You've seen the Barrel Cooper's Puzzle Box and the Treasure Chest Puzzle Box
from 3D Printy. That's Joseph Kovell.
Find out more about his newest 3D printed sequential discovery puzzle
box called the Lunar Lighthouse. Check it out in this episode of Puzzle Time.
Welcome to Episode 132 of Puzzle Time. In this episode,
we are talking about the Lunar Lighthouse Puzzle Box, right here.
Linnea, let's get right into it. This is from Joseph Kovell.
Now, what other puzzles has he done, Linnea?
He's done the Barrel Cooper and the Treasure Chest Puzzle Box.
So this is the Lunar Lighthouse.
It's a level eight on the Puzzle Master difficulty rating scale.
It is a sequential discovery puzzle box. And so,
there is pieces inside, as you can hear,
that will come out of this puzzle box and it is made to look like a lighthouse.
But unfortunately on this lighthouse there is a missing piece on top here,
which is what you're supposed to find. You can actually see if you look,
there's like grooves in this top here where a piece will screw in.
And so that's what you're trying to find. That's the,
objective of this puzzle.
But there is a second objective that goes with the puzzle.
There is a second objective. Yeah.
Which is finding the missing yellow moon, which would go in
here. The moon does go right in here.
There's a little spot there where the moon will go. And so the lamp... Okay,
what would you call that?
What would you call the light part on the top? Because lamp room is kind of what we
Or what Joseph... What
he... Yeah, yeah, that's what he
worded it. I would say return the light to the top of the lighthouse.
Yeah, the light. And it actually does light up. Yeah. Yeah.
not for super long though.
Should we show the second part or the first part of the solution?
The first move, or do you think...?
Yeah, let's, let's show the first. Let's just show
the very first thing you do. Yeah. It's pretty obvious.
So we're not giving anything major away here because... Well, let's,
let's move through the puzzle here. Okay. There is, When you move it,
you can see that there is a separation right there,
right in the middle of the puzzle. There's a piece, like you can tell,
it's almost like it's two pieces, right? Yeah. There is,
this window here and that window there, which this is where the moon goes,
but there's nothing that really moves per se, that you can see initially.
And then there is a bunch of cuts at the bottom here and different pieces.
And so nothing really initially moves other than...
And let's show this part here.
The very first thing that happens is that you push on this side,
push on one of the sides, and there's a piece that does come out.
Yeah. There it is, and it has a magnet on the bottom. So, yeah,
that's all we wanna show them. Yeah.
I don't wanna show too much more. I
don't wanna show too much more either.
With this puzzle, for me,
I found the mechanism that's used to solve it, isn't as obvious as some of his
other puzzles. No, that's true.
So it's a little bit more hidden and kind of a little bit more difficult to
understand. But I don't wanna give too much more away from that.
And that's what I like about Joseph Kovell though,
is he pivots and changes his puzzles lots and updates. He's very,
very active with that.
And so I appreciate that. He's done that on a bunch of his other puzzles.
So go to his YouTube channel, 3D Printy. It's wonderful.
But let's get into the next section here,
which is talking about Puzzle Insider.
And we're gonna be talking about Gregory who shows us a lot actually in this episode.
So Linnea, what are we looking at in puzzle?
This episode's about... This is Episode 10 of
Puzzle Insider and it is a interview with the designer Yuu Asaka. Mm-hmm.
. And so if you aren't familiar with Yuu Asaka's puzzles,
he does acrylic packing puzzles.
And so Gregory just walks through his design process with those packing puzzles
and kind of just more informational stuff like that on him as a designer. So.
Check it out. Episode 10 of Puzzle Insider.
I'm extremely happy I could get an interview with the amazing puzzle designer, Yuu
Asaka, who is personally one of my favorite 2D packing puzzle designers in the
world, and I think he deserves his name as a legendary puzzle designer.
Yuu Asaka's first puzzle was Jigsaw 29.
It was actually created as a school assignment.
Yuu Asaka graduated from Art University in 2019 and he likes Edward Hoppers
paintings and he also occasionally paints. His favorite puzzles are Cast Radix
and Cast Rattle from Hanayama.
Both puzzles have beautiful solutions and I enjoyed them very much.
His favorite two dimensional puzzle is Rectangular Jam by HiroKazu Iwasawa,
which won the honorable mention at the 2005 puzzle design competition.
I haven't played most of the two dimensional packing puzzle except for the famous
ones. I was also very interested to hear Yuu Asaka's process of making a puzzle and
I was actually blown away by it. When I make a puzzle,
I first sketch a lot of meaningless shapes and abstract images on paper.
Basically the subject is music and things around me.
And when I can draw a good looking shape,
I refine it by combining it with the puzzle idea I had at the time. For example,
Oleo 10 was created with the image of Michelle Petrucciani's
Oleo. Bird 11 was made from a sketch of bird droppings.
The idea of a puzzle gimmick often comes up by chance,
so we still don't know how to come up with it intentionally.
It takes about half a year to a year to make one puzzle,
but I make several puzzles at the same time.
As long as I can come up with an idea for a puzzle,
I will continue to work on it.
And also there may be a possibility that Yuu Asaka comes up with puzzles other
than 2D packing puzzles. Thank you very much Yuu Asaka for the answers.
That was the interview with Yuu Asaka on,
just a short clip of Puzzle Insider Episode 10.
You can check with the full Insider episode on our YouTube channel. But next,
let's get into the Online Buzz.
Okay. Online Buzz. We're talking about Gregory, Puzzle Wanderer, again.
His YouTube channel, though, not Puzzle Insider, but
I watched a couple of his hashtag shorts on YouTube and I was really
captured by the two videos that he did,
and it's all around that Wil Strijbos' Egg.
So the first video was him showing the solution.
The second video is him explaining the solution.
This puzzle still has me like completely dumbfounded,
but I feel like it's one of the....
I think it's a puzzle you're gonna solve and not know what you did. Yeah.
With Wil Strijbos, I find a lot of his puzzles are like crazy hard to understand
and lots of crazy moves. I think this one's at the very top of that.
This puzzle is nuts. Well,
this is an IPP and it won prize in IPP, right?
Yeah. It's really different. Like I've never,
I still never seen anything else like this puzzle. But check it out.
Here's the two videos.
We'll show them consecutively and tell us what you think.
Would you like to try the Egg by Will Strijbos?
This is the Egg puzzle by Wil Strijbos, one of the best metal puzzle designers in
the world. The goal of the puzzle is to take part the two parts of the egg.
And this is a puzzle that solidly and heavily relies on gravity.
Inside this puzzle are tons of gravity
pins and gravity mechanisms you need to manipulate.
There's at least five pins and also a very weird contraption that only unlocks
the puzzle when the puzzle is upside down. First of all,
if I put the puzzle like this, then it's completely locked.
But if I turn it upside down and maybe move some pins, then bam,
I can open the puzzle a little bit.
And in the middle of the puzzle is a very long rod with holes in it that
locks a lot of things. And it's so difficult to understand this.
It's even more difficult to explain this.
I'll just solve the puzzle for you guys and you'll see how it looks from the inside.
And this is the solved puzzle. This is how it looks.
Let me know in the comments if you guys wanna see an explanation short of this
puzzle. Awhile ago,
I made the solution video of this puzzle and you guys asked me to try to explain
it. I have disassembled the puzzle.
The puzzle is very complex and every time I solve it, I struggle,
since it has so many elements.
Here you can see one pin that is moving with gravity.
This pin can lock the puzzle with this notch.
Here you can see a hole which will lock the puzzle, using this pin.
This shaft here is actually extremely crazy.
You can see how many details there are. You can see a notch, a hole,
this notch that goes all around, and this weird mechanism.
This mechanism is moved by gravity and will only be unlocked when the egg is
upside down. While all this happens, there's also three pins here,
one in the middle and two on the sides.
These two make it harder to move the big moving part right here.
And you need to maneuver them one by one for this to pass.
This pin locks everything together and moves on this shaft.
There's a very specific combination of moves you need to execute using gravity,
spinning, pushing and pulling at the same time to solve this puzzle.
So yeah. What do you guys think? Egg from Wil Strijbos. You wanna try it?
Do we have it on our site?
We have it in stock right
now. Okay. It was in stock. Cause I know for the longest time it was out of stock.
We just got it back about a month ago. There
you go. Go to puzzlemaster.ca. Find your own copy of Egg by Wil Strijbos.
And a whole bunch of other, his puzzles. His puzzles are great. So yeah,
Next into our Brain Teaser. Linnea, what brain teaser do we have today?
So we picked a puzzle maze.
These puzzle mazes are crazy and like I find them really hard to solve. They
were fun. I sat down and tried to do this one. I'm like, Oh.
You need a lot of time. So they're made by a designer named Sean Jackson.
He has a page where he sells all his puzzle books. You can go check him out.
He has really cool themed ones. So he has like Star Wars theme, Marvel theme.
But... Okay. The thing with his stuff, actually what it reminded me of...
Because what it is,
it's mazes that you gotta run through; three-dimensional mazes or pictures of
mazes and the Star Wars or the Marvel ones have like,
characters from those shows in the maze. And yeah,
you can check out this maze, on our Facebook page,
cause you'll be posting some of these.
Oh, I've,
I've posted some before and I will be posting more of them once I get to it
here. But yeah, some of,
maybe some of the Marvel ones you'll see on Facebook as well soon. So cool.
He sent us his book. I'm so excited
about it. Yeah, we got a pre-order of it. So, hey, benefits,
Puzzle Master. Yeah. Next onto our YouTube review. And this,
so this is all just review videos of puzzles that are posted on our YouTube
channel. We wanna talk a bit about those.
And today we're featuring a puzzle called the Patience Puzzle.
It's from Tucker Jones House. If you haven't seen Tucker Jones House. They do...
They take essentially wire puzzles and make a big bat beefy metal version of
them. Wire puzzles usually are like small and these ones are huge.
These are huge puzzles. Okay, next we are into our puzzle contest.
Now last episode we didn't have a puzzle contest. This episode we do. Linnea,
tell 'em about the Puzzle
Contest. So this one's actually really exciting. I think it's our best one yet.
It goes along with our theme of our puzzle here. It does.
The puzzles included are gonna be...
Actually you get this puzzle in it, the Lunar Lighthouse. Oh.
The Barrel Cooper's Puzzle Box,
the Treasure Chest Puzzle Box, by Joseph Kovell. Yeah. All those ones
and then plus, we also have the Detonator Puzzle by Fortunate Son.
And the last one, which I think is an amazing puzzle,
is the Traffic Light Puzzle by Creative Workshop.
Creative Workshop is definitely my favorite 3D printed company.
3D Printy gives it a good run for its money, as well.
But I love Creative Workshop. I love their puzzles. Yeah. But this...
Canadian designer too.
Yeah, Canadian as well. Well, he's lives in Canada.
He's not originally from Canada, but he is, he is in Canada now. He's Canadian. Yeah.
. Anyways,
so there is $385 worth of puzzles being given away here. Yeah.
That's a lot of money.
And not only just value of puzzles,
but like really popular ones. Like these, I'm sure will be sold out soon.
Oh yes, for sure.
But, so yeah, you're getting puzzles that are like really hot.
They may even be sold out by the time we do this video.
By the time this episode comes out, it might be sold out.
You can get your copy of, potentially,
of any one of these five puzzles. Yeah. With a link in the description,
right? Yeah. And so the contest does end on
October 31st, 2022 here. So you have to get your entry in before then.
So if you wanna get these puzzles for yourself, I would hurry in now before it's over.
Yeah. And hopefully you're watching this before October 31st, 2022. If not,
sorry.
But, last but not least,
we are adding a new section to our show called Puzzle Trivia.
And so I have thought of a question to ask and
it's a really good one. I enjoy this designer's puzzles a lot.
Yeah. Oskar van Deventer We messaged,
or I emailed him to find out the answer. And the question is,
what is the first puzzle Oskar van Deventer designed and in what year?
So what was the first puzzle he designed? I had no idea.
Yeah. I, I don't know a lot of his earlier stuff,
I've just known a lot more of his most recent stuff. Yeah. But.
Yeah, so think about it. Let us know in the comments.
I'm gonna give you the answer here right away,
but let us know in the comments and you can just stop the video here if you
don't wanna find out the answer right away. But, yeah,
let us know in the comments. What do you think is the answer to
this question?
What's your favorite one by him, Tyler, while they think of their answer? .
I like, Oh, that's that one he printed with magnets.
It was one of the first ones I saw with the wood. The wood, you know,
the wood. Oh,
the matchbox one?
No, not the wood. It's the knot, that Knot one.
Oh, the Gordian's Knot?
It looks like, Yeah. Was it that? Gordian's Knot? Yeah, it was the one,
it was the one that was like the 3D printed wood stuff where they like infused
wood into like the 3D printing
stuff. Oh yeah, he has a couple of those
ones. Yeah. I don't remember what the name of it is, but it's that knot one.
I really like that one. I think it's fun. Yeah.
I mean he has some great Hanayama designs Any of his Hanayama stuff is just wonderful.
My favorite 3D printed one is the puzzle ring; the Rainbow Ring that he does.
Which ones did he do in Hanayama again? I'm
trying to remember. I don't always
remember. Yeah. They're good ones. That's definitely my favorite 3D printed one.
So the answer... drum roll...
is Big Knot. Now, I'd never heard of this puzzle before, but it
is a 14 piece burr puzzle that he designed in 1981. And,
it was with help from a guy named Professor William VanderPol. VanderPol.
I guess he got connected with him. Now he,
wasn't specific with where the connection came from through this,
but there is a book called Creative Puzzles of the World. Oh, okay. It's a book. Yeah.
So there's a book that I,
I imagine maybe Oskar saw his name in there and connected with him. Cuz they're
both, I believe, they're both Dutch. I did a bit of
research on Professor William VanderPol and he's like a computer science
genius. This guy, like design computers or something
or designed computers back in the day. Yeah. That's cool. Big Knot. Check it out.
We'll put a link to,
link to the puzzle where you can find out a bit more about it.
Also a link to the book called, Creative Puzzles of the World book.
If you wanna find out more about where Oskar was maybe reading back in the
eighties, the book still around. So, check it out. But that's,
the Puzzle Trivia. Let us know if you like that section and
we'll continue to do it cuz we have,
we'll talk to some of the puzzle designers and find some fun questions like this.
But that's the end of our episode.
I hope you guys like seeing a bit more about the Lunar Lighthouse
Puzzle Box from Joseph Kovell. And
we will see you guys next time in Episode 133 of Puzzle Time.
Remember to check us out on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook. Mm-hmm.
and on YouTube here as well. Check out our
other videos. Yeah. Cool. Thanks guys.