the way to the side and that moves
all of these planks up and that allows us to move this one over and you can see
as I move that one another slot, push another bar up and down.
Oh, it does to! Look at that. So slowly as you kind of back and forth. Right.
So is this kind of like a binary thing where you'll do move, move,
move and then... Yeah, it'll do repeated movements and more or less you'll be... Hold on,
you're doing more of it, aren't you?
So you moved it back and then in, back and then in... Yep, you keep doing that.
And then once we get to this point,
we should be able to move or there. Okay,
so we should be able to move... So move that one in? Yeah.
And then we have to do that whole cycle again.
So there to move this one more spot.
How did you... This one has to go back then?
So then you moved this over and then this one back and then that one that way?
And then you'll just be repeating these bottoms.
Oh I see.
So you do back and forth here and then this one moves over and then you do both
back.
So it's going to like add... The worst part is to move this one one,
you have to move this one over here and this one over here and this one over
here to move this one in one spot over. Wow.
And then you have to redo everything again. Very interesting. Yeah. So yeah,
to open this lock, you gotta be ready for it for a
road trip. Right, right. Cause it just exponentially gets harder and harder.
It's almost like, Tower of Hanoi, right? The more pegs or more discs,
more discs, you add the... it's not like... it increases it by one move.
It's an exponential increase when you add another level. Yeah. So it's interesting.
So this is kind of like a, yeah, to me this is Tower of Hanoi, but in a,
a lock. Yup.
Yup. That's really interesting.
And it was actually kind of cool that you said this was... you could keep adding to
this and make it even bigger because we actually already have that.
It's called the Generations Lock and it's a massive version of this.
I don't know how long it would take to take that apart. Wow.
But I wouldn't be willing to do that, I don't think.
I think it's in the tens of thousands of moves to take that thing apart. Really? Yeah,
I believe it's just nuts.
Like it's got like tons of rows and like it's actually bigger that way too.
So you gotta make more steps to go across.
And that was just Jean-Claude Claude like going ham.
Yeah. I can make this harder.
You want it bigger and harder. I can make it bigger and harder.
Don't take that out of context.
I like this. I like it. Schloss 250 from Jean Claude Constantin.
Level eight, but maybe,
maybe a level change? Maybe. in the future, but...
And then what was that Generations Lock is the crazy hard one.
Yeah.
Generations Lock is the level 10 massive behemoth that will take you
forever. Load up a couple podcasts, to get that one done.
Well if you get Schloss 250 and, and you're bored at home here, you know,
pick up a Generation's Lock,
You can really, really take some time doing that one. Oh, for sure. Awesome.
Thank you, Aaron. Yeah, no problem.
I hope you guys have been enjoying those Aaron's Anomalies.
We are shooting more and more of those.
We're going to be adding them in constantly here as a section of Puzzle Time.
So,
give us some puzzles maybe that you want to... that you think would be good
for that, you know,
puzzles that maybe don't look amazing but have a really sweet solution or
something unique about them. Tell us what you think we should do there.
Let us know. And
so every time we are doing our episodes here,
we show you a little bit of some of the stuff on social media that we've been
finding that's super cool. And today I've got some different stuff for you.
Usually we have been showing you Chris Ramsey or
Mr Puzzle or some of the big guys on YouTube. Along with that,
I have only been watching magic stuff by Chris Ramsey.
He has awesome magic. Yeah. Today I want to tell you about Tik Tok.
We have a TikTok guy named Crisman White,
He's at room ESC, so a room escape. He's an escape room guy. Oh, nice, cool.
Yeah. He talks a bit about a Cryptex and how they use them in escape rooms.
So if you want to check that out on Tik Tok, check
Crisman White... Like the Cryptex like the... Yeah.
Where you open it. Oh cool. So he puts like money inside of the.. like it's that clear
glass Cryptex, where it's like glass in the top. Right.
But Cryptex is essentially is like words. There's like words... Words and chambers.
Yeah yeah. Like... There's...
on the bottom. You gotta make a word of the dials.
If you've seen the DaVinci code, it was used in that. The DaVinci Code. Yeah.
So check it out.
Crisman White@room ESC, so room escape on TikTok and
then we are also on Tik Tok.
Puzzle master is on Tik Tok, so check us out.
Aaron's been shooting some like stuff overhead. Okay. Have I shown you those?
Ok, we got to watch them after the episode here. Ok, cool. They're good.
And then, something new. It's a site called Discord.
I'm not super familiar with it, but one of the guys here,
Paul has been on Discord and there's this crazy group on Discord. It's,
I guess it's not a group. It's what's the wording? Forum.. Server.. Server.
It's a server. Ok. Servers is what they have.
And then there's like channels inside that.
So it's like a chat thing with like... so the channels are threads.
But mechanical puzzles is the server.
It's run by a guy named Michael Quigley who actually,
he has a YouTube channel as well, called Puzzling Time.
I don't think his YouTube channel is huge,
but the mechanical puzzle is Discord is massive.
If you guys want to get out there and just to find out more about puzzles and
chat with people who have like just a huge interest in it and are really
knowledgeable, check out Mechanical Puzzles Discord, that is the server.
And then there's a whole bunch of channels where they talk,
about different puzzles inside of that. And so really cool. It's by a guy...
like I said, Michael Quigley, you can check out his YouTube, too. Puzzling Time,
Puzzling Time Puzzling Time. A guy who like... kind of copy.
That's... or we copied him. Who knows? But um, yeah, that's on Discord.
And then there is a great Facebook page and
I forgot about this one, but it's called Puzzle Leisure,
which... it's kind of funny cause it's puzzle and leisure.
Like you know how the L E at the end of the puzzle and the Elliot,
the sort of leisure, it's like a puzzle. It's like together. Yep. Puzzleisure
Puzzle Leisure. I don't know how you'd say that,
but it's by Stephan Baumegger. It's his Facebook page.
Stephan has designed... a bunch of Pelikan stuff
some of the craziest Pelikan stuff out there. Keylock, Thor's hammer, Excaliburr,
Merlin, Droid and a really cool one actually called the Holy Grail.
Actually don't think it's like, I dunno. It's a cup... it is really sweet.
So he's got some really crazy stuff on there. Check him out on Facebook.
That's Puzzleisure. Puzzle Leisure Puzzle Leisure, Stephan Baumegger.
A really great place to see. Some of his different designs.
He shows you a bit about like...
I think he even shows you some of the behind the scenes of him making stuff. Yeah.
Does he 3D print things or does he have them like machined? It's all wood.
It's all wood.
He's exclusively wood as far as... other than the Thor's Hammer.
He has that like... The machining... metal Thor's Hammer.
I don't think he actually makes that one though. I think someone else makes it.
But... Similar design. Yeah. Yeah. So, check those out.
That's some of the social media stuff out there. Again, you can always Facebook,
Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube. Yeah,
check us out on all those. Subscribe. Hit the bell. Subscribe.
You know our YouTube channel, Facebook.
And then Instagram, Tik Tok. Tik Tok.
We're getting out there. The Discord thing is... Yeah. So there it is.
Trying it. Check us out on our social media. Thank you guys for watching.
Hope you enjoyed today's episode.
We appreciate you and your viewership because
we enjoy making this stuff for you. Thank you. See you. See ya.