This colourful 2D packing puzzle is the joint design effort of Rex Rosanno Perez and Stanislav Knot. Rex hails from the Philippines and Stan is from the Czech Republic.. Joint designs for puzzles are not uncommon. I had a joint design with Stan here for my own Exchange Puzzle called the SYM-353, which will be Read More
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Concentric Arc
After a dismal week or so of not being able to find the correct solution for the Gridlock at the Arc De Triomphe, I thought I would try another kind of “arc”. This time, it’s the Concentric Arc, a maze puzzle. The Concentric Arc owes its origins to the Saunder’s Puzzle, a design which came Read More
Gridlock At The Arc De Triomphe
Two years back, I had great fun with and was able to solve without help, Vladimir Krasnoukkov’s AntiSlide Tetramino puzzle. Hence, I didn’t think that this latest anti slide puzzle in my collection, the Grid Lock would pose too much of a problem. How wrong I was! Gridlock was Jerry Slocum’s IPP37 Exchange Puzzle at Read More
OMPIC
When I first saw this puzzle, I didn’t know what OMPIC meant. Well, I had seen Allard Walker talk about the puzzle on his blog a while back and thanks to him, I found out that it means One Minute Puzzle In Cube. OMPIC was James Dalgety’s IPP37 Exchange Puzzle. I have met James during Read More
Security Lock
The last several months, all the attention appears to have been showered on Rainer Popp’s very massive, very challenging and very expensive puzzle lock, the T11 Popplock. This week I had the chance to play with a somewhat more humble lock, the Security Lock designed by Liang-Jen Wu (Mister Wu) of Taiwan. The Security Lock was also Read More
Ring Bottle Puzzle By Wil Strijbos
This glass puzzle called the Ring Bottle Puzzle. It has been sitting at the top shelf of my puzzle closet for the longest time. So long that I had forgotten about it for almost 7 years. I had bought it from Finnish online puzzle store Oy Sloyd Ab (sorry I can’t pronounce) run by Tomas Linden. Read More
Who Moved My (Swiss) Cheese?
I got this rather cute and interesting packing puzzle, the Swiss Cheese courtesy of William Waite. I have had the pleasure of meeting William on several occasions during the past IPPs and corresponded with him previously. We had done a private puzzle exchange; my Ball In Cylinder No 2 for two of his own-designed puzzles. Read More
Simplexity – “Natural” Disentanglement Puzzle
Strange Catapult looking device I have never been good at nor too interested in disentanglement puzzles, hence my collection is very small as I generally don’t buy any. As far as I can remember the only one that I have ever bought was the Tricky Dick puzzle. Those in my current collection come mainly from Read More
A Wooden Puzzle From Wil Strijbos
From Wil Strijbos? I think a wooden puzzle coming from Wil Strijbos would be usually somewhat of a surprise. Most puzzlers know Wil Strijbos as a designer of challenging, high quality (and some rather expensive) puzzles made of metal! Well, don’t let the title of this post fool you. This wooden puzzle from Wil was Read More
Chorazin – A Puzzle Inspired By A Synagogue
This is the second put together puzzle designed by Yael Meron that I have played with (the first being Tel Arad). I must say I really enjoyed this one. I have met Yael Meron, who hails from Israel at the past several IPPs and exchanged puzzles with her. Like the Tel Arad, Chorazin is inspired by Read More
Yet Another Clover Puzzle YACP
This has got to be one of the most colourful and “pretty” packing puzzles around. The YACP was Rik van Grol’s IPP37 Exchange Puzzle in Paris last year. With a name like that, I can only assume that he had a previous Clover Puzzle. And it must have been exchanged before 2014, the year I Read More
International ( Puzzle Party) Airports
Now amongst the many 2D packing puzzles made of acrylic (a.k.a Plexiglass), the International Puzzle Party Airports Puzzle (“IPPA”) must be one of the best made and sophisticated looking ones around. I really like the way the tray has been put together and the letters laser etched so nicely on the inside. The IPPA is Read More
Formula
I had a bit of spare time late Sunday afternoon so I thought I would separate out from my four years worth of IPP Exchange Puzzles those 3D packing ones that I thought would make a good article featuring “impossible” 3D packing puzzles. Not because they are impossible to solve; physically or otherwise, obviously they Read More
Coffin’s Four Piece Cube
This weekend I opted for a “simpler” interlocking cube to navigate. So I decided on Norton Starr’s IPP37 Exchange Puzzle, Coffin’s Four Piece Interlocking Cube, designed by Stewart Coffin, the latter’s design #93. For the several IPPs that I have exchanged puzzles with Norton, he has engaged the services of Bill Sheckels, a fine furniture Read More
Deadly Romance
This post is dedicated to fellow puzzler and designer Markus Gotz, who passed away on 7 January 2018. I have had the pleasure of meeting Markus at several IPPs previously and most recently last year in August during IP37 in Paris. He was a fine gentleman with a sense of humour and quite full of Read More
MiSenary Box
Dear Puzzlers UPDATE 22 Jan 2018 – Free Goodies For Winning Bidder of misenary box!!! Michel van Ipenburg has decided to give incentives for bids exceeding various levels in the hope that this will raise higher bids for charity. These are fantastic puzzles and I have played with three of them personally. Bid more than € 450 Read More