Moulin Rouge, a “trick opening” puzzle is designed by Stephan Baumegger and it also won a “Top 10 Vote Getter Award” during the IPP37 Puzzle Design Competition. Stephan is a prolific puzzle designer (at last count with 191 designs on PWBP) well-known for his interlocking burrs, but not just typical looking ones. Take a look at his Puzzleisure Facebook page and Read More
Month: August 2017
Number Blocks
Designed by my dear friend and fellow Singaporean Goh Pit Khiam (Goh is the family name), the Number Blocks is a “packing puzzle” that won a Honourable Jury Mention at the IPP35 Nob Yoshigahara Puzzle Design Competition in Ottawa,Canada in 2015. If you are familiar with Goh’s work, you may have come across several other (physically) similar Read More
Non-Void Cube “Burr” Puzzle
Here’s the first of my of blog posts on the puzzles which I had the pleasure of exchanging with 95 other participants at the recent IPP37 Puzzle Exchange in Paris, France. This one looks like a plastic burr puzzle, or is it not? The Non-Void Cube is from Andreas Rover- yes, the ONE who created and Read More
The (Exploding) Apple
This is a really life-like and cute (co-ordinate motion) puzzle I got from Vladimir Krasnoukhov during the IPP37 Puzzle Party in Paris, France a week and a half ago. Designed by Vladimir, I am told it was made by his brother. The design is based around Vladimir’s Curly Cube (or Exploding Cube) puzzle, which has seen the Read More
Cast Dot – One Of The Best Hanayama Cast Puzzles
I was very fortunate to have received a prototype copy of the Dot, the latest Hanayama cast puzzle from their good folks during IPP37, which took place last weekend in Paris, France. The Dot, as far as I can tell is presently only available to the market in Japan via Japanese retailers and several (Japanese) Read More