In this episode of Puzzle Time,
we have two brand new 3d printed puzzles from two brand new companies
we've never had before. This is Poseidon's Vault.
This is New Moon. Check 'em out in today's episode. As well,
you'll find out about our Boxing week sale. We're going to have a boxing week sale:
20% off sitewide December 26th to 31.
Check it out in today's episode.
Welcome to Episode 106 of Puzzle Time.
We are here to tell you today a bit....
Just wanna start off with a bit of information on our Kickstarter.
So Puzzle Master has a Kickstarter. It is...
What are the three puzzles again, Linnea?
There's Quintus Extreme, Total Eclipse and The Skull. There
you go. Three very hard puzzles. I just wanted to tell you that this,
this Kickstarter is ending on December 31st. I think at noon is our, our last,
last day where you can get involved in it.
It's been really successful so far. We've had a lot of people,
I think we're upwards of like 300 people involved in it right now.
So yeah, go to kickstarter.com. Look for that.
This is our second Kickstarter campaign.
I wanted to tell you about a new add on. Linnea, do you remember what,
what the add on is? Yeah.
You get a special wire puzzle with your three puzzles.
Yeah.
And so I think it's the whole package though, Because you get the three puzzles from
the last Kickstarter and there's like a... Yeah, the new add-on is the,
the new wire puzzle. So you get Side Winder. It's one of our, our wire puzzles.
You get it for free in that add-on so, yeah, go check it out.
Add some puzzles in; you can get them shipped to you for cheaper,
cuz they'll just go with your Kickstarter stuff.
So let's get in today's today's episode. We've got two 3d printed puzzles.
One of them that we've been waiting for for a while. So,
let's get into the New Moon though. Let's start with that. Okay. Linnea,
you wanna talk about this one? You, you tell us,
tell everyone a bit about the New Moon puzzle.
So I originally found this on
Puzzle Guy's panel on YouTube here and then it led me to the
guy who makes this, whose company is called Five-Sided Hexagon. mm-hmm
Yeah. He is... And that's on
Instagram, you said? Yeah. On Instagram. So yeah,
what's going on in this puzzle originally is...
Now, hold on, hold on. Before you get into that. What's the difficulty? So,
we don't know the difficulty yet. We don't have this listed on our site. Yeah.
So as we're shooting this, like this is just, just come in. We're shooting it;
No, no difficulty. But what do you think the difficulty was? From
what I've watched from Puzzle Guy's YouTube video, is
it seemed like a level eight or nine to me. Mm-hmm.
Now Puzzle Guy has a YouTube channel.
He does lots of puzzles and he does solve it. He does solve it. Right? Yeah.
So there's a couple parts to this.
Obviously there's a dial on the bottom here and there's all these... like this
moon. So if, if like you imagine this is like the full moon, half moon,
quarter moon, whatever they are.
There's like all these just prints of the moon all over it: on the dial,
on the sides of it and then on the top, which is this...
What do you call this? I dunno what you'd call that? Slider puzzle. Yeah.
Slider puzzle.
So there's different parts then. You can kind of see in the bottom of the slider,
there's different cutouts. I don't know if this is gonna be super visible,
but you can see the different cutouts on the bottom of those pieces.
And obviously there's some sort of a lid here. Hey? Yep. That moves like that.
And so it moves there and then the dial spins on the bottom.
Can you get? Okay. The dial doesn't spin on mine. How come it spins on yours? Oh,
there we go. I lifted mine up a little bit, slightly.
Yeah. You might have it in a certain position where it's stuck or something.
Cuz there is, there is... I know what's going on inside.
I don't wanna lead you to too much information. So, but I mean,
this dial's gonna help you solve. So there's... The first part is the top.
And then you go down to here and you have to solve the second puzzle.
So there is two puzzles to it, but once you get the top off,
it doesn't... the box isn't open yet. Right.
And we saw in Puzzle Guys' video, there is like a little prize inside.
We won't tell people what it is. There's a little prize inside. The
puzzle maker is a guy named Peter Vander Mueller.
And he's originally Canadian actually. Right? From Calgary, Alberta,
which is a about what six hours from where we are in Saskatoon here in Canada.
So he is Canadian originally, but apparently lives in Shanghai, China. So,
And he's a school teacher who does puzzles on the side. A school teacher.
He likes making
puzzles. Yeah.
And I think that's a common thing with a lot of puzzle makers, is that this is
like not their main, their main jam. They make,
they make their money somewhere else.
And the puzzles is something they do for fun. So, yeah,
I thought that was interesting, but completely brand new puzzle designer maker.
We've never had his stuff in before. So, again, one of those,
one of those guys coming out with a lot of the cool 3d printed stuff.
I like this one. No, no website for
for Five Sided Hexagon; just the straight, like Instagram. So, new company,
new stuff. I
think we'll be the only one selling it. He was on his Instagram account.
He said, he's looking for ways to ship it at different places. Right.
And he hasn't had anything yet.
So I think we might be one of the first few people to
be..., Yeah, Puzzle Master's good that way.
Cause we have a whole things set up and it's... Man, when you're,
when you're a small company and like trying to figure out how to make stuff,
how to market it and then how to like how to sell it afterward. Like get it out.
Like that's a lot of work and that's a lot of effort.
So like a lot of these companies just come to us and they want us to sell their
puzzles and often we're the exclusive carrier of their stuff.
So there it is. New Moon from Five-sided Hexagon. Go check
Five-sided Hexagon out on Instagram. If you wanna see the solution,
go to Puzzle Guy on YouTube and watch his video from the new,
I think he calls it like the rarest... something or other. Yeah, yeah.
Whatever it is. But it's on his channel, go, go check it out.
Really good stuff there.
So put that one aside and let's move on to Poseidon's Vault.
Now this is one we've been waiting for for a while. And Linnea,
we've talked about this on our
Online Buzz and that is where we got this right. It was in our, in the,
the process of our Online Buzz research, we found this puzzle. I
was supposed to look at what episode, but I forgot to check the episode
we did it on.
Go to our YouTube channel. You can,
you can search it there. Poseidon's Vault: it'll come up.
But we've been waiting for this and I've been, been excited about it.
I think it was again from a new company that we've never seen before, never had
in before. What's the company called?
It's called mite print.
Elamite Prints. Okay. And so this is a level seven puzzle,
so it's not too difficult. Do you think we can solve it? Try to solve it
today?
I've been playing around with it a little bit before and it's just confusing to
me, cuz like I can get the drawer open a little bit, enough just to see a little
bit of what's going on inside there, but then I can't get it any further.
Like as you can see, there's two tracks. What I see is there's two tracks.
So they kind of line up with these that go down. But I don't know,
what's stopping it from pulling outta those tracks.
There's something behind there. That's stopping it from pulling out. Right.
Now, this is... Originally, they said... No, I don't know what this means,
but it says the original idea was by a guy named Justin Mackowicz.
I'm not sure if that's like the designer and
this is just like a reproduction of his design or if there was some sort of like
ideas that came from this puzzle or that were put into this puzzle from like
this Justin Machowicz' idea. I'm not sure. Then you get this paper with it,
that says, Poseidon's Vault is only able to be open by a small number of people.
So it's supposed to be pretty hard, but we're giving it a seven. So I don't know.
I don't know what that means.
Will you be able to get this mighty vault or will the task prove too much for
you? Now there's a couple rules.
It says no turning the vault upside down or on its side.
You must keep the puzzle flat or at most a 45 degree angle to its
upright position. To reset the puzzle, hold the drawer shut.
I think it's supposed to be drawer,
but it says draw... shut and turn it upside down, then back around.
You know what that means? I don't understand what that means. Okay.
What do you think? What do you think of this puzzle? Can we solve?
So you said there's two tracks and you can kind of see them here.
There's like two of these like posts almost
there. Yeah. And so there's two tracks down on the bottom,
that line up with those posts. Yeah. And that's all you kind of could see in
there was those tracks,
but there's something that's stopping it from pulling out those
tracks. I don't know. The drawer, the drawer definitely moves like up and down all around.
Like it kinda, you can move it it's it's fairly loose. Right.
Do you think there's a spin?
Like I wouldn't be surprised if there's a spin on this.
I tried to spin earlier when I was playing with it and like, I don't know.
I couldn't get anything still. So I mean, unless you have to do the spin.
Okay. But what else can you do? So if you can't flip this.... yeah.
I don't know. I don't know. Maybe you guys have some better ideas.
Check it out: Poseidon's Vault and this New Moon are both available on Puzzle Master's
website: puzzlemaster.ca. You can go there, check them out.
we are always getting new stuff, especially here around Christmas.
There's tons of new puzzles coming out. Yeah, let's,
let's jump into the Online Buzz.
So Online Buzz. Do you wanna start? What do you want,
What do you wanna start with? Let's start with Black Beard's Journal actually.
So this is a Kickstarter. We were looking at it.
It's a new Kickstarter that I think ends January first
and it's a puzzle book. So it looks like.... this is like pirate themed,
Black Beard themed puzzle book that has 134 pages, with
50 puzzles in it, along with like a story.
So there's like a storyline to this whole thing and you gotta essentially work
through the book, solve it. And then, yeah...
There's lots of different puzzles in it. It says like, you're like...
It sounds like you're like ripping out pages,
folding pages, doing a whole bunch of different stuff through this book.
I thought it looked really interesting.
And it's by a company called Last Atom Studios.
So that's A T O M at Atom Studios; a guy named Tom Farnell from
London in the UK. So, check it out. It's in new Kickstarter.
It seems like there's a lot of puzzle stuff coming up on Kickstarter recently.
So, yeah, definitely check that out.
They had another journal like this that they did before.
There's another like nautically themed one. So,
I thought that was interesting. Yeah,
go check it out: Blackbeard's Journal on Kickstarter again ends January 1st.
I'm not sure what time, but on January first.
We're starting to find quite a few more of those like paper puzzles.
Like I know we got like some postcards in and different things like that.
They're
becoming more popular. Yeah, postcards and things. Yeah, definitely. Linnea,
why don't you talk about, puzzlebox.creations.
So this one i found when I was searching around on Instagram today.
That's where I find a lot of cool, just different pictures of puzzles. And then,
you know,
we kind of browse from there and find their YouTubes and different things like
that. So this guy had a Chest Puzzle Box, that I really liked.
So he does a lot of the interlocking burr puzzles and like
they're made out of wood.
They reminded me a lot of the quality of Pelikan stuff.
Like that's what it looked like. Yeah. Some really good stuff.
It looked really good quality and like nice made puzzles.
He did a wood version of the Thor's Hammer we have in metal,
and so that kind of caught my eye too.
But this chest puzzle box had like four different sides to it.
And then there was like, the panels came off.
This is a big box. I mean, this is like, it looked pretty big.
Was this one of the ones...? Like Chris Ramsay's done some of these guys stuff,
right? Yeah.
I think they teamed up with a company called Riot Games and did a bunch of like
some of the more complex wooden puzzle boxes that Chris Ramsay's had on his
page or on his channel that he's showing off. So, these guys like...
Do they do... My understanding was they just mostly do,
like, specialty puzzle boxes. They don't have a lot for sale,
it seemed like. You could... they said kind of you could get,
I think it was 3000 to 20,000 to get your own like puzzle box made and designed by
them. And then it seemed like every,
so often they release some of the stuff they've done.
so that you get.... not a lot,
but they do really limited releases of some of these that you can buy on their
site.
Yeah. So like once you open, like you figured out the....
I think there's like three locks on the front of this box and when you figured it out
the side, one side panel opens out. Okay.
And then there's more puzzles inside. So it was pretty interesting. They
looked really cool. I thought these were like very, very unique, but again,
it's high end stuff that you're gonna be paying a lot for.
So either you have a lot of money or you just watch guys like Chris Ramsay
who have a lot of money and buy these.
But interesting. puzzlebox.creations on Instagram.
Did they have a website or anything? I think they did. Yeah. Yeah.
We checked out the website too. So can find that on their Instagram page;
go check it out there. And then last,
but not least, we're going to get into Andy Is Puzzled. Linnea, tell me a bit about this
one. So this is
a guy on YouTube. He had popped up on our homepage,
so I just went and looked at his stuff and he does quite a few
solves and reviews of different puzzles.
Mm-hmm. So he'll first release the review and then later he'll do a
solve video on it. Oh really? Okay. That's a good way to do it.
The ones he did for the most part were secret opening boxes.
So he did a couple of Escape Welt,
the escape rooms in a box. Yeah.
So I think he did like the Fort Knox and another one of theirs. Yeah.
And then he did a Jean Claude box, as well, the Flohcircus one. Okay.
So he does pretty cool. He does really good descriptions on them. Very clear,
of what's going on and everything. Hmm.
So do we know much about him where he is from or any of
that? No, I couldn't find much information on his... He's new.
I think he might be new to YouTube because he only started posting within the
last like year. Okay.
And he only has about seven videos on his page and he
has about 17 subscribers. So if you really like his stuff, just, you know,
like and follow him. Yeah.
And like Linnea said, you can see Escape Welt on there. Escape
Welt's a German company that kind of has for us, like it's the, the,
one of... the second,
second company we found that does these like escape rooms in a box.
IDventure's the first one. Like we've recently been
sold out on the Puzzle Master website of this IDventure stuff.
So if you're looking for some of these escape rooms in a box and want one that's like an
alternative to maybe the IDventure stuff.
I feel like got in first and we've been quite familiar with. Escape
Welt's a great option. They have some great, great puzzles and very,
very similar to what IDventure does.
And so there's a lot of these. There's.... I think we're seeing more and more of
these pop up, these escape rooms in a box. And they're done on,
like just laser cut plywood right. So it's.... Yeah,
and Escape Welt just finished their new Kickstarter.
So their new puzzle should be releasing
within the new year. Yeah. House of Dragon, right? Yeah. So that,
that should be coming out. We should be having it on the Puzzle Master website.
But again, go check out. Andy Is Puzzled on YouTube and
one of the new guys we're finding out there. So yeah, good to see that.
But that's the end of Online Buzz. And again, the end of our
episode. Just wanted to remind you guys again about the Kickstarter that we're
doing. That's the, the three puzzles: the
Quintus Extreme, Total Eclipse and The Skull.
Always escapes my brain, but Linnea's got it there.
And there's this new add-on that we've had to the
pack of three from our first Kickstarter campaign where you get this free
Sidewinder wire brainteaser puzzle with it. So, go to our Kickstarter,
support us there. Thanks guys for watching. That's all we have.
Linnea, you got
anything else? You can check us out on TikTok, on YouTube, on Instagram.
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information for you.
So yeah, you'll find a lot of stuff in there. We'll have some special sales.
We do have.... keep an eye out for our annual
boxing week, boxing week sale. Yeah.
So we do have that coming up again and you'll see a lot of stuff on there.
20% Off site wide. So check it out if you like puzzles and you want a deal.
Yeah. Check that out for sure. Thank you guys for watching. We'll see you again.
And next week in Episode 107.