We're bringing you three new puzzles: Quintus Extreme, Total Eclipse and The Skull. Puzzles are
a niche industry that very few people know much about. We wanted to bring puzzles to the world, so
that everybody can enjoy playing with them. You helped us do that. First up is Quintus Extreme.
It's a flat puzzle that kind of looks like a coaster, designed by Oscar van Deventer.
It's made of five pieces that fold together to this flat shape,
but they easily come apart here, as you can see, and are very very difficult to get back together.
It's brass plated, made of metal and wonderfully, beautifully simple looking. This Total Eclipse,
also designed by Oscar van Deventer, is made up of an outer frame this kind of dark colored
metal, with two rings that mesh together by these little teeth there that you can see. It's a
three-piece puzzle and it's quite difficult and the idea would be to get the middle rings apart
and outside of the outer frame. Last and surely not least, the two-pound monster, The Skull.
Jerry Loo is the designer of The Skull. He is also the designer of a couple puzzles from our last
Kickstarter: Lattice and Dirty Dozen. This puzzle is made up of 67 pieces, totaling 116 moves to
solve it. There is a couple pieces that are not included in the piece count and that's these:
the mouth and eye inserts, which we inserted, just so it'd seem... you could see the skull face
a little more. Here's a bit about what makes each of these puzzles unique. I'll start with Quintus
Extreme. Now this puzzle is made up of five rings, which is why it's called Quintus. Quintus = five.
And they're flattened rings that all interlock together. Now I would open it for you,
but this puzzle is insanely hard and I've been told not to take it apart. But essentially, they'll
open up into five connected rings and you gotta weave them all back together to this flat state.
So, really unique and different. The Total Eclipse. It has... So like I said, there's an outside
frame and then there's two rings inside: one gold ring and one silver ring. If you look closer,
you'll notice that there's teeth here, cut into the frame, which line up with teeth on the rings
and that'll allow you to move the pieces in and around the frame and get them off the puzzle.
And last, is The Skull. It's just, it's a monster. There's a ton of pieces and it's gonna be really,
really difficult to put back together. I mean, there's just no two ways about it, it's plain and
simple, very hard. Every puzzle you buy from Puzzle Master has a difficulty rating. There's a scale
that runs from five, the easiest, to ten, the hardest. These puzzles are definitely on the harder side.
Total Eclipse is a level nine, Quintus Extreme is a level 10 and The Skull is a level 10. Now every so
often, there are puzzles that encourage us maybe to have a level beyond 10; the skull is definitely one
of those. We decided not to though. It's definitely a level 10, but it's harder than any other level
10 we've seen. Puzzle Master is a family run business. You've seen myself and my cousin Tony
on YouTube, on our YouTube channel, Puzzle Time With Tony and Tyler. Our fathers, Leon and Allan are the
ones who started Puzzle Master in 1991, almost 30 years ago. We are based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
Canada and from our roots as a small family-run business, we have now become the world's largest
online retailer of puzzles and brainteasers. You can find us at puzzlemaster.ca. Puzzle
Master's 30 years of experience, have allowed us to connect with a whole ton of designers and
different manufacturers. We have opportunity to connect into the puzzle world in a way no other
business can. We're always looking for new stuff, new innovations, new puzzles. We're connecting here
in Saskatoon even, with different manufacturers who can make in metal, who can do acrylic,
wood. There's just tons of opportunity and we're always looking for new and innovative ways to
create puzzles for you. You helped us bring puzzles to the world in our last campaign. Thank you. We look
forward to your support with this new campaign with Quintus Extreme, Total Eclipse and The Skull.