The last puzzle..

yo what's up and welcome back today we're looking at a puzzle called toad by cash casho Osamu friend of mine who greeted me in Japan when I went there for my trip this year so very fitting that we get to solve one of his puzzles to wrap up 2023 I know a lot of creators probably ask you the same questions but let me know in the comments below what is your New Year's resolution or if you have a few maybe give me some ideas I do have some as well but I'd love to hear yours let me know 2023 had its ups and downs for me all in all I'm still grateful uh to be able to do this and I'm still thankful that you guys are here watching and I'd also love to thank our very last sponsor of the year nordvpn you don't need to be a conspiracy theorist or a paranoid Maniac wearing a tinf foil hat to understand that your personal information is at risk when you're browsing the internet well with nordvpn you get a threat protection shield which protects you from malware from privacy leaks and even ads and 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let's solve the toad puzzle all right the last puzzle of 2023 a very fitting puzzle also so this is my kakuri gift so by signing up to the car Cory creation group a group of Craftsmen that handcraft these puzzles in Japan once a year along with the membership fee you will receive one puzzle from an artist of your choosing around Christmas time and for me that artist was casho as some of you know I went to Japan and made a documentary about this company and these people and the person who greeted me who picked me up and the person who I hung met with the most was casho and he was just so kind and it was just a very inspirational moment for me in 2023 so me ending off the year with Cash's contribution to the Christmas exchange or the Christmas gift is very fitting in serendipitous so I thought I'd end it here now I've not solved this I've not opened it you have cash uh Cash's Instagram there if you guys want to check that out I don't know if you can even scan that or if you're using your phone at the moment so you can't really scan anything makes sense but check them out and here it is Toad wow this is a little toad so because this is really recent I can't find anything online it also does not come with a solution and so this is the first time I don't exactly know uh what type of wood this is so I I don't want to take a guess but it seems like two different types of wood maybe three different types all right so here we go looks like this moves ah so here we have our first move again these will be really simple this will be like one or two moves only maybe three uh as you can see it is currently blocked there is a small small Peg stopping it from opening all the way my guess is they're has to be a move before this that allows this to go down a bit further so we're going to hold that what about the other leg the other leg is not moving all right what about the eyes little hands what would a toad do a lot of times the solution is hidden within the story of the piece itself this being a toad maybe it it either croaks or it jumps toads also they live in the dirt they don't really live in the water didn't expect to learn anything about a toad today did you well maybe this maybe this goes out of the way somehow no does this go out of the way little nostrils here too for [Music] did not expect to be stumped by this I do see over here you see that there's a different color of wood here and it looks like a little piece of wood that I could maybe like shuck out but it won't come out do I have to pull this out and shift it a certain way or does it this have to remain in and now there's another movement that has to occur [Music] prior well after carefully massaging the entire puzzle I can't find anything oh uh oh there is something right here there's a magnet right there oh wait oh wow wait did I get it I think I did oh that is phenomenal what a fun solution let me put it all back I should just click into place yes so the reason I went for this is you I don't know if when you were a kid and you'd find a toad but you'd like you'd press its butt down a little bit and it would just hop forward and then we made those little origami that did the same thing but toads would just kind of if you touch their butt they just jump forward and uh so I had the idea of maybe maybe something back here and and as you can see that clicks together so this comes down ah so this part here is actually stuck to this part which is why when it's down I can't open it any further I have to hold this in place to be able to peel that down and only then ah so you got to pull down on it first that's the that's the first thing and then once it's down you take the leg and you go up with the leg now you freed the bottom part you you shift it to the side under the feet and if you look at here there's barely any room there that is just like the minimum amount of room required for that to move and then you pull down so up over and up so again goes down you can go up over and down now with these things the tricky part is is that you do have to store these in a place that has a bit of humidity or doesn't have too much humidity or too little because the boxes eventually they will kind of get stuck if uh you don't regulate that properly and one thing I've seen in Japan with the way they store these is they pretty much treat their cabinets like humidors for cigars and they'll put like a glass of water in inside the case storing all of you know the wood puzzles and that sort of helps it out very clever solution awesome little gift thank you so much carac Cori creation group and cash cashow really appreciate it that is the toad leave a like And subscribe if you enjoyed this puzzle and maybe if you enjoyed some of the content this year well there you have it folks the last solve of 2023 those of you still watching I'd highly encourage you to check out my podcast it's called bottom of the barrel I host it with Wes Barker another comedy magician uh it is 18 plus so do not watch it with your children uh we cover a variety of topics but mostly conspiracies and comedy and we just laugh and kind of have drinks and and catch up if that's something you might be into check out bottom of the barrel otherwise known as Bob post week weekly we have a patreon as well going on there and we're on episode 170 I think or something like that so we've been we've been doing it for like 3 years now three almost four years probably would love to have you on board I left the link below um thanks for everything in 2023 I hope you guys have a safe holiday season I hope you guys uh get what you ask for and I hope you guys work hard towards what you want in the future and good luck with that we'll see you there all right peace

Channel: Chris Ramsay

Views: 268,432

Keywords: chris ramsay, chris, ramsay, puzzle, puzzles, magic, magician, illusion, science, physics, toys, chris ramsey, street magic, street magician, brain teaser, brain teasers, iq, toy

Id: n7JWJ6raRRw

Length: 10min 36sec (636 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 29 2023