Abraham’s Well Puzzle Solution
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- Опубліковано 2 вер 2021
- This is a real-time unedited solve and explanation of the amazing Abraham’s Well puzzle by Brian Young.
I bought this puzzle from Mr. Puzzle’s website from their second run of 350 units. As of the making of this video, the puzzle is still available.
www.mrpuzzle.com.au/product/a...
I shot this with my iPhone on my desk so please excuse the occasional shaky cam.
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I was screaming internally at Chris Ramsay that there was a tool in that brass piece but he never even really checked. Thanks for solving!
Did he ever do a follow-up video as he said? I checked and couldn't find one.
Regardless, I am happy this gentleman graced us with the solution! 😊👌🏽
😂👍
Thank god someone finally did it
Glad this helped. I was also surprised that a full solve video didnt show up sooner. Im pretty sure there is a more elegant bucket extraction technique. Hopefully someone will figure it out before the official solution is released. At any rate, its one of the best puzzles ever.
@@kamilpeteraj762 your presentation was extremely enjoyable. The fact that you’re the first to post a solve on this should tell you that you are on to something. Capitalize now! And don’t change your recordings format either. Keep it simple and use the real time audio from the phone camera as you solve…pleeeze 🙏🏻
@@kamilpeteraj762, Thank you for the great solve! ❤️😊 I think next time, before you screw the bolts on top of the well...align the holes on the metal poles to the holes on the well and use the two small bolts to secure/screw the poles to the top of the well😉 ! Then you lift the well out with a secured handle. 🙌🏽 😉 Hope that makes sense.❤️
So Chris hasn't seen this or has and hasn't commented? I think you deserve that much. Good job.
He probably sat in front of it to give it a second shot, then got frustrated and tossed it against something. Or into a fire, or outta the window. He did say a couple times that when he gets frustrated, welp, he does get frustrated. Ps- Alright this is quite funny. I found, a couple comments below this one, one by the author saying that the official solution to this puzzle has been released. And here's where it gets funny: The YT search bar results yielded a list that had, past this puzzle's solution, other puzzle videos, and one of them was Chris sawing open another, different puzzle, because, as he admits at the end of the video, he got frustrated. That's hilarious. Have a good one!
One of the most interesting sequential discovery puzzles I've seen. Thanks for the video
to remove the brass bucket, did you try to screw the brass sides horizontally to the top of the bucket and use them like a handle?
Take out the two set screws in the bottom of the “bucket extractor” handle and place the two bigger screws that were screwed into the bucket place them through the handle scre hole then into the bucket.
Finally I’ve done it.
What a brilliant puzzle
Glad you solved it. Put me out of my misery now. 🙏
Glad this helped!
Would love to see you do more puzzle videos!
excellent video!
Chris' chunky fingers would seriously struggle with the microscopic delicacy of this 🤨
Other people’s videos are way over produced. I love that this video feels like the early days of UA-cam. I’m pining for those days! I’m also subbed now!
Thanks Drew! Much appreciated! I totally get what you are saying - yeah the early days of YT…
Awesome!!
Awesome!
Fuckin finally, I've been waiting to see the solution to this puzzle get solved since Chris gave up.
Ok, I’m going nuts reading the comments, I seem to zero in on the negative ones even though there are way more positive ones, lol. I watched your video because I just watched Chris Ramsey get so close, and I am an instant gratification kind of person. THANK YOU for the solve!!!
I want to say to you, directly, ignore any hater comments. You absolutely did not talk too much. Take the good comments, and the constructive criticism or advice, but please ignore anyone who is negative.
Keep uploading content. I thought you did such an amazing job on this video!
Let's be honest, he DID speak a little slowly though. But I enjoyed it nonetheless!
Just wow!!!
Maybe in the beginning when you’re trying to remove the pillars, hold it by the string when spinning. Just a suggestion. Great video btw, your camera work is so much better
Nice job
The string is the first tool. It's hidden in plain site you use it to spin the well and the weight of the well pulls down from the handle.
Wow Chris ramsay was so close . Great job solving this !
Thanks! The official solution was released as well - I came close but not quite
Finally some good content
Thanks man! Lo-fi, zero production - old school YT 😂🙌
The pins in holding in the arms of the well are interesting. There are two in each side at the same height, and the mirror pair are interconnected by another long pin running down the side. Call them A1 and A2 holding one arm and B1 and B2 holding the other arm, with C1 running down the side behind A1 and B1 and C2 running down the side behind A2 and B2. Only A1 or B1 can be fully submerged in the wall (not in the way of the arm) at one time because C1 has to either run behind A1 or B1. Same concept mirrored on side 2. Once you understand this, no spinning is required to release the arms.
The wrench comes through the side hole of the bucket easily. Great puzzle. Really enjoyed solving it.
Yes, I came to the same conclusion and I show a drawing of it at 5:30. So in your terminology, you need to get to A1 and B2 sticking out and A2 and B1 fully hidden and then to A2&B1 sticking out and A1&B2 hidden a total of four times. Tilting it so that the long pins C1 and C2 would switch places and then tilting on the other axis to get the pins out of the way seems to be the best solution - HOWEVER, although I knew what to do and how to do it, it didnt produce the result as quickly and effectively as the spin moves. So, you see in my solve, I tilt along the C1/C2 axis and then spin. Just the tilting didnt produce the results for me. If you developed a good technique for this, by all means do post a video! I would be curious to see and try it out. For now I stick with tilt back/forward and spin - crude but fast.
As for the wrench, yes it does, but I was surprised as you can see in the solve that you do need to get it out before trying to remove the well. On my first solve I was turning the bucket as I (mistakenly) thought there was a ball bearing maze as well - and the wrench popped out within the first couple of minutes. On my solve for the camera, I didnt turn the bucket cuz I knew there was no maze and I thought you could get the bucket out without worrying about the wrench. But no, the wrench needs to come out beforehand. Super cool puzzle indeed.
@@kamilpeteraj762 It is interesting that the spin move got you there faster!
@@kamilpeteraj762 I wonder how it works if you treat it like lockpicking... continually pull up on the crossbar so that one side is binding, and then tilt it the other ways to unlock the other side?
Not all heroes wear capes.
Big true! :-)
The threads on the bottom of the brass sides don't screw into the edge of the bucket where u put screws in?
Are you not able to mount the brass stands with the screws and use them as a handle for the extraction of the bucket?
No, the holes on the sides have the black circle around them - which means that, as per the instructions, nothing goes through the hole. Also, the bolts are way too short to go through the metal and get enough grip on the thread inside the holes of the bucket.
What a great puzzle! Thank you for sharing your solve with us! I never seen this solution before. When Mr. Puzzle releases the proper solution will you do an update for us, let us know if everything you did was "right"?
I'd very much like to see more puzzle solves from you!
Peace&Love&Light ☮☯️🕉
Hi! Mr. Puzzle already released the solution - if you have the puzzle bought from them you should have gotten an email. I was pretty close but I didnt get all the details right - the bucket extraction was different. Also he shows the moves required to remove arms - mine is arbitrary/random spins whereas, just like I suspected but was too lazy to discover, there is a set of moves that will get you there. I might do an update tho…
The screws under the well arms are what you should screw in the well bucket to help you take it out
Is it possible to dangle it from the string while spinning it?
You should have screwed the grub screws on the base of the handle into the threaded holes in the top of the bucket then you use the handle to turn the bucket .
Is it possible to thread those set screws through the brass pieces into the cup lip? So they become anchored to the cup, and you can pull/twist in concerted effort..?
that was my thought as well! Then you can just pull on both bass pieces to get the middle out
Try using the string to support it while rotating.
Can the 4 pins be magnetized to get the internal rods to release the upper stand out?
No
So talented 😮😎😎😎😉❤️❤️❤️
Video starts at ~5:30
When you received the puzzle did you get a piece of paper with youtube links to show the solution & assembly? I did but none of them appears to exist on youtube.
I also cannot turn the well and when I pull up only a few mm gets exposed.....i think the problem is moisture absorption causing the puzzle to bind.
Thank you so much for this explanation and solution 🙏
Could the removal of those arms be made easier with the string?
Would you be able to wrap the string around that hourglass shape, hold the end of it and 'drop' the well?
Thanks, glad this helped. I have found no use for the string as of now. At 5:30 I explain how the pins work - due to the fact that there are two additional long pins along the sides, you can never achieve a state where the pins are fully hidden on both sides so that you could just smoothly pull out the arms. So I dont see how one could use the string there. Guess we have to wait for the official solution.
@@kamilpeteraj762 thankyou for the response! It's hard to visualise the inner mechanics, so I appreciate the clarification.
@@kamilpeteraj762perhaps once the tool is removed and the bucket is in a state where it can be removed, you can wrap the string around the two screws in the top of the bucket and pull?
The string could also aid in your “spinning technique” in the beginning.
Maybe the string isn’t long enough to wrap around both screws - but the idea of using a string like a handle of a bucket to remove it does make a lot of sense cause that’s how buckets are!
It is a well and you have a bucket shaped thing you need to pull out. I would use the string with the screws to pull on the brass thing
I know this is old but do the screws fit thru the holes on the plier looking things? If they do you can screw the screws into the bucket but first go thru the holes of the “post” basically screwing the posts to the bucket. Then you have leverage. Not sure if this is mentioned already but just a thought.
Exactly what I thought - attach the posts TO the bucket.
i felt like the poles look like they have a fitting threading already and could be connected directly
Well Hot Dang!
Lol! 😃 "Rah!"
Thanks!
Suspend by the string and spin?
You are aewsome
Thanks! Not really but thanks!
You should hold it by the string and swing it back and froth while spinning it
Did anyone find the official solution video? A couple fellows, including this video's author, wrote that they saw it, but I'm going crazy trying to find it. Thanks in advance, thanks for the great video and mainly, for the nice example of how should a person use their brain. Cheers!
I will try to find it and include it in the description or pin it to the top. It vastly more elegant than mine 🙈😂
I’ve just received this puzzle and did the first stage.’
The brass cylinder does not turn anything like as easily as what yours does.
I also tried to use the solution video in the box but none of the codes are recognised by UA-cam.
Hmmm… not impressed.
So with brute force I am able to turn the brass well by a few mm.
It’s the same old material problem when using certain types of absorptive wood with different close tolerance metals.
but WHAT IS the pewter object? Surely after all that it is not merely some random shape without meaning?
Its a hat!
Hold it up by the string to spin it
You were supposed to use the string in the center hold it and spin it
Thank you, sir. Now I can sleep again :)
I wonder if the string is long enough to tie knots over screws which you screwed to the bucket? Or perhaps to screw it along with screws if threading is wide enough.
I have found no use for the string. The threading is so tight its impossible to turn the screws without a tool - which, I assume, is on purpose so you won’t undo the arms by hand. If you did, you could get just remove one arm at a time as a shortcut - I plan to do another video on this. Because the maze only works with both arms connected.
Is there a link to the official solution?
Mr Puzzle was sending out emails
AYOOOO
Can you possible use the wrench that come out of the well at a handle to pull out the inner well portion? And I’m trying to think of at way that you could use the string. Maybe to attach onto the well wrench on make a crank system somehow.
The wrench is way too short to get leverage from it.
I think to remove that well you have to use string. Just tie that string with those two screws and you can easily pull that well with use of another tools. Dont know if i m wrong xD
That string would break
@@kamilpeteraj762 Plus I feel like it's too short for adult fingers to work with easily enough
Can’t you just screw the brass posts to the bucket so they are secured and then lift?
The screws are tiny and the brass posts are thick - so in one word, nope.
Break the brass rail in half center and they look screw in the top of the well
The metal is too thick for the screws
for the rods cant you just hold the string and spin it dangling from the string? you'd have a much faster spin, and it would explain the string? idk i'm still watching.
You don't think the repeated, essentially random, and violently done spin moves violate the brute force rule?
Nope. Spin moves are quite frequent in puzzle solving. Some Wil Strijbos puzzles cant be solved without the centrifugal force applied to the moving parts of the puzzle with an effect that cannot be achieved by simple rotation. The move is really smooth and I believe your perception of its violence originates from the sound because I have my iphone on the table with the mic picking up the noise from the table making it seem more intense than it in reality is - quite smooth. Although, in the end, turns out the spin move isnt required to solve this puzzle - as I correctly predicted in my video - so there’s more than one way to skin a cat… 😜
what is going on in the background in 30:00
Man, that was some sort of street dance thing 😂
Here in 2022 after seeing it on Snapchat not be solved
Hold the string above ND spin it damn it
Wont work - tried
The thread is so you can spin it while hanging 🤔
I literally have never held or solved this puzzle before but you are going about the first part of removing the crank piece all wrong. You do realize there is a string attached to it right? Why don't you hold onto that while spinning it so you don't scratch up the bottom of it.
So, Chris Ramsay was 2 steps away from solving it. He wasnt so lucky to find a nail
Yup - I found it by pure change by accidentally dropping the disassembled arm into the bucket and there it was
I like your video and the solution. My only hesitancy in to mention your presentation speed was really, really slow. I didn't want it to ruin my perception and appreciation of the content so I changed the playback speed to 1.5x, and problem solved.
Well, I wasnt really thinking about pacing at all - as you probably can tell 😂 appreciate your time watching and commenting!
@@kamilpeteraj762 No problem!
The funny thing is the whole time I'm watching Chris's video I was screaming, just try jamming the tinny pointy thing into those side holes. The fact that he was honestly so close and completely overthinking is extremely frustrating.
Wow, good!
This was not the intended way to solve the puzzle but you definitely did better than CR! 😝
This wasnt a live solve, rather a walkthrough. And still, the wrench stuck in the bucket did throw me off. Do you have a better solution for extracting the bucket?
@@kamilpeteraj762 Well the way I solved it was to use the well support bracket holes along with the screws in the well bucket to pull it out. However, that’s not the designer’s intended solution.
@@mrneal8966 yeah, guess we have to wait for the official solution to come out to see the intended solution
@@kamilpeteraj762 it’s out. I posted the link below.
@@mrneal8966 I just literally watched it. Woooow, ok I knew there was an elegant way to get the bucket but the official solution is soooo much better than this 🤦🏻♂️😂
This isn't correct just so you guys know, it's actually really very crazy and more intricate. You have to use the wrench that comes out of the well to take the rest of the arms apart. Then what comes next is crazy....
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"Even though I know *exactly* how it works..."
Yeah, no you don't 🤣😂
This wasnt a live solve - I did a solve before this and a reassembly as well - so yeah, I did know how it worked and still the sequence threw me off as I didnt think it was necessary to remove the wrench before the cylinder. Turns out it was necessary and there’s a precise method to it. Anyway, thanks for your comment.
I love watching Chris and his videos, but he is not built for puzzle solving...
There is generally little to no systematic evaluation to these things. Even when he solved I find he is often hard pressed to fully explain what is going on inside the puzzle.
Enthusiasm is great, but just diving into the harder puzzles with no idea of approach/methodology makes it frustrating to watch, on occasion.
Man thanks - my thought exactly. I was thinking that there are plenty of videos of people going “watch me solve this” but the systematic approach that will get you to a solution is omitted. I was gonna do some vids but thought no one cared. Now that I think of it - Im gonna grab my phone and shoot some vids of my methods! Thanks for the encouragement!
This guy must be a technical writer. Cause he loves to hear his self talk.
Why would you post a hateful comment on a video like this, where talking is absolutely necessary and relevant for the content he is providing?? You come across as someone with low self esteem who needs to bash an unknown person because you can. Go ahead with your keyboard courage, hiding behind anonymity.
Negative people find themselves surrounded by negativity. Change your attitude, improve your day, and the experience everyone who comes in contact with you.
Thanks Jon!
Ron, listen, Im not a technical writer. Im not a professional UA-camr. Im just a random guy who stumbled upon the solution, grabbed his iphone and filmed it for no reason other than the joy of solving puzzles and sharing the solution. My content isnt scripted, polished and meant to hook you, entertain you and sell you something. Im just a guy who solved a puzzle and filmed it. Hope you enjoyed the video for what it is! Thanks man and appreciate your comment.
You seem like just the daintiest of fellows.
You’re very hard to hear
Sorry for the poor production, I just grabbed my iphone and shot the video…
The guy doesn’t know how to use basic tools my lord
This guy seems slow
So the wrench comes out of the well, "just like the video of Chris Ramsay" that you never watched? Yeah, ok.
Of course I did! Im a long term fan and subscriber and through Chris I learned about this puzzle in the first place. But I shot the video after doing my solve and then watching CM´s video. Hope that makes sense.
It is nice to see a solution but he is talking way too much. I wanted a solution and not the mechanics or what he was thinking at his first attempt
I don’t agree. I appreciate the thought process and the internal thinking being voiced, even if every point isn’t correct
boring , Chris is way better at this
Comparing a guy who just grabs his iphone and shoots a walkthrough to a best-in-class high-production professional YT channel - I guess its a compliment!
And CR didn't even come close to solving it!!
I think this channel is for people who are already in to puzzles. Chris draws in new people to puzzles. Everyone has their own lane. Personally, I appreciate the simplicity of this channel and I appreciate the creativity and production of Chris’ channel.
No. I love puzzles of all kinds. This puzzle, sir, is NOT fun