- Alright, today I'm going to attempt
my very first string and ring brain teasing puzzle.
This is a very, extremely demanding
puzzle, a level eight.
Now, these puzzles, although they
look sort of Japanese in style.
There are some old Japanese puzzles
that look like this.
This one was actually created in
Germany by a fellow named Jürgen.
Uh, let me get this right.
Jürgen, uh, Reiche.
I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
He's the founder of a company
called Siebenstein-Spiele, and that is
a gaming company, or game company,
puzzle company, uh, that produces this.
And I left the link below if you guys
wanna check this out.
So without further ado, like this video,
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(claps) get cracking.
This puzzle is known as a Drunter und Drüber,
which means, uh, under and over.
So the whole purpose of this is to,
much like many of these ring and string puzzles,
is to remove the ring, uh, from the puzzle.
It's simple enough, but here, here's
what I really can't get over with these puzzles.
These, the, they freak me out a little bit.
Obviously these beads, this bead here
does not fit through that little hole.
So there's no way that that could
come outta there, right?
Not only that, this is stuck between
the rope, which is lopped through
here and there are no openings on
this, on this part.
So, how is this even physically possible.
This is one of those real brain teasing puzzles.
First and foremost, the one thing that I
can think of is giving us some slack here.
So if I pull that this way, I know
that I can probably fit the ring around.
Alright, so the ring's around here now.
I've gotten the ring out of that.
Okay.
Now, (laughs) now I'm in quite the
precarious, precarious position.
If we loop the.
I'm just gonna randomly try this one.
If we loop this back.
No, that puts it exactly where it was.
Okay, nevermind, that's not what I wanted to do.
What if we take this string here.
Okay.
And that did absolutely nothing.
Okay, alright.
Hmmm. (thinking)
So I know that I can loosen,
and get the string to be out of there.
Okay, what have I done now?
Have I double looped it?
Okay, so let's try this then.
Uh-huh. (affirmative)
what's gonna end up happening is
I'm going to end up creating a knot,
I believe, in this whole puzzle.
Okay, back to square one, I believe.
Is this how we started?
So these little notch things move,
and there's gotta be a reason for these moving.
I just, uh.
Just haven't found that reason yet.
Hmm. (thinking)
Hmmm. (thinking)
(instrumental jazz music)
I've successfully tied a knot.
Uh, so if you wanna know how to tie a
knot on this puzzle, I can teach you that.
Um, (laughs), that's still looped on here.
I need to get that unlooped.
What if, what if we go here.
Oh, here what if we follow the ring to here.
So now the ring is here.
Okay, now the ring is there.
I somehow believe that the ring
is supposed to travel, like, through
each and every one of these things,
one at a time.
Once you figure out what the pattern is.
The only reason I believe that is because
they're, they can all pivot up and down.
Which makes me believe that that's part of the solution.
Again, just a hypothesis, not sure
that that's a valid statement.
And for those of you thinking, by the way that
I've, uh, I have the answers to these
and I'm just sort of playing along with it.
I assure you, the only reason that I do
these videos is for you to see, sorta the
process that I go through trying to solve them.
I've had two puzzles which I haven't been
able to solve yet, and I'm still currently filming them.
Uh, an I don't know when those puzzles will be up.
I don't know when those videos will be done, if ever.
Uh, the thing is I don't want to
leave you with a half done puzzle.
It's not, it doesn't make for a great video.
So I'm still, I've got those files aside
and I keep coming back to those puzzles, so.
Cause they're more difficult than you may think.
So what if the ring is in here.
This seems like a magic trick in itself.
Like, what if I can just, like,
rub on this and that would just like (vocalizes).
I'm just like, you know what, let's
see some magic here, and just snap my fingers
and just kind of, like, rub this.
Awww, it looks like it's going through doesn't it.
Nah, it's not.
Alright.
I think I'm exactly right back where I started.
Uh, I know I gotta use this rope somehow.
The only thing I notice with this, is
that these, obviously, these things move.
But there are openings here.
Maybe I can use those openings somehow
to start traveling this rope through
that, to get to the end.
And actually here I've got enough slack
to go around.
Probably around this side here.
Uh, let's see here.
M'kay, I can either bring it down through here,
or bring it up through.
And I think, uh, I'm gonna try up through.
I think up through is the way to go.
Okay.
I don't feel like I've gotten anywhere.
Uh, but I do feel like I'm on the right track.
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Try around this one.
Back down through that.
I don't, I quite honestly don't know if this gonna
make a bigger knot than what I started with,
but I feel like I'm getting some slack here somewhere.
And for the record this is also
called over and under, and I guess
that's a clue too, because I went,
I went under here and I went over there.
So maybe the pattern is something like
you gotta go under, you gotta go over,
you gotta go under, you gotta go over.
Okay, so now I'm here.
Why am I here?
How did I get here?
Okay, for some reason now I've
locked this, uh, locked this in here.
Oh boy.
Imma cry.
I'm kinda confused of where I started,
and where I, um, (clears throat),
and where I'm at now.
So there's, oh.
Wait, hold on.
Hold on.
Ta-da.
Nah, I thought I'd made it through one of those levels.
(instrumental jazz music)
I'm not sure how that got there.
Now it's safe to say that,
this little thing here.
This little loop, probably shouldn't be there.
(laughs)
I don't know, it feels like it shouldn't be there,
but maybe, maybe it does have to be there.
I just don't know where I would go from here.
Let's try this.
Let's try bringing it back.
Here, hold on.
One of the bad parts about having, like,
large hands is doing these little tactile puzzles.
Uh, dut dut dut duh.
Let me just straighten everything out.
Puzzles are good for testing your patience,
ladies and gentlemen.
That's for darn sure.
This is turning into a big cluster right now.
Let's get this guy out.
C'mon.
We got this guy out so, um.
Bring it back up here.
I think this will reset everything.
I could be mistaken.
Probably mistaken.
Okay.
Oh god, what've I done?
Have I just made this puzzle even more impossible?
I think I have.
Well that obviously needs to back out of there.
Now.
Now what?
How did I even get here?
I'm so confused right now.
Take your time, Ramsey.
You got this.
Maybe this goes this way, instead.
Nope.
That just made it worse.
Trust me when I say this is not a puzzle,
uh, for those who have no patience.
Patience definitely required for this puzzle.
Just havin' a hard time even knowing, like,
where I am in relation to space and time.
K, let's bring this one back out there.
I have a terrible feeling that I didn't
do this properly.
I'm entirely unsure if loop started here,
which I think it did, and now it's
definitely over on this side.
So maybe I did do something right.
Well how bout we do that again.
(laughs)
One thing I'm realizing is that I'm getting
less and less, uh, string.
Which kind of terrifies me.
At one point, I hope we'll have enough string
to just finish the puzzle or else I'll just
be left with a, uh, a giant knot and nowhere to go.
Curse these large hands.
I'm so tangled up right now.
I keep, (laughs), I keep making it worse.
You know when you're on the brink of
giving up, that's where I am right now.
Really close to giving up.
It's just gonna be a big knot
of blue thread on my shelf.
But if you're watching this that means there's hope.
(blows out air)
Got myself in quite a predicament here.
Don't know.
I don't know how I got here.
I have no idea how I got here.
Alright, let's think about this logically here.
Let's look at this.
The loop needs to go somewhere.
Now I think I made it worse.
I think I keep making it progressively worse.
I don't remember what backwards is,
and that's probably the problem.
I think I keep trying to go backwards
and end up going forwards.
If I could just get back to the starting
position, I would consider that a small victory.
(instrumental jazz music)
(phone rings)
(camera shutter clicks)
(audio playing on Pete's computer)
Yo!
- What's going on?
- Not bad.
- What is that?
- It's a cluster fuck.
It's a big mess, and it's really hard to figure out.
(Pete laughs)
(tonal music)
Don't ask me how, but.
(groans)
okay.
I've successfully looped it through that first part.
This is good.
This is good place to be.
That's what an hour and half fumbling
through, uh, to get here.
But all that fumbling did, was kind of give me a method.
Okay, I don't want to mess this up again
because it'll probably cost me another hour of play time.
I think I gotta bring it up again through this here,
like so.
And now this time, instead of going under
this loop, I have to go over this loop.
And that's kinda the pattern, I believe.
So again, this one goes through here, like so.
And then it goes over.
So it started by going under and then I went over.
Now I can pull all the way back down,
and ladies and gentlemen, we're now
on the next rung.
Let me do that one more time for you.
Okay.
(audio fast forwarding)
(instrumental jazz music)
Down through here.
Each cord remains on either side.
Yep.
Oh!
(imitates musical fanfare)
(laughs)
I'm pretty proud of that.
Not gonna lie, that, uh, took me way, uh, longer
than, actually I had no expectations.
This did look pretty complicated, but, uh,
I was thinking maybe half an hour, 45 minutes.
If this was, looked impossible.
It looked absolutely impossible.
And, uh, an then, and in the end, it wasn't.
It was just a technique and a pattern.
Um, but here's the other thing, how
do I get this back together?
I got two options here.
I can leave this on my shelf, as like, a prize.
As like, I did it.
Or, I can put it back together
and hand it to a friend and see if they can do it.
And I think that's the better option of the two.
Reverse engineer this thing here.
(instrumental jazz music)
And now one last time, I gotta wrap it through.
Put it around here.
I'm gonna pull that back around,
and there you go ladies and gentlemen,
that should be back to square one.
(groans)
Okay, so with putting it back together,
turns out it took me about two and half hours.
Still, considering, I don't think it's that bad.
And now I've also figured out a really cool puzzle
principle that I ho, hopefully can apply to future
puzzles.
Alright, conquered!
The Drunter & Drüber, um, puzzle is now conquered.
We've done it and I've put it back in order.
Actually it took me almost just as long to.
I put it back.
Then it did to take it off.
Um, once you understand the looping
principle, which is quite convoluted,
I'm not gonna lie, I'm still a little bit confused.
Uh, but once you start understanding that
you get more of a grasp of what to do.
Uh, however, it is still pretty confusing.
A fun little toy.
Looks good on the shelf, and definitely
going to, uh, have my buddies, uh, take
a crack at it.
See if they can solve it faster than I can.
Which they probably can.
Anyways guys that's it for today's video.
Hope you enjoyed it.
Like this video if you did.
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And we'll see you on the next video.
Peace out.
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