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Not one of the regular Hordern or Slocum categories the term Sequential-Discovery puzzle has been heard more and more recently. 

	Gold Coast Parking Meter Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange  - Gold Coast, Australia, August 2007 Presented by Brian Young.  Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia.  Designed by Brian Young. The object is to get the 10c inside the parking meter.  Make sure you reassemble the parking meter with the 10c correctly inside. Getting money out of a parking meter is usually illegal so please don't try to do that with this puzzle! This puzzle does not easily slot into one of the regular Hordern or Slocum categories so we have called it a Sequential-Discovery puzzle.  Yes, it is a Take-Apart puzzle.  It is also a Put-Together puzzle.  There are a number of different challenges you will have to complete to do the puzzle.   In this case the reassembly of the puzzle is a different puzzle to taking it apart.  No external tools are necessary for disassembly or reassembly of the puzzle, although you will have to find tools within, and determine how to use them, to complete the puzzle. Puzzle made from Yellow Leichhardt.  Stand made from Mackay Cedar.  Yellow Leichhardt was used because of it's distinctive bright yellow colour to try to match the golden colour that parking meters on the Gold Coast are painted.  Size: 160mm x 30mm x 80mm. Click this link to view some photos from IPP27 Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange. Brian generally stives to theme puzzles relating to where IPP is being held and because he was close to home this year he was able to go "all out" by having Sophie, a Gold Coast Meter Maid, as his very capable (and popular) exchange assistant. Meter Maids were first seen in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast in 1965 to try to help beat the bad image created by the installation of parking meters.  Gorgeous girls in gold bikinis fed coins into expired parking meters to prevent tourists from being fined, causing quite a controversy at the time.  They are still seen in Surfers today although they are generally hired by local businesses these days.		Price:	QTY:

	DEPOSIT - Telephone Box Currently we have sold all puzzles made and have orders for more.   With finishing our LE puzzles and making special designs for IPP28 we may find it difficult to deliver more Telephone Boxes until the last quarter of the year. If you would like to order one of these puzzles you can do so by paying this A$50.00 deposit.  Puzzles will be delivered on a first ordered first delivered basis.  We will keep you updated by email when delivery is expected.		Price:	QTY:

	Telephone Box Currently we have sold all puzzles made and have orders for more.   With finishing our LE puzzles and making special designs for IPP28 we may find it difficult to deliver more Telephone Boxes until the last quarter of the year. If you would like to order one of these puzzles you can do so by paying this A$50.00 deposit.  We will keep you updated by email when delivery is expected. (Click here).   Entrant IPP Design Competition 2007 The puzzle is to open the telephone box to allow you to have fun with the packing puzzle inside.  To open the telephone box you will need to solve a series of puzzles to find the required tools, and work out how to use them, to open the door.  The pieces packed inside the telephone box spell the words TELEPHONE box. The box is a replica of a full size 1950's Queensland PMG telephone box.  We have one here at home which Brian has restored. For the IPP27 Giant Puzzle day pieces have been made from cardboard to make this same packing puzzle inside the real telephone box. The dimensions are 115mm x 115mm x 225mm tall. The telephone box is made from Sycamore wood. The letters of the telephone box are made from other exotic Australian timbers: T Blush Alder E Grey Gum L Queensland Blackbean E Grey Gum P Red Oak H Brown Quondong O Saffron Heart N Flooded Gum E Grey Gum b Red Oak o Black Wattle x Blackbutt		Price:	Out of Stock

	SEARious Burr 13 piece burr with secret lock Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange  - Chicago, USA,  August 2003 Another completely new design by Brian Young. The puzzle is to take the SEARious burr apart.  Modelled on Chicago's tallest building, the Sears Tower, Brian created this 13 piece interlocking burr.  But it's so much more than just an interlocking burr;  incorporating the use of tools supplied as part of the puzzle it's biggest challenge is to open the secret lock.  It will take 13 moves to unlock the secret internal mechanism.   (The elegant solutions does not involve force, or banging, or hitting against another surface). Currently we do not have stock of this puzzle. We intend to make them later in 2008. Click here to be added to our waiting list to be notified of new stocks of this puzzle. Is 13 your lucky number?		Price:	Out of Stock