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- Welcome back. Quick update
before we get into the video today.
New backdrop. Had the old one. Painted it.
And I am getting some new lighting.
I just ordered some new lighting.
But I just wanted something more livelier,
more happy, something that I'm looking forward
to sitting in and sitting in front of a camera
all by myself in, so I went with this.
Second update is for those of you
who watch this channel for magic content
and playing card stuff.
Something big is coming,
a new series that I'm working on
that's gonna be specially catered to that,
and I cannot wait to share it with you guys.
I think I'm filming the first episode, actually,
next week, so expect that to be up sometime after that.
But today, my peeps, we're not here for that.
No, sir. We are here for the ancient lock puzzle.
Now, this is a level seven lock puzzle.
This thing weighs about 10 pounds.
It's completely made of metal,
and this is actually based on
an old ancient Indian puzzle.
It's made to look super old.
Obviously, it is new, but it's made to look super old.
Now, with this, you're also given three keys,
and these are not your ordinary keys.
These keys will help you open up the lock.
Not gonna lie, this lock looks kind of intimidating,
but I'm super excited to do it,
so without further ado,
like this video if you're into that kind of thing,
and let's get into solving this puzzle.
Here we go.
This puzzle, by the way,
weighs anywhere between five and ten pounds.
Super heavy. You can probably kill someone with this.
Bludgeon them with, not that I recommend that, by the way.
I'm just saying, you probably could.
All right. First things first,
I think we gotta get rid of these,
this little string here,
and free the keys.
These look like keys.
I guess they are keys.
I'm using a pad right now,
because I don't want to damage my desk.
This thing is so heavy.
Okay, so we have three keys.
These two look identical.
The only difference is this one's got like
a hole in it there,
and this one is obviously a smaller one,
with like a weird hole here,
so I have no idea what to start with.
First things first, let's examine this lock.
Make sure there are no independent moving parts.
So, there's a seam here.
There's a seam, so it seems that this piece comes out,
and that's how it's unlocked.
Ooh, oh no. There's also this bar down here.
So this is also, like, looks independent,
and it has holes.
That's the only thing that I can see so far
that might have any relevance here.
So maybe...
I don't know what I'm doing.
Oh! Eh, there we go.
I'm not sure if I was supposed to do that, but.
Oh, great. It's one of those greasy ones.
Huh.
So you got some like, little holes in here.
Hole that you can push down on.
Let's see what if I...
Can you push the other way?
Nope. That seems to be the only opening.
Oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Okay. Oh no! Oh, my coffee.
Oh god. Oh hold on. I gotta.
I spilled my coffee.
I have to, one second.
Okay.
Crisis averted.
So we slipped out this piece.
I guess that was the next phase.
Now we're left with these holes,
where I'm guessing these keys come in handy now.
Oh, oh, oh, look at this.
This key, this is some Indiana Jones stuff right here.
This key looks like it might fit inside here.
Oh, wow. And then what?
Oh!
Oh, I see.
Over here. This is pretty intense.
I feel like Lara Croft.
And then, here. And then what?
What's next? Okay, I pushed out both sides.
Is that it? Nah, that can't be it.
This...
So...
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know what to do from here.
Seems like there's another mechanism up here.
Huh.
Have a look inside.
I don't know if you can see inside, but I can't, so.
It's pretty much hollow,
except for like there's, (knocks)
there's something else.
I haven't really used these keys yet.
So I expect there
to be something
to do. Huh.
Okay, there's a moving part in here.
I wish, you know what?
I'm going to use a little bit of,
little bit of modern technology
mixed up with this.
Take a look inside.
You can kind of see, there's some moving parts in here.
Okay, I don't know if those parts
were just to hold those external parts,
but obviously this is a lock, right?
So this has to,
I mean this has to come apart, doesn't it?
Doesn't it? Doesn't it?
Okay, let's see.
So it looks like...
Uh-oh.
Urgh.
Unless it goes from, no, let's do on this side.
I wanna stab or impale myself.
I'm forcing so much right now.
So one of these is higher than the other two.
This one is higher than this one.
There is a groove where these fit.
I have no idea why these would fit.
That's all the way in the end.
All right. So now that I'm this far.
Not sure what to do.
So I put the longer one at the bottom,
which seems to make more sense.
Maybe I have to...
And this one has a little hole in it,
right there, so I don't know what that's for.
Let me try this again.
Oh! There we go. Push it out.
I mean, is that it?
I don't understand how this,
is that, is that all?
Is there another piece that comes out?
I guess that's it.
For some reason, I suspect that this
is not the end of the puzzle,
that there is some type of
extra hidden mechanism here somewhere.
So I'm going to inspect.
Oh.
Maybe these notches, these little knobs here,
something to do with that.
Why? Why, why, why, why, why?
Urgh. This is so.
My close-up pad here is so greased up right now.
Look at this. Bleagh.
It's two, but definitely looks like
it could come out.
I don't understand how it would.
I don't want to spill my other coffee
so I'm a leave there way over here.
All right. Come on, you.
(grunts)
Okay. Oh, wait.
So this one was here, so now it freed this hole.
This, this must be the hole.
I think I might have went a little too hard on this one.
Okay. That seems straight enough.
Argh. I feel like this piece has to come out.
So there's prongs.
There are a couple of prongs in there,
that kind of look like this,
that need to be, I think, flattened down.
(grunts)
Hey, there we go. Okay.
Gyah, this is so gross.
Let me just grab a towel.
And there you have it.
That is the last piece of the lock.
If you're gonna lock something up,
definitely use this lock.
No one's ever, ever gonna open it,
and plus, you'd need like,
storing this on your key chain.
Not so practical, definitely will,
definitely will lock your object safely.
That's it. That's, oh my god.
This is actually pretty cool.
Look at all the parts that were in here.
Let's try to put this thing back together.
Back.
Sliding this back into place.
And there you have it.
The ancient lock puzzle,
solved.
I wanted to make a cool exit, but it didn't work.
So, next.
All right, guys, there you have it, puzzle solved.
It wasn't that difficult.
It was a lot of fun, though, however.
I did feel, I did feel this sense of, you know,
I'm unlocking this ancient thing.
It felt like I was, I don't know,
in some mystery novel or something, or,
like this lock was found in like an ancient pyramid,
and you know, it just kind of has
that adventurous look to it and feel to it,
so definitely it looks cool on the shelf,
and definitely something for your friends to try out
if they don't mind getting their hands
a little bit greased up.
That being said, guys,
thank you so much for watching this video.
I hope you did enjoy it,
and we'll see you on the next video.
Peace, bye.
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