The designer is Rick Eason of USA. Designed in 1999. He wanted a puzzle that would appears simple to solve at first, but will actually prove very difficult, very deceiving. Rick definitely named it after US President Nixon. The puzzle has been in production here at Mr Puzzle Australia since 2000.
The riddle is called "The Tricky Dick" in reference to a nickname used to refer to former US President Nixon - he gained the nickname because of the dirty tricks he liked to use to gain an advantage. Since the riddle keeps putting us in situations that seem like we're not doing the right thing, over and over again, I find that it's actually a very fitting name. :)
"I see why they call it tricky but i dont understand why its called dick." "This is realy hard" "Look at this wood" "I let some guys play with it" "It feels so wrong but its right" "I have to pull it out" Still dont get it 😏😏😏
After having some unexpected difficulty that eventually led to frustration, I was ready to give up and found this video. However I appreciate your honesty when saying that you found this to be quite challenging. Knowing that even you had some trouble solving this has given me the inspiration to keep trying and have stopped the video at the spoiler break. Thanks again
@@fsq2185 I don’t think it was missing a piece. His expert solved it with only the two present. Maybe there’s an alternate easier version they sell with a varied piece, but that version was definitely the more difficult two-piece variant. I have the 4-piece variant in my collection, I’d rate it a 1 out of 5. But even after seeing his expert’s solution, I think the moves are too complex for me to understand the state it must be in to begin solving it.
I bought one and avoided watching the solution for 3 weeks until it arrived. I managed to slip it through the loop but thought it was a glitch or I was breaking it. I succumbed to seeing the solution and now I wish they would've put in a disclaimer about the tight tolerances. thank you.
OH NOOOOO. MY FAVORIT UA-camR STARTS WITH CLICKBAITING !!! ....... ..... .... .. wait what? Oh its not Clickbait at all ^^ Great Job and a great Video. Keep going !! Have a nice Day Best Regrads Marvin
wow! a 5/5 puzzle that you said actually stumped you for a little bit. Lol I don't know wether or not I'm impressed or intimidated, but definitely liked the video 😃.
Richard Eason has another starting position for that puzzle. I would love to see you revisit this puzzle to show the solution to the alternative starting position as well as show common tangles of the puzzle and how to get back to the solved state after getting hopelessly lost. I have two of these puzzles and I have one in a totally hopeless state.
I purchased a Belgian copy of this puzzle whose tolerances were beyond tight. You would never imagine these moves to be possible due to the metal ring being *almost* too large
Oh man, I really like this solution, seeing this, I now found the means to solve a different wood/rope and ring puzzle that is a little different but in some ways the same. I was bumping into the same issues and now I see the solution! Thanks a lot :D I've been struggling with that one for years and none of my friends could solve it either.
You can't move the cord through both sticks? It looks like you should be able to pull the loop out and all the way around the ball, and thereby releasing the sticks from each other making room for the ring to slide off.
I am commenting before I watch the video, after years of experience as a fisherman I have become an expert at knots what u do is expand the loop by pushing the stick and rope through then pulling the rest of the rope through, I’m probably wrong but hey it’s my guess!!!
Hallo Christian, ich weiß, es sind schon mehr als sieben Jahre vergangen, seit Du das Video hochgeladen hast. Ich interessiere mich erst seit ein paar Wochen für derartige Puzzles, daher bin ich erst jetzt auf Deine Seite gestoßen. Ich muss zugeben, dass dieses Puzzle meine Fähigkeiten übersteigt. Ehrlich gesagt, habe ich nach einer Stunde aufgegeben, bin dann auf UA-cam gegangen und habe so Deine Seite gefunden. Nach einer Stunde herumprobieren sah das Puzzle sehr chaotisch aus - es wirkte so, als sei der Ring völlig in der Kordel verknotet. Daher dauerte es erst eine Weile, bis ich das Puzzle wieder auf die anfängliche "Ausgangsposition" zurückgebracht habe. Alleine das war für mich schon eine Herausforderung. Und selbst Dein Lösungsvideo musste ich mehrmals anschauen, bis ich letztlich den Ring entfernen konnte. Daher vielen Dank, für Dein Lösungsvideo, Du hast mir damit wirklich sehr geholfen! Ich habe gleich ein Abo dagelassen, da mich Dein Kanal sehr interessiert. Alles Gute für Dich! Mit lieben Grüßen aus Franken nach Darmstadt Matthias
@@Mr.Puzzle simple, take the puzzle, pull the long rod through the hoop of rope so that the hoop of rope and the long rope are together,, and line up the long rod behind the short rod, the ring should just slide right off now
Question does that loop pull out & if so, can you feed back along the string through the ring over the the half sphere back down the string to release the ring or is the loop stocked or glued in the wood dowel ? thank you
I want to know what happens if you try to give more slack to the looped part of the string, it *seems* like you could get the loop over the cup at the end and then see the puzzle from another perspective. It might not give a solution, but I would have still liked to see what happens.
I subscribe your channel now and like your videos because I find it so nice and challenging. I want to try all those but don't know how to get those puzzles. 😔😔
Tricky Dick is what they used to call President Nixon. I don't know if it relates to the puzzle, but that's what immediately comes to mind when I hear it. Probably because I'm old. ;-D
I somehow found this easier as a kid than I did the Knot to be Knotted disentanglement puzzle on the Mr Puzzle Australia site :-\ I think it was because I got the Knot to be Knotted first and after that I knew not to approach these in any obvious way.
"Tricky Dick" did not originate as a nickname for Richard Nixon, although it was applied to him of course. It's a very old-timey expression in English from a time where "Dick" was used as a generic man's name (i.e. "every Tom, Dick and Harry"), and "tricky Dick" was used to refer generally to sly tricksters or untrustworthy individuals who could get themselves out of any crime or punishment. A similar expression is "clever Dick". I was born in 1985 in Ireland; both these expressions survived in general use in Ireland and the UK until well into my childhood, being used without irony quite broadly. I remember various children's books I had which used characters named Dick or Tricky Dick quite normally. Another notable use was in an episode of "The Animals of Farthing Wood" animated TV series, where a farm dog gets outwitted by the fox and exclaims in confusion, "You've got me tied up in knots, you clever Dick." That show ran from 1992-95. So it really is very recently that that word became primarily associated with....you know. Until not so long ago, it really was primarily a name and the nickname for the body part was in secondary use.
mr puzzle, thank you for your vid. it was great i have a question are the wooden sticks hollow ? or are they permanently in that position ..do they slide for slack?
This puzzle is very difficult. What detracts from the enjoyment is how tight the tolerances are. It should NOT hurt your fingers to work the puzzle. One would think that the tight tolerances would prevent the puzzle from becoming a complete tangle but that is NOT the case. The version that is available in the US via Amazon has a green wooden ring on the end of the long cord. But the cord is not tied to it. It's glued into a small hole that's for in it. I'd recommend cutting the cord and screwing in a small eyelet. That way, you can reset it WHEN you get it tangled beyond ALL hope. You may want to get two as there is another starting state that you may want to try out. It's shown here - www.mechanicalpuzzles.org/puzzles/tricky.html
You said at 3:10 that you struggle pushing the ring over the top of the wood. Well you apparently you CAN push the ring over at 5:25 and it even has a tad bit less space because of the cord that was through it. Um..? ._.
It's so hard to find these in Canada! And shipping is so expensive!! I wish I could just make them but I dont know all the dimensions and measurements:(
The designer is Rick Eason of USA. Designed in 1999. He wanted a puzzle that would appears simple to solve at first, but will actually prove very difficult, very deceiving. Rick definitely named it after US President Nixon. The puzzle has been in production here at Mr Puzzle Australia since 2000.
Puzzle solved! I think this puzzle is exactly what Rick intended it to be.
Thank you for the explanation!
Is that why it is called, dick?
I solved it while you were explaining the puzzle.
I stand corrected.
Awesome!
The riddle is called "The Tricky Dick" in reference to a nickname used to refer to former US President Nixon - he gained the nickname because of the dirty tricks he liked to use to gain an advantage. Since the riddle keeps putting us in situations that seem like we're not doing the right thing, over and over again, I find that it's actually a very fitting name. :)
That's a very interesting explanation that makes sense!
Mr.Puzzle and cause its a jolt reskin
K
Garret Phegley , no it really doesn't look like a dick at all.
yes, very true!
"I see why they call it tricky but i dont understand why its called dick."
"This is realy hard"
"Look at this wood"
"I let some guys play with it"
"It feels so wrong but its right"
"I have to pull it out"
Still dont get it 😏😏😏
Haha,
I delivered the answer without noticing it!
I tricked myself I guess.
Nice comment! :D
Lia Guzman lol best comment
Lia Guzman loool geil
+Mr.Puzzle 😏😉😘
3:44 "We need to go from the rear side through here"
No matter how many disentanglement puzzles I see, it never ceases to amaze me that what appears absolutely impossible can, in fact, be done.
I completely agree!
I'm a simple man, I see a video titled "The Tricky Dick" and I click it.
I t's just natural , I guess...
Mr.Puzzle 😂
After having some unexpected difficulty that eventually led to frustration, I was ready to give up and found this video. However I appreciate your honesty when saying that you found this to be quite challenging. Knowing that even you had some trouble solving this has given me the inspiration to keep trying and have stopped the video at the spoiler break. Thanks again
Woah! I didn't think I'd ever hear you giving a puzzle a 5 out of 5.. well, besides the giraffe puzzle anyways
This one deserves it.
I think the Equa got also 5 of 5.
Giraffe one was straight impossible! But after 3 years, I think I found the solution... It's missing a piece!
Kali I solved giraffe puzzle in one try
@@arovels_ LIES!! That’s impossible
@@fsq2185 I don’t think it was missing a piece. His expert solved it with only the two present. Maybe there’s an alternate easier version they sell with a varied piece, but that version was definitely the more difficult two-piece variant. I have the 4-piece variant in my collection, I’d rate it a 1 out of 5. But even after seeing his expert’s solution, I think the moves are too complex for me to understand the state it must be in to begin solving it.
What unhinged mind thinks up these insidious things
I ask the same...
A very tangled mind indeed.
I bought one and avoided watching the solution for 3 weeks until it arrived. I managed to slip it through the loop but thought it was a glitch or I was breaking it. I succumbed to seeing the solution and now I wish they would've put in a disclaimer about the tight tolerances. thank you.
I like watching these because they open my mind to new possibilities! Even if i dont buy the puzzle the videos will help me to solve other puzzles 👍🏼
OMG, that looked like a magic trick when the ring finally was free.
Dick was also used as a nickname for detectives back in the early 1900s here in the US. Dick Tracy etc...
Any one that would say "that was easy., I could have done that." Are full of them self. I enjoy all of your vids. Good job.
👍🏼😁
OH NOOOOO. MY FAVORIT UA-camR STARTS WITH CLICKBAITING !!!
.......
.....
....
.. wait what?
Oh its not Clickbait at all ^^
Great Job and a great Video. Keep going !!
Have a nice Day
Best Regrads
Marvin
Ich dachte schon!
I just got clickbaitet to read the whole comment, damn! :)
Mr.Puzzle Oh, ... ist mir gar nicht aufgefallen, dass ich selbst Clickbait betrieben habe ^^
Entschuldigung dafür :)
Marvin S fuck yourself
wow! a 5/5 puzzle that you said actually stumped you for a little bit. Lol I don't know wether or not I'm impressed or intimidated, but definitely liked the video 😃.
It was a real fight! 😁
I would of thrown it over three fields by now ........its very good you did well to solve it 👍
Thank you Mr. Puzzle.
I really had to think HARD on this one
Oh my goodness, this is why I just sit back and watch you solve it!
Awesome puzzle.
I like it 🤗👍
Nice video! Keep it up!
That puzzle is a "hard" son-of-a-bitch!
That describes it very well
it's a very "long" endeavor to solve, too
Richard Eason has another starting position for that puzzle. I would love to see you revisit this puzzle to show the solution to the alternative starting position as well as show common tangles of the puzzle and how to get back to the solved state after getting hopelessly lost. I have two of these puzzles and I have one in a totally hopeless state.
I purchased a Belgian copy of this puzzle whose tolerances were beyond tight. You would never imagine these moves to be possible due to the metal ring being *almost* too large
best episode of mr puzzle to date
Yay! 😊
I'm fond of such easy looking though very hard puzzles.
Amazing. Really enjoy your videos
Oh man, I really like this solution, seeing this, I now found the means to solve a different wood/rope and ring puzzle that is a little different but in some ways the same. I was bumping into the same issues and now I see the solution!
Thanks a lot :D
I've been struggling with that one for years and none of my friends could solve it either.
Every time he said "tricky dick" i died😂😂
I understood nothing, that's just me not knowing how to puzzle, but I have a lot of fun just watching how you solve it!
mr.puzzle is a savage
You can't move the cord through both sticks? It looks like you should be able to pull the loop out and all the way around the ball, and thereby releasing the sticks from each other making room for the ring to slide off.
You ever try taking the little noose loop and passing it through the ring and around the ball first? Seems a much easier solution.
Is it just me or are the names of a few of these puzzles with ropes a tidy bit "special" or "strange"?
I was watching videos about Xbox e3 and now I'm here. UA-cam is like magic
It works super good! !
That is brilliant!
"Very difficult to push it in the rear because it's a very unusual move" Hahaha!
Pushing a dick into the rear end
I am commenting before I watch the video, after years of experience as a fisherman I have become an expert at knots what u do is expand the loop by pushing the stick and rope through then pulling the rest of the rope through, I’m probably wrong but hey it’s my guess!!!
It is a bit more complicated.
I would never be able to solve this on my own, I got adhd so I’d probably start chasing a butterfly or start picking at my nails
Wow! Never would have figured that out.
that's the most insane puzzle I have ever seen! I would have been working at that for months...and never figured it out lol
Can't you push the longer wood part through the loop and straighten it out to pull out the ring?
Awesome. Puzzle mastery.
I don't think I could ever solve this on my own. Nice work!
Hallo Christian,
ich weiß, es sind schon mehr als sieben Jahre vergangen, seit Du das Video hochgeladen hast. Ich interessiere mich erst seit ein paar Wochen für derartige Puzzles, daher bin ich erst jetzt auf Deine Seite gestoßen.
Ich muss zugeben, dass dieses Puzzle meine Fähigkeiten übersteigt. Ehrlich gesagt, habe ich nach einer Stunde aufgegeben, bin dann auf UA-cam gegangen und habe so Deine Seite gefunden. Nach einer Stunde herumprobieren sah das Puzzle sehr chaotisch aus - es wirkte so, als sei der Ring völlig in der Kordel verknotet. Daher dauerte es erst eine Weile, bis ich das Puzzle wieder auf die anfängliche "Ausgangsposition" zurückgebracht habe. Alleine das war für mich schon eine Herausforderung. Und selbst Dein Lösungsvideo musste ich mehrmals anschauen, bis ich letztlich den Ring entfernen konnte.
Daher vielen Dank, für Dein Lösungsvideo, Du hast mir damit wirklich sehr geholfen!
Ich habe gleich ein Abo dagelassen, da mich Dein Kanal sehr interessiert.
Alles Gute für Dich!
Mit lieben Grüßen aus Franken nach Darmstadt
Matthias
i love dis puzzle already😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It'd be really interesting to here this explained by a topologist.
dude ii bought it and for some reason i cant seem to be able to fit the ring in the rope
Will the cord slide through the wooden tubes? If so, it is a much simpler solution.
It's so easy you can see it before doing anything.
Could u move the big wooden tube or whatever it is along the rope towards the the wooden spere
No, it's glued to the rope.
The title caught me off guard
Wow that definitely looked very difficult. Good job
Please help I can t find where to buy this puzzle including in your links
This is a sick puzzle, I want puzzles like this ^^
I agree with you...this a 5er. I love puzzles too and this one is too complex to visualize the solution.
So is the long cylinder fixed to the rope?
The word 'Dick' is added to tricky, because its made out of hard wood... Giggidy
this puzzle has two solutions, the one i figured out is different than yours, i also saw my solution within two minutes, and its super simple
I want to see that solution! 😳
@@Mr.Puzzle simple, take the puzzle, pull the long rod through the hoop of rope so that the hoop of rope and the long rope are together,, and line up the long rod behind the short rod, the ring should just slide right off now
Why not move the small stick towards the ring, pass through the ring and then pass the secord stick through the ring?
Even watching the solution, I think I would still struggle with solving it.
Question does that loop pull out & if so, can you feed back along the string through the ring over the the half sphere back down the string to release the ring or is the loop stocked or glued in the wood dowel ? thank you
Man this shit is magic
I want to know what happens if you try to give more slack to the looped part of the string, it *seems* like you could get the loop over the cup at the end and then see the puzzle from another perspective. It might not give a solution, but I would have still liked to see what happens.
It's not possible to get it through.
I subscribe your channel now and like your videos because I find it so nice and challenging. I want to try all those but don't know how to get those puzzles. 😔😔
Couldn't you have pulled it the string? Or is it fixed in that position?
Tricky Dick is what they used to call President Nixon. I don't know if it relates to the puzzle, but that's what immediately comes to mind when I hear it. Probably because I'm old. ;-D
WTF! that's insane! So Cool!
Very Difficult puzzle and good one.
Absolutely!
0:05..... I DIED WHEN HE SAID THAT!!!
Unfortunately it didn't work. You were still alive enough to type your idiotic comment.
How did you even figure that out. What made you even think of that solution. I could of never guessed that!!! Nice job 👍🏽
easy cut the string
I have a feeling that knowlege about knot theory and Reidemeister moves can help solve these kind of puzzles. -and pen and paper.
I could definitely help I guess!
I thought of something else when I saw the title😂😂😂
mr puzzle is a god lol
I think your thumbnail explains the name.
why did he position the puzzle that way
I always enjoy your videos, and I love that reggae music lol its so chill
I mean, it kind of looks phallic
Can you please try the Woodworm entanglement puzzle similar to this? I have been trying for over a year on and off and still never figured it out..
10+ puzzle, very hard to do... 😮
Lets be honest we all laughed every time he said the name of it
Hell yeah, dude
I think is sort of needle/sewing logic, basically the ring carries the wire around.
my head hurts after watching this lol
How long did it take you to solve it?
I did it from time to time but if I sum it up it is for sure more than 10 hours.
I somehow found this easier as a kid than I did the Knot to be Knotted disentanglement puzzle on the Mr Puzzle Australia site :-\
I think it was because I got the Knot to be Knotted first and after that I knew not to approach these in any obvious way.
Looks insanely difficult
This is so easy first time I see it my mind already solved it but its different from your solution
good job gsp, now i know what u doin
I did a double take when I saw that title
I love puzles I am realy realy good at them and this one gave me a haedake I would have not solve it...
"Tricky Dick" did not originate as a nickname for Richard Nixon, although it was applied to him of course. It's a very old-timey expression in English from a time where "Dick" was used as a generic man's name (i.e. "every Tom, Dick and Harry"), and "tricky Dick" was used to refer generally to sly tricksters or untrustworthy individuals who could get themselves out of any crime or punishment. A similar expression is "clever Dick". I was born in 1985 in Ireland; both these expressions survived in general use in Ireland and the UK until well into my childhood, being used without irony quite broadly. I remember various children's books I had which used characters named Dick or Tricky Dick quite normally. Another notable use was in an episode of "The Animals of Farthing Wood" animated TV series, where a farm dog gets outwitted by the fox and exclaims in confusion, "You've got me tied up in knots, you clever Dick." That show ran from 1992-95. So it really is very recently that that word became primarily associated with....you know. Until not so long ago, it really was primarily a name and the nickname for the body part was in secondary use.
lol what a name
I’m going to use this
mr puzzle, thank you for your vid. it was great i have a question are the wooden sticks hollow ? or are they permanently in that position ..do they slide for slack?
This puzzle is very difficult. What detracts from the enjoyment is how tight the tolerances are. It should NOT hurt your fingers to work the puzzle. One would think that the tight tolerances would prevent the puzzle from becoming a complete tangle but that is NOT the case. The version that is available in the US via Amazon has a green wooden ring on the end of the long cord. But the cord is not tied to it. It's glued into a small hole that's for in it. I'd recommend cutting the cord and screwing in a small eyelet. That way, you can reset it WHEN you get it tangled beyond ALL hope. You may want to get two as there is another starting state that you may want to try out. It's shown here -
www.mechanicalpuzzles.org/puzzles/tricky.html
You said at 3:10 that you struggle pushing the ring over the top of the wood. Well you apparently you CAN push the ring over at 5:25 and it even has a tad bit less space because of the cord that was through it. Um..? ._.
I don't know why but even though you have a German accent I think you are part Asian. You have an amazing mind.
It's so hard to find these in Canada! And shipping is so expensive!! I wish I could just make them but I dont know all the dimensions and measurements:(
oh that thumbnail. epic
Well it's called tricky because it's a tricky puzzle, and Dick because it's a hard puzzle