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we have brand new puzzles from Wil Strijbos, coming in this funky little box.
They are the Apple; Aluminum Apples.
Episode 76. Episode 76.
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Let's get into the puzzles today. We've got not a lot of banter.
Let's just jump right in. Let's get into the... Do you want to do this one?
I do want to do that one. Yeah. Okay, let's do this one.
Wil Strijbos. Some new stuff from Wil Strijbos. I actually don't think
this is a new puzzle. I think this is new for us here. We just got it in.
Don't rip it. Don't rip the box, Tony. Come on. They make you mad.
What you got to do; right here. Boom. Oh, the bottom opens up nice. Okay.
Oh, does it?
These are the Aluminum Apples from Wil Strijboss. I don't think they're new.
I just think we got them in here. I think that's kind of what it is.
what it is. So that's the green one. I got the red one.
They are level seven puzzles. Let's get them real close.
A little let's zoom in on this. We got tiny puzzles here. Yeah.
A little dovetail in there. Yeah.
Does yours have a little thing in it? Yeah. There's something; there's a ring inside
these, is what I've heard. Okay. That's what I read. At least,
that's what it says on the Puzzle. Master website: puzzlemaster.ca.
So it's got the little thing on the top here. Mine spins.
Does your spin? Mine spins. Yeah. Mine almost feels like magnetic.
I don't know. It's weird. Okay. So these are both level sevens.
They are different puzzles though, I believe. Right?
Like I believe they're different solutions?
I think. That's a good question. I'm not sure. We should be able to solve these.
Do the dovetails look the same? I think my dovetails are smaller. Maybe not,
About the same. Oh, geez. So yeah, it is shaky.
There is like a little apple or ring inside. And these are,
as I said from Wil Strijbos.
Wil has some really good stuff. Ooh.
Looks kind of like a button, hey? Yeah. Like the stem.
I wonder if these aren't the same solution. I don't know.
So, yeah. Other than that, there's a ring inside. Let's just try, let's try to solve these.
I mean, seven's in our wheelhouse, right? I'm trying. I've been trying.
Do you think...? Does yours...
Oh, okay.
I was thinking like, are they spaced out evenly, your dovetails and stuff?
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Cause there's kind of a bigger slot there.
Yeah. I don't know if I notice much else on this one. Think it's a spin? Like,
I mean it's a round puzzle.
I always feel like maybe the spins.... Let's try it off.
Oh, it spins nicely on the table. It does
spin nice. I mean.
Okay, like, okay, wait. Let's let's just let's show this.
Let's push this off for a sec. Watch the spin; it's like so perfectly balanced.
Man, like that like.... Oh it spins.
That's perfect. Wil's puzzles are great, man. Honestly, he just,
he just has good construction. I really want to get one of these open. I know, me too.
Didn't you say you knew the solution, Tony.
I thought it, I thought you just had to spin, spin the top like a regular apple. Spin the stem?
Maybe not. Well let's, let's move on here. We'll we'll go on to the next one.
Let's put the apples up top. Okay.
Other thing I wanted to mention. Wil, his stuff usually comes in like a pretty
plain Jane box. This one comes out like this funky box.
I thought that was kinda cool. Yeah, I like it. It was fun. Let's move on to Quadro.
Hey, grab yours. It's right there. I thought you got one. I got two. Oh, nice.
I do know the solution to this, actually.
I sat down with Chuck last week and we shot a bit of this on our Facebook
live, actually. We did a Facebook live of this puzzle. Okay.
So what happened was we, we, we, we do a Facebook live on the regular, on our,
YouTube or Facebook channel.
So you can go on there and watch we'll usually have some similar stuff to like
what we're doing here or different stuff that's new at Puzzle Master on that.
And Tony, what I did is, on the live, I failed to solve some puzzles.
I have gone and be like, 'Oh, we can solve this'.
And then like just completely flat on her face. Couldn't solve it; terrible.
So I was like, you know what? I'm not going to do that.
I want to do a bit of research.
I'm going to like try solve this and get a little further on the, like solve.
And Mr. Puzzle has done this puzzle before. So if you go on his channel;
he solves it. I watched a bit of his intro. I didn't watch the solution.
I watched him solve and kind of got his thought process behind it. Cause like,
you know, I want to solve this and I definitely couldn't solve it.
I spent probably a good half hour to 45 minutes before we shot, doing it.
And then when we started shooting, the first thing I tried and I solved it,
It was like nuts. It looked really set up. I believe.
I think that people who watch it be like, no,
he knew the solution that's bull crap. No,
I literally didn't and fell into the solution. And it just like... it worked.
It was the weirdest thing; haven't had that before.
So I just wanted to share that it was a little, a little victory,
I felt for me. Got a solve on this.
I was definitely.... I'll say this, on the solve, I was definitely overthinking it.
Oh yeah. Yeah. I over-thought it. I thought I thought there was, yeah,
it's a good puzzle. I like this. I like packing puzzles.
So let's just, let's just take it apart here. Tony,
you try to solve it there. And I'm just going to talk about it a bit.
So this is Quadro, as we said. You can see it on the bag here. The Y D. Tony,
you can see the Y D on the front here? The logo? That's Yavuz Demirhan.
You recognize the name? I do.
Where do you recognize it from? Yavuz made...
Castor?
Yeah, he's done a bunch of those. He did a bunch of our metal. Actually the new...
we have some new ones in that metal line. He designed all of them.
So he's the guy who has done a lot of our,
the metal, burr puzzles that we've been doing here at Puzzle Master.
So it was like brown, black, silver, gold combination puzzles.
So Yavuz has a whole bunch of designs there.
He's really good designer. This is not Puzzle Master though.
This is his company and it's called CubozoneT R.
I don't know what that stands for, but Cubozone TR. So, this puzzle,
it says, is made out of wenge, which is the outside here.
This funky kind of like, wood around the box and the edge of it. It's Ash.
I think this is ash,
the pieces in the middle and on the bottom here is something called
sapelli and it kind of feels like a plywood or something,
but it's called sapelli. And then you got the acrylic piece in the top here.
And now the interesting thing about this puzzle is the acrylic hole in the top
of this puzzle allows you to drop the cube in straight down, like that.
It also allows you to put it sideways or any of the other sides.
The pieces are all exactly the same. I checked that, cause I was like, yeah,
maybe they're trying to fool you.... is trying to fool you with a piece that's a
different size. Definitely not. It's all the same size piece. And
what else? It's... What level is this? Level eight. It's a level eight.
So I was like.... that's what got me too. I was like,
I solved a level eight. I felt pretty good about that, but yeah.
I thought it was really interesting too, because Tony,
we've done some of these, these
packing puzzles and they're not always..... like stuff doesn't always fit in
perfectly. You know, like, you know what I mean? Yeah. Where like,
you'll put it in and it'll fit half of a piece, kind of on one side or something.
This one is very symmetrical.
Everything kind of fits in nicely, every which way you put it. And so you,
it's not, there's nothing really fooling you on this one,
which I thought was interesting and good. Any ideas?
Ah, yes. What I, what I started with...
I won't say which way it went,
but what I started with was trying this like two of these in and... Yeah,
I got it. Oh no. No, I didn't.
I tried... what I started with,
was two of these packed in there flat on top of each other like that.
And then I was like, 'Oh, you can start stacking something in and you can spin'.
But yeah, it's, it's interesting. I won't, I don't want to
give it away here. I thought of the.... Okay, so they all came in vertically like this,
which is what made me think of the horizontal one. I don't know.
Yeah. We'll show the solution.
We'll show the solution at the end of the episode.
So you guys got to stay tuned. If you want to see the solution to this,
watch the end of the episode. I'll show Tony and show you guys at the end,
unless Tony does solve it here.
Do I keep playing with that a minute? Sure. Let me keep going. I'll move on.
No, let's let's just put it aside, actually. Let's put it aside and we'll do....
We'll move on to the next, the next thing for now.
We're going to do a Grabarchuk puzzle. We've done these before
from the Grabarchuk family. Now this one's really simple.
Which two towers are identical? They're flipped. You just got to figure out the order.
I looked at it before. Can you figure it out? I'll give you, give you 10.
I'll give you 15 seconds. Oh no. Okay.
10. Yeah, I quit. Okay. I think it's,
I think it's this one and this one, cause it's blue, green,
pink, yellow. Wow. there you go. They have a whole bunch of these.
Go to their website; they sell books. This is out of one of their books.
Your Grabarchuk family. Right there. Okay.
Next, we are going to talk.... Oh, I want to talk about this.
There is actually a new puzzle coming out here soon-ish. Now,
I'm not going to have any guarantees when. It's from a new designer, it's 3d printed,
which I like some of the 3d printed stuff coming out.
I'm specifically thinking of that, that picnic basket.
I like that picnic basket.
But there's another one and it's so... It's from a brand new company.
They contacted us at Puzzle Master.
They sent us a video of the puzzle and it's a 3d printed,
sequential discovery box kind of thing. Perfect. Sounds alright. So really cool.
Just wanted to throw it out there. Guys.
Keep an eye out for that in the coming months.
I'm not sure when it's going to be in. They are making it really, really neat.
I liked it. And it was unique. Cool. So, like Snow Block?
Not quite that big; it's a little smaller. It's not huge.
And it's not gonna be crazy expensive, but it is really cool. Oh, wow.
Not crazy expensive.That sounds good, man. Yeah. It's not gonna,
it's definitely not Snow Block or those ones, but it's kinda more attainable.
So I thought it was something unique. Right.
An attainable, kind of sequential discovery, 3d printed puzzle,
that isn't yeah, it isn't crazy expensive. So keep an eye out for that. Cool. Next.
We're just gonna jump into the Online Buzz.
Okay.
So we're going to start with this. Tony, your favorite name for a company,
the Metogrobologist magazine. This is a physical copy of it.
We've talked about it on the show before. This is the actual physical copy.
I was looking at it. I thought it was actually like... You know how
some magazines feel really cheap. Like their pages are garbage.
This actually feels like a book. They use good paper, man.This is like, honestly, it's a quality,
quality magazine, good pictures. I liked it. I liked that. I read through it.
I actually went through and if you see on the front here,
this guy is Ranier Popp and he makes those Popp locks. Oh wow. Okay. Key one, two, three,
four, and they interview him in here.
And so I read that article; it's right here on page. What is this page? 16.
So they do an interview with him.
They show you a bit of his shop and some of the tools he uses.
He talks about his process and they even show you kind of the pictures of
his first nine locks. He talked about some of his favorite locks,
why he likes them. Some of the different stuff; doesn't say share solutions. So,
keeps his secrets guarded.
But you see a bit of the inner workings of some of his puzzles here too.
But quite unique. And so we're just going to go through this magazine every,
every week or two or show everybody some of the stuff that they talk about.
We'll talk about some of the articles. Like I said,
I really liked Ranier Popp's stuff. And
he kind of talks about how he got into it. So yeah,
Metagrobologist magazine, check it out. You can get the physical copy,
but it is also available online. If you want to kind of read it digitally. Cool.
So next, I went on a site called instructables.com and I
actually found them through.... I think we've talked about them before maybe,
but I found this specific one on Pinterest. Okay. Pinterest,
actually there's a lot of pin to boards with like puzzle stuff on them. And
this was on one of them. In it they make... So Instructables whole thing is that
you can, they give you instructions on how to make things.
So this is like stuff in your house? Yeah. Yeah. Like I started to,
I think for the most part. I don't know, I didn't haven't checked into it a lot,
but the one they are making, it was all out of cardboard.
And what it was; is they called it a 3d cardboard labyrinth maze.
And essentially it took two
flat pieces of cardboard and put them together as like a T shape.
And then he had like a marble maze that he made on each side. So, and you'd,
you'd rotate this where you have the marble go through this way and then you'd
have to rotate it again to get to the other side. Like the Perplexus. Yeah. Kind of like that.
So he made his own 3d marble maze, out of cardboard and
he gives you instructions, measurements, how to do it all.
So I thought that was really neat. Neat idea. Cool. So yeah,
check that out. Also make sure you go to Pinterest. Like I said,
there's actually a lot of stuff on there. I think, on all social media,
honestly positive, but yeah.
And then last but not least is Oskar van Deventer.
We have talked about him a lot on here.
And I watched his video recently on YouTube that came out, which is about his puzzle
called Screw Enigma. Do you remember which one this is?
It kind of has the Rubik's cube colors on it. Okay.
It's a flat one with a disc in the middle and the disk screws out. I remember what you're talking about. And the disc
is actually.... there's two, there's technically two disks that overlap. Right.
And then they, they both screw out.
But the pieces.... like the overlapping allows you to pull pieces from one side to
the other. The screw mechanism on it gives you different heights too.
So as you screw it, there's different heights in the pieces.
Really unique puzzle.
Kind of in a, kind of in the cubing stuff. Yeah.
We had to fix two of them actually because Chuck and I were shooting this puzzle
and I was like, 'Oh, let's just like show people how it screws out'.
So I unscrewed one part of it. And then when, when you unscrew it,
the disc is made up of a whole bunch of little pieces.
And if you unscrew it all the way,
all the pieces just kind of tumble out. And you'll see it in the video,
that Oskar shoots. Now what we did, I was like, Oh crap.
So I tried to get it back together.
It was hard to get back together because like the screw....
There's different entry points on the screw mechanism. Right?
So if you enter at the wrong place, it doesn't line up when you screw it in.
So I was like... I was one spot off when I got it. Yeah, it was one spot off. And it's like, it's oh,
it's so frustrating getting it back in. So I was like,
Chuck, you gotta, you gotta open one of these. So I kind of see where it starts.
So he goes to open it and then completely opens it. And the thing falls apart.
So we have two of them now falling apart or that have fallen apart.
And we just dumped them on your dad, Allan, the Puzzle Master.
We dumped them on his desk. I fixed one of them. Yeah. Oh, you did! Look at that.
Okay. Well, it was frustrating and a really hard to get back together.
So it's a difficult puzzle and really unique and interesting.
And Oskar's brain just, is so different than ours and a genius guy.
So I mean, his stuff is unique.
So you definitely need to check that one out, if you want something hard.
And it's kind of into the cubing stuff, but this is like,
it's like, kind of melds the two worlds,
the cubing world with the puzzle world a bit. So yeah. Watch his video.
He gives you some of that on it. He talks actually about in the video, that
he didn't do stickers on these. So these have like the... he didn't do
stickers. What he did is he 3d printed the colored parts on it. Oh sick.
He talks about that. And he talked about the difference between....
So he would did over... he
did like the colors over a black background and the black
still kind of shows through.
So it makes the colors dim and he shows you the difference between doing it on a
white background where the colors pop a lot more. And so he talks about his
process on that.
And just how the stickers like rip off and these won't. So it's, it's really,
well-made; his stuff is just insanely well-produced.
The guy is a 3d printing Wiz, I think. So. Yeah.
Check that video out on YouTube. Check out Oskar's channel, subscribe to his stuff.
I mean, it's just.... He's a master designer. So,
definitely do that.
And I'm sure he's in some of these Metagrobologist Magazines, too.
I don't know if he's in this issue, but he is definitely in some of the issues.
So yeah, go to their website; check them out. Yeah.
Any, any luck there, Tony?
Yeah, dude, I think I did just figure it out. Oh, you did? Oh. I think
so. Tony. Okay.
Put it on, put it on screen here. Let everyone see what you're doing.
I'm trying to.
It's a hard one to maneuver inside a bit, hey? Yeah.
I got to one point when I was doing that puzzle, where I was like, okay,
I just need to spin this piece. I couldn't spin it. I was like,
I bet you could force this, but it's definitely not supposed to happen.
It's a.... Trying to
turn that now. That's the problem right there as it comes up and you're like, ah,
I need to spin that piece. Yeah.
Okay, well let's.... one slot, cause this one will go in this way.
This slides flat and then these two pack on top, like this. Oh,
Okay. Yeah. I don't know. I figured that's how she goes. Okay
let's just cut it there. We gotta, we gotta move on. All right. Tony,
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Okay. So you put a piece, put a piece in...
a piece in. You're going to slide one
that way and one that way.
And then you're going to put these two there, shift that there, there,
there,
and there.