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Hello my name is Tyler, and I am your Puzzle Master Insider.
Welcome to my third video where today I will be giving you an inside look at the puzzle: Scorpion.
Scorpion is one of the Original 10 Puzzles that Puzzle Master founder
Allan Stein first produced in his basement in 1991,
during the inception of the company.
This is Video 3 in a series I will be calling The Original 10,
where I will be introducing you to the very first puzzles from Puzzle Master.
This includes the puzzles
Heart Breaker,
Handcuffs,
Iron Maiden,
A Puzzle,
Lion's Lair,
The Rack,
Wedding Vows,
Cowboys Hobble,
Fantastic Five,
and today's feature, Scorpion.
Scorpion is a wire puzzle made from three millimeter or
1/8-inch thick, nickel-plated steel wire with four nickel plated rings,
2 wooden, red-painted beads, and a black nylon rope.
Unlike the Cowboy's Hobble from video one,
and Fantastic Five from video two,
which were both Level 9,
the Scorpion is a Level 7 on Puzzle Master's Difficult Rating Scale, which runs from 5 to 10.
Scorpion is also very similar in both name, design, and solution to the Scorpion's Sting,
a Level 10 puzzle in the Puzzle Master wire line.
The only difference between the two puzzles is that the Scorpion's Sting loops the rope around the frame twice,
instead of once like the Scorpion.
This causes the puzzle to be much more difficult.
It is amazing how one little change creates such a drastic difference.
The objective of the Scorpion is to remove the nickel-plated ring.
The mechanics of the solution itself are simplified version of the solution to Fantastic Five.
Below is a link to the video, if you would like to watch it.
Next, I will show you the solution. If you aren't interested in seeing this, then please stop the video here.
Three.
Two.
One.
Zero.
Now for the solution, you want to hold the frame sideways like this.
The first thing you'll do is put the ring
that you're taking off up onto the frame like that.
And then you'll notice when it's hanging, that there is one rope
that comes through the top.
You want to take that top rope,
put the ring from that rope,
through the frame.
Should leave you with one bead hanging on there.
You'll take that rope ring, put it on to the rope.
Down here-- again, grab that ring and
put it up through the frame, over the bead and off.
Now to get it back to that first position, you can take the ring out of here and put it down
and that's how you take the ring off.
Now to put it back on, you just essentially want to do everything in reverse.
So you'll take that top--
top ring again or top rope,
put it through the frame and down,
grab your ring,
put it over the bead through the frame and onto the rope,
then grab the
ring, put it up onto the frame,
take the ring without the bead and put it through the top, and you're back on.
The Scorpion puzzle is available at PuzzleMaster.CA.
That wraps up Video 3 of 10 in the Original 10 video series.
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