Hello, my name is Tyler, and I am your Puzzle Master Insider.
Today I will be giving you an inside look at the puzzle Iron Maiden.
Iron Maiden is one of the Original 10 Puzzles that Puzzle Master founder, Allan Stein, first produced in
his basement in 1991 during the inception of the company.
This is Video 5 in a series I'll be calling The Original 10,
where I will be introducing you to the very first puzzles from Puzzle Master.
This includes the puzzles: Heart Breaker,
A Puzzle,
Lion's Lair,
The Rack,
Wedding Vows,
Cowboy's Hobble,
Fantastic Five,
Scorpion,
Handcuffs,
and today's feature, Iron Maiden.
Iron Maiden is a wire puzzle made from three millimeter or 1/8-inch thick,
nickel-plated steel wire with one small and one large nickel-plated ring.
The objective of Iron Maiden is to remove the large ring from the frame.
It is a Level 6 on Puzzle Master's Difficulty Rating Scale, which runs from 5 to 10.
Iron Maiden has a similar solution to the Handcuffs puzzle.
The difference is that the frame pieces are not connected by rings,
creating a different move to get the ring onto the frame, once folded.
You will find a more detailed history of the Iron Maiden and other puzzles similar to it
on page 98 of Jerry Slocum and Jack Botermans' "Puzzles: Old & New",
and on page 94 of "The New Book of Puzzles".
Next, I will show you the solution.
If you aren't interested in seeing this, please stop the video here.
Five.
Four.
Three.
Two.
One.
Zero.
Before we get into the solution, I wanted to explain why this puzzle is called Iron Maiden.
The idea is that this ring at the top represents a lady's head.
This is her upper body here and her dress is represented by this bottom piece.
Now like I said before, the solution to this puzzle shares a lot of
similarities with the Handcuffs puzzle.
The first step is to fold
these two frame pieces in half.
Then take this ring, put it down here at the bottom onto the triangular piece
and you'll bring this triangular piece with the ring up to the top of one side of the puzzle
and put the ring over top of that frame.
Bring it around to this side and off of the frame.
Next, to put it back on you want to do everything back in reverse. so you want
So you want to fold those two frame pieces again,
bring the ring up and over onto one side of the frame
and around with this triangular piece over top of the other side of the frame.
Putting it back on and getting you...
to the original configuration.
Iron Maiden is available at PuzzleMaster.CA.
That wraps up Video 5 of 10 in The Original 10 Video Series.
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