In this episode of Puzzle Time, we have puzzles from Fortunate Son puzzles.
That's James Fortune, who 3d prints these burr puzzles,
and this one's called Detonator.
Check it out in this episode of Puzzle Time in 3, 2, 1,
Welcome to Episode 120 of Puzzle Time. In this episode,
we are talking about puzzles from Fortunate Son puzzles. That's James Fortune.
They're 3d printed burr puzzles. We are excited about them.
But before we get into that, let's talk about this contest, Linnea,
that we've been running.
It's a contest on this site called Up Viral and you can win
puzzles from Puzzle Master here. We've got the Iron Maiden, the Quad L, the
Tower of Hanoi, Pyraminx, and the Pionir Pyramid.
You can win them on the site. Go there, enter your contact information,
and then share the link. And if, people come and enter the contest,
cuz you shared the link, you will get extra entries. So there you go.
The contest ends today, which is
March 31st, 2022. So,
go enter, cuz the contest will be closed at midnight Central Standard Time
today. The draw will be done April 2nd and
you can win 1, 2, 3, 4 or all five of these puzzles by entering that draw.
Okay, let's get into today's puzzles. We're gonna start with the
Traffic Light one because I like the, I like the visual of this puzzle.
Again, these are from Fortunate Son puzzles. This guy named James Fortune,
who I believe is in the United States. And yeah, these are 3d printed burrs.
I actually really like these.
This one has eight pieces. There's the two black, two green, two yellow,
two red. Yeah.
First thing I noticed on it is, all the colors on one side side can move,
but I haven't been able to... Without moving any of the black,
you can't get any of the opposite side to move.
Okay.
So those ones are stuck into place until you move more pieces around.
So this one's technically called Traffic Light, right? Yeah.
It's the actual name. Yeah.
It's a level eight on the Puzzle Master difficulty rating scale. Again,
our scale runs from five to 10, five being easy,
10 being hard. And it is forty six moves to solve this puzzle.
Yeah.
And I noticed this one where the pieces can't move on this side is the one that
moves first. Whereas this black piece, you have to figure out how to get these
to move, before you
can move it.
You see on mine are moving your pieces....
On both sides? Yeah. On both sides.
No? Try this again. It's like in exact.... Maybe it's just not....
Yeah, you do need to get them like exactly in spots. But so with
that..., Oh there we go. Now it's moving.
With burr puzzles... Like I said,
this is 46 moves to solve. The burr puzzles, break it down into,
the amount of moves to get each piece out.
So it expresses that as a decimal place.
So it's 12.2.14.3
.10.1.2.2, which means it's 12 moves to get the first piece out,
two moves to get the next piece out.
14 moves to get the next piece out and so on and so forth. So it's it's
yeah, 46 moves and then all those decimal places. That
one to move there. Oh, nice.
I just had the one red piece forward and then that moves.
Yeah. So one thing we did notice on this is that
the black pieces are a little stiffer than all the other pieces. Like the,
the green, yellow, and red all kind of move pretty easily. The,
the black ones are little stiffer and harder to move. I don't know why that is,
but I, I like the movement on it. I like the.... I just...
I love the visual of this and that. I, I appreciate when in burr puzzles
and any puzzles for that matter,
that they can kind of take the blocky representations of these puzzles and turn
them into something that is real for life. Like real
life. Like this looks like a traffic light or traffic signal. Right?
So I like that. I appreciate that.
And I think James Fortune does that with a bunch of these puzzles that we're
gonna be showing you today.
He does have a whole collection of stuff that came in here at Puzzle Master on
our website: puzzlemaster.ca. We're gonna show you three of them.
I think there's what? There's quite a few; there's like 10,
10 or so different puzzles. I thought that came out today or recently here,
on the Puzzle Master website. So that's Traffic Signal? Traffic
Light. Traffic Light. Traffic Light. Let's move on to the next one.
We're gonna be doing the... Let's do T and T. We'll talk about this. Okay.
T and T. This is actually the one visually, that caught my eye
the most, of any of his puzzles that came in. I thought it was cool.
I love the whole like box that explodes.
And he's got the little handle on top. It's interesting though,
because this is actually a nine piece puzzle, the way it works out.
So there's eight of the burr sticks here.
And then there's the handle on top that ends up being that like the ninth piece.
So this is actually called Detonator. See on there...
But Detonator's, the puzzle name. It is like I said, nine pieces.
So eight of the burr sticks. And then the, the piece on top here, the,
the handle or the.... What do you call that? The trigger?
I dunno what you'd call that. The bomb...
I dunno, what it's called.
It's 76 moves to solve this so significantly harder than the traffic light.
So that 76 moves again is broken down into decimal places.
56 moves to get the first piece out, seven moves to get the second piece out,
three moves to get the next one out. And then 1, 2, 2, 2, 2.
This is an interesting moves list there because they've got 56 moves for the first piece is
just... That's crazy.
I mean, this puzzle has more moves to get the first piece out than the other
puzzles do to get all of their pieces out. Crazy. So it's a level 10;
very hard. And again, I think,... Now, this,
this is a piece up top here and it,
obviously it goes through to the bottom here. Hey?
I think this is part of that piece, this black on the bottom. Yeah.
You think, it's part of that piece? It is cause when you pull it,
you can see it slightly moving. Yeah. And it needs,
it needs to mesh in or interlock with the bottom because otherwise you'd be
able to flex it and move it. Now again, with all these burr puzzles,
as we've talked about with burr puzzles before on our episode here or on our show,
burr puzzles have a very specific thing that you aren't supposed to spin
pieces; it's called rotation, right? So if you took this piece and like,
or one of these other ones
and rotated it, that often is not allowed and definitely in all of James
Fortune's puzzles,
from what I can see, that you are not allowed to do rotation. Rotation ends up being
like a shortcut kind of to the solution. So that's, TNT.
And then Linnea, you can keep playing with those. I'm gonna,
I'm gonna show this one off.
This is called the Elephant, Elephant Burr or
Elephant? I think it's just Elephant. It's part of what they're calling... James,
I think calls it the Pachyburrm series. So it's like pachyderm.
So inside of this one is an elephant.
This one is a level 10 on the Puzzle Master difficulty rating scale.
It's got 54 moves to solve it. And it's moves list again,
is expressed this way.
18 moves to get the first piece off nine moves to get the next piece off.
4 9 4 2 1 1 2.
So, yeah, again, this one's a little more spread out in terms of the moves,
compared to this one, the Detonator. So Elephant is a little,
a little different that way. It's not as many moves get the first piece out,
but one other interesting thing when you're doing these. Like if you,
look at the, like the Burr tools solution,
it actually... Often when there's moves happening,
you're moving three or four or five pieces sometimes. So you're moving....
Like it's not just like one piece is moving.
Sometimes there's multiple pieces that need to move, coordinatedly. And that's one
move. So it's interesting. It's an interesting process on that as,
as to how to solve.
In between all of these burr sticks is a little elephant shape.
If you go to our website puzzlemaster.ca, look it up.
We do have pictures on the website of the little elephant inside of here.
And I did have it.
I did have it at a point there where it was separating.
There we go. So you can see right there inside. But there's a little...
Oh boy, this might not show up well on camera,
but there is a gray piece right in here.
And that is part of the elephant that's inside there.
I think his feet are actually upside down and he's got a trunk that comes out
and then points up at the end.
And so there's a little gray elephant inside this one.
And actually a lot of the James Fortune puzzles have like some sort of animal,
or I think one of them is ghosts inside of it. A few of them have different,
representations of some sort of...
So I wonder if you would have to like put the elephant in and start building
around the elephant or if you start and then add it in that one move.
You do. I actually, I watched a solution. So
the elephant's like the third piece you kind of put in when you're putting it
back together. So it, it goes in pretty early in the process. Well,
yeah. And then you kind of....
And what ends up happening actually is the pieces kind of form around the
elephant and then they start moving and,
and you eventually connect them into the, this kind of a shape at the end,
but they do move around the elephant and interact with it. So I'm, I'm actually...
I'm, I'm not sure if it's... One other thing to know or note on these.
I'm not sure about some of the other puzzles, but I do know on this Elephant
burr puzzle, there is 30 different solutions to this puzzle.
So it's not... All of these are not,
like one single solution or way of solving, which is interesting
because I mean,
maybe you solve it one way and someone else solves it the other way, but yeah,
there's, there's 30 on this one. I'm not,
not sure what it is on the other puzzles,
but I don't believe a lot of these have like one special solution.
There's different versions of them, for sure. Yeah. That's,
that's some of the James Fortune puzzles here: the Traffic Light,
the Detonator and the Elephant. So check 'em out.
There's a whole bunch more. Well made puzzles. Check 'em out.
James Fortune, Fortunate Son puzzles on puzzlemaster.ca
Let's get into the Online Buzz.
Online Buzz. What do you wanna start with, Linnea? You start talking.
Talk about Dual Brain Games. I like this one. Okay.
So this one,
I was searching around on YouTube and I actually got inspired by Puzzle Guy's
video. He does a video on the puzzle called Nexus 16. Yeah.
And so I searched a little bit more into it.
It's made by a company called Dual Brain Games.
No, we've never seen these guys before.
No,
they have their own YouTube channel and they have their little website that they
sell some of their puzzles on.
It is a father, son, daughter, a father daughter combo. Yeah. Right.
Which I thought was really cool. They're from the States, I think. Oh, okay. Yeah.
It looked like it.
But yeah, this puzzle is like a square piece, 16 piece puzzle.
And it has little different
connections, that you have to be able to form this square and have all the
way, like the edges completely on the outside.
And then the connectors will be on the inside.
It's just the way that these pieces sit
together. So it's, it's like... How, how many pieces is it? 16? 16, 16, 16 squares.
And each of them have little nubs on the outside.
And so it would be a nub or like a, an inverse of the nub, kind of thing. Right?
They fit together and then yeah. And then you gotta yeah.
Make it so that the outside frame is completely nubs. Inversed nubs.
Yeah. Puzzle Guy says there's actually quite a bit of logic.
He thought it would be a lot of trial and error,
but he was wrong and he actually says: good, good logic to this puzzle.
It's cool. It's kind, it kind of of reminded me of Yuu Asaka's stuff a bit.
Yeah. That's what I first
thought too. Yeah. It doesn't have the frame that you pack it into,
like the Yuu Asaka stuff does, but it's, it's good.
And then this one came in three different styles.
Right? Yeah. You can get it in light green, dark green acrylic, or then you can...
There's also a wood
version. There was a wood and the wood version wasn't just like....
I thought maybe it would be just like cheap particle board or plywood.
It was actual wood. Like it was....
He said he selected different grains for each piece so,
that you couldn't go off of the grain. So the grain didn't line up,
which I thought that was really, really good. Like to be able to have it....
So cuz yeah, if you had the grain and it was all kind of the same piece of wood, it would
make it a little easier. But yeah. So well thought out. I liked them.
I actually really enjoyed his channel when I went to the Dual Brain Games
YouTube channel. Yeah.
It was fun. He kind of does a lot of different stuff, like we do. He had a lot.
I don't know if he necessarily does shorts,
but he does a lot of different puzzles, games, brain teases,
like all different sort of things.
I have a feeling, this is one we'll be talking about again. I,
I like their stuff and it, it was good.
He's very clear on his explanations and stuff like that too.
So it's very easy to follow.
Yeah. Yeah. I liked that. I, I like them. Yeah.
I like the thought of like the acrylic and the wood.
I think he has some sort of a partnership with Creative Crafthouse. Yeah. I wasn't sure.
It sounded like he had, maybe he had got the wood
one made by Creative Crafthouse Because there was some or
a fair bit of Creative Crafthouse stuff on their YouTube channel too. Yeah.
I don't know what the relationship is there,
but check them out. Dual Brain Games on YouTube. That was, yeah. That's good one.
Okay. Next, we are watching... Linnea found this one, but I,
I got like sucked into this whole like vortex of stuff. Cause we,
we find videos sometimes that are interesting. We're like, who is this?
We do a little bit more research and leads this to another video,
leads us to another video, leads us to someone's site,
which like leads us into some of the YouTubers we've watched before and they do
solutions. And that was kinda what this one was. It was called... Now,
what was it called again?
Rare Artwork Puzzles. So it was a pime puzzle.
Yeah. Pime puzzle is by Christian Poliziani.
Yeah. I think he's Italian.
Italian. Yeah. Italian and his company. No Way Puzzles. So he makes this puzzle.
We watched... The one that got us into this initially was Puzzle Wanderer. Yeah.
So we watched Gregory, the Puzzle Wanderer.
We watched him solve this puzzle and this was actually Gregory's hundredth video that
he had done and posted on his channel. So he was pretty pumped up about that.
I think he got so excited about the puzzle,
he actually gets emotional at one point.
Which was really awesome because he was like,
so pumped up about this puzzle because it's a, a limited edition.
So I think, you know, guy only made 30. Christian only made 30 versions of this puzzle.
Yeah. And what it is, it's a, a wooden puzzle.
So there's a wooden frame and then there's pieces on the inside and
each of these pieces is made outta wood and then they're painted with...what?
It's a paint pour.
Yeah. But what's the paint?
Acrylic.
Acrylic. Is it acrylic or the resin? Yeah.
He said acrylic. Okay.
Yeah, but it... Yeah, paint on top and it kind is this cool,
like swirling thing. It looked really cool. It's a,
it's essentially an art piece. It's a puzzle,
but it's also an art piece because on the back it's made to
like hang on your wall. Gregory does that at the end of the video,
after he solves it. And what the puzzle is...
I had trouble telling what it was at first,
because it looks pretty simple. But he takes a piece,
a square or rectangle piece out outside of the frame, takes it out.
It's magnetized in and that's,
what's holding the pieces in. And the piece is... it's a square or not square,
but they're like.
Yeah. Rectangle shape pieces with little bumps coming off.
And underneath is a post and that post has a head on it
and then that goes into a maze.
And so you're moving the pieces kind of through a maze.
And there's a little square piece right in the middle that you have to get out.
Go watch the video. I'm probably not doing a great job explaining it,
but it's really cool.
You'll see a bit of the process that Christian Poliziani does to make the puzzles
because each of them is a unique art piece because he has to do them separately. You
can get different colors in it.
It sounds like Gregory actually was able to customize this one.
So I feel like maybe he, he had his puzzle built by Christian,
and then he said, 'you know, I want this where people can pick their colors'.
Cuz Gregory said he was allowed to pick what colors went in it.
Colors, Yeah. Puzzle Guy did it as well.
So we watched Puzzle Guy's video of him solving it.
And he had a completely different color theme. Kind of the same look, but a
different, different color scheme.
And the last one is probably my favorite looking one, of the bunch we got here.
Like I would say, it is high quality, even better quality than Karakuri.
And that is hard to find because I find Karakuri is like premier top stuff.
So this guy on YouTube is called Marson. So M A R S O N.
The box is called a Fractured Box Secret Compartment.
So it's actually Secret Opening Box.
I think it only has like two or three specific moves to open it,
but it is really cool and like really well designed. Yeah.
So like Karakuri, it's not a hard solution,
but the box itself is insanely beautiful.
And this one was awesome because he took a cube, essentially,
and then did a jagged cut all the way around that.
It even goes down a bit and up. A jagged cut and that that's how your box opened up.
It was not a not difficult, but really well made.
And there was like three or four different compartments in there.
Yeah. To me it looked like kind of like a geode; when you fracture the geode,
how it fractures and you can kind of take it. A little bit. yeah.
So that's the outside look kind of fractured like that.
And then you pull the lid off,
you get the like two or three drawers that are inside to come out and then it
goes through the secret box moves.
Yeah. There was another box in the bottom. Really cool.
Some magnets, some sweet stuff. I liked it.
The unfortunate part is, it's not for sale.
I believe this guy just does his channel and he enjoys doing artwork or doing
woodworking and makes boxes and puzzles for himself.
And I believe these are just like one of one.
Yeah. And maybe you can message him and see if he'll make one privately for you.
But these
were crazy. I, I liked them. There was three different colors.
There was like a darker wood, medium kind of color, darker wood.
And that are like, So he did three, three different versions. I liked it.
I don't know. I couldn't find any information about a website or anything.
And the guy just in his description said he just loved woodworking.
It is like him, showing you what he is doing. So I thought that was really cool.
Check him out. Marson on YouTube. That's the Fractured Box Secret Compartment.
That's the end Online Buzz and the end of our episode. Guys,
you can go check us out at puzzlemaster.ca or Linnea, where can we go on social?
TikTok, Instagram, on Facebook. Yeah.
Yeah. What's our Instagram? The new Instagram?
The new Instagram is puzzle master CA.
Puzzle Master dot or Puzzle Master CA. Yeah, That's our new Instagram.
The old one puzzlemasterinc. puzzlemasterinc.
Yeah. Which we got locked out of. But yeah, go check it out.
Lots of stuff there. Thank you guys for watching. Go check out
Fortunate Son puzzles on Puzzle Master's website and yeah,
go enter the contest. You can win yourself puzzles on Up Viral.
Other than that, that's the end of our episode. Tune in next week for Episode 121,
We release episodes every Thursday. And that's when....
Thank you guys for watching. Tune in again, next episode, and we'll see you.