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 that it means One Minute Puzzle In Cube. OMPIC was James Dalgety’s IPP37 Exchange Puzzle. I have met James during Read More
Month: March 2018
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 somewhat more humble lock, the Security Lock designed by Liang-Jen Wu (Mister Wu) of Taiwan. The Security Lock was also 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 years. I had bought it from Finnish online puzzle store Oy Sloyd Ab (sorry I can’t pronounce) run by Tomas Linden. 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 previously. We had done a private puzzle exchange; my Ball In Cylinder No 2 for two of his own-designed puzzles. Read More
Simplexity – “Natural” Disentanglement Puzzle
Strange Catapult looking device I have never been good at nor too interested in disentanglement puzzles, hence my collection is very small as I generally don’t buy any. As far as I can remember the only one that I have ever bought was the Tricky Dick puzzle. Those in my current collection come mainly from Read More
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) puzzles made of metal! Well, don’t let the title of this post fool you. This wooden puzzle from Wil was Read More