The Famine Games Puzzle

The Famine Games Puzzle - Lump of Coal

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7 жыл бұрын

I'm a Top-10 finisher in the US Puzzle Championship and just released a logic puzzle game on Steam! The game is called RYB: store.steampowered.com/app/547050
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Twitter: / flebpuzzles
Intro song: Tekvision - Mycoplasma
Intro template: /SDJGRedstoneDJ

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@FLEBpuzzles 7 жыл бұрын

-[centilitre, for short] -[universal donor blood type]

@BidiguiloChefao 6 жыл бұрын

Bloopiero clominus

@AngrySanta 6 жыл бұрын

Clopositive..But I know it's more than that....

@tylerrapillo377 5 жыл бұрын

Clo+, CLOT?

@werty1432k 7 жыл бұрын

This channel is going to blow up really soon

@frankp4 7 жыл бұрын

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@superyamagucci 7 жыл бұрын

werty1432k RUN!!

@AlinezBR 7 жыл бұрын

i really hope it happens :) quality content needs to be known!

@ugandanknucklesdiedsostopu3937 7 жыл бұрын

werty1432k KA BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

@juliloafers 6 жыл бұрын

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@mrt9749 7 жыл бұрын

Maybe it says BlockLung because they were expecting the solver to use the air from their lungs to blow through the holes instead of using water like you did. Blow on one hole, maybe with a straw, and feel where it comes out on the other side with your finger?

@EtherFox 7 жыл бұрын

Or with suction with a straw. Either way, it's also a clever, blatant reference to black lung: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalworker's_pneumoconiosis.

@FLEBpuzzles 7 жыл бұрын

During the actual event, they gave us a syringe and there was a water source nearby. I believe the intended solution was use water, but I like your idea a lot!

@Jimmymcjimthejim 7 жыл бұрын

You could also use the syringe to push air through a hole.

@samiamm5764 7 жыл бұрын

This could be mechanized by adding actuators that r activated by the air pressure. That would be pretty cool. Also, why is the L represented by two different letters?

@nathansaunders943 7 жыл бұрын

'L' appears twice in the solution

@mgabino2 7 жыл бұрын

I love how he speaks as if reading from a long list of bullet points

@russellgeyer2062 7 жыл бұрын

Dude I love all your videos, you seem super passionate about this and it's honestly infectious, please keep making awesome videos!

@megacosmic6507 7 жыл бұрын

Great videos, but that whole " after I play you a short video" is just strange man, we don't need an intro right in the middle.

@jonathancrane808 7 жыл бұрын

ben winwood I thought it was only me. It made me cringe. I had to stop watching lol

@willh1234 7 жыл бұрын

Its not an intro video, its a spoiler marker. Everything before the break is spoiler free, everything after the break is spoilers. This is standard procedure for this type of video; you'll see breaks like this in all sorts of videos and podcasts.

@beastmonsterthing3 7 жыл бұрын

i like it.

@xp3ll3d 7 жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with the break, just the wording. "Right after the intro" would be smoother

@BrokawTom 7 жыл бұрын

ben winwood it's so people who don't want to see the answer know when to stop playing the video. Duh

@michaelmatter1222 7 жыл бұрын

Did you put the 'intro video' together yourself? It's pretty sweet

@FLEBpuzzles 7 жыл бұрын

The intro video was made from a template from KZfaq user SDJGRedstoneDJ. He deserves all the credit for it!

@nicolefowler6725 7 жыл бұрын

Wow, this one was super hard, I wouldn't have been able to solve that in a million years! But I still really appreciate the style of thinking that is involved with these types of puzzles.

@FLEBpuzzles 7 жыл бұрын

I think a lot of the ability to solve these puzzles comes from experience dealing with them. They have their own standard ways of solving and a common patterns. There are a number of events where you can find these puzzles: Puzzled Pint, BAPHL, DASH, Panda Magazine, Mystery Hunt, and many more! Those events deal mostly with these types of puzzles on paper (not elaborate constructions like this puzzle), but they're the same type of thinking. If you're interested, check them out! Puzzled Pint is probably the place to start if you're new to this style.

@nicolefowler6725 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the advice, I'll check out some of the places you mentioned. I'd really love to be able to develop some good puzzle solving skills.

@johnpena8704 7 жыл бұрын

Dude, I love your intro video! fantastically done!

@andrewm6329 7 жыл бұрын

The spoiler break is a great idea and it also means that if someone starts stealing your videos and puts them on Facebook, the original creator will still be obvious.

@raphirau 7 жыл бұрын

Found your channel on reddit and cant stop watching the videos! Great content!

@Daniel-ew9gx 7 жыл бұрын

This was a good one, very tricky. Keep it up Fleb, i'm always awaiting your videos :)

@FLEBpuzzles 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@Tchukiyo1 7 жыл бұрын

I really love the "out of the box" thinking that is required on this one Thanks for the great videos ;)

@robertlozyniak3661 7 жыл бұрын

@Tchukiyo1 ...although for this puzzle, you have to go *into* the box first!

@PenniniFroze 7 жыл бұрын

When all of your work to solve a puzzle ends up with a bad joke.

@int3ractive202 7 жыл бұрын

Would've preferred Krampus' Head on this specific run, but fine

@farty555 7 жыл бұрын

cool puzzle and really cool intro video

@AceMcBubblesIII 7 жыл бұрын

you are my champion of puzzles. if you were a knight you'd win a princess heart of love by solving your puzzles. it's so awesome to see. I wish I could play with puzzles. this solve wasn't interesting but the water through the holes is unique.

@Stomplebane 7 жыл бұрын

hey, thanks for playing that short video mate

@soonerschooner 7 жыл бұрын

This is amazing. Keep making videos! I'm assuming there's nowhere to buy this, and that you don't know anyone selling one?

@electricmaster23 7 жыл бұрын

Very clever!

@cheesecakelasagna 7 жыл бұрын

So once the word is deciphered, the puzzle ends there? What does blocklung mean? Why is it that word? Do I need to block my lungs and kill myself? I NEED ANSWERS

@ezramoguel8808 7 жыл бұрын

CheesecakeLasagna basically you input the answer into a system which then gives you the next clue for the puzzle

@ariel_haymarket 7 жыл бұрын

well now I want to find such events in the Houston area.

@TheOfficialCzex 7 жыл бұрын

The Famine Games - Africa

@davesstuff1599 7 жыл бұрын

Very clever, I gotta go lie down now.

@albashum1 7 жыл бұрын

Awesome

@MisterTingles 7 жыл бұрын

this blew my fuckin mind! imma use this in my dnd game!

@mypupismup 7 жыл бұрын

An awesome puzzle AND the answer is a PUN??? What more could you ask for? Hahaha

@isaacstevens5415 7 жыл бұрын

So, any idea where this puzzle could be purchased or a 3d printer file obtained? I really like this design.

@joefieldsend7471 7 жыл бұрын

Where can I buy puzzles of this sort?

@Thepiecat 7 жыл бұрын

do you design puzzles professionally? or is it just a hobby? I think I want to start designing them as a hobby, it sounds very fun!

@ZatriX_ZA 7 жыл бұрын

I needs plans for the puzzles you show here! My DnD players would love/hate me even moar )

@FLEBpuzzles 7 жыл бұрын

If you're interested, most of the public information for this event is available at www.thefaminegame.com/archive.html There were a lot of paper-based puzzles in this competition, which might be easier to adapt/make for a DnD session!

@Lucian_Andries 6 жыл бұрын

What is/are The Famine Games? My guess is that, when famine hit, people built puzzles to keep themselves occupied and forget about their growling stomachs... How close am I? :)))

@gracethomas7962 7 жыл бұрын

Have you ever tried the Brainstring? I'm really quick at it but it drives my friends crazy!

@FLEBpuzzles 7 жыл бұрын

I haven't! It's in the backlog of puzzles! I thought it looked rather unique!

@NukTap 7 жыл бұрын

That 3D print has a pretty bad bed adhesion warp.

@dozzer 7 жыл бұрын

I wanna see the inside of this block! Especially if it's made of wood, how do they make the chambers?

@FLEBpuzzles 7 жыл бұрын

It's actually 3D printed plastic!

@dozzer 7 жыл бұрын

Oh well that makes sense then!

@zefzima 7 жыл бұрын

Spoiler - What a way to deliver a pun.. sjeez

@TheSargeantTV 7 жыл бұрын

do you think the puzzle might continue if you blocked the letters for "lung"?

@FLEBpuzzles 7 жыл бұрын

In this puzzle competition, they wrote custom software to check answers while we were at the various locations. The answer checker accepted the answer BLOCKLUNG, so that's the end of the puzzle. You could add more steps, like along the lines you're thinking, but it would have been a very long puzzle!

@Burger_pants 7 жыл бұрын

It would be alot easier and less messy to just blow through the holes and use your fingers to tell which hole the air-flow is coming through. If you needed to you could use a straw to isolate each hole. >_>

@Burger_pants 7 жыл бұрын

Or a can of compressed air, the holes look about the size of the straw on the duster cans. A coffee stirrer that was hollow would also work.

@dvdcd 7 жыл бұрын

Can you 3d print this? Its super cool!

@gh0styyyy444 7 жыл бұрын

I would have just stuck a paper clip or a bent Bobby pin through the holes. The water seems too hard to see which hole it comes out of to me

@FLEBpuzzles 7 жыл бұрын

It's hard to see on the camera, but it's surprisingly clear in person. If nothing else, if you dry off the bottom of the puzzle, you can see which hole is wet.

@Jadae 7 жыл бұрын

hawt :o

@oo-xk3ih 7 жыл бұрын

Is this 3D printed? If so can you get templates for this particular one or similar ones?

@FLEBpuzzles 7 жыл бұрын

There is a 3D model! It used to be here: www.thefaminegame.com/puzzles/26-Mining-Artifact.html But it looks like the site is down for me. If it comes back up, you should be able to find the .stl file there!

@oo-xk3ih 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@KP_Nation 7 жыл бұрын

Fleb, why would you think to use water?

@FLEBpuzzles 7 жыл бұрын

You have the idea that you want to connect top holes to bottom holes somehow. Putting something down the holes quickly becomes difficult because the passages inside really twist around. In this competition, we were driving from place to place around Washington DC. So we didn't have a whole lot of tools. At the beginning of the competition, they gave us a bag of stuff that we might have to use (magnets, a syringe, etc.). After thinking about what tools we had, using water seemed to make sense. We actually found a nearby stream and used it, as we were in a forested area!

@stuartwatters3532 7 жыл бұрын

please get a top down lamp

@reginaalajar 7 жыл бұрын

take a shot every time he says "puzzle"

@aleximcgee3876 7 жыл бұрын

Regina Alajar talk about alcohol poisoning lol.

@ZatriX_ZA 7 жыл бұрын

U just got me drunk, u! ))))

@carlosguerrera 7 жыл бұрын

Did you say "ekcetera"?

@mhoover 7 жыл бұрын

shouldn't that be blacklung?

@mhoover 7 жыл бұрын

Maxx Kroes yes, but diseases are funnier.

@slipperkinglery9429 7 жыл бұрын

where did you get this song

@FLEBpuzzles 7 жыл бұрын

The song is Mycoplasma by Tekvision!

@tyronem.3413 7 жыл бұрын

do you have any rare pepe's?

@codedgoat3868 7 жыл бұрын

That was actually pretty easy.

@supertrain1236 7 жыл бұрын

I'ma use this for a fireplace. XD Even though that I don't have it.

@DaHaiZhu 7 жыл бұрын

lump of coal should be BLACKLUNG

@matthewjosephharrington6773 7 жыл бұрын

At 2:11: D E C R Y P T U S comes out to B L O C K L U N G, according to the chart.... ha! (But shouldn't 3 come out at 1?)

@warcatbattalion 7 жыл бұрын

hi puzzlers

@laskyComp 7 жыл бұрын

Where i get puzzle?

@FLEBpuzzles 7 жыл бұрын

This one is not for sale. It was made for a one-off puzzle competition.

@powercockatrice3223 7 жыл бұрын

Couldn't you use light too?

@clintonleonard5187 7 жыл бұрын

depends how complex the internals are, but maybe!

@FLEBpuzzles 7 жыл бұрын

We originally tried using light! The internals twist around though, which makes it impossible to see.

@CircleOfInevitability 7 жыл бұрын

Why dont you just start the video with your intro vid? its cool regardless

@numbtee8478 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent....LOLOLOLOLOL......niccccccccccccce......

@UnleashTheBlob 7 жыл бұрын

To solve it you just smash it with a hammer.

@TAEBABY22 5 жыл бұрын

Wow..

@sychosebi2000 7 жыл бұрын

This guy talks like the Eye-hole man from Rick and Morty

@aarcade6676 6 жыл бұрын

Or just thread strings through

@Wtfinc 6 жыл бұрын

THATS NOT THE SOLUTION. its a encription key and a clue. hence why blocklung is spelled without an A and why both words are spelled equal letters. here is a hint, if you add all the DIFFERENT letters, not total amount, you have 15 different letters, this is your next key. i wont spoil the rest with a bunch of bits and peices LMAO. im so close to solving it. if you need help just message me. ill write a thing about it soon, its very complex, whoever thought of it is very smart. oh and by the way, notice it is "decrypt us', and not decrypt me. and also its by sircumstance of design that the puzzle has the the names it does, it was just easyer to encrypt

@francisge6759 6 жыл бұрын

Actually it is the solution, as seen on the Famine Game website: www.thefaminegame.com/puzzles/26-Mining-Artifact.html

@HeartAndMind34 6 жыл бұрын

Kasper Abigail RIP

@Skywalker-zu7od 7 жыл бұрын

4,8,15,16,23,42

@alexwang982 7 жыл бұрын

Skywalker1138 lost

@mrbitches1638 7 жыл бұрын

what's up with the fleb like 1 minute into the video?

@FLEBpuzzles 7 жыл бұрын

The idea is to separate the parts of the video that have spoilers from the part that doesn't. I need to find a better way to do this.

@mrbitches1638 7 жыл бұрын

FLEB I mean.. people come here to see puzzles, the back story and how to solve them. which you do perfectly. its not really a spoiler. just a solution. maybe the fleb animation can be your intro?

@cloudglider 7 жыл бұрын

I think the current format is perfect. It lets the watcher get right into the action without having to sit through branding.

@thepowerhouseofthecell9128 7 жыл бұрын

fleb da pleb?

@thepowerhouseofthecell9128 7 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry...

@chelseapeterson35 7 жыл бұрын

the hungar games ?

@FLEBpuzzles 7 жыл бұрын

The Famine Games! Loosely inspired by the Hunger Games, but not actually that since that would be a violation of copyright!

@steamypancakes145 7 жыл бұрын

Just a tip, don't say your gonna play your intro, try to make it flow better

@andeggbreaks 7 жыл бұрын

Steamy Pancakes it's not an intro, it's a spoiler break

@sootlet8894 7 жыл бұрын

couldn't you of just shoved pipe cleaners through and made it easier

@Schwallex 7 жыл бұрын

couldn't you have just learned the difference between "of" and "have" and made it easier

@theflyingchicken7997 7 жыл бұрын

Alexander Lane stick*

@blakeftpful 7 жыл бұрын

It's BlackLung. Not BlockLung

@francisge6759 6 жыл бұрын

Actually it is the solution, as seen on the Famine Game website: www.thefaminegame.com/puzzles/26-Mining-Artifact.html

@ankithsr423 7 жыл бұрын

Please show your face in any one of your videos

@jamesmunn9942 6 жыл бұрын

Wtf

@handsome_man69 7 жыл бұрын

this video needed some nudity to make it more interesting

@bradameerbeg6422 7 жыл бұрын

Crap.

@nikolakosg4 7 жыл бұрын

STOP DESIGNING PUZZLES THEY MAKE NO SENSE