Hello! My name is Tyler and I am your Puzzle Master Insider.
Today, I'll be giving you an inside look at the puzzle Lion's Lair.
Lion's Lair is one of the original ten puzzles that Puzzle Master Founder Allen Stein first produced in
his basement in 1991 during the inception of the company.
This is video Number Eight in a series I will be calling The Original Ten, where I will be
introducing you to the very first puzzles from Puzzle Master.
This includes the puzzles:
The Rack,
Wedding Vows,
Cowboy's Hobble,
Fantastic Five,
Scorpion,
Handcuffs,
Iron Maiden,
Heartbreaker,
A Puzzle, and today's feature - Lion's Lair.
The Lion's Lair is a wire puzzle made from three millimeter or 1/8 inch thick
nickel-plated steel wire, with two nickel-plated rings, a nickel-plated
triangle and a larger brass-plated ring.
The objective of the Lion's Lair is to
remove the brass-plated ring from the frame.
It is a Level 7 on Puzzle Masters Difficulty Rating Scale, which runs from 5 to 10.
The Lion's Lair was originally created in 1840 by a blacksmith named Patrick Lyon, spelled L-Y-O-N.
There are several other variations of Lion's Lair available on the Puzzle Master website.
This includes Lyon's Loop by Tucker Jones, and Loop by Jean-Claude Constantine.
Lion's Lair has a simple enough solution that it is often accidentally solved as it is played with.
So the ring comes off with the person playing with it having
no idea how they did it.
Next, I will show you the solution.
If you aren't interested in seeing this, then please stop the video here.
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Three.
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Zero.
When doing the solution for the Lion's Lair, it helps to
think of this triangle piece as the bottom of the puzzle, and the end with
this nickel-plated ring as the top end of the puzzle.
The solution will center around these two loop pieces and if you notice, when
you fold those two loop-ends together, it brings these ends at the top together.
When you fold the loops the opposite direction, it brings the bottom ends of
the loops together.
Now to start, you want to have that brass ring on the triangle
at the bottom of the puzzle and you'll want to fold the loops so that the
bottom ends are together.
Bring that brass ring up around through those loops
and follow it up til you get the top. Bring the ring over the top ends of the
loops into the middle of the puzzle and open it up again.
From there, you want to
fold those loops together at the opposite direction so the top ends of the loops are together.
Bring that ring up and over the top ends of that loops and over that ring,
follow the loops around and out the top end of the puzzle.
Taking the ring off like that.
From there, you want to put
the ring back on and essentially just do
everything you did but in reverse.
Now, fold those rings loops together so that the top ends of the loops are touching.
Bring that ring over those top ends and
around those loops and go over those top end of the loops again.
Open the puzzle
back up, and fold it the opposite direction, bring the ring up and over the
top end of those loops again, and then follow it back down through the middle
and on to that triangle.
And that is your solution from start to finish.
The Lion's Lair is available at PuzzleMaster.ca.
That wraps up video eight of ten in the original 10-Video Series.
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Thank you for watching and I hope that you have a very puzzling week.