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(whoosh)
(click, click)
- Yo, what's up and welcome back.
Before we get into today's video,
I wanna try a little experiment.
I've been running this experiment on the boys in the office.
I'm gonna show you some cards
and I want you to just to think of one.
You can actually comment it below
and we'll see if we got it right.
So I'll show them to you for a brief second.
You see one, you think of one,
ready, go.
Got it?
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I'm thinking this is your card.
Lee what card did you think of?
- [Lee] Five of Spades.
- That's not even there.
If, if I hit this, you got to hit the like.
And if I don't, let me know by hitting the like button.
Ready,
six hearts, baby.
I'm pretty sure that didn't work for all of you,
but I know it worked for the majority of you.
It's this old magic principle that when you're given an odd
number of cards, like let's say, even here,
you're always going to,
you're always going to go for either,
you're either going to go for the Eight of Spades,
or you're going to go for the Jack of Hearts.
You're never going to go for the middle one.
You're never going to go for like the first or last,
because you think that that's what the magician
wants you to do. So it's always somewhere in between there.
I'm curious to know how many of you actually thought of the
Six of Hearts? Let me know the comments.
(boom)
All right, today, we're looking at this.
This is a cool puzzle box by Osamu Kasho.
One of my favorite creators at the Karakuri Creation Group.
He's also, he made a lot of really beautiful puzzles.
Um, the most recent one that I've reviewed of his is
the Go Box, if you haven't checked that out.
Incredibly well crafted box, very clever as well.
All of his solutions are very outside the box.
No pun intended.
This solution just so happens to be outside the box.
I'm on a roll. Okay?
So without any further ado like this video subscribe and
let's get into solving the skyscraper puzzle.
(boom)
(box hitting desk)
Here we are.
Look at this beautiful little, beautiful little box.
It's like a skyscraper puzzle
made by Karakuri.
I'm guessing this isn't gonna be that hard,
but I just love solving these puzzles and I love
sharing them with you. So, let's get into timer mode.
Beep beep.
And we got a, is that heli-, I always was always confused
is that a helipad, or a hospital? DH, what do you think?
All right. So I mean my immediate guess
is to follow the shadows because
these things move up and down.
(click, click)
And so I'm guessing that this button will release
a mechanism once I figure this out. So this one very tall,
(click)
oh, and it kind of clicks into place. Look. Right there.
(clicking sound)
Right here, listen.
- (coughing)
- Sorry.
(coughing)
Hey Lee, you wanna keep it down?
So, this one clicks or right about there.
(click)
We're going to try to, try to find the other heights here.
So, this one looks to be taller than this one.
So, we're thinking that one goes all the way up probably.
And this one, see that one goes higher,
but we don't want it to go higher. We want it to be about,
let's say about there. It's hard to, wait,
what if I actually use the shadows? Ahh, big brain.
Let's try that. Oh, here we go.
Oh my God. Can you guys see that?
I think you can barely see it, but
if I can match up that first one
and then the second, oh, this would be so cool.
So you wanna make sure that first one matches up.
It's really hard to do here. Hold on.
Let me, uh, hey Lee, wanna do me a favor?
- Yeah?
Can you turn down that main light?
I'm going to try to use this, uh,
this iPhone as a light source here.
Yeah, that's good right there.
Okay.
So we are there.
(light music plays)
Boom.
(light music plays)
A little bit high.
(light music plays)
Looks about right. This one's going to go up to the max.
And this one needs to go down.
Okay, my shadow is perfect right now, I feel.
(light music plays)
Not working.
Hmm.
Maybe I'm off a little bit.
Let's try again.
Right about here.
(light music plays)
That looks about right.
(clicking)
Still no.
Oh, there's a little door here on the side, too.
Huh.
I feel like that's right though.
Boom.
(light music plays)
Oh!
There we go.
(drawer sliding out)
Wow!
That is
(beep)
pretty insane.
You want to turn that light up again, Lee?
So, that is pretty cool!
The fact that you have to follow the shadows,
I probably wouldn't have been able to do that
without the shadows, because it's so ambiguous.
Like, I mean the, the scale, you know, it's like,
this looks nothing like that. If you really look at it.
Wow!
And so, I don't really exactly know how the mechanism works,
but I guess I'm guessing there's uh,
there's like a rod that this has to be pushed through
in order for this to open.
Because if I were to just move this one,
let's say down a little bit.
It is now locked.
And if I move it up
right there,
(drawer sliding)
probably one of the most unique solutions to a puzzle box
that I've seen in a long time.
The fact that I have to use the shadows,
I don't think I would,
I don't think I'd be able to do it without the shadows.
That's kinda crazy. That is actually crazy!
Alright. Well, there you go!
That is the skyscraper puzzle.
(boom sound effect)
Well hot dang!
(pow pow pow)
A curious little thing that I figured out once,
I didn't actually need the shadows
and I'll show you why. Maybe I can,
you can, you can get that.
So we want this first one to click.
You're going to hear uh (click)
right there. That click.
That's where it's supposed to be.
So watch, watch as we line up the shadow to it.
You see that? This is so cool!
I'm gonna try to do this with like a steady hand here.
Plus I'm looking in the monitor.
A little bit higher right there.
We're going to go for the next one here.
So we're about there maybe,
maybe a tad bit higher on that one.
So once all the shadows are aligned, so right about there,
like how cool is that in terms of engineering this puzzle
to fit perfectly.
And then once everything's lined up
then, and only then,
does the button push, and this opens!
It is locked,
so there's no way of seeing that inner mechanism,
although I'm quite curious onto what that looks like,
but I love this for the fact that it is so precise that you
could not probably get this by accident.
So it does require
an outside the box thinking. (slamming box down)
The callback is real!
That about wraps it up for today.
Hope you guys enjoyed this video.
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We got a lot of really exciting puzzles coming up.
Every Wednesday we post puzzles, by the way.
If you aren't aware sometimes on Friday.
This Friday, however,
some friends and I did a virtual escape room through zoom
with augmented reality, and it was a whole thing.
It's freaking crazy.
We filmed the whole thing. So, you know,
let me know if you want to see that.
I'll probably upload it on Friday for your convenience guys.
Thanks so much for watching. We'll see you on the next one.
Peace!
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