Arrr matey! We got a new puzzle from ID Venture.
Find your way through the maze to find the treasure.
This is a new clue box. Davy Jones' Locker.
The old clue box.
Wow. 77. Episode 77. Okay. Episode 77.
Next episode, we've got the Cast Key Two. We are,
we are doing... On Episode 78,
we will be drawing for Cast Key Two; go to episode 74, enter to win.
Now Tony doesn't want this, but we are going to redraw for Cast Rotor.
This was Sylviane Coisineau. She has not claimed her prize.
So there's going to be two prizes drawn on episode 78.
So you can win a Cast Rotor or a Cast Key Two.
We might send you both. We might send you both; you never know. So there you go.
Enter on Episode 74 of Puzzle Time. Okay.
So Tony. Oh man. I've been so pumped about this. Yeah.
I've been waiting. Let's, let's just start with the good one. Yeah. Show that,
show that. Alright. You remember this, right? Yeah. What is it called again?
Clue box, clue box. The cats, the something cats.
Schrodinger's Cat. Schrodinger's Cat. Is that the name? That's this one. Yeah.
So really good wooden puzzle from ID Venture or IDVenture.
We did this one like 10, 20 episodes ago. Yeah. We showed this.
It's been insanely popular on puzzle master.ca. I bought one of these.
It's awesome. Yeah. They're good. Yeah. So that's that. This is the next,
next offering from.... And they did it even better this time. Yeah,
I'd say so, man. They went with pirates, pirates. Yeah. Cool boxes, man.
This is like Davy Jones Locker, I think. Right? So cool.
So these are escape rooms in a box. I guess we should start with that. Right?
The idea is that this is an escape room,
but it's a little box that you can do an escape room.
So instead of like having a big giant room... I think it's one hour. Oh sorry, they have a time. 60 minutes.
60 to 90 minutes is what they say on these. Okay.
So there's a paper in there. What does it say?
There's a whole story right. You're responsible for the first recovery of his sunken ship.
Yeah, there's a whole story behind this. His majesty's King George, the first of England.
Cool. Okay.
So this box is 1200 hours of design,
is what it says. 1200. Yeah. Design work. It is,
it is 72 parts in here and it's made out of birch
wood. Birch. Birch. Laser cut, birch wood.
A little survival tip for you: you can light birch wood on fire when it's wet. Really? Yes. Yes.
Interesting. Didn't know that.
Okay. So yeah. Yeah. Let's get into this one. It has a lot of stuff
on it. Yeah.
I wasn't even sure where to begin.
I was looking at these little dots here first. Right.
You got the dials and then you got to figure out like where the X goes.
Yeah. Oh, there's an X there. Yeah. There's different symbols.
And they line up in these holes when you move stuff. Yeah.
So I think you gotta like create the map or something.
I love the consistency of the theme on these. Hey, like this. It has...
So you have these like little nautical wheels here.
You have like the Northeast, Southwest. What's that called?
What's that called? The little...? A compass It's called a compass. I don't know if that's what it is.
There's something... I thought there, there's another name for that thing. But yeah,
it's a compass thing. I think the whole thing... This looks like, like the,
the part of a ship, right? Like this actually. Did you turn it over? Yeah, I did.
I looked at that too. There's like fish underneath; very themed. Like man,
the theme is just consistent throughout.
I think this looks like a little port holes, right along the side. Dude.
Right here. This is one of those nine... You know,
the like slide this, right. So you'll end up having to create a little map here,
Oh.
The lines. So you think those will line up, maybe,
with stuff up here. Yeah, yeah and then you'll get the fish symbol.
Which one is which? I don't know.
I don't know. Look at this too. There's actually a key hole.
It's got like that too. So not like.... This has... The theme is great on these;
the whole pirate thing, the nautical thing, like it just throughout.
And I really enjoy, I enjoy that.
Look at this! They even got someone doing flags here. I don't know. Like,
you know, there's flags for like ships and stuff.
I don't know what all that means,
but there is like someone holding flags here kind of there.
Oh yeah.
I wonder what that is. Pretty cool.
Yeah. So I'm sure each of those means something.
I wonder if these on the side here; you can see those, these little things here.
I wonder if these don't pull out or... Look at that! No, they push over.
Look at this. Look, you go here. Oh yeah, I did see that. It pushes... Oh weird. Oh,
there. It depends which way you do it. That's, if they come out, which way you lean it.
So those can move. So that's kind of neat. What else do you notice on here?
Dude, I don't know. This is a...
There's tons of stuff. Like this is actually really, really involved,
I'd say. Look at that, they
even have... Dude, they've got stars, constellations. Oh, constellations, look at that
right in there. So it's like, yeah. Like, like star patterns. Yeah.
I did notice this slides back and forth. I like
the skull and crossbones on here, too, with like the little pirate swords.
Oh, that does slide. Oh, look at that. Everything, like everything moves on this puzzle,
but it's not, it's not flimsy. That's one thing.
I'll say everything moves and we've had other puzzles like that. Where...
But sometimes it feels flimsy. Right? Where like... You're like, Oh,
it feels like... This feels solid, but everything does move and yeah.
Very cool. Yeah. These are great. Honestly, man,
I would highly recommend these to anybody. Clue Box ID Venture. ID Venture,
however you say their name. They make great puzzles. Well thought out. I mean,
that's what you get when you're getting 1200 hours of design. So, I mean...
And they come at a great price point. Yeah. What are they,
what are they priced at? They're like 60 bucks, man. Huh? Okay. Well,
yeah, these are good. I don't know if this
one's more expensive than the other one, but the other one's like 60 bucks. I don't know,
but check it out. I mean go to
puzzlemaster.ca. You can find pricing there and that's Canadian.
All our prices are Canadian. So you will,
if you're American or some of the other places, I mean,
I feel like our currency is fairly low here. So yeah,
you get a discount.
We have free shipping to North America on orders over a hundred dollars too.
So yeah, there you go.
That is Davy Jones Locker, level 10.
Definitely not going to be solving that one today,
but let's move on to the next one.
This is Blinded Two Puzzle Box. Yeah. I've never actually seen this one.
Yeah. It's kind of interesting and simple. It's a level seven.
So I was thinking like, we definitely won't be solving the Davy Jones,
but we could solve this one, maybe. Maybe. So, I like the,
the finish on the edges there.
Yeah. It's interesting actually,
because you see these where they put a peg in and it's usually straight down,
but there's like an angle on these, which is funny. I dunno.
I dunno what to make of that.
That was one of the things I noticed first on here. That's a magnet, obviously.
And then there's not a lot else.
Me and Chuck actually talked this last week. Oh yeah. And we were playing around with it.
Yeah. So I couldn't find much else on it.
We played around and moved the magnet around and like,
just couldn't get much going. But it's a level seven, like I said.
It's from Dedwood Crafts, though. So that's D... What's it called? This one? Blind Maze?
Blinded Two Puzzle Box.
Blinded Two Puzzle Box. Yeah. Okay.
But it's from DEDwood Crafts.
We've never had DEDwood Crafts stuff in here before.
It's another one of those smaller designers that we kind of found.
But I mean, honestly, at first glance,
I'm impressed with the construction on this. The wood is nice. And
it's actually got really unique wood types on it.
I had never heard of these before, but there's sapele and
Iroko. Iroko and sapele wood. The lid. This is, I mean,
what I assume is the lid here at least.
Is there anything...? I can kind of...
There's something that kind of shakes in there. What keeps it up, man? Look at that.
Like when you try to shake it always sticks to the.... Yeah. lid.
There you go. Like, so there is something going on there too, magnet wise.
So solid design, solid construction.
I'd be interested to see what actually ends up being the solve on this,
but....
It almost sounds like a spring of some kind. Yeah. Something springy.
Oh. Look at that.
Mine is loose. I knocked it a bit and the ball came loose.
Dude. Now my, my bottom moves. Oh really?
There's a... I knocked a pin out of it.
No way. I got two pins out of it! There's two holes.
Let's see. Show this on camera here. Yeah. There you go.
And your, your ball is loose, so there's some sort of ball in there.
Interesting.
So that... Do you think that maybe that bottom piece... What, a pin fell out!? A pin fell out
of it. Where did it go?
You should put it back. I should put it back in?
Dude, I think you need that pin to do something.
You might. Try to put it in the other hole.
Where's my magnet?
Try
putting it in the other hole. Drop it in the other hole.
Is there something there? Yeah.
Maybe
you got to push. Maybe it's a button you gotta push.
I was thinking that there might be something, if I slide it back and forth. Maybe.
Oh, there we go. I can get mine. Mine's there too. Ah.
I lost my ball and I lost my pin.
Interesting.
So, it's out the bottom then, probably, that this is going to solve a bit more.
That's awesome. Okay.
But once the ball is on that magnet again, you can't get that first pin out.
So there's the pin right there. Yeah.
So I wonder if you can like... Interesting. This is like
sequential discovery. Right? So like, I mean you are going to get tools.
So I don't know if I mentioned that. Actually this is a sequential discovery
puzzle. So, I mean, that's probably one of your tools there.
There we go. Should we just leave it there? Oh, did you hear that? Mine like,
it sounded like the ball got onto a magnet of some kind. Yeah. Mine is.. Look it,
mine's not loose anymore. Yeah. So there's definitely some,
it's definitely a ball magnetize inside.
Hmm. That's
interesting. I bet you we're pretty close here actually.
I wonder
if it sticks back on that one. I wonder if you need a magnet on there to
stick it.
What? That's interesting.
I like this one. Okay. Look at this. Now i can't move it. Now you got it stuck? Yeah.
There you go. Now I can't move this again.
Oh, so the ball like releases... releases that first pin. That's cool. I like that.
I like that. I wonder what's on the inside of this thing? Yeah.
I'd like to see. Has anybody solved this? I think your dad has. Oh.
Allan, the Puzzle Master. He has solved it. Okay, onto our next,
thing. No, Grabarchuk puzzle this week. Oh yeah! Nice.
But I did some research.
I went on to puzzle museum.com and every so often,
I just want to pull up some old school puzzles,
puzzle ideas and talk about them a bit and then encourage you to maybe go on
some of these puzzle museum sites or different places like that.
This is like I said,
puzzle museum.com. I went and checked out Chinese Concentric Puzzle Ball.
It's a whole article on them. So what, these are:
they're an old school puzzle. Chinese, obviously, and they're made out of ivory,
classically. And it's a big ball and you've seen these before,
probably where they, they make.....
So it's just as big chunk of ivory and then they hollow it out and there's a ball,
with a ball inside, with a ball inside of the ball inside.
So it's like this layered ball thing. And these ones are made out of ivory.
They're really crazy designs. If you go on the site,
there's actually some really cool stuff.
The interesting thing is they talk a bit about, first off,
how you shouldn't destroy the old ones.
Cause ivory obviously comes from elephant and it's like,
a lot of black market stuff. And the really terrible procedure on that.
So he said, don't buy new stuff, but the old ones, if you can find the old ones,
buy them. They're great. They're cool puzzles.
And it's not like it's killing more elephants or anything.
But he also said there's like a synthetic, like a man-made ivory
you can get. It's called Hong Kong ivory or something.
And he talks about that. How a lot of the new ones are made out of that.
So it's these really cool designs. They look like... It was neat.
Just check it out. Chinese Concentric Puzzle Balls on puzzlemuseum.com.
Okay. Next Online Buzz.
So, first off, I'll start with this, actually. We
talked about this one right here. Was it this? No, it was this one right here. The,
Schrodinger's Cat.
Go check this one out on YouTube. Cypher House did a solve with this.
So Cypher House. I'd never heard of them before. A smaller YouTube channel.
Some of the big guys have solved it too, I believe. But,
check out Cypher House. He solves the clue box. Him...
It's a guy and a girl, so they solved it. So definitely check them out.
That was interesting. If you want to see a bit more on that and some of this ID
Venture stuff or IDventure. Also, Okay, Tony, this will interest you. Ready.
This is not specifically puzzle related,
but it's in like the wood kind of category.
I went on a guy guy's YouTube channel called Nile Red. Nice.
N I L E R E D and he made transparent wood.
How does he do that? So what he does is he takes a thin piece of wood,
probably something that some similar thickness to one of these plates on here.
And he,
he puts it in different like chemical solutions, strips out
the color, strips out a whole bunch of different stuff.
He has the part where he puts it into a, into a pressure,
like a vacuum. Vacuums out. And like, there's all this crazy process,
but he starts with a tiny piece of wood and makes it transparent, kind of.
And so it's this whole process. He has a 45 minute video. It's just figuring out how to do it, eh? Yeah.
It's a 45 minute video. He has all these crazy tools and stuff he's using.
And eventually he makes, and it's not completely transparent,
but he makes.... Did he know what to do when he started? He had...
Apparently he had seen a video somewhere else. So he wanted to do it himself.
The video has tons of views.
Chances are maybe you guys have seen it if you're watching our stuff.
But I thought it was neat because he makes it and it's not completely
transparent. The idea is that this should be a replacement for glass.
So it'd be completely transparent.
His wasn't, but he put it on a page and he could read stuff through it.
Like he could read the words through it, no problem. Just a little bit of obscured, eh.
Yeah. It was a little, little opaque. Yeah. But really neat.
I was thinking that it'd be cool to use that in like some sort of puzzle design.
Oh, super cool. Like clear. Like, if you had a puzzle that was completely wood,
but it was like clear. Ah, that'd be cool.
It took him a ton of process time on this and I'm sure it probably, like
financially, it wouldn't be viable.
But to do a one off and make a puzzle that had clear opaque.
wood in it, would be really cool. Yeah. I don't know.
It would be cool to do like an invisible maze on the inside of opaque wood.
Something. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what you do.
It'd be neat to use it though.
It would be cool to see the mechanism on the inside of this thing. I'd say go check it out.
It was neat. Nile Red. Yeah.
And then last I went to a different site.
I'd never heard of this site before. It was called Treatstock,
treatstock.com.
I think it's a 3d printing site where you can buy designs.
I think you can also buy actual physically made stuff.
And it looked like you could find designs and get someone to make them for you
on there. It looked like you can hire guys to make stuff for you.
I found a guy on there named Symen Hovingo,
Hovingo? Hovinga. Symen Hovinga. Symen Hovinga. Okay.
And he had a thing on there and he had a whole bunch of different designs.
I looked at one called the 3d Model of Nano Cuboid
nano cuboids. No, no cuboids? I don't know what it was,
but it was a nine piece... nine square pieces that fit into a frame.
Like a cube with like a cutout on it. But there was nine... And he said,
he said there was rotation in the solve.
So you had nine cubes that fit into a cube. A packing puzzle. So a packing puzzle with rotation.
I was like, it kind of gets me interested, cause it's squares into a square.
Usually if you're like doing rotation,
it's harder with a square piece into a square box. Kind of neat.
Yeah. So I would check that out.
I don't know. Treatstock.com and definitely check out Symen Hovinga. He had
a bunch of different designs on there. Yeah, right away
it makes me think... you remember that Pavel one that we did that has the twist in
it. Oh yeah. The Dancing Shoes? I bet you that's it. Yeah.
Might be, something like that. It wasn't, it wasn't flat though. This was a 3d. Yeah,
same idea. Yeah. Probably similar. Yeah, absolutely. But it was cool.
I thought that was neat. So checkout treatstock.com. Cool. That's the end of Online Buzz.
today. That's all we got today. It is. Nice. Again,
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