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
Tag: Burr Tools
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)
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
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
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
CrossFit & Micro Hex Prototypes
CrossFit My CrossFit puzzle was inspired by two puzzles. First, it was Goh Pit Khiam’s Number Blocks which appeared at IPP35 in Ottawa, Canada. That puzzle had four pieces which danced in and out of
HOPE
For the last several years, I have always received acrylic sliding block puzzles from collector and designer Dinair Namdarian of Germany during the IPP Puzzle Exchange. Afterall he is very well known for his sliding
Long & Short
This is an interesting Stewart Coffin designed puzzle that was exchanged by Rob Jones at IPP37 in Paris this past August. It’s also my first “pin-hole” puzzle from Coffin. Looking at the photos you will
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