Optical Illusions, Puzzles or Magic Tricks? Can’t tell for sure, but you better check it yourself! Image below represents just one of the puzzles you can find inside this magic post! Don’t ask me! You’ll puzzle yourself for sure… After you’ve jumped inside this article and solved more of these real life impossible creations, check ” Impossible Objects in Real Life 1, 2, 3, 4 ” and “Cube Toy”.
Both the nail and the wood are whole, yet neither of the two has been cut. Can you guess how it was consturcted?
All of the holes inside this transaprent cube (except the center one) are curved. They are drilled holes, that I know for sure! How is this possible?
I have no idea how these two constructions could be done. Other than gluing the ring/arrow together, could there be some other solution?
The ball-bearing is quite a bit larger in diameter than any of the six openings in the cage. There are no breaks in the cage where is could have been separated. First thing that bumoped my mind is soaking the cube in water, making it larger, then inserting the little steel ball, and after the cube shrinks back – voila! What do you think?
There is no way this baseball could have been forced into the jar! How did they manage to do this?!
Some other “Strange” creations:
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About the nail in the wood.
I was visiting Tasmania and just bought one of these in Scottsdale visitors center. A guy from Mole Creek makes them. The instructions say the puzzle is to figure out how he did it. There was no bending or breaking of either wood or nail.
Here’s a link to an article about it.
http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,20465928-3462,00.html
If the link doesn’t work, google “mole creek puzzle”
the ring and the coin:
easy- if there was a gap in the ring that was just larger than the thickness of the coin, it could easily be hidden behind the coin, yet the coin could slip out with no problem.
the last object (triangle thing):
also easy- the right (vertical) segment has a notch cut at the top that is just the right size and angle so that, at this camera angle, you can see the top left pice through the notch. notice that the corner of the right piece where it “meets” the top left piece, is rounded – it is worn or sanded by accident.
you guys and girls are computer geeks the worst kind i cant believe you’d waste yor life commenting on an internet site what a waste of time do you guys have lives?
The real question is… How is it possible to get the nail out of the piece of wood. Now if somone can tell me that, your the real genus!
NAIL IN WOOD
the nail does come out of the wood. the nail is not bent or joint or moulded or cut etc
the wood is not cut or joined or broken or glued etc.
the wood is one piece the nail is one piece, the wood is real wood and the nail is a real nail, the nail doesn’t have to be a nail it could be a small wooden pencil!!!
the answer is not rocket science, but it does take a little thinking, not tones however.. i did not take another look at the item for another year and 1/2 after i bought it but one of the things i thought at the first time i got it was right.
i have not actually done it but the way i think is right because i have confirmed with the maker here in tasmania
My dad used to have a woven wooden basket made of interlocking pieces. Looking at it, you’d say it had to have been carved from a single piece of wood. However, one of the pieces was made of a different kind of wood from the rest. My dad knew a lot about wood and recognized the kind of wood odd piece was made of. When soaked in water, that one piece became very soft and pliable, almost like a sponge. It could then be squeezed and bent and released from the other pieces, allowing the bowl to be dismantled.
the nail in the wood are made by A Touch of Craft at Mole creek in Tasmania. He uses either nails, screws, pens or pencils throught the wood and they are all just as impossible to do. I have one and the wood is not joined and the nail is not bent!! Please someone tell me how to do this. Ssys that the wood is not steamed or twisted or bent and the nail is not cut and joined.
someone that was very angry just shoved alot of things into jars and cages, that’s how you do it.
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the last one is photoshoped.
The cube with the ball is easy. First, the holes are slightly slanted inwards making it easy to go in but tough to get out
i saw something like this before. an arrow was shot at a glass jar and got stuck in the middle, and it diddn’t make a crack or anything, and the answer to do it is locked up in a vault.
the last one isnt photoshopped…and it isnt even a triangle either, its hard to explain in words but i’ll try.
its a rectangular block with two similar blocks nailed on either end at a 90 degree angle…then its lined up and photographed with some fancy angle work and Viola!
great illusion, not so great as a display-able object in your home.
If your having trouble visualizing what I just said…look up a copy of the children’s book “Walter Wick’s Optical Tricks” and in the back, it explains this trick
The arrow/ring and coin combo is done the same way the marble/stone lions with the ball in the mouths in front of chinese restaurants are made. It was carved from one piece of wood, and not seperated until the final moments giving the illusion that it was somehow inserted, when it was in fact one piece made to look like two by seperation at the end.
I work at the Forest Eco Centre in Tasmania and we sell the nail through wood puzzle. It can be anything from a pencil, nail, screw even a large spike about 20cm long.PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME HOW IT’S DONE!!!!!
The screw one is easy, the last colum is not like the rest it’s just shaped like them, you can take the screw out from the top.
the last ones easy…well i think so!
the length of wood that is the confusing part is not wood is maybe paper etc. you can tell from the shading of it and whatnot.
the one with the baseball in the jar is sooooo easy! We have one of these at home. It just a regular ’stress ball’ (don’t know if it’s called the same in english), you know, one of these foamy balls you’re supposed to sqeeze (and not to throw at your boss as many others do). It’s made of plastic. And the last one is just about shooting angle, just like many others of these.
is it just me, or does one side of the triangle in the last pic look photoshopped?
It hasn’t been photoshopped. It looks like it’s been photoshopped because those two parts of the triangle are not connected and only look connected because of the exact angle from with the picture was taken.
before you insert the screw through the wood soak the wood and squeeze one end flat with a vise. screw in your screw and resoak and let dry. there it is!
Hi all, I have one of these wooden blocks with a pencil through it in front of me – it comes from a shop in New Zealand and is called “the mole creek wood puzzle”. The wood is a solid piece and the units have anything from a nail, a screw/a pencil thorugh it. The instructions when you buy the item state – “wood not steamed/bent or twisted – pencil/screw etc is not cut and joined – wood is one solid piece throughout the process.”
lateral thinking involved.
I cannot figure it out and I have had it for 2 years.
the last one is probably the easiest to execute, technically.
there’s the vertical piece attached to the two pieces attached at a right angle.
at the top of the vertical piece, a notch is cut to accomodate the farthest piece visually.
they glued a cap piece onto the vertical piece to give it a square top…
its probably easier than taking the time to photoshop it…
the one with the coin and the arrow is soo easy 2 guess !! the coin is wooden, and so is the arrow, so when a person was making the “coin” ande the arrow, he used the same piece of wood for them !! voila !!
I hated it
I actually know how both the ring around wooden arrow and wooden and metal ring are done.
I work in a forge you see,
quite simple the wooden objects will haveeasy peel heat proof covers and a mold will be placed around them (not touching them) and the molten metal will be poured in left to cool. and then the mold is taken off and the easy peel heat proof covers too and there you go you have an amazing little object.
the other one are beyond me though
Damn you wooden puzzle!! I’m sitting here with the Tasmanian screw puzzle, and I can say almost for certain that there IS NO SOLUTION. Whoever built this thing was very smart at covering his tracks, because there’s no way this screw was not bent or the wood wasn’t twisted…no way. If anyone wants to prove me wrong, please do so…I’m dying to figure it out…
Here is the solution to the very first wood trick with the screw, nail or pencil through the wood (it is done with all of these).
After research on the web, and searching through pages and pages of forums, I found the answer.
Here is the link so you can read it yourself. It is in Posts #79 and 80. Quite and interesting read to see all the woodworkers trying to figure it out!
Hope this gives some of you more sleep at night!
i guess all of you who are still puzzled by the nail through the wood have not read the post by trina. look up mole creek puzzle(nail through the wood puzzle) on google. here is the link http://hard-puzzles.blogspot.com/2008/01/mole-creek-wood-puzzle.html read the post by alan.
his explanation is the best, probably correct, and only answer to the puzzle. he is saying that a small tree is drilled to have a hole that will fit the nail into the tree. then the tree is allowed to grow for several years. by that time the tree will have grown around the nail. then the puzzle maker just has to cut around the nail to make the desired shape of the puzzle.