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 resist getting Leo Smetsers’ other trick “box” called The Vault. It is worthy of the name, I assure you. But Read More
Month: September 2018
The Metagrobologist Issue No. 5
The latest issue of Metagobologist is out. Started in 2015 by Dave Holt from the UK, the fifth issue hard copy magazine is available for pre-order and will only go to print if there are 100 orders or more. Click on the link below for more info. https://www.themetagrobologistmagazine.co.uk/
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 mainly been fabricated out of laser cut acrylic in the past. Of late, he has started producing puzzles using 3D Read More
U-Sockel By Jean-Claude Constantin
Unlike the Adam & Eve entanglement puzzle which I was able to solve on my own, I had little luck with Jean-Claude Constantin’s U-Sockel. Socke in German means “base” in English. The U-Sockel came to me courtesy of fellow puzzle collector/designer Goh Pit Khiam. He had dropped by my place last Sunday to take a Read More
Super Cube
I am not a fan of twisty puzzles nor good at solving them. Not at all. With the exception of some twisties which I bought (because I liked their physical appearance), I own very few. Less than a dozen perhaps, mainly gifted from generous puzzle friends. But during IPP38 in San Diego this past August, Read More