What's up guys and welcome back
Today we are going to be looking at a level ten Hanayama puzzle
Hanayama puzzles are innately difficult
They've always given me a hard time
They are clever, precise and I love the craftsmanship on them, but you got like these four pieces
It's called quartet and you have to take these four pieces apart and then put it back together again
It sounds simple, but obviously as you know
This is a six star out of six star which translates to by default a level ten puzzle
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They're fun to fidget around with before we get into the video
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Didn't feel like it and I know that sounds that sounds like I think five years ago
I would have given my my left nut to hang out with David Blaine for a couple days and he's a cool guy
He's super nice and his entire team is really nice
You know, he wanted me to kind of film the show and hand him the footage and I just think
Where I am today, I'm to say this about coming off like super I don't want to work for anybody
I enjoy working for myself. I enjoy doing these videos. I enjoy solving puzzles. I enjoyed magic
I enjoy this channel and this community so much. I don't want to put that on hold not for anyone not for anything
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I would love to but for now my attention is with you guys. All right, no more ado. So without it
Let's let's get into solving this puzzle
Last video a few of you commented we couldn't see the puzzle because the contrast so
So let's use this canvas laying around
This is a little pain in the butt apparently we're gonna have to try and figure this out
So these four pieces come apart?
These are actually four individual pieces as you can see and they're kind of like intertwined
So you got two pieces overlapping one another or the camera down even more, okay?
So first things first, let's figure out if we can
Okay, so there's like a link here a little hole right here.
I guess you've gotta
Fit those through now
So with all these Hanayama puzzles, there's always there's always something interesting like there's always a move that just like
Fits and it's super satisfying you have to find that
So here I'm not sure but I can do I can do this
This is one thing I can do which I just figure it out. Okay. There we go. See I can separate
These two here, so I'm gonna try that
We even run it through here
Well, this is just a big cluster This is not fun at all
And it's not cool very easy to lose track of what the hell is going on
The orientation is definitely key. It's one of those ready to shake it
And shake it
And ah? No. Okay. Worth shot. Oh here
Okay, these edges are so close to unlinking by the way, I feel like right now at this point, it's just like random
Until I find that little sweet spot somewhere
I think once I find that sweet spot everything will come undone these tactile puzzles by the way, like they work
The hand muscles like crazy doesn't seem like much but after you know, obviously a few hours. Oh
Oh. The timer. Boop.
Yeah, this is just like another dimension of hell, it's all this is
Okay, so back to the beginning, I believe this is like my hypothesis, but I've Pete's texting me. Sorry Pete
FIlming a video buddy.
So what I believe is that these
Okay, you have to find the perfect spot like you can rotate these freely through one another
Um, so I believe you have to find the right spot before you start taking them apart
So you have to find like let's say for instance the opening
so the opening on this one is right here as you can see this one in this one if I move this one apart these
That opens up right? There's like a hole. So yeah, I think that that opening needs to coincide with the other opening which is here
And then start taking them apart. Oh there are openings on both sides. Okay, so that's confusing. Here's the thing I can do this
What the hell is actually happening I always feel like these are like or watch the movie saw let's play
just leave this on the floor and you're gonna solve it before like
Giant the hacksaw falls down from the ceiling on you. If that were the case, this would be a way more stressful video
They're probably like super stress on music like this
And I'd be crying
Can't force anything really
From experience with these puzzles. There's always a twist as always like a twist to make them. Come on
I should find those two pieces
Can be twisted to which two pieces that I need to twist
It's really hard to explain a puzzle while you're doing in the other way. I figured that out after doing so many puzzle videos
It's like a lot of times ever my incoherent rambling. It's just false, you know on deaf ears because makes no sense
Unless you're like actually
I'm trying you know
I'm trying to verbalize it as best as I can for you to understand but sometimes I'm just in my head
I feel stuck right here. Like there's nothing I can I've done something and now it's stuck try to get back to the beginning here
Can't see me right now, but I'm sweating. Oh
Oh
That's really good. Okay, so I've taken this piece and normally this piece is
Focused normally this piece is like this and they're like together but I've made it like this and I think that's actually a key component here
so if I can do the same I think with this side which is like
Open it this way and then might be a little bit closer to my goal
So let's try and manipulate these rings these links here. It doesn't seem to want to let me currently
I think maybe that might be part of it though. I think if I get that then I will be all set
It seems like the logical next step is to get it here
How'd you come up with this man?
I feel like there's like a computer algorithm that just comes up with puzzles then they just print it out like 3d because for the
actual human brain
I mean it wouldn't surprise me, but it's pretty crazy often wonder how someone can create a puzzle with a single solution
How do you be so precise to know that in every permutation?
There's not one way to open it differently and that's what usually fought with mine
I just put it back together without knowing I did sick. Alright, we're back to back to start
I'll have a little. Have a little coffee.
Okay, so I've done that again
Where this side instead of being like this?
This is how it once was I can take it and rotate it like this
I think I need to be able to do that with both sides
Let's see. It falls right back. Okay, I'm here. Okay. Well, maybe then there's something else here
I can do keep it going keep it turning
Back to the beginning open up. That's the only thing I can do so that must be
Logically step in the right direction. What if I undo this one first and that might give me enough room
so if I undo the middle mode first, I don't know if I can the middle one is sort of it's
It's Eh...
Okay, I'm not gonna try to explain what I'm thinking here but
See the other one I can do this
I can twist it like this and I can't do that with these two rings for some reason because I think the
You're being stopped by that thing in the middle
Oh, did I did I just I think I did so now okay now that we're here there
Boom, nope, how did that? What?
How did that one even get back to where it was? I'm fooled that fooled me
I don't even know why I believe that that's what the hell's happening here.
I don't even know why I believe that's the solution. No more
Let's try this again, so this one this one I can move
Okay.
That's interesting so check this out so this piece
Had the word Hanayama on it and this one had the word
Quartet on it and they were separate now they're together. I'm pretty sure that that's a step in the right direction
So I've rotated this piece twice. I'm gonna try to keep rotating it
Hopefully
There's this, like a cool pattern forming right now
I don't know if I can rotate that anymore
I'm so confused
I don't want to go back and I don't want to do something that I won't remember
Because then I'm just gonna be completely lost even though I have no idea what the hell is happening. Look at that
Look at that cool little design. That's see. That's what tells me like. I'm on the right path
Because, God! So ingenious think I can make that design
Oh
Oh, look what I've done
Okay, two of the gaps as you can see are now lined up and I might be able to rotate them
Out of each other. Damn! Bingo bingo bingo bingo. Oh my god. I'm so freaking stoked right now
Whoo. Okay, don't get too excited Ramsay. Chill Oh, uh-huh. This is pretty cool. Now. What's the next step?
So now I guess the only thing to do is to unlock
The two and I want to believe that this wasn't sheer luck
I want to believe that my brain like kicked in halfway through it was like oh this is what you need to do
It's just one of those things where you can't lose track of anything and in once you start a move
It's better to explore that single move fully before moving on because then you just lose track of where you are
I'm kind of like what's happening now
I'm just trying to get the two corners lined up the two openings
On the inside pieces because the outside pieces are obviously open you see the mean jellybean
There we go. Boom and boom
And we've now successfully and these two go together
And these two go together
That is the quartet puzzle solved in twenty one plus five
So about half an hour that's total about a half an hour, but now we're gonna put it back together, hopefully
It's kind of cool you get some like kind of make some cool designs we can just twist that in when that'd be dope
Oh, I wanna mix these up
Time to put it back together, let's go
Just rotate
Hey got it. Time, boom, stop. Forty minutes, let's go there it is
Well, well
Look who came out victorious
Super proud I was able to solve that puzzle it now goes back on the shelf with the rest of my little pretties that
I've solved. Thank you guys for watching
That was a lot of fun
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