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Today I'm going to be showing you the solution for the Hanayama Rotor puzzle,
which means I'm going to show you a solution or a route through from getting the
original Rotor puzzle position, to a completely separated into two pieces.
And then the reverse to get it back to that original starting Rotor position.
Now the Rotor puzzle is a level six out of six on the Hanayama
difficulty scale.
And it is a level 10 out of 10 on the Puzzle Master difficulty scale.
And if you haven't already got the Rotor puzzle for yourself, then you can
pick it up from our website
puzzlemaster.ca. And just before we get into this solution,
the chances are you won't be at the very stop position and you probably won't be
at a completely separate position either.
So the challenge for you or the extra challenge, as well as following the
solution is going to be to identify where you are on the puzzle and try and get
to a position that you see during the solution.
So if we're starting at point a and go into point B and there's a route through
the map and you're not on that route,
then you need to find where you are on the map and then find a way to get to
that route, if that makes sense. So this is extra hard for you,
for you to be able to solve this purely because you're not going to be or
the chances are that you're not going to be in one of those positions that
you're about to see. Just down to the sheer vast number of possible orientations
and positions that these two pieces can be in. So with diamond,
let's crack on with that solution. Okay,
so here is a Rotor puzzle in its starting position.
And how you know it's in the starting position is because of all... where all the
engravings are. So you have the,
the two sort of circles with lines through the middle are opposite each other.
And then you've also got the Rotor engravings opposite in this position
here.
And the silver piece should be sort of hanging in this position relative to the
gold puzzle from here.
So once you're in this starting position or when you're in this starting position,
what we're going to be doing to make it easier to follow along to is, the gold
piece is going to stay in this position the whole time
and we're just going to be moving the silver piece around the gold piece.
So we're going to be going clockwise moves,
anticlockwise moves, coming across the gold piece and a few of the different
moves that you'll see as we're going through it.
So as we are looking at a gold piece now this top right hand corner is the bit
with the circle and the straight line through it.
And then you've got the Rotor engraving in here.
So if you orientate yourself into this position,
the gold piece isn't going to be moving from here.
So what we're going to do to start with, is we're going to be moving the silver
piece in an anticlockwise way, where we come off this corner of the gold piece and we
come on in this corner over here.
That is move number one, done. We're
then going to do exactly the same thing going anticlockwise,
but this time it's the silver piece dropping back through the gold piece and
coming up in this gap in here. And when you're out doing these moves,
it's likely that something will get stuck or will not want to go through somewhere.
If it does, then just take it, pull it back for a second,
rearrange it, and then you should be able to get through from there.
I'll probably encounter that problem myself a few times,
so you'll see what I mean as we are going through it. Once we've done that...
So we've done two anticlockwise moves.
We're then going to use this gap on the silver piece to cross over this groove
in the gold piece in here.
So we now end up in this position here.
What we're then gonna do is we're going to go anticlockwise again,
so we're going to drop through with the silver piece in here and then come back up
into this position here. Okay.
The next move is the special move. So here you may have noticed already,
but of these three accesses on each, well on the gold piece and the silver piece
there is one that is slightly thinner than the other two and what that allows us
to do, is we can get to this position here, where this gap can go across the top
gold access and also this gap in the gold piece can go across this silver access
in here. Now we started this or before we did this move,
we started in this position here and all the way are going to do is cross over
the top gold access into this position here.
What we're not doing is crossing the silver access and coming up.
It's just crossing the gold access and sitting into this position here.
Once we're here, we're then going clockwise around the gold piece.
So we slide over
the "Rotor" engraving there and we come back on into this position here. And
we're then going to go again. We go down with the silver piece,
and we're going clockwise around into this position.
And then we're going to cross over this groove of the gold piece, with the silver
gap in here. This one, sometimes needs a slight bit of force,
but if you get it right like that, it should just slide across nice and easily.
And then we're going to go anti-clockwise. So up in this position,
we're going to come off the gold piece up here
and we're gonna come back down here.
Now we get a little bit more complicated because at the... so far,
the silver piece has sort of been mostly below the gold piece,
but now it's going to come up above it.
So we're going to use the gap that's down here in the silver piece.
We're going to slide up across that gap and into here.
So the silver piece is now sitting in this position here.
But the good news is we've just got three anticlockwise or sorry,
clockwise moves to do. And then we've separated the puzzle.
So we're going to come off this corner and onto this corner over here,
and we're then going to go through the silver.... or
the silver piece is going to come through the gold piece.
So we lift up from here and the "Rotor" engraving on the silver piece is
going to go down into this position.
So it is just in a simple and clockwise move, but because the silver piece is on
top, it makes it look a little bit more complicated. The final move,
so we're in this position, we're going to slide off that top corner.
We're gonna come back onto this bottom corner down here,
and this is the position of which these are now all lined up.
The groove's in the gap on the opposite pieces.
The grooves in the middle of the accesses are now all lined up and we can come
to this position separate from there. And from here you can slide over the top,
you can slide over the bottom piece or you can just slide out the middle two
gaps.
And that is how you separate the Rotor puzzle pieces.
And to put these back together.
It is a case of just reversing all the moves that we have just done.
That is much easier said than done.
We're gonna keep it exactly the same.
The gold piece is going to stay in this position.
So you've got the "Rotor" engraving here.
You've got the circle with the line straight through the middle in this position
here,
and we're just going to be moving the silver piece around the gold piece to get
it back to that original position. So it's easier for you to follow along to.
Now there's only one way that you can put these back together properly.
But if you are struggling, then we,
I've got the Hanayama engraving here,
the groove in this silver piece here, and this gap is the one with the cut outs.
So from here we're going to slide those and...
we're turning it into this position before we then connect into here and we can then
cross over those pieces into this position here.
And the, the first proper moves that we do, our three anti clockwise twists.
So coming off this corner and onto this corner up here and we're then going to
pick up the silver piece through the gold piece. So the silver "Rotor" engraving
is coming up and then we're coming down through this corner over here, when we were
in the right position.
And then we do one more anti-rotation twist in here,
so we come off that corner and onto this corner.
So we end up in this position here.
From here it's going to get a little bit easier to orientate yourself because
the silver piece is going to be mostly below the gold piece because we're using
this groove in here to go through this gap in the gold piece.
So we've dropped down into this position here.
Next we're going clockwise with the silver piece, so we're coming off this corner and onto
this corner.
And then we're going to sort of continue that movement by crossing the gap in
the silver piece, which is the the gap with the cut outs and we're going over that
gold groove in here. Again, this can be a little bit tight,
but if you get into... get it in the right position,
it should just glide across nice and simply.
Next we are going to come anti-clockwise with the silver piece for two moves.
So we end up
here first and then we come in over that corner and over the gold "Rotor"
engraving with that piece there. And this is the position
where we did that special move, where we cross the gold access with this silver
gap. But again, it is possible to cross the silver...
the gold gap here over the silver access there. But we don't want to do that.
We just want to cross. So we're going from this position here,
to this position here.
So I'll give you a second just to do that move and make sure you've got the
orientation right. So we end up in this position. Next,
what we're gonna do, is we're going to go anti-clockwise...Oh, sorry,
clockwise, around the gold piece into this position here.
And we're nearly done.
What we need to do next is cross the gap in the silver piece over
this gold groove in here. And again,
when it's in the right position it should just glide over nice and easily.
Now we've just got two clockwise turns of the silver piece to go and we're back
in that original Rotor position.
So the first one, we've dropped down through this gap over here,
and we come over this gap in here.
And then the final turn, we come over this corner here and onto this corner here and we are
back in that original Rotor puzzle position.
The silver engraving is here. The gold engraving is here.
The circles with lines through are facing each other and the silver piece
sits in the gold piece just like that.
So there it is.
That is how you disassemble and then reassemble the Rotor puzzle.
The hardest part for you is going to be, like I said at the start,
identifying where you are on the Rotor puzzle and then trying to get onto the route
where we either separate or put it back together,
which is also a task in itself.
Keeping track of where each piece is and where it's going and doing that move...
those moves there, can be quite awkward and does seem to want to go where you want
to go them all the time. This is a very,
very difficult puzzle to solve.
Hopefully, this has helped you solve the Rotor puzzle for yourself.
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