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Today, I'm gonna tackle a level 10 cast puzzle.
This is known as the infinity puzzle by Hanayama.
Hanayama are known for their difficult cast puzzles.
This one is no exception.
It is one of the hardest in the collection.
The whole point of this is to take out
two bearings that are between this infinity symbol
and then to put it back in again.
Sounds easy but knowing Hanayama, probably isn't.
I think the last Hanayama puzzles
that I attempted were the chess piece puzzles.
If you've not seen that video,
go ahead and check that out.
But, they were not a level 10.
These are.
This is going to be quite difficult.
I'm looking forward to it, sort of.
These things take time, sometimes hours
and I'm hoping that's not the case
but whatever it may be, we're gonna do it.
We'll do it.
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Enough of that, let's tackle today's puzzle.
Alrighty, then.
This is, supposedly, a level 10 cast puzzle by Hanayama.
So, first thing I notice is that
they push up, and out, and in.
They also rotate from time to time.
(banging)
So, I'm guessing if I rotate...
(soft electronic music)
They fall through?
Just gonna push it up and down,
and keep rotating it, I think.
See, this one's already almost out.
Okay.
I think I've almost solved this puzzle, already.
Look how far that one is.
Rotate you, there.
(clanking metal)
Maybe I can rotate this one.
This one doesn't seem to rotate at all.
(clicking)
This side, here.
There's definitely a pattern, here, somewhere,
as I try to shim one, the other gets stuck, so.
They have these little cogs.
Here, I'll show you in a sec once I rotate one.
So, there's these this little cogs
that kind of stop right here.
They kind of stop everything from rotating
and that's also what's holding,
I think, the other one in place.
I'm gonna try to do it clockwise, first.
Clockwise is this way.
(soft electronic music)
No, that would be counter clockwise.
There we go.
They keep dropping down levels, I guess.
(clicking)
It seems like this one's like out.
What do I need to do?
The other one spins, too.
(metal clicking)
(humming)
I'm getting confused at the orientation.
Like clockwise, here, is obviously
not clockwise here, it's counter...
Or...
Clockwise here would be counter clockwise on the other side.
Okay.
Clockwise here.
Clockwise where the infinity is,
that's what we're looking for.
Or, this one turns.
I don't know.
(metal clicking)
Clockwise.
(soft electronic music)
It seems to wanna go counter clockwise.
You know what?
(metal clicking)
This is proving to be quite difficult.
Not gonna lie, here.
Orientation is everything.
So, if I wanna turn it this way.
(soft electronic music)
(gasping) So close.
You gotta like lift and turn sometimes,
so that's tricky to find that exact spot
and it won't turn there, so I'm guessing
I have to do it on this side.
But if I do it on this side, I can't turn the same way.
I have to turn it the other way.
Or, take the bottom one.
(metal clicking)
That felt good.
(soft electronic music)
I think it's stuck, now.
Almost out.
I can feel it's almost out.
I keep turning it the correct way, I think.
Again, it gets a bit tricky.
I've been constantly rotating it this way.
Counterclockwise.
If I go clockwise, I think I'm going backwards but
it seems to be the only move that I can do.
(metal clicking)
(soft electronic music)
These little notches on the inside.
That's what's stopping everything.
What kind of puzzle is this?
Jesus.
Because this one barely turns.
This one turns more.
I don't know why.
I don't know if that's a thing.
Maybe my thing is defunct.
I feel like I'm at square one right now.
(soft electronic music)
I feel like I'm going backwards right now.
(groaning)
(soft electronic music)
There's a pattern here, somewhere.
I just can't see it.
I can't see the pattern.
(soft electronic music)
I think I've figured this out.
So, here's what I'm thinking, after all this time.
There are many, many, many steps.
This thing unscrews about three or four times
and then this thing moves once.
I'm gonna take this back all the
way to the beginning so I can move this once again.
And I think that's the solution, here,
and if I do that over, and over, and over,
I will finally be able to open it.
Now, you see my notch that's here?
It started here.
It went there, now it's there.
Now, I think, boom.
Now it's here.
Now, watch what happens.
This is really cool.
Now, I can turn this one (metal clicking)
all the way, hold on, no that worked
but hold on, boom, turn it once.
Turn it twice.
Three times, turn it four times.
There you go, five times.
And now we're stuck, so what are we gonna do?
We're gonna move that down one, again.
Now, we've gotta get this one back to the beginning.
So, we gotta twist it.
I think I'm really figuring this
out, this is kind of awesome.
(metal clicking)
I gotta twist, there we go.
One.
Then you gotta kinda shimmy it.
Two, three.
Two.
(soft electronic music)
It's gotta go all the way back
to the beginning, I think, here.
There we go, boom.
Boom, boom, back to the beginning.
Now, watch this.
Bam, oh.
Oh, what?
What?
(snapping)
That's incredible.
I did it.
(soft electronic music)
Can this still come out, though?
There we go, bam.
I actually figured it out.
I did not, it wasn't luck.
I mean, luck was for the first half hour,
it was just messing around until
I started understanding that those
notches had something to do with it.
These notches are actually the indicators.
You need to know where you are in the puzzle
and that is freaking awesome. (laughing)
Alright, can we put this back together?
I don't know which one goes where.
Uh oh, trouble.
I'll just take a guess on it.
This one goes here.
Well stay tuned for the next video,
where we're gonna put this puzzle back together.
No, I'm just kidding, I think I'm fine.
(soft electronic music)
There we go.
(sighing) Thank you.
Alright guys, that was it for the
level 10 Hanayama cast infinity puzzle.
Pretty difficult, kind of frustration.
I was, not gonna lie, I was very frustrated.
At one point, I felt like I was moving
forwards and then backwards, and I had no...
It almost seemed like there was
no point of reference for like the longest while
and I think that's what makes this
a difficult puzzle is that you have
to find the point of reference.
It isn't obvious, at all.
But it's kind of like a clock
that you have to tick around.
Once I figured that out, it's like
something just clicked and I think
that's the beauty of puzzle and then puzzle solving,
is once you figure it out, something
just clicks within your mind,
and when that happens, there's such a rush
of oh my god, this is genius.
And so, I was waiting for that click
in my mind to happen, hoping it would,
hoping I didn't have to film for eight hours.
Probably took me like an hour and a half,
and then once it clicked, it was easy peasy.
So, really, really fun puzzle.
Definitely something you could try out.
I'll leave the link below where you guys
can check them out, they're not too expensive.
You can, you know, watch your friends
struggle with them for a couple days.
It'd be pretty funny.
But anyways, guys, that is it for me for today.
Thank you so much for watching.
I know I haven't posted for a while,
I've got a couple videos coming up
as well, this weekend, so be...
Be stay for that.
Alright, whatever, like this video.
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Peace.
(upbeat electronic music)