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- We do things a little differently today,
October 11th, 2017,
the day I uploaded my first puzzle solve on YouTube,
I was nervous about a lot of things,
like I was worried about A, would I be able to do it?
And B would anyone but me really care?
Well, almost three years later,
I can say with a certain amount of confidence that you did
care, these puzzles have literally changed my life.
They've allowed me to explore my personal creativity
and create my own voice through this videos.
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Some of them have surprised me, inspired me,
some of them have challenged me
and some of them have almost broken me.
I still today get just as excited when I see a new puzzle
as I did, when it all started,
that's something that's never gone away for me,
whether it's a, one of a kind,
super expensive custom puzzle, or just a simple design,
the feeling is still just the same,
and what's cool is that some of you even were
inspired to create your own puzzles
and then send them to me,
which also blew my mind, I figured, after three years,
maybe it's time that I create my own.
Hanayama puzzles have been some of my favorite
over the years, partially due to their simplicity,
their cleverness of their solutions,
their precision in manufacturing
and their costs and availability
they've become the largest and most renowned
supplier of original puzzles in the world
founded in 1933 in Tokyo, Japan,
their focus has always been to make great puzzles affordable
so that everyone can experience the joy of puzzle solving.
So I knew that if I ever made a puzzle,
I would want my first one to be in collaboration with them.
So about six months ago, we reached out to them
with a proposition for a custom puzzle,
and after a few meetings and a lot of back and forth emails,
they finally agreed to collaborate this is the,
I can't believe I'm saying this
this is the Chris Ramsay Hanayama puzzle.
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We worked with renowned puzzle designer
and Engineer Kyo Wong, to make this puzzle,
that would be both fun for anyone getting into puzzles,
but still challenging enough for experienced puzzlers
and after trials and testing prototypes,
we managed to create something that I'm extremely proud of
and something that represents me and the hard work that
we've consistently brought to this platform.
So on a difficulty rating of one to 10,
this falls at around a six, again,
we didn't want it to be too complicated and we wanted to be
able to present a challenge to absolutely anyone buying this
one and not only challenge, not something super frustrating,
but something also entry level that you could
just have fun solving.
So the goal would be to take that little ring that's at the
top and extract it and then put it back to where
it was when you started.
It's made of the same durable, high quality materials
that are made by Hanayama and the attention to detail
and quality control is there
so you can be assured that this puzzle
is going to stand the test of time
for the first time while supplies last,
obviously this puzzle is gonna be available right
now at first stop shop, we ordered quite a few,
probably more than we're going to sell,
because I just wanna make sure that all of you
got your hands on them, that being said,
we don't know what to expect as this is the first puzzle
we've ever sold so, we really don't know what
that reaction is gonna be like.
We're giving ourselves up to two weeks of packaging before
we even start sending out orders,
which is one of the main reasons for the presale,
we have all the puzzles here,
but we wanna give ourselves a good two weeks,
of grace period, because it's gonna take a lot
on our end to pack these all up and send them out
we probably never experienced this type of volume,
so we're just kind of really apprehensive about the whole
process and wanna make sure that you guys know
that we're working our hardest
to get these out to you as quick as possible.
So all items are going to be shipped directly
out of our warehouse,
as well as all the rest of the items on the shop
are now 15% off, I'm so grateful for all your support
over the years, you've allowed me to keep dreaming,
keep being creative.
You've allowed me to hire some of my best friends to help me
do what I love and for that,
I really can't thank you enough.
Everybody here, especially me looks forward
to seeing these in your hands so don't forget
to tag us at first stop shop on Instagram if you,
if you do take a picture of it, we'd love to see it.
Yes no, no puzzle solved today.
I wanna give you guys a few weeks to order this
so that we could eventually solve it together
here on the channel, whether it's live
or whether we record a video for it.
So probably about three or four weeks
when I see these things starting to arrive at your doorstep,
that's probably when we're going to put together a video on
solving it and you guys can join us for that,
that would be amazing, thanks again guys
from the bottom of my heart, thank you
this is a project near and dear to me,
I really hope you guys enjoy this, yeah.
Thanks again, keep staying curious
and we'll see on the next video, peace.
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