Hey guys, Tyler here, your Puzzle Master Insider and today, I'll be giving you an
inside look at a metal puzzle from Jean Claude Constantin called NSP or
Nail Super Plus.
NSP or Nail Super Plus from Jean Claude Constantin is a heavy-duty puzzle.
It's got these two bent nails that are bent around each other. They are stainless
steel and this puzzle is very heavy. Unlike some of the other metal
puzzles we have, this one will not be bent. Like I said, they are bent nails but
they will not be bent by hand, I promise you that. You could not be forcing this
one unlike some of the other wire stuff, It is similar in some ways to the
tangled nails that we have but-- from Puzzle Master. But this is definitely a
whole other level of that. It is significantly harder, significantly more
heavy duty and just very interesting.
The objective of NSP is to separate the two pieces and then put them back together.
So you want to get these apart and put back- put them back together.
And I'll tell you this getting back together was the part I found vastly more difficult.
NSP is a Level 8 on the Puzzle Master Difficulty Rating Scale, which runs from 5 to 10.
I personally though, would say this is more than a Level 8. I would put this at least at a Level 9,
just because there's so many awkward moves that are different angles and then as much as it
doesn't look very complicated, but that's kind of part of the beauty of this.
It doesn't look complex but it is very difficulty and it took me a good couple of hours figuring this out.
And even working with Allan, the Puzzle Master there,
we had some trouble getting it because I mean for one minute, you'd get the solution, and then
not really be aware of how you did that,
and then come back and you forget and it just-- there's so many different moves, so many
different angles, and so many little things that make all the difference in doing the solution to this puzzle.
Next, I'll show you the solution.
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Okay, so let's show the solution here to this NSP.
Now, like I said there's a lot of detail in this puzzle that when you see this done
it's-- if you don't do it in little things, just slight moves that make all
the difference in this puzzle and that was the part of the difficulty
in learning this solution, was just try and get all those little
things and figure them out. You can write this stuff down, but I mean how clear is
it in a graphic. You need video and you need explanation and
that's why I'm glad you guys are watching this and I hope that I can walk
you through and figure this out and it won't take you as long and as much
frustration as it did me, getting this puzzle done.
Okay, so what I want to start actually by explaining, is there's loops here so there's a loop here,
I'll call this the small loop. So it's the one running from the head, around.
So that's the small loop, and then the next loop right up here and it is this
bend here and I'm going to call that the big loop. So that's the small loop is here
So the small loop is here, from the head around so that's your small loop but the big loop is here,
and then up here you got the point. So I just want to start by being clear about
what I'm calling each thing, I guess. And so what you got to do in this is
there's a funny first move here to get them going.
And so what you want to do is you want to bring that the two heads as far
as you can and then there's this weird-- I gotta find it here. There's this weird
move where you kind of twist right there. So you kind of want that loop
to lift up a bit and so you're gonna bring-- Where is it here now? I'm having trouble finding it again.
There it is. So this, you're gonna bring-- separate the two pieces like that.
So it's like that move and then while doing that, you're gonna be moving these together.
So it's like these weird flex out and towards and then they kind of pass by each other,
and that gets you right here.
So I'll show you that again just because it's a weird move. So you got that hooked like that and you're
gonna do that like bring these down and together so in a
coordinated move, you're gonna bring them like that and that allows you to pass
essentially the heads. You can see it better maybe here, the heads will pass by each other so,
Right? They kind of hit that gap as you spin.
So, again it's
backwards, so that there's that spin move there and it gets you there.
So then the heads kind of connect there and then from there, what you'll do is you'll take
the one and spin it down.
So you gotta come bring it forward and spin it down and around,
and that gets you so that this big loop and the small loop are connected there.
So you got the big loop on one side and a small loop on the other.
And so I'll show you that one more time. It's coming up through here, so you've got it where the
heads are hooked and you bring it around and down and you bring in that point
through the small loop there. And that gets you, again, small loop, big loop, hook.
Now from there, this is the one that I kind of-- coming back actually -- take it off, this
isn't one that screwed me up. But so what you'll do is you'll take the one
with the small loop or the small loop is the part hooked, you'll bring that one
over and then you're gonna pull and you're gonna put this - the point on the
other side. So on the other side of that head. So you don't want it --you can't have
that point on the inside of the head, you want to be on the outside of that head, this way.
So you bring it around, on the outside of that head and spin this one.
Now here's another part, you want to make sure that
the head on the one you're spinning comes on the inside of that other head.
So essentially, the two heads will be coming right-- passing right by each other,
but you don't want it-- you don't want it to pass on the outside and actually I
guess you can't, so you want it to pass on the inside of that head and bring it around.
And then from there, you're gonna bring and you're going to do
just like kind of slide move here, where this-- this head from the one you just spun
slides by the other head and so again-- so your heads are together there and you're gonna do this slide by.
And then from there, what you can do is you--
fairly simple from there. You just kind of you get this point on this one and
you bring it so you can just slide it around the frame. Right?
Slide around there and then you see you got things going from the heads being together.
You spin it, you get it there and you slide it around and off.
So that's getting it off so that's, in my opinion, that's the easiest part and then we'll
put them back together. Now, I had to kind of figure out a process here. I mean you
can do it like I just showed you there in reverse, but I found a better process
for this - for me at least-- was to take the one-- you want to hold the one
so that the point is facing up. You take the other one and you're going to slide
that point here, so the point-- that the space between the points pass there,
and you're gonna spin that one around and then that gets you here to the point where
you get that point hooked there and this point faces. So you want both points--
and it's important, so like, what got me before, I would do this and then put it backwards.
I think it has to be this way. So you have it hooked there and then
from there, this is the move right here that- that got me every time.
So once you've got that point like that, you want to take and you want
to bring this this head down and bring the head from the one on the top. So that
top on-- bring that head inside the point there and so it allows
you get the head-- Yeah, head inside that point and then you're gonna bring
this one up, so that's why if you come down and this head's below, like you've got to be
above-- so if you're looking at this way you got to be above-- the head above
the point and you're gonna bring that end up and around and then it allows you
to have a heads kind of by each other here. So I'll show you that again.
So we're holding it up, you bring that head down through the point and make sure-- so
the head is above the point and then around kind of kind of lift up the big
loop on this one up and over and allows you to spin that one all the way around
until you get to where the heads are touching each other here.
Then from there, you want to bring that that head on the outside here, so it's on the outside of that one.
And then this is that move that we did before. Again, where you go in the opposite direction.
Now these heads are kind of have this pattern on the top, the texture almost.
Now the texture wants to grab so this is probably the tightest or hardest of the
moves in terms of just getting them by each other. So you're gonna spin that and
around-- so that nail passes-- the head's point passes on the outside of that head and that
gets you to there, where you've got-- small loop and the big loop hook again.
And then next, you're gonna take and you're gonna pull the head from the one with the small loop.
It's very important the head or the-- not the head, the point from the one with the small loop,
and you're gonna bring it outside or to this side of the head on that one.
You're gonna do that spin around and that gets you to this point. Now you
remember this from before to where you have the two heads kind of locked there
and then this is that first move that we did, that weird kind of swim move spin.
And so you gonna bring it by and you're gonna spin them and then pull.
Again, it's that turn while moving forward and it gets you hooked there and as much as that kind of seems
easy, it took a heck of a time figuring that out, but that is your solution
start-to-finish for NSP or Nail Super Plus.
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