A very Happy New Year to all my puzzle friends and blog readers! This is my first post for 2019. I have known puzzle collector and designer Rex Rossano Perez from the Philippines for the Read More
Tag: acrylic
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
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 Read More
9 Puzzle – Hordern B25
Designer Naoaki Takashima designed this sliding block puzzle way in March 1985. From what I have heard, Takashima-san owns the largest collection of mechanical puzzles in Japan. The collection it seems is well in excess 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
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
Chorazin – A Puzzle Inspired By A Synagogue
This is the second put together puzzle designed by Yael Meron that I have played with (the first being Tel Arad). I must say I really enjoyed this one. I have met Yael Meron, who hails Read More
Yet Another Clover Puzzle YACP
This has got to be one of the most colourful and “pretty” packing puzzles around. The YACP was Rik van Grol’s IPP37 Exchange Puzzle in Paris last year. With a name like that, I can Read More
International ( Puzzle Party) Airports
Now amongst the many 2D packing puzzles made of acrylic (a.k.a Plexiglass), the International Puzzle Party Airports Puzzle (“IPPA”) must be one of the best made and sophisticated looking ones around. I really like the Read More
The Melting Tile
Happy New Year everyone and may 2018 bring you wonderful blessings and happiness. This is my first blog post of the year and I thought I would start off with a rather interesting and unique Read More