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I'd recommend a diversity of puzzles, although sudoku has a rich ecosystem of its own ofc. Some of the problems are fiendishly difficult - how long are you planning to take between the videos?

I plan on getting into more puzzles and stuff. This is just me recutting my teeth. I take as long as it takes to finish or fail a puzzle. It's always up in the air!

Escape rooms are often great puzzles as well, did you ever try one?

Also: Today I found a keylock at the second hand store, and bought it just to try cracking the code of the lock for fun, as a real life puzzle, especially since I saw through the screwholes in de bottom that there was a funny keychain inside it.


Kind regards,

The Traveler

I have never tried a IRL escape room, though there were three installments of a mobile game called The Room that was pretty fun and engaging.

Let us know how it goes breaking it! Safe cracking and lockpicking have always been a weird hidden interest of mine.

Uhh, within 10 minutes my fingertips were hurting like crazy from the small pins, and the lock was open as well.

Inside was indeed a nice keychain.

This is the keylock type I have:


And I hope that one day you can try a real life escape room, I love doing those with my family.


Kind regards,

The Traveler

So, you cracked it?!

I hope so too. My little sister said she wanted to take me to one for my birthday

Awesome, hope your birthday comes soon!

And the lock was pretty easy to crack by pushing down the Open button with a bit of force, and then poking all the numbers one by one gently, to check if they would cause a change in the movement of the Open button.

I honestly expected the lock to hold on for longer. Watching the Lock Picking Lawyer vids did pay off in the end.


Kind regards,

The Traveler

I had a bit of fun (by my standards) recently by working out how to measure the potency of three separate plant specimens with only two extractions. Heard of that one before? I bet @The Traveler can think of an analogy, if you don't outright know this one already.

Also, it's great (or spooky…) that @Voidmatrix posted about this because I was planning to share this puzzle literally within the last 24 hours!

Sudoku is great! I could only solve medium difficulty puzzles when I started my last desk job, and within a couple years could get the toughest ones done in about 15 minutes (average). Nothing world beating--but it was a good time killer on the clock.

@The Traveler my birthday is actually in exactly 15 days. I will be 37.

One of many new puzzles to add to my now growing collection.

@Transform will you be creating a thread to share this?

@new_science I am enjoying it. It's been a long time so it's almost like it's new.

37 is a great number… e.g. 15×37=555

Yes, I was thinking of a thread, although it'd also make a good puzzle for the Nexian.

@Transform I do not know this one yet, though my gut feeling tells me to work with certain ratios that include all three specimens for the two extractions. Am I close?

I think my father once gave me a puzzle that kinda worked like this, where the statistics stated that for a certain country in all provinces the percentage of religious people had fallen, but that the absolute total number of religious people was higher than before.

My father told me that back then I instantly told him the solution, I must have been 16yo or something at that time. When he asked me this same questions again when I was much older, I had totally forgotten about this one and I really had to think how this ever could be.

@Voidmatrix Put the date in my calendar, hopefully I got the day right!

555 is also 22B

And 37 = 2^5 + 5

It's the 23rd
And the best part about 37 is it's prime! I love prime numbers!

Time for @Voidmatrix Prime Time!

Interestingly, 23×37=851, which in number symbolism reduces to 5 (8+5+1=14, 14 reduces to 5), which is interesting because of how it relates to the expansion of 15×37=555. Then 23 reduces to 5 and 37 reduces to 10, which can be left as is or be reduced to one.
5 symbolizes quintessence.