Hi guys, guess what? A new puzzle to show you. A wooden ball, it says in Japanese here ’chienowa',
which means like a wisdom ring. Wood puzzle, wood ball, and that's how it came, when I bought it. So let's open it up.
OK, so the package comes off. The outer package comes off to reveal the wooden
ball wrapped in a thin plastic film. Let's take that off. Okay and now I can
open this film, take off this film and we'll have a look at the puzzle. There we go.
Wow looking good. I think again this is made of pine, a light-colored wood, very
pretty. A perfect sphere, perfect ball with what appears to be a band round the
middle and a sort of join there but it doesn't go right the way round.
Interesting again. I wonder how that comes apart and I wonder how you put it
back together. So first of all let's try taking it
apart. You can shake it it doesn't seem very loose nothing really moves. You can
try pushing the joints they don't seem to move. Hmm, this is a puzzle indeed. How
does it come apart?
Okay so to take it apart you want to look for the secret little square piece,
the little door, it's there it's in the middle along the equator I suppose. And
if you push it the whole, another piece comes out the other side so that it
comes apart like that. And then you, there we are, that comes out sort of a crossbow
shape isn't it or an umbrella shape, comes out. That's all one piece.
Oh no that comes apart even more I think into two pieces. Let's put them there.
Then, what comes off next? This is moving now, fairly freely. Feeling fairly
loose now. Next you push in that part
next you push in the next along the equator another little square piece that
you'll find push that through and it comes out that shape some more pieces
push in and come out like that this comes off another one of those what's
next what's next to come off this comes out shape like that this is complicated
in that that comes off another tall bridge shape shall we say we've got
three of these bridge shapes or
and one of those in one of those now it's not much left of the ball this
comes off a very complicated shape
eyebrows and a nose and then comes apart even more another one of those eyebrow
parts another one of these shapes can we call that telephone telephone like an
old telephone then we're left with this that doesn't break apart
that's bar is glued on so that that's all that you get for that and the same
with this one we've got another telephone and another one of these so
one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve pieces for
bridges two eyebrows three telephones one of these what can we call that I
don't know a wrench one wrench and two
x-wing fighters aren't they on Star Wars look a bit like that that's how you can
take it apart now the puzzle is to put it back of course if you don't want to
know the answer look away now
okay so we're going to put this wooden ball back by the way I was checked it
this is not of course an x-wing fighter because that's like that this is a looks
a bit like a TIE fighter more specifically I think Darth Vader's TIE
fighter the wings were like that rather than straight so we'll call these TIE
fighters okay so I just go through the pieces of the ball disassembled ball
again so what there are two tie fighters
two eyebrows a fat telephone and two normal telephones you want this piece
has got a flat end to it there the other two don't so there's
that's slightly different from those two a wrench to half bridges because the bar
only comes halfway up and two full bridges because the bar goes all the way
up so to make the ball first of all I suggest you take half bridge and the
wrench and you put it together like that
okay so that the half bridge is sticking up a bit you don't want it like that
where it's flat you want it like that so that it's sticking up a bit and let's
keep that to one side now you take a TIE fighter and normal
telephone and put it in there in the groove take the other TIE fighter the
other normal telephone put it in the groove and hold them together like that
then you take an eyebrow
and you want to put it in the middle like that so that it slots in place and
the other eyebrow the same orientation you put it in like that
and push it all the way in so that there they meet the eyebrows meet like that
next you take the remaining half bridge and put it in the slot in the middle so
that the bar of the bridge is up not down you want the bar of the bridge up
so that it lines up with the bar of the eyebrow that's already in the ball so
you do that now you push up the center of the ball you take the fat nd
telephone and you put the fat end first inside the middle of the ball and bring
it down in position it should slot over into the middle like that then you take
a full bridge slide it in push the center down take the remaining full
bridge and you hook it you want to hook it in the ball that's a little bit
fiddly but you want to bring it in down like that that leaves you with a slot
and guess what
the crossbow fits perfectly in there you want to have the bow the groove at the
bottom and push it in push it in and it should slot in place there you have made
the ball give it a little spin hope you enjoyed
it and see you later