I love how informative your puzzle guides are, thanks for the video.

FLEB i am subscribed

That's cool! I'm glad the Japanese puzzle video is getting people interested in puzzles. Thank you very much!!!

That's awesome! I thought it was a great video when I saw it! A fun detail you might not have noticed, the member of the Japanese puzzle society is wearing a puzzle ring!

I try to do more puzzle comparisons!

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I loved that video as well! This is mostly to correct some confusion I saw in the comments, though.

Thank you! Solving puzzles is mostly experience, so learning more about puzzles will help you!

FLEB Thank you for taking the time to reply. I hope next time I'll be able to solve puzzles too! 😄 Keep up the good work Fleb!

Thanks! I know you can do it!

Thank you very much! I put a lot of effort into them and it always makes me happy to read comments like this!

Thanks!

Thank you!

I do too!

Rafael Koliadis I don't have money to buy the puzzles.

I'm glad that impossible puzzle video is getting so many people interested in puzzles! It's fun to see!

Nice!

I've seen a number of variants on the "Wit's End". It's been very popular! The most popular variant is essentially two "Wit's End" puzzles glued together, with the ring on one and a loop of rope on the other.

FLEB i.imgur.com/FOtuI18.jpg

Thanks! The page shown is one of the five puzzles! More on that tomorrow morning!

Thank you very much! I hope we get funded!!!

I'll try to do more of that! What I want to do is show people the wide and wonderful world of puzzles, but to start comparing you need to have a pretty wide base of videos...

Also, "wicked awesome"? Do you also live in Boston?

+FLEB good point about needing a good base. Bean Town FTW haha

Thanks!

I probably couldn't have solved it 10 years ago! That's when I designed my first puzzle for a competition!

FLEB ok....9 years ago lol

Lol I wish!

Thank you! I like the way the Japanese puzzle society guy presented the puzzle, though. The version the old man is harder to see the correct solution on, I think.

Thanks!

I've given it to some people, and it can be pretty challenging! Especially if you haven't solved very many rope/wire puzzles!

I worked at a puzzles shop for a year and that's one of the only things I wasn't ever able to do

If it's from 30 years ago, I'd be very interested in seeing it if you find it! fleb@flebpuzzles.com

Cake video? I've never made a video on cake...

Maybe you mean Mr Puzzle?

Olivier Nicole I think so too. Mr puzzle did a video on the cast cake puzzle

I haven't! I see his web presence, though. I'll look into it!

Tomorrow!

I absolutely love the Perplexus series of dexterity puzzles. They've done a great job at doing something original and interesting with them!

According the video, it's been about 10 years. But certainly a looooong time!

Tomorrow!

FLEB Can't wait to throw this money at ya boi!!

Yay!

That's not a bad idea! It just doesn't happen to be how this puzzle works.

Nice!

It's in the pinned comment!

and so it is - sorry for taking up your time - i couldnt see the expansion option before. thank you very much

I also added it to the description, in case it's confusing.

Thank you - As a historian of sorts the extra details about the history of this are quite fascinating - Thank you even more

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Hooray! Looking forward to insta-backing your Kickstarter, FLEB!

Thank you very much! I hope people like what we're trying to do with it!

Luca Pacioli! He has a Wikipedia article here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Pacioli

FLEB Thanks Fleb! Your the best!!!

Finding the solution is much harder than solving it!

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Nice!

Same! Which museum?

It's the omni museum

That's the first thing I say when I wake up!

I'm trying to do that, but the baby has made that problematic. I'm hoping to increase the frequency soon!

+FLEB Got ya. No worries. I just like your puzzle channel the best. I haven't tried it yet but I want to take a blind crack at the puzzle you wrote too. I've downloaded it but haven't had free time to get into it. Keep up the good work bud!

It's hard to do with the type of mic I have. Hopefully I'll get a new mic soon! I've tried to filter out the noise before, and it introduced a ton of artifacts in my voice and made it sound worse than before. :/

That puzzle is made with bone

If I want to violate copyright!

FLEB true enough but it would be interesting to create a puzzle similar to that. as in a 3d puzzle

OUT!

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That's fair. I only got into it near the end, and I could have gone into more depth. Let me see if I can do a better job here. The "Solomon's Seal" puzzle is fundamentally about moving a ring along a string. Because the ring can't move further, the main idea is to move the string instead, until you can move the ring around it. By contrast, the "Wit's End" puzzle is about finding a different way to move a ring past an obstacle. Rather than moving it along a piece, and finding another way to move that piece, the "Wit's End" uses a set of moves to move the ring past a string in a hold, as opposed to along it. Finally, the "Nut and Bolt" puzzle involves not moving a ring along a string, or moving a ring past a string, but switching two pieces of string so that the piece is turned around. I hope that's a little bit better of an explanation!