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.
To open a Japanese puzzle box one or more sliding pieces hidden within the patterns on the box must be moved. There are 4 separate moves or 4 steps to open this box. Imagine if someone has to find these moves before they can receive their gift. Especially if you're giving an expensive gift the high quality craftsmanship make these secret boxes perfect.
Size: 4 Sun (a traditional unit of measure to denote length) Actual size outside: 119mm x 83mm x 52mm Space inside: 75mm x 61mm x 38mm 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.
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.
Click here to buy full set of 5 different puzzles. $20 discount.
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?
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.
The special offer includes the original Rush Hour puzzle with playing grid surface with pull out card drawer, 4 standard trucks and 11 standard cars, 1 fancy car (that's for you to drive out of the traffic jam, 40 challenge cards and a bonus storage bag for easy transport. It also includes additional challenge card sets 2, 3 and 4 and the bonus cars that come with them.
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.
The challenge is take the four piece puzzle apart. If you manage that then putting it back together into the interlocking Octahedron is even harder.
Each puzzle has the same 4 complex pieces but the outside finish of the puzzle varies. Puzzles are finished as either 1. Smooth edged mixed colours 2. Sharp edged 3. Smooth edged single colours. Please choose the exact puzzle you want from the list when you order.
Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange - Gold Coast, Australia, August 2007 Presented by Paul McDermott. Made by Paul McDermott and Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia. Designed by Paul McDermott.
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.
There is an interesting sequence of 13 forward and backward moves required to disassemble this puzzle... Yes, that’s 13 moves to get the first piece out and that’s not the trickiest part of the puzzle.
Once completely apart, there are 5485 false solutions (in other words, false assemblies), meaning the puzzle looks like it should go together but you can’t get the last piece in. Only the specific sequence of 13 moves will allow you to insert the last piece and solve this puzzle.
This puzzle is made under license to Goh Pit Khiam. Goh Pit Khiam invented this twelve piece puzzle in December 1999 without the use of a computer. We’ve given the puzzle a rating 9 out of 10 because it’s sold assembled. To solve the puzzle from a disassembled state without clues it could definitely be worthy of a rating 10!
Buy a set of 2 very hard burrs and get $10 discount. Click here.
We have just a few of these puzzles available in our Craftsman Range. Once sold they won't be made again. Click here.
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. A fantastic way to prolong the excitement of giving a gift. Imagine Dad on Father's Day or you brother at Christmas trying to open this trick opening puzzle box.
Size: 4 Sun (a traditional unit of measure to denote length) Actual size outside: 120mm x 83mm x 52mm Space inside: 80mm x 63mm x 38mm 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.
Get all six puzzles in the range discounted at $1 off each puzzle. Hard Yakka Difficulty 4 Blacksmith's Bell Difficulty 5 Convict's Escape Difficulty 5 Ned Kelly's Armour Difficulty 4 Crackerjack Difficulty 4 Jackaroos Stirrup Difficulty 5
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. Pieces: A tiny Octahedron; a Tetrahedron; a Hexahedron; a Dodecahedron and finally the Icosahedron on the outside. In all 5 puzzles in 1. A total of 37 pieces.
Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Berlin, Germany August, 2011 Presented by Karst Nauta. Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia. Designed by Junichi Yananose.
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 http://www.mrpuzzle.com.au/prod93.htm 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. Size: 100mm x 100mm x 100mm
The challenge is take the four piece puzzle apart. If you manage that then putting it back together is even harder. Each puzzle has the same 4 complex pieces but the outside configuration of the puzzle varies. This makes each puzzle quite different when finding the facets to grip to open the puzzle. Puzzles are finished as either 1. Dodecahedron (12 faces), 2. Icosahedron (20 triangular faces), a 3. Triacontahedron (30 faces) or 4. Truncated Octahedron (Truncocta - 6 square and 8 truncated triangular faces). Please choose the exact puzzle you want from the list when you order.
A prickly puzzle that's hard to handle. Strictly for expert players! The challenge of this level genius puzzle is to release the central disk by manipulating the ten wooden rods.
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.
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. This puzzle has the same opening mechanism as the aluminum cube version but much more dexterity is required.
Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange - Gold Coast, Australia, August 2007 Presented by Bill Darrah. Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia. Designed by Bill Darrah.
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.
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)
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 Presented by Brian Young. Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia. Designed by Brian Young.
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.
The puzzle is to stack the three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos & Aramis, joined by d'Artagnan so they are self supporting in the frame; ie: no loose parts. You must be able to pickup the frame without touching the Musketeers, so that the Musketeers do not fall out. Judged in the TOP 10 at THE 2010 Nob Yoshigahara International Puzzle Design Competition. This puzzle is not one of Mr Puzzle's Limited Edition however at this stage we only have permission to make 30 puzzles.
Buy all four wooden interlocking puzzles - save $1.50 per puzzle. Wine bottle, wine glass, beer mug and beer bottle (known downunder as a "stubbie"). Perfect presents for the avid Barware collector!
Get all three cubes in the series and save $7.50 that's $2.50 off per cube.
Australian Road Signs Aboriginal Dot Paintings Australian Animals
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 - Osaka, Japan July 2010 Presented by Brian Young. Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia. Designed by Brian Young.
The object of the puzzle is to get Mt Fuji to blow it's top and find the Buddha of All-Illuminating Wisdom, the Dainichi Nyorai.
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.
Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange - Tokyo, JAPAN, August 2001 Presented by Brian Young.
Brian created a working model of the IPP logo created by Gianni Sarcone in 1999. It has 14 interlocking pieces and takes 13 directional moves to remove the first piece.
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.
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.
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.
DIFFICULTY RATING 7The object of the puzzle is to disassemble the 14 piece rectilinear burr.
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 level of difficulty is kept to medium because some of the pieces take on the obvious form of an elephant. A truly beautiful piece of puzzle sculpture that would enhance anyone's puzzle collection. This puzzle is finely crafted and shows the level of attention to detail that Pelikan is famous for, right down to the choice of wood to get the right colour for the right piece.
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.
Just back in stock. These are the last 15 puzzles available. Brian's project for this year was to 'clear the benches in the shed'. Doing this he managed to find enough pieces, cut out about 10 years ago, to finish just a few complete puzzles. Once these are sold he won't be making them again.
There is an interesting sequence of 13 forward and backward moves required to disassemble this puzzle... Yes, that’s 13 moves to get the first piece out and that’s not the trickiest part of the puzzle.
Once completely apart, there are 5485 false solutions (in other words, false assemblies), meaning the puzzle looks like it should go together but you can’t get the last piece in. Only the specific sequence of 13 moves will allow you to insert the last piece and solve this puzzle.
This puzzle is made under license to Goh Pit Khiam. Goh Pit Khiam invented this twelve piece puzzle in December 1999 without the use of a computer. We’ve given the puzzle a rating 9 out of 10 because it’s sold assembled. To solve the puzzle from a disassembled state without clues it could definitely be worthy of a rating 10!
Click here to see the Decemburr in Jarrah as it's coming apart.
Decemburr is also available in our Standard Range. Click here .
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).
Considering it has no gravity pins or magnets Brian considers it to be the hardest progressive move discovery puzzle he's designed so far.
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!
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. 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.
Set of 3 standard Bolaris 3D sliding block puzzles. Harmaa. Vastavari. Domino. SAVE $1.50 off each puzzle.
The rectangular pieces can be slid around one triangular corner one-by-one. The frame consists of static (solid) triangular corners and the grooves between them. The rectangle parts slide easily in the grooves, one part at a time.
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 33 in any combination you want to make up your discounted set. Yes, the choice of what's in the set is yours! Click here for a page with one large photo of all the puzzles.
The puzzle is to take the four pieces of the puzzle apart and then put them back together again which is even harder to do.
The shape is like two tetrahedrons with rounded edges that have been joined together.The uniform patterning of the different woods and precise fit of the puzzle make fitting the pieces back together even harder than taking the puzzle 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.
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.
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.
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. The Rubik's 4x4 cube (otherwise known as Rubiks Revenge) was released more than 20 years ago and remains one of the classic Rubik's must have puzzles. The Rubik's 5x5 cube (otherwise known as Rubiks Professor Cube®) is the most complex of all Rubik's Cube levels.
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.
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