- Yo, what's up, guys?
And welcome back!
Whoa!
Okay, I am a LEGO, apparently.
This is weird.
This is new to me.
Today I've got a special delivery.
Here, lemme hop over my desk, and grab this puzzle.
This is... a unique puzzle
Louis-Phillipe Bertrand is a 21 year old
architect and engineer.
One of my friends, the other day,
brought this LEGO puzzle by,
and said his coworker built this,
he loves my videos, and he watches my videos.
And he was wondering if I was willing to solve it.
And so I've decided, yeah, let's make a video out of it.
This is a one-of-a-kind, he says it's a level nine.
Though, the whole point of this
is to free the cube that's caught in the middle.
In this cube, apparently, is $100.
There are, give or take, 20 moves for this to happen.
I can shake it.
I can spin it.
Hopefully, I don't smash it in the process.
I left Louis-Phillipe's Instagram and website below,
if you guys wanna go show him some love.
I'm sure he'll like that.
Let's get into solving this LEGO puzzle.
(expressing alarm)
(metal clangs)
Won't be needing those.
So the whole point here is to get this out.
And we've got a whole bunch of moving parts.
One thing I did notice, is right here.
This moves, right there you see that wheel?
Right here?
That moves, which is kind of cool.
I mean, other than that,
Let's get going.
This thing does not seem to turn.
We've got a door here.
With a little hole.
Oh!
Oh, not sure if I was supposed to do that.
But it looks to me is that that might fit in here.
What does that, do?
Oh!
Oh.
Oh!
(laughs)
That's actually really clever.
Seems like we have a key, ladies and gentlemen.
Now where that key goes,
Oh!
Now this moves.
Why?
I don't know, but it moves now.
Huh?
Nope.
Okay, so there's another hole, here.
Oh, you know what?
What I might need to do is to lock that into place.
See how this wheel, here,
moves here but then springs right back
because there's an elastic?
(door slams)
Sorry about the noise, folks,
there's a bit of renovations going on upstairs.
They're building a restaurant,
so ignore the banging and the drilling.
This here moves but maybe if I put this here,
it keeps it in that configuration.
Sort of, almost, which might help me elsewhere.
Oh, I'm hoping I didn't break it.
(puzzle rattles from inside)
I feel like I broke it.
That used to fit in there.
Uh oh. Spaghetti-O.
(calm music plays)
I feel very bad about that wiggling piece inside.
I'm pretty sure that's not supposed to,
not supposed to- Oh!
Ah! (chuckles)
(alarm beeps)
I am so dumb.
Every time.
It's becoming a meme and I don't want it to.
What if I...
Spin it?
Wha- uh oh, did I break it?
Where does this go?
There we go.
Oh my god!
I did have to spin it!
Look at this.
Little pins.
Little pins that were made to be spun.
Wow! Wow!
My mind is being blown right now.
That is actually really cool.
This part was actually made to come off.
I did not break it, yay.
Okay, what do we have here?
(rattles)
We still got like a moving part in here,
which I don't like at all.
Alright, so this middle piece needs to come out,
and when I move this it becomes more wiggly,
but it doesn't want to come out entirely.
You can see it kind of moves that, jitters it around.
There's still the wiggly piece inside,
which I don't like the sound of.
I hope I didn't break his puzzle.
I can be a little rough sometimes.
Seems to be locked there, okay?
But why remove the top?
Is the- oh, okay so the top is removed
so like this can come out.
But I'm missing another step here.
And why is this?
Why do I have this?
This must go in somewhere.
This must go in.
Is there anyplace for this to go in?
Maybe upside down which would make no sense.
Oh, so that was just another,
that was just another thing holding this in place.
Okay, so one lock is gone.
This, however, still bugs me.
I don't know if I was supposed to pull that out.
But if I push it in, there's no little piece.
And now (rattles)
(deep exhale)
I hope I can solve it with that piece being, I think, yeah.
Okay, so wiggling it around I managed
to get this piece back in.
It seems like it's locked into position.
I'm not going to attempt to pull it out anymore.
(soft music playing)
Again, this little thing here, I'm betting,
that this has to stop it, right?
There's still something in there blocking it.
Why would he give me this little yellow thing,
so I can see inside?
I don't understand.
Oh, why won't this fit, anymore?
Okay, so this was locking the top.
This was locking the middle.
Something is locking the bottom.
That's all I can seem to figure out here.
This is still wiggling.
Man, I'm kinda stumped right now.
What about this?
Do one of these little LEGO pieces moves,
you know what I mean?
Maybe (LEGO rattles internally)
Oh, why is that?
What does this even do?
What does this do?
It's like dead stop, dead stop.
And it's like loose.
Hmm.
(music stops)
Oh!
Oh.
(soft music resumes)
It was- that's what it was!
So, oh my god, this is pretty interesting.
So this here was another locking mechanism on the bottom.
Which is really cool.
I think we solved it, by the way.
Yep.
I think this was a red herring.
And here, let's have a look at this mechanism here.
Yep, so you see how this opens up?
Look at that.
See that?
And then this side here
Oh, it wasn't red herring.
It locks it.
(rattles)
So if I go up
So right now that piece is locked.
This one here,
which basically holds through one of these holes, right?
So if this is unlocked I can push that,
the wheel here, allows me to turn this back.
This piece should then fit nice and snug within there,
and it'll lock up again.
That is really, cool, dude.
That is really cool.
Damn, it's crazy to me that someone came up with this.
Just like I'm gonna build something with LEGOs
that allows me to get into the box.
Now, do I have to open this box?
Oh, there seems to be something inside.
No, there is something inside.
But how do I get in there?
Wait, it's not over.
I feel like once you solve this, you can open it up.
And inside, there is a hundred dollars.
Do you guys see that?
A hundred bucks.
A little LEGO hundred bucks, yay
Huh.
This is definitely one of the most
interesting puzzles I have ever solved.
Yeah, I'm pretty taken aback right now.
This is great, man, it inspires me
to want to make a LEGO puzzle.
Woo!
So I'll actually put it back together for him.
I'm going to keep that that hundred bucks, though,
because I won the prize so.
This, first things first.
This moves back, which moves this.
The wheel gets pulled back.
This now enters it's little palace
That locks up, this locks up.
Going to go in here, this now goes back here.
And see how these two pins here,
they slide into those holes as well.
So this goes- oh maybe this side, yeah.
Like this...
not sliding in.
I'm not sure why this isn't closing.
Oh, okay, I see.
The box is backwards.
So this, oops, this opens up.
Oh, no, I'm breaking everything.
Okay, hold on a second.
(LEGO clicks)
Okay
Now I want to make sure that's correct
before I do anything else.
And it seems to be in correct right now
so we're gonna take this out and rotate it this way.
You gotta make sure you know which side this piece goes on,
otherwise the top part doesn't fit on
and that's what the problem was.
(LEGOs clicking)
(rattles)
Shake it around so it gets stuck
and put this back.
Boom
and boom
My goodness, the ingenuity here is insane.
Really well made, man, good job.
Well, alright, there you have it
that was the puzzle, hope enj- lemme take this off.
(grunts)
I don't know why I had that on the whole time.
I could have easily just taken it off.
Would have been a lot easier.
That's it for the puzzle.
So make sure you follow Louis-Phillipe.
I left his instagram below and his website.
Very, very ingenious kid.
He's only 21, came up with this.
Super impressed.
It's not everyday you get to solve a puzzle
that is a one-of-a-kind.
So I thought this was a really good opportunity
and hopefully, Louis-Phillipe, you enjoyed this video too.
Guys, if you did enjoy this video go ahead
and leave a like, subscribe video here,
and we'll see you on the next video.
Peace. (roars)
(upbeat music)