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IPP38 Puzzle Party – Part 6
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IPP38 Puzzle Party – Part 5
Now this must surely be one of, if not the most expensive puzzle in the world. At US$40,000 a pop, this exquisitely made puzzle cabinet was custom crafted by Robert Yarger for a very discerning puzzle couple. Go to part 6
IPP38 Puzzle Party – Part 4
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IPP38 Puzzle Party – Part 3
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IPP38 Puzzle Party – San Diego – Part 1
This 38th edition of this year’s International Puzzle Party (IPP38) was held in San Diego, California, USA from 10th – 12th August 2018. Venue was a nice hotel downtown, the Wyndham San Diego Bayside. The Puzzle Party is an official event of the IPP. It is held on the second day and last from about Read More
IPP38 Puzzle Design Competition
The IPP38 Nob Yoshigahara Puzzle Design Competition entries are out. A total of 67 designs from around the world. From what I can see, there are loads of really interesting designs and I can’t wait to play with them at IPP38 next weekend. Click on the link below to view the wonderful and incredible creations Read More
3D Puzzle – Berro(Skull)
After successfully producing my first stainless steel burr style interlocking puzzle the Dirty Dozen, I was eager to try out another interlocking design in metal. And I got my inspiration from the wonderfully beautiful puzzle sculptures of Miguel Berrocal. And what incredible works of art they are. A while back, I had designed a 3D Skull Read More
Anti-Gravity Box
Happy Friday the 13th! For me, it was my lucky day…I solve a rather difficult puzzle without resorting to the solution! It’s been several weeks since my last puzzle blog post. Sorry, I was very busy with work and other commitments. I had also spent quite a bit of time producing and listing new puzzles Read More
Haleslock 3
In the modern era of puzzle lock designers, undisputedly, only one or two names come to mind; Rainer Popp, the master of eleven Popplock designs to date. Dan Feldman is the other with his Danlock variants A & B. Seems like his son Boaz is also following in dad’s footsteps with his own B-Lock. The Read More
Symmetric Shape Puzzles
The IPP37 Puzzle Exchange saw no less than half a dozen or so symmetric shape puzzles. These and other similar style ones have become increasingly popular for puzzlers and designers in recent years. Especially so after Symmetrick, an innocuous looking two piece puzzle by Vesa Timonen got a Top 10 Vote Getter during the IPP33 Puzzle Read More
Adam & Eve
I normally don’t quite fancy disentanglement puzzles. But once in a while along comes something that looks to be quite manageable without all that twisting ropes and such and I will give one a try. The Adam & Eve puzzle, with such a name, now who can avoid being curious just what sort of puzzle Read More
Double Feature
This weekend’s puzzle is the Double Feature designed by Stewart Coffin. Exchanged by Saul Bobroff at IPP37, the Double Feature is Coffin’s design # X-75A as indicated on the packaging. There is a design #75A called Two Tiers but I am not sure what the X stands for. If anyone knows, please feel free to Read More
9 Puzzle – Hordern B25
Designer Naoaki Takashima designed this sliding block puzzle way in March 1985. From what I have heard, Takashima-san owns the largest collection of mechanical puzzles in Japan. The collection it seems is well in excess of 10,000 puzzles. IPP37 was Takashima-san’s 30th IPP party todate! So far I have played with one other of Takashima-san’s Read More
Eiffel Six Cube
I had read about this Eiffel Six Cube Puzzle a while back. This was a blog post by Allard Walker sometime in September last year. At that time, I commented on his post that I would give this puzzle a miss. Apparently Allard had quite a struggle with it, so did puzzler Stephen Chin and Read More