The making of an escape room puzzle
So here is one of my first assignments as a business! And a very interesting enjoyable one at that!
Meet the Remington.
A piece of mechanical beauty, right?
Now as for the assignment, the idea is that someone types in a word, and then a different word is typed on the paper – i.e. the next clue.
So I figured, if I could mix the hammers, that would achieve that.
After a lot of deliberation, with some complex restraints, such as that no letter could be used twice, I came up with several combinations!
But none really seemed good enough..
Plus, upon closer inspection, I realized, it wasn't going to be quite so easy. The arms all have their own angle, and would make a different place impossible.
I considered, sawing them and then re-welding them, but in the end had a better idea.
Using 3D printing devices, I would make my own stamps! I was able to open up the bottleneck of the puzzle options!
The trick would be,
WINGS
to
CLOCK
After a couple of attempts, tinkering with the settings (this here is 3mmx2mm), with 3D-printing I was able make my own hammers!
So went home, got the angle grinder out, and removed the original stamp off the typewriter hammers.
Here I was getting excited as I had the first letter "C" working.
The stamps on the right are the ones I hadn't added yet, and are still ground flat.
Not satisfied with the level of accuracy of the stamps, i set to cleaning them.
Coming up to a better, end result, the letters are defined and well pressed, the hammers i really tested, and seemed to have no problem with any level of intensity in typing.
I am afraid the only picture I have the typeset is a little off, the O hasn't really claimed its space.
This is down to my ineptitude of typing, wherein you really need to fully press the key, before it moves your page up a little. But the overall project has definitely been a successful one, and the escape room I built it for, they where mighty impressed!