The Cast Keyring (Blind Solve) 

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm planning on doing more!

That is a great idea! I can't believe I didn't think of that!

Approximately how long did it take you to solve this one?

It took me somewhere between 10 and 11 minutes, according to the amount of footage I took. Not super fast, but I was happy with the time! Next time I'll time it!

FLEB i think editing the videos down is definitely the way to go then. saves having minutes of you just randomly twisting and going down dead ends. the timer would be cool though.

A few commenters have suggested that I fast forward through the boring parts, which I think is a slightly better solution than just cutting it out. We'll see next time!

Thank you! I thought it was a neat puzzle too. It's a 2 star in terms of difficulty, according to Hanayama, so it's not very hard, but it was a lot of fun to solve! I really like the idea of needing rotations but blocking them in most cases, so you have to use unusual orientations to remove the pieces.

I'm glad you enjoy it! My goal is to use every Saturday as a "puzzle review" video, and then to use the week for videos on whatever puzzle topic I feel like talking about. The history of puzzles and other, more obscure puzzlemakers, are definitely in the list of things I would like to talk about!

That actually messed up my solve, as I lost the orientation I was holding the puzzle in! A little embarrassing, but I thought I would leave it in.

It was funny. :)

I've always heard that RU-vid's comment section was awful, but people have actually been really nice! Lots of interesting questions!

I'm glad you enjoy them and thanks for watching! Happy puzzling!

Thank you!

Go for it, and let me know how it goes! Good luck!

I'm hoping to continue it! Glad you enjoyed it!

I'm glad you're enjoying it!

Thanks! I've actually never solved the Equa puzzle! It's on the backlog, though.

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

fleb whats that word again that means a word that says something else when read upside down? i want to see the spelling of it plz

ambigram

+UnityDog Ambigram?

FLEB thank you

I didn't do it blindfolded or anything like that. The "blind" part of "blindsolving" means that it's the first time I'm ever looking at the puzzle!

Riza Nugraha This gave me a good chuckle!

FLEB, hahaha, I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm lol

Have I been bamboozled?

You have indeed sir!

Thank you!

Thanks!

Exactly!

Thanks! The cast collection is great! I'm going to try to do some puzzle techniques videos here soon, so if you can't solve the hardest ones yet, maybe in a little bit... :)

Thank you!

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Thank you!

Yep! Two come to mind immediately. 1. I was gifted a custom puzzlehunt for my wedding, which consisted of 20 some puzzles and a 4 foot x 2 foot x 2 foot box filled with electronics. My wife and I are stuck on the last puzzle, but we'll hopefully solve it this month! 2. The last puzzle of the Maze of Games is really difficult. At last year's GenCon, I talked to Mike Selinker about it, and he told me that I was the closest to the answer out of anyone he's seen, but I still haven't solved it! A few months ago, the "Lotus Box" would have been an answer to that question, but I finally sat down and worked out what I was missing.

Thank you!

Will do!

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm going to try to continue it!

Thanks!

I'm working on a puzzlehunt book and a new video game. More on that soon!

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I am planning to continue this series!

995 is a very good score! Wow! But yeah, take a break. I can tell you what's supposed to happen if you get a perfect score, but I haven't done it myself. I'm going to try a 100% run in a few months myself.

I am pretty happy with it. I was kinda hoping to get 999 but at the same time that would have been soul crushing. I don't want to be spoiled on what happens but is it different than a non-perfect score?

DUDE! I just met Michael Stevens of Vsauce and he asked if I watched your channel! He and Adam Savage are in town for Brain Candy Live.

Thank you very much!

Thank you very much! Will do!

Sure!

Awesome! It was a lot of fun to film, so thank you for the suggestion!

This puzzle is "maze-like", so I wanted to make sure I knew where I was in the maze and could back out to a position I was pretty sure was correct. When I undid that move at the end, I wanted to make sure that the move was doing what I wanted it to. I could have pulled it out at that point, but I was just being careful!

Oh, I think I saw one of your comments in the "Hanayama Spiral" and answered it. This one was also a part of that order (which was several years ago, I'm not sure if they still offer it) It often takes quite a bit of work to find a puzzle you're looking for!

Thank you for the kind words! I've been in a bit of a slump this evening, and it really cheered me up!

It did! I completely lost my orientation!

I'm more of a once-a-week or once-a-month sort of dabber. I used to dab on the daily but the inside of my elbows got sore.

Sure! I mostly design puzzlehunt puzzles for competitions. Here's an example: www.baphl.org/15/static/puzzles/puzzle_1-8.pdf The answer is an English word or phrase!

It would be a little bit more difficult, because it would be harder to keep track of the orientation of the pieces, but it wouldn't be that bad!

I made a "recommendations" video with some mass-produced puzzle recommendations! Link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PqULAIz4hIM.html

Yep! I love the Witness! I also met Jonathan Blow when I was showing my game at PAX East last year. Great guy!

Oh good to hear! I can only imagine how the meeting went, master creator and master puzzler. :D

Yes! If I had noticed that during the solve, I could have saved myself some time.

Thank you!

Did you ever get it back in the cage?

my family laughed at me and my dad actually knew this puzzle (it is one of the oldes puzzles in Czech republic used by a comix creator whose antagonist hid a secret blueprint into The Hedhehog and whoever takes him out can have the blueprint) so my dad put it together. Now I have my own one in my room too :-)

That's awesome!

You should try that puzzle, I would love to see the video of you getting the hedhehog out of its cage because it is said in the comix you can´t get it out without a hint where to start:-)

Thank you very much! I really appreciate it!

I have a set of drawers that have a lot of puzzles, there are a bunch on a shelf, there are a bunch in a pile in the bedroom, there's a bunch in a pile on the desk, there's a bunch in a pile on top of a really big puzzle... maybe I should organize them better? I don't keep the original packages, but if it comes with instructions I put them in a few folders I use for puzzle documents.

Thanks for the answer! No, it's perfectly fine the way you keep them! It's that I always try to keep my stuff as organized as I can. Ahah!

They are! I only noticed that after I solved the puzzle, or I could have solved it more quickly!

I've been solving and collecting puzzles as long as I can remember, but there's another milestone I recently past which I remember better. It's a few months past ten years, at this point, since I wrote my first puzzle! I'm glad you liked the explanation!

Yeah, I need to figure out how to lock the focus of my camera. What's happening there is that it's trying to autofocus. Hopefully I'll get the video quality better next time!

Thank you!

While picking up the puzzle I accidentally knocked over my camera, so I did cut out an extra part, but it was mostly for setting the camera back up!

This is by Hanayama, so it's available lots of places. Searching google for "cast keyring" should bring up a couple places where it's sold.

Ooooh this is probably my favorite "outside the box" solution!