Push Box 3 is a puzzle box and third in the series of Push Box puzzles designed and made by award winning puzzle designer, Dr Simon Nightingale of the UK. As the name would suggest, the previous incarnations of the puzzle were the Push Box and Push Box 2. All three puzzles share the same Read More
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Paris Pinned Wedge Key Puzzle
Keith Winegar’s rather lengthy named IPP37 Exchange Puzzle, the “Paris Pinned Wedge Key Puzzle” (PPWKP) is the latest in the series of his take apart Wedge Key Puzzles. These puzzles look like jigsaw puzzles but is anything but such. His second version, the “Pinned Wedge Key Puzzle” was also his IPP35 Exchange Puzzle in Ottawa Read More
The Melting Tile
Happy New Year everyone and may 2018 bring you wonderful blessings and happiness. This is my first blog post of the year and I thought I would start off with a rather interesting and unique packing puzzle designed by my good friend and awarding winning puzzle designer Goh Pit Khiam. The puzzle in question is Read More
Twisted Sisters
It sounds like the name of the 1970s heavy metal rock band…but that is Twisted Sister, without the “s”. This one is the name given to Theo Geerinck’s IPP37 Exchange Puzzle. The goal is to form a symmetric shape, two to be precise. The puzzle is made of wood and consists of just two pieces Read More
Singapore Puzzle Party (SPP02)
The second Singapore Puzzle Party was held on 5th December 2017. It might not even have happened if not for Oskar van Deventer contacting David Ang, Goh Pit Khiam and me to let us know he would be in town for a week on business and for us to catch up like last year’s SPP01. Read More
Eye Fill Burr
The “Eye Fill Burr” was the IPP37 Exchange Puzzle of Steve Nicholls from the UK. Quite a cool name I might add for a burr puzzle that does not look like a burr; it not only describes the operation of the puzzle but the name is also a play on the words “Eiffel”, that famous Read More
Another Sharp Looking Puzzle
Until I did a Google for the meaning of French Point, I thought all razor blades for shaving were the same. Not that I know any better since I use a pocket electric shaver on my own face. If you clicked on this link, you will find the various types of tips/points for shaving razors…stuff Read More
Hanayama Cast Ring
I have had the Cast Ring for quite a long time now, one of those puzzles that I bought a while back, stacked it together with other puzzles in the puzzle cupboard out of sight and promptly forgot about it. Until a couple of days ago when I was doing some puzzle tidying and out Read More
Two In Frame Type B
Now here is a rather nice 2-piece interlocking caged burr puzzle that I had some fun playing with. Two In Frame (TIF) is the design of Andrey Ustjuzhanin of Russia. Ustjuzhanin has to-date 115 puzzle designs to his name published on www.puzzlewillbeplayed.com. The TIF was the exchange puzzle of Bernhard Schweitzer of Germany at IPP37 in Read More
Euro Falle 06 (La Luna) Wooden Puzzle
The Euro Falle 06 is the latest instalment of the line of Euro Falle series of coin puzzles. The primary object of each puzzle is to remove a coin “locked” inside the puzzle. Like it previous cousins, the Euro Falle 06 puzzle is the design of Jurgen Reiche and manufactured by wooden puzzle maker Siebenstein-Spiele. The Read More
Hanayama Cast Dial
The Cast Dial is the work of Vesa Timonen of Finland, who has todate designed a large number of Cast puzzles for Hanayama as well as other non-Cast puzzles. A really nice soft-spoken gentleman whom I have had the pleasure of meeting at the past several IPPs. The Dial was released about a year back Read More
Chinese Puzzle Box
This Chinese puzzle box came to me courtesy of Otis Cheng during IPP37 in Paris this past August. Those of you who know Otis and friends with him would know him by his signature style of photographing a puzzle in a Starbucks and posting on his Facebook page. Over the last several years, Otis (who’s Read More
Cubi 20 Packing Puzzle
My copy of Cubi 20 came courtesy of Frederic Boucher. Frederic had contacted me several months before IPP37 this past August to ask if I wanted to play with his Cubi 20 and give him my thoughts on his new design. In all frankness, I don’t consider myself really qualified to test and comment on Read More
L(8)tice-2 Interlocking Burr
My L(8)tice-2 interlocking burr design came about after I saw Andrei Ivanov from Russia selling copies of his Lattice Xi-2 on his metal puzzles site Mertallofactua. Andrei’s Lattice Xi-2 is an “enhanced version of the ξ-Lattice by Yoshiyuki Kotani with all six parts being different”. The Lattice Xi-2 is a 6 piece board burr and Read More
Puzzle Trick Locks – Haleslock 4 & Chinese Combination Locks
Haleslock 4 Apart from being hosted in the beautiful city of Paris, France, IPP37 is also an event to remember for the wonderful exchange puzzles; most notably the exchange of not one, not two but three trick puzzle locks. Not your usual 3D printed, acrylic or wooden pseudo locks but solid metal and brass ones Read More
Hanayama Cast Mobius
Oskar van Deventer may be very well-known in the twisty puzzle circles for his unusual twisty designs. But he also has 15 Hanayama cast puzzle designs to his name! These include the Cast Twist, Cast Nut and Cast Duet. Not to mention he has also designed numerous other types of puzzles made either out of Read More