♪ Transhumanist ♪
(funky music)
- Yo, what's up guys, and welcome back!
It's Wednesday, you know what that means,
it's puzzle day here on this channel.
As you saw from the intro,
quite an intricate and alien-ish looking puzzle.
This is known as the Delta puzzle by Hanayama.
This is probably close to a seven, level six, level seven.
What really attracted me to this puzzle was the look of it.
It looks like some ancient alien relic
that was uncovered in some dig site.
I like the feel of it, I like the look of it,
I like the weight of it, can't wait to start solving it.
Before I do that, I wanna show you guys
something really cool.
This (grunts) came in the mail, check this out.
This is a printing plate.
When the playing card tuck cases
or the boxes for my playing cards are sent to be printed,
if you notice on my tuck cases, there are also an embossing,
and there are also gold foil.
And so they create these giant massive printing plates
and I have one, as you can see here,
from the inside of my tuck cases,
which have those little 1ST logos repeating themselves,
and then I have this one,
which is the outside of my tuck case,
which has my logo on it, it has the 1ST,
and I think this is made of copper, it weighs a ton.
Since 1ST Playing Cards V1 will never be reprinted,
I asked to have these, and I'm gonna hang them up somewhere,
or just really create some cool artwork with 'em.
If you guys have any suggestions what I should do with this,
(ring clunks loudly) let me know down below.
As for V3s, those are coming really soon.
I can't wait to share some pictures with you guys.
I'm just kinda saving it, 'cause I don't wanna hype it up
too much before it's released.
Without any further ado, guys,
let's get into solving the Delta puzzle.
(Chris whistles) (puzzle clacks)
The Delta puzzle, this is a cool-lookin' puzzle,
probably one of my favorite-looking Hanayama puzzles,
'cause it does resemble this ancient relic,
this ancient alien relic.
Don't know what to do with it,
so we're just gonna start fiddling around with it,
let's get the timer started here.
(timer beeping)
Boom, so first things first. (puzzle clacks)
So when you spin it, it kind of opens up to this thing,
which is cool, so what if you're here
and you spin it the other way?
All right, let's just see if we can have
a look at the sides.
Maybe there is one side that is different than the others.
Knowing Hanayama, a lot of times they have just different,
like there's something different about one of the pieces,
and that'll give you some type of clue,
or orientation at least, you know what I mean?
Ah, so there you go, right here,
on the inside, so on this piece here,
you have the word Delta, which,
see the pieces sort of go like this, right?
Here, let me draw this out for ya.
So just to give you every piece sort of,
kind of goes like this.
So that's sort of the configuration
of every one of these pieces.
This piece here
has the word Delta right here,
and this piece here
has the word Hanayama here.
Okay, what does that do?
Nothing, but kind of gives you an idea
of what those pieces look like in case
you can't see them. (funky music)
If I do that, I can create a little triangle
in the middle, hmm.
Maybe that's the trick.
Maybe the trick is to pull them all out
evenly at the same time.
Let's try that, well, no,
'cause that would mean that would work, right?
It's super confusing.
What would you do right now in this instance
with this puzzle that doesn't open, that's sort of...
What would you do right now, what's your guess?
We've tried spinning it. (puzzle clunks)
(chuckles) Oh my god, are you kidding me?
Wow. (guffaws)
Cool, okay, solved. (laughs)
That's actually hilarious.
Let's see if we can, (laughs)
okay, let's see if we can get it back together though.
I don't even know what the heck happened.
Oh, okay, so we were close,
once we had that little triangle there.
(puzzle clunking) (Chris chuckling)
That doesn't work anymore.
I don't know how that worked, or why that worked,
and I'm kind of like, I mean,
I think I understand how this opens,
and you do have to create that little mini-triangle
in the middle, if you know what I mean.
I don't know!
I just solved it, and I don't know how it works.
Why did it just open, huh?
This is a first, this is probably the first time
I solved a puzzle, put it back together,
and still have no idea how it works.
Okay, so here we are, the triangle in the middle.
I think that's where you need to be.
Okay, if we could just open it again,
maybe I could see how to close it properly,
and then I could find out to actually solve it!
Got it, okay,
I think I know what the move is here,
so let me try and redo that (chuckles)
one last time.
♪ I got you ♪
♪ You got me ♪
♪ We aren't too lucky ♪
♪ I got you ♪
(timer beeps)
It's about 10 minutes here,
so what you wanna do is you wanna create this
tiny triangle in the middle of those spaces,
and then you wanna take the one
that's written Hanayama on it.
All right, so for good measure,
here's what we're gonna do, we're gonna make that triangle
by just jiggling these things in a circular motion,
they eventually form, there you go,
see that little triangle in the middle?
So once that's in the middle,
I'm gonna try and pull equally on all of these pieces.
Oh, there we go, okay.
It's not so much the force of it,
but it's the direction in which you pull it apart.
It's kinda confusing, 'cause the way the pieces are shaped,
it feels counterintuitive if you pull it a certain way,
so you gotta really pull it in the right direction,
so here we go, we're back down to that,
we wanna get to the triangle.
There's the triangle, and once we have
that triangle in the very center,
there it is.
Ooh, that's cool!
And then you just pull it apart.
Very cool, so we found the solution.
Find the triangle, pull.
That direction to pull, 'cause this one's gotta go this way,
this one has to go this way and that one has to go that way.
Oh, this one goes this way and that one goes that way
and that one goes that way.
So it's like a weird, you don't pull down, you pull here,
you pull there, and you pull here,
rather than pulling, you know what I mean, straight down.
So there you go, that is the Delta.
Hot, that's a knee-slapper!
I was actually pleasantly surprised with this puzzle
because we did solve it and we put it back together
and we had no idea how we done it!
I say "we," but I mean me.
You guys are probably yelling at your screens being like,
"Chris, make the triangle!
"Make the little triangle, pull it apart equally, so easy!"
But I eventually figured it out, I think it's kinda cool.
This is one of those simple solves that I really enjoyed,
because sometimes you get these puzzles
that don't give you anything in return,
there's nothing happening, and it's sort of invisible.
This, there's kinda nothing happening until it happens,
but it's visible, you can see all those moving parts,
which I think is really cool, we did end up figuring it out.
I would personally rate this, yeah,
just around a level six, level seven,
not too difficult but fun to play with nonetheless.
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(singing in foreign language) (funky music)