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