- Alright guys, so this is the second level 10 puzzle that
I'll ever try and attempt.
This is known as the Washington Monument puzzle.
It is a wooden puzzle.
The object of this puzzle is to remove the obelisk from the
base and then replace it.
That's all I know.
I don't know if any of the parts have anything to do with
anything, and it's gonna be a bit of a challenge, so I've
literally taken the day to shoot this.
Hopefully it doesn't take took long, 'cause I want this to
be up today, which is Saturday.
It's not gonna be an easy task.
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let's try to solve this Washington Monument puzzle.
Alright, so here we go.
Let's take this apart.
This is how I've received this puzzle.
Okay.
The Washington Monument.
There's a red, white, and blue on the flags.
There's the number white monument on a red base.
Can you find the other blue?
I have idea what that means.
The object of the puzzle is to unlock and open to find the
blue and relock it.
You'll have solved the puzzle when you can complete
these two stages.
First stage, lock all the gravity pins inside the round base
of the obelisk so they do not move.
This will allow you to remove the obelisk from the base.
If you open the puzzle by chance, gravity pins will still
move freely.
This is not the intended solution.
First stage is not completed until the gravity pins are
locked inside the round base.
All tools are given with the puzzle.
Alright, let's try it out.
So these things...
Oh, okay, so there's something in here.
So these pins have to lock in here without moving.
Gravity pins, why would they be called gravity pins?
As you can hear, there's some type of mechanism on the
inside of this, and I guess these things have to lock
using that mechanism.
Let's try one at a time.
Just slowly rotating the base to see where that locking
mechanism comes in handy.
So I'm not sure if I'm supposed to put all the flags in
and then try and lock it or do one at a time, and if it's
one at a time, I'm not sure which one I'm supposed to
lock first.
So the first part is just trying to figure out now...
I'm trying to see if the height of all these individual
flags are the same or if there's one that drops down
a little bit lower.
So for now it kind of looks like they're all
the same height.
So this one seems to be locked.
Give it the old spinaroo.
Hmm.
Again, this one seems to be...
It moves, but it's super tight there.
And this one, a little bit tighter.
Okay, for some reason this just turned.
Maybe because I've locked one of them?
So I'm moving the inner mechanism and it seems like it's
allowing me to move the obelisk.
It's coming out a bit.
Hmm.
See how it's coming out just a little bit?
I feel like I've unlocked one part.
Oh god, ugh.
Maybe this pin does something.
Oh, okay, so as you can see, we've discovered that the pin
here can be removed.
Now what does that do?
I have no idea.
Doesn't seem to do anything, but I do believe that it's
supposed to come out.
Hmm.
Okay, so we've got an extra piece here to play with.
Interesting, I have a feeling this whole thing relies
on gravity somehow.
So there's a ball in here,
and it feels like it's at the top.
Maybe we gotta make it travel to the bottom somehow.
Oh, I think I found something here.
Listen to this.
I think the pin here is actually a magnetic pin, because
when I tilted it and put the pin in, there was a ball
and it stopped moving, so listen.
You hear that?
Watch, listen.
So you hear the ball drop?
There's a ball here.
My guess, this is just a guess but, the ball has to travel
all the way down into the base.
Now, I don't know what the inner mechanics of this obelisk
look like, but I think it has to travel down there somehow,
so maybe let's swirl it.
La cucaracha, la cucaracha.
There seem to be gravity pins on the inside of this, much
like the puzzle where you had to rotate.
So yeah, no, there's gravity pins down here and there seems
to be a ball bearing in here, and that so far
we've established.
Let's see if that ball has moved at all.
Hmm.
Hoo, I think I'm close, I think I'm close.
(triumphant music)
Ooh.
Look at that.
That is interesting.
Wow.
Why are they sticking?
What is that?
Oh, wow.
Alright, this is probably one of the most interesting
mechanisms I've ever seen.
If I'm right, this is how this works.
There's a tube here, like a glass or plastic tube, and the
tube runs all the way down this obelisk.
These pins are attracted to magnets, as I see, and if I go
like this, watch this, watch.
Boom.
So there's a magnet in here.
My guess is that magnet is in the shape of a ball bearing
and in this tube, you see what that is?
That's sand or some type of sandy...
Yeah, it's sand, and there's a ball bearing, and the ball
bearing happened to be at the top of this tube, attached to
this magnetic pin, and so this magnetic pin would hold that
ball bearing up here, and the sand prevented the ball
bearing from reaching the base of this here,
by taking 20 minutes to shake this thing, it slowly moved
its way down to here, and then I noticed as I was shaking
this thing here, all of a sudden there was less and less
clicks, and so I started figuring out that yeah, okay,
these pins somehow are getting caught by the magnet,
and there it is.
This puzzle, it says here, has a second stage, is unlock the
gravity pins so they flow freely once again.
This allows you to lock the obelisk back in the square.
So the first stage is done, now that the gravity pins
are all locked.
Not sure what this is here.
Seems to be something in the base of this.
I don't understand why there is a little rubber seal
in the base of here.
There's red, white, and blue on the flags.
There's a white monument on a red base.
Can you find the other blue?
Okay, so there's gotta be something blue in here.
So the object is to unlock, open, and find the blue,
close, and relock it.
You'll have solved the puzzle when you can complete
these two stages.
I mistook these for the gravity pins.
These were clearly just a decoy, just a diversion.
But it says find the blue, and I'm not gonna close it all up
right now, because there seems to be something missing
in here.
Okay, that's just the space for the gravity pins to flow
around in.
In here, however...
Does this thing move?
Hmm.
Oh, this little plastic seal seems to be coming out.
There is goes.
Okay, just seems to be a piece of a pipe.
I have no idea what this is for.
Does this piece come out?
Why is that in there?
Is that the blue they're referring to?
'Cause it's black.
Oh, I think that's the blue they were referring to,
is the blue stripes on this.
So you've got the red, which is the base, the white, which
is the obelisk, and the blue, which is these
little blue stripes.
I find this part to be a little bit nonsensical, to be
honest, 'cause this clearly is just a piece of PVC piping.
It even has a little code on it, which makes it really
cheap looking.
I think they could've added something more for that blue,
maybe, you know, paint this whole entire thing blue.
That would've been a lot clearer.
There you have it.
And that goes back in there.
Because this is unlocked, we gotta lock it again.
That's the final part of this puzzle.
So once again, trust the sand.
I would say because I started that way...
(laughter)
So the pins still seem to be magnetized.
If I shake them real hard, they'll come apart, but if I let
them go, they'll stick right back to that bearing, letting
me know that the bearing is still in the base.
I've gotta have it travel to the top somehow.
By the way, this is not the solution.
This is just telling me what I'm supposed to do, so it
basically tells me you have to find the blue,
blah, blah, blah.
This is not the solution.
Okay, so the ball bearing's here.
That's how I know the ball bearing's not on the top is that
this pin isn't staying there.
This is clearly not working.
Okay.
The problem here is that that ball bearing is attracted
to these pins, and I can't have the ball bearing travel to
the top, because all the pins are holding it there, and if
I shake it, the pins go back to attracting the ball bearing.
I'm not sure exactly how I'm supposed to get the
ball bearing to travel back up.
(gasp)
Okay, this might be a crazy idea, but you see this
ring here?
Check this out.
There's a reason this ring was in here, and I just...
You know when you get that moment, that eureka moment?
This is why this ring was here.
Bam bam.
Now to test.
Still no.
It's interesting because I feel like if I shake it
downwards, the ball bearing is gonna move up, so I feel like
I have to shake it upwards for the ball bearing
to move down.
So I can start here, you know what I mean?
See if that worked.
Nope.
(frustrated sigh)
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
Listen to this.
This, my friends, is the sound of success.
The ball is now attracted to the metal rod, so if I lift the
metal rod, you will hear the sound of the ball
dropping down.
Listen.
There it is.
This is interesting too, because like this twisty puzzles,
like the ones that rely on gravity pins, normally we're
solving puzzles reach the centrifugal force where if you
spin it, it'll unlock it.
In this case, if you spin it, it locks it from being able to
get out, so that's really interesting.
Put that back, and again, we can set up the little
American flags.
(humming)
That is the Washington Monument level 10 puzzled solved.
Very challenging as well.
Took me up in about one and a half hours to solve
this little bad boy.
Alright guys, so that was it.
We did it, we solved this puzzle, which is super cool.
I'm really, really with this.
I'm more impressed than with the lock puzzle.
The lock puzzle seemed to be random bits and parts that you
had to shove around and sort of shim around to end up
opening the lock.
This, however, did require some logic.
I had to really use my ear.
Wasn't so much tactile as it was just sensing what the
mechanics were on the inside and having a base knowledge
of puzzle solving, including the magnetic pins, including
the ball bearing.
The sand was something new that I've never thought of before
and it was really cool to be able to use that plastic PVC
ring to stop those pins.
I thought that was a really genius was of putting that
together, so all in all, a really difficult puzzle.
I hope you guys enjoyed that.
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Bye!
(upbeat electronic music)