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Spanishlovemachine wrote:@prodigy

Follow the link --> http://puzzles.schwandtner.info/puzzle_2192.html

You can tell it is the Brass Pin Bolt if the bolt has two colors on either end (silver and brass which is not really that recognizable on the photo following the link)

Thanks!

That's the puzzle (via the link).

I have about ten of Wil's puzzles and love them all. He is probably my favorite puzzle designer. I still like the brass pin bolt, but was disappointed by the solution largely because ... well, you know why (don't want to give a spoiler). It is still a fine puzzle overall.

At Eureka Puzzles, is the Revenge Lock the same as the Wanderer? The site says it's an updated version, and it does look a little diffrerent...

Wrong topic isn't it?

As for Eureka's puzzle, I think it is because indeed the Wanderer is an update of the Revenge Lock here is a little abstract of the email of Wil Strijbos when he announced this new puzzle:

"Around that time, at my annual King's
Day Meeting, the Wanderer tested my Lock. The Anonymous Wanderer (A.W.)
solved the Revenge Lock in an impossible way. Luckily Sherlock Holmes (S.H.)
was standing close to the Wanderer at the time and reported to me how A.W.
had solved the Revenge Lock. Following S.H.'s explanation of this illegal
solving approach I immediately decided to redesign the mechanism. After
consulting with my Approbation Manager Louis, I found a design that would
force the solver to start from (only) the correct start position - with no
chance of starting halfway through! [When the Lock is in the frame, it is at
the starting position.] To add even more control to the available positions
along the way, I have put a Wanderer inside, which is why the name of the
lock has now changed:

"Revenge Lock"
re-named "The Wanderer""

Yes, wrong topic. I had two windows open and posted in the wrong thread. Sorry.

Posts moved to correct topic.

ahhh... Chris Ramsay is spoiling the beloved Lotus Puzzle now!
It's cool hearing him so excited about it though.
I get a bit of a panic attack every time I see a familiar puzzle uploaded by him. Worried things will get more scarce, even though I generally already have it.

Yes but "Fleb" has already done it before...
I discovered mechanical puzzle, and get interested in buying some because of his videos about the Lotus, the one about Mr Puzzle's Gold Coast Parking Meter and Stickman's Pirate's Chest, but I am less sad having seen the last two as they are both out of stock for some time and quite hard to find on the market. But I will never have the pleasure to discover those puzzles by myself.
With "Mr Puzzle" and "Puzzle guy" and also a French mentalist "Fabien Olicard" it seems there is a real fashion on YouTube about puzzle solving videos, but I am not sure they ask before to the designers...

Yeah I have noticed the rise of puzzle solving on youtube. I don't necessarily begrudge them, they're making content and it is, for some of them, how they make their living. They get views though, it's entertaining, and the majority of people out there aren't going after puzzles above the cost of Hanayama.

I'd of course prefer it if they didn't put the answer out there for everything, but knowing how many people who actually buy these items, and seeing the 'likes' on the videos. Obviously I'm a part of the minority.

I want that Angel Box puzzle. Seriously, that looks hella fun