Aloha Kākou puzzlers, I return to JL Puzzles for a quick follow-up to last month’s Flight Case post. As it turns out, I actually own two Smetsers items. When I purchased Flight Case, I couldn’t Read More
Tag: disassembly
Sewing Box
Diniar Namdarian from Germany has always been very well known for his many 2D sliding block puzzle designs. In fact I have quite a number of puzzles he has produced over the years. These have Read More
Hanayama Cast Arrows
It was a busy last weekend for me at IPP38 in San Diego, California, USA. Two hectic days consisting of the Puzzle Exchange (blog post to come) and the Puzzle Party. Not to mention that 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 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 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 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. 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 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 Read More
Currency R&R
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 Read More
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 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 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 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 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 Read More