- Alright, guys.
I'm gonna try a bit of an experiment with you guys.
Obviously, this is an envelope and there's nothing inside.
You can have a look.
I'm gonna keep this in plain sight the entire time
and I'm gonna take this four of spades
and I'm going to rip it into four pieces.
Now I'm gonna put those four pieces on the inside here.
I'm gonna close it up.
Give it a little shake.
You can kinda hear it.
There it is, coming back together.
Check this out.
If I just open it,
inside here we have...the four of spades.
Hey!
Boom.
Your card, the...
Glad you guys can join me once again.
Today, I've got something really
interesting to share with you.
One of the most bizarre puzzles
I've ever laid my hands or eyes on.
This is the cross puzzle.
This is supposed to be a very, very difficult puzzle.
Not sure, probably falls around level eight or nine.
Designed by Will Strijbos once again.
The same designer who made the lotus puzzle
and the last lock puzzle that I solved.
This thing looks like it's straight
out of a science fiction movie,
some type of ancient alien relic.
There are no hints, there are no clues.
Just don't smash it, don't break it, try to open it.
These two pieces are held together by these rods
and should come apart once you figure it out.
I don't even know where to start with things like this
because there's no twisty knobs,
there's nothing to pull or push on.
You gotta kind of just figure it out.
So guys, thanks for watching.
Without further ado,
let's get into solving this cross puzzle.
One of the most bizarre looking puzzles I've ever handled.
This is also designed by Will Strijbos.
A very actually simple looking puzzle
that probably is complex.
This is supposed to be extremely difficult.
Let's start the timer.
We've got these pins, we got two of them.
They run all the way through.
This one is big on one side and small on the other.
That one is big on both sides.
I can grab the ends of them and
twist them a little bit and they
end up stopping right there.
I don't know what that'll do.
It's probably an orientation thing.
I think I'm just gonna have to fidget around with them
until I figure out how this comes undone.
When in doubt, we spin.
(metal tapping)
Here, boom.
That is now locked and I grab the pin from either side,
rotated it this way and it seems to have dropped through.
That was step one.
Maybe I can do the same thing with this one here.
See, now this one popped out.
I've got two sides out now.
This one seems to have a spring attached to it.
When I pull it back, it goes right back in.
It's one of those things that once you open it,
you get to appreciate all the mechanics on the inside.
As for now, there's nothing to appreciate
except these little pins.
This one does have a little tiny notch on it right here.
Now it seems to have gone back in.
There we go.
Little turn.
These two parts obviously come apart as there's a seam here.
Now they're both stuck.
(chill R&B music)
See, I can make that drop through
if I spin it a little bit but once it's here,
there's still that spring attached to it.
(chill R&B music)
Let's try taking it apart.
I don't think it would come apart.
I think I need to actually remove
one of these two pins for it to come apart.
That would make sense 'cause they do penetrate all the way.
I don't know what I'm doing.
(chill R&B music)
(metal tapping)
I'm gonna give you the lay down.
This one doesn't move, it's stuck.
This one, if I twist it, it'll fall back down,
but if I pull out and twist it, it gets stuck here.
What would you do at this point?
Comment below.
Let me know what you would do
without looking at the end of this video.
Doesn't seem to be any other moving parts in here.
(chill R&B music)
(man sighs)
If I turn this thing here,
it lifts that one slightly.
Very slightly.
In order for me to twist this,
I gotta unlock that somehow.
Probably tells me there's a third
rod in here somewhere if this affects this.
It's going through here,
it must mean there's a third mechanism in the middle aisle.
Oops.
This rod just will not go back in.
It's just stuck there forever now.
(banging)
If this moves,
that tells me there is a cylinder here somewhere.
Probably going downwards connecting
these two rods together.
Oh, okay.
This just passed through the other side.
It may or may not be a good sign.
Now let's see if we can...
Now it's locked again so if I unlock it here,
that takes it out, that locks it.
This unlocks it.
Now we're back to here.
(chill R&B music)
Back to here again.
Pull this.
It's not falling through.
(chill R&B music)
This one's now loose.
Now it's not loose.
Now it's stuck.
I heard a little pin inside drop.
There.
This one's now stuck.
Oh!
Okay, alright.
One piece is out.
Looks like this.
Wow, okay.
This piece here still stuck.
Probably need to play with the orientation again.
Maybe I can just pull it out.
I heard a pin drop.
She is now loose.
I can see the pin in there.
You see that?
Boom, pin dropped through.
Oh wait, maybe I'm supposed to drop it through here.
Now the pin is all the way down.
Pin is no longer through that hole.
It fell down here.
Now it's back.
You gotta pull and twist so it falls.
Now I don't understand why it won't come out.
(man sighs)
That little pin in there,
the only thing I can do is rotate this
to a certain extent until that bottom pin falls out,
and then pull on the bottom pin which
then releases the middle pin, let's it drop but,
that means it won't come out unless this pin.
That's the thing, this pin needs to come out.
Here we go.
Yes!
This is a rotating section.
It's got a little ring and it's got
a little hole in that ring which
allows it to go either here or even further.
There are two possible holes that this pin could go through.
That's the one hole which it can go
all the way through, fall out.
Or it can go the other one which just gets it stuck.
It's the weirdest puzzle I've ever done.
Let's try to put it back together.
First things first, this thing, this pin goes back in there.
Is there an orientation to this?
There is.
Okay, maybe not.
Maybe the orientation is on this side.
Yes.
Next, that pin needs to drop down again.
There we go.
Pin's down.
This one, need to flip it back.
(chill R&B music)
Getting this pin in might be a little trickier.
My thumb is really starting to hurt
at this point from pulling on this thing.
It's gotta go all the way through, I see.
If it goes all the way through, this one can't go in.
Now this one.
Oh my god.
Oh!
Bam.
Lock it.
Did it.
That is locked.
I apologize for not being able to
talk my way through the end of that,
but it was all happening inside my head.
The little mechanics in this,
a little bit confusing because it's orientation
so as soon as you flip it around,
your orientation's backwards and the
holes where the pins are are opposite.
You gotta kind of keep track of that.
Very difficult indeed.
I wouldn't say the hardest puzzle I've ever done,
but definitely one the weirdest
and definitely one of the coolest too.
It looks like some alien relic.
Anyways, hope you guys enjoyed.
Alright folks, that was it and glad I did it.
I'm so happy I did it.
I was not gonna lie, at around the...
I don't know where it is I opened it.
Probably around the half an hour mark,
I was getting to a point where I
was getting pretty discouraged with this puzzle.
That's the one thing I could say about puzzles, man.
The lesson in perseverance and patience is incredible.
For the longest time,
you try things without any outcome, without any reward
and you can only push so far without reward
before you feel like giving up.
In my experience, it's just at that one point
when you get to that I wanna give up,
maybe sometimes take a break, come back to it,
but those are usually the points
where you start really thinking outside the box.
Once that first rod fell out, I was like God thank you.
After that, it was little bit more complicated
but once you saw the inner mechanics,
it did give you a really good idea
which is why it didn't take me that
long to put it back together.
If I were to disassemble this right now,
it would probably take me up and around five minutes.
Very cool puzzle.
Once you know how it works, you kind of get the gist of it,
but definitely fun to tease your friends with
and leave that on the table for them,
watch the fall apart mentally.
Not unlike I almost did on a video.
Anyways guys, thanks for watching.
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Peace.
(R&B music)