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
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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 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. 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
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
Singapore Puzzle Party (SPP02)
The second Singapore Puzzle Party was held on 5th December 2017. It might not even have happened if not for Oskar van Deventer contacting David Ang, Goh Pit Khiam and me to let us know Read More
Another Sharp Looking Puzzle
Until I did a Google for the meaning of French Point, I thought all razor blades for shaving were the same. Not that I know any better since I use a pocket electric shaver on Read More
L(8)tice-2 Interlocking Burr
My L(8)tice-2 interlocking burr design came about after I saw Andrei Ivanov from Russia selling copies of his Lattice Xi-2 on his metal puzzles site Mertallofactua. Andrei’s Lattice Xi-2 is an “enhanced version of the Read More