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These are completely new puzzle designs that have been created by Brian and other puzzlers to exchange with other puzzle collectors at the Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange over the past few years.  

This event takes place each year to honour an amazing puzzle collector Edward Hordern who sadly passed away in 2000.   Click here to read more about Edward and his puzzle collecting.

Exchange puzzles must meet strict criteria covering 1. innovative design 2. well made 3. well presented and 4. fun to solve.  Puzzles must not be commercially available prior to presentation at the exchange event.

IPP was held on the Gold Coast in Australia in 2007 and Brian made no less than 6 of this year's exchange puzzles, designing 2 of them himself.  We have stock of 13 of this year's exchange puzzles and still have 7 of the 8 different puzzles available from previous years 1999-2006 so there's a wealth of new and unique designs on this page.

	Twisted's Sister Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange  - Tokyo, JAPAN,  August 2004 Presented by Brian Young. Another completely new design by Brian Young.  Entrant IPP Design Competition 2004 The puzzle is to separate the two nails.  The concept for this original design was found by accident during the manufacture of our TWISTED puzzle.  Even though it appears to be similar to the TWISTED puzzle TWISTED'S SISTER is VERY different;  the moves to disassemble this puzzle are nothing like it's sister puzzle.  The only similarity with the old nails puzzles is it's simplicity and the fact that once you pick it up you can't put it down until you've solved it. Brian has known about the puzzle for a number of years but only recently has he worked on a design that does not come apart or go back together the same as the original puzzle.  Presented on a Torii Gate stand in keeping with the theme of this year's puzzle party held in Japan. The nails are Gold plated.		Price:	QTY:

	Betty's Baffling Bracelet Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange  - Gold Coast, Australia, August 2007 Presented by Marti Reis.  Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia.  Designed by Stuart Gee. The puzzle is to assemble the bracelet into a self supporting and stable rhombic dodecahedron. Puzzle made from Western Australian Jarrah. Size: 40mm x 40mm x 40mm.		Price:	QTY:

	Straight Forward Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange  - Gold Coast, Australia, August 2007 Presented by Patrick Major.  Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia.  Designed by Brian Young. The simplest maze in the world, or is it?  Simply get the ball bearing from START to FINISH. Puzzle made from Queensland Blackbean. Size: 147mm x 50mm x 20mm.		Price:	QTY:

	Dicey Box 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.  One way, without the decorative routing symmetrical, is how the puzzle is presented when sold.  You will have to completely take it apart so that you can then put it back together with all the routing symmetrical. This is a lot more difficult than it may first appear.  A very elegant design by Bill Darrah who is well known for designing very difficult puzzles. Puzzle made from Mackay Cedar. Size: 100mm x 100mm x 100mm		Price:	QTY:

	Sydney Harburr Bridge 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. Puzzle made from Queensland Silky Oak (Called Lacewood in other countries. Click here to read more about Silky Oak) Size: 160mm x 60mm x 80mm (pieces made from 20mm x 20mm stock)		Price:	QTY:

	The Cube 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)		Price:	QTY:

	Krbana Difficulty 4/5 The puzzle is to take the box apart and get the wooden ball out.  There are three identical pieces.  Beware, if you take it completely apart you will have to get it back together again.		Price:	QTY:

	Coming of Age by Vinco Difficulty 5/5+ The puzzle is to assemble the six differently shaped pieces into this very complex interlocking burr.  This puzzle is one of the hardest that Vinco has ever invented and because of the way it has to be assembled it is not possible to solve this puzzle using a computer program.		Price:	QTY:

	Kangaroo Party Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange  - Gold Coast, Australia, August 2007 Presented by Carlo Gitt.  Made by Marcel Gillen.  Designed by Marcel Gillen. There are three puzzles to try: 1-Difficult.  Try to fit the 8 kangaroos inside the map of Australia. 2-Most Difficult.  Try to fit the 8 kangaroos and the circle inside the map of Australia. 3-Easy.  If you do not succeed making the first two puzzles try to fit 7 kangaroos inside the map of Australia and store the other kangaroo and the circle in the holes provided. Puzzle made from MDF  Size: 103mm x 92mm x 12mm		Price:	QTY:

	6 Australian Animals Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange  - Gold Coast, Australia, August 2007 Presented by Rene Dawir.  Made by Marcel Gillen.  Designed by Rene Dawir. The puzzle is to assemble the 5 Australian animals so that you discover the 6th. Puzzle made from MDF in a plastic case.  Package Size: 75mm x 105mm x 25mm		Price:	QTY:

	Prism Cage Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange  - Gold Coast, Australia, August 2007 Presented by Marcel Gillen.  Made by Logika Games Ino Uhl Germany.  Designed by Ingo Uhl & Marcel Gillen. Build a green cage around the gold prism.  Limited Edition in green and gold for the Australian IPP! Size: 62mm x 62mm x 42mm		Price:	QTY:

	Pohaku Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange  - Gold Coast, Australia, August 2007 Presented by Harry Nelson.  Made by ScienceWiz.  Designed by Harry Nelson. A set of strategy games of increasing complexity; Pohaku engages beginning players and challenges experts. The puzzle includes a full colour 40 page book and 24 Pohaku stone with 4 game variations and 26 additional puzzles. Size: 206mm x 260mm x 35mm		Price:	QTY:

	NZanity The object of the puzzle is to match colours keeping the NZ in the right perspective on all exterior sides of the cube.		Price:	QTY:

	Around the Bend DIFFICULTY RATING 7 The object of the puzzle is assemble the six plated end pieces (shaped like "L") into the six piece burr. Puzzle pieces made from Queensland Silver Ash with Queensland Blackbean ends. Size: 80mm x 80mm x 80mm (pieces made from 20mm x 20mm stock)		Price:	QTY:

	Boston Tea Chest Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange  - Boston, USA, August 2006 Presented by Brian Young.  Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia.  Designed by Brian Young. The object of the puzzle is find the T inside the Boston Tea Chest. You will have to disassemble the burr to find it. Brian got the idea behind this puzzle from an old Phillipe Dubois puzzle. The T shaped pieces were originally two sets of mirror reversed triplets. He changed these pieces to ensure they were all different, giving it a unique solution, now separating on one axis only.  Brian also added a locking mechanism that will ensure the puzzle is more difficult to disassemble.		Price:	QTY:

	Diagonal Twins Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange  - Helsinki, Finland, August 2005 Presented by Brian Young.  Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia.  Designed by Stuart Gee. The object of the puzzle is to disassemble the eleven pieces and reassemble them into the twin burrs. An Aussie puzzle friend, Stuart Gee, found many interesting shapes could be made using square stock cut on a 45º diagonal whilst experimenting with puzzles made from folded paper pieces.   Click here to see some of Stuart's experimenting with paper pieces. The puzzle is made from Red Silky Oak, a native Australian wood.		Price:	QTY:

	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. 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:	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). Is 13 your lucky number?		Price:	Out of Stock

	IPP Burr 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.		Price:	Out of Stock

	The Blitz Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange  - Los Angeles USA,  August 2000 Presented by Brian Young. The puzzle is to assemble the six pieces into this unique shape. This burr has a locking mechanism unlike any other that we know of.  It was designed in 1999 by Brian and is covered by Australian Design Registration No 142132.  This puzzle is EXCLUSIVE to Mr Puzzle Australia. As well as our Standard Range this puzzle is also available in a selection of Australian hardwoods in our Craftsman Range.		Price:	N/A

	LT - Lateral Thinking Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange  - Antwerpen, Belgium, August 2002 Presented by Brian Young.  Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia. Designed by Brian Young. lateral thinking n.  Method of solving problems other than by conventional logic. Use all seven pieces to make the letter L   Use all seven pieces to make the letter T The real challenge is to use all seven pieces to make the letters L and T at the same time. Note: the dimensions of the vertical and horizontal strokes in the letters L and T are in all cases exactly equal and symetrical. An added challenge may then be to get the puzzle back into the tray. AUSTRALIAN DESIGN REGISTRATION APPLICATION No.1542/2002 Puzzle made from Queensland Silky Oak (also known as Lacewood outside Australia click here to read more) We have a couple of copies of this puzzle on our Collectibles page as part of "Juegos de Ingenio" magazine plus Mr Puzzle designed Lateral Thinking set. Click here. This puzzle is featured in Allan J Boardman's new book "Puzzle Projects for Woodworkers" available here.		Price:	N/A