- I may have the world's strangest/weirdest,
maybe grossest puzzle box?
I mean unless you're into feet.
If you're a foot guy, this, ha
I've got you covered.
We're looking at a foot.
(eerie music)
This is a beautifully crafted puzzle,
Japanese puzzle box by Akio Kamei and Osamu Kasho.
This foot represents a unique Japanese story.
Japanese people walk around their house without shoes on
so they sometimes hit their pinky toe
against the corner of a piece of furniture in the room.
And then someone declared, I wanna change
the pain to laughter when I hit
my foot on the corner of furniture,
so the craftsmen decided to make it.
It's an interesting story.
You know, people bump their feet.
Instead of being like ah, ma foot!
They're gonna be like, haha, puzzle foot.
I don't know if that makes sense but hey here we are.
I ordered this straight from Japan.
I saw it on a website and I was like, I need to have this.
Doesn't look terribly difficult
because it only has a few little options going on.
It's beautifully made!
I know it looks kinda silly and maybe gross
but it's beautifully made.
This is a really, really nice piece of art.
Can't wait to solve it, get it done and put it on my shelf.
Definitely a very cool thing to have.
A little oddity if you will.
So without further ado, let's go ahead
and solve the foot puzzle.
Alright, this is a foot. (laughs)
I cut my finger by the way so don't mind the Band-Aid.
As I said I was intrigued by seeing this on the internet
and I had to have it. It's just one of those things.
It's kinda gross, kinda weird looking
but that's kinda why I wanted to try
and solve it so let's begin the timer.
When I took this out of the box, I noticed a few things.
First, I didn't toy around with it too much
but I noticed that the pinky, (laughs)
the pinky toe moves which relates
to that story about stubbing your pinky toe.
I also noticed that the toe nail here, (laughs)
by the way, if you're squeamish at all
at me pulling a toenail, you're not alone.
I, as well find it very bizarre.
And I noticed on the heel, there's also this little
compartment here and that's all I got to go on for now
so let's try to combo some of those two
and hopefully that helps.
Push down on the pinky,
pushing the heel, no push down on the pinky and oh.
Okay looks like the toenail comes off.
(laughs) God this is so weird.
(wood opens)
Oh!
And there you have it.
Very, very simple puzzle.
Wasn't too hard to figure out.
Super weird by the way.
Stop this.
So check out the inner mechanics on this.
That is pretty insane.
See if I can get a better shot for you guys actually.
Here you go, so check out the inner mechanics.
There's a spring loaded very simply done.
Just to make sure, push the pinky down.
No.
It just happened to randomly work?
Pushing the pinky down,
peeling this guy back,
or is it peeling this guy back first, yeah.
Popping the toenail, push the pinky and there you go.
That's really satisfying.
Let's try that again.
Pop the toenail,
push the pinky, boom.
Actually pretty cool. (laughs)
Paid a lot for this though so again I've been,
I've been had by a simple puzzle.
Regardless if they're easy or not,
I just enjoy the craftsmanship
'cause if you look at that it's very well done.
Puzzle solved.
Just make sure we did it correctly.
They do provide a little solution in a sealed envelope
so let's open this up.
(paper crinkling)
I mean, if you need the solution for this,
(chuckles) ouch, there it is.
So one up, push open, done.
Japanese people live in house with noshoes on.
Noshoes.
So they hit their toe against the shelf I the room.
I see.
Alright, there you have it.
I mean, that was pretty simple,
pretty straightforward as I predicted.
A lot of fun though and I do still love it.
I'm not disappointed at all with this one.
I just wanted it because of the weirdness
and the oddity factor, you know what I mean?
Maybe I'm just into feet? (chuckles) Okay.
That being said, we got time for another one
so what do you guys say?
I've had this little puzzle.
This is Cake Puzzle by Hanayama.
A little cast iron, a little cast cake puzzle
and it's like a little layer cake
and it is produced by Hanayama.
Again, Hanayama have some really good brain-teasing puzzles.
They're all little metal puzzles.
This one probably being no exception.
I didn't wanna make a full video about this
because it's just such a little puzzle
so I thought I'd include it here
as a bonus puzzle for today's video
so without further ado, let's solve the cake!
This is the Cake Puzzle.
All of these move sort of individually.
And I guess the whole point is to take out these disks.
(metal clicking)
Ah.
When I try to wedge this one here,
maybe like in intervals I'm thinking that might be,
let's bring this guy down.
So all the pieces kinda look the same.
And I can stagger them so I'm guessing staggering them
in the proper order is what's going to unlock this thing?
The problem is I have really fat fingers. (laughs)
And that's not gonna make it easy.
See this one seems to come apart a little bit
and maybe that's how they slide out.
(soft music)
This is actually giving me quite a hard time here.
It's just hard to stagger three.
Two is fine but the third one you end up shifting,
what happens is you end up shifting the other ones as well
which makes it quite tricky.
♪ It's tricky to shift these metals piece ♪
♪ Shift these metal piece ♪
♪ Shift these metal piece ♪ ♪ It's tricky ♪
Oh!
That was a fun little puzzle!
So hard to move them.
Especially with this Band-Aid on my finger.
Why did I do this today?
Oh, so there's, sorry.
I was getting caught up.
So there's this little part here of the other part
so I think these are all thirds so technically,
if I line up, let's say the bottom one, right?
And then here where the bottom one stops,
I line up the middle one?
If I can just get that there!
Right? Yes?
And the top one, which will obviously
be the hard one to turn here.
I gotta bring the top one to line up with the other third
and it's gonna be hard to do here.
Now we're moving it slowly but surely.
Come on!
There we go, we see the top part.
Bring it there.
That should be good.
Sorry for being out of focus, I'm staring at my hands
(laughing) I'm not looking at the monitor.
Does this open?
Okay maybe if I move that top layer over,
let's just do this so that we can
get a hold of the top layer here.
This is not easy guys, like dexterity level 100 right now.
Oh!
Oh, look at that!
Look what's happening!
The cake is falling apart!
Won't it just come out?
Look where we're at right now.
Oh, oh, oh!
Boom, boom, boom.
There cake!
Done-zo!
Ha, beat you!
That's cool.
So, if we're looking at the pieces,
yeah, they're absolutely identical so,
I guess the whole idea was to line this up
in such a way that a third of each
is kinda like this so that the top two pieces
create enough space that the middle one
sorta gets shoved out and then I guess it opens up.
So let's try putting it back which
I don't know if it'll be a little bit harder?
So this one, we'll put at the bottom, right?
I guess two of them are gonna fit in there very easily.
The third one, not so much.
Fun thing is we can set it up nicely here just like we did,
Come on!
Get your butt back in there, okay?
You go back in.
Is that middle one not lined up?
This is so frustrating.
(metal clicking)
Oh!
I feel like it's gonna get stuck
if I keep trying to push it in.
(loud click)
Oh! Aye!
Yay, puzzle solved!
That was cool!
Cake puzzle!
Little cake.
There ya go!
Puzzle number two, ha!
And there you have it.
The Cake Puzzle solved!
That was actually a lot more difficult
than the foot puzzle to be honest.
A lot of fun.
Very logical when you look at it and you look at the layers
you just kinda have to use your logic.
If you go about it randomly, I supposed that it would
probably take you a lot longer than it took me.
It took me about a total of 20 minutes?
Putting it back together was a little bit more of a pain
because there is a little bit of,
you gotta force it a little bit.
I'd expect myself, I think I'm gonna get like a bowl
to put all these little tiny cast puzzles in
and just leave them on the coffee table
and people just can go at it.
My friends don't like to visit me any more to be honest.
(laughing) I'm not gonna lie.
It's just like every time they come over I'm like,
here, try this one, try this one
and then for two hours no one's talking or just,
(muffled noises)
but still a lot of fun.
Guys, thank you for watching this video.
I hope you enjoyed it, I hope it, (tongue tied)
hoping it was somewhat entertaining for you guys.
That being said, I got my buddy West coming over.
West Barker ladies and gentlemen.
I just featured him in a few videos,
the escape room video if you haven't
checked that out, go watch it.
I'm gonna be teaching you guys a very
fooling card trick on the next video
so make sure to hit the notification bell for that.
We're also filming one of my favorite ideas ever
and I won't let you know what that is until it's up
so guys, thank you so much for watching.
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Peace!
(calm music)