Just a minor disclosure… with WildBrianWood,Madburg and Yerti’s indepth presentations of Japanese"culture", I feel like a total imposter and have decided to drop the Japanese prefix off this project. Hell, I remember wasting several days browsing book stores trying to find a recipe for sushimi.
Though YouTube is open slather to all infidels, I have not dropped it out of my video titles, so please don’t demand seppuku off me..
No I haven’t totally lost it and made 7 of them, as may be interpreted from the title… I apologise for my absent minded relapse into Latin, as this is now Version II(2).
Last weekend a couple came visiting and after quite a few vinos and party games,
we got stuck into some of my puzzles… The Karen of the party started to bag the simplicity of my Japanese Maze Box Puzzle which she solved in well under the nominal 15 minute, quick average, for the simpler solution version.
I felt a tad humiliated and challenged, and at the start of this (last) week, consulted SketchUp and after some manipulation, asked SWMBO to demand a return visit.
In Sketchup I did a bit of pushing and pulling and changed the maze,
The path still quite similar, however, the dead ends were increased.
Then it was just a simple case of laser cutting and making up the inside box
as the outside would fit both the new and the original maze.
The return visit was executed last weekend, a few more vinos and party games, it was time to tackle the puzzle again. After mumbling the explanation that that there is an easy and a hard way of solving the puzzle, after 30 minutes the Karen claimed intoxication and on Sunday morning her and her hubby went back to the smoke with a box puzzle proudly nestled on the back seat of their car… She offered to pay for it, but her embarrassment of not being able to solve it the day before was payment enough for me.
Late Sunday I got a phone call and quickly made up and emailed the solution(s),
Bugga…, I now have to make another one for my collection.
No video available for this build as I’m working on version +1 and any footage shot so far will be included in that video.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
You know, I had a sneaking feeling that the first one you did might be too simple to solve - unless copious amounts of alcohol were part of the puzzle.
I should have guessed you would increase the complexity, Darwin is your mentor.
I've though in the past about ways to make a trick lock-box like Kel produces except have a sealed maze with the features of your puzzle. Perhaps at the "end" the ball pushed a release pin to open.
Thank yazall for the positive comments even though puzzles are not everyone's cuppa T.
The first was a tad easy, however, if turned side on and you couldn't visualise any part of the maze, the degree of difficulty went from a "swan dive" to one with a twist.
The new one threw in a few somersaults... wit a belly whacker is turned side on.
Currently working on a new twist,
fortunately, the laser is not constrained by enclosed curves. While even this may look simple, remember the solver is moving blind... plenty of dead ends.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
Next you just need to add a few tiny magnets into those traps, need a few taps to free it all up, Even a few isolated sections with a trapped ball to keep the poor solver from listening and realizing the main ball is stuck. Rounded corners on the outside will ease any drywall damage from frustration tosses.
Eunuchs Splinter... no balls. The maze is negotiated by pins in the box top... You guide the pins through the maze (mirrored on opposite sides) to close/open the box. Any ball bearing would only finish up on the floor and any parent knows the torture of Legos on the floor... ball bearing not only hurt but send one on their arse.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
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