- What's up guys?
Today I am going to attempt
to solve the world's hardest burr puzzle.
Burr puzzles are puzzles that have sort of blocks
that you move around in sort of a jigsaw.
Pieces that you gotta move around
and disassemble and then reassemble.
Before I get into this puzzle however,
I do wanna take a second to thank you guys for
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Now, back to the puzzle.
This Excalibur puzzle terrifies the crap outta me,
not gonna lie.
This is more than a level 10 puzzle.
This burr puzzle has 119 individual moves
in order to extract Excalibur from the cube.
So, enough talking, let's get into solving,
this Excalibur burr puzzle.
Excaliburr puzzle, I see what they did there.
Clever, let's go.
This is actually the third
official camera attempt to solve this puzzle.
I've tried twice before,
probably had the camera on for a good
hour and a half, two hours,
only to have this puzzle go right back to
where it started.
And I know that sounds crazy,
but it's kinda like one of those things.
You get so far, and then all of a sudden I'm like,
what's happening?
Wait, no, no, no.
Bam, I'm back to the very beginning.
Very frustrating.
I told myself today instead of just shooting,
normally I like to upload me solving the puzzles,
I don't know if that's gonna happen today,
as it didn't happen the two times before.
But I promised myself no matter what happens
I'm gonna upload this video.
So, this is my third attempt
at solving the Excalibur burr puzzle.
The hardest burr puzzle in existence.
Obie's playing with a piece of wood over there,
so if you hear clunking and clinking,
that might be him.
Obie, can you solve this burr puzzle for me, please?
Can you solve this for me?
Alright, let me stand it up for you.
Here ya go, can you solve it?
No, no, here, you gotta push on the thing.
You gotta push on the thing.
Did you push on it?
Push on this here, this one.
There ya go.
OK, you got one.
Good.
No, don't chew it.
Obie, don't chew it.
It was really expensive.
Alright, well, you know what Obie,
I think you've probably gotten farther
than I've ever gotten.
Say bye.
Let me give you guys a different angle for this,
because you're not gonna see much
of what's going on.
Let's get started.
Important to note that some of these pieces just move.
The objective here is to remove, obviously, Excalibur.
All of the pieces are sorta zig-zag shaped in there,
and they all come apart once one comes apart.
So, one move at a time.
I'm just gonna do one move at a time.
OK, so we got these two.
There's one here, which moves two of them.
I just wanna move the one.
(easy listening music)
I've gotten it as well, to the point where,
this piece drops down a little bit,
through here.
Not really sure how that helps me,
as I'm supposed to remove it,
not drop it through.
But then again, maybe I have to drop it through,
in order to move some sequences,
and bring it right back up?
I have no idea.
I also don't know if there's a twist here,
some of these burr puzzles require you to twist a piece.
I really hope it doesn't,
because that would make this a legitimate nightmare,
more so than it already is.
OK, so, I've moved this piece here,
out and over.
Now, so what I've actually done,
is I've taken one of these pieces,
and actually brought it to the outside,
which creates, obviously, some room in there.
If I can do that with a few pieces,
hopefully I can move enough of them out of the way.
There isn't enough space to look through,
and there isn't enough.
So it's kind of all tactile,
and kind of, silly enough to say,
but kind of all luck based.
Very little skill is involved with such a puzzle.
I think once you've done it enough,
you create some muscle memory,
and can go back and do it again,
but I really think there's no method to this mayhem
at the beginning.
Maybe eventually there is,
but not currently.
So now what's interesting is,
I've actually created space.
So as you remember,
there was like four pieces here in the beginning,
I've created enough room for this little piece
to slide in here,
which makes me think I'm going in the right direction.
OK, so that just happened.
Do you remember I've mentioned that
I've dropped it through,
and that's exactly what just happened now.
Excalibur has just dropped through,
which means I've loosened everything enough
on the bottom end for it to drop through,
but obviously not loose enough on the top end.
Because it's still getting stuck.
I don't know whether to leave it there,
and keep trying, and then eventually bring it back up.
Or, do I have to move a few pieces,
and then bring it back up,
move a few more, and then pop it through?
So this is the really difficult part that I get stuck on.
Let me try to work through this, this time.
I gotta be careful not to tilt this too much,
because then random pieces start falling,
and I have no idea what's happening.
Let's have a look at where we're at.
Alright, so.
You can see there's some gaps there,
and it looks like just a big cluster of blocks
at this point.
Let's try to keep it down,
and work our way through it.
(easy listening music)
I've tried giving it some shakes too in the past,
just kinda like...
Hoping something's gonna click into place.
But it hasn't really gotten anywhere,
to be frank.
The more I open it,
the more I can see the actual individual pieces.
Which does help me out a little bit,
but not enough for me to solve it.
This piece is really out there.
It's hard to remember exactly where you were
with these puzzles,
pushing pieces back and forth, and back and forth.
(puzzle rattling)
The hilt keeps dropping through,
but for no apparent reason.
It would be great it if just,
if it just went up.
I've also tried,
I've tried solving this upside down.
Hopefully the sword just pops out,
kinda like it did on the bottom,
just from moving it around.
And, we're back to the beginning.
We're literally, I'm literally,
one move away from the beginning.
And that's exactly what happens every single time.
So maybe the mistake was, going upside down.
Because obviously, when I was this way,
all the pieces started falling downward.
Because going, obviously flipping it upside down,
everything came right back to the way it started.
If this is 119 moves,
how far could I have possibly gone?
Maybe 20, 30, 40?
Do you understand what I'm saying?
This is ridiculous.
I'm gonna try to get back to exactly where I was.
(easy listening music)
And now we're back to this position.
I think that this, is necessary some how.
I don't know how it's necessary,
but I think it is.
So, how do I capitalize on this situation right now?
I'm worried that I need to shift a couple of pieces,
then move this back up,
in order to keep shifting them around.
I just can't see inside well enough
to determine if that's something I have to do.
So, this is where I always get stuck.
Do I also,
so I have to start thinking in half moves?
(puzzle clacking)
(easy listening music)
I also believe that there is only one
solution to this puzzle,
which is also pretty terrifying.
Where is it stuck?
Everywhere.
Just everywhere in general.
(puzzle clacking)
I've been on this last,
this same sequence for,
probably about an hour.
All I can think to do at this point,
is if I leave it through,
I can't seem to move anything around.
It makes me believe that
this has to stay here.
But then same thing here.
I can't make anything happen,
unless I start shifting the blocks upward.
Which I think is good, but,
ultimately, I think that if I keep doing that,
what's gonna end up happening is,
I'm gonna go right back to the beginning.
And that's exactly where I am.
I just literally went right back to the beginning.
This is,
I feel like crying right now.
I'm about to take a little hammer,
and just like,
and remove Excalibur by breaking the stone.
I don't think anyone's ever tried that.
Everyone's tried to remove Excalibur,
no one's like,
well let's just grab a pick ax and bust the stone.
But no, that's where I'm at.
I'm back, I'm back to the beginning.
It's really frustrating for me
to literally take two hours out of my day,
for the third consecutive time,
to not only,
like I wouldn't even mind If I had gotten to a point
where I was stuck,
and then I came back to it,
and like figured it out.
But the problem with this puzzle,
and I don't know why,
if this is the only one that sort of does this but,
no matter what I seem to do,
I always end up coming back to square one.
Literally, square one.
What should I do?
What do I do, at this point?
Let's, you know what,
let's solve a super easy puzzle.
I'll be right back.
I have not attempted to solve this yet,
but it was a gift from a friend.
A solvable puzzle.
Excalibur, you're gonna,
you're gonna sit on the bench for a while.
I'll get back to you, I promise.
Basically, the whole point is to unlock this wooden lock.
Let's see how fast it takes me.
This should probably be super easy,
doesn't look too hard.
So, I'll set up a timer actually.
Let's go.
Looks pretty simple.
Probably use this key.
Um, let's do this.
(puzzle clacking)
That one has to move the other way
for that to get out.
So.
(puzzle clacking)
Oh, that's interesting.
Here we go, a minute and a half.
Well, that felt good.
My esteem is repaired for now.
Well, there you have it.
Not gonna lie, folks, pretty bummed.
I'm telling you, in puzzle solving,
there is nothing worse
that wasting two hours, now six,
to not only not solve it,
it wouldn't even bug me if I didn't solve it
after like six hours,
what bugs me is that I have zero progress.
Absolutely zero progress on this puzzle,
frustrates me to no end,
but definitely gonna give it another try.
Next time I will not upload the next video
unless I do solve it,
because I think that'll just be redundant.
This little lock puzzle is a lot of fun
for beginner puzzlers.
So, these little things,
these little sort of maze puzzles,
that you move stuff around are a lot of fun.
Anyways guys, like I said,
I hope I didn't waste your time.
I hope you did enjoy this content,
and I hope you do try to win these prizes
as they're pretty cool,
and they are pretty easy to win.
So follow the link to gleam below,
it should take you to the web site
where you can fill it out
and maximize your chances of winning.
Winners again will be announced next week.
Good luck to all of you,
and we'll see you on the next video.
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