Puzzles by Difficulty|challenging puzzles|Mr Puzzle

It is important to present the person with a challenge you don't want to discourage them by buying a puzzle they have no chance of ever doing. So, if you're buying a person's first puzzle, but you still want it to be very hard, it may be wise to begin at a puzzle rated 5 to 7 rather than going for a 10 first up.

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	Karakuri small puzzle box #3	QTY:
	Designed & made by the Karakuri Creation Group this puzzle group is unlike other more traditional Japanese puzzle boxes. Once you know the solution you can open it in four moves. One of them is quite unconventional which makes the overall solution very interesting. This very special puzzle box is crafted in Oak. Size outside: 42mm x 47mm x 60mm Space inside: 30mm x 26mm x 25mm

	12 piece interlocking burr puzzle	QTY:
	The puzzle is to disassemble and reassemble this interlocking wooden burr puzzle. The puzzle has 11 identical pieces plus one with an extra check out. This puzzle included in discount set of 4 for just $20. Click here.

	Brick sticks 15 piece diagonal burr puzzle	QTY:
	The object is to assemble the 15 piece diagonal interlocking burr puzzle. Using diagonally oriented wooden pieces has been a distinct feature of wooden interlocking puzzles made in Finland for over 100 years. The National Museum in Helsinki exhibits a diagonal burr made around 1910 but it is known that as early as 1888 Chandler patented a 13 piece diagonal burr. We expect this 15 piece version to be quite a handful. It has a slight change on original Finnish design which helps lock the puzzle together.

	Alles Käse 4 pieces of cheese puzzle	QTY:
	The challenge is to fit all the pieces of cheese into the frame. No - it's not good enough to get just 3 of them in. All 4 will definitely fit. Another deceptive design by Jürgen Reiche.

	Bamboo Burr with 6 door-framed shaped pieces 7004	QTY:
	Difficulty Rating 3 out of 5 = Dilemma 6 door-framed pieces with notches interlock to make a cubular shaped burr puzzle. The puzzle is an Eco Game made from Bamboo.

	Traffic Lights wood and rope puzzle	QTY:
	DIFFICULTY RATING 5 The object is to rope from the wood to release the long bar. Mr Puzzle has redesigned the original to make it TWO PUZZLES IN ONE. Once the long bar is off you can use it as a completely different puzzle, the well known ‘Buttonhole Puzzle’. With this puzzle we provide the solution to BOTH the Traffic Lights and the Buttonhole Puzzle. This puzzle covered by Australian Design Registration No. 153007 This puzzle featured in CFF Magazine July 2006 article "Secrets of a Simple Type of String Puzzle" by Lambert Bright. Click here for a link to CFF web site.

	Do Re Mi metal disentanglement puzzle	QTY:
	Difficulty Level: 3 out of 5 The object is to remove the ring from the puzzle. You'll be happy enough to start singing when you solve this one. Buy ANY 4 puzzles in the set for $34.00 SAVE $1.45 per puzzle. Click here.

	Convict's Escape metal disentanglement	QTY:
	Difficulty 5 The object is to remove the ring from the puzzle. You'll really need to be an escape artist to get the ring off this puzzle! Buy ANY 4 puzzles in the set and save $1 per puzzle. Click here.

	Snake cube small wooden cube on elastic rope	QTY:
	The puzzle is to build a larger cube from the length of 27 smaller cubes arranged on an elastic rope to look like a snake; hence the name Snake Cube but it's sometimes also known as the Chain Cube or the Elastic Cube. Also available in a larger size. Click here.

	Snake cube large wooden cube on elastic rope	QTY:
	The puzzle is to build a larger cube from the length of 27 smaller cubes arranged on an elastic rope to look like a snake; hence the name Snake Cube but it's sometimes also known as the Chain Cube or the Elastic Cube. Also available in a smaller size. Click here.

	Dovetail Apple trick opening puzzle	QTY: Apple colour
	The objective of the puzzle is to separate the two halves of the apple. A beautiful example of an impossible dovetail, made for generations in wood, but being precision made in alumnium you can't beat the accuracy. Once you open it you'll discover a nice lock, not too difficult and space inside to put a small ring. It must be a ring because like any other apple it has a core; but there's a space around the core. An alternative to a more traditional puzzle box to present a ring. Size: Diameter of the apple is 33mm. Maximum outside diameter of ring inside is 25mm. Diameter of the apple core is 12mm.

	Baroq - Cast metal disentaglement puzzle	QTY:
	Difficulty Level 4 The puzzle is to separate the two pieces fashioned after the image of intertwining Bach melodies.

	Rattle 4 piece cast puzzle	QTY:
	Difficulty Level 4 The puzzle is to separate the four pieces from each other then put them back together again. Four pieces of the same shape are loosely interlocked to make the puzzle. The pieces fit loosely together and it seems they should be easy to take apart.

	Bolaris Domino - 3D sliding sphere puzzle	QTY:
	Difficulty Level 3/4 Difficult Once all the pieces have been scrambled to solve the puzzle slide the pieces around until the rectangular pieces form a continuous chain of dominos around the ball. As in the game of Dominos the points value must be the same as the matched side on the adjacent piece.

	San Francisco Cable Car wooden puzzle	QTY:
	Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - San Francisco, USA, August 2009 Presented by Itgel Tumen-Ulzii. Made by Zandraa Tumen-Ulzii. Designed by Zandraa Tumen-Ulzii. When Itgel asked his father to design and make a puzzle to present at the Edward Hordern Exchange event at IPP29 the question was "What is San Francisco well known for?" Itgel immediately said Cable Car however Mr Tumen-Ulzii had never seen one (certainly there are no Cable Cars in Mongolia). He designed and made this very complex take-apart 13 piece puzzle in the shape of a cable car from just a photograph.

	Tangled Tracks hexagonal match puzzle	QTY:
	The puzzle is to make a continuous line using all 14 tiles. It’s possible to do it for all three colours. Then take the challenge to build loops of particular colours. The ultimate challenge will be to build a continuous loop using all 14 tiles but along the way you’ll even discover multiple loops are possible.

	Coaster - Cast Puzzle	QTY:
	Difficulty Level 4 The puzzle is to try to get the three pieces apart and then back together again. To the people at Hanayama it looked like a strange adornment weaved into a "coiffure" design.

	Uncaged Star also known as Hedgehog in the Cage	QTY: Colour
	Difficulty - Hard but not Extreme The puzzle is to remove shuttle from within the cage. The puzzle also available in a stainless steel version here.

	Man The Torpedo cast Hedgehog puzzle	QTY:
	Difficulty - Hard but not Extreme The puzzle is to remove shuttle from within the cage. Better known as the "Hedgehog in the Cage" this puzzle has it's roots firmly in the Czech Republic. The first publication of the puzzle was in print in 1940 in an adventure magazine for boys published by Jaroslav Folgar; the puzzle was not made commercially in wood until 1941. Also available in coloured version here.

	Round hollow 6 piece interlocking burr	QTY:
	Assemble the 6 pieces into the interlocking ball. There are 5 identical pieces plus one locking piece.

	TV wooden packing puzzle	QTY:
	The puzzle is to pack the seven pieces into the retro television set frame. An interesting 3D packing puzzle with one fixed cube to limit the possible solutions. This puzzle is not only a 3D packing puzzle but has an interesting step to disasssemble. The puzzle was designed by Viteslav Krejci in 2008 and made in the workshops of Pelikan using a selection of both European woods including maple, walnut, birch, ash, apple, pear, cherry, oak, beech, plum, and acacia as well as some more exotic woods like mahogany, ebony, begging, wenge, walnut, American, padank, rosewood, amaranth, Bubinga, owango, jarah, meranti, and iroko.

	Tantrix Xtreme puzzle WAS 19.95 Sale Price NOW 15.50	QTY:
	Tantrix Xtreme is a more fiendish (and extreme) version of Tantrix Discovery. It contains 8 loop puzzles with an extra twist: no colour clue is given for each level. Plus 2 new tricky pyramid puzzles! Your aim is to build loops of various shapes and sizes, starting with just 3 tiles. Each new tile added gives you a different and more challenging puzzle. Race yourself against the challenge times given on the pack.

	Jackaroos Stirrup metal disentanglement	QTY:
	Difficulty 5 The object is to remove the ring from the puzzle. The Aah! feeling when you do it is what will spur you on. Buy ANY 4 puzzles in the set and save $1 per puzzle. Click here.

	Hard Yakka metal disentanglement	QTY:
	Difficulty 5 The object is to remove the shuttle from the puzzle. This puzzle could really take some 'hard yakka' to complete! Buy ANY 4 puzzles in the set and save $1 per puzzle. Click here.

	Blacksmith's Bell metal disentanglement	QTY:
	Difficulty 5 The object is to remove the ring from the puzzle. You'll really need to understand metal to get this one apart! Buy ANY 4 puzzles in the set and save $1 per puzzle. Click here.

	Radix - Cast disentaglement puzzle	QTY:
	Difficulty Level 4 The Radix puzzle is known for both it's monumental looks and somewhat organic styling and movement. The entire unit gives off an air of antique wisdom, the pieces joined at the base in chaotic harmony.

	The Cube wooden packing puzzle	QTY:
	Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange - Gold Coast, Australia, August 2007 Presented by Andreas Röver. Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia. Designed by Andreas Röver. The object of the puzzle is to make a cube with the given pieces. Not your usual 3x3 cube; a very entertaining puzzle. Puzzle made from cedar stained Radiata. Size: 90mm x 90mm x 45mm (pieces made from 20mm x 20mm stock)

	Tresorpack 6 - Blocks puzzle	QTY:
	Difficulty 5/5 There are six different pieces loose inside the wooden cage. They do not come out of the cage but the cage does have openings down each of the four vertical sides. The puzzle is to assemble them into a square block inside the cage.

	Tresorpack 6 - Balls puzzle	QTY:
	Difficulty 5/5 There are just three different pieces loose inside the wooden cage. They do not come out of the cage but the cage does have openings down each of the four vertical sides. The puzzle is to assemble them into a tetrahedron inside the cage.

	Japanese trick box 4 Sun 21 Step	QTY:
	To open a Japanese puzzle box one or more sliding pieces hidden within the patterns on the box must be moved. Even the bottom and top panels move with this one. There are 21 separate moves or 21 steps to open this trick opening puzzle box. Just the thing if you really want a challenge. Or what a way to prolong the gift giving if the person has to find all these moves to get their present. Size: 4 Sun (a traditional unit of measure to denote length) Actual size outside: 119mm x 83mm x 52mm Space inside: 73mm x 60mm x 32mm Because each puzzle box is handmade in Japan the pattern on each one will be very similar but may vary slightly from the photo shown here.

	Prisma-ster interlocking 4 piece puzzle	QTY:
	Difficulty 3/5 The puzzle is to interlock these 4 pieces to make the burr. As with many of Vinco's puzzle you are also presented the challenge of getting it apart before you can even begin the assembly process.

	Chrystal 33 piece wooden burr	QTY:
	Sometimes called the Japanese Chrystal or Pagoda puzzle this one has 33 pieces to assemble the interlocking burr. Each of the 33 pieces has been interlocked to make a symmetrical, multifaceted structure with a solid core. Includes sheet with helpful hints to solve. We also have a 51 piece version of this puzzle. Click here.

	Karakuri small puzzle box #2	QTY:
	Designed & made by the Karakuri Creation Group this puzzle is unlike other more traditional Japanese puzzle boxes. Once you know the solution you can open it in just two moves. But one of them is quite a unique movement so don't be fooled that that makes it easy to open! This very special puzzle box is crafted in Katura wood (a type of Cherry tree). Size outside: 42mm x 42mm x 60mm Space inside: 31mm x 17mm x 24mm

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