[1453] VERY Clever “Loki” Puzzle Padlock Solved

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Its definitely not egg shaped?

@@quentonmillstid850 It's called a egg timer not because it's shape but it was often used to time boiled eggs, basically any timer that only has minutes and seconds displayed can be called a egg timer.

XD

I can just hear LPL "Hold My Beer" 🍺

@notfiveo I meant the metal rod that acts as a screw driver to remove the set screw.

He's not just a dude. He's a lockpicking lawyer dude.

​@@Maxthekillbot I would have tried the notches on the top of the key

Drp

would be funny if the guy that took a month to solver this spent a month looking for the allen key and then 5 minutes to unlock and lock the lock

The creator: "He broke my puzzle! >:( "

he did it the pro way

He played by stricter rules and still solves it lol

It's about time he only used the key :)

He did it the Loki Way.

Maybe the cameras work just fine, and bigfoot is just blury. Mitch Hedgeberg.

@@sethkeown5965 god damnit I'm gonna steal that idea so hard

@@donttellthem2280I’m also stealing that idea

I’m also stealing

​@@donttellthem2280ppl have been robbing Mitch for decades.

it's a puzzle, not a lock

@@siilnr1250 woooosh the joke just went over your head

@@rjtimmerman2861 women can't make jokes

@@siilnr1250 and yet has all the properties of a lock, puzzle or not

@@BawkBawkBawk666 yea, might as well weld it together and call it a lock, gtfo

Are we now gonna get a collaboration between your two channels? Maybe the LPL shows how easy it is to bypass a trailer coupler lock and any additional deterrents you can come up with to keep your RV from being stolen.

or 30 Master Locks

A Master Lock (even the "Military Grade" models) he opens in mere seconds... This puzzle took him a lot longer than any Master Lock, I guess

Not really, I'm a hobbyist and haven't come across any master locks I can't open at this day. I'm sure most locksmiths wouldn't have a problem with them.

That's only because the locksmith had to study the padlock and assess the situation to make it seem like he didn't forget to bring the bolt cutter with him when he first got out of his truck.

LPL: "You open locks with the key. I pick locks with the key. We are not the same"

😅

i mean, if you really did want to secure something super well, you could probably use this lock

@@BlueDogXL remember that this is the intended way to do it, we have no clue about how long this lock would take to pick.

@@BlueDogXL With brute force you could easily open this lock. Security is not the intended purpose

Any lock that you can't approach with standard tools is a good lock. F.e. a lock with magnetic pin. If you don't know it has a magnetic pin before you start lockpicking - good luck. Before you figure it out and get the right tools, your window of opportunity may be over. Also LPL can always manipulate the lock while IRL many padlocks are placed in a very inconvenient positions, so you have to really perform some gymnastics to be able to lockpick them. So overal - I'd take fairly simple non-standard lock placed in a hard-to-manipulate spot over best quality stanard lock.

​@@bezimienny_andzej6425very good points. The best security is layered and 'awkwardly and annoyingly located' is a feature.

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I’m not sure what you mean. Did he open it in a way that was not supposed to happen?

@@andrewbyrnes6389 Not really, but there was a small hex tool hidden in the bag that was intended for removing the set screw, rather than using the key as LPL did. LPL shows it right at the end of the video.

@@andrewbyrnes6389 Yes. The locksmith intended for people to find the hidden hex key but LPL loosened the screw using the lock's key

Wow 👌 👏 😍 👍

This is why so many puzzles have the added challenge of putting it back together. You can't just wiggle everything every which way because you have to be able to retrace your steps eventually.

I remember a puzzle stand where you have to take apart few details that are intervened together. I'm an engineer, so I thought that vibration could take anything apart eventually. It took two seconds of vibrating it by hand, and I broke previous record.

@@smirnovamaria9611 vibration won't certainly separate anything, but everything can be separated by some vibration at some frequencies.

@@asailijhijr vibration would if you want to get real technical. If you apply a continues force on any object by moving it back and force. It would eventually break or degrade slowly

Funniest thing even is, that I didnt hear it as "raking", but same with k replaced with p. LMAO.

This post has major clown husbandry vibes

​​@@fenecouwu*LockPickingLawyer husbandry.

not sure why i expected this to have a "let's give The Lockpicking Lawyer a controlled shock" punchline

i like it. the rewarding of curiosity is a good part of the puzzle

Agreed though. Even angle the teeth as a hint.

I guess you could say he was thinking outside the bag.

He should have given it to LLPL

Honestly I think his method could possibly be easier. Because when the other rods in play. It makes the mind think it needs to be used. Even if it only had one use. Nobody would know that for certain, without first trying. Which adds to the total time it takes. Not saying that it may not have been done just as fast by LPL. Ijs especially regular Joe's would definitely struggle more. To say the least!

@@jumpman8282 10/10!

Now is going to be 5$ since everybody know the puzzle .Not 210$ anymore..👍

He was probably so excited. He was running around the house telling everyone he got it. He finally ducking figured it out

Imagine banging your head against the wall for a month trying to solve this, and then seeing LPL slightly cheese it in under 20 minutes, lol.

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imagine having opened it after two weeks and you still need to figure out how to close it properly.

@@Lunaphire well, I would still be proud of myself what I could open something _at all_ where the LPL needed more then 2min to solve xS

While trying to open a lock with the key no less.

😂😂😂😂

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Haha, that's one of life Twisters for sure!

Reminds me of one of my dad's stories

Lol

awful. that was Loki's way of saying 'ha-ha'....

@@cold1895 reminds me of your dad's stories too

it only works if you follow the rules of not picking it.. LPL is normally not known for following the rules given by the lock producers 😂

To be fair, he said it would have been easier with lockpicks.

@@Steev42 very true, however due to the design with the small pins holding the shackle in place I believe it would present more of a challenge than more traditional mechanisms, and most likely require more time than normal even for or highly skilled lawyer compatriot here, but then again he is one of the best lock-pickers on the internet.

@@wilclark2562 maybe and maybe not. I'm sure he would have thought of bypassing method as well if external tools are allowed. Like shimming the short end. That would be easy peasy

@Wil Clark It would also be hard for the lock *owner* to lock and unlock. The tradeoff is always between security and convenience (see: online passwords), this lock would really fail on the convenience front if it was touted as an actual usable lock. The pick resistance (security) isn't important if more often than not you're not going to bother to even lock it in the first place. Sorry for saying the obvious, it just felt like it needs to be said after you guys started talking about pick resistance :P

Where did you get the data to conclude that most people take multiple months? The video only has two data points and their average is well below a month.

The one review on the store page

I’d imagine he would’ve unpuzzled this one even faster if he weren’t talking to us. Im also in the group of wanting longer LPL videos.

@@fl0atpvnk Maybe he's so fast because he is narrating everything. Rubberducking is a powerful technique for problem solving.

@@michaelm6334 why you out here talking like a scientist. "Where did you get the data to conclude". Out here talking like a research paper for his college class.

The Mythbusters approach, i.e. "We've fulfilled the original premise, but let's keep going and see what happens."

Heroic mode.

How did he use less?

@@kb_dev at the very end of the video. he realizes that there is a tool to unscrew the screw that he did not use

​@@kb_dev There was a tiny hex screwdriver hidden in the pouch the padlock came in. He simply just used the key.

If you ever had to tighten or remove one of those screws, it wouldn't even cross your mind that they'd include a separate tool for it. They already gave you the key after all. Worst case you could've just used your fingertip.

Just like homelander

No, I'm not Not Sure! _Thank you for confirming your identification.._

Maybe......LPL is faking uncertainty to lure you into false comfort to eat your boredom..,...just saying

That's what He wanted you to think. You should have never let your guard down. He's outside your door, which means He's inside your house. All hope is lost for you. Foolishness will forever be your legacy. We will weep for you. Then, we will join you. But we w

You fell for his trap. That is exactly what alien cyborgs want you to think.

Are you familiar with locks and mechanical devices in general? If not that’s totally fine, I think you would need these to develop your thoughts at least

This specifically, the time spent visualizing locking mechanisms that he mentions, makes me think that LPL is/was either a practicing patent attorney or would have made an excellent patent attorney if that's not the career path he originally followed. Not every patent attorney has that kind of visualization skill to take something apart in their mind's eye, but it's an absolutely requirement for all GOOD patent attorneys (at least ones dealing with physical designs anyways).

Who cares. Just put it in corrosive acid. It will be open. 😅

Have you considered that you might have aphantasia? It’s surprisingly common for how unknown it is

lpl would be amazing at visualizing stereochemistry

Literally exact same thought. Almost posted the same. Also thought about posting "gonna need more than one bathroom break for this one." This is also one of the only times I've ever seen a commercial on LPL.

I was excited as well. 😄

My popcorn got cold..

That's the "lawyer" part of his name in action!

He is well known so giving him this stuff is just free ad for the company

@@Marquis-Sade well I get that but it's not like they're giving him the answers (I'd trust his willingness to be truthful that he doesn't just look up the solutions and solves them on camera)

@@anti_nana4463 IKR dude actually makes a living off it

@@danelyn.1374 Oh. I missunderstood. I thought you were wondering why someone gives him those for free

I think it takes 30 minutes of idleness to question 'am I missing something' and then search the bag. The problem is he completed the puzzle's goal in half that time. :)

@@markwright3161The number of times I had to tighten or remove those screws with nothing but my thumb, nail or a key I had in my pocket basically makes it a second nature by now. It wouldn't even come to my mind for another tool to be hidden in the bag, unless I ended up feeling it accidentally while taking the lock out of it.

And I’d love to see LPL doing it :)

We need a video of this lock with picks

Yeah man you should’ve picked it at the end

I think I know why…

It sounds so delightfully evil too 😂

Puzzle: exists Chris Ramsey: SPIN IT

Chris Ramsey: "no force required..." *smacks it on the table*

That's definitely a mathematical analysis approach. Maybe TPL is a secret mathematician?

I sat there waiting for the spinning! 🙂

All puzzles are extremely easy once you can picture everything that's going on in your head, and seeing as for most people, a lock is a puzzle in and of itself, and mark picking lawyer can like he demonstrated in the video, hold a lock in a certain way and then just know that there's some modification and vaguely what that modification is is incredibly helpful.

At what point in the video did you learn Loki saying that?

@@primalinea682 The end of the vid my friend

You two ruined the TKOR Chanel when grant died the Chanel should have too

He already used the key to unscrew the hex plug in other puzzle locks. It was logical to assume that it's the same case.

@@Gamerboy-je9or Grant hired the people that were hosting when he passed. He himself gave them the position they had, long before he passed. I think they're on different hosts now, I haven't watched the channel in quite some time, but your statement indicates that you probably haven't either.

The other puzzle lock he did used the key as a turning tool, so I can see why he missed it.

In a way, he picked the lock keeping the rod nut inside.

He also raked the lock which was not how it was intended to be solved (you just hold it in a certain position, and turn the key).

especially considering additional time spent explaining us what he's doing and why

He knows that's almost certainly a record for that puzzle, and not by just a few seconds!

Classic lawyer tactic. Bills you by the minute, rounding up. ;)

I don't know what is more funny, the fact that this probably can be true or the irony it becomes if it is not even near a fact. After all, he is still legally speaking a lawyer even if he now is more in the lockpicking exposing bad "security devices" and not only locks. I mean he even goes after some of the bigest lock brands there is only to expose what in his oppinion are flaws.

iirc his house locks are booby trapped to seize up permanently if picked and he has given the advice to never pick a lock you depend on, since you could break or jam it.

@@Zeldon567 it is a pain and sometimes impossible to remove a jammed broken tip of an lockpick. So naturally you can make locks unusable by trying to learn how to pick locks and you will lose many locks that way over the years.

Btw he did pick the lock to open it by raking it with the key, that means that it wouldn't have helped if he had used his own tools.

😂 Oh, that's why he is so good at picking locks 🔒

@@nb2vcxz The raking *not working* was a fluke!

Whales have two flukes.. gotta do a third try, or test for wetness..

@@nic_enc_old he raked too far an so the key was basically fully committed instead of just the raked master pins. ;D

I think so. I’ve never, EVER, seen anyone rake a lock besides on this specific channel, despite having watched many hours of puzzle solving content. It seems to me that he overthought it, all he had to do was maneuver the key so it was locked in the quarter position and slap it against his palm so the rod comes out. Multiple times he shows that the low cut on the key leaves a perfect gap between the inside and outside, for the rod to come out. The puzzle is: 1. To realize the screw needs removing 2. Remove it (other puzzles remove the screw with a key) 3. Realize the lock is affected by gravity/position 4. Realize there are set positions 5. Align the key with the unscrewed hole 6. Slap the rod out then continue as normal, the biggest hurdle being to put the shackle back on. I could be wrong, but I’m almost certain that no raking is necessary.

17 minutes? he'd drown. ok, ok, dry room. IF they gave him the tools. jk. he is the best for sure!

That was EXACTLY my thought too!

I wouldn't be surprised if it was intended. It wouldn't be the first time, even on this channel - LPL did that with Titan's Treasure and it was part of the solution.

That's definitely intended, there was a similar lock puzzle with the same feature on the channel before

@@tite93 Did you watch until the end of the video? As it turns out, there was a little hex key hidden in the hem of the lock bag

@@Gammix oh yeah, I turned it off once he solved it, missed that part. Thanks for pointing it out!

@@tite93 You don't wait to hear him tell you to have a nice day?!?!

Not really hard to figure out that a screw sticking out is how you're supposed to open something, especially when it's one of the only 2 things you have to even focus on on the entire product...

@@DrakeOola yes, and using the tip of the key makes it more interesting. So, the hidden hex tool needn't have been included at all.

Depends, in a way he skipped a step by forcing, still in bounds but it's a stretch to call it hard mode.

Considering that piece would have been utterly useless after the initial opening it would have been more of a red herring and a distraction honestly. LPL accidentally got rid of a lot of false options this way and could focus better

That's Jill's section!

Update?

Update?

Update?

He unlocked a prison door while testing his new skills and got stabbed by an inmate

If thats all it takes to give you goosebumps you need to get out more

@@jeremyphillips3087 you must be really fun at parties huh

@@h3nry511 im not actually. People dont like me because of my bad personality 🤷

@@jeremyphillips3087 thats quite of honest of you, I'll give you that

Touch grass

Except that everyone now knows the solution, so no one will buy it.

@@bvd7517 lik people will remember

@@kenziebalhatchet3918 there arent a lot of steps involved so i would certainly remember and would make the puzzle unfun

@@Raulxz I doubt that most people will remember this locks steps after like 3 months and that will dwindle the longer time passes

I know where my money would be.. 😂

Do you remember the unsolved locks bucket from which BosniaBill gave him locks? LPL refused two locks, knowing perfectly well why he was doing it. These were the old style and a new production of the Gerda locks. Made in Poland. These two are top-of-the-line from Gerda, but even the cheap ones are so hard to pick that nobody here in Poland bothers with non-destructive methods. In case of losing all keys to the two top locks and a card that allows ordering an additional key equals cutting off a part of the door. The next level above the Gerda Titans is the bank locks. Some are custom-made, some in a short production line, and some customized. A steel reinforced room with a steel-made heavy door is also reasonable when using 12 pins tubular Gerdas. Claimed to be the best on the market.

Didn't he already show it can be raked? Getting the key to turn was not the hard part :)

That's what i thought! LPL Sir! Pick it now please! 🔐

@@ogi22 I think beaten most of the best locks, and he had the key! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Technically he did, he raked it lol

he already did pick it? the lock is designed to open really unpractical way and just lockpicking it won't do any difference. i think. correct me if i'm wrong.

Easy mode is in the bag

@@wobblysauce Maybe it's like a math book. Answers in the back in case you're struggling

Where is the hidden, but included, hex tool? I'm not seeing where it could be in the video. EDIT: Never mind. I looked up another solve video and saw what you're talking about. EDIT 2: Apparently I should've just watched until the end of this one. 🤦‍♂

@@JonatasAdoM Just looking up another answer... as you are scanning the rest in the mean time.

spoiler alert! haha

I think he has some longer, but not by much. He did shooting locks with BB, and that was long videos.

@@Locutus I think he means long as in picking a lock long and opening the lock, not in time of video..

@@Cent51 i think its a bit hard to say that when the original comment said "this may be the longest LPL video ever"

Exactly!

@@A2ne At the end of the day, LPL is "Picking" the lock and took him over 20mins. Meaning the video was longer than 99% of the rest of his videos, meaning this was harder than normal..

Yes, but I would be worried about damage to the key or the screw. Metal-on-metal like that tends to leave jagged edges and damage screws, sometimes beyond the ability to be removed and inserted.

Would be nice if the hex was just on the back or tip of the key, hidden in plain sight.

Can you give a hint to where to investigate the knots?

@@leslie32892 The drawstrings have knots on them. Pulling them tight or seeing about removal should have revealed an unusual stiff spot in the bag.

@@leslie32892 The booklet talked about knots, I assumed it meant that they was involved in some way.

So you're saying he solved the puzzle without even using all the tools at his disposal? There's another tool in the drawstring of the bag?

@@calvinmills4069 Did you watch the whole video?

Sorry to butt in but.… Well, that depends. On whether the "knowing" one really knows and whether the searching ones are skilled or knowledgeable themselves. Like, I'd take ten scientists specializing in oncology doing experiments in a case of a rare cancer rather than a self-important doctor who already "knows" everything. Or take law, where this principle is especially visible. Where the younger applicants are actually hardworking and cautious, and the older, experienced attorneys are so full of themselves and sure they're right they miss obvious facts. Hell, they don't even bother to ask the client about them.

@@vivvpprof Ah yes the old saying, "Better one who knows than ten who search except for when the person who knows actually doesn't know, and maybe the people searching are really good at searching." I understand your thought process but you're just dropping the point. (Edited thing: I was being snarky I'll admit to that. My apologies for it.)

Better one who knows than 10 who search. People forget those who know and those who search are the same thing in the internet age.

Probably a fake lock right??? All editing and photoshop if you ask me. How gullible can you be to believe this??? I get it, LPL is the greatest in the world right?? Yeah wait till you find out how he hacked Klefki’s IVs and EVs

LPL he's our man, if he can't do it - no one can!

I have to assume he says that when he opens a lock and no one is around

He says the same when he inserts his essential organ into his wife.... or when he watches me do so, which is twice a week since she is a seriously kiny lady.

I was hoping we would get "And we got this locked" at the end :P

It's not an external tool tho because it's literally part of the puzzle?

And he has done that on what is to my knowledge at least to the only other puzzle lock on this channel. So he is already aware of that tactic assuming he hasn't watched any puzzle lock videos.

I honestly thought the screwdriver would be somehow artfully hidden in the design of the key itself, maybe if you held the tip at a 66.6 degree angle the sides of the key would line up appropiately or something... "Hidden hex wrench in the bag" was actually a bit disappointing to me 🤣 Just hope nobody gave the puztzle lock to someone without including the satchel 😁

Any hex screw with a provided key/lock mechanism is definitely intended to have that key used to remove it. Unless an allen wrench pops out first.

@@sourcererseven3858 that is exactly what I though, I even looked back at the key to see if there wasn't some hidden feature in the key itself. but seeing that there wasn't, and seeing that I can't use external tools, I would have done the same thing. I wouldn't even think about looking at the bag.

It is however a slightly iffy solution (in this specific instance, if it happened to be the intended one) since you have a plated brass key going into a stainless setscrew, with badly mismatched shapes, the key is bound to get chewed up with time, the setscrew head can get distorted as well, and it probably won't turn the setscrew before long. You wouldn't want a $200 puzzle to substantially degrade every time you use it. It would have indeed been more elegant if they figured something out that actually matches the shape of some feature of the the key, for example a slotted setscrew with a slot width matched to a width of something on the key with just a little tolerance. I think puzzles where key is supposed to be used as a driver come up with a better way to do it like that. With the hex driver being hidden, i suppose it's fine.

Thanks to thousands of videos of LPL, raking was my first though lol.

Need to do more. Maybe the one lick that was not a puzzle but befuddled Bosnia bill that Gerda dead bot from hell 😁

You edited your comment lol

@@Eliotah seamed more appropriate

using lockpicks might have helped a lot. Although the assumption to face a normal lock would have felt rather perplexing once the puzzle pieces start emerging.

I see what did there, lol. The hidden hex driver . . . Good one . .

@@Eliotah with the educational system the way it is, any discrepancy in proper English would be considered as code talking.

What important tool was he missing? edit: nevermind....

Raking the lock with its own key is so galaxy brain

@@midn8588 Anything is a tool to LPL.

Ive raked a lock with another locks key, in fact i had three locks from three different sources that could all open with each others key.

Using the key as a wrench. Then raking it. Sick flex.

Seems like an appropriate scaling: master legend vs reviewer

And he didn't even use the tool that was supposed to be required. Absolute legend.

@@LeoStaley and he masterkeyed the lock in the wrong position, you just need to hold it with the keyhole at the bottom and it's masterkeyed, while LPL raked it open with a keyhole at the top. The lock picking legend.

reminds of a typical ST moment: Kirk: "Scotty ... how bad is it?" Scotty: "Bad, captain. Fixing it will take 4 months." Kirk: "Scotty, you got 4 hours." Scotty: "Aye captain, I'll do it in 2 (hours)."

@Martin B. Actually there’s an episode in the Next Generation where Scott admits that he dealt with Kirk telling him that he had to fix something before the deadline he set that he started lying about the estimates to make himself more of a miracle worker.

Lpl looked at the bag and handled it for a moment after reading this line!!

This is really reaching.

It is designed by a puzzle maker who may know the classics. The best hiding place is in plain sight or in this case in print (which is in plain sight) 😉

The "net" is ALSO the outcome...("Net Result")

LPL: Lock Picking Loki

still better than a masterlock

Agreed. If anything, the method increased the difficulty. Then again, consider the hidden nature of the tool, indicating this was one of the intended methods. The tool may have been an optional method, or a backup method in case the key was unable to work on the screw (I.e. Being recessed too far into the lock body).

That was my thought. The key wasn’t an external tool. It counts.

E.g. 1. Anything obvious is most likely a decoy, 2. There may be tools that come with the puzzle - if so, figure out how to use them, and 3. Resetting the puzzle can be as hard as solving it