(suspenseful music)
(birds cawing)
(woman laughs)
(air whooshes)
(playful music)
(explosion booms)
- What's up, guys?
Welcome back.
Oh let me take this invisibility
cloak off really quick.
This puzzle is a
sequential discovery puzzle
known as the Jammed Well.
It's made by Bryan Young out in Australia.
Super limited, also very difficult puzzle.
So there's a bit of a lore
that goes with this puzzle
saying that this land was inherited
and this well was inherited by a family,
however it was jammed
and there is oil in here
so it might be worthwhile to unjam this.
Personally, I believe
that this is a Horcrux,
just like you would
find in "Harry Potter."
And thus, if we open this,
we release Voldemort's, part of his soul.
I'm a bit of nerd for "Harry Potter,"
if you couldn't tell already.
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Let's get into solving this little guy.
All right, here we go.
As I mentioned, this puzzle
has a bit of a backstory.
Because I bought it at an auction,
I didn't get the paper that came with it
explaining the backstory.
Nonetheless we know that this
is a sequential discovery,
which means there are tools involved.
I'm gonna get it off this
little spinning contraption.
How cool is that, by the way?
So here it is.
Let's focus here.
I'm definitely gonna work
on my focus game today,
ladies and gentlemen,
because I know the last video
some of you were disappointed
with the amount of or lack of focus.
So we will be paying
more attention to that,
even if that means
enduring the constant noise
of the camera focusing in.
So this is a beautiful little puzzle,
and because this is a sequential discovery
we need to find the tools
in order to help us open it.
Okay, there is...
There is a moving part in here.
(puzzle whooshes)
First things first.
So looks like here there's a
room for maybe a screwdriver,
also an Allen key.
We've got Mr. Puzzle
Australia on the bottom.
There seems to be no seams here.
The whole bottom does seem to have
a bit of a seam, like a little line.
I don't believe that that comes apart.
It looks a little too
tight for it to come apart.
It looks like it's just
kinda how it was made.
So I can unscrew this, I'm
figuring this out right now.
(gentle music)
Oh, look at that.
It's got a little
screwdriver on the end of it.
So we're gonna take that.
Oh, I just lost the light.
Here we go.
Um.
So we have this now.
(grunts) It's kind of difficult
'cause there's not really
any way to grip it.
Oh is that working?
Yeah, it's working.
Oh what?
It's another tool.
It fits in that hole.
But nothing happens.
Oh.
So if I kind of pry it I can pull,
but I don't think that's
what I'm meant to do
because it's a bit too
difficult for me to do that
and I feel like I'm bending the rod.
I'm not gonna try and do that.
But why else would that fit in that hole?
(puzzle thudding) So the
reason I'm banging it
is there might be a pin tumbler
which would unlock it somehow.
This thing seems to be loose as well.
Ooh.
Just some weird antenna.
Yeah, this definitely moves as well.
I don't know why.
I don't know if that's
meant to move or not,
or unscrew.
It does seem like there's
a little bit of give
in between here, you can hear it.
(puzzle thudding)
Hm.
(puzzle thudding)
What if instead of unscrewing this out,
I have to screw it in more?
No, it wouldn't make sense, would it?
What would you do in this circumstance?
What route would you choose?
What path would you take?
No, that's a no. I don't
wanna screw it on too tight
that I can't get it out anymore.
This is a fun one.
The design is really cool.
Reminiscent of some building in Hogsmeade
in the "Harry Potter."
I like the wood used too,
it's very high quality.
Looks like Japanese handmade puzzles.
The brass roads, the extra tools.
These are my favorite things.
There's some shaking in
there but I don't know...
(puzzle thudding)
I think I'm gonna keep this in here
just so I can use it as a drawer,
and I think hit that
pin tumbler somewhere.
(puzzle whooshes)
There's probably something
I'm just not seeing right now.
Locked, why is it
locked, how is it locked?
Okay, it's plugged.
Definitely the well is plugged
and that's the hatch that needs to open.
So to unplug it I would think this acts
as like maybe a plunger or something.
Hm.
Why would this rod be there?
That's what I don't get.
The only reason I can
see that rod being there
is to be used so that I
can have some grip on it
so I that can screw it into
that hole backwards, right?
But what does that
accomplish in this puzzle?
Does that push down a piece
which then unlatches something else?
Oh.
(piece clanking)
So that's the piece right there.
We go here.
(piece clanking)
Oh it stopped.
(piece clanking)
Oh here it is.
(puzzle thudding)
There you go.
(piece clanking)
I feel this one piece smacking
against the lid or the drawer
in the back of this.
Now it's not there.
(puzzle thudding)
There it is.
(gasps) Oh no.
Wait a second.
Is that supposed to come out?
Oh my gosh.
Is that supposed to come out?
I'm a little bit scared.
Oh.
There's something in
there that I can push.
I felt it for a second.
Oof, I don't know.
I don't know if that was
supposed to come apart.
I've got kind of a leap of
faith moment right here.
I can drop that in there but...
I'm afraid it might get stuck.
I'm just gonna do it.
This piece isn't moving like it used to.
Is that because this piece isn't in there?
So when this one went in all the way,
it's almost like it let
loose this other piece
which was allowed to move after that.
(puzzle thudding)
See, that's stuck.
Now that thing that was
slapping the inside,
the walls of this box
isn't slapping anymore
and it's kinda stuck.
I don't know what that means.
It's not opening, it's
not doing anything extra.
So that sound in there
I'm guessing is the barrel of oil
that we need to extract from the well.
The reason it's bagging, I
mean, it's loose in there.
(piece clanks)
(air whooshing)
I tried blowing in the copper pipe.
It doesn't do anything.
This thing moves.
It's the only other thing that I can do,
it's screw this in using this rod.
(puzzle thudding)
Why is this taking me so long?
What am I missing?
Oh my God.
Nothing's working.
Because everything's brass
there's a magnet's attached.
It's not going in further than that.
It used to, why?
How is that?
It used to go in a lot further,
so something's different.
I screwed that down.
Is that it?
So that doesn't go further than that now.
And when I take this out...
Let's put it in more.
That's as far as she goes down.
Okay, let's take it out.
Trial and error here.
Let me take out and now...
Wait, does this whole top part move?
(puzzle thudding)
Hmm.
(puzzle thudding)
No.
It still won't go in
further than that now.
I've dislodged something or
jammed something in there now.
Probably from repeatedly banging it.
(puzzle thudding)
Oh.
That's new.
Hold on.
I can turn it.
Oh.
There's like an internal maze here.
It still doesn't open,
but this thing clearly does come out.
(puzzle thudding)
Okay, now it went back in. (laughs)
It went back in and it's stuck.
So all this prodding and
pocking is driving me nuts.
I have no idea what's happening
on the inside of this thing.
(puzzle thudding)
Oh no, I had it.
I had it.
Now this thing's lodged back into place.
No.
(puzzle thudding)
Oh my, I have no idea what to do.
I'm so frustrated right now.
This was out and I don't
know how it got out.
I guess I'll just go
back to wherever I was,
however I put it, which was...
I had this in here, all the way down.
This piece.
There was...
There was something
here that was dislodged
when I went like this.
But now it seems to be
stuck and I don't know why,
but by banging it somehow it came undone.
This is definitely moving a lot more.
Okay, by pushing this in, it
allows this some room to give.
Now it's stuck again.
Pushing it in.
Now it's got room.
(piece clicks)
There, clicked back into place.
So this, I can push.
And I can take this out just a little bit.
And now click back into place, okay.
There is a reason for that rod.
There is some time of
internal mechanism, watch.
(piece clicks)
That unlodges.
That's a fair amount of progress.
(piece clicks)
Oh.
Okay, now we are fully extended here,
and I'll keep my hand on that
so we don't lose where we are.
And that still doesn't open. (grunts)
I'm tapping something here
and I can feel it on this rod.
But this rod won't come
out more than it is now.
This puzzle's definitely giving me
a harder time than I thought it would.
So again, I don't wanna
push that down all the way
'cause it might get stuck again.
And that's as far as it comes out
so maybe we'll keep it upside down.
Maybe now we unscrew this
bit for whatever reason.
Oh no.
Darn it.
It went back.
(Chris grunts)
All right, so the rod is down.
This doesn't seem to
have a purpose anymore
once I've pushed that piece
in which dislodges this part.
Um.
That being said, I don't know what to do
because the only thing
left once this came out is
for me to open the drawer,
which doesn't open.
I'll hold that in place.
There's still something preventing,
I think that rod might be
holding the drawer shut somehow.
There's a spring here.
Oh!
Let's go.
(gentle music)
My goodness.
We got the barrel of oil. (laughs)
Oh, I'm so happy right now.
Little barrel of oil.
Oh wow.
I mean, the inside of that is insane.
I mean, you have so many parts.
You have what I'm guessing to be is, okay,
so there's a hole here.
There's a rod there.
By the way, mine didn't
come with the solution.
Apparently when you bought this at first,
it does come with the solution.
Mine did not.
But there apparently is
a schematic of a solution
out there somewhere,
which I would love to see.
But as you can see in there,
the rod has a hole fit
for a little baring.
It also has this which
then locks into place
I guess the drawer.
This rod, so that rod is then fed...
I really wanna understand this
before I put it back together here.
So let's line up the barrel of oil.
Ah, so the barrel of
oil needs to be lined up
in order for this road to fit in.
That's what a lot of that shaking,
when I shook back and forth
and randomly there was a noise,
it was this which actually
ended up passing through
and hitting the back there.
So there's also this
metal thing right here
which then gets pushed down.
How is this stuck right now?
I don't even understand.
This puzzle is solved
and I don't even understand how this...
Okay, so there is no ball bearing,
but there is a hole in this cylinder.
You can see that cylinder.
And on the other end of that hole,
this type of spring.
This brass spring that comes out
and basically lodges itself in that hole.
So that comes out but when that goes in,
see right now,
I need that long brass
pin to push into that hole
so that that can be unlodged.
So once that long pin is in
there, I can push through,
and there you go, and lift it out.
So intriguing.
I think it's just kinda
getting jammed right now
because of the wear and
tear that I'm doing to it.
What does that pin do?
There's that little smaller pin.
I'm not sure what that does.
Okay, this is going back in.
(piece clicks)
All right, now this. (chuckles)
It's kinda complicated to
even put back together.
So this goes back into here.
I need this now.
To put back into here.
Now I'll be honest with you guys.
If I can get the schematics off Brian,
I'd love to see the inside of this
because I definitely understand
portions of this puzzle
but there are still some mysteries,
which I do enjoy.
This is a very difficult puzzle.
So it's just always really cool to see
the amount of work that
goes into coming up
with such an enigma,
not only in the craftsmanship
but also we've gotta think about
just plain ingenuity,
you know what I mean?
There you go, we've unplugged the well.
I think that's enough for now.
I'm kind of exhausted and my fingers hurt.
It's about 45 minutes to take
apart and put back together.
The Plugged Well.
Well, hot...
(explosion booms)
(hat thuds)
Dang!
That was the Jammed Well.
45 minutes of my life.
I did get frustrated after a bit.
It was pretty intense and this is...
So normally when you, as I mentioned,
when you purchased this
when it was first launched,
you would get schematics and a solution.
I would love to see that schematic,
if anybody out there has it.
I would love to know
exactly how this works
so that I can rest it
in peace here and not...
I'm still going at it
here, I need to stop.
It is super complicated on the inside
but that's what I really love
about these simple puzzles,
is that they look simple
but there 20-plus moves
in order to solve this,
which was really cool.
Definitely one of my favorite
sequential discovery puzzles
because of the number
of tools that you get.
A lot of times you just get one tool
and you're like eh (puffs),
and that's how it works.
This one did require the same tools
to be inserted in different
places and used differently,
which I thought was really cool.
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(upbeat music)
