(inspiring music) (whooshing)
(calm music) (laughing) - This is what I want to look like. This is how I want to be seen. This is how I want people
to see me, remember me. What are we doing here? (laughing) Is that what my hair
looks like in real life? It doesn't look like
that when I look at it. It doesn't look that bad when I see it. Why does it look so bad
when everyone else sees it? Do I have a hat? Do I have a mask? Can I do something about this? Ugh, that's not good, I
think I made it worse. There we go. No, I had it, I had it. No, we're almost there. No, definitely not it. I look like I'm, like, leader
of a Russian right wing group. You're laughing now, but in the future, you laugh at this, you're a boomer. Every time I do that, it gets worse. I don't look any better. Maybe like this? Still not good. Oh, that's interesting. I think that works for me. Don't look at it. It's my good side, I think. My monitor's on that
side so it's hard to see. You know what, let's just start filming. Let's just roll it. - [Lee] It's rolling. - What? - [Lee] It's been rolling. - Excuse me? I tell you what, I've
got a pretty cool puzzle. This is a puzzle by the name of Capital-- (grinding) Looks like a building but
it's a puzzle, I assure you. It's called Capital
Politics by Keith Winegar. That's vinegar with a W. First seen at the IPP 32 Exchange in 2012. I've yet to attend one of these. I should probably attend
one of them one day. I'll read you the little preface here that they've written to us. "My puzzle is a rendition of
the United States capital. "There are four politicians,
two blue and two red. "The goal is to get all four politicians "into the capital so they
can vote on some legislation. "If they are partially
out of the building, "then they will miss the vote." Oh, I see what you did here. "All four must be completely
inside the capital." See that? Look at this, see what's going on? We don't want that is what he's saying. But he says, "Warning,
getting four politicians "to cooperate can be nearly impossible." While playing with this puzzle, you may become frustrated
with Capital Politics and wanna kick all the--
(Lee coughing) Can we just get this video done? "While playing with this puzzle, "you may become frustrated
with Capital Politics "and want to kick out all the
politicians out of the office. "You may get frustrated with
one party or the other." I mean, he's just kinda
talking about this whole thing like it's politics over
and over and over again. The goal here is to put
the red and the blue pins flush into these little holes. You know, if you wanna go ahead
and make it about politics, by all means, do so. I think we've gone through enough ado. You know, let me tell you, for anybody out there commenting, "Video starts at four minutes." Puzzle solving might start a bit later, but the video has started
already, all right? So anyways, let's just do it. Let's get into solving Capital Politics. A level nine, get out of here. All right, let's go. (whistling) There you go. Here we have the blue
party and the red party. Different ideals. For the sake of this video, we're not going to address
any of those ideals. Should you feel the need
to express those ideals, please do so in the comments,
as the more comments I have, the better this video performs,
so feel free to have at her. So this is a strange puzzle. It's kinda like a game of Whack-a-mole. As you can see, the camera
angle that I'm choosing to use is here because otherwise, top-down, you wouldn't really be seeing
what, it just looks like I'm just tapping these things, but in actuality, if I press one, see, the other one goes up, and I believe, okay, we can
put a timer here, I guess. Yeah, I'll just leave it there. It's so funny because the
description of this puzzle talks about, oh, the senate needs to be at a deadlock for this, though. Okay, the pegs all need to be flush is what we're really trying to do here and I believe that the flag has nothing to do with anything. It doesn't do anything
with the flag there. So, first thing's first. I mean, obviously, you
knew that was coming. Did not work. I do believe, however, because right now, if I press this one, these sort of go up. Oh, I can feel, like, a
weird resistance here. That's super weird, but this one will not, under
any circumstances, go down. No matter if I push this or this, so I believe that there's
probably something... Oh, weird. Oh, see, now it goes down, so there definitely is
some type of internal maze. This is a sequential
discovery, I'm guessing. (calm music) There's going to be a
lot of banging on things. Ooh, that just went down, okay. For a second, can we just take these out? (rattling) Okay, a whole lot of things going on here. (rattling) Ooh, do you hear that? So, there's a box here, and inside this box, there is a ball. See if that did anything,
just flipping it around. Maybe that solved it. (calm music) Now, the ball does not
move anymore, weird. There it is.
(rattling) Oh, something just locked into place. (calm music) So, I'm trying to loosen. As soon as I loosen these,
it frees up that ball. Like, right now, that
ball is kind of free. If I tighten these, that ball gets stuck. There seems to be a bit of a teeter totter going on on the inside here where the ball can shift to one side, allowing me to push these down, and then it shifts to the
other side, type thing. (calm music) Now these are down. (calm music) What a weird puzzle. Okay, just to be sure,
I'm gonna read through because there might be a clue here. I think read before there's
something, like, here. "For fun, you can let
one of the politicians "represent your favorite real politician "and pop them out of office. "Just have a senator on the
wrong wing of the capital. "You might just pop a representative "out of the other wing of the capital. "While playing with this puzzle, "you may become frustrated
with Capital Politics "and wanna kick out all the
politicians out of the office." All right. "You may get frustrated
with one party or the other "and want to rule the capital hill, "but alas, this puzzle comes with "equal numbers in both parties, "so most votes must be deadlock. "You can try making the senate lean blue." Lean blue. "And the house red to see if it "will get your legislature
passed, but remember." Okay, so like, it says lean blue. I know that that's a
term used in politics, but maybe that's what they're saying. (calm music) (rattling) So again, right, so... (rattling) You can kind of see in there that there's like this little
platform stopping everything. And so, if I can see
that little platform... Oh, I do see it. Let's see if you can get a look in there. I'm having a really hard time trying to show you the inside of this. There's like this little
platform on the bottom of that. (calm music) Argh.
(rattling) By the way, the solution is stapled here between these things,
so once we solve this, we'll take a look at the solution
and see if it makes sense. You can see the edge of what seems to be that little platform now. Do you see it? That's kind of what's
interfering with me right now, but I can move that edge
kind of out of the way, almost as if the ball
bearing, here's what I think. Here's my theory, is that
that bearing is underneath and that platform is on top, but there's a way for me to
move the ball out of the way or maybe even on top and
have that platform sit lower. (rattling) So I think I have to do this. I'll flip it on its head,
and you hear that ball? I think there might be a hole somewhere where I can put that ball in. (calm music) (rattling) Ooh, boom, done. So, I figured out that, yeah, there just happens to be a place where everything gets tucked away neatly so that the four pins can fall down. It's just a matter of wiggling it around and getting it into that sweet spot. I am curious to know exactly what the inside of this looks like, to see if it looks anything
like what we had imagined. (calm music) This was supposed to
be a difficult puzzle. It wasn't that hard. Okay, pretty much exactly. "Inside the capital is a
ball and a floating board." That's exactly what I thought. "If you tip the capital over,
the politicians will fall out, "but the ball will be free to move around. "There's a small hole in
the middle of this board "that will capture the ball. "When the ball falls into this hole, "you may hear a clunk
that is slightly different "than when it hits the walls. "You can use the politicians
to push the board or ball "into the hole in the capital basement. "At this point, the capital
may be turned right side up "and the ball's no longer occupying space "needed by the politicians
and it will fit flush. "To reset, simply tip
over and gravity will "release the ball from
its basement chamber." Okay, so I solved it not in
the way that they explain it. As you can see here,
you've got a hole there, the divot, which I guess
is the dividing plank, the basement hole, and
so there's a half hole in the bottom of this thing
and a half hole in that plank. That plank can be moved around, but you have to sort of line up that ball with the half hole here
and the half hole there and then it falls flush,
and to do that, normally, it says to, so I just kind of, like, did it without these things, which I guess is the wrong way to do it. I guess the right way
to do it would be here, and I was on the right track, and now you're using these
things to feel around. Let's see if we can
solve it the right way. (calm music) Boom, fit and fit, done and done. Okay, so, again, easiest way is to probably just
shimmy it into that hole. Otherwise, playing with this, I would just leave them loose
until you hear that clunk. Push them in, flip it around,
and it'll fall right into it. Not a super difficult puzzle. This was rated a lot more difficult than it actually was, I feel. I feel like I understood
what was happening, I mean, fairly easy, just with the noise and the sort of ball
rolling back and forth and seeing that there's,
like, a piece inside. I figured out how this works, which I'm pretty proud of, not
gonna lie, but there you go. Total time was like, 13 minutes to solve and then probably another 10 minutes to really solve it using this here. Hot dang. That is the Capital Politics.
(calm music) A lot easier than I
thought, I'll be frank. I thought it was gonna
be a lot more difficult because it's a level nine. Maybe, I don't know, I
just surprised myself with how this thing was made. I kind of knew how it was made with just kind of logically thinking. (grinding) You done? With these sequential discovery puzzles, I guess you start to get a feel for how they work after a while. Seemed simple enough to
me, not too difficult. Fun nonetheless. It's definitely a tactile puzzle, where a lot of sequential discovery, you do have to manipulate them, but this one seems to be
like an extra little level of difficulty in dexterity
as you're really, if you're gonna solve it this way. If you're gonna solve it my way, just take these things
out and give it a rattle and it kind of solves itself, so all in all, not bad, kinda cool. This reminds me of the, what was it? The monument, the
Washington Monument puzzle, which was a lot more difficult
than this one, however, but cool little keepsake. Anyways, guys, if you enjoyed
this video, give it a like. If you made it this far,
you might as well like. For everybody who didn't make it this far, I mean, you're not really missing out. This is the outro so you probably already dropped off by now. Thanks for watching this video and we'll see you on the next one. Peace! (French house music)
