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One unwritten rule with these things is that you can't "cheat". For example put an empty box of cards in the bottle and then fill it with sand. If it's a baseba
by noman-land 6y ago
One unwritten rule with these things is that you can't "cheat". For example put an empty box of cards in the bottle and then fill it with sand. If it's a baseball, it's a baseball, not a balloon wrapped in leather.
- 2bitencryption 6y agoI'm assuming another unwritten rule is that there must be no trickery with the bottle itself? I.e. no taking a "wide mouth" bottle, filling it with some stuff, then somehow heating/narrowing the bottle? (Perhaps that isn't physically possible anyway, without leaving visible evidence)
- noman-land 6y agoYes exactly. People's first guess is often (the very boring) "did you just glue the bottom of the bottle on? What?? No! Did you blow the glass around the baseball? Um, no. "Everything goes through the neck"
- aj7 6y agoOf course that’s what they do, in most cases. The real trick is to get your mind enrolled in the intricate fiction of how.
- ganafagol 6y agoThing is: it's not fiction.
- noman-land 6y agoI've personally made some of these and I can assure you the salsa jar came from a grocery store shelf. Everything goes through the neck. Gluing the glass back together would be so incredibly boring.
- sandworm101 6y agoThere is trickery. Note the imperfections in the glass. The distortions created by the glass mask imperfections in the contents. For instance, those rubrics cubes look well bent, like they have been stretch and partially disassembled.
- risos 6y agoI don't think those bottles have been altered in anyway, a lot of standard glass bottles will have imperfections in them that look like that, amplified by the thickness of the bottle itself. You don't see this with jars because they tend to be thinner than bottles. The rubik's cube inside a bottle is a fairly easy one, if you've ever seen a disassembled rubik's cube then you will clearly see that it's possible to just feed each piece in one at a time and put it back together with some tweezers and a lot of patience.
- rutthenut 6y agoThe distortion in that photo looks like it's just a wide-angle lens, see the cork at the top.
- joe_the_user 6y agoIs having an apparently solid pieces of wood that can be disassembled like puzzle pieces cheating?
- 6nf 6y agoBut it's fair game to 'skin' the baseball, insert the baseball core into the jar, and then sew back the leather around the core again?
- noman-land 6y agoI'll answer your question with another impossible object. https://puzzleworld.org/PuzzleWorld/puz/img/arrow_through_coin_1.jpg https://puzzleworld.org/PuzzleWorld/puz/img/arrow_through_co... "Some people say the coin was placed around a tree when it was very young, and then later carved into the arrow."
- 6nf 6y agoI love it
- benlivengood 6y agoWouldn't it be easier to carve the whole thing from a single piece of wood?
- noman-land 6y agoThe coin is metal!
- bb88 6y agoBack when I was a kid there was an episode of "The Woodwright's Shop", where he talked about creating a wood box with no seams containing a coin. The trick was to drill several holes in a tree that you'll eventually cut down, and fill them with coins. Wait five or ten years for the tree to grow wood around them, then cut the tree down and carve out the boxes from the outside, leaving a hole to view the coin.
- sandworm101 6y agoNote that this is wood. If you know how to compress wood you know how to get wooden things into bottles or through holes in coins. Steam is a wonderful thing.