- Lee, (coughing) oh, I'm so sick right now guys.
Lee, we're gonna do a magic trick.
I want you to legitimately, let me roll up my sleeves here,
legitimately name any playing card at all.
And I'm not just, this could be any playing card.
- Ten of hearts. - Ten of hearts.
And Lee, in your most convincing voice,
did I, did I ask you to name the ten of hearts?
- No? - Why are you winking at me?
(laughing)
No, I honestly didn't though, really?
- No. - Okay.
So we're gonna leave that there, now here's the thing.
This is a glass table, interesting properties about glass,
one, it is solid, but from a certain angle,
the interesting thing is that it kind of looks like
it isn't even there, which is really quite interesting.
Let's get into the video.
Yo, what's goin' on guys?
And welcome back, today, a bit of a different camera setup.
Usually we got the camera way back there
and we got the zoom lens makin' this whole background
super crushed and it looks awesome.
Today I thought we'd try something different.
We're gonna add a camera here while I solve,
you know, with this camera here.
So this is my top-down where we solve puzzles
and then you're gonna whatever.
What's up guys?
I hope you guys are doin' all right.
I'm still fighting a cold here, but managed to muster
up enough strength to try and solve this level 10 puzzle.
(intense music)
(bell dinging)
(mystic music)
This puzzle's called Tappen.
Very cool, very unique, I mean it looks
so simple, so unassuming.
This is from a company called SLoyd, SLoyd, oy SLoyd.
They've made a really cool puzzle we've solved in the past,
this being Tappen sent to me by Puzzle Master.
Level 10, the whole goal here is to take this outta here
and that's it, should be simple enough.
I think we're gonna kill it.
But what do I know?
Hope you guys enjoy the video and I hope you like
that intro, a little magic trick I put together.
Super clever, proud of myself, enough of that.
Let's get into solving Tappen.
Well I've set up another camera.
So now we've got this, we've got this double angle going,
so not only will you be able to see the puzzle
from a top-down, you'll also be able to see my,
my disgusting mug while I solve this puzzle.
That's cool 'cause I can kinda show you things like this,
which is really sweet, but then also, I can bring it here.
I'm giving Lee a really hard time editing this right now,
'cause I'm gonna pull it in and out of focus like this.
(laughing) Sorry Lee.
All right, so, oh I forgot the...
(whistling)
(exploding)
That works, here we go, set the timer, beep, beep, beep.
So this is a level 10 apparently.
It looks like a children's toy.
Tappen, and it says Tappi.
Tappi, so there we go, here we go.
Ahh, so first things first, this thing rotates.
And there's a sound, there's a weird sound.
You can hear that, listen.
(metallic scratching)
Like a metallic sound there somewhere, I don't know why.
There's also another logo here,
with like a circular piece that's been carved out,
'cause the grains don't match up,
so I assume they've been carved out,
and matches on the other side.
And it's called Tappen.
My guess is it must be tapped.
(tapping)
If somebody walked in on my right now
and all they saw was this.
(tapping)
Just solvin' a puzzle Mom.
(laughing)
Ah, that's never happened before, okay.
There's no give here, this is a level 10.
How is this a level 10?
This is so unassuming and pathetic.
When in doubt, spin it out, baby!
The goal here is to remove this pin, right?
Maybe we listen.
(click)
Oh, there's like a click, like a spring-loaded click.
If I push and twist...
(click)
That's interesting.
Ooh.
(clicking)
(banging)
I can't help but wanna, you know, smash it
because it says Tappen, Tappen and Tappi, T-A-P-P-I.
Let's, let's Google these things.
Obviously probably means to tap?
Tappen, to touch gently with hand or foot.
To touch gently, well that's interesting
because like right away, I wanna tap it,
but to touch gently, that's really interesting.
Okay, that's a gentle puzzle, what does Tappi mean?
T-A-P-P-I translation, oh in Japanese it means Kayapo.
That's not what we're lookin' for.
Tapari, tapo,
there's no tappi, tappi.
To touch gently.
(gentle music)
I'm kinda dumbfounded here by this.
There's actually like no real sound to go on
unless you move something, normally these sequential puzzles
you have some type of like moving part
that you can listen to, some type of inner maze,
not this time.
You only have sounds when you move things.
(click)
Like that click right there.
(click)
It's got the weirdest clicking sounds goin' on.
(tapping)
(spinning)
(tapping)
Honestly, these pieces even look
like they're glued in there.
They don't even look like they come out.
So I don't even know if that's a thing,
or if they move at all.
They don't seem to move, like not even budge a bit.
Again, the only thing I'm getting is this thing is rotating,
slight motion left and right, and if I pull and rotate,
it makes a clicking sound like if I'm loading
some type of flap or spring.
This puzzle's just so stupid looking, all right?
That's what I hate about it.
It looks just like a children's toy.
Like here you go grown adult.
Play with this toy from the 1920s that my grandfather built.
It's for children and dogs, but here you go.
And then I can't figure it out.
That's how I feel right now.
It looks so simple.
It looks like one of those raddler, rattlers,
raddlers, rattlers, rattlers?
That children would have, you know?
There's like baby drool all over it.
(laughing)
There's gotta be an orientation thing 'cause it says
Tappen here and Tappi here, Tappi Tappen, tap, tap, tap.
And the puzzle, tap.
Twist, bop it, pull it, spin it, twist it, smack it,
bop it, pull it, maybe that's what it is.
A big Bop It, it's a Bop It from the 18th century.
I'm running out of things to do with it,
is what the problem is right now.
I thought about this the other day.
There's like a satisfaction to solve ratio
with some puzzles, where some puzzles will,
they'll give you something in return for steps.
There are puzzles like this one which gives you
little to no feedback on anything,
so you don't know what progress looks like
and you don't feel a sense of accomplishment
through anything until you solve it.
And then there are other puzzles,
where throughout the puzzle, they'll give back
little sensations of accomplishment or physical,
actual physical sensations of the puzzle like releasing,
which sends a rush of dopamine
or endorphins or whatever it is.
And it feels good to solve it.
And there are other puzzles, like I said like this,
that they don't give you anything.
And those I think are the most frustrating
because unlike Hanayama puzzles, most Hanayama puzzles will,
there'll be like a movement where you're like, okay.
Even though nothing's happening, there's some feedback here.
This is just the same old, same old thing
over and over and over and over and over
and I think that's what makes it also, a difficult puzzle,
is that it's not so much difficult on a scale
of how hard is it, but difficult on a scale
of how hard it is not to go insane trying to solve this.
How much time do you devote to something
that's so mind-numbingly simple,
before you wanna throw it against the wall?
So that's kind of where I'm at with this.
Plus I'm sick and have a headache, so it's not helping.
I just thought I'd throw that in there.
Okay, now that that's out of my system.
So there is something, like you can hear that, listen.
(clicking)
There's like a spring being released.
I'm gonna be spinning this thing so much,
I'm going to start a fire.
Like this is how fires are started in "Castaway".
Maybe that's it, maybe there's like a little flint in here
and this thing just spontaneously combusts.
Puzzle solved.
Oh, it's locked here.
I've locked it, and no, maybe I broke it, I don't know.
(banging)
Are there any other seams?
(tapping)
I cannot wait to figure this out and go back to bed.
(laughing)
(tapping)
Oh there's a piece moving now.
I'm holding...
Oh, and now it's not moving.
Okay, we have a clue.
(banging)
Bam, gotcha, yeah baby!
That's all it was, it was a tappin' baby.
Oh, that's cool.
So literally, that's all it was.
A level 10 and there was this magnet,
as you can see here, boom, which kinda zips right through.
See that there?
And then you gotta smack it for it to...
And if you don't smack it hard enough,
it doesn't go into the other hole.
Now it's in there.
There it is, that's it, huh?
Ah, okay, cool puzzle.
I mean, definitely didn't think the solution
was gonna be that simple.
Although it's simple, I'm havin' a hard time
'cause I have to line up those two holes exactly
(tapping)
where the magnet is,
there we go.
Ah, that's the clue right there.
So on this right here,
you see that little hole?
So that's I guess, to lead you to the orientation
of that hole there, and so if that's facing up,
that means your magnet is
properly in place, and there we go, now we're through.
Now we can't get it out because the magnet
is probably protruding just enough for it to stop this.
So in order for that to happen,
you have to line up the side.
Go in this side, (tapping) tap it down.
Tap it down I say, and there we go, it's out.
Okay, cool, Tappen.
Definitely not a soft, definitely not a soft touch
to open this one, you really gotta apply
some force here, there we go.
Level 10 Tappen solved 20 minutes, baby let's go!
What, dang, in realtime baby, hot dang, we did it!
Tappen solved, boom, Tappen has been tapped!
Tapped out, tapped, tappit, that's all I got.
Anyways, hope you guys enjoyed this little puzzle.
I quite enjoyed it, even though it was a little more simple.
Level 10, I mean, if they didn't have the word tap, Tappen,
I would've had a harder time.
I would've tried to figure somethin' else out,
but they kinda gave you that clue, with the whole tap thing.
Because of that, I rate it probably a level seven or eight.
Definitely wouldn't rate it a level 10, even though it is.
It's one of their most difficult puzzles as I see here.
Their highest rating, little five puzzles out of five,
as you can see which makes it (speaking foreign language).
Forgive me, anyways guys, thank you for watching this.
Hope you enjoy this video.
Let me know if you like the dual camera angle
for future solves, or if you just wanna see
my hands and not my ugly mug.
I'd appreciate the comments below.
Like this video if you did enjoy the content.
And we'll see ya on the next one, peace.
- [Woman] Enchante.
(French music)
Enchante.
(French music)