- Yo, what's up, guys?
Welcome back.
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- Wednesday is puzzle day and I thought I'd try
my hand at solving a level six,
which basically is a level 10 Hanayama puzzle.
This puzzle is known as the Enigma.
Before I get into that, though, however,
I just wanna a little side note for those of you who
collect playing cards like myself.
Big news in the playing card industry,
USPC has sold their company to, basically, Cartimundi,
which is the European card manufacturer.
I've been getting a lot of messages, a lot of people saying
they're concerned about the quality
or what will happen.
I've reached out to both USPC and Cartimundi
and expect an answer from them explaining
the sort of situation, what that means for us
and what that means for you guys
and playing card collectors alike.
So I should be getting those answers soon
and I will upload an update video for you tomorrow,
so expect that.
But, today, the Enigma Puzzle.
This is a level six,
which is the most difficult rating
on the Hanayama puzzles.
On the back of this puzzle it says
patented in America, 1975.
The somewhat swirl pieces of this puzzle by Eldon Vaughn
must be disjoined and then, put back together.
It also reads, I once found a similar version of this puzzle
about 20 years ago in America,
but considered it impossible to solve at the time.
We have made a new version
maintaining the difficulty of the original,
licensed it to the cast puzzle series.
This is, without a doubt,
among the most difficult of all puzzles.
Don't use too much force.
The pieces should just slide apart.
Designed by American designer, Eldon Vaughn.
There you have it.
They say that this is one of the most
difficult puzzles on the planet.
I have a hard time believing that
'cause I've seen my fair share of difficult puzzles,
but, none the less we'll give it shot.
Take it apart put it back together,
doesn't seem to complicated, famous last words.
So without any further ado, lets get into
solving this puzzle, the Cast Enigma.
(whistles)
This is the Hananama, the Hanayama Enigma,
said to be one of the most difficult puzzles in the world.
I'll be the judge of that.
Doesn't look too over complicated.
I mean, you know, I've seen puzzles of this nature before
in the Hanayama Collection, not as difficult obviously.
Oh, before. (chuckles)
Told you, I'm a new man.
Never gonna forget this thing ever again.
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Upon inspection, first things that I noticed
are you have an opening here and an opening here
and an opening here.
And this opening here is a little bit off set,
that's a bit weird.
And I also have, once I have these openings,
I also look for a place where I can slide them through.
So, obviously, first thing would be
can this one go through that opening
and I don't imagine it would.
Yeah, no.
But what I do see is this here.
This is the only thin portion of this puzzle,
so I do see a piece sliding through that
thin piece somehow and extracting its way out here.
That I know.
Another thing that I know about Hanayama Puzzles are
there's never any force required, there are always moves,
and these moves are always very like
purposeful and precise.
So I'm thinking, I have to maneuver one of these pieces
through the other one, that's my first guess, somehow.
Because that's not going anywhere, that's stuck over here,
this one stuck over here, et cetera, et cetera.
I can actually move that through there, that's kinda cool.
But what does that do?
It does nothing.
I understand why this is a difficult puzzle
because it's very easy to get lost.
Everything is so mesmerizing,
that it's very easy to get lost.
Oh, that's cool, so that fits in there.
Oh, cool.
So that fits in there,
which gives us, brings us to a different point in here.
Can we keep going?
We can.
I believe we're stopped here.
Yeah, there's nothing happening over here.
Is there anyway that I can bring one of those openings
to this flat piece?
'Cause right now, I have no clue what's kinda.
Oh, right here.
Does that, can we make that happen?
Oh, I don't think so.
I think we're being prevented here somehow.
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Oh.
Gotcha, that went through.
Okay, we're good, that's progress.
So that goes through here.
There we go.
Okay, that ring is through.
Now, this looks like a big knot.
I've gotten that one through, like this, correct?
Yes, okay.
Now that that ones out of the way,
would it be possible for me to get the next one through?
Next one would be this one.
Have to go through there, I'm pretty sure.
But that seems to prove impossible right now.
Okay, I know we did something right.
We got progress in 33 minutes.
We got a little bit of progress.
Let's just maneuver these out of the way,
so I can do some more work here.
That's the one I moved through.
Move this one through, this one here.
Can I move that through now?
That's the aim of the game right now.
Don't know if I can do that from here, maybe.
Keep moving that one around.
It won't let me position myself.
There, oh, no.
Almost.
All right, so I'm trying to slide this opening here
through that thin part, but it won't go
because this ones' obstructing it.
So, now, I'm trying to move this one out of the way,
somehow rotate it into a position
where it allows me to slip the other one through,
which is difficult, it's very difficult.
Boom.
Wait.
No, it just brought me back, didn't it?
Yeah, that was the one that went here.
So close.
So look at how close that is to going through.
This one's still obstructing it somehow.
Ah, so close.
All right, 40 minutes gone by,
still, this is the only move that we've conquered
is getting that through here.
Once that's through here,
we have to get another one through here,
I'm pretty positive.
But to do that has proven very difficult
because the deeper I go in here, oh, see.
I'm kinda stuck as that one doesn't wanna go through.
So this one here's obstructing.
(mellow hip hop music)
That's good, there we go.
That's actually really good.
Can this one just simply slide out now?
(mellow hip hop music)
Right, okay, so both of them are now in this middle ring,
as you can see.
Now what?
Now, this is the one, this here
we've not done anything with yet,
so I'm guessing that that's the next one.
Fit through there.
Can these two switch places?
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I'm pretty much good at this point.
Hold on.
Boom.
(exhales) Got one out.
So this one was in here.
That one was in here and then, this one went back in here.
So, that the way to get this out
was first, okay, after an hour and six minutes,
boom, that one goes in.
The second one goes in.
Now this one has to come back out, simple as that.
Simple as that.
And that one's out and now, this one should be out.
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They coulda just give me these two pieces
and that would of been just like
a fine puzzle in itself.
Oh, look at me, I thought I was home free.
(sighs) You gotta be kidding me.
How is this not coming out?
Doesn't make sense.
There's only one way for it to go in
and only one way for it to come out and it's not.
It's like interwoven, interlocked.
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Was that there or in there?
That's it and none of those sides unlock it, what?
Why is this the hardest part?
(mellow hip hop music)
Yes.
(groans) All right, that's that.
See if I can get it back together. (chuckles)
(mellow hip hop music)
(man yawns)
So, this is here.
Okay, so that definitely does not look like
we're done assembling.
'Cause that piece is there.
(mellow hip hop music)
Well, that about wraps it up for me.
I am done with this puzzle.
I've gotten it to a point where it's one move away
from being at the very beginning
and for some reason or another,
I can't figure it out and I've been at this for
an hour and a half.
And whenever you put an hour and a half into a puzzle
like this, where it's so easy to lose track
of what you're doing, you start to become frustrated
and saturated with the puzzle.
Like, I mean, I, at one point, you just stop understanding
what the heck's going on and you're just left staring at it,
moving it around
and just not unlike what I'm doing right now.
So, for that reason, I'm going to play around with this
on the couch, probably, or at the table
and just kinda try and figure it out
a little bit more off camera.
Taking it apart is not difficult for me at this point.
I know exactly how to take it apart from here.
It's getting it back to that first, first initial thing,
which is gonna take me, probably, quite sometime
to just keep at it.
Nope, all right, I'm about to smelt this thing into a club
and beat myself over the head with it.
So, guys, that's it for this puzzle.
I took it apart, had a little bit of a hard time
putting it back together, one move away,
but it's I'm willing to give it right now.
(groaning)
There it is, Enigma.
As you can see in the video,
I didn't make any progress before, about a half an hour,
so I just skipped through that,
so you guys wouldn't have to sit through me
clinking and fiddling around with this randomly.
My head hurts, I have a headache right now.
It's pretty bad, a little bit from the light
and also, just, I don't know.
It's just like looking at this
when you're doing these puzzles,
you get to a point where your brain
starts to get saturated because everything looks the same.
Nothing, everything just looks like you're doing
the same moves over and over
and over and over and over and over.
And then, go in here, huh?
Like, I can't put it down.
That's the disease with these puzzles,
you can't, once you do it, you're like,
I gotta figure it out.
I think, actually, this might be it.
Something like that?
So that wants to be in there.
Nope. (chuckles)
I can't.
I'm gonna fiddle around with that,
try to get that back together off camera
because, right now, the more I do it,
the more my head hurts.
I've got a massive headache right now.
I hate not completing a puzzle, it bugs me.
Right now, I just, all I wanna do is just keep doing it,
but that's not gonna be any fun for you guys.
I'm pretty sure this whole video is no fun for any of you,
to be honest, because it's just so random.
Like, you have no idea what's happening
if you don't, if you're not in it.
You know what I mean?
Like you're in a puzzle and you're like,
this goes here, this goes here.
Meanwhile, you're watching, you're like what the?
This is random.
Anyways.
Thanks for sticking around.
I'll post, you know what, when I solve this,
I'll post a picture on my Instagram
and then, you'll know that I've solved it.
How about that?
So guys, follow me on Instagram
to get all the juicy details of how I solved
this stupid puzzle.
Thanks for watching.
We'll catch you tomorrow for that update like I mentioned
and have a good day, peace.
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