(loud instrumental music) - Yo, what's up guys and welcome back! This little guy, as you
can tell by the intro, very pleasing, aesthetically pleasing puzzle, this is known as the titan
puzzle by Felix York. Felix sent me this puzzle
a couple weeks ago. This was before it was released
and I had a chance to play with it. I actually sat down and filmed
about an hour and a half of footage of me trying to
get it apart with no luck. As you can see now, it's pretty
tarnished which you'll see in the video that'll come up. I tried everything. You might be wondering what
happened to that footage. Before I went to Vegas,
I formatted my cards and unfortunately that was part
of it, so we're basically starting over. I have a few reference points
now and I'll explain where I'm at with this puzzle but we're
going to give it another go today and hopefully we can solve it. Without any further ado, let's
get into trying to solve this impossible Titan puzzle. (small explosion noise) As I said in the intro, I've
been playing with this thing for about a week last time. Last time I actually sat down for a good, I think hour-and-a-half. You see by shape of this thing
and how it's just beaten up and tarnished not as
shiny is in the intro, that's because I've been playing with it. No luck, no real progress. I'll show you where I'm
at right now with this. There's you got like a heavy
side and you got a light side. The heavy side doesn't spin as
much and the light side spins like crazy and when you spin it, eventually it gets stuck so
I've been noting down the points to where it gets stuck but
not only does it get stuck on this side. So it's stuck about there,
if I rotated the other side, and now it's just not, there we go, and now it's about there. So weird enough, it doesn't
get stuck at the same spot. It goes over, I would guess
like 400 and something degrees. It goes past it, right? I also can hear bearings, at least one or two bearings in there. I also found out that there
there's another spot where this stops and that's about
all I've gotten so far. I've tried forcing it. I tried spinning it. That doesn't seem to work
so I do think that there are magnets involved here somewhere
that are grabbing a hold of these balls and then they drop
into what seems to be like a hole. I'll put the timer up just
for good old times, good old times sake but just know that
this is not accurate and I've been on this literally, I don't
know, at least a half day in total. If we go here and we spin it around, it brings us back to there. Now I'm thinking maybe, see if I turn that side, you kind of hear drop. I don't know why that is and
I'm going to keep turning and you hear it drop again. This kind of where I've been at and just playing with that
sound because you're kind of going into this blindly like
a lot of these difficult puzzles. You've got a weird, (puzzle clicking) weird intricate design on the inside. It's quite frustrating. I've banged this, I've done so much to it and
I'm still kind of at a loss. I'll kind of draw out for you
what I think is going on on the inside. By the way, I know some of you will probably
comment 'Mr. Puzzle solved this puzzle'. I did not not watch his video yet. I don't know how he solved it and I kind of want to
figure it out of my own. I have written to Felix for a hint. He hasn't gotten back to me yet. I do think after a week, I
want to get this done I want a little hint to help me out
along the way but he hasn't sent that to me yet. On the inside, this is a top angle view, I'm thinking there is some type of hole here where the bearing gets lodged into and so kind of travels around here and then gets lodged into a bearing. I don't know what that bearing is. So, from the side, let's say
this is the hemisphere here and this is the tube and then you
have the other hemisphere. So, I'm thinking there's a
bearing somewhere that goes into a hole but once it goes into
that hole, I don't know whether or not you have to travel it
through that to get it out. I don't know if, because it's
kind of hard to know what the heck is going on inside, so
again, on the inner ring I do believe there is this little
place for that ball to fall into and once it's in there, it stops because it protrudes but then again it stops here
again and it protrudes so I don't know why that is I don't
know the physics of that. It's really really hard to
imagine what's going on in here so again I'm just going to get
it to that, you kind of spin it around randomly like this
and eventually it just kind of lodges itself in. I've got to say, this puzzle is very heavy and it's hard to grip so it's
like a test on your dexterity as well because I'm constantly holding it. I don't want to hold both hemispheres. I kind of want to hold this
one but then it slips out of your hand so it's quite
difficult to manipulate. Spin it like this and I
eventually I will find that spot, there it is. So if I mark this spot here
which would be about here I can then go this way. Bam. And now it's over here. Sorry, let me mark that here. I'll mark that on the larger hemisphere. So, there, and then I go this
way and it goes all the way around, right? And then it stops about there. Why? I don't know. So it goes past that and then
here and then it goes past that and then here. And then it goes past that and then here. No idea why. And there's no sound. So what I'm going to try to
do is take the heavy part and then try and move the heavy
part and see if I can hear anything. I think I just heard something
but let me try again. Let me get this closer to
the camera so you can hear. Right there. So I feel like the ball drops
into a hole and now it went back out. (faint clicking noise) Do you hear it? And I have no clue what
the hell's going on. (deep sigh) I even thought that because
the puzzles called Titan, I've looked up (clears throat) Titan as a moon, I think
from from Mercury I believe, I don't remember, I was looking it up. I was looking at how
many moons there were, the degree of the moon, maybe
that had to do with the the degree that you're holding this thing. I mean I delved pretty deep in
trying to discover anything I could about this thing,
even the name Titian, does that mean to tighten the puzzle? I tried that and obviously didn't work. Everything short of, literally, you know, trying to smash it open, with like, uh,
(puzzle clicking) a crowbar, which I'm not ruling out, by the way. I'm just going to try to get
back that round spot where it just halts for some reason. I don't even know why. I assume there's like a hole
where the ball goes into and you've got to just knock it in there. There's no way of telling when it's in other than when it stops. Oh, it's on this side, sorry. I mean the creator Felix is
is not a known puzzle maker. He's made two puzzles, I
think, or something like that, not many, so this is a good start for him. Definitely look forward
to more of his puzzles. Hopefully I can get somewhere
a little quicker with those other ones. Okay, we're locked here. I'm going to spend this around, wait for the noise. There it is. Okay, I'm going to go this way. That's weird. It just kind of locked
and then it unlocked. (sphere pops) See, we're on another point now. Which means that this way, right here. Here and here. Now we've got points on either
side that are pretty much parallel. Why? Dunno! They're not even lined up anymore. I'm just letting you know there
is absolutely no method to what I'm doing right now, I'm just kind of feeling and listening. I've also tried to look on the inside to see if I can see anything and there doesn't seem to
be any apparent point or line or anything to draw my eye. It's kind of hard to see inside. Maybe the camera, this is a
macro lens, maybe the camera might be able to pick it up
better than my eye could. Ugh, if it would just focus. That's kind of what I'm seeing
and you can see it's kind of hard to tell what's going on in there. It's super frustrating. How it randomly stops as
well is a mystery to me. I think I figured it
out but the inner ring, there is a slot here. The ball falls halfway within
the slot which then jams this from going around but
why does it jam there? Maybe there's something, the thing is it goes all the
way around and it goes to here then it jams again. I don't know how it's possible. I can't wrap my mind around
it but you can hear it. Okay, now it completely fell down. There's a whole lot of clinking
clanking going on in there and I don't know what's up. (shaking noises) (groans) (swing music) Sorry for not talking, I'm
in deep concentrated thought. I'm just trying to figure out
how this does one and a half revolutions it still kind
of boggles my mind here. (trumpet plays) (puzzle clicking) I still can't see anything on the inside. No point of reference other
than the marks that I've made. I don't even know if those will help me. (swing music) (puzzle clicks) (music slows) (gasps triumphantly) Let's go! Oh! Look at that, one hour. Actually not accurate
probably close at 10. Oh my god.
(music playing) What am I dealing with here? Okay this looks a lot simpler
than I thought it would. So here's the thing, I knew that there was two ball bearings. I could feel the two ball bearings and I knew I had to place
them in certain positions. I didn't know where. Now I see there's a pin here. You see this pin? Oh this is exciting. There's a pin there. Let me see how this works here. I actually don't want to close
it right now because I want to understand it first. This ball goes in here
which allows it to open. Okay, so when these two balls in that allows you to open it
but to get those two balls in there is very difficult. My guess is you need, right, you need the pin to help lock that, correct? Hold on. So, now it won't open because
the ball is not in the groove. I suspect when just one of the,
when the ball goes into one of the grooves here. This should be able to open. Right! So, that groove is on top. Or did I just ruin it because
I have no point of reference? Is this harder to solve with
one ball in it because that balls on the bottom now? I can smack it against that pin. For some, okay, so when
one ball got lodged, the other one would come around
and get knocked by the pin, which gave me a point of
reference which let me know that one of the balls was in. Now I have no way of knowing
that because I only put one ball in there so how do I get that out? What's the heavy side? The heavy side is the
one with the the tube. (metal spinning) (puzzle hitting table) Hold on. Okay, so that pin, basically
what happened there is the pin is on this side and you can
here it clanging against the ball right there so I'm just going to use that pen, contact the ball and listen
for it to drop into the hole. There it goes. Wait. There it goes. So in order to get both balls
in, you have to have it angled in a way that this ball doesn't
drop out so the angle has to be actually higher here
when you're turning. You use this pin here to maneuver
the other to the ball into the other place where it then
falls in and you can open it. Bam! So difficult though because
just with the rattling and in this one move that allowed
you to go one more spin over. That is really confusing to me. It still kind of is so I guess
this would get stuck there cuz the pin would try to push
it in so then you go around. Oh, but then the pin
would move over that ball. It would move over that ball
until it came all the way around and push the ball back
on and that explains that extra turn. Wow. Genius puzzle. Very happy. There you have it, the
Titan Puzzle solved. In a nut shell, this is the solution. This is basically, that's the
rod that allows you to push one ball in obviously if you
go past there it's going to stop that ball from going past
there and if you go around here is going to stop it from
going around there so the trick here is the kind of get
it on a perpendicular angle obviously this ball would be
down here because of gravity. You want to push that one in
and then you want to take that bar and push it in without
that one falling out so it's kind of like a gravity
thing but that essentially, this simple little diagram, explains this very complex puzzle. Well, there you have it
ladies and gentleman, the Titian Puzzle, solved. Quick note, I just went to take
a look at Mr. Puzzles video of him solving it. I highly recommend you go check
it out if you're interested in seeing exactly the inner mechanics. I try my best to explain using a picture, a drawing and even showing
you guys the inside of it but he actually modeled a 3D printed, basically a see through
half of this hemisphere and so you can see exactly how it works. I thought that was genius, great
move, I left the link below to the video so you can go check him out. Mr. Puzzle has some great content. Unfortunately he beat me
to this but I did solve it so I am quite happy. I'm very, very happy that
we got to solve this. I'm still, it's still a bit of a mystery
because it's still very difficult to open even though
you know the solution because any tip of the angle, gravity affects it, the ball falls out and you've kind of got to
play it by ear, literally. Regardless, a lot of fun to do. This puzzle is actually
warm right now in my hands because I've been playing
with it for so long. It's pretty dull. I think I'm going to get it
shined up and put it up on the shelf but guys if you
did enjoy this video go ahead like this video and subscribe if you're new here and we'll
see you on the next video. Peace! I'm gonna hit it! (laughs) I got it! (upbeat instrumental music)
