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Welcome back, guys.
Today, we are looking at a really cool puzzle
by the name of Her Key to the Treasure.
Ooh, sounds forbidden.
No, it's a lock, it's just a lock and a key.
And this is by a guy names Slashko, Sashko, not Slashko.
Pretty sure that was the guitarist for Guns N' Roses.
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Sashko, he made Titan's Treasure Puzzle Lock,
which we saw, it was that pirate video,
if you guys recall, which was super super dope.
And so this is the other puzzle that he has.
You're given a key, you're given a lock.
I mean, that's all there is to it.
Without any further ado, let's go ahead
and hit the like button and subscribe
and let's solve this puzzle.
Here we go.
This is the Her Key to the Treasure.
So as I mentioned, this puzzle is made by Sashko,
the same guy who made that Titan's Treasure,
the pirate video that we did a couple weeks ago.
Also has this one.
So apparently, as the story goes,
help Titan's wife find the key to her treasure.
Once you find the key, please return it back
into the purse and lock it.
One purse padlock, one purse key.
So this is her little purse.
And apparently there's something on the inside of here.
Well it says, "Help Titan's wife
"find the key to her treasure."
I mean this is the key.
I'm guessing this is not gonna work.
Nothing else to it, no external tools, no bumping,
no violent force needed.
So when it says no violent force,
how, you know what I mean?
How violent are we talking?
Are we talking Mike Tyson violent,
or are we talking like maybe like Tom and Jerry violent?
I don't know.
Let's get started.
It says Finland.
That's the name of the lock company, it seems.
I'm guessing, I don't know.
And we have this here, which turns?
Yes, no?
This does not, okay.
And we have this on the side here.
That is the swivel point of the lock.
So the lock opens this way.
I mean let's give it a go, I guess.
'Kay, so this turns.
Oh, okay.
So there are multiple, if you can see in there,
there's like these half moons.
There are I can count three of them
that probably all turn individually.
Not sure what I'm supposed to do.
So the way this key is shaped here is like a half moon,
right, kinda like that keyhole.
And then it does have these individual little teeth
that are kind of on an angle.
And for some reason, I'm trying to go straight down
and it won't allow me to.
I'm gonna go nice and easy so I don't,
'cause it seems like the internal one also rotates.
So this guy is also a lock picker and a puzzle solver.
So he designed and built both of these lock puzzles,
which is pretty cool.
This is interesting.
When I put in the key halfway here and I turn it,
it allows me to turn it.
I don't know how to explain this.
It allows me to turn it up to that wedge right there.
So it like turns and then it stops, and I don't know.
I don't know how to explain
what I'm visually experiencing sometimes.
Oh, that's in deeper now, here we go.
Just kinda getting stuck there now.
It's just like so flimsy.
It falls into this hole and then it just kinda
like wiggles around there, rather than a normal key,
which would get stuck.
I'm trying to see if I can see all the way down.
See I can see two of these holes
that I can make it through, one and two.
Now I'm on the last level here,
but I don't know what to do from there.
This, by the way, looks like it somehow pops open.
Oh, that's something I felt.
I felt something move there on the inside.
Hold on.
There.
Try to put some pressure on it here.
It's not, see it's just kind of spinning
and then all of a sudden, it stops like that.
Oh.
Hey, there we go.
Oh, look at that.
It's got a little key on the inside, wow.
Strange solution to a puzzle,
that the solution was actually
just putting the key in and turning it.
I don't see how I, there was no skill involved there.
I feel like I just wiggled it around until it opened up.
Let's put it back, let's put this back in
and see if it's just as easy to close up.
And yeah, now she's locked.
Yep, okay.
Well that was pretty simple.
Not gonna lie, pretty easy.
Let's see if we can do it again.
See now I'm on the bottom layer.
I'm just gonna keep going around, applying pressure,
until I eventually find that groove
that it needs to fall into.
Now it's not doing it anymore, obviously, is it?
Yeah, this is a strange puzzle indeed.
I haven't quite figured out how it works
because you can't actually see anything.
And the fact that I opened it confused me even more.
So it seems to be like a three tier system.
There's one hole here, there's an identical one here.
And those two both swivel independently
so you are, you have to get those two lined up
and then seamlessly get the key through both
before that one wiggles away.
And then on the bottom, that's where I'm not sure.
So there's something happening on the bottom layer.
It's so weird that it gets stuck here sometimes.
I think I just like happened to fall on the solution.
It's bugging me now because I don't know how I did it.
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Maybe it was an orientation thing
and I just happened to do it.
I have no idea what's happening.
I really want to figure out how this works, though.
I don't want to give up just yet.
I gotta admit it's not as fun solving a puzzle
not knowing how you solved it.
You know, sometimes these things might take hours
and then you might randomly stumble upon how you,
or stumble upon opening it.
In that case, I'd probably just drop it and move on.
But see, this one's only like five minutes in
and I'm like well it can't be that hard to figure out.
And it's giving me a little bit of a hard time.
Like there's resistance sometimes.
I don't if that's that miniature key
that I put back in there, or what.
Like right here, like I'm stuck and I can't.
I don't know.
I have no idea.
I'm not sure what I did to open it.
I'm kind of slightly disappointed that I can't do it again.
I don't know what I did differently
other than shove the key in there
and start twisting it around.
This is a strange one, very strange, indeed.
I don't know what to do from here.
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So at this point, I'm just doing the same thing
over and over again, but this is exactly
what I did the first time to open it, and it just opened.
So I don't know, I just kinda did what you're supposed to do
when given a key and a lock.
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I'm playing with it a bit more
and so there's like a bar here.
It's really hard to see here.
Right there on this side here on the inside.
And that bar, if I turn the key,
here, a little balancing act for you.
That bar, see how it goes away and it comes back?
It's gone and now it returns.
So that mechanism is the final mechanism.
Now I'm seeing this for the first time.
So at least I have some visual representation
of what the heck's going on.
So if I can find a way to move that bar out of the way...
I should've studied the lock more once it was open.
(groans)
All right, so I've been sitting here for like 40 minutes
trying to reopen this,
even though I opened it in five minutes.
It's really bugging me.
I even took apart this, which is just a bolt
that holds this together.
It doesn't really do anything.
I went back and looked at the footage
and it doesn't seem like I inserted the key all the way.
I would turn it like this and it would get
to a stopping point, and I had constant pressure
on this here, by the way.
And it would get to a point where it would stop,
it would get stuck somewhere.
That's all I was doing, I was just doing this.
So right here, there's some friction.
Boom, got it.
How, though?
Let me look at the inside here.
So how do I get it to turn?
It's like a big plate.
So this last section seems to be this giant plate,
like this big, that kind of like turns on the inside.
I have no idea how I've managed
to open that last compartment, because the key
obviously doesn't make it through.
As you can see here, there's like, it stops here.
The key doesn't make it all the way through here.
So the key just latches onto something
that allows the internal pipe
or whatever that last piece is to turn.
Let's get that back in the purse.
Okay, there you go.
I've opened it, I've closed it, I've opened it again.
And that's where we're at.
A little bit disappointed, not gonna lie,
just because I feel like this is exactly
what a padlock is is that you put
the key in and you turn it.
I'm sure there is like a really clever mechanism
that I just haven't figured out yet.
And I would really love to appreciate it.
So if Sashko, you are watching this video,
maybe I'll hit you up in an email
and you can send me the proper solution
so I can appreciate this puzzle to its fullest,
because I've now opened it twice
and have no idea how I did it.
All right, so okay.
I know that I was done with the video,
but I just, I keep playing around with this thing.
And now I can get it to the point
where I can actually open it, shut it down.
She's now locked.
And I can open it again.
But I still have no idea what the heck I'm doing.
I'm gonna twist it around 'til I get to the second layer.
Look, even there.
What the heck?
Maybe I overcomplicated myself with this puzzle,
but it feels like, and again, and I'm not sure
if I broke it or if I solved it.
But now definitely it is unlocked, and now it is locked.
That is definitely locked.
And I'm just going to simply again
insert the key just a little bit.
This puzzle's so frustrating.
This is the ninth time I'm doing the outro to this puzzle.
So I'm done.
Hot, I don't even know if this merits a hot dang.
I'm kinda disappointed.
Disappointed in you, Sashko, Slashko.
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Smashko.
Not really, I'm just disappointed in the fact
that I can't figure out the way this puzzle works.
I just don't understand how I'm opening it
and I feel like I've opened it differently multiple times.
I don't know.
I'll leave the link below where you guys
can check out Sashko's work.
Both of his lock puzzles are for sale on Etsy,
so if you want to try 'em out for yourself, go ahead.
Guys thanks for watching.
We'll see you on the next one, peace out.
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