Hey guys, Tyler here, your Puzzle Master insider and today I'll be giving you an
inside look at this heavy Indian puzzle box from Puzzle Master. It's called the
Iron Puzzle Box.
Okay guys, so here is the Iron Puzzle Box from Puzzle Master.
They've imported this from India. It's handmade out there and it's just fantastic.
It's got lots of awesome little features on it, all these little metallic parts.
The key is heavy like everything on this thing is heavy.
I should say I have big hands and this is 2-hand widths wide.
This thing is not small; it is not some rinky-dink little plastic puzzle box.
It's heavy-duty, everything on it is metal, metallic. Yeah the key is heavy
like it's got a heavy key. It's got this - as with some of the other Puzzle Master
products from India, it's got this awesome little woven string on the key
and it's just really cool. I can't tell you enough, just all the cool features on it.
It's got this hook here on the back. I don't know what that'd be used for
but you can hang it and imagine maybe they use that for painting it, but just
fantastic craftsmanship, awesome and very heavy-duty. I debated about
putting down some sort of a mat here to stop it from damaging my arborite top
that I've got, but I think I'll just try to be careful with this, but this thing
is fantastic. It's got the keyhole here on the front and there's a little spot
there where you can see and this key is hollow so it fits in fits in there and
you can kind of turn it a bit. Heavy-duty hinges and these feel like
they move a bit, so that's obviously what pops off when the chest opens up.
I know that the inside of this thing is massive too, so you can you put quite a bit.
Honestly, this could be like some sort of lock box you have in your house
to keep your valuables. Like I said, it's not fooling around this
thing is heavy-duty. Now, I should tell you though, when you're doing the solution,
there is screws on here. This thing could feasably, I guess with some work, be
taken apart, but that is definitely not part of the solution. So make sure you
don't use anything other than the key and your know-how to open this puzzle.
Another really cool thing about this puzzle box is that it's rustic looking, it's made to look old.
The metal metal work on it is not perfect, it's got some rough patches.
The paint isn't perfect. It's got a little two bends here, kinks and stuff.
It's not made to look new; it's made to look old and the way I imagined
it actually, is that this would be the kind of puzzle box that Indiana Jones would use.
I think this is something very cool that could fit into that kind of a genre.
Yeah, fantastic.
The Iron Puzzle Box is a level 8 on the
Puzzle Master Difficulty Rating Scale which runs from 5 to 10.
Next, I'll show you the solution. if you aren't interested in seeing this,
then please stop the video here.
Okay, so the Iron Box Puzzle solution.
This starts off with the key here and
like I said, you won't need a screwdriver or anything to take stuff apart.
You put that key in and it just kind of sits in there. You don't want to push it in too far or anything,
just kind of set it in, turn it counterclockwise as far as you can.
So right there. And then if you'll notice, this actually moves and so does
the one on this side. They both move. So you pull that out and that allows you to
open the first side here. Then you'll see that these sun-looking pieces move
and that opens up and catches in this clasp here.
So actually and then at this point here, I can show you -
I'll just turn this, the key here now clockwise a bunch and you can see that there's a
latch that comes in through this hole.
So essentially what's happening is there's a long rod in here, or a long bar,
and this key is moving that bar back and forth and that bar swings through the
top catch here on each of these handles. So what you're doing by turning the key
is pulling the bar from one side to the other. And so you pull it from this side
now and and turn it as far as you can clockwise, and that moves this bar far
over here and that allows you to move this sun piece over, flip up the second latch.
Now that opens up the top here partially, but not completely.
So it's still latched in there. Now what you want to do ...and you'll turn it
a little bit counterclockwise and the key slides in further.
You'll feel.... and you might have to turn, take a little bit twisting and turning; it takes some doing
just to move it over and it slides in and moves down. And then that gets you to
the second level in here. Then essentially on that second level, there's
this same bar system, but that's what's holding the latch here. Now the other
thing I should show you too, is that there's a key or a piece up here that you gotta pull.
And so for this next step, what you got to do, you have that key in
that second kind of down space there, and then you pull
pull that thing up, but don't turn it.
So then you gotta pull that thing and while holding that up, you want
to turn the key clockwise, until it stops.
And like I said, there's another one of
those bars that move side-to-side inside there on a second level.
So you're moving that bar over and allowing you to open the top of the box.
As you can see, there's lots of room in here. It's a really hefty box
with a lot of space inside and just a fantastic mechanism.
So if you look inside actually, look inside these holes here, I don't know if you can see it on
there, but there is those. You see the two layers of that that bar mechanism that
moves back and forth to open up the box. So yeah, it's just really fantastic.
I love the look of this puzzle, it's heavy-duty. This thing is not
fooling around. Actually one time when I was doing this solution, I lifted it
up in this lid came down on both my thumbs. I'll tell you this much
that heavy lid hurts when it comes down on your thumb. Just make sure to
keep your thumbs out. But there's also at the top here - you can kind of see that
pin that you're pulling up there and that actually puts pressure on
the bar that comes across here. So if you don't pull that pin it doesn't allow you
to to open up this lock here. So that's that's what does that part here.
It kind of gives you a bit of understanding of how the puzzle works, the box, and yeah.
Fantastic look. I will put it back together now. So the first step obviously
is to close that box. I'll flip it back up here so you can see what all I'm doing.
So you'll push that and have that... if you have the key out you want to
push the key all the way in and get it into that second level again.
Obviously, didn't take the key out so it's still in there. You close the lid and then you
pull...this is the part that's a little bit tricky...you pull that button up and then
you turn the key counterclockwise until it stops again.
Like I said before, that's moving that bar into the latch on there
and then I can release that and again, that closes the lid there so it doesn't open up.
And then next, you want to pull that key
and it might take some turning....
a little bit. You want to get it out of that.
There you go.
Get it out of that second level and into that first level. That's what just spins just inside there.
And then
you want to make sure that this is open. That right here.
So like I said before you can turn this and it pulls that last bar.
You want to make sure that that bar is open. There. And you can push this in and pull that
Sun piece over, put it in and that latches that one and then you want to
give this a turn counterclockwise. Again, that's going to move that bar inside over.
You get that all the way over. There, and then you push this one down when you
open that Sun again, lock that into place and then turn the key clockwise until it stops,
which again puts the
bar all the way over
and then from there, you want to turn the key about two turns.
So go half one, half two.
So that's your two turns and then you want to pull the key out and that kind
of leaves that bar, so it's latching both of these and it you can feel it actually
kind of stiffens these up a bit - the front pieces.
You remove the key,
and that is the solution for the Iron Puzzle Box, start to finish.
The Iron Puzzle Box is available at PuzzleMaster.ca and you'll find a link to it below in the description.
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