Trick Opening Boxes - Part 1
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2012
- Tim has quite a number of trick opening boxes in his collection, and here he demonstrates some of the mechanisms on which they are based.
First up - boxes with sliding sides and panels. These have been around for a very long time, and sometimes they can just involve one or two moves, before you can open the box, but in other cases there can be 20, 30 or even more moves, before the box finally opens.
Then there are boxes which requite you to hold them in a particular place or orientation, and then they can be opened.
The next toy needs to be spun around on the table, and the resulting centrifugal force moves the internal metal pins in such as way that the box can now be opened.
Then there is a box with a weak magnet inside. You need to tap or knock the box in just the right place, and with the right degree of firmness, and this will cause the magnet to lose its grip on the mechanism, and allow the box to open.
Finally we have a box which contains a hidden internal maze, and you need to navigate a ball bearing from one end of the maze to the other, in order to release the drawer. - Věda a technologie
That centrifugal/centripedal box is ingenious. Who the heck would consider spinning it to be the solution?!
Also the one with the magnet. If you combine those two tricks you'll get a masterpiece :D
DaVinci
Chris Ramsay :p
Believe it or not most puzzlers will spin an object pretty much straight away when starting out!
My Saturday nights consist of me watching an old man open boxes. Livin' the dream
Meep Moop The American dream 👌🏻
LOL me too
Me too. Its late Saturday night here in 2019 and im 6 vids in and I have to be at work in 5 hours.
Ditto
It's a saturday night and I'm watching GW again...
The one with the nails impressed me the most
agreed!
I think that can be opened with 2 bars of magnets on each sides as well
Creatip That is interesting alternative, but redundant. What inspires me, is simplicity of opening it for those who knows, but relative difficulty for those who don't, and without external tools
Zheka K. exactly. The last one is difficult too, but for everyone, doesn't matter if you know how to solve it or not.
The one with nails is perfect. Now I want this box so bad haha
I remember when I was a child my Grandmother bought me one of these for Christmas, she told me there was £20 inside and all I had to do was open it. I spent hours trying to get into this damn box to get my £20, but in the end I was defeated and she had to show me. I'll never have as much fun trying to open a box again in my life :D
But was there actually $20 inside or was she just saying that
@@Fae_van I think grandmothers are generous enough to give 20 whatever currency , even if it was there or not.
Our parents gave a plastic cube as an Xmas present to us 4 kids. It took a while but I was the one who eventually figured it out.
And then there's this box......all you have to do is smack the shit out of it and eventually it'll open up.
All puzzles can be solved, you just need a little brute force.
TCBOldColt Unless you want to acquire what's inside without damaging it...
Some puzzles will comply with a good S M A C C
Frankly all those boxes suffer from the fact that there just wooden boxes so I can only stop people that don't want to break them
I like to add camouflage too like a metal plaque saying that its your bestest doggo(ashes) then nobody would mess with the box at all you can even ad a bag of heavy Ash in if someone looks and then there's a false bottom with a trick way of opening
I want versions of these that are all different sizes so I can put them inside each other.
Then I want something important or secret enough to be worth the trouble of hiding in there.
yea, put something really valuable or interesting in it then put it in a time capsle, with a note attacted to it saying "Fragile" or "explosive" so they wont be tempted to use a hammer. so then waaaay in the future the person will have a hard time openening the ancient trickery, but will eventually get to a prize!
Obie Trice Is that your real name?
Nope, just some i came up with, "obie" then i found out it was the name of the rapper "obie trice" so when i joined YT, i just slapped that last name on, haha Thomas Lyon
You mean like a secret high quality weed stash?
or just put a note saying, "you have no life" in the last one
Finally I can store my crack without any fear
Lol
except youll be too high to actually get it open
No but he'll only be high after he opens the box.
dannass5 I know your comment is a joke, but did you think they can break the box too?
You mean they could crack the crack box?
the one with the nails is the coolest one :D
can't wait for Tim to show us all his fingerboxes
Now I can safely store all my SD cards full with illegal memes!
I mean, drugs. Safely store all my drugs in there. Yeah.
I found a time traveller
How did you predict illegal memes???
@@TexterEX do I want to ask what illegal memes are?
@@maisies515 Yes, where the Queen resides, it is illegal to have meme(s)
@@maisies515 Research "Article 13"
How I love the craftsmanship in those. Fascinating. Extraordinary.
I can easily fall asleep after watching one game of these they are very soothing
I love the way tim says "off"
I have one of those grip crate mazes. A cuban guy that my mom was doing physical therapy on made it and gave it to her for me. It was pretty cool. He put a candy inside. LOL
"You just need to give it a little bang in a certain place and it will just open."
Now, only if my love life were that easy.
This is really interesting, the ones who made these are geniuses. They make me want to look back to the past and see how smart tools and mystery stuff were created.
0:10 Secret Panel Box: A trick box in which you have to slide the panels to open it.
0:39 Little Secret Panel Box: A smaller version of the classic secret panel box.
1:06 Stiff Secret Panel Box: The hardest panel box with stiff wood, opening a tiny cubicle in the design.
1:34 Grip Box: A diagonal gripping trick box in the shape of a crate.
2:04 Centrifugal Door Box: A door-like box in which you have to unlock it by spinning.
2:47 Magnetic Knocking Box: A box with a little magnet inside, to which you unlock it by knocking the sides.
3:48 A-Mazing Drawer: A trick box with a maze to follow in order to unlock.
I don't know how I came here but this is awesome; especially the nails one.
I'd like to see Tim as a wacky batman villain.
He'd calmly explain his clever traps and all that.
Thanks for the wonderful vid...you're the grandpa I'd never have.
You're not the only one.
I would love to see Tim open all of those complicated boxes.
I am LOVING these! the diagonal one is genius!
I remember my granparents house was full of these boxes and I enjoyed finding them and descovering if they contained anything. Alot of them were empty, especially the ones that could just about hold a few pennies.
I don't know how I started watching these videos but I love them and I can't stop
My parents had the same box (from Singapore when my father was stationed there) as the first one shown. My mother passed away and my sister inherited it. Then she passed away and my brother-in-law disposed of it, knowing it was an heirloom I wanted to have back. I lost all of my family heirlooms to them. So thanks for the memory. It brought back memories of when I was eight years old and my mother giving me the box to open. I eventually did it.
in case of emergency use hammer. the most helpful advice ever given.
Tim keeps souls in these boxes.
I want all of these. These are amazing. Makes me want to try to make one. The ball bearing maze, just awesome.
The sashimono boxes are rather cool.
I think there were invented for sailors and merchants, generally to deter theft, though they were generally large and heavy enough that you couldn't easily walk off with them.
Can't solve it? Hammer time.
True
Oh my gosh I have the very same one that he showed first! Found it at my grandma's house when I was younger and she didn't remember how to open it. Boy did I have a fun afternoon trying to get it. Finally after fiddling enough it opened up, and it's been muscle memory ever since. It isn't very complicated at all, definitely not 28 steps. Unless mine is broken in some way lol.
Any way I'm looking to get more puzzle boxes because I just love puzzles and they're like secret hiding places.
this video is so awsome in somany levels.. please keep doing them!!
I feared his frail old fingers was gonna break trying to get that little one open, but fair play was worth a watch!
The spinning box with the nails is my favorite, its such a smart idea, someone who hasn't already scene this video would have no clue how to open it
I quite like the last one, looks quite tricky when you can't see the ball bearing. The nail one is quite simple yet quite good!
This is one of the reasons i subscribed. To learn more about trick puzzles.
Great video, I have always been interested in secret storage devices like this and cryptexs.
Thank you.
This is better ASMR than ASMR!
The first type of boxes you showed reminds me of Gordian's Not. A similar principal, and a beautiful example of complex mechanical technology.
I love this channel!!! Most of these video are relaxing or interesting.
You have such a lovely way of speaking Sir.
I love this was in my suggested videos. I have seen all of these videos and especially love the Toy Convention hauls! But be careful you don't open the wrong puzzle box because you might call the cenobites to you! Lol this was suggested since I was looking up the hell raiser puzzle boxes lol
I have that knocking one! I got it over a decade ago when my dad brought it back from China, and I had no idea how it worked until today!
"and a small ball bearing in there just to confuse you"
funny stuff, loved this
Tim, love your videos and have been watching them for years now.
This is one of the first times I can't help but ask you a question.
Do you have any idea if there's a company that still sells "The A Mazing Drawer Box"?
Watched this video many times over the past years and looked high and low for one, but still can't seem to find one...
Thanks in advance!
After I saw this vid, I drilled a small hole in the underside of the lid to my 'dugout' aka 'batter's box' . Now when I close it the bat/cigarette springs up into the lid and locks it. The only way to open it is to bounce it in your hand as you twist the top....works like a charm and keeps ppl out of my stash XD thanx mr. tim!
ruy5 I y by t u 3 t t
The centrifugal box is pure brilliance. I need one badly.
I do enjoy this chap.
These are incredible. So funny how he can't open ANY of them properly though haha
I Love Your Accent And Vocabulary It's Soothing
Now this is what I need to prevent my brother from stealing my stuff.
the centrifugal box was amazing!
What does his home look like??
It looks like a trick opening box. You have solve a complicate maze then smashing it to get inside.
Matt Moves
You forgot that first you need to spin it on two different axes after sliding back a certain wall after holding it from two particular diagonals at first.
Wow! The nail one is so cool.
These videos are so soothing to watch
I actually made one of these back in school. It has a secret compartment that only opens when you slide one of the sides upwards. I gave it to my grandmother.
I love the centrifugal force one! Such a brilliant concept.
Trick opening boxes... I love 'em.
yay you guys made videos about boxes! thank you :)
the box that needs gravitation to unlock: wow! I would never have figured that one out x)
That last box should come with every engagement ring ever.
The boxes are all quite unique in their own way, but watching this gentleman screw up every sinlge one was awesome. I kept waiting for the super fast video and Benny Hill music or for him to break one with a hammer as in a Monty Python bit then calmly proclaim "or you can open it thus so."
What a charming man you are. This is a great show.
These were fantastic.
That nail one was brilliant!
i had a magic trick when i was a kid that used the diagonal grip to acess a hidden compartment.
Spinning box! So awesome...
Wonderful gift idea! Everyone, young and old would like playing with the boxes.
Were can you find them for purchase. Not the plans, but the actual premade boxes with directions on how to open!
the box... you opened it... we came...
That nail one is awesome!
Technically the last one is a Labyrinth, rather than a maze :D
What is the difference between a labyrinth and a maze?
EggwardPolska
A maze has dead ends and occasionally branching/alternate paths, where as a labyrinth is twisty, but as long as you keep going in the same direction, you'll work your way out of it.
***** Interesting! I didnt know that... But doesnt that make the Labyrinth made by daedalus (I am forgetting its formal name) very easy to get out of? As you can see where you are going? Whats the point in that story about the lady who lays down the string so she can find her way back, isnt it easy?
Ryan Kelley Ariadne gave the string to Theseus, she didn't go into the Labyrinth herself.
Obviously, Theseus was a complete idiot. or had no concept of direction in the labyrinth to become lost.
Oh hey, I have a version of that diagonal grip one, except you have to take two parts out of the bands around it before you can open it. One of those parts also contains a small secondary chamber.
Awesome stuff !
ok I love just listen to the way this man speaks
Thank you for this fascinating video
Much like Bob Ross or "GentleWhispering", this guy's videos stir up a strong ASMR. As interesting as his toys are, his videos could also help me sleep. I just need to find one long enough to do so.
He needs to live stream puzzle solving or something
Nice enlightened profile pic
These look just about as frustrating as dial up internet.
+Smmmile:) implying dial up internet is boring?
+bounty hunter implying it is frustrating, did you even read the comment?
CalebMcWilliams I was brain dead, but replace boring with frustrating and I get my message across
What a well mannered man.
Thank you Tim...
You're so fancy!
If anyone is currently in the possession of the Lament Configuration, it would be this man.
Does anyone else find mister Tim rather... enchanting?
that was very cool!! thanks for the video!!
That Sri Lankan one looks amazing. Would love that for myself.
My personal "open the box" puzzle is trying to get my car's rear hatch kick sensor to register my foot and open the lid.
I like that spinning box and the maze one
Holy cow! I used to have the first box. I had two a big one and a smaller one. My mom sold the bigger one but I still have the other.
This guy's videos are perfect for an acid trip. seriously.
I'm curious on how the lock works in the maze ball box. Also, can we have blueprints for those kind of ouzzle boxes?
Very cool!
I made a version of the grip box myself. only with my one it takes removing one of the side panels that has a wooden dowel that keeps the inner compartment from moving and then it opens the exact same way by gripping the edges
Tim is the Indiana Jones of all things we never think of!
"This facinating little box appears to have several different methods of activating-"
*Hellraiser theme starts playing*
"....oh...."
Can you read me a bedtime story?
sure :D
once upon a time
The End
end of story goodbye :D
Once upon a time
heh.
this channel is great
For the amazing drawer box. Do you have to solve the maze in reverse to lock it or does it automatically set the ball at the beginning again?
I like the spinning mechanism. I think I could get one of those for my special keepsakes. Not that I have people trying to take my stuff :P
Love your videos! Where do you get all your amazing "toys" I guess we could call them
"It's quite hard because it's quite stiff wood."
*Tells inner self to stop giggling*
You should do an episode about finger boxes. My dad has a nice mahogany one but I'd be curious to see what Tim has collected over the years.