Hi everyone, a new puzzle to show you - Da dah!
A wooden barrel puzzle,
in the shape of a barrel. I bought it on the Internet
and it comes like this, shrinkwrapped or
wrapped in some sort of plastic film.
So, let's open it up.
OK, so take off the film to reveal quite a
nice wooden object. There's one join
there and another one on the other side.
Some joins there, and quite a sturdy sort
of solid barrel. How do we take it apart?
I'm assuming you push something.
It doesn't seem to move at all, that's weird.
This one has got a little bit of play in it.
How do you take this thing apart?
First of all, there's a kind of top piece,
here, which comes up. If you can just see
there's a slight crack there, and on the
other side. This should come up
like that, quite hard work but I think it
does come up. Comes out like that.
The top part comes off,
and you're left with, we’ll call this the umbrella.
Shaped like that, so that comes up first.
Then, you can push in the side bit, moves like
that and you can push these bits, comes
out the other side.
So push the whole thing through.
You can get the side bits up, like that they come out.
This is a bridge, full bridge,
because that bar goes right the way across.
And the other side comes out,
another full bridge.
By the way, I call these bridges because it looks a bit
like a bridge. Now with the top off and
the bridges out, the barrel should just
come apart fairly easily now. You can push
in there, and that bit comes out, so you pull
it across and then that comes out.
Ah! Fat-ended telephone.
Telephone, old-style telephone, and that’s the fat end.
Umm,
similar to a bridge.
But I think we'll call this steep bridge, because that
side there is quite steep, so call that a
steep bridge.
Now this bit comes up, seems to come apart. There we are. Wow!
Eyebrows? Eyebrows! And another one. Oh the
whole barrel has come apart like that. Wow!
another eyebrows.
This is very similar construction to the
wooden ball if you've seen my video on
the wooden ball. Normal telephone normal telephone and I caught these TIE
fighters with the wooden ball they're like Thai fighters so that's what you
get in the wooden barrel to Thai fighters to telephones an umbrella to
bridges and a steep bridge that ended telephone and two eyebrows by the way
the umbrella is made out of two parts
steep bridge and this part will call wrench and you want to put it together
like that so that the umbrella bits sticking up you don't want it like that
where it's flush the umbrella has to be made like that
so let's keep fix the umbrella first and keep that to one side. Okay so let's put
it together. First you take the two, now we take two TIE fighters and the two
normal telephones and put the telephones
in the grooves there. Right, and then you
hold them together like that. Then when
you've got the barrel held like that,
top and bottom, take the two eyebrows and
one eyebrow goes in the bottom of the
Barrel, in this alignment. So you push it
in up to the middle. And the other
eyebrow goes in the same alignment in
the top of the barrel, like that. Push the
eyebrows in so that they meet in the
middle, like that. There so you've got the
eyebrows meeting in the middle. Now if
you look like that you can see there's a
thin bar, you want that thin bar on the
right, so you don't want to hold it like
that on the left, you want this thin bar
in the middle to be on the right. So
you've got the barrel like that. Okay and
so with the thin bar on the right push
and pull out the middle pieces like that.
So you've got room to put in a bridge,
normal bridge, goes in there.
Put it in position. So you've got a normal
bridge in and then take the fat-ended
Telephone, and with the fat end at the
bottom and the telephones facing inwards
you also put the telephone in the middle
like that.
Okay so we're nearly there, next you take
the steep bridge and with the thin bar
on the right, you put that in the top as
well, like that. And you push the parts
through so that you can slot in the
other bridge which goes in this side.
Pull it through into the correct
position and that leaves you with that.
So it’s just the umbrella, and that should fit in
Position. There we are, and you've got the
barrel again, the lovely barrel. Give it a
spin.
I hope you enjoyed it. See ya later!
Also, I thought this was interesting this is
so intricately put together wouldn't it
be good to have like a life-size model
of this barrel, but say it had a little
sort of hollow in the top so you could
actually get in it, a person could get in it
I think that would float, and so you
would carry your barrel to the coast, sit
in the top of it and float around. You
wouldn’t be able to steer it I suppose, and
then you pack it up when you're finished,
you pack it up put it in the car and
drive home. This could be a new,
revolutionary form of marine transport.
So that was my idea for this.