For lovers of interlocking puzzles (and those of you who missed out on my Dirty Dozen), there is a Kickstarter project ongoing now which features two of my designs, the Dirty Dozen and L(8)tice. The
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GyroTwisty
The GyroTwisty is another Diniar Namdarian-designed puzzle that I played with over the weekend. It also happens to be the Exchange Puzzle of Hendrik Haak at IPP38 in San Diego this past August. The GyroTwisty
The Vault – Guest Post By Mike Desilets
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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