you may have seen the video where Chuck bought one of these Tower of London
puzzles and I we played with it a bit I got intrigued when I want to try it out
so I'm gonna see if I can solve it here on camera while Chuck's videoing me and
he can see the solution and ruin it for him ya but okay so here's some of my
thoughts on this you gotta get you got to get a ball out of the middle and
obviously once you get one ball out of the hole all of them come out. Here's the
thing so if you think about the cube there's there's six balls in there and
essentially there's a 2 by 2 by 2 square inside of this cube with what a ball
fill filling up each each spot so somehow you've got to be able to get a
ball positioned into the middle so it comes out. At least that's what I think
so I don't know I don't have a whole lot of ideas on how to do this I'm just
gonna play around with it. Um what I'm really hoping that is there there's not
like some sort of like part that actually comes off the box and it
actually is like physically you got a position stuff right inside for it to
open up. so now what the thing I was working on is that you can make it so
you can put 3 balls in the top of three balls in the bottom and it's kind of
sort of I was thinking that maybe opens up like it feels a lot looser then when
you do that. I'm not sure if that's the solution but it doesn't seem to get
anything yeah I don't know I I'm gonna try to keep trying here. See
there's got to be some sort of trick there's got to be a trick like where a
panel comes off. That's the only thing I can think of I'm kind of feel maybe if
there's something in the corners. If you look at the construction actually so
it's four pieces around the outside that's kind of - two of these caps that
go inside the box so. I don't know maybe maybe there's something that that's
something that moves and the cap comes off. Doesn't look like it though cuz it's
pretty tight seam in there. I don't know
we were saying that I figure you could probably this would be one of those
puzzles I mean you just shake it eventually a ball just pops out but I don't
know. It really honestly it seems impossible it seems like this shouldn't
be able to be done. Unless Oh what if what if a ball inside screwed apart. What
if one of the balls was like two pieces and you unscrewed it. Let me see
is there can I see any seams oh no
doesn't appear to be. They look they all look solid but that'd be a good trick
there's like one of the balls just kind of came apart but it doesn't look that
way.
No as far as I can tell I don't see any balls that look like they come apart but
that'd be that'd be a good trick on this one if if a ball just kind of twisted
apart in half hmm no don't see anything the corners.
Got any ideas Chuck? zero...zero ideas. I got nothing.
Chuck said he played with this last night or this week a bunch and couldn't
get anything to go. I just like physically don't see how without
something being different and on the ball or the box how this could actually
a ball could come out of this. I think it's you have to put your hands and
manipulate the balls but keep them in some weird position but there's a
position is there's only so many positions you can do like you're
actually pretty limited on the amount of stuff. It's a tough one. Ya I know. Maybe we'll have
to put it to rest for now. The ball is in Chuck's court.