no not today- So today I thought I'd flex my intuitive muscles
to help me solve this Impossible Bottle Puzzle.
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This is a phrenology head,
used to study the different parts of the brain.
So hopefully today we'll be using
this part of the brain here, which is intuitive reasoning
and reflective faculties, paired up with this here,
constructiveness, ingenuity and dexterity.
I've been able to solve a few puzzles on this channel
and with a little bit of time
and a little bit of frustration and some swearing,
we'll get there together.
Today is a special puzzle indeed,
because the puzzle that I'm going to attempt to solve
is closely related to something
that I've had on my shelf for years.
Let me take you back.
In Western Canada there's a magician and creator
and writer by the name of Jamie D. Grant.
He's also a paramedic, but he's also a writer for
like Magic Magazine.
Now Jamie's created a few magic tricks and puzzles
that are available in the magic industry.
However, one of them in particular
is sort of, I would say is the most impossible object
that I own.
And it is the Anything is Possible Bottle.
What this is, is a completely sealed bottle.
All the way around.
And inside this sealed milk bottle
is a sealed, brand new, unopened deck of cards.
Now I know a lot of you are gonna say,
well you know he probably fused the bottle
around the cards afterwards.
Let me assure you that's not the case,
because the cellophane which holds the cards
is made of very thin plastic
and if that bottle was heated up in any way,
that plastic would melt.
But the whole point of this bottle,
and this is interesting, this isn't a puzzle,
but it's a reminder that anything is possible.
So it sits on your shelf, it looks nice,
and it's just there to remind you
that yeah, this was done, this was made.
And so anything, if this is possible,
anything else should be.
It's a great reminder
and it's kind of a little bit of brain teaser
when looking at it.
It's great to have on the shelf.
I'll see if I can drop a link below for you guys
if you're interested in that.
But that's the anything is possible bottle.
And since I've seen this bottle,
I've always been fascinated with bottle puzzles.
And there are a lot of different ones around the world.
People, whether its building pirate ships inside of a bottle
or different objects,
I just thought it was super interesting.
By the way, here's also, this bottle is,
quick story, this bottle is so interesting,
I had some made by Jamie D. Grant,
handmade for my deck of cards that I released.
I sold them all but one.
And somebody from China,
so this bottle was sent out to China
and it came back to me, saying the pack was opened.
And so upon quick inspection,
the top of the deck, as you can see,
is completely open, was cut, there was an incision made.
And I asked the client was this you?
He swears it wasn't him.
And I asked Jamie is this normal.
Jamie's like that honestly has nothing to do with
how these are made.
And so the only other option there was that,
this is interesting, the Chinese government
or whoever worked at like the TSA over there,
wanted to inspect this to make sure
there probably wasn't any paraphernalia hidden inside.
I would've given anything to be a fly on the wall.
But today, today no, we're not gonna look at this,
we're not gonna try and solve
the Anything is Possible Bottle.
But I thought it was closely related to the bottle
that we're going to solve.
The bottle that we're gonna play with is this one.
Basically what you're given here
is a bottle and a wooden rod.
On the inside of that wooden rod
you have a bolt and a nut holding that bolt there
along with a little spherical sort of wooden ball
and these things that kind of look like lock picks.
I love the way this looks on my shelf,
so that's why I ordered it.
But I also thought today I would attempt to see
if I can do this in one sitting for you guys.
So without further ado, let's get into this puzzle.
Alright gang here we go.
Solving this bottle puzzle.
I guess the idea would be
to unscrew this nut holding this bolt.
And then we can retract everything.
Now I don't know if this puzzle necessarily requires me
to put everything back together,
however, that's something I'm going to attempt to do
and hopefully I'll be able to get there.
So, one thing I noticed
is that the ball that you see here is actually,
it's hard to see with the refraction of the glass,
but that ball is not completely round.
And I'm pretty sure there's a reason for that ball
not being round.
Could be this lock pick needs to link in there somehow.
Let's see.
Oh okay.
Oh, that's what I figured.
Okay I can probably use that ball
as a wedge to sort of, as you can see,
I can kind of wedge it against there.
And get that to turn.
So I'd have to turn it this way.
The clinking sound is driving me nuts, by the way.
Maybe the other side.
Unless this is like a reverse rivet
that they purposely put in there.
Which I wouldn't be surprised.
If you check out the lock puzzle that I did,
they were pretty clever about that.
I still have no idea what this,
oh, there it goes.
Okay, I think we started turning it.
Maybe I can wedge that ball in there somehow.
Okay it's turning.
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Am I tightening this at this point?
I think I'm tightening it.
Maybe I can use that metal lock pick thingy,
to just stop that ball
from rolling around in there.
That would be great.
I'm gonna take a closer look at this rivet,
make sure I'm doing it on the right side.
Okay, so it has to be that way.
Okay.
This is gonna take some patience and dexterity.
No, don't turn back in.
(growls)
My hand's getting a cramp at this point.
No, so the problem is I keep going over it
and it keeps rolling over it.
And then it screws right back.
So I gotta watch out with that.
(sighs)
Okay.
I have a dreadful feeling
that once I undo this, that putting it back together
is going to be a nightmare.
Oh my god.
I'm getting carpal tunnel.
It's turning, slowly but surely.
Like the bolt has clearly come out
a little bit since the beginning.
I wonder if that lock pick has anything to do.
It could probably make my life
1000 times easier at this point
but I feel like this is working,
so I'm just gonna stick to this and grind it out.
Probably not the best way to go about it, but.
Oh, slow and steady wins the race.
Look at this.
I was forcing so hard before.
But if I just, look at that,
it's turning now.
(sighs)
You know you're playing with gravity.
You're playing with dexterity
and you're also playing with patience. (laughs)
That's very important.
Like this, there we go.
For some reason this is,
this might actually be the good method.
Look at this, look how easy that turns around.
Well. (laughs)
Do you see that?
That gentle pressure.
I think we found the sweet spot.
I think this is the sweet spot right here.
Kinda like a little video game.
All I'm missing is like laser sounds.
Pew, pew, pew, pew, bluh, bluh.
So I'm using that lock pick
to sort of entrap this ball at a certain height.
Gently (sighs)
Okay, come on.
Whew!
Tada!
The ball was actually completely spherical and round.
It just doesn't look like it.
I guess the refraction of the glass messed that up a bit.
Now for the part that I'm dreading the most.
Putting all this back the way I found it.
Why are there two?
So weird.
This hole here is like on an angle.
I have no idea why that is, by the way.
You have a hole on an angle.
It starts here and it goes through up here.
Does it have something to do with,
I don't know what I'm doing.
Plop everything back in, I suppose.
This is gonna be very difficult to get that in.
I think that's the hardest part.
That's gonna go in this way.
I don't know.
Obviously that has to go in too.
Oh my god what have I got myself into?
There's no way.
That bolt can't even straight.
Like it took me everything just to shake it out of there.
With no friction or anything.
Like how, oh.
Using the ball as a lever?
Maybe.
Get in there.
Oh come on.
See though, how is that?
Okay, we're almost there.
No!
Okay everybody on one side.
I bet if I had like a really powerful magnet
I could probably just like pull that up.
But they haven't given me a magnet,
so I'm not gonna use that.
But that definitely would be a solution to this.
How though?
Can you imagine the time staking labor
that was put into this to make these?
(laughs)
Maybe I can leverage something under that bolt.
So I turn that bolt around.
Let's look at this in a more practical manner.
I'm thinking I can use that little ball or bolt,
the nut, to leverage this into that hole.
Creating like a little lever that I could push it into.
So, the idea is to get that ball, I think over here.
That would probably be the best.
If you can't tell by my frustration in my voice already,
I'm getting annoyed.
Patience is key, folks, patience is key.
Okay, good, good, good.
Yes, go underneath that bolt.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Yes!
Okay.
Whoo.
Oh, maybe that's what that groove is for.
(gasps)
That's what the grove is for.
Would you look at that?
Okay so now I'm here.
I'm thinking the next groove.
I don't wanna lose where I'm at.
Okay let's go back to the first groove,
that was good.
The moving the bottle, just the stick.
I think we're getting it.
Ooo, that's gotta be it.
Nope, nope, slipping out.
Get back in there.
No!
Okay.
It's definitely in, so just, fall in there.
It's taking me everything just to get to this point.
(gasps)
Yes!
Okay small victory.
Halfway there.
Now it's just to, alright,
I've gotta get.
I've gotta lodge that.
Okay.
One thing I can't do is loose that bolt.
That bolt needs to be in there.
This should be, actually the easier part.
So if I'm here, I wanna make sure the rivet's in there
and it's not going in crooked.
Again, slow and steady, very gently.
This isn't something you need to force.
And that's something I've figure out right now.
Such an intriguing puzzle though.
As you guys can see,
it's slowly being riveted back into position.
With gentle strokes, like so.
There you go.
So I created this small little dip
for it to just keep rolling back.
Every time it rolls back, I just, I hit it again
with the ball, like this.
Let's tighten this all the way.
And that's good enough.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Impossible Bottle Puzzle solved.
Yes!
And that is a total of 28 minutes from start to finish
without any instructions.
Go ahead and try it at home if you like.
I left the link below.
And you can pick one of these up yourself.
Alright guys, a successful venture.
I didn't think I'd be able to do it this quickly.
It honestly looked a lot more complicated than it was.
You know I think getting the bolt back in
and everything is way more complicated than getting it out.
But once you understand the principle,
I think it's pretty easy.
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