Hanayama Vortex Solution - Very detailed Explanation!

[@SaturnineSkies]

I don't have any interest in puzzles, but for some reason I cannot stop watching your videos! I'm glad I found your channel

[@Mr.Puzzle]

If you fascinated of the videos you should definitely give it a try!🙃

[@needinobaysus3037]

Same

[@andreasnocongrudtner4768]

UnmaskedReaper me too i just find his accent and sounds of the puzzles calming

[@PetiPolk]

After drinking 5 beers with my friends, going back home and I pull out my chain with my 30 keys on it, my brain goes:"Hi, and welcome to a new episode of Mr. Puzzle." :)

[@季悦ふぁん]

Again, well done on another amazingly fantastic episode of "Yes, I Watched the Solution Three Times but Have No Idea What Just Happened" series.

[@Mr.Puzzle]

😁

[@季悦ふぁん]

Oh just to clarify, it was a sarcasm on my rock brain, not on you detailed solution. It was my way of appreciation. lol

[@gregorylevasseur2199]

I’ve watched the video a dozen times and still can’t figure it out

[@77DC77]

I even followed step by step took it apart and put it back together with my own vortex and still can't figure it out.

[@Skunkgasm]

I got mine stuck as hell and can't get the pieces unstuck lmao

[@rongriffith625]

I'm a simple man. I see Mr Puzzle solving a Hanayama puzzle, I smash that like button.

[@Mr.Puzzle]

😂

[@awnipimentel5223]

You should do a live stream where you attempt to solve a puzzle for the first time

[@SeanDS89]

Awni Pimentel I agree :)

[@bryanroland8649]

But something like the vortex must need hours of fiddling around to solve it.I'd probably need the rest of my life.

[@ResidentOfTheAbyss]

bryan roland Same.

[@nyla-amarasmit8117]

Reuben Courtenay yes i agree I want to see him doing it the first time solving it

[@JLchevz]

100%

[@kevinr.3107]

I managed to disassemble it on my own, but without your help, I would've never been able to reassemble it again, thank you ! Maybe I'll try to solve it again in the future now ^^

[@bh25jay]

Oh my G O D !!! I have a hanayama vortex from 6-7 years, and i didn't manage to solve it. Thank You !!! (you are a genius)

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Did you try it with the help of this video? Did it work?

[@bh25jay]

Mr.Puzzle i'm working hard on it ! :-D I love the complexity of this puzzle !

[@Avatar11107]

I've recently bought a Vortex for myself, and it was sooo hard to figure it out! But finally I've done it, and now the reasembled Vortex is proudly sitting on my shelf to never be touched again :P

[@hquest]

I have the Vortex for well over 3 years, and from all my puzzles, this one is a mix of love it and hate it. Managed to disassemble it multiple times but only assembled back twice. I recently went back fiddling with it a few times a week while I’m waiting something else to happen. Was on the limbo state, neither assembled properly or disassembled. Managed to disassemble it last night, and now it is back on the limbo state. I am too very curious to find out how on Earth these guys design such puzzles. Although I’m not sure if I would thank them or curse them for what they do :) I usually skip the spoiler section (except for this one as I am really stuck again), but the puzzle presentations and opinions are very nice. I found some very nice puzzles because of you. Thanks for that!

[@hquest]

Fast forward to 2022, 3 years later and I am still unable to take it apart or put it back. About to look for some puzzle groups and taken it there to see if someone can get it back for me :(

[@JF.90]

holy shit.. i was struggling with this one for a year. my sister got it for me last christmas. i try my hardest to figure it out alone, but after 1 year i figure im not getting it any time soon. even solving it watching your video it was hard for me. first time having it apart. incredible puzzle. ty for ur awesome puzzle videos

[@DarKhanDahar]

Someone said this is art. I say this is the AMAZINGNESS of the human brain!! Outstanding how smart ppl can be. I'm not into puzzling, but these videos are ZEN!

[@koltinhachey2554]

10 years ago I bought this puzzle solved it today with the help of your video no other video did justice

[@M19Kamikaze]

I've been waiting for you to get to this one. I've been stuck on it for over a month. It's definitely a wonderful design which is why I got it, although the difficulty is far beyond me, haha.

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Try with this tutorial. You will not be able to remember anyway if you did it for the first time. Too complex. 😉

[@MrGaryng76]

This is one crazy complex puzzle; took me 2 night even after watching your video. Thanks for the video.

[@charlesjacobs3280]

Good job!!!! I solved this in about 10 minutes but while trying to put it back together I got confused and said, "Well, it's confusing enough for another person to try and solve it so I'm going to leave it how it is." Keep up the good work, and nice job : )

[@PDeRop]

I got this a week ago. I played with it for a week and turned it into a mess. Today, my wife played with it and returned it to it’s original condition. Great.. now I can follow this video :)

[@77DC77]

I once had it at the part were only the tails were connected, put it in my pocket for an hour, took it out and it was back to the start.

[@giovanniyorke7455]

This puzzle is truly a master piece

[@Frankaluepsus]

Bin seit 40.000 Abos dabei und konnte wirklich täglich deine Abos steigen sehen. Wahnsinn! Wie weit es der Channel so schnell geschafft hat! Ganz großes Lob :-)

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Danke! Wundert mich auch. 😊

[@Chirimorin]

I found my own solution before watching yours, I actually do the start of disassembly and the end of assembly in a different way. Solution spoilers ahead! Disassembly: I also start by lifting the tails, but then I simply rotate the Vortex piece to first take the Hanayama tail out of the Vortex loop and then take the Vortex tail out of the AY loop. This is a single motion with minimal adjustment of where the pieces are. This way I also end up being pretty close to taking the AY tail out of the Hanayama loop already. Assembly: after putting the AY tail in the Hanayama loop, move the Hanayama piece around the AY piece close to its final position. Then simply rotate the Vortex piece so that the Vortex tail slides into the AY loop (through the groove you also use) and the Hanayama tail slides into the Vortex loop.

[@phosphor8416]

You helped me a lot to get over the frustration of not being able to re-assemble this beautiful puzzle. After trying for hours to reassemble, I had watched 3 other solution videos in vain - none of them was as clear in explaining and showing as yours! Thank you very much :)

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Thanks!

[@partypoison3220]

I like how puzzletubers like Mr. Puzzle and Fleb actually respond to people on their channels.

[@Chaosproscho]

I got an aneurism from disassembling it even with your guide. I would have never managed without.

[@dt5690]

I haven't felt so good and relaxed watching a video on youtube since Bob Ross!

[@TheRealSugarShane]

I am working on this one now. Have yet to put it back in its original state. I bought a pack of 10 of these Hanayama cast puzzles and have solved half of them. I am finding that they are much, much easier to disassemble than to put back together. Reassembly for this one and others has taken hours and hours of endless fidgeting and no small amount of dexterity.

[@TheRealSugarShane]

Update: I have finally solved this puzzle. I took the pieces totally apart and really tried to think critically on how to start out the links so that I could maneuver them in a specific way. Once I had the initial linking position figured out, I was able to logically maneuver them back to the correctly assembled position. I wish I had started over many hours ago lol.

[@Mystic0Dreamer]

These puzzles are getting infinitely difficult. You must have a brain the size of our galaxy. If I had to solve that puzzle to save my life I'd be a dead man.

[@Nicolas_GE]

galaxy brain plays

[@רזקולודני]

took me only 10 minutes to reassemble the puzzle with that video. good explaniton

[@s.christopher3773]

Hi Mr.Puzzle, thanks for all the great videos. Because of you I have bought alot of Hanayama puzzles, but I have to say this one is difficult. Mine is stuck in a knot of twisted metal that seems impossible to solve. At least I can use it as a weight for when I go fishing! Keep on puzzling...

[@DougM_BDXL]

If you are new to this mind-bending puzzle, here is some info: - On average it takes about a year of casual use to solve this 100% on your own without help. - I've heard of cases where it has taken someone as long as 3 years to solve it. - It personally took me 7 days just to take it apart, 5 more days to put it together with partial viewing of other videos. - It took me two days with the help of youtube to truly understand this puzzle, and be able to take it apart and put it back together unassisted. So in total it took me two weeks to master this thing, with help from videos, and essentially never putting it down. I had it in my hand fiddling with it every single day, in meetings at work, at dinner with friends, in the washroom, on the couch, etc... One night I stayed up till 4am, determined to solve it, then giving up. Lol. I say all this to say, you are NOT cheating by watching this video all the way through. This thing is a masterpiece. You will NOT solve it in a day or two on your own without help.

[@unmesh59]

I've got the puzzle into a complicated jumble after years of trying and even this video isn't sufficient to help me take it apart or put it back 😞 I'd love for there to be a service to "reset" it though I suppose that means I probably have to buy another one!

[@G0DofRock]

I am proud to say I was able to solve mine within 3.5 hours, then 45 minutes to put back together.. Coolest puzzle Id seen, it was a gift from some friends at university, they went to a puzzle shop and asked for the most difficult puzzle they had. lol

[@thelamb288]

I should have checked out your KZbin channel first. Now I have found your Level 5 puzzles Playlist. :) Cheers.

[@meachyofficial]

I don't want to discredit your puzzling abilities, I'm very curious. Did you have to look at the solution of this puzzle, or were you able to solve it? I never would have figure this thing out.

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Hello Jeff, that a legitimate question! I solved the puzzle by myself of course. But by doing it only one time, you barely can remember the solution. For being able to explain is as good as possible I looked into several other solutions and combined them in a way that seemed to me the easiest way to explain, understand and remember it.

[@sonofamother1465]

Jeffry Meacham If you look at the solution it takes all the fun out of it

[@naomihoefs6701]

Jeffry Meacham this puzzle took me about a month, a few moments a day, just to take it apart

[@johnf817]

Sonofamother thats quitean exaggeration, is still fun when other people try solving them, and its fun to master it once you learn the solution

[@mr.aleximer]

Sonofamother and here we are watching a solutions chanel ;)

[@udihu]

I had my Vortex lying around for years, but thank to you now it'S whole again

[@jbenschop7441]

you really have a great amount of patience , i would heve given up soon before

[@gomezdesi7401]

Wow that looks like it was very well made awesome puzzle

[@Denz4ya]

Hi mr puzzle. Which puzzle is the most difficult one you have solved?

[@kmfnj]

Thank you, Mr. Puzzle. This video was extremely helpful!

[@Mr.Puzzle]

You're welcome! 😊

[@iramos2488]

I got this puzzle dropped into my hands still in full vortex. I was able to get it to the point where just the three tails were linked. I was on the right track but I was not positioning the vortex piece correctly for it to ever work. I would get close then stuck again. After watching this I positioned it in the fashion shown and it just unlinked almost too easily. It was like untying a knot when you finally get the really tight part undone.

[@spekt113]

What puzzle is a 5 to you personally? I'm just curious and it'd be nice if you had a vid on it.

[@scarfacepug4844]

Go to the he’s playlist

[@renolorenzo9950]

Very complicated puzzle but always entertaining to watch it😂😂 , i like it so much😂

[@naomihoefs6701]

I didn't watch the spoiler alert, because I'm in the middle of trying to put back together...but, out of the hanayama puzzles, this is one of the by far hardest

[@julieoliver4956]

Wow there is no way I could solve this one never thank you for sharing xx

[@djjoshplacid83]

What an awesome puzzle. Thanks for the help

[@maidggencyherr6338]

I absolutely LOVE your videos!!! You are AWESOME!!

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Thanks a lot!

[@benro6564]

This was my first puzzle and it only took around 45 minutes to take it apart. I am going to try to put it back together soon

[@Mr.Puzzle]

It will take longer for sure. 😉

[@AM-rt8ky]

WOW,didn't you get tired solving it for the first time?how much time did it take you to do it?

[@BenHC]

I feel that unless I kept close track of my solution path I would have a far harder time reassembling as the goals seem less intuitive. Disentangling the loops and then the tails seems comparatively intuitive albeit still very difficult. That said I'm making this statement having the benefit of seeing a clean solution.

[@Mr.Puzzle]

I thought it might be the easiest way to explain it in a way someone could copy the solution and try themselves. There are some shortcuts here and there but they are even more confusing. By the way, when I solved it the first time, the disassembly was not too difficult. The problem was, I had no idea how I did it and it cost me a lot of time to reassemble it. :D

[@bypoa5262]

Already had mine mixed up I’m never getting this solved

[@EricFletchMagic]

Same

[@reee8559]

Same

[@55Redd55]

great video! love watching you mr. puzzle!

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Thanks John!

[@JLchevz]

what an awesome channel this is

[@connormac4401]

This puzzle is the coolest among the series imo

[@iaagoarielschwoelklobo6342]

6:12 Yay, ended the puzzle! :D ... .. . . . . Now i have to assemble it again...

[@Mr.Puzzle]

:D

[@lunaleopard4465]

I got stuck on one of the steps where you pull the AY under the HANAYAMA piece! I think mine is broken

[@EricFletchMagic]

Same :(

[@chrona4514]

I can’t manage to push the AY bump through the hanayama piece at the very end at 10:45 can anyone help me figure out how to place it to push it through?

[@RossDM]

This one is one of the toughest I've done. The hourglass takes the number one spot, but this is a very close second!

[@LadyTigerLily]

One of my favourites. I managed to disassemble it easily, and with some work, managed to get it almost reassembled, but I need to look up one of the final moves before it would lay flat. A friend managed to disassemble it again, but he put them together in the wrong order, so it was stuck for almost a year. About a month ago, I finally got up the guts to tackle it, and after an hour or so of trying, got it back to the start position. Not going to touch it for a while...

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Well done! 😁

[@LadyTigerLily]

Vielen Dank! This is definitely one of the hardest puzzles I've tried, and I still can't do it from memory, but I can get close. It makes a very beautiful art piece for my desk, too.

[@timbosak2519]

All the props to Mr Puzzle. That is the most twisted up bunch of nonsense I have ever seen

[@izzzzzz6]

The designer is amazing! How do you go about designing such a thing?

[@김영훈-b1w5z]

Thanks you~. Thanks to M.r Puzzle, you did a good jod!

[@SasukeUchiha-bz6se]

new mr. puzzle video? better get my lunch.

[@Mr.Puzzle]

hehe :D

[@joselinabueno7142]

I have a question. Do you enjoy other types puzzles as well? Like Sudoku puzzles or crossword puzzles?

[@ОлександрБрико-щ8ы]

Love this puzzle so much! I can assemble and disassemble it with eyes closed :)

[@henrypowell4240]

Now that is interesting. It has style.

[@TrevorMag62]

After solving this, it was annoying to have to keep looking at the detailed notes I made. I therefore offer the following mnemonics: Linking the first linear chain: Alex Van Halen Linking the chain into a circle: AH! Threading the three needles: A**Hole, ViagrA, Hi-Vis If you understand all that, you're welcome :)

[@Tattootin]

Absolutely agree with you on the fact that someone engineered this and made it WORK. Sounds simple and looks simple but the more you get to know it the more intricate it gets. Kinda like a lady.

[@ukaszoleksy4574]

I think Mr. Puzzle is a genius. There is only one problem: If Mr Puzzle is a genius, then how to name a designer?

[@ResidentOfTheAbyss]

How long did this take for you to figure out?

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Do not know exactly. The disassembly about 45min. The assembly several hours.

[@ResidentOfTheAbyss]

Mr.Puzzle Thanks for the reply Mr. puzzle! This would take me forever to figure out, but you make it seem so easy, and rate it under a difficulty 6!

[@zeleninar98]

I got to the very end of the puzzle where you have to disconnect the tails and couldnt figure it out.. maybe if i gave it an another day i would manage but I didnt have the patience anymore. thanks for the solution👍

[@endery4ssir499]

Cheers mr.puzzle

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Cheers!

[@WERT2025]

What the hell, looks insanely complex, I think only some kind of super alien civilization could make this

[@_depRaven]

aka asians

[@blaze1148]

Very impressive puzzle and puzzler ;)

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Thanks. 😉

[@lifetake3103]

Hey Mr.Puzzle I'm wondering if I can ask you a question. I'm looking to get a bunch of new puzzles with varying difficulties. I'm looking for puzzles that I can share with my friends which range from beginner to intermediate in their skill levels, but then some new more difficult ones for myself. Do you have any suggestions from your channel or some you like outside of it?

[@aidontorres8253]

I finally got it TOOK ME ABOUT A MONTH TO SOLVE IT CAUSE IT IS SO COMPLEX

[@Known-unknowns]

After the third move I got a screwdriver which enabled be to insert the angle grinder and simply remove a couple of knobs and hay-presto , with a hammer it was back together.

[@cookiekitty222]

sweet puzzle!

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Indeed!

[@55Redd55]

haha i cant believe you replied thats awesome best of luck for future vids man!

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Of course, I do. What can be more important as the feedback from my viewers?

[@lordsangone]

Solving these Hanayama puzzles are hard enough but creating/designing these puzzles are infinitely harder. Creators like Hanayama are on a HNL - hole nutha level.

[@nyla-amarasmit8117]

How did u figure this out??? How long did it take you??? I would never have figure that out wow this one seems impossible..

[@damiankerneltt9051]

recently solved it, it was an intense puzzle

[@fnanfne]

Now that is a puzzle!

[@jorgkuijt4735]

Callenged FLEB to solve this one without watching this video :) In My opinion it's the hardest puzzle ever, because of the strange curly shapes. 7-6 rating for sure.

[@hainish2381]

great video!

[@ishio95]

I take this puzzle with me everywhere, my favorite by far

[@williaml2579]

Hi, I managed to take it apart but having trouble putting it back. I've been watching your video, but I can't figure out which stage of assembly I am at. Any tips?

[@williaml2579]

Hi , I am at a shop in Japan looking at a number of Hanayama puzzles. Can you recommend the top 5 puzzles from Hanayama please? Tks

[@Condor4R]

Is the next cast puzzle a pentagram

[@SaschaKoch-h9s]

I tried to assemble my Vortex now like 20 times with the help of this video. No chance. I always get lost around 9:30, all parts fall into a chaotic position where i just have to try and disassemble again to start over a few weeks later.

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

I don't know how they design these, but here's how I would go about it of I were trying to design something like this: First, note that the basic principal is to slide pieces past each other. I would first work with wires and design the basic motion you want to use to get the pieces to slide around. I would make note of the other ways it can move from each position. I would then 3d model smooth pieces with a moderately tight tollerance and 3d print them in plastic. Then I would do the move I had designed. I would note places where a tigbter tollerance would make it impossible and make grooves and other modifications, but I would place them in spots that have to be maneuvered to rather than along the path of the main move. Then I would add extra bumps and obstacles to require moving it into those detour positions so that you can get it back to the main move. I would then 3d model that with a tighter tollerance and try it out, note any places it doesn't work. Then I'd modify it to model it with a tight tollerance. And places it doesn't work I would carve by hand in the plastic to fix it, creating the final plastic model. I'd make those changes and print again and if it works, I'd print in metal. If that works, that becomes the model and I would build casts out of that to make the cast iron puzzles.

[@joannaw3601]

Hi. Thank you for your video. It was a game changer. Everything worked well, then my daughter played with it, and now the possition of the puzzles is completely wrong . Is it possible that she forced it in the wrong way? I really need some help here, please? 😭😭😭

[@avexlee5949]

Can I please ask you what’s your top 5 hardest hanayama puzzle in orders My top 5 are hourglass votex rotors quartet and engnima but I really want to know what professional people like you the top 5 or even top 10

[@JJDaN1nja]

I have done this over to re assemble it a lot of times and for some reason after a couple steps my pieces aren’t in the right area to do the rest

[@asxnkmb]

wow... had a lot of these puzzles when I was small. I don't remember them costing this much back then. They were reasonably cheap at my school bookstore. sadly, my parents sold it away as they didn't like me wasting so much money on them.

[@AnthonyCassidy50]

I imagine they start with 3 or the same pieces that are easily intertwined, then they add knots to some of the pieces of metal (using epoxy or something) and then drill out/angle grind other pieces, so that the route to unentwining them is uniwue.

[@hardanson]

Do you have big hands, Mr.Puzzle?

[@__________________________Fred]

This is my brain when solving a simple math problem

[@iDerekMC]

how do u create a puzzle like this?

[@picekjoza4330]

hi Mr.Puzzel

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Hi Picek!

[@dominicdelprincipe2583]

I love disassembly puzzles, and have solved many difficult Hanayama offerings; Enigma, Radix, Labyrinth, etc.... this one, however, kicked my ass. I got it apart, after much effort, but the reassembly defeated me.

[@gregddd1]

Have you ever given a 5 out of 5 (your rating) to a puzzle, if so can you provide the link?

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Yes, the Equa and the Tricky Dick

[@As_Asa_PhD]

You forgot to put this one in your Hanayama playlist.

[@Keyakina]

We cannot do the first step, it is stuck.. But it was put together by hand right? So what is the recommended step?