Hi and welcome to another episode of Mr.Puzzle.
Today we will have a look at the star puzzle
made by the company Eureka,
or maybe known as Eureka in the US.
So this company is a European company which is located in Belgium
and they have quite a big portfolio of puzzles.
This is the first puzzle I think I bought of them.
And it's also a metal puzzle like the Hanayma puzzles.
So I'll just unbox it and then let's have a look, how it feels from a quality point of view.
*packaging noises*
Okay here we go, so the puzzle is unboxed.
The difficulty I forgot to mention is three out of maximum of four stars,
Which means in this case, a puzzle for true puzzle lovers.
So that sounds interesting, okay let's just zoom in a bit.
And let's have a look, so it looks actually like a star yeah as we expected
but made out of, if I see it right made out of four parts: two silver triangles, one golden, one brass.
And I will try to solve it now and if I am able to solve it I will show you afterwards the solution.
So let's just have a look and see you later!
Okay, in the meanwhile I managed to solve this puzzle.
Actually, for me the disassembly was much much easier than the assembly.
It's quite easy to disassemble
but the assembly, the first time I did it pretty fast.
But of course I did it multiple times since I want to show it to you in this video
and to remember the single steps I have to do it again and again.
And the second time actually gave me a pretty hard time,
and therefore I can say now disassembly is easy and assembly is more difficult.
Okay so how to do the disassembly,
At first we have to understand that three of these four triangle shapes are similar, and one is different.
Three of them have this kind of a sheet metal inside
like the golden one here.
and the grey one here, and the silver one is different from all others
because it's a standard triangle shape.
Okay to remove it we have to focus first here on these small cut outs,
and all of them should be orientated upwards.
Which means the copper one is pointing upwards,
the golden one is pointing upwards,
and the grey one is pointing upwards as well.
Which is actually this position here.
If we are in this position and all three are pointing upwards
we will push together these three edges,
and we will already be able to take out the silver triangle.
And now you can see it's a standard closed triangle shape.
To assemble the other three parts, actually now they nearly come off alone.
We can just disassemble it very easy by twisting this one a little bit,
take it out, and take the other one out.
It looks more complicated than it is actually,
you will be able to disassemble it very easy.
Now we can also see that these three here are similar,
and this one is different.
So the assembly as mentioned, is more difficult.
For the assembly we take, no matter what colour-
it doesn't matter in what order you do it related to the colours.
I will start now with the gold one,
and the copper one.
The gold one in this orientation,
and the copper one in this orientation,
and I will put them together like this.
And move the copper one here to the lower side.
Next I take the grey one,
and I will first assemble it with the-
the orientation shoud be like this
but this edge here or this cut out here is pointing upwards,
and then I will assemble it first with the copper one,
and second with the golden one,
and it's connected to both of them.
I will keep it in this position and I will move the copper one here over this edge.
Now we have this condition.
And next I will flip the grey one
through the big cut out of the gold one
by about 90 degrees.
And then we are in the same condition as in the beginning
when we disassembled the silver ring,
so we can push all of them together
and all of these three cut outs are oriented to the top
as you can see here now.
All of them here now are of the same orientation to the top.
And if we are... here,
we can simply assemble the silver triangle again
by putting it from the top
and if you did it, we are back at the beginning.
Puzzle is solved.
So actually, as you saw the assembly can be challenging,
maybe there's another order of steps you can do to make it easier.
But for me it was quite challenging to find a solution.
Anyway, I hope you liked this video,
I will also put the link in the description
where you can purchase this puzzle
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