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Category Looking for something extra special for Dad for Christmas? Exceptional woodwork as well as a significant challenge for His birthday? You won't just find innovative and exquisite puzzles on this page, you'll also find groups of puzzles put together in discounted sets to help your budget stretch further. Difficulty 3/5 First, try to disassemble the six pieces. All six pieces are the same. Once you've done that you'll now have the challenge to put it together again Six piece interlocking frog puzzle hand crafted from lead free pewter plated with bronze oxide. Length: 38mm Packaging: Maroon organza gift bag. The artist Kathy Bass from Peek-A-Boo is best known for her amazingly designed jewellery produced at her studio at Bangalow near Byron Bay in northern New South Wales. But not many people know that she also makes these beautiful and intricate puzzles. Kathy exhibits exclusively at local galleries and we're lucky to secure stocks of these wonderful puzzle pieces. Six piece interlocking cicada puzzle hand crafted from lead free pewter plated with bronze oxide. Length: 45mm Packaging: Maroon organza gift bag. Six piece interlocking platypus puzzle hand crafted from lead free pewter plated with silver oxide. Length: 85mm Packaging: Maroon organza gift bag. Five piece interlocking christmas beetle puzzle hand crafted from lead free pewter plated with bronze oxide. Length: 55mm Packaging: Maroon organza gift bag. Six piece interlocking crayfish puzzle hand crafted from lead free pewter plated with bronze oxide. Length: 85mm Packaging: Maroon organza gift bag. Six piece interlocking crayfish puzzle hand crafted from lead free pewter plated with silver oxide. Length: 85mm Packaging: Maroon organza gift bag. Buy the all 4 burrs in the series of original designed burrs. Reasonable quality for the budget line price further discounted if you buy the full set. Two of the burr puzzles are very different from anything we've seen before; the other two appear at first to be known designs but after playing with them they also have their own design features that make them original. They range from Difficulty Rating 2 out of 4 = Challenging to Difficulty Rating 4 out of 5 = Unbelievable. An ingenious 4 piece interlocking egg puzzle on a turned wooden stand designed in 2007 by Jaroslav Svejkovski. Whilst this is not considered an extremely difficult puzzle, the pieces are each made from many smaller complex shaped pieces glued together; finding the correct combination that are not glued, to push or pull to take apart, is very important. Once you take this puzzle apart you will need to fit the 4 pieces back together paying attention to forming the smooth surface of the egg. Because these puzzles are hand turned and finished there is only one solution. There may be a number of different assemblies but for the finished puzzle to exactly as it was made you must assemble it correctly. A great long lasting Easter present for a puzzler instead of too much chocolate. This puzzle is a fully functioning and great looking decorative puzzle lock. A very solid and strong padlock made from brass with either a standard or antique finish to choose from. You get two keys with each puzzle lock but where to put them to open it? And even when you find where to insert the key why does it still not open? The puzzle is to get your money out! Adding money to your stash is easy, but to get it out you'll need to solve the puzzle of how to open the money box. A very high quality precision engineered product from very sleek black polycarbonate by German designers Troika. Get the original puzzle plus additional challenge card sets 2, 3 and 4. Save $5.00. The goal is to escape the gridlock. Rush Hour is a sliding block game designed to challenge your sequential-thinking skills. The original puzzle comes with 40 challenge cards. Add challenge cards sets 2, 3 and 4 and now you have 160 different challenges from beginner up to Grand Master level to test your skills.
Difficulty 4/5 First, try to disassemble the 18 pieces. Once you've done that you'll now have the challenge to put it together again remembering that the The puzzle is to get your money out! Adding money to your stash is easy, but to get it out you'll need to solve the puzzle of how to open the money box. 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 three moves. But one of them is quite a unique movement compared to other Japanese puzzles boxes and so it's hard to open it without being shown. A very tricky little puzzle box! This very special puzzle box is crafted in Walnut wood. Size outside: 47mm x 47mm x 47mm 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 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 Designed & made by the Karakuri Creation Group this puzzle series is unlike other more traditional Japanese puzzle boxes. The box has an obviously separate bottom so you seem to have a clue about where to start but that just makes it more intriguing. This very special puzzle box is crafted in Rengas wood. Size outside: 47mm x 47mm x 47mm Designed & made by the Karakuri Creation Group this group of puzzles is unlike other more traditional Japanese puzzle boxes. First, it has a very obvious separate base. Second, when you rattle it you can hear an object rolling around inside. No force is required, no tapping, or hitting the puzzle, none what so ever. Maybe you can take some clue from the words of the Japanese designers "Even though you try to open it 'in your hands', it isn’t easy to open. You may not think you need a desk, but it sincerely is helpful to solve the puzzle." Or maybe that will only confuse you more. This very special puzzle box is crafted in Maple wood. Size outside: 48mm x 34mm x 42mm Designed & made by the Karakuri Creation Group this puzzle is unlike other more traditional Japanese puzzle boxes. It is not the hardest puzzle box in this series but its a very interesting play on the idea of a traditional Japanese puzzle box with a very elegant solution. The designers words about this puzzle are: "I believe you can find the first step easily. The second moves in unexpected way that is different from standard Secret Boxes. And the third step is the solution. The first and second steps are the keys of the third step. But, add to this, the first and second steps are useful for how to move the third step." This very special puzzle box is crafted in teak wood. Size outside: 50mm x 50mm x 40mm Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange - Gold Coast, Australia, August 2007 Status: 30th March 2013. Only 17 left. Once sold we won't make this puzzle again. The object of the puzzle is pull down and reassemble the Sydney Harbour Bridge. This level 6 burr (that is 6 moves to remove the first piece from the puzzle) is two separate burrs that work in conjunction with each other. The puzzle has 10 pieces in total. To open a Japanese puzzle box one or more sliding panels hidden within the patterns on the box must be moved. There are 10 separate moves or 10 steps to open this box. Size: 4 Sun (a traditional unit of measure to denote length) Designed by Wayne Daniel in 2005 this puzzle includes all five of the Patonic Solids. When disassembled all pieces are either a Platonic Solid or can be combined with other pieces for form a Platonic Solid. When assembled only the Icosahedron on the outside is visible. Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Berlin, Germany August, 2011 Status: 30th March 2013. Only 7 left. Once sold we won't make this puzzle again. The Burrliner Kruse is a 12 piece plated burr based on the Altekruse type burrs. The puzzle is a completely new design by Junichi Yananose, who took his inspiration from the original and well-known Altekruse Puzzle. It was a 'by-product' of the analysis he did to create the Windmill Burr that we made in the 2010 Limited Edition series. You can choose to have the burr sent assembled or apart. It's challenging to take apart (Level 4-2-3) but receiving it in pieces really makes it more tricky. If you're comfortable doing burrs this is still difficult but doable (and it comes with a very detailed printed solution if you get really stuck). Junichi originally name it New Altekruse Type 04 but Karst named the puzzle as a reference to the historical inventor William Altekruse and to the International Puzzle Party in Berlin. The puzzle is made from Australian Rose Alder. Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Washington DC, August 2012 The goal is to pack the eight pieces into the rhomboid shaped tray provided. For those who've never tried a Stewart Coffin tray puzzle before you'll be in for a great puzzling experience. None are trivial to solve. Brian's still working on this puzzles predecessor which has just 5 pieces to fit into the tray and now there's this one with 8. The puzzle is presented in raw wood; not sealed or painted. The challenge is take the four piece puzzle apart. If you manage that then putting it back together is even harder. This very beautifully made puzzle box is in the shape of a house. There are 7 well disguised moves to open this puzzle box. These boxes are sourced directly from Japan. They intricately designed and handmade by Japanese Craftsmen; a very high quality work of art. Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange - Gold Coast, Australia, August 2007 The puzzle is to disassemble and reassemble the 12 piece burr so that all the decorative routing is symmetrical. The puzzle can go together in two different ways. A very elegant design by Bill Darrah who is well known for designing very difficult puzzles. As well as being a burr it is actually a box with an inside space of 45mm x 45mm x 45mm. DIFFICULTY RATING 9 The puzzle is to assemble the six piece burr.
This puzzle really does show a case of 'don't judge a book by it's cover'. It may look like other six piece burrs on the outside but it is DEFINITELY not. The puzzle is incredibly more complicated than the commonly known six piece puzzle.
Bill Cutler first used a computer program to analyse six piece burrs in 1974 but it took until 1990 to analyse all possible six piece burr combinations.
Mega Six is the result of that search for the maximum number of moves for a six piece burr with a unique solution. This does not mean it has a unique assembly, due to the number of internal voids. In theory the pieces should fit together in 20 different ways however, the reality is that you can physically only put the puzzle together in one of the 20 assemblies.
Not only OUR hardest six piece burr but THE hardest six piece burr!
Timber varieties: 2. Queensland Blackbean (sorry these are no longer available - 1. Queensland Silver Ash 3. Western Australian Jarrah) Covered by Australian Design Registration No 151844 and is made under license to Bill Cutler. 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. Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - San Francisco, USA, August 2009 This sliding block puzzle is very different to others. Firstly, you cannot touch the tiles that you must slide because they are behind perspex. You must use dexterity to do this. Generally more than one block at a time will be moving which means you must think many moves ahead. Secondly, you use the blocks that you are sliding to deliver the ball bearing from top to bottom of the puzzle. This is like a maze because at the same time you are sliding the blocks you are forming the maze-like track that the ball bearing must take to arrive at the bottom. Most of the pieces are different; that is the tracks in each tile that carry the ball bearing are different. Buy all four wooden interlocking puzzles - save $1.50 per puzzle. Wine Bottle - 12 interlocking pieces In 1980 the Dutch designer Wil Strijbos created his first puzzle and this is it. The Aluminium Cross. And it's design is still as unique and intriguing as when he first created it over 30 years ago. At first you might think this is the same as other 'cross' puzzles you've seen before. It's not! Possibly the most intriguing thing about this puzzle is that even if you see the elements of the puzzle when it's apart the solution is not obvious. Wil is so confident of this fact that the puzzle even comes with a photo showing the internal workings of the puzzle. But he does not supply the solution. Get all three cubes in the series and save $7.50 that's $2.50 off per cube. Australian Road Signs Although it is less intimidating in appearance, the 2x2 cube still provides a perplexing challenge. A great place to learn how to solve a Rubik's puzzle. Special edition Earth From Space. Difficulty Level 3.5/4 Very Difficult. Once all the pieces have been scrambled to solve the puzzle slide the pieces around until the rectangular pieces form a vision of earth from outer space. The level of difficulty is higher because of the asymmetrical "face" pattern on the graphic. Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Washington DC, August 2012 There’s Red, While & Blue on the flags. There’s the White monument on a Red base. Can you find the other Blue? The object of the puzzle is to unlock and open it, find the blue, close and relock it. You’ll have solved the puzzle when you can complete these two stages. First stage Second stage All the tools you’ll require to do the puzzle are given with the puzzle. The puzzle is to take the four pieces of the puzzle apart; putting them back together will be even harder to do. The shape is symmetrical in length of it’s diagonal axis but there are two different sized sides. You end up with this shape that looks a bit like an out of square cube. A Crazy Cube! A Cube after it’s been to a party! The stocks of these new coordinated motion puzzles are very limited and we do not know if Vinco will be making more of these particular puzzles in the future. 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) Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange - Tokyo, JAPAN, August 2001 Brian created a working model of the IPP logo created by Gianni Sarcone in 1999. The puzzle is a completely new design invented by Brian Young for IPP. The puzzle is presented in Queensland Silver Ash timber. A permanent ink is used to colour the IPP logo. The object of the puzzle is to dissassemble the 13 piece rectilinear burr. This puzzle was designed by Bill Cutler in 1982 as part of his Wausau series of burrs. Prior to this he had worked mostly with the standard six piece burr but this series was an experiment in different patterns of rods along the 3 axes. Bill describes this second puzzle in the series, Wausau '82, as one of his favourite designs, saying it uses a lock picking technique. This puzzle was designed by Bill Cutler in 1983 as a continuing part of his Wausau series of burrs. There are 11 moves to remove the first piece from this puzzle. Once the series was completed in 1984 Bill described this third puzzle in the series of four , Wausau '83, as the “best of the Wausau series”. This 13 piece interlocking burr puzzle in the shape of an elephant has been made by Josef Pelikan since 1992. The Pelikan workshop uses 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. Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange - Chicago, USA, August 2003 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). Considering it has no gravity pins or magnets Brian considers it to be the hardest progressive move discovery puzzle he's designed so far. Is 13 your lucky number? Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Washington DC, August 2012 The challenge is to work your way through the puzzle to find the barrel of oil. You've inherited this oil well from Uncle Bubba who plugged it in a very tricky way back in the 1960's when oil was selling for under $3 a barrel. With oil now over $100 a barrel the challenge is to unplug the well. You'll know you've got the oil flowing again when you find the barrel of oil. Can you pitch your wits against Uncle Bubba and work out how he plugged the well? You will have to discover a range of tools and work out how to use them, some are very well disguised, to reach the final goal. Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange - Gold Coast, Australia, August 2007 The object is to get the 10c inside the parking meter. Make sure you reassemble the parking meter with the 10c correctly inside. The 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. 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. You can reassemble the puzzle in reverse using all the tools the same as when you took it apart. But there is a way of using one of the tools in a slightly different way to create an easier assembly. The puzzle will still be able to be disassembled the original way. See if you can find it... 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. Independant review of this puzzle: http://www.puzzlemad.co.uk/2011/11/gold-coast-parking-meter.html 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. Set of 3 standard Bolaris 3D sliding block puzzles. Harmaa. Vastavari. Domino. SAVE $1.50 off each puzzle. DISCOUNTED SETS. Choose any 6 of the Hanayama cast metal puzzles from our range and get $1.00 off each puzzle. Tick 6 boxes out of the 25 in any combination you want to make up your discounted set. Yes, the choice of what's in the set is yours! The puzzle is to take the four pieces of the rounded tetrahedron puzzle apart and then put them back together again which is even harder to do. The checkered pattern and precise fit of the puzzle make determining which facets to grip to take the puzzle apart quite a challenge. The stocks of these new coordinated motion puzzles are very limited and we do not know if Vinco will be making more of these particular puzzles in the future. The puzzle is to take the four pieces of the puzzle apart and then put them back together again. Two different coloured woods shaped into an octahedron with a small curved pyramid appended to each side precisely machined to form a beautiful flower shape. An now you have to find where the four pieces start and finish so you can take it apart. Quite a challenge. The stocks of these new coordinated motion puzzles are very limited and we do not know if Vinco will be making more of these particular puzzles in the future. The puzzle is to take the four pieces of the puzzle apart and then put them back together again. The shape is two tetrahedrons that have been joined together with the edges and vertexes truncated although recognising the original shape is very difficult in the end result. This, and the very precise fit and pattern, just makes fitting the pieces back together even harder; that is assuming you can even get it apart. The stocks of these new coordinated motion puzzles are very limited and we do not know if Vinco will be making more of these particular puzzles in the future. Difficulty ranges from 4/10 to 8/10 Test your patience.... Get all 12 different wire puzzles for the price of 10. You get not just one but TWO puzzle for FREE. This is a new type Secret Opening Japanese Puzzle Box. To open this Japanese puzzle box and reveal the secret compartment you must make 18 moves in the correct order. Unlike the traditional secret box, like the Koyosegi 2 and 4 sun boxes we also sell, where only 4 faces of the box move, all 6 surfaces of this box must slide in a set combination to allow this box to be opened. Even if you've solved Japanese puzzle boxes before this one can be a little tricky!
This very special puzzle box is made of walnut with decorative strips of contrasting coloured woods on all six sides beautifully inlaid. The box is made from Walnut and the inlaid woods are: White - Maple Red/Purple - Purple Heart Black - Wenge DIFFICULTY RATING 7 Two of the most popular puzzles ever made and sold in the world have been used to make this unique puzzle. The puzzle is to assemble both the Soma Cube and the six piece diagonal burr at the same time. Entrant IPP Design Competition 2004. The object of the puzzle is to open the cylinder. As usual with Wil's designs, this is nowhere near as easy as it sounds! And sound is important when solving this puzzle. This puzzle does not give up it's secrets easily and like a lot of Wil's puzzles you are often working blind. Get all three classic Rubik's cubes in the series and save $2.00 on each puzzle. Set of 3x3 plus 4x4 plus 5x5 cubes. The puzzle is to return the cube to its original state... every side finally having one solid color. Rubik's Cube 3x3 is the incredibly addictive, multi-dimensional challenge that has fascinated puzzle fans aroudn the world since 1980. Mr Puzzle Australia Gift Voucher/s can be redeemed for the value of puzzles and freight.
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