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- What's up guys and welcome back.
Today, before we get into these vintage puzzles,
which, by the way, look super cool
and I'm really interested and really excited
to get to solve some of these,
I wanted to talk to you about something we did on Friday.
Now, for those of you who don't know,
Friday we had a vote set up for David Copperfield
to be number one in the world in Las Vegas shows
according to USA Today.
He was at number two and I asked you guys to vote.
You came through.
Within an hour he got to number one,
which is insane.
We have to keep voting to keep him there
so I'll leave the link below.
There's only a few days left on this.
Keep David at number one.
A little bit of encouragement,
my buddy Chris Kenner who is...
Where's my phone?
My buddy Chris Kenner, who has been
David's director for the past 20 odd years,
as I mentioned last time,
wrote to me and said
"Dude, you are the man.
Thank you so much for all your support.
David loved the video."
David Copperfield loved the video.
Guys, we really pulled through.
This is amazing.
Doesn't mean we have access to his warehouse just yet,
but I firmly believe that if we keep voting,
we keep him at number one,
hopefully he'll be able to grant us some access
as a bit of a token of appreciation for this community
and all the support that we've shown him.
And maybe I'll be able to return the favor to you guys
by filming some of that stuff.
So fingers crossed.
All right, for today's video,
these are two vintage puzzle boxes that I picked up on eBay.
They are filled with trinkets,
some puzzles you might be familiar with
or I might be familiar with,
and some of them I'm not familiar with,
which is really cool.
These are from the 1940s to 50s
or roughly 70 or 80 years old.
If you want to check out some puzzle collections,
I left a link below to a newer,
more modern puzzle collection.
These ones, unfortunately,
I don't think you'll be able to find.
They're pretty scarce.
But I left the link below to some really interesting ones
that you can check out.
Without any further ado,
I'm just gonna go ahead and solve some of these,
not all of them obviously,
but just pick a few,
maybe like 10 or a dozen,
and see how many we can get done during this video.
Guys, if you like this content,
as always, like this video and let's get right into it.
All right, so we have two of these boxes.
I'm just gonna kind of randomly grab some puzzles
out of here that look interesting.
'Cause not all of them are really cool,
some of them are pretty lame.
Like this one, you got all sorts of weird things going on.
And this one over here,
again, a lot of weirdness.
So we're gonna grab some random things
and, I don't know, maybe do like 10 of them
or 15 of them, depending on how long they take.
Not gonna set up a timer 'cause there's no reference really
and let's get going.
You got a little playing card here.
Or is it?
It's a matchbook.
Huh?
How does that work?
No one...
Oh.
First of all, this one kind of intrigues me.
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So the whole point of this one, I guess,
is to bring that bead up to the top
of this little pyramid thing here.
This little spiral.
So let's do that here.
Shouldn't be too hard.
There we go, we're in.
Oh, now we're out.
Calm down, calm down.
(mumbles)
It goes so crazy.
You gotta, like, catch it on the down.
There we go.
Bam!
Done.
One down.
We know this one.
This is the double pyramid one.
The one that I challenged my friends to solve real quickly.
So, makes a pyramid.
Done.
What's this?
Okay.
Here it says,
"Place the four cubes together in a row
in such a way that the four different colors
show in any order on each side."
Okay, sounds simple enough.
I guess the solution is in here as well.
Not gonna touch it.
I like the wood, kind of vintage vibe here.
And they're not just painted on,
there's like a little bit of a indentation on 'em.
Makes the quality just a little bit better.
Looks great.
Four colors on each side.
That should be pretty easy.
And last color is blue.
So here we have all four colors,
all four colors,
oh...
Oh this one's got two green on it.
Okay, so maybe green goes here.
Now let's do yellow.
There.
No.
It has no blue?
Okay, so if I put it on this side
There is no blue around,
so I know that it has to be on this side,
'cause there has to be a blue somewhere,
so we'll start with that.
This one here,
if I put it on this side,
there is no blue as well.
But we don't need a blue 'cause we already have a blue.
So then we can skip that
and maybe put a green.
Put the red...
We don't need a blue and we don't need a green.
Don't need a blue, don't need a green.
So maybe yellow.
What's this side looking like?
That side's looking good,
this side's looking good,
that side's looking good.
Underneath, looking good.
Need the blue on top,
red's here.
See now we got two green over here
so that's not gonna work.
Oh, I see.
There are three greens on this one.
So my guess is, I mean, geez.
Okay.
Here.
I guess we need red here,
but how does that affect this side.
Oh, we're good.
Okay, so we're good here,
we're good here,
and we're good here.
Solved.
Yay!
The Tantalizer.
Tantalizer, sounds like a toy you'd find in an adult store,
you know what I'm saying?
That one's done.
Oh my god.
That is probably just really inappropriate there.
Geez.
The 50s.
Oh, a trick lock.
Look at this.
It says,
"The Bashful Lock.
Unless you know the secret,
it only opens behind your back."
What?
How's that work?
That doesn't make sense.
Unless you know the secret,
only opens behind your back.
Franco product.
Franco product, New York, New York.
Germany.
Funny, because that's like right after the war too, huh?
You would think they wouldn't...
What?
How does this work?
Well that's interesting.
Oh, here we go.
Boom.
Funny, that's interesting.
So here, it doesn't open like this.
But if you take each side-
for some reason I just opened it.
I don't know how I did that.
Bashful.
Huh.
Why did this just open?
I don't understand how this works.
I need to know how this works now,
I'm kind of intrigued.
I like lock puzzles.
Lock puzzles are some of my favorite.
How does it only open behind my back?
Weird.
Here we go.
It's now open.
How did we do that?
Now we're here and it doesn't open.
I turned it upside down,
and now it opens.
Wow, okay.
So there's a mechanism locking it into place
if you turn it upside down.
So here, it doesn't open.
That's really cool.
Doesn't open.
Turn it upside down, opens.
Wow, interesting.
Next, we go again.
All these bur puzzles as well.
These giant, like, bur puzzles.
Which I don't really feel like getting into.
I want to see if I can get trinkety stuff first.
Rolly-Polly Puzzle.
It says here,
"Place both balls at both ends at the same time."
So you've got two little ends here.
You got two little notches here in the end.
And the balls, I guess,
have to go there.
Easy getting one there.
Okay, well how do I get the other?
I got one in.
Yep, I got 'em both in.
I can't prove it to you
because I can't turn this around without it falling,
but they're both in.
Oh my god.
As soon as I turn it-
oh my god.
So they go in,
but then as soon as I turn it they stop.
Okay, one's in.
Okay, they're both in.
(sighs)
Maybe there's a way of doing it here.
Wow!
That's actually a great solution.
You see this?
Here, let me do it again for ya.
So we're here,
watch this.
Ready?
Boom.
(laughs)
That's cool.
That's actually a really cool brain teaser.
My favorite so far.
This one says,
"The object is to place red balls on one white space
and the black balls on the other white space."
Okay.
So you've got three of each.
Oh!
Hey!
Done.
That was fun.
Look at that.
Very cool.
Oh is that like sticky or something?
Oh!
One of the sides has magnets.
And the black ones are magnetized, see?
Look.
They're not even moving.
Let's say we put the black ones on the other side,
they would not be magnetized.
So you really have to figure out
that the black ones can go there.
And then once you're there,
you're good to go.
See how they're stuck together?
That's actually kinda cool.
All right.
Next.
Let's see what we got here.
This is all busted up.
It's got tape on it.
What's the object here?
To place, I guess,
all four in the middle or on the sides?
There we go.
Look at this one.
Lucky horse shoes here.
I guess the point here is
to get that middle one out of there
without forcing it.
Done.
Let's try to get that back in.
Hmm.
That's kinda tricky.
There we go.
Cool.
So there's one here,
which I thought was kinda cool looking,
was the scissors.
Where are they?
Here they are.
So this is the scissor puzzle.
You got a cool little stand here, I guess.
Which is made of metal.
It has like, all these little things.
Scissor Puzzle.
"You can remove string without cutting.
It's harder than you think."
Oh!
Okay.
I broke the string.
Rest in peace.
"If you puzzle out this square, you're a whiz."
I've always wanted to be a whiz.
Okay so what?
There's a square here.
Perfect square,
all sizes equal length,
each angle 90 degrees.
How do you rate?
So you put your name here
and you put the minutes here it took you.
Which is pretty cool, I think.
That actually adds a bit of a challenge
for you and your friends.
Perfect square.
Okay.
Well there are not right angles on this.
So that's interesting.
Is there any way to have a right angle here.
Oh, we might have a challenge here.
Could the be the-
do we accept that?
Judges?
Judges say no.
I honestly don't see another way
that this could be done.
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Are these all the same size?
They're all exactly the same size.
Is that considered a solution?
I don't think so.
There we go.
That's more like it.
Bam.
Took me about three minutes.
Not bad.
I like that one.
Very simple.
And definitely not one of those weird trick answers
where the solutions like,
"Oh you gotta stand 'em up, idiot."
I guess I'm a whiz.
What's next?
What do we got here?
These are cool.
I like these vintage puzzles.
"This star puzzle is only for folks who don't give up."
Okay.
What's this?
Magnets.
(mumbles)
Okay, what do I have to do?
I have to make a star?
Am I missing a piece here?
Oh.
Bam
Voila!
A star.
I guess I'm a folks who don't give up.
I like that one too.
Yes, yes, yes.
I still don't know what these magnets do.
Interesting.
I think we could do one or two more.
What do you guys think?
These are the nail puzzles.
Obviously these are nails and you gotta
figure a way to get them undone.
I like how they would let children play with this.
These are actual nails.
Okay.
I kinda forced them apart,
which I shouldn't have.
But let's see if I can get it back together without force.
So the way this works,
you gotta kinda line up the holes here, I think.
And twist it around, yes?
There we go.
Nowadays people are like,
"Oh, make them child safe."
Before they're like,
"Bend a few nails and have fun kids.
Don't stab yourself because
we have not yet invented a vaccine for tetanus, okay?"
And that's the way it worked.
And if you did stab yourself and survive,
you were just tough.
And then you have more kids and that was it.
You become mayor of your town.
All right, I think that's enough.
We've gone through a boat-load of these puzzles.
Very cool.
Let's skip to the outro.
Well hot dang, we did it.
I mean we did, we didn't do all of them.
We did some of them and they were pretty fun.
I like the ones with the little plastic tops.
The ones you have to shake around to get the beads
because not only are they puzzles,
but they also have a little method to them.
They're not just like, use your dexterity.
There's a trick to them,
which I thought was pretty cool.
Drop a comment below
and let me know which of these is your favorite puzzle.
And also don't forget to vote for David Copperfield
to keep him at number one show in Las Vegas
and hopefully some great things are to come for us
and this channel.
Guys, thanks so much for watching again.
We'll see you on the next video.
Peace.
Almost hit it that time.
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