escape rooms are popping up everywhere
if you haven’t been to one yet I highly
recommend it I’ve been to four
personally and I absolutely love them if
you’ve got the kind of mechanical mind
the likes solving mechanisms solving
challenges and deciphering codes escape
room is probably for you which brings me
onto this project today which is
inspired by Lowe’s home improvement
Lowe’s sponsored this collaboration and
spent three months building an amazing
escape room that has an incredible twist
rather than just solving clues and
unlocking locks you actually have to put
your DIY skills to the test and build
your way out I’ve never seen anything
like it before and they turn it into a
video that you can go see right now by
clicking the link at the top of the
description and on the theme of mystery
DIY escape rooms and puzzle boxes we
have created this paint stick puzzle box
for about three dollars this is one that
I want you to try at home it’s so much
fun and even though this thing looks
really simple there’s much more to it
than meets the eye I’m going to give you
a couple seconds just to look at this
box you can see all the different
aspects of it and you get a feel for it
okay if you shake that you can hear
there’s something inside of it no
obvious way in you may have noticed
there is something here right if we try
moving latches everything seems pretty
solid for the most part there’s a screw
on the back there but no obvious way to
open it
okay so what do you guys want to try
first I’m gonna give you about five
seconds to decide what’s the first thing
you want to try leave your comments down
below and my guess is you’re gonna go
for this thing right here first because
it stands out there’s nothing else on
the box that looks like it so let’s give
that a little wiggle if you tug that
look at that we found a little makeshift
screwdriver there so have you seen
anything on the box that might need a
screwdriver okay you’re probably telling
me that the screw on the back is the
screw on the back something that can be
unscrewed well let’s see yeah looks like
it can I’m gonna start unscrewing that
at this point we can get into our
fingers and just give it a little
backwards motion look at that little
drawer popped out that drawer actually
comes out it’s got a key in it there now
that key is actually just for props we
don’t need it for this puzzle box but
just to demonstrate that there is
something you could put in there but
there’s a message at the bottom it says
to flip it over so let’s flip that over
what we find is a design and it looks
like a domino or a dice it’s got five
holes what could that mean is there
anything on the box anywhere oh if we
look inside there we can see almost a
little target sign a little circle and
there’s a hole there as well that’s
interesting so you can see that okay so
as that slides out that dowel goes into
that hole right very cool all right so
what is the five main let’s focus on
that oh did you notice this right here
all these look like they have finishing
nail holes this one has five so what
could that mean
we take that and give it a little wiggle
okay there’s a secret compartment there
with a dowel it’s also got a little
circle in the back here have you seen
that circle anywhere else we’ve seen
that on the inside all right
so what could that mean well if we touch
that circle and give it a little push we
get access to the large compartment what
you can see has some tools in it we have
a wrench we have an allen wrench again
those are just props showing that you
can put other tools in there you can put
candy but I have a couple of pictures
what are these
okay there you have the guys the first
revealed this is a selfie I took at the
loads DIY escape room remember there’s a
link at the top of the description you
can go watch the video we made going
through that and here’s a picture of the
team I went through with you see Bob
from the I like to make stuff YouTube
channel and this puzzle box wasn’t used
in the escape room but you could use it
in one of your own and of course to pack
this thing back up it’s as easy as just
pushing the pieces back together did you
notice that on the front there there’s
pieces of that panel that prevents that
from sliding too far back which is
really cool and we put in the second
mystery compartment the dowel locks that
one into place that it can’t slide
around this little piece down here acts
as a secondary lock to prevent you from
getting into that large compartment too
early
and once that’s in place it blends right
in then we can take our screwdriver and
screw the screw back into place the cool
thing about this is as it tightens down
it actually pulls the panel in so even
people who are trying to wiggle the
sides aren’t necessarily gonna find it
right away because it’s locked down
pretty tight and then the screwdriver
itself pops right into the side and your
box is now self-contained and ready for
your next victim now like I said guys
these boxes can be used just to hide
random stuff in your room or you could
actually use them as part of your own
mystery escape room the imagination is
the limitation guys I want you to have
fun with this I want you to think
outside the box as it were to create
something inside the box this box is a
ton of fun it’s not too difficult to
make I’m going to show you in the next
video how to build this thing step by
step what measurements to use what
materials to use and what order to
follow to end up with something that
looks exactly like what we have here
took me about three weeks to prototype
this and the escape room with Lowe’s
they literally spent three months
building it and they only let one group
of people go through at one time all
that for the video that you see in the
link in the description so go check it
out
is a fun experience I think you’re gonna
enjoy it as much as we did thanks for
joining us project guys we’ll be looking
for you the next one doc you that hey
guys before you go click right here to
go see Bob and I take on the Lowe’s
Black Friday DIY escape room it was an
amazing experience we had no idea what
to expect once we got locked inside so
did we make it out in time you can go
see for yourself by clicking right here
you
if you haven’t been to one yet I highly
recommend it I’ve been to four
personally and I absolutely love them if
you’ve got the kind of mechanical mind
the likes solving mechanisms solving
challenges and deciphering codes escape
room is probably for you which brings me
onto this project today which is
inspired by Lowe’s home improvement
Lowe’s sponsored this collaboration and
spent three months building an amazing
escape room that has an incredible twist
rather than just solving clues and
unlocking locks you actually have to put
your DIY skills to the test and build
your way out I’ve never seen anything
like it before and they turn it into a
video that you can go see right now by
clicking the link at the top of the
description and on the theme of mystery
DIY escape rooms and puzzle boxes we
have created this paint stick puzzle box
for about three dollars this is one that
I want you to try at home it’s so much
fun and even though this thing looks
really simple there’s much more to it
than meets the eye I’m going to give you
a couple seconds just to look at this
box you can see all the different
aspects of it and you get a feel for it
okay if you shake that you can hear
there’s something inside of it no
obvious way in you may have noticed
there is something here right if we try
moving latches everything seems pretty
solid for the most part there’s a screw
on the back there but no obvious way to
open it
okay so what do you guys want to try
first I’m gonna give you about five
seconds to decide what’s the first thing
you want to try leave your comments down
below and my guess is you’re gonna go
for this thing right here first because
it stands out there’s nothing else on
the box that looks like it so let’s give
that a little wiggle if you tug that
look at that we found a little makeshift
screwdriver there so have you seen
anything on the box that might need a
screwdriver okay you’re probably telling
me that the screw on the back is the
screw on the back something that can be
unscrewed well let’s see yeah looks like
it can I’m gonna start unscrewing that
at this point we can get into our
fingers and just give it a little
backwards motion look at that little
drawer popped out that drawer actually
comes out it’s got a key in it there now
that key is actually just for props we
don’t need it for this puzzle box but
just to demonstrate that there is
something you could put in there but
there’s a message at the bottom it says
to flip it over so let’s flip that over
what we find is a design and it looks
like a domino or a dice it’s got five
holes what could that mean is there
anything on the box anywhere oh if we
look inside there we can see almost a
little target sign a little circle and
there’s a hole there as well that’s
interesting so you can see that okay so
as that slides out that dowel goes into
that hole right very cool all right so
what is the five main let’s focus on
that oh did you notice this right here
all these look like they have finishing
nail holes this one has five so what
could that mean
we take that and give it a little wiggle
okay there’s a secret compartment there
with a dowel it’s also got a little
circle in the back here have you seen
that circle anywhere else we’ve seen
that on the inside all right
so what could that mean well if we touch
that circle and give it a little push we
get access to the large compartment what
you can see has some tools in it we have
a wrench we have an allen wrench again
those are just props showing that you
can put other tools in there you can put
candy but I have a couple of pictures
what are these
okay there you have the guys the first
revealed this is a selfie I took at the
loads DIY escape room remember there’s a
link at the top of the description you
can go watch the video we made going
through that and here’s a picture of the
team I went through with you see Bob
from the I like to make stuff YouTube
channel and this puzzle box wasn’t used
in the escape room but you could use it
in one of your own and of course to pack
this thing back up it’s as easy as just
pushing the pieces back together did you
notice that on the front there there’s
pieces of that panel that prevents that
from sliding too far back which is
really cool and we put in the second
mystery compartment the dowel locks that
one into place that it can’t slide
around this little piece down here acts
as a secondary lock to prevent you from
getting into that large compartment too
early
and once that’s in place it blends right
in then we can take our screwdriver and
screw the screw back into place the cool
thing about this is as it tightens down
it actually pulls the panel in so even
people who are trying to wiggle the
sides aren’t necessarily gonna find it
right away because it’s locked down
pretty tight and then the screwdriver
itself pops right into the side and your
box is now self-contained and ready for
your next victim now like I said guys
these boxes can be used just to hide
random stuff in your room or you could
actually use them as part of your own
mystery escape room the imagination is
the limitation guys I want you to have
fun with this I want you to think
outside the box as it were to create
something inside the box this box is a
ton of fun it’s not too difficult to
make I’m going to show you in the next
video how to build this thing step by
step what measurements to use what
materials to use and what order to
follow to end up with something that
looks exactly like what we have here
took me about three weeks to prototype
this and the escape room with Lowe’s
they literally spent three months
building it and they only let one group
of people go through at one time all
that for the video that you see in the
link in the description so go check it
out
is a fun experience I think you’re gonna
enjoy it as much as we did thanks for
joining us project guys we’ll be looking
for you the next one doc you that hey
guys before you go click right here to
go see Bob and I take on the Lowe’s
Black Friday DIY escape room it was an
amazing experience we had no idea what
to expect once we got locked inside so
did we make it out in time you can go
see for yourself by clicking right here
you
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