Its called a lotus flower because traditionally, you can pick up a lotus flower by its stem and twirl it between two hands (like one of those helicopter toys) and it will fly on its own. You have to unlock the puzzle by turning it upside down and spinning it by the screwed in piece (stem), just as you would a lotus blossom. That is how you unlocked the mechanism the first time if you pay attention closely.
Watched it 3 times it never says do not shake... and also shakes it hard? ..... When? I'm gonna say shakes it briskly.. but hard? You judge harshly to say so.
It's called the "Lotus Puzzle" because a lotus blossom blooms twice. It gives you the first coin (when the lotus shoot comes out of the mud), and the second coin (when the flower blooms).
It just has to do with UA-cam stats and trends. However, now that you're here I will say all of his videos are of really nice quality and authentic. I enjoy them.
@KIMBERLY MICHELLE BUO the fun part is making a bunch of money off youtube lol and when you know how to do it you touch everything except what you're supposed to
@@johnnyrodgersss I think his moments of excitement and thrill were pretty genuine, usually I'm skeptikal about content creators and how genuine they are about discoveries and shit but idk I've never got acting vibes from chris I fairly believe he's genuinely passionate about solving puzzles and discovers them when filming it
Its called the lotus because the lotus always blooms twice and the second time is prettier than the first. This puzzle has the first "bloom" which is the coin with the hole. And the second "bloom" which is prettier than the first is the second coin.
Kalvin that sounds right to me man! The only little hitch that I see is, what if you find the Lotus coin first? Then the metaphor wouldn't exactly fit. But I may be just taking it too literally.
Oh cool, thank you for that. And thank you not being a prick and trying to make me sound stupid like Aca 792 up there. I did in fact watch the video but missed that little tid bit. Not all of us have perfect recall. So then Kalvin Katwal your explanation for the name sounds good!!
Nathaniel Barreras someone doesn't need perfect recall to remember stuff from a 17 min video...... lmao dont act this video was a lot of information to take in. You're just slow my dude. It's all good though. Not everyone is gonna have the same mental horsepower.
Actually Japanese was based off Chinese and they have a way of writing where you would use cninese characters with japanese characters so yeah. He thought it was chinese
Indeed it was! I should make one of these on my channel. Me and my dad just finished our first puzzle furniture build that'll be coming out next Friday. We're just starting to learn how to make puzzle boxes after so many projects with secret compartments.
I think the reason of the name was much more obvious than most of people said below The thing was about “you don’t understand the name until you FINISHED” The first coin supposed to mean that you are done. But because you know from the description about lotus thing you don’t finish and continue till getting lotus coin that means the real ending Really beautiful puzzle and trick
12:15 "I can't read Chinese" he says while holding a Japanese 5 Yen coin. Edit: A lot of the newer comments appear to be rather salty and uninformed, claiming I'm wrong and this is indeed a Chinese coin with Chinese writing. You're wrong on both accounts. The kanji on the coin reads 日本 (Nihon) which means Japan. Also Japanese coins have round holes (5 Yen and 50 Yen coins) Chinese coins had square holes.
First minute into the vid I was like let me actually buy one and not finish the vid cause I'm curious and want to do it now......clicked the link.....saw it was almost $150......resumed watching the video.....
Reading through some of the comments and my own research, I'm piecing together some hints shared by other people regarding the "reason" behind the name. Kelsey Megan mentioned twirling it between two hands to make it fly - there are martial art movements called the Lotus Spin where you jump in the air and put your legs in a cross legged position while spinning in the air. I take it to depict the way that the lotus can spin and fly in mid air if you twirl it, hence the spinning action required to solve this puzzle (maybe). Also as a few people have pointed out, the first coin that came out is a Japanese 5 yen. The image on the 5 yen is a rice plant, which is planted in water. The second coin is a chinese 5 jiao, which is something like a 50c coin, and the image on the back of that is of a lotus. After looking for info on the lotus I found that the lotus (also grown in water) grows on a rotation cycle along with rice plants (the 5 yen). The lotus is harvested in July and the rice can then be planted in the same field, forming a rotation and making good use of the field. Perhaps the spinning action also represents the rotation of crops? I'm just making some educated guesses here. Btw awesome puzzle, and new subscriber :)
Was expecting some clickbait bullshit and was really pleasantly surprised by a humble, well-produced, genuinely interesting video! Super awesome channel, man. Keep up the work. This is the good side of UA-cam.
It's also been sitting in my recommended for a few months (I don't know how because shit like this pisses me off to no end because I'm impatient), but this kinda content should be more prominent on UA-cam.
This is the first puzzle video I ever watched from you Chris, and I'm revisiting it again years later just to remember what got me into creating metal puzzles. I'll be sending you my debut level 10 puzzle soon ;) stay frosty King~
If only I can post a screen shot of what time I'm watching this 😂 we're the same, and guess what, I have to wake up early while I'm here commenting on YT upon done watching a vid like this 💀
The true reason why this puzzle is called "Lotus Flower" is, that the puzzle has two coins, old one and new one. Both of coins hidden inside puzzle are 5 Yen, but first is very very VERY old one with a hole in coin's center, other is contemporary 5 Yen coin without hole. This is reference to Lotus seed's extraordinary durability, which can last virtually thousands of years. Thus, meaning of puzzle is, "relic" Lotus seed (old coin) being planted and blooming new Lotus Flower (new coin) Ultimately, the true answer to the puzzle, in terms of puzzle's mechanism , is, a synchronicity: as second coin, is designed to be obtained through accidental, but reasonably expected event. (well, spin mechanism itself requires "expected accident" as it is expected to be solved by spinning, but requires some "luck" for actual success.) - P.S. Little tip for folks who are curious about the reason why there is hole in old coin: it is hole there to allow the coin holder to hold a coin with tiny rope. (More precisely, it was not actually a rope hole; the hole was just part of coin's aesthetic feature, which represents ancient view on the Universe: the sky is round, and the land is square. Eventually people used that hole for roping coins though.)
Sorry but you are wrong. The modern Japanese 5¥ still has a hole at its center. And it is exactly the one that the video uploader found first. The second one is not a Japanese 5¥. Not against your will of informing other people, but stop to act like you know stuff that you have not knowledge about.
@@hellspawn4654 Yen and Yuan are two different currency. The first user was saying that the two coins are both Japanese Yens. So I don't understand your point.
I don't believe that's why its called the Lotus puzzle. They could have put any coin picture in there. I believe that its called the Lotus puzzle because lotus's represent devotion. You unlocked the poor ugly coin. But YOU put in more devotion into this puzzle and unlocked the true beauty that is the lotus coin
Actually it’s called the lotus puzzle because in the Odyssey, Odysseus and his men were given lotus flowers that distracted them from going home and they wanted to stay there eating lotus. The entire thing is a distraction. He took an L when he got the thing
Have you ever thought about collaborating with another youtuber (someone into metal work) to make your own puzzle box. I feel by now you could come up with something fiendish.
#12:17 That is a ¥5(YEN) coin in Japan. On front surface,it has been writed "Japan SHOWA(period of time:kind of GENGO) 58th(1983 AD)" with KANJI. It means the coin is a property of Japan,and a product made in 1983. Also back surface,rice seedlings drawn and ¥5 written.
I keep coming back to this video, and it never loses its tranquility and finesse. The music and light clinking of the puzzle is just an amazing combination
I was watching beauty tutorials, then I was looking at fire ants farming and escaping fire ants , and now I am here.. Not sure how I got here, but this was super interesting!
I don’t see how people have the patience to do these things If I was doing this 5 mins in I would’ve yeeted it at a wall or something Edit: thank you for the likes 😄
not being rude ,but that is pretty crappy. great construction but there should be alot more of a puzzle then that . it was a stupid piece of junk if i was asked . sorry 6 pieces to come out . i would not take it if it was given to me .not sure how much it is but I don't think I would purchase it. not enough to make a great deal, junk
It's not about being patient, it's about seeing the fun in solving it. You'd probably be thinking you have other things to do that you'd consider more fun or fulfilling than solving this puzzle, although subconsciously.
That moment when the music stops and you start the timer again, telling us "nope, we ain't done with this thing" It had a sort of, cinematic quality to it lol
Have you ever thought to yourself while watching his videos "Come on Chris it's obvious that you have to do this or you have to do that" and then he tries it and it doesn't work. Then you just sit there and think how bad you would be at solving puzzles. Because I do that a lot
I lived in China for 2 years, so i could read it. The first coin is a japanese 5 Yen from the 58th Showa year(1983 AD). The second coin is a chinese 50cent of Yuan, probably manufactered on the last decade(he covered the actual year).
This video is good but don't let it distract you from the fact that gru is the most powerful person in the world First according to the height of a Minion (which is 3.5 feet on average) Gru is 4 minions tall, which means he is a godly size of 14 feet tall. Second if any of you remember the original Despicable Me, you Know there is a scene when Vector kidnaps the three girls and shoots a series of heat-seeking misses at Gru, he then dodge them all. According to the speed of an average ballistic missile (1900 mph) and the size of the missile according to his ankle size, Gru can perceive and move at such a speed that the missiles only move 9.5 miles per hour, 0.5% of their original speed. Plus after this Gru punches a shark and it is paralyzed meaning its spine is probably shattered, to remind you it would require a force greater than 3,000 newtons to fracture the spine. That’s equal to the impact created by a 500-pound car crashing into a wall at 30 miles per hour. I rest my case.
I have no idea how I ended up here but I really liked this! I find even the simplest of these puzzles impossible to it was very intresting to see your approach to it! You have a very nice informative layout of your videos
I kept waiting for you to spin it the other way, not flat on the table, but holding the screw-in post and dangling it to spin; this would give the illusion of a lotus flower viewed from above. Then even if the coins are discovered and removed, the box is still "hiding" a lotus flower. I feel like after the second coin is out the weight would be balanced on both sides of the pin to help the box spin evenly... But there's no way I would have gotten that far to try it myself. Lol
Wow Chris, your way of analizing life blows me away. I'm really happy that I came across this channel an year ago. Your way of understanding the world has given me the tools to overcom many adversities. Thank you! By the way, you were one of the people who inspired me to study philosophy as a career!
So I started on this one a few days ago. I got the first parts out and knew the next step had to be using the rods as a tool. I also felt the spin move was somehow part of it, but nothing worked! I fought with it for the longest time, then decided to watch this video. The first thing I noticed was the long thin pin that you were using was not part of my collection of pieces. Since I moved from the couch to the table so I could spin it better, I went back to see if i had dropped a piece! Voila! There it was between the cushions in plain view! I was able to solve it after that! So glad I watched the video or I’d still be struggling! Lol
I just researched them and didn't even figure that out. I just heard about how they come from often ugly ponds and they go under water and reemerge but that is not a great metaphor for the puzzle really. Yours makes perfect sense if that is common knowledge about lotus flowers.
I think this pulls more from the Buddhist symbol of the Lotus flower, which is that it symbolizes purity and detachment. If you fell for the first coin, you wouldn’t understand why it’s called the lotus, but you also would have fallen to a worldly attachment, the five yen, symbolic of industry and agriculture.
It might look like Chinese because it's only Kanji, but it is in fact Japanese writing on the coin. The front of the coin: 五円 means "five yen" in Japanese. The back says: 日本国 which means "Japan", and beneath: 昭和五十八年 meaning "Shōwa 58 years". So it's a Japanese 5 yen coin from the Shōwa period. If you google "5 yen" you will find an image of the same kind of coin almost immediately. I don't actually know what the 58 years are referring to, as the Shōwa period lasted from 1926 to 1989.
Maybe you translated it wrong? I'm not doubting your skill it's just that 58 years is 1984 and unless it came from the future it cant be from 58 years after it ended And since it didn't end that year it couldn't be celebrating its end and how long it lasted But 58 seems like an odd number to celebrate(why not 50 or 60?) It might be some Japanese cultural lucky number(like 3 or 7 here) but I'm ignorant to their culture so I don't know
Adding up to this, the second coin is the 50 cents coin from China RenMinBi (aka RMB). The lotus 50 cents is actually the new version in China starting from 2000. Just a FYI
God I'm such a nerd. If you have ever seen or heard of Naruto: "the lotus of the leaf blooms twice!". (leaf refers to the village they reside in) Whenever you hear these words, get ready for a hype train. (The Lotus is a set of typically illegal moves as they are very powerful, but also damage the user. The "bloom twice" refers to a second state, or "final state" *spoiler* that unleashes unimaginable destruction/damage.) What I mean to say is, most would stop at the first coin. Most would see it and be satisfied, but the lotus blooms twice, and takes it a step further. For those who stopped at the first coin, they were rewarded, but those who took it further were greatly rewarded, not just in the lotus coin, but in the knowledge that they did.
Poets use lotus flowers to inspire people to continue striving through difficulties and to show their best part to the outside world, no matter how bad the circumstances may be. So, while the flower blooms it's special qualities cause us to bloom (poetic - it blooms twice). This is a revered flower with much symbolism attached in many cultures - out of the mud, stem through the water, flower opening at day break, showing both the petals and fruit at once. (I had similar thoughts but this is from yahoo answers and they put it better than I ever could)
I love rewatching this episode! I always like watching that moment when you press start again knowing that there HAD to be more. Like, the definition of a puzzle solver. You’re the best man ⭐️👍🏿
All puzzles require finesse and subtlety. If you're reduced to brute force or a hammer, you're best just sticking with WWE viewing and backyard wrestling.
The Lotus flower appears in Greek (?) mythology in the Oddesy or the Illiad (excuse typos...been awhile) when Odysseus lands on the island with the Lotus Eaters.. The flower makes one feel good when eating it and he doesn't want to leave... He gets STUCK there and his crew has to force him back onto the boat bc all he wants to do is sit around and eat Lotus all day.. ;-)....thus, the puzzle makes one stuck and sitting around all day trying to figure it out.
Its called a lotus flower because traditionally, you can pick up a lotus flower by its stem and twirl it between two hands (like one of those helicopter toys) and it will fly on its own. You have to unlock the puzzle by turning it upside down and spinning it by the screwed in piece (stem), just as you would a lotus blossom. That is how you unlocked the mechanism the first time if you pay attention closely.
cool~~~
PIN THIS COMMENT SHES A SMARTY
@@LeonBlack666 danm.....
If you know what a bamboo copter is~ that’s what she means!
"Ohh Hello!"
Next challenge is level 100: tangled earbud cables
Hahahah nice one i gave u a like
Thats...that's impossible you're a mad man
I completed it.
Just use air pods
Or wireless beats
memer the bot 26 Yo 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The 1st coin holds the picture of a half bloomed lotus while the 2nd coin holds a bloomed lotus...as a lotus blooms twice.
@@MvC2Scrub your boyfriend must be a happy guy.
@SOROE It's rice ;)
Aaaaah.
In sane you sire, have truly solved the lotus flower
The first coin is a 5 YEN Japanese, and it's a rice plant on that coin.
Box: Do not shake it
Chris: "Shakes it hard"
It took him exactly 2 minutes and 25 seconds to shake the puzzle.
*For the dirty minded people out there*
Alexandra A I didn’t even think of it before I saw this....
Watched it 3 times it never says do not shake... and also shakes it hard? ..... When? I'm gonna say shakes it briskly.. but hard? You judge harshly to say so.
@@slowcloudorca5071 you watched 3 times and missed something that’s actually n the video Lol
Ha, I get it. The puzzle “finishes” twice just like how a lotus blooms twice. That’s clever!
Trogdor Tibbles this makes sense too
😱
It also has a lotus coin inside
unlike your wife
@Reece Carey well don't read the comments before the video on a video about opening something
It's called the "Lotus Puzzle" because a lotus blossom blooms twice. It gives you the first coin (when the lotus shoot comes out of the mud), and the second coin (when the flower blooms).
Dillon Tsubota damn that cool
2 hrs too late kid fuck outta here splashgang
i learned that from naruto :D
u aint in a gang boy pipe tf down change tht name boy tf u mean
which means you've truly solved it.
I think the real puzzle is how this got on everyone's recommend list? Not that I am mad for watching it.
Matthew Schell yeah
That's interesting
😂😂 ikr
It just has to do with UA-cam stats and trends. However, now that you're here I will say all of his videos are of really nice quality and authentic. I enjoy them.
Ikr i never watch any vids like this
me:
>skips multiple times
>chris pulls out something
"how tf did he get that?"
>goes back
LOL I did the same thing
SAME LOL
this comment gives me 4chan vibes
chewble 😅😅😂😅
My sister:*watches vid*
My sister again:*double taps*
My sister again oof:*doesnt care about the video*
My sis stoopid
This man has the patience of a god.
Same thinking if I would there doing this that puzzle box will not be a puzzle box afte 5 min
Oh please I would brake the box
Sword in the stone puzzle....
Spends 33 minutes staring at a block of metal
Trying to think of why it's called the Lotus thibg6
you know, when the music shuts off, that Chris is gonna figure something out.
Thank you!
Cant he just cheat before every video...
@KIMBERLY MICHELLE BUO the fun part is making a bunch of money off youtube lol and when you know how to do it you touch everything except what you're supposed to
@@johnnyrodgersss I think his moments of excitement and thrill were pretty genuine, usually I'm skeptikal about content creators and how genuine they are about discoveries and shit but idk I've never got acting vibes from chris I fairly believe he's genuinely passionate about solving puzzles and discovers them when filming it
@@johnnyrodgersss he can also just edit the music after recording. You know that right?
what am I doing here? I don't even do puzzles. I have a math test tomorrow.
jackson rainey so
Yo i literally have a math final tomorrow that i should be studying for
Did you pass
Yea did you pass
no I got a h*cking d cuz I stayed up all night and watched youtube instead
“Do not shake”
Chris: “BEYBLADE BEYBLADE LET IT RIP!!”
Big Chungus wow 69 likes noice
DARKANGEL23 niceu
MY MOM BEATS ME WİTH A WHİP!
@@mehmetseyit7210 :^ too much info my good dude
Repent! God sent His Son to die for u BC He loves you! Do NOT take the devil mark of the beast vaccine
I watched ONE puzzle video last year youtube. ONE video.
Lmao
"UA-cam will remember that"
🤣🤣🤣
I never watch it, idk how i end up here
SAME 😂😂
Its called the lotus because the lotus always blooms twice and the second time is prettier than the first. This puzzle has the first "bloom" which is the coin with the hole. And the second "bloom" which is prettier than the first is the second coin.
Kalvin that sounds right to me man! The only little hitch that I see is, what if you find the Lotus coin first? Then the metaphor wouldn't exactly fit. But I may be just taking it too literally.
Nathaniel Barreras you can't, because you need to find the worse one first, have you even wathched the video?
Nathaniel Barreras it doesnt let you open the side with the lotus coin, You are forced to find he worse one first if you get that far
Oh cool, thank you for that. And thank you not being a prick and trying to make me sound stupid like Aca 792 up there. I did in fact watch the video but missed that little tid bit. Not all of us have perfect recall. So then Kalvin Katwal your explanation for the name sounds good!!
Nathaniel Barreras someone doesn't need perfect recall to remember stuff from a 17 min video...... lmao dont act this video was a lot of information to take in. You're just slow my dude. It's all good though. Not everyone is gonna have the same mental horsepower.
"I can't read Chinese"
He says to the Japanese Yen.
Kurohei Japanese and Chinese have some same characters maybe that’s why he thought it was chinese?
Dleene Douglas DD or maybe bc on forst glance those languages can be very confusing to tell apart
@@MCBB-L3S I know around 400 Kanji, and some look the same, some look similar, and some look nothing alike.
@@BlackHei711 they mistook kanji as Chinese.
Actually Japanese was based off Chinese and they have a way of writing where you would use cninese characters with japanese characters so yeah. He thought it was chinese
Box: do not shake Puzzle: you spin me right round baby right round
UA-cam has been recommending this for MONTHS. Ok UA-cam I'll watch it, it was actually pretty cool
Indeed it was! I should make one of these on my channel. Me and my dad just finished our first puzzle furniture build that'll be coming out next Friday. We're just starting to learn how to make puzzle boxes after so many projects with secret compartments.
Same thing for me. UA-cam seems to really want people to watch this.
same. Its like its paid advertising
sameeeeee
Same
The lotus flower blooms twice.
@The Animator No that's just a fact.
@@sevehn lmaoooo
Omg I so that that this was in reference to naruto
I guess thats a japanese Yen 😂
So this was the meaning of this puzzle..cool
how excited he got when he found the second coin, ugh so pure
haha
I’d like this comment but it’s at 420 likes right now. Can’t ruin that, sorry
Bro u can't differentiate natural and acting?
I think the reason of the name was much more obvious than most of people said below
The thing was about “you don’t understand the name until you FINISHED”
The first coin supposed to mean that you are done. But because you know from the description about lotus thing you don’t finish and continue till getting lotus coin that means the real ending
Really beautiful puzzle and trick
Cant agree more. Underrated comment.
12:15 "I can't read Chinese" he says while holding a Japanese 5 Yen coin.
Edit: A lot of the newer comments appear to be rather salty and uninformed, claiming I'm wrong and this is indeed a Chinese coin with Chinese writing.
You're wrong on both accounts.
The kanji on the coin reads 日本 (Nihon) which means Japan.
Also Japanese coins have round holes (5 Yen and 50 Yen coins)
Chinese coins had square holes.
Hahaha, that's awesome!
Yeah, because he obviously knows the difference.
😂😂😂
also if you look at 15:16 it clearly says "zhongguo" in the other coin, which means China
trashtropper there are chinese characters in Japanese language this one is 5 yen
How the hell did I end up here? But damn this is interesting 🔥
iAmCrunchy1 same my friend
iAmCrunchy1 same I was watching Naruto and now I’m here but whatever
Same I was just watching sonic
I was watching Bugatti oil change and now I'm stuck here lol
Ecchi Naruto is in the recommendations under this video for me
The lotus blooms twice
Debonair Gaming & Media naruto reference
Tyler Hall no just a reference used by the anime. It’s been a reference before naruto. So not from naruto.
Tyler Hall ikr rock lee
MeCancer Lord He's just saying that he may had found it from Naruto.
Chris Ramsay
Strength 75
Health 100
Morale: 99
Patience: *_Over 9,000_*
Memory, intelligence and literacy: 10
Over sjxbfbajcnabdhchshwjfjfjdjwiejfhdhshsjfjgjffjsjdhdjfjdjsjsjf Google to the infinith power
HIS NIC LEVEL IS OVER 9,000
Stereotypical Americans
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Morale 100
Patience 50
I'm allowed to say these things cause I'm a American
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First minute into the vid I was like let me actually buy one and not finish the vid cause I'm curious and want to do it now......clicked the link.....saw it was almost $150......resumed watching the video.....
Winning loll that's exactly what I did. Saw the price. Was like nope!
Well now it's upwards of $190
keelan boyce
Did they just raise the price to make more profits?
That's greedy 😑
keelan boyce dang! Well either way I feel accomplished and satisfied enough just watching this video
Muhammad Arifur Rahman people wanting to MAKE MONEY on something that probably took a lot of effort to make? Darn so greedy
Reading through some of the comments and my own research, I'm piecing together some hints shared by other people regarding the "reason" behind the name. Kelsey Megan mentioned twirling it between two hands to make it fly - there are martial art movements called the Lotus Spin where you jump in the air and put your legs in a cross legged position while spinning in the air. I take it to depict the way that the lotus can spin and fly in mid air if you twirl it, hence the spinning action required to solve this puzzle (maybe). Also as a few people have pointed out, the first coin that came out is a Japanese 5 yen. The image on the 5 yen is a rice plant, which is planted in water. The second coin is a chinese 5 jiao, which is something like a 50c coin, and the image on the back of that is of a lotus. After looking for info on the lotus I found that the lotus (also grown in water) grows on a rotation cycle along with rice plants (the 5 yen). The lotus is harvested in July and the rice can then be planted in the same field, forming a rotation and making good use of the field. Perhaps the spinning action also represents the rotation of crops? I'm just making some educated guesses here.
Btw awesome puzzle, and new subscriber :)
Wow u have a lot of time on your hands
@@ameliajamieson9714 it didn't take longer than the video itself to find :)
I was also in Japan recently
Damn
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cool research bro
Get someone that looks at u the way this guy looks at puzzles
So a stalker?
If that puzzle were a woman then this video would be titled 'sexual assault'.
*with patience*
the music stop
"something wrong i can feel it"
Good music
Somethings right I can feel it
The secret is that the lotus blooms TWICE!
i see
Guy senseiii
I was gonna say that rock lee shit lol
jessiah riner yeah it is
Spoiler alert
Lotus flowers blooms twice just like this puzzle. Beautiful puzzle
How does the puzzle bloom twice a year?
madels123 it opens twice einstein
Max Roseberry r/woooosh
Darren Ivano Why do people say r/wooosh when people are correcting their stupidity?
Was expecting some clickbait bullshit and was really pleasantly surprised by a humble, well-produced, genuinely interesting video! Super awesome channel, man. Keep up the work. This is the good side of UA-cam.
Cursed i meant
ok daddy
If u thought it was click bait, WHY THE HELL DID U PRESS?
Alec Savoye
Alec Savoye
Puzzle: You're wrong
Chris: No, you're wrong
Directions- *Don’t shake it*
Chris- •proceeds to shake it vigorously•
After the 4th time watching I see nothing that says do not shake.. please quote your time stamp .
@@slowcloudorca5071 yeah you're right 1:08 it says no banging tapping forcing or external tools ot doesn't say no shaking
It's called the Lotus because the flower blooms twice, hence the 2 coins.
@Shy Brother Speaks Same.
@Shy Brother Speaks WHO THE HELL LIKED THE COMMENT
UA-cam feels like this kind of entertainment should be more popular so they put it in our recommended till we break.
I swear the shit has been on my recommended for like three months
kinda funny, but i had it as well in recommendation for about a months.
It's also been sitting in my recommended for a few months (I don't know how because shit like this pisses me off to no end because I'm impatient), but this kinda content should be more prominent on UA-cam.
Yep
This is the first puzzle video I ever watched from you Chris, and I'm revisiting it again years later just to remember what got me into creating metal puzzles. I'll be sending you my debut level 10 puzzle soon ;) stay frosty King~
Can't wait to see that! I hope he does a video!
Just curious if you ended up doing this. Would love an update.
Ok UA-cam. I watched it.
True
Basically where I'm at.
Colton Jobes fax holy shit
Epic true
Colton Jobes I thought this was an ad because it was showing up so much
1AM
UA-cam Recommendations: Hey its late, wanna watch a guy solve some puzzle?
Me: Ugh... fine..
No joke its 1:30 AM sharp
5:47.
King Redemption hi
If only I can post a screen shot of what time I'm watching this 😂 we're the same, and guess what, I have to wake up early while I'm here commenting on YT upon done watching a vid like this 💀
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The true reason why this puzzle is called "Lotus Flower" is, that the puzzle has two coins, old one and new one. Both of coins hidden inside puzzle are 5 Yen, but first is very very VERY old one with a hole in coin's center, other is contemporary 5 Yen coin without hole. This is reference to Lotus seed's extraordinary durability, which can last virtually thousands of years. Thus, meaning of puzzle is, "relic" Lotus seed (old coin) being planted and blooming new Lotus Flower (new coin)
Ultimately, the true answer to the puzzle, in terms of puzzle's mechanism , is, a synchronicity: as second coin, is designed to be obtained through accidental, but reasonably expected event. (well, spin mechanism itself requires "expected accident" as it is expected to be solved by spinning, but requires some "luck" for actual success.)
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P.S.
Little tip for folks who are curious about the reason why there is hole in old coin: it is hole there to allow the coin holder to hold a coin with tiny rope. (More precisely, it was not actually a rope hole; the hole was just part of coin's aesthetic feature, which represents ancient view on the Universe: the sky is round, and the land is square. Eventually people used that hole for roping coins though.)
Sorry but you are wrong. The modern Japanese 5¥ still has a hole at its center. And it is exactly the one that the video uploader found first. The second one is not a Japanese 5¥.
Not against your will of informing other people, but stop to act like you know stuff that you have not knowledge about.
yes it's a Chinese coin, 5 jiao
@@hellspawn4654 Yen and Yuan are two different currency. The first user was saying that the two coins are both Japanese Yens. So I don't understand your point.
Stfu lol
Just fucking google 5 yen and you will see that it IS 5 yen...how hard can it be...
*tries for 5 minutes...* "Honey get the hammer"
Lolll 😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Who else clicked on here without even know what this a lotus puzzle was
i did :)
jaquavious johnson yeah
jaquavious johnson Me
me also
really stoned
Jigsaw: I WANT TO PLAY A GAME.
Chris: HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jigsaw:SOLVE THE EXCALIBUR PUZZLE
Chris:FUCK
Jigsaw:IN TEN MINUTES
Chris:I'M OUT
I don't believe that's why its called the Lotus puzzle.
They could have put any coin picture in there.
I believe that its called the Lotus puzzle because lotus's represent devotion. You unlocked the poor ugly coin. But YOU put in more devotion into this puzzle and unlocked the true beauty that is the lotus coin
I farted. You're welcome.
Instructions too deep, dick caught in toaster
Actually it’s called the lotus puzzle because in the Odyssey, Odysseus and his men were given lotus flowers that distracted them from going home and they wanted to stay there eating lotus. The entire thing is a distraction. He took an L when he got the thing
Animetions the first coin is the distraction not the while thing
The Lotus 'flower' regarding chakras is about opening.
"Why it’s called the lotus puzzle?” Because it says lotus on the bottom of the puzzle 😂
*puzzle solved no effort needed*
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Facts
@@adanreyes1304 among us
@@mallusaih sus
@@lawsonspencer sausey baka
when you find this video randomly and never look up this stuff but now you watch the whole video.
HoodMemes me asf
sammmeeeee
HoodMemes that’s how I got here
haha! Welcome in the club! :D
same here :D
My teacher had one and I thought it was a stapler
OwenBLOXs haha lol lol 😂🤣
I thought it looked like a tape dispenser at first glance
WOW!, that's funny, haha
*oof* haaha
😂😂😂😂
Have you ever thought about collaborating with another youtuber (someone into metal work) to make your own puzzle box. I feel by now you could come up with something fiendish.
Little Bacchus Yeah like Alec Steele!! Great idea
yeeeeeeesssssssss!!!! with alec steele!!!!!!
How about Lexington Steele?!
OML that would be so cool if he decides to make his own puzzle.
I'd be curious what the 'treasure' when solved would be. A tiny gold 1st card replica, traditional coin or something we'd never think to find.
"Dry, bland, no seasoning, absolutely dreadful".
Ohh sorry, wrong Ramsay.
Hahaha this is literally underrated 😂
Too underrated
And most importantly...
No lamb sauce
This joke gets older and older... all the meanwhile never getting better ...
And, “WHERE IS THE WELLINGTON!”
The lotus of konoha blooms twice, definitely the reason why there is two coins and two different slots to move on each side
Shinikaru Yamayashi the lotus of the hidden leaf
Hidden no jutsu
The Village Hidden leaves
Nigga clone jutsu 69 th gate open
Shinikaru Yamayashi exactly what I was thinking the whole time.
*unlocks a piece*
"Oh hello!"
*finds someone in his house*
"Oh hello!"
*turns into obi wan*
"hello there!"
@@toasty4000000 I was thinking the same thing
Use the force
@@toasty4000000 GENERAL KENOBI!!!
Oh hello!
Puzzle:*click!*
Chris: oh hello...
LIGMA BALLS
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i came to the comment section to find this comment😂😂😂😂
@@lunaaxlee ligma balls
For the 2% who sees this, I hope you have a amazing future!!
*I'm subbing to who likes my video and subs to me!* 😎😎😎
THANKS😘😎😅☺️😅☺️😅
Next challenge: Level 1000 tangled Christmas lights.
First coin Japanese, not Chinese. The coin is a 5 yen piece - and great solve!
Thanks!
Lee Reeve 
One Channel Gaming :)
I was just about to comment that😂man dad was stationed in Japan.
A Japanese viewer like me should be really surprised lol
#12:17 That is a ¥5(YEN) coin in Japan.
On front surface,it has been writed "Japan SHOWA(period of time:kind of GENGO) 58th(1983 AD)" with KANJI. It means the coin is a property of Japan,and a product made in 1983.
Also back surface,rice seedlings drawn and ¥5 written.
すしのちゃんねる and the second coin is Chinese as it's has zhonguo on the back face of the coin and lotus on the front.
Thanks for the extra info. 👌🏿
"I can't read chinese".....oh man. And it's coin infamous for being useless.
Why is you name Shushi chan sleeps
5 yen coins are supposed to be a good luck charm.
"The lotus of Konoha blooms twice"
Ah I am also an intelectual
Ahhh so that’s why it’s called the lotus puzzle
I get it now
Rock lee?
I don't get it
I keep coming back to this video, and it never loses its tranquility and finesse. The music and light clinking of the puzzle is just an amazing combination
I was watching beauty tutorials, then I was looking at fire ants farming and escaping fire ants , and now I am here.. Not sure how I got here, but this was super interesting!
Cheryl De-Zilva same haha
ants canada and then breaking an ancient puzzle
Cheryl De-Zilva ye that ant guy is hella interesting, even tho I didn’t know anyone actually had ant farms
How did u know xd
I was looking at keyboard switches reviews, then 2 guys unboxing a sealed 90s laptop then this
I don’t see how people have the patience to do these things
If I was doing this 5 mins in I would’ve yeeted it at a wall or something
Edit: thank you for the likes 😄
not being rude ,but that is pretty crappy. great construction but there should be alot more of a puzzle then that . it was a stupid piece of junk if i was asked . sorry 6 pieces to come out . i would not take it if it was given to me .not sure how much it is but I don't think I would purchase it. not enough to make a great deal, junk
Ikr
yeeted it hahaha
All metal puzzles can be opened easily, a hacksaw is an amazing puzzle solver.
It's not about being patient, it's about seeing the fun in solving it. You'd probably be thinking you have other things to do that you'd consider more fun or fulfilling than solving this puzzle, although subconsciously.
Impossible you say?
Hold my beer
................
*Give back my beer!*
ChilloutDeer
no
ChilloutDeer why
I get it
Love your channel 👌
Zach ary ok
oh i get it a lotus blooms twice so the first coin is like “ugly” then when you get the second coin its more shiny “beautiful” nice job solving it
Realising that the coin is blocking the other side was actually really smart ! Getting that second coin must be the best feeling
That moment when the music stops and you start the timer again, telling us "nope, we ain't done with this thing"
It had a sort of, cinematic quality to it lol
@@Jermwormyt the song is called shinigami by siny
It did, you're right.
The lotus always blooms twice there's always a hidden lotus in the lotus
So a dead flower?
What?
Seption
lee san is that you?
Ok a natuto fan boy commented.
Can’t stop binge watching these
there, i clicked it, ya happy now youtube?
no shit
DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU STARTED
Truest shit
Been on my recommended for MONTHS lmao. Now I can't even do the puzzle because I watched the video.
Well more of this got recommended
Have you ever thought to yourself while watching his videos "Come on Chris it's obvious that you have to do this or you have to do that" and then he tries it and it doesn't work. Then you just sit there and think how bad you would be at solving puzzles. Because I do that a lot
hishis123456 read my mind
Me too Creed
I lived in China for 2 years, so i could read it.
The first coin is a japanese 5 Yen from the 58th Showa year(1983 AD). The second coin is a chinese 50cent of Yuan, probably manufactered on the last decade(he covered the actual year).
Thank you for providing this, I was almost going to say until I came across your comment :)
Wait the lotus coin is 50 cents despite having a big 5?
you are correct!
This is the first video I ever watched from you. I still come back to it every once in a while. Love your work, Chris. 😁
This video is good but don't let it distract you from the fact that gru is the most powerful person in the world First according to the height of a Minion (which is 3.5 feet on average) Gru is 4 minions tall, which means he is a godly size of 14 feet tall. Second if any of you remember the original Despicable Me, you Know there is a scene when Vector kidnaps the three girls and shoots a series of heat-seeking misses at Gru, he then dodge them all. According to the speed of an average ballistic missile (1900 mph) and the size of the missile according to his ankle size, Gru can perceive and move at such a speed that the missiles only move 9.5 miles per hour, 0.5% of their original speed. Plus after this Gru punches a shark and it is paralyzed meaning its spine is probably shattered, to remind you it would require a force greater than 3,000 newtons to fracture the spine. That’s equal to the impact created by a 500-pound car crashing into a wall at 30 miles per hour. I rest my case.
yes please do.
but how did you know that the minions are 3.5 feet tall?
This right here. This is the best comment.
umop apisdn I want to copy this but idk how
You da new mat pat
I have no idea how I ended up here but I really liked this! I find even the simplest of these puzzles impossible to it was very intresting to see your approach to it! You have a very nice informative layout
of your videos
Jacob Rosén you mu
Gabriel Cordero u wut m8?
Jacob Rosén same here😂😂😂
Loved that smooth glossy color of the puzzle!
that was a japaneese coin lol its 5 yen
"I hear some clicking sound here"
*my dumb brain* "uhm are you sure that's not broken
Every time something clicks
“Oh hello”
Oh hello
Why hello there
I went from watching a guy do a make up tutorial, to ellen, to a dog eating a raw turkey, to here lol. Past 2a.m. and I am still up
Me too 😂
I cane from a few wolf videos, then a lesbian Gacha life vid, to this
Hey I know you!! Lol!!
same hahahah
Lol
I kept waiting for you to spin it the other way, not flat on the table, but holding the screw-in post and dangling it to spin; this would give the illusion of a lotus flower viewed from above. Then even if the coins are discovered and removed, the box is still "hiding" a lotus flower. I feel like after the second coin is out the weight would be balanced on both sides of the pin to help the box spin evenly... But there's no way I would have gotten that far to try it myself. Lol
New level infinite: Turning on a friends shower at their house
Wow Chris, your way of analizing life blows me away. I'm really happy that I came across this channel an year ago. Your way of understanding the world has given me the tools to overcom many adversities. Thank you! By the way, you were one of the people who inspired me to study philosophy as a career!
By the way, this was meant to go to the contest video; ''Prove you exist'' triggered me to post it
I watched just one puzzle some time in history but I think now I'll be thrown into the vortex of puzzles forever. Thanks UA-cam
12:10 This is 5yen. It is one of Japanese coins! Thank you!
So I started on this one a few days ago. I got the first parts out and knew the next step had to be using the rods as a tool. I also felt the spin move was somehow part of it, but nothing worked! I fought with it for the longest time, then decided to watch this video. The first thing I noticed was the long thin pin that you were using was not part of my collection of pieces. Since I moved from the couch to the table so I could spin it better, I went back to see if i had dropped a piece! Voila! There it was between the cushions in plain view! I was able to solve it after that! So glad I watched the video or I’d still be struggling! Lol
like the lotus flower, there are layers to the solution. glad you didn't stop at the first layer! says a lot about your mental discipline.
Second Nature Or how many puzzles he solved
Pshaw. It was trial and error, no thought at all.
Lol mental discipline, he said 30 minutes was alot of time to focus on one thing xD that's like no time
#iamverysmart
He never found the lotus coin in the other side of the bottom slide
You just saved me $138.
As if it costs that much. I can think of a million things I'd rather spend my money on lol
Well it's got a 5 yen and .5 Yuan inside, so that is obviously the pressing factor here
Took him long enough
Wellllll he does have 10 million views on this so I'm guessing he made his money back. Easily
sjrobertson1984 www.mrpuzzle.com.au/lotus-sequential-discovery-puzzle.html it is that expensive.
That was a Japanese Five Yen (basically 5 cents) not Chinese
The first one is Japanese 5 yen, the second is Chinese 0.5 yuan.
Hahah
I speak Chinese so I would know, similar as it says 日本 which means Japan in Chinese
Cool
It means Japan in Japanese too. They both use kanji.
Music:*stops*
Everyone: 😶👂
Lotus flowers always bloom twice. I assume that has something to do with this before watching.
I just researched them and didn't even figure that out. I just heard about how they come from often ugly ponds and they go under water and reemerge but that is not a great metaphor for the puzzle really. Yours makes perfect sense if that is common knowledge about lotus flowers.
2 coins
The whole time he solved the puzzle all I heard was Rock Lee saying the lotus flower always blooms twice.
wolfieismydog lmfao me too holy shit
I think this pulls more from the Buddhist symbol of the Lotus flower, which is that it symbolizes purity and detachment. If you fell for the first coin, you wouldn’t understand why it’s called the lotus, but you also would have fallen to a worldly attachment, the five yen, symbolic of industry and agriculture.
It might look like Chinese because it's only Kanji, but it is in fact Japanese writing on the coin.
The front of the coin: 五円 means "five yen" in Japanese. The back says: 日本国 which means "Japan", and beneath: 昭和五十八年 meaning "Shōwa 58 years". So it's a Japanese 5 yen coin from the Shōwa period. If you google "5 yen" you will find an image of the same kind of coin almost immediately. I don't actually know what the 58 years are referring to, as the Shōwa period lasted from 1926 to 1989.
Maybe you translated it wrong? I'm not doubting your skill it's just that 58 years is 1984 and unless it came from the future it cant be from 58 years after it ended
And since it didn't end that year it couldn't be celebrating its end and how long it lasted
But 58 seems like an odd number to celebrate(why not 50 or 60?) It might be some Japanese cultural lucky number(like 3 or 7 here) but I'm ignorant to their culture so I don't know
"The 58th year of the Showa-period" or just Showa 58 I think. The Romans did their calendar like that too in the Republic Age.
Adding up to this, the second coin is the 50 cents coin from China RenMinBi (aka RMB). The lotus 50 cents is actually the new version in China starting from 2000. Just a FYI
we still use those coins in japan lol, i recognised it immediately, its just a regular 5yen coin
Saturn666 wow bro your really smart
You're doing this stuff while I can't even solve a rubix cube
YA same
I solved mine with a screwdriver.
U stupid af, rubix cube are way harder than these.
You also don’t seem to be able to spell Rubik’s Cube
stelle, actually before cubing was a big thing people did solved them without pre-made algorithms (figuring it out themselves).
Chris: reads 5 pages of complex instructions,
Also Chris: "sounds simple enough."
God I'm such a nerd. If you have ever seen or heard of Naruto: "the lotus of the leaf blooms twice!".
(leaf refers to the village they reside in)
Whenever you hear these words, get ready for a hype train. (The Lotus is a set of typically illegal moves as they are very powerful, but also damage the user. The "bloom twice" refers to a second state, or "final state" *spoiler* that unleashes unimaginable destruction/damage.)
What I mean to say is, most would stop at the first coin. Most would see it and be satisfied, but the lotus blooms twice, and takes it a step further. For those who stopped at the first coin, they were rewarded, but those who took it further were greatly rewarded, not just in the lotus coin, but in the knowledge that they did.
Daring Darius damn, mind blown
I love Naruto i just started Naruto shipunden
🤯 OMG sooooooo true I didn’t think about it like that
You know ....
(Kushina)
If you didn’t know
You know
Just use google
Wow
I would've never gotten past the spinning part... never would've tried that in a million years.
well it said no banging, tapping, or force, so im going to assume the spinning isnt relevant.
This reminds me of working on my mitsubishi eclipse.
😂😂😂😂
Relatable
james joseph my 3000gt was worse :(
Ancient Japanese Secret
So you see this piece is supposed to come out, but theres no way it comes out like this. How did the engineers get it in there? Fml.
*Him* : Solves very hard puzzles.
*Me* : Can’t solve a 5 piece jigsaw puzzle.
It's 5 pieces, you need to be even
Poets use lotus flowers to inspire people to continue striving through difficulties and to show their best part to the outside world, no matter how bad the circumstances may be.
So, while the flower blooms it's special qualities cause us to bloom (poetic - it blooms twice). This is a revered flower with much symbolism attached in many cultures - out of the mud, stem through the water, flower opening at day break, showing both the petals and fruit at once. (I had similar thoughts but this is from yahoo answers and they put it better than I ever could)
Not sure why this turned up in my recommendations but im glad it did! Awesome vid bro!
Twenny Bux ik never Herd of this dude but I watched it anyways
I only clicked on this because this video was haunting me every video I watched
same !
SAME!!!
Right!?
Same
I dont even know why youtube is showing me this.
I love rewatching this episode! I always like watching that moment when you press start again knowing that there HAD to be more. Like, the definition of a puzzle solver. You’re the best man ⭐️👍🏿
Same tho, I love rewatching this video for its wholesomeness and just pure enjoyment!
I could never solve this, wow.
Same here I would of thrown it away after a while
Smash it open wit a hanner my g
All happ doggos should be able to
All puzzles require finesse and subtlety. If you're reduced to brute force or a hammer, you're best just sticking with WWE viewing and backyard wrestling.
happ doggo I licked it a few times and it finally gave up 😋
I noticed that there seems to be a lot of no.1 hardest lock in the world
Gotta milk the cow! lol
And apparently they're all impossible.
And take exactly ten minutes to solve.
Brainwave 101 even though this man always solves them
The Lotus flower appears in Greek (?) mythology in the Oddesy or the Illiad (excuse typos...been awhile) when Odysseus lands on the island with the Lotus Eaters.. The flower makes one feel good when eating it and he doesn't want to leave... He gets STUCK there and his crew has to force him back onto the boat bc all he wants to do is sit around and eat Lotus all day.. ;-)....thus, the puzzle makes one stuck and sitting around all day trying to figure it out.
Reminds me of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief when they got stuck in the Lotus Casino because of eating Lotus sweets.
omg yes
Sherane,
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Sherane that’s the first thing I thought of
NERD
In case anyone don't know, first coin is Japanese 5 yen, second coin is Chinese 5 jiao (0.5 RMB)