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- Yo, what's up guys and welcome back!
Do you know how it feels right now?
This feels like tech review,
I feel like this is a tech review setup,
this is like on box therapy or something,
that's what I feel like tight now,
it's pretty sick.
We are here today,
first of all, thank for watching!
Second of all, I'm just gonna share with you
some of my top 5 favorite puzzles
that I think would be great for Christmas gifts,
or holiday gifts if you want to be politically correct.
Either one.
Just to be fair they aren't my favorite puzzles,
a lot of my favorite puzzles like one-offs
and stuff like that but these are the ones
that you can get your hands on
and I think would make cool Christmas gifts
if you're looking for that in price ranges from,
say around 10 to 15 bucks to couple hundred bucks,
so whatever your budgets into.
By the way, if you are looking for any other gifts,
even puzzles that I have not mention here,
by the links below to either Puzzle Master or Art of Play
or bring you to a whole bunch of other things
that they sell on their sites
which could also be great for stocking staffers.
So without any further ado,
oh, one more ado,
I just received the V3 Tuck Cases.
The cards are coming in tomorrow,
so I can start filming a trailer for this
and I'm really, really hyped up
because the Tuck Case,
nicest version of first playing cards ever by the way,
not hyping it up, this is very true.
I'll let you see for yourself in a couple of days.
But I'm heading Saturday
to go film on location somewhere
and hopefully bring you that video by next week.
So, anyways, let's get down to the video.
So, number 5, this is number 5 for me.
This you might recognize this little beastie,
one of the first puzzles that I did on video.
The video actually blew up, like 10 million hits
which is super weird.
I think one of the reasons for that is
because innately when you have anything made of glass
and something trapped inside
it automatically becomes like an impossible object,
which I think is really cool because this is super cheap,
I think 10 or 20 bucks, I am not exactly sure,
but pretty cheap, a fun little game of dexterity
and sort of patience.
You have to unscrew the nut from a bolt
in order to extract the wooden stem.
You do have this cotter pin down here
and this ball as well which will help you
get everything done.
So, a real test of patience here,
this isn't something that you gonna solve in 5 minutes,
be alone because
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you will drive whoever is next to you absolutely nuts!
Or drive yourself nuts whatever is more fun.
That's my number five.
Number four, (speaks in foreign language)
this is the Hanayama Box.
So, Hanayama produces really cool puzzles,
not only do they produce cool puzzles,
one of the really cool things about Hanayama is
that they're all affordable.
That's sort of, I wouldn't say motto
but it's kind of what they represent is
they wanna be able to share these amazingly
designed puzzles with the world
and obviously, they do not want you to pay a fortune
for them, so these you can find pretty much everywhere,
I left a link below.
This one, particularly cool, kind of a maze puzzle.
So, what you have to do and this one's not at the start,
I believe I played around with this one already.
You're maneuvering the ring through the box,
so it starts at the start point which would be here,
it's really cool, because so many different entry points,
you can really go nuts with this.
If I don't stop now
I'm gonna be caught up with this for a very long time.
I don't believe that's where it goes in.
You can play around yourself, I won't solve it here
but the cool logic non the less and what's cool is
that you understand the premise just looking at the puzzle.
It's not like obscure puzzle
where you don't even know where the goal is.
This goal is very clear.
It even says "Start" right there, it's where it starts
and that's, I guess, where also you have to end it.
That's where the ring has to be.
So, cool thing!
And the cool thing about this is,
you know, even for stocking stuffer
or you can hang it in the tree
or what ever you choose to do with it.
I just think it looks really sleek!
It's all made of metal here,
so I don't know, looks pretty cool,
definitely a really cool gift
you can give someone who is
just starting off into a puzzles,
or just someone who wants to pass the time.
Number four.
Number three, this one is a special one
because it's not necessarily a puzzle, I mean it is,
but it isn't, and I reviewed this before.
This is the Cryptex.
Now you might recognize this from something like in,
"The Da Vinchi Code".
I personally use it for a magic trick
when I'm performing on stage.
So, what's cool about this, yes,
this can be a gift in itself
but it can also a contain a gift,
which I think is really cool.
So, if you're lazy
and just want to give 20 bucks to someone,
well, this is a cool way to harness
or to put that 20 bucks in, or anything else,
a piece of paper with a note on it,
or any small item, maybe another puzzle.
What's cool about this,
you can actually choose a word that opens it.
So, in this case I chose a word "world".
Once you opened it you can unscrew the ends
and rearrange the letters to fit
any five-letter word that you want.
So maybe you can give that special someone a clue,
that clue will lead them to the word,
which will hopefully lead to the contents of this Cryptex.
So, that's a really cool puzzle,
now comes in different shades.
You can get this one here which has the white letters,
there's also one that has like gold letters,
which I think is cool also.
I actually might pick that one up.
Next, when you think of like, you know,
like national treasure, Da Vinchi Code
or any of those cool Indaina Jones type puzzles
you're thinking of definitely something in this scope.
Number two, this is my number two,
this is one of my favorite Hanayama puzzles ever made.
This is the Marble, the Cast Marble by Hanayama.
Now this thing looks like an alien relic.
It kind of opens like this,
you do not really know what is going on,
and a ball in the middle spins around.
Now, this is made of four pieces
and the four pieces come apart,
as you can see here, it takes a very satisfying move
to be able to slip this two apart.
That's one of the reasons why I love this puzzle so much
because there's that satisfying rush of endorphins
when you figure that's one out.
It's just so smooth and buttery.
I'll do it actually for you live,
I kind of line up that line.
The reason I'm showing it to you because
these are ideas for gifts
and so if you buy this for someone
and if they're too frustrated to figure it out
you can actually show them.
So, once you line up that line
with the cracks here, these slide apart
and when they slide apart
you now have four individual pieces.
Now we can take those little balls out of there,
those half-spheres out of there
and then in order to line them up again
you have to line up these little parts
and slip it right back in.
Which is, oooh!
so satisfying!
It really is and it looks cool!
It's just a cool keepsake that you can keep around.
Funny story with this is,
when I was in Vegas hanging out
with David Copperfield a couple of months ago,
we were at his hanger,
he's got this really cool place
where he keeps his private jet,
he's got like a little, even like a little museum
at the entrance of the hanger
and he gives this really psych tour
and on the shelf on the bar, he has like this bar area,
was a whole bunch of Hanayama puzzles
still wrapped in their original packaging,
obviously, no ones played with them,
so I snagged this from the counter
and I brought it to a restaurant, where we went afterwards.
We all had pizza and stuff
and then I showed David, I actually gave it to David
to try and solve and was just getting frustrated with it
and I had to show him how it worked
but once I did, he was really elated,
it was like one of those really neat things where
He's like "wow, I finally understand the complexity
of some of these really simple looking puzzles
and how satisfying they can be to be solve".
So, neat little story.
That's the Cast Marble and that is my number two.
Number one is a two-parter!
This is a two-parter.
These are probably the most expensive of all of the puzzles,
so if you're looking to getting a gift for someone
who's maybe a little more familiar with puzzles,
little bit more advanced in the puzzle world,
or if you simply looking to torture someone mentally.
You can get them one of these two.
So, this is a Danlock B and a B-Lock
made by the same person.
This actually was the first original puzzle
that I've ever solved on this channel,
so this is what started this whole crazy ride
into the puzzle world is this one and a story behind
this was, this was just sitting of a shelf
at my friends warehouse at Art of Play.
And as you can see, it is a key looped through
which is something you don't really see often,
and there is a broken key
and there is another little piece on the desk over there,
there's another little piece that comes with this
that's broken up off.
So, you left with this visual which is super bizarre thing
to look at, because you like, two things are wrong!
One, that in itself is a mystery,
two, a broken key and then a lock.
So, we all know how a lock works, this is an ordinary object
transformed into an extraordinary object
by the fact that it's a puzzle.
And that really threw me for a loop
and when I saw it I had to have it,
I had to figure out what the heck was going on,
how is this a puzzle?
A puzzle in my head was like either a Rubik's cube
or a jigsaw, there was nothing else!
So, when I saw this,
it really got my imagination going!
And it kinda felt like it was some secret object
that a double agent would have or something.
So, these are hand-made.
This is wow, so this one is like it's little brother,
you can find both of these below, I believe,
and they both have similar ways of solving it.
This one is a little bit different,
a little bit more simple but don't underestimate it,
it's still hard nonetheless.
You're looking at this and you're thinking wow,
that's easy, key goes in there,
obviously that's not right
and there's something more to this.
And they're consequential discovery puzzles,
which means that, within this you are going discover
other tools that will allow you to open it,
which is really, really sick!
Plus, they are looking really cool.
Like this captured my imagination instantly.
They can be stocking staffers,
obviously very expensive stocking staffers or so,
or just, you know, figure out how the lock works
maybe to lock something else into it,
they have to figure out how this works
before they can get to their presents.
I do not know, be creative with that.
But very, very cool if you are looking
to get special someone something a little bit extra
as a puzzle, you can not go wrong with this.
Trust me, any puzzler would be more than ecstatic
to have both of these in their collection.
So, check them out, I left the link below to those as well.
And folks, that's all, it's Friday, I'm taking a weekend,
as I said to go to film on location.
I'll give you a hint, I'm going to Bermuda,
so, I am so excited to actually have a deck at my hands,
I have a box right now, the deck is coming tonight.
This is without a doubt my favorite deck
that I ever produced.
I know, you gonna say,
you're saying this on any deck you produce!
Well, that's the goal.
I try to outdo myself every time
and I've successfully done so this time, I think.
Can't wait for you guys to see it.
By the way, if you guys want more sneak peacks
into what's happening with the V3's,
I have an account on Instagram,
called 1stdotshop, which is also my web-site
where you can buy merch like this
and where you'll be able to purchase
the playing cards once they get released.
So, that's 1STDOTSHOP or on Instagram @1STDOTSHOP.
So, check it out, thanks for watching, like, subscribe,
all that good stuff and we'll see you on the next video!
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