Do you think you can solve that?
Can you imagine us taking this apart and then, like, chucking that thing... cchh...throwing it and it sticks in...
Like, [throwing noise], as they throw it and it sticks in.
[Laughs]
Puzzle Time.
Episode 18.
Episode 18. Coin Art, today.
Coin Art and Rademic.
Yeah so, a new Hedgehog In a Cage. I think it's actually a fairly expensive one, too.
You wanna jump in and—
Let's do coins first.
—do coins? Okay.
I like these coins. So these, these are not like,
these are not crazy awesome —like hard— puzzles,
but they are a cool piece that you can, like, just uh—
Well, it's a cool one you can add to your collection.
Yeah, it looks neat. Let's open a bunch of them. Like I have no problem with that.
So wait, okay, so let's start with the smallest one first then?
Sure, here, you grab the dime. You open the dime I'll open the penny.
So, I opened these already once. And uh,
So essentially, this is coin art. So the dude takes
American coins and cuts them with this super tiny,
super tiny saw. So this is by a company called Coin Cut Art.
How do you even open this?
And the guy's name is Jeremy Barrett. You need nails.
Let me do that.
Alright, got it.
You got it?
Got it.
So the guy's name is Jeremy Barrett that does these.
And on our site it actually says he does it with like this super,
super tiny saw.
So, now you'll notice in some of the small ones they come with another coin.
Just, I think it's more to hold it in there.
But this penny comes with a second uncut penny.
But there's the penny right here. So I like this... you can take,
take the pieces out.
Let's see if we can see... let you guys see it. See how close it will focus.
That's pretty close, man.
Yeah so it's like tiny tiny little pieces. This penny is a—
what is the penny here? It is a 10 piece.
Yours is the dime and that's a 12 piece.
So it's really neat too because like the coins are cut in that the pieces are
like kind of based relative to the size of the coin.
Yeah, here, hold it really close so like.. it should be able to get you.
No? Wow that dime one is super small.
So that dime is actually less— or more
pieces than the penny, but smaller. That's crazy.
Yours is actually really, really tiny.
There's a few tiny pieces
Oh, I don't want to break...
So the smaller ones actually, I found, stayed together fairly well.
The bigger ones less so. I found that the bigger coins,
yeah they didn't stay together quite as well.
But these are some nice new ones. Yeah. I'll try the big one. Yeah.
So there's a fairly big price range I think, too, from like on some of the big
ones. I think there are 100 bucks on our site. The smaller one think that.
Yeah, twenty five bucks. Yeah,
25... I think the penny was the cheapest one actually for some reason.
I mean maybe just because it has the least amount of pieces.
I'm having trouble. There we go. Alright. I'm gonna try this big one. So I'll put
the penny back in here. Yeah that big one's cool.
Like it's really neat too because they, you can,
that one has like some big... some dudes head on it and like... I don't... just really cool how
they're... I think it looks like there's just such a neat things. And the guys...
the guys obviously cut enough space in there that they're not super tight too,
so you can kind of take them apart. I want to do this.
This one's kind of got a gold... This is the... I don't know what... smaller dollar,
small dollar.
I think this one is because this is a half dollar and that's the full large
dollar. So mine's the small dollar.
I like this one because it has kind of a gold look to it.
...a gold color.
And another interesting thing I found on these is when you crack them open,
if you look... So this one, like I said, this one's gold on the outside,
but when you open, you look inside, there's actually... I don't know,
I don't know if this will show up on camera or not. Maybe not.
But there is, I'm kind of like a bronze color on the inside,
so, uh, yeah.
So obviously these coins have different, different stuff on the inside. Look at the space there
yeah, the guy cuts obviously space into it. So it's not, if he didn't,
I mean it'd be crazy tight. Right?
Who's on yours? Can you see a name on there? Uh, I flipped mine over.
I got a... I got Martin van Buren,
Do you know who Martin van Buren is? That's what's on this one.
And the cool thing on this gold one is there is actually texture.
If you look on the outside of it, there's like a,
there's this like texture on the outside or something... say.
Actually I... I think words written on there.
Just
so neat. Like I... I wonder how hard... This one's got a bronze inside too. Yeah,
see a bunch of them have like the,
like a different metal on the inside. So you don't,
you'd never see that on a regular coin, but
Mine says "Liberty" and "In God we trust".
Yeah.
Yeah. This one's got, like an eagle or something on the back.
There's some sort of.. no, maybe not... No, it's the Statue of Liberty.
That's what it is.
So some... this gold one's got the Statue of Liberty on the back.
Then yours has... do you know who the guy's name is? It doesn't say.
1974.
So yours is yours is 25 piece. This one here is a 21 piece.
Uh, the one I've got here is a 17 piece.
So this one actually has a little like lens thing in there too.
Just sort of holds in probably, so it doesn't, doesn't move.
You'd hate for... hate for one of these to come apart, hey, in the,
in the packaging. You get it and it's all just, just messed up.
So I wonder, I wonder how hard it would be to actually do one of these,
like literally... like it probably wouldn't be that hard because you'd be able to
see all the pattern on it and you know what a coin looks like. Yeah. And the,
like the outside..so I wouldn't,
I wouldn't say these are exceptionally difficult, but they are really neat,
I like these.
I think they're pretty... It's almost cooler for your coin collection than your puzzle
collection. Yeah, it's a bit of both. That's the beauty of it, right?
It's like the, like the stuff that Yuu Asaka does, right?
It's like a jigsaw slash puzzle.
So it's like kind of bringing two worlds together. So yeah,
you got your... let's see. So this is a large dollar,
the half dollar, small dollar.
This is the quarter, nickel,
dime and penny. So yeah, those are really neat.
Check them out on puzzlemaster.ca. Well, let's, uh,
move on to Rademic. Rademic.
This is called the... what's it called again, here? Let's see on the front here.
It's called the Hedgehog in Cage Fantom. Fantom. And this is a,
so it's the Hedgehog in Cage, but it's got 14 spines on it.
So it's a little different than some of the other ones.
I guess the difficulty is a level eight. I love the look of this.
This one looks sweet, like it's actually sharp. That's the crazy thing.
Like those spikes are actually like sharp and it comes in this sweet like
leather pouch too. I just thought like, it's such neat detail on this one. It does look great.
Two of them are.. Yeah. So two of them are longer. Two of
the spikes are longer. And uh,
and then it also has this box and so this box is based on like a TV show or
something, right? TV show aired in 1969 on Christmas Eve.
The mystery of a puzzle, apparently. I've never heard of it,
but this is based on that. So there's like this character on here, this,
I don't know, this guy, I forget what his name is,
but there's some character... Fantom. That's right.
His name was Fantom in this TV show.
So it's kind of a homage to that. Fifty year anniversary puzzle.
Super cool though. This one is big. It's metal. And uh,
do you know how to do these? Uh somewhat, yeah. They have a similar solution.
I imagine this one's a little harder because it's like a 14 spikes on it,
right? So...Yeah... that's got to make it a little harder,
but pretty heavy duty. And then it's got these rings in the end too.
I don't know if it goes... Rademic...It says Rademic
That's true. It's a 50... 50 year anniversary of this a TV show.
So that's what this was released for... kind of in memory of that or whatever.
That's about it. Yeah. That's as far as I can get. I think this one looks cool.
Like honestly it looks like a a maze...
like legitimately those are like fairly sharp. Not like crazy sharp, but sharp enough that
you can impale yourself on it... like, yeah. But really cool.
It's super heavy, duty.
I think this is one of the more expensive Rademic puzzles out there.
So that's good for you collectors out there that like the,
like Radek Micopulos',
designs. Is that who it is? Yeah, that's it. Micopulos?
Micopulos, I think. Yeah, that's the guy who like makes these.
Yeah. Well machined. Well made. Super neat.
So yeah. That's um, it's the Hedgehog in Cage Fantom.
What, uh, what else do you... so Tony just got back from a show out in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada. He was doing a trade show out there, I think, right? Yeah, yeah,
yeah, man. That's a busy city, man. Yeah.
Dude, the ground shakes under your feet while you're out there.. Really?... just walking around like
this is super weird. From like... the Subway? People, the subway, cars, I don't know.
We're shooting in Saskatoon. Saskatoon is like 200,000 people.
It's nice. ... just over... small, but yeah, not Toronto big.
Definitely not.. But um, yeah, so I'll, I guess I'll tell you a
bit... some of the YouTube stuff out there. I always talk a bit about that. Um,
Mr Puzzle has a super cool one. He shot the Brass Cannon.
Have you played with that ever? Nope, I did see it though. It's like, it's a sequential discovery.
It was, I thought it was something different. So it's like, yeah,
Chris Ramsey really likes those sequential discovery puzzles. Yeah.
So that this Brass Cannon is right in there.
Puzzle Guy has shot a couple of cool ones too.
We had a Siebensteinspiel, a puzzle called Klein Kunst.
Um, he also shot Cold Fusion,
which is a 3D printed puzzle by Oskar Van Deventer.
Really good, actually really like that Cold Fusion. It's like that...
Have you played with those? No. It's that one where, um,
there's like rings and they're like those...
It's like that three D printed stuff and they kind of like spin out. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
they just spin out. It's really neat. It's got cool movement on it.
I think that's what mr, that's what that Oskar van Deventer does super well,
it's just the really unique movements and he's,
I think he's really mathematical with what he does and like the angles and
stuff. So it makes for a really interesting puzzle. Um, you always got to check.
Oh, so Oscar van Deventer does have a YouTube channel.
He does a bit more like the twisty stuff, like the Rubik's cube type style,
but some really unique stuff on there.
And the guy's just a always innovating in the puzzle industry. And then, uh,
Chris Ramsey, you got to check his stuff out. He's done a few.
He did this actually really neat one. It's this old, um like,
.....move or something.
So it's like the suitcase that opens up with like walls on the side,
but it's this um, puzzle that he bought on eBay or something.
And a guy's made like this viral epidemic thing where you got to like solve this
virus. So it opens up. It's like this suitcase,
and there's all these locks and different stuff. So kind of a puzzle box.
Escape room puzzle. That's cool. I didn't see that one. Yeah. And then RossDM
also has stuff. If you like Hanayama and you want some solutions,
Ross DM is the place to go.
He shot one of my favorites from the Hanayama collection Cast O'Gear.
I love that puzzle.
The movement on it is like that gear thing spins around the box.
Super sweet. That's another Oskar Van Deventer one. Is that Oskar? Yeah, yeah.
He won the design competition one year with that one.
It's awesome.
It's like... it's this gear that like has a box and it spins around and like fits
in the holes. It's an amazing puzzle, that Cast O'Gear. if you haven't tried that,
that's definitely one of my favorites for the Hanayama. What do you like for,
Hanayama? Like what's your favorite?
Uh, O'Gear has gotta be at the top man. Uh, I liked that one. It's um,
you did... Who's that? Who's the Finnish designer? Oh Vesa Timonen. Vesa, yeah, yeah.
Ah, makes uh, the Keyhole. The Keyhole. That one is really cool.
I figured out the Donuts while we were out there too. That was really cool.
Donuts... It's so tight on its finish, man.
Is that... is Donuts....Ok it's the one... they sit like this...and they're magnetic pieces.. Oh no, they're not.
There's two of them that'll spin next to each other and then there's two of them
that kind of unlock from each other. So once you get the ones to unlock,
there's two,
there's a little pin on the inside and you have to get them directly opposite
each other.
So you can only feel when they stop and they're together and you kind of have to
guess. Right.
And then you're just trying to get them to like slide apart like this. Huh.
It's such a tight solution though. I was really impressed by that actually.
Cool. See that's, that's the thing,
some of those... like I find with some of the Hanayama stuff and you're like,
you look at it, and you're like, ah that puzzle looks dumb, cause I,
that was my thought with Cast O'Gear I'm like, ah it doesn't look that great.
And you play with it and you know, Hoh this is a super cool movement.
Or you get that solution, like it's that moment of discovery where like,
you get the solution. It's just.. it's good.
There's some new stuff from Hanayama, too, I saw. Like we have this um,
Hanayama puzzle page on Facebook. And so it's a Hanayama
group. So it's a group you can check out there. But, um,
someone posted some new Hanayama stuff. We don't have it here. The Snowflake. Yeah,
the Snowflake. Are we getting that here? Yeah we're getting it. Sweet. Snowflake.
And then there's another one too. But uh, yeah,
apparently because Hanayama is a Japanese or Chinese, Japanese, Japanese.
So they release everything in Japan first. And so, uh,
you kind of need some connections or whatever to get those. So they're out now.
Puzzle Master here in Canada.
We're a little a little behind the ball on some of that sometimes, but um, yeah,
we'll be getting the Cast Snowflake in. It looked neat. Great design on it.
Who is that again? That designed it? I have no idea. Was that Osanori or is that,
I don't know. I'd actually don't know who did that one. But it looks really neat.
I think there was another Hanayama one too. Cast Snowflake and something else.
Was it the snowflake? It was Cast Snow, not Snowflake. Cast Snow.
I remember thinking because it looks like a snowflake,
but it's called Cast Snow. I was like, Oh. You think...
I don't know if that's like a lost in translation thing or,
I mean it works right. So yeah, that is a,
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