On today's episode,
we show you the full line of the Akaki's Picnic Basket that finally came in
today. And at the end of the Online Buzz,
you'll find out about some really new Jean-Claude stuff we've got coming in
that we're super excited about.
Super excited. Check it out.
Welcome to Episode 79 of Puzzle Time. We are here.
We have new Puzzle Master branded merch. Brand new shirts. Yeah. Yeah.
This is... their shiny. I don't know if you can see it on camera. Shiny logo.
Kinda cool. We've got different colors. Yeah. You'll see some different ones. We have like what? Like six.
I think I got six. Cool. Six different ones.
You'll see different colors here in the coming weeks.
Also we have a draw coming up. This is Episode 79. It's on Episode Seven....
Eight. 78. No 82. Oh yeah,
the giveaway's on 82. Got to go back to 78 though. Giveaway is going to be on 82.
Go to Episode 78 - Like, Comment on that video.
You'll be entered away in your own Cast Love,
which we will ship to you for free. So yeah, Episode 78,
enter there and we'll do the draw in 82. So cool. Yeah. Cast Love; really good.
Actually,
I should mention, this is the best-selling puzzle on the Puzzle Master website in
like the last months. Really? So yeah,
you're getting like the best of the best on our site. So yeah, there it is.
Cast Love. Let's just get into today's puzzles. Tony,
I got this right here. Karakuri. Karakuri.
It's Karakuri Creation Group. It's called Cassiopeia Small.
This is small. I don't know if I have ever seen this. I had not either.
I was literally walking on Puzzle Master. Tony's father Allan,
the Puzzle Master, the owner of this company.
He was like playing with it and I was like, oh, what is that?
And then he told me, and he showed me the solution.
We've shown some Karakuri. Yeah, we've shown some Karakuri on here before.
And it's not unlike some of the other stuff.
It is not a like crazy hard solution. You just gotta get the box open.
Do you know it? Cassiopeia? Like Tony you're big into like Greek
mythology and all this stuff. And Roman mythology. Dude,
a lot of the names from there. Like I have names in my head,
but don't know what they are.
You don't. Oh, I thought maybe you'd know this one.
I looked it up actually little bit. Cassiopeia. I mean,
obviously it is a star constellation. It's that one
that's like a w and it like points.... So just like that. Yeah, it points to the north star.
So this is the constellation that is the north star, I think.
And this is like the.... So it's this w shape. Cassiopeia was a Greek,
a queen from Greek mythology. She boasted about her,
her beauty and apparently like pissed off Poseiden, and there was this whole thing.
So there's this back and forth. And,
the astronomer Greek astronomer, Ptolemy named it Cassiopeia and
discovered it. So a little bit of history. Tony likes that.
And then this is the small version and there is a large one,
apparently that's like double the size of this. So once I opened that,
it stops... it all stops. Yeah, it's pretty crazy.
But you can hear something rattling. Do I need to get the ball on the right spot,
then? Of sorts. It's not actually a ball. No, it's a box.
Yeah. Well like the thing inside, it's not a ball. No? Yeah, I'll explain it.
It's a really cool puzzle actually. So it's called, Cassiopeia.
You got to open it up. That is the north star.
And what's inside here is a compass. Oh, cool.
And so you got to have the compass facing north for the box to be able to open
up. I'm pretty sure that way is north.
I just gotta make sure. There.
So sick! If you have the compass facing north, it will open.
If you do not... Very cool. You can't see the compass; it's underneath.
I don't know how it works. It's nuts.
I wonder how they get away from.... Like, I was shaking this thing.
No. So you could accidentally do it, pretty easily
I think. That's super cool. And so here, just try it, try it.
Try facing it a different direction and now try to open it. It'll open there,
but it won't open there. That's pretty nuts, hey.
I thought that was a super cool puzzle. It's gotta be kind of, yeah, right there.
Something like that. So like that? Yeah.
And the thing I found is you can't like.... You have.. Whatever position it's in and
once you do that, it locks it. Yeah. So, yeah. I don't know.
It's hard to find true north, to be honest a bit,
but that's, that's it. Cassiopeia. Super cool.
Just thought I'd throw it out there. Really interesting. So I like that.
I thought you'd appreciate the Greek mythology stuff. That was nice, yeah.
Yeah, let's just get into the next stuff then. We're on to Akaki's Picnic Basket.
Now we have shown you guys these before. We showed you three of them.
And I think the three that we showed actually were slightly different colors
than what we actually ended up getting. So we showed... Aren't they the same ones though? We showed this one.
I believe so. And the pink one, right? The pink and the yellow,
and I believe the yellow was like a dark yellow.
The pink was the same and the blue as like a light blue.
So, Akaki's Picnic Basket. Definitely... Honestly,
this is one of my favorite puzzles that we've got in. I love this puzzle.
I took the three that we had the samples and I like played with them.
Took them home, showed them to people. They're really cool. So let's just... You,
you pull one out Tony and you play with it. Yeah. You... do... start with the...
Oh. Start with egg; this is egg. Yellow, right there.
Okay. And you play with that. So that's a level seven. That's called Egg.
Each of these, these are 3d printed puzzles.
You've got to pack them into the picnic basket. We did this one. Yeah,
we have that one. So I definitely,
I remember this one now because it's got some spin moves in it.
The thing I don't like is that they do come together. I don't like that.
We've talked about that before. I don't like that they come in the solved state.
I wish they came apart because then it gives you like some hints on what to
do. But yeah. Cause I mean, if you really pay attention, when you take it apart,
you can like a hundred percent figure these out. Oh yeah. If you don't. I mean,
it's definitely a lot harder. I haven't been paying attention. No, and that's good.
So that is Egg. It's a level eight, actually.
That's an eight. This is... Let's see, I'm going to go through this.
This is Fruit, which is a level seven. This is Cake,
which is a level seven, as well. Hamburger, which is light
brown and is also a level eight. Salmiakki,
which is black, is a level eight. What is Salmiakki? I think it's a fish. Okay.
Not a hundred percent sure. But I remember looking it up,
but I think it's a fish. And then everything else is a level nine.
There's a bunch of nines. So yeah. Let me just show you this one.
I know this one. We did it. I figured it out after we did it that other week.
I don't think we figured this out in the episode, but this is...
I really like this one. Yeah. I liked it a lot actually. So,
which is the hardest ? Do we have a hardest one? I mean,
this is a nine, right there. You play with that one.
I'm going to take this apart and then, Tony,
I'm just going to show you how it's done. Cause I really liked this.
I liked... I thought Cake was a beautiful one. Cool. That's a very cool piece.
So you got three pieces. Seems like it should be simple. Actually.
we struggled with this one quite a bit.
I think I did it with Chuck, as well later on. So your first move is this.
You got to like slide it under there and then drop it in. And then you,
you come to this point where like you realize this is going to kind of step in,
right. Like it's going to go like that,
but you have to...
So I think it goes there and then this one goes... This is what we missed.
I could see what I had to do but I couldn't get it because like,
you have to go in and then you do a spin on this one.
It has a spin right there. So you spin it.
And then this one goes in. Oh, so sick. And then they go in and they go in together where they
like weave in to each other like that.
Very cool. Super cool. Yeah,
this one's fun because I could see... When me and Chuck were playing with them,
I could see what you had to do, but I couldn't figure out how,
because it was at that spin that got me.
And then when they went cooperatively in, I was like,
that's such a cool move where like two pieces are moving in at the same time.
Two big pieces too. So I liked that one.
Definitely my favorite one so far that I played with. That's cool.
I've not tried these hard ones though. Let's let's
try one. I don't want to pull out too many pieces, man. No,
Nah, they get mad at us for leaving them unsolved.
That's true. It's true.
Some of them do have like... They all look like they're solid here,
but some of them are, have dead space inside them, I believe.
I wonder how he designs these. Does he have a program that he runs through?
It's got to be burr tools, right? Yeah. It's gotta be burr tools.
Cause it's just a burr puzzle, right? It's just a burr puzzle inside of a frame.
So you could,
you would think do burr tools. Burr tools is a computer program that takes
burr puzzles and a burr puzzle is essentially a pieces that are to like square
pieces that will fit together like this more or less.
And then burr tools is a program that you can use on your computer.
You put in your specs and then it like tells you how many solutions there are.
And that sort of thing.
A lot of spins in these. There is. I think once they get harder,
it's going to be like, there's going to be more spins.
There's a spin there and then you just put this one in the corner and spin it all the way around.
That's sweet. I just, I like these so much, man.
These are such cool puzzles.
You can also buy packs of these. So we have a... There's 10,
I think of these, right? 10 puzzles. Yeah.
So they're split into like hard and easy.
So like you can probably buy a five pack of easier ones or you can buy a five
pack for the more difficult ones. Now the interesting thing with the five pack,
these are all individuals here. So these are... And when you buy one of them,
you'll get the basket and the puzzle inside when you buy the five packs and you
get one basket and like five puzzles.
So you don't get five baskets,
which is definitely... it's good because it's... Play with that. ...cheaper.
You hear that though?
Yeah. You'll like that.
I saw you doing a funky move there. Oh yeah. Those two pieces. Oh.
And then there's.... They lock the whole way.
And then you gotta slide em apart.
And then I was thinking, you go to turn that one,
like bring it all the way this way and then spin.
Oh, there's so much movement.
And there's like a third piece that like literally is moving around,
down underneath. Yeah. That you're like sliding back and forth.
What the heck? Okay. These are cool. I really like them.
Akaki's Picnic Basket. I mean, definitely go to our website,
check it out because they are cool. Like I said,
you can buy them individually with a picnic basket per puzzle or you can buy
the easy or hard pack.
I they just come with one picnic basket and five puzzles inside. Nice.
So I like that. It's good bang
for your buck too. They would come in the unsolved state.
Actually, I think they would. Yeah.
Cause you would just get the pieces. That's definitely my recommendation by the easy or hard starter packs.
And I was actually surprised with some of the easy ones in here.
I thought like maybe some of these easy ones would be stupid easy. They're not.
And I actually think our levels that we give these are low.
I think this was a seven and I was like, no way that that's a seven.
I think that's harder than seven. I mean, maybe it's just me, but yeah.
I think that's it for, for puzzles that we got today. But yeah,
let's move into Online Buzz.
So in the Online Buzz. I went to...
It's all YouTube today. We got all YouTube stuff today. RevoDeity.
This guy named Chris Linnick. So he has a YouTube channel
and in it he does a giveaway of a puzzle that's not out yet. Okay.
It's called... It's from Alan Lunsford and you might've seen Alan Lunsford's
puzzle called, I think it was, Unsafe Deposit, we did.
And we talked about.... what's his name? What did I get myself into?
He did that puzzle.
So this is the third release of these like 3d printed coin puzzles.
So they're a 3d printed box and has a coin you got to release inside them.
He did Unsafe Deposit and Bolt... What's it called?
Bolt Action. So those are the first two and this is the third one: Mighty Pin.
And so Chris Linnick is doing a giveaway of that.
You can definitely go on there, on the YouTube channel, enter his giveaway.
We definitely entered as Puzzle Master. Cool. So yeah. But you,
you can win that puzzle. It is not released yet. It will be released July 16.
So you can win your very own copy of that before the release date,
which I like that. It's exclusive and you get a puzzle that nobody else has. So,
the other thing is, Chris also shows you the solution to the puzzle if you
want.
So the first half of the video is talking about the giveaway; the second half
he does the solution. I didn't watch the solution.
I didn't want to have it ruined, but... Just in case we win. Yeah, exactly. Right? we'll have to shoot a video.
But RevoDeity. Check it out. I think he does Revo Mazes.
I think that's where the name comes from. So,
I didn't watch a lot of stuff on his channel, but check it out and,
worthwhile. I think there's a lot of puzzle people coming up.
Another one that we,
I watched that I had not seen before was Downtime Fun.
So this is a fairly new guy. It looked like he had done some different reviews.
I think we watched like a massager review and think there's some computers and
stuff he reviewed, but I think he's gotten into puzzle reviews. Okay. So,
we watched, I watched him solve Casino,
which I think is such a beautiful puzzle. That's a Dr. Volker Latussek
design. I think it was... Casino was done by Rombol. Rombol. Yeah,
a really good puzzle. I think it was a beautiful solution in that,
like he had like piano music kind of going over top of it.
So he just literally no talking piano music and like showing the solution.
I think it's a great solution. Go watch that.
And he had a lot of videos actually. So,
there's a lot of stuff on that channel.
And then last, but not least is Puzzle Guy. He...
there is.... So Puzzle Guy is like the preeminent Pelikan guy out there.
If you want, if you're interested in Pelikan's,
burr puzzles; phenomenally made wood burr puzzles, but
Puzzle Guy is the guy to get them. How do you think he gets them? Well,
he lives in the same country as them. Oh good. Like they're both from
Czech Republic, I think. Alright. So he said, they live like a,
like an hour's drive away from him or something. Oh cool. Or like they they're,
they're shop is that. So he has connections. He also takes pictures for them.
He does like they're... On their site, he does their pictures. Cause Puzzle Guy,
I guess, his day job is like a photographer. So he does pictures for them,
but he also gets their puzzles before anybody else. Probably because he can just
like walk over and pick them up straight from where they manufacture them. And
shoot the video for them. Exactly. And he, they,
they like specifically give him like pre-releases that he shoots and like....
So all that to say, he has a video titled The Biggest Pelikan Puzzle
Release and he has a whole bunch of puzzles that he shows. Some really cool ones.
And one of my...
A guy who is quickly becoming one of my favorite designers is Alexander Magyarics.
That guy, man. The stuff Pelikan does for him like or does of his designs
are phenomenal, phenomenal stuff. There are some in the last release.
You and me did them. Remember that. Like, I think it was like the Pepper shaker
one. They're like funky, like triangles. Yeah, yeah. Pepper Castor, that was Alexander.
He has some really good stuff. And there's a few more in this release.
There is one and I thought it was super unique. It's a picture frame.
It looks like a big picture frame with a glass front on it or plexiglass front.
And like, there's these bugs, there's like four bugs,
you've got to fit in. There's these bug shapes. So in it,
Puzzle Guy talks about the fact that like, first off, you have to open up the
frame to be able to get the bugs in.
So that's part of the puzzle, is opening the frame and then you got to fit
the bugs in the right way.
The next thing I thought it was really neat is that it's a wall hanging.
So like it has a hole in the back of the puzzle. You can make,
put it up on the wall as like a framed picture. Cool.
So I thought that was really cool. Alexander has some great designs,
honestly look him up. We have a few of his things,
I think at Puzzle Master on our website.
But, man, Pelikan and him just,
it's a great team because I think he has phenomenal designs and they just do a
great job making them. So definitely check it out.
Check out Puzzle Guy's video and go buy some of that, man. It's just,
it's such good stuff. Even if you don't like burr puzzles, man,
I think these are so next level.
There were some cool stuff too. Some more Osanori Yamamoto. You know,
where he has like the stuff where you like kinda got a pack it in through a hole
in the box. He had one that's like an L shape, the whole was. Okay. Yeah.
Instead of like being a big box or something, the hole in the thing,
it packs into an L. I thought that was cool. Nice. So check that out.
Puzzle Guy has some great new releases from Pelikan coming up and
I mean, we'll probably have him here at Puzzle Master in a month or two.
So I don't know, but that's all the stuff online there.
I've got one more, little bit of info for you guys,
just cause some stuff coming out here at Puzzle Master.
There is a whole, a big, giant crate of stuff coming from,
Jean-Claude Constantin. Yeah. So I'm not sure when it's going to come in.
I'm probably going to guess in the next weeks or months here soon.
But there is some crazy stuff, man. Stuff we're really, really,
really excited about. It's some designs in metal from
Jean-Claude,
but it's designs from an or puzzles he made from a designer that we haven't seen
for decades. And I'm not gonna say who, but it's metal stuff.
It's really cool. And it's designs, I think, I've seen pictures of.
It looks amazing and I'm very excited for it.
So keep an eye out for that because that'll be coming out soon and
some really unique stuff. I, I guarantee you many will not be in here long.
I mean, Jean Claude stuff... His normal stuff sells out fast. I mean,
this is going to be next level.
We are super excited for it and it's going to be so good. So, yeah.
Keep an eye out for that on our site: puzzlemaster.ca
and just click into that new section. That's all we got for Online
Buzz though. Nice. You guys can
check us out: Facebook,
Instagram Tik Tok. We don't have Twitter. No, don't have Twitter.
Don't have Tinder.
Puzzlemaster.ca. Yeah, definitely go there. Sign up for our newsletter.
There's lots of new releases that you'll see in there and stuff.
And some insider information and like Tony said before,
make sure you click on like the waiting lists for puzzles.
If they're not in stock. Cause that's kind of where we....
It helps bring them in stock faster. And
they can... Episode 78, Comment, Like for your chance to
win a
Cast Love. Yeah. Maybe we'll throw on a t-shirt or something too. I don't know.
But enter. Cast Love. 78.
We'll do the draw in Episode 82 and thank you guys for watching. We
are out.