Solving two Impossible looking Trick Bolts!

[@casperthefriendlycookingapple]

Your enthusiasm, even for the easy puzzles, is great to watch. Not since the legendary giraffe puzzle have I seen a conundrum as tricky as the first one. Keep on puzzling.

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Noting is as hard as the Giraffe! ✊🦒

[@Charlesb88]

These make nice easy novelty puzzles for handing out to beginner puzzlers or young children and to otherwise have on your shelf as a nice decorative piece, especially for an engineer. These also make great office/executive toys similar the Newton’s Cradle, Liquid Motion Bubbler, Magic Drinking Bird, etc.and other office toys.

[@MojoMfg]

Gotta love left handed threads. Regardless of the simplicity, an absolute beginner still may have trouble realizing that left handed threads are a real possibility. At any rate, the puzzles still look amazing and I have to respect the time it took to machine all these components.

[@zparkyy1800]

An absolute expert * may have trouble realizing?

[@superhunk1989]

The two puzzles are well made, and the packaging is quite chic, but they are too easy. Even though the mechanism of these puzzles is pretty dull, you make this video exciting to watch.

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Thanks! 🙏

[@B.McAllister]

This video is nuts.

[@dragonmaid1360]

I love things that are machined. I love the look of these puzzles

[@__The_Real_V__]

Who would even dislike this?? I cannot fathom how bad their lives must be to dislike such wholesome content

[@notahotshot]

These would qualify more as "impossible objects" than puzzles.

[@Lucian_Andries]

This was nuts!!!😲

[@bethisway]

I felt that let down too haha

[@muldoon67]

For 'Nuts' maybe the camera made it more easy for us as there was a dark line in the middle of the threads that made it look like 2 parts.

[@fredrikjonasson5529]

The second puzzle is first screwed clockwise and then anti-clockwise, which is slightly different from the first one. -A nice idea, but as you say the options of what you can do are limited with these kind of puzzles.

[@trickyricky2903]

Keep on puzzling, the maker has talent, they're quality pieces, does he offer higher difficulty puzzles?

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Not sure about the spinning tumbler. We will see.

[@dominicdelprincipe2583]

Puzzles for your non-puzzling friends and family! I wonder about that other one... if it is as obvious as it seems. Cheers, Mr. P, keep ooon puzzling!

[@tonywilson4713]

I think you are right. For anyone who's watched a few of these puzzles the impossible nut/bolt with a hidden internal thread is well known among machinists. Here's a video of one being made. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpPCc4iIgdp8bZI

[@LockPickingCuber]

Looking forward to seeing the third puzzle. I agree these are too easy, but perhaps if their creator learns from this experience his next puzzles will be more challenging. He seems to have some good skills, anyway...

[@Mr.Puzzle]

👍

[@georgecypher4568]

They look very well made but they are very procey for a bunch of bolts and nuts.... I am a auto mechanic so i deal with nuts and bolts all day long so you know why i cannot justify the price of these . A good solve anyway Mr.P even tho you did solve them quite quick !!!

[@Mr.Puzzle]

🙏

[@sethusk]

I think this might be a time a 0 out of 5 is acceptable on difficulty rating. Neat, but too easy.

[@Mr.Puzzle]

😅

[@mitchkatz4918]

probably too easy after seeing the solve of much more complicated puzzles. 1/5 seems more appropriate than 0/5 as it still requires an effort but not much on thinking to find solution. 0/5 might be a nut with a bolt non trick to unscrew.

[@sethusk]

@@mitchkatz4918 Yeah, you're right. We all just watch too many puzzles.

[@pepperonipizza8200]

If you solved the first bolt faster than Lock Picking Lawyer, that would be so cool.

[@andrew7569]

How is that even a comparison....

[@FirstLast-gw5mg]

The only trick to the first puzzle is (spoiler obviously) that if a nut is covering the seam in the middle bolt, the middle bolt wouldn't be able to be unscrewed. So it requires moving the nuts around until you uncover and find the seam which allows the middle bolt to be removed. As you said, very easy to just solve it by playing with the puzzle.

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Yes, so basically opposite a usual. This one can be randomly difficult. 😅

[@wbfaulk]

I was expecting there to be some sort of long joint that would require that the nuts be in a specific configuration. I'm not really sure how such a thing would work, but I'm thinking like a spiral "fracture" somehow. Or maybe that you'd have to partially unscrew it and then pass the nuts over the partial gap to continue. Alas, I was disappointed.

[@PMX]

I'd rate them as: First puzzle: 0 out of 5 Second puzzle: 1 out of 5

[@groowanderer]

I hope these were very cheap to purchase, but with the packaging... probably wasn't.

[@PMX]

The links are in the description. Nope, not cheap: $65 for the first one, $101 for the second one.

[@groowanderer]

@@PMX damn what a ripoff. That's 2 bad.

[@dustinmorrison6315]

Those who haven't watched your videos may have been fooled by a reverse thread. I think it could also use one of those childproof mechanisms you find on pill bottles.

[@Mr.Puzzle]

😁👌

[@omikronweapon]

"great as a small gift". Just a shame that it's $100. I don't have any knowledge about brass or machining, so maybe it's a fair price for the work and material, but it's way too pricey as either a 'puzzle' or as a gift/knick-knack. I can't be quite as impressed with the box quality as mr Puzzle is either. It looks neat enough, but there's plenty of fraying in the wood and the slot for the hinges looks like it's about a centimeter too wide. Fine as a box, but hardly prime quality. Comes across more like trying to justify the price anyway. A good puzzle you could ship in a plastic bag and have it stand on its own. There's no real motif to it either. There's no reason for the box. It doesn't tie in with the style, nor would you really want to display it in the box anyway. If the allure of the puzzle is the appearance (rather than the difficulty), you'd want it out in the open.

[@Mr.Puzzle]

I'm also barely keeping any boxed. Only very few.

[@planchetflaw]

@@Mr.Puzzle Poor Box Puzzles

[@kimchi_b]

@@planchetflaw Poorly boxed puzzles?

[@timliebrockpuzzles]

@@kimchi_b Puzzles poorly boxed?

[@kimchi_b]

@@timliebrockpuzzles Puzzles, boxed poorly?

[@figureviews]

Please solve the Ultimagear Millenium Puzzle by Bandai. I want to know how long it takes for you to complete it. I have one puzzle solving video of that item on my channel but please no peeking hehe. I love your videos btw.

[@andyt204]

All the hard puzzles you show from around the world and then finally a UK one and it turns out to be a joke of a puzzle, god we're embarrassing

[@Mr.Puzzle]

Check the triple yolk. One of my all time favorites that comes from the UK. 🇬🇧

[@Zoso14892]

My wife would probably have solved that first one quicker than you Mr P. Not because she's good at puzzles, just that she's hopeless with bolts so wouldn't instinctively turn them in one direction 😅

[@Mr.Puzzle]

😅

[@robrommens660]

You just got lucky on your first try... (Sie haben gerade Glück beim ersten Versuch...)

[@nunocarneiro464]

Those can't even be called puzzles

[@adriansrealm]

I would have rated both at 1/5, same concept. Though it seems Christian's scale is based on number of things he has to unscrew lol

[@stefanfrankel8157]

Difficulty -1. ;o)

[@Cam-SB]

How many times did he say SCREW or a variation of?

[@user-xyz546dragon]

오늘도 재밌네요

[@EleanorPeterson]

Hmm. I'm sorry to sound so grumpy about a puzzle, but as a commercial product (not a one-off birthday gift made for a friend), it has to stand on its own as value for money in the big, harsh world. This is just my opinion. [Disclosure: I'm an ex-cabinetmaker and musical instrument maker, and amateur mechanic/machinist.] There's nothing wrong with producing 'simple' puzzles. An experienced puzzler will naturally over-think something that seems easy, adding to its entertainment value. But... these brass nuts and bolts aren't cheap; they're priced as premium items. The problem is, they LOOK like they SHOULD be cheap. They're just nuts and bolts, right? Wrong! Turning stuff by hand takes time, and these puzzles have obviously been made with care. So how do you create an aura of quality? With packaging. I think the plain boxes are a mistake, though. I appreciate that they're intended to help justify the price and look good on the shelves of a puzzler's collection, but they just don't match their contents. A laser-engraved logo would help; some CNC decoration would look good. Anything to tie the box to what's inside. The boxes themselves aren't quite right, either. The exposed stock hinges would have been better completely covered by a continuation of the (nice) velvet lining material, which is common practice on jewellery boxes (and also forms a stay to stop the lid clattering all the way back); and the pressed brass (also mass-produced) catches don't add anything to the sense of quality. I think a tiny inset magnet would have made a better closure. Although... Perhaps it's an extreme thing to say, but to my mind the hard metal puzzles don't suit a wooden box at all, and would have been better presented in a soft velvet draw-string bag or pouch. Oh dear. I do hope Mr Puzzle won't delete this Comment for being too nasty. I'm not usually so critical or negative. 🧐

[@primus108]

0.25/5

[@Paolo_De_Leva]

You are smart. So, please, would you mind to learn how to use type 2 conditional sentences such as: "if there *were* a thread, I *would* not be able to shake this bolt..." "if something *were* true, something else *would* happen“ "If I *were* president, I *would* make some big changes.” "if I *had* a million dollars, I *would* pay off all our debts, and take my wife on a cruise."

[@petehenderson]

Well I think they stink there not puzzles

[@zombiesithblade1579]

Gg

[@livestefan]

litteraly first xD

[@Diamondmind369]

Bad puzzles from this uk guy.... Just a scam i think. Maybe for a kid they would be good