Dick does it again!

[Apologies for the hiatus - life intervened - some adulting has been accomplished - now hopefully the playing will resume!] 

Just after Peter’s annual End of Year Puzzle Party I reached out to Dick Hensel to let him know that I was definitely interested in getting my paws on a copy of his new wooden lock – he duly put my name on the list and got in touch a few weeks ago and let me know it was available if I was still interested. Having confirmed the pope was suitably catholic, I winged PayPal and Dick posted a Window Lock 4 to Barnt Green.

The family resemblance is super strong on Window Lock 4: the same oak surrounding an acrylic window onto some confusing gubbins visible inside that seems to be stopping you from opening the oak shackle. There’s usually some means of manipulating said-gubbins and a little investigation will find something suitable…

Having found the something-suitable – I managed to find something else that’s often useful and began manipulating that all over the show – I could drive it all around the place – I could hide it temporarily and make it pop up in unexpected places and I was having great fun – I just wasn’t getting anything vaguely useful for releasing the shackle to happen.

Over the course of a couple of days I noticed one or two more interesting features and eventually had a bit of a brainwave that led to doing something actually useful and half-solved it… of course I then went looking for the rest of the solution in totally the wrong place and wasted a fair amount more time than I really ought to have before I managed to get the final barrier out of the way.

This one’s really rather sneaky – if you enjoy Dick’s playfulness with everything apparently on show - just out of reach - you’re probably going to like this one too – I certainly did!