- Yo, what's up guys, and welcome back.
First of all, thank you to those who view--
First of all, thank you to those of you who-
(gibberish)
First of all,
hmmmm,
thank you to those of you who've checked out my last video,
we did a Game of Thrones inspired escape room
with mobile escapes, it was pretty cool.
If you guys haven't watched it feel free to check it out.
If you're not a Game of Thrones fan I totally understand.
We had a vote on YouTube community,
like 120,000 people voted,
75% don't watch it, which is crazy.
It just makes that meme obsolete of those of you
who are like,
"I'm part of the 1% that's never seen an episode."
Literally, you're part of the majority.
So, ha!
Okay?
Whatever.
It was a cool video, if you want check it out.
Feel free to do so,
but today we're looking at something uh...
As most of you know this puzzle
this is the bane of my existence.
Excalibur, The Burr Puzzle,
which I've attempted to solve twice now,
which I broke.
Mr.Puzzle, another puzzler,
another guy who solves puzzles on YouTube,
made a video saying, "Hey, if you like, send it to me."
He has solved Excalibur by the way.
He wants me to send this to him and he will fix it
and send it back and if he can't fix it
he'll send me his own,
and I can reattempt it.
Which I'm looking forward to do.
Trust me, like we already have this like, epic--
I don't even wanna talk about it.
But it's like,
Okay.
Is what I'm saying, so.
Okay.
Today we're looking,
this is kinda like an Excalibur 2.5.
We're looking at a miniature puzzle
by the name of Excalibur.
Totally different puzzle, however.
This is a puzzle made by Gary Foshee,
once again last week I featured in one of his puzzles.
Super rare, hard to find, highly collectible puzzle.
This one was featured in IPP '99 in London.
Only a few of these were made.
They were handmade by Gary.
A beautiful craftsmanship, uses I'm guessing,
steel or aluminum as well as this beautiful brass hilt.
Obviously the goal here is to extract Excalibur.
Hopefully, the curse won't follow me for so long
and I can be able to solve this one.
And that being said, it might repair me, mentally.
(puzzle clacking)
Anyways, I'm going to the post office after this video,
and I'm shipping this to Mr.Puzzle.
Thank you, by the way, Mr.Puzzle.
Appreciate that.
Without further ado, let's get into solving
the mini Excalibur.
(whistling)
Here we go, the miniature Excalibur.
Bet you thought it was a lot bigger when you
saw that (unintelligible).
This, as I mentioned, is a puzzle from Gary Foshee.
Another one we looked at last week.
Part of the rare puzzle collection that I bought.
Apparently, once you solve this, you can like,
unscrew this and show the inner workings of it.
I don't know if that's advised or not,
but maybe we can do that and show you guys what this
might look like.
Also, this is the bag it came in.
Verifying that there are no secret tools in this bag.
Yes, no, nothing.
This is a picture of a bridge in London.
Remove King Arthur's sword from the stone.
IPP 19 Excalibur, London, August 1999.
Souvenir from Gary Foshee.
So, ooh. (laughs)
You thought I'd forget.
I'm done with those days, boys.
You don't know, you don't know the new me.
The new me doesn't forget these things, you know?
And I'll leave that, guess I'll leave it there.
That's fine.
Here we go, IPP '29, right?
No, '19, right. (laughs)
Okay, so what do we have.
We got this brass thing, this turns.
Seems to be an inner mechanic in here
like a little ball.
Probably a little maze.
I don't feel any resistance, I can't,
push it in.
Can't pull it out, okay.
Here we are, what is this, this move?
Well, that helps, okay.
This good?
Testing.
All right.
Oh, that came out of it.
I feel like that came out of it.
(pounding)
See, it did come out and it didn't go back in.
See, now it's in.
Look.
Now it's stuck.
Okay.
Maybe the first step was just spinning it.
Just to make sure.
You can hear it rolling as I twist it.
(banging)
Twist it, bang it, bop it, pull it.
Pull it.
Bop it.
Twist it.
Just me?
(mischievous laughing)
Man, I really thought this would be a cake walk.
I have to at least solve this Excalibur.
It'd be embarrassing if I didn't.
Oh!
Oh, she's back in.
So random.
Hm, don't know what else to do.
That bead,
is in there and I don't know what the purpose of it is yet.
Hmm.
So, say that there's a maze in there.
(bass thumping beat)
It wouldn't be a true Excalibur if it wasn't at least
a little difficult I guess.
(groaning)
(banging)
(tapping)
So I got it to come out just a little bit by spinning it.
Oh.
Oh!
Oh, look at this!
It's unscrewing.
Tang taranta tang tarantata!
Excalibur is freed!
That is cool.
So there is a spin move involved
and then you gotta pull and twist, not just twist.
You have to really,
so I guess there's a bolt in there that has to have
friction against it,
but instead of theorizing, why don't we get a screwdriver
and have a look?
Maybe the screwdriver in the drawer?
A butter knife?
I should probably get a screw driver in the office.
Little Swiss Army knives or something.
Well, that's cool.
My training for Excalibur is complete .
All right, lets see if I can,
yup, that comes apart.
I don't wanna break the inner mechanism here.
Just wanna see what works inside.
I think you guys might find it interesting,
so will I.
Gary Foshee.
Cute little toy, for sure.
Oh, wow!
So it's not so much a spin move
as it is just a move to get that ball in there.
But why wouldn't that open otherwise?
Okay, so there's a cylinder here.
So when this is screwed in, let's just screw this in here.
So that's--
Oh!
Oh, there is a spin move.
It's a rod.
And the rod, I'm thinking.
But how does that work?
Oh, I see.
So, what the rod, this is really smart.
Let me focus here.
So, what the rod does, is you can see on the top
of this here, there's that hole.
So basically that small move to pull it out...
Nope, sorry, this is backwards.
Okay.
Yup.
All right, never mind what I said
So,
this here locks into
that hole, right?
So when you're here, if the rod is protruding,
it'll get stuck
(tongue popping)
and that's when it only comes up a little bit.
And that's why you have to
either do the spin move or just kind of rotate it
on one side.
And then once...
Oh, you have to lock it in.
Oh, okay.
I'm understanding things now.
Basically, when this gets locked into that hole
we can just do it this way,
actually do it backwards.
Give you a good sense of what's happening.
This is essentially backwards right now
but once the rod gets locked into that hole
kinda like this.
Kind of like,
it is really hard to position it in that hole.
(chuckles)
I hear the comments already.
There.
So once it's locked in there, obviously--
Oh my God, the focus here is terrible.
Obviously this would be the opposite way.
But once you're locked in,
once you're locked in...
Once you're locked in that allows you,
that allows the piece to stop and allows you
to unscrew it.
Otherwise, you're just doing this,
and obviously it's stopped by that, right, so.
You're kinda just spinning it into nothing
and that whole base is turning as well,
so you have to have that rod locked in
in order for it to spin.
The interesting part here
is...
this...
little bead.
And so when I was pushing down on this
and when I got it to go down
by spinning it, by doing the spin move,
what it actually was doing is that ball bearing
would fall inside that hole
and that's what made it go down,
which is why every time I pulled it out of it
the ball bearing would extract
and it would not go down anymore onto that plate.
Now it's in there and if it,
watch again if I pull it out.
You hear it
and now it's stuck cause that ball bearing
is loose on the ground.
There it is.
Now that that's there
I think,
I have to place the rod.
I'm hearing a sound.
It's like the rod's on the other side?
Yup, now we're stuck.
And once you're stuck, then you can unscrew it,
now it'll just unscrew.
You have to,
to solve Excalibur,
you actually have to
(rattling) push it in first
and now it's stuck, it won't go back in.
I have to find that hole to where the bead goes
so that this'll lower the sword
and then once the sword is lowered gently
I have to find where the rod protrudes into
the tiny hole on this block
and that gives me enough friction to unscrew it
and pull it out.
Wow, pretty cool.
It's funny, cause I--
It's funny cause I really thought there was
a red herring there,
but I guess not.
Everything has a reason.
And that is the miniature Excalibur solved!
Yay.
We can finally move onto the real thing.
Well, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
That was it, that was the miniature Excalibur puzzle
by Gary Foshee.
Really, really clever design
as I opened, as I mentioned,
I thought there was a red herring with that bead in there
just to throw you off with the sound.
Which is probably not untrue,
it probably does act as a bit of a red herring,
but it is a practical design
which I explained when I opened the thing that you
need to put that bead into the hole
and then find the spot for the rod.
You know how hard it is to explain a puzzle to someone?
Have you ever tried?
Try being mid-puzzle, stopping and being
and trying telling someone else what's going on.
Being like, "Oh, the piece was in there,
but when I flipped it the sound changed,
and then it came out because turning it didn't work
like it did when the bead wasn't in there
because it wouldn't go all the way down."
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I will be uploading a video this weekend as well
as an extra bonus puzzle.
We're looking at some Hanayamas that I received,
I received a whole collection so,
pretty excited for that.
Stay tuned, and we'll see you then.
Peace.
Thanks.
Bye.
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