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 IPP Puzzle Exchange over the past few years.
The IPP Puzzle Exchange 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.
IPP Exchange puzzles must meet strict criteria covering 1. innovative design 2. well made 3. well presented and 4. fun to solve. IPP Exchange Puzzles must not be commercially available prior to presentation at the IPP Puzzle Exchange event so unless you attend these puzzle events you will not have these puzzles in your collection.
IPP was held in Washington DC, USA in August 2012. As well as designing and making his own puzzle to present at the in this year's Edward Hordern Exchange event Brian also makes puzzles for other participants in the event. There are 3 new designs from this year's exchange and stocks of over 30 different puzzles available from previous years 2003-2011 so there's a wealth of new and unique designs to choose from.
View some pictures from the last IPP held in Washington DC, USA in August 2012 http://www.mrpuzzle.com.au/webcontent152.htm. There are also links to pictures from other International Puzzle Parties on this page.
Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Washington DC, August 2012 Presented and made by Tomas Linden. Designed by Vesa Timonen.
The challenge is to make a symmetric shape from the two wooden pieces. Both pieces should be flat on the table. Very few people were able to solve this one while at the International Puzzle Party.
Seems a simple challenge? And just two pieces? But we all know that Vesa has come up with some amazing designs so the puzzle is not to be underestimated.
Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Washington DC, August 2012 Presented by Frans de Vreugd. Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia. Designed by Stephane Chomine. Only 200 of these puzzles ever made. 100 sent to IPP32 for the Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange. 100 for sale exclusively on this website.
The puzzle is to assemble the 6 pieces so that you make what looks like a framed burr. The Vice comes in two pieces and then the 4 other pieces intersect in two directions through it. We've presented the puzzle disassembled which raises the difficulty level. Whilst at the same time being just 6 pieces the challenge to solve is not unrealistic. Nevertheless it will be hard to do without resorting to the solution.
Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Washington DC, August 2012 Presented by Laurie Brokenshire. Made by Václav Obšívac. Designed by Václav Obšívac.
Difficulty 5+/5 You may try 3 (Tri) challenges using the mathematically complete set of 4 different woods on each of 6 pieces which look a bit like bicycle wheels. 1. Uni-Cycle. Simply form a cube (not too difficult) 2. Bi-Cycle. Each corner of the cube must be one single colour (a bit trickier) 3. Tri-Cycle. The cube must have no identical colour touching anywhere, not even diagonally or on an edge (a lot more though required to do this one)
Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Washington DC, August 2012 Presented, made and designed by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia Awarded 3rd Prize for Themed Puzzle Award
There’s Red, While & Blue on the flags. There’s the White monument on a Red base. Can you find the other Blue? If you keep searching you’ll find it inside the puzzle. And we’re not referring to the use of “blue” language or going “blue” in the face (excuse our Aussie slang) with frustration.
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 Lock all gravity pins inside the round base of the obelisk so they do not move. This will allow you to remove the obelisk from the base. If you open the puzzle by chance then the gravity pins will still move freely; this is not the intended solution. The first stage is not completed until the gravity pins are locked inside the round base.
Second stage Unlock the gravity pins so they flow freely again. This allows you to lock the obelisk back in the square base. You could find that relocking the puzzle might be more challenging than unlocking it was.
All the tools you’ll require to do the puzzle are given with the puzzle. The puzzle we’ve presented is a representation of the Washington Monument, right down to the lightening rod in the top, which can come out, so be careful not to lose it. You’ll more than likely need it to complete the puzzle.
Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Washington DC, August 2012 Presented by Matthew Dawson. Designed and made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle.
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. No physical force at all is required to open the drawer when it’s unlocked. If you find yourself forcing something you are doing something the puzzle was not designed to do.
Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Berlin, August 2011 Presented by Laurie Brokenshire. Made by Václav Obšívac. Designed by Václav Obšívac.
Difficulty 5+/5 It's difficult to know if this puzzle should be called a two piece or a four piece puzzle. But it's definitely two; even though it looks like a couple of pieces from other Vinco puzzles have got tangled together... (see one of the pieces below) With these two pieces it is possible to lock them together and make a solid, symmetrical shape.
Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Berlin, Germany August, 2011 Presented by Karst Nauta. Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia. Designed by Junichi Yananose.
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. Size: 100mm x 100mm x 100mm
Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Berlin, Germany August, 2011 Presented by Grant Smith. Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia. Designed by Junichi Yananose.
Pack the P's and L's in the frame so that only "IPP31" is visible when completed. The puzzle comes unsolved to give you the full packing challenge.
Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Osaka, Japan July 2010 Presented by Frans de Vreugd. Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia. Designed by David Rousseau.
The object of the puzzle is to take the burr apart and reassemble it. Just six pieces but beware it's a level 8.3.2.2; that means it takes 8 moves to remove the first piece, then three more for the next piece, then two more, then two more before it will all fall apart. The challenge is then to put it back together again. There are 105 theoretical assemblies, otherwise known as false assemblies, but only 1 of them can actually be put together. For an extra challenge the puzzle come disassembled.
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.
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.
Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Prague, Czech Republic, August 2008 Presented by Grant Smith. Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia. Designed by Junichi Yananose.
The object of the puzzle is to assemble the 6 piece interlocking burr. After he designed this level 5-4-2-2 burr Junichi described it as a mediocre level of difficulty; that translates to difficult for most other puzzlers.
Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Prague, Czech Republic, August 2008 Presented by Frank Potts. Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia. Designed by Frank Potts.
Status: 30th March 2013. Only 20 left. Once sold we won't make this puzzle again.
The object of the puzzle is to disassemble the burr and then reassemble. It's a level 9,3 burr but the challenge may not just be about the number of moves to disassemble the burr.
Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Prague, Czech Republic, August 2008 Presented by Brian Young. Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia. Designed by Brian Young.
Sputnik Returns from the stars, 50 years on..... Your challenge is to disassemble and reassemble the 9 charred remaining pieces of the new Sputnik puzzle. When properly assembled one of the three surviving antennas is fixed and the other two move freely in and out 30mm.
Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Prague, Czech Republic, August 2008 Presented by Diniar Namdarian. Made by Václav Obšívac at Vin & Co. Designed by Stanislav Knot. Difficulty 4/5 The challenge is to rearrange the eight L pieces in the frame so that the additional rectangle piece fits in as well.
Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Prague, Czech Republic, August 2008 Presented by Mike Hawthorne. Made by Václav Obšívac at Vin & Co. Designed by Václav Obšívac.
Difficulty 5/5 The goal is to make a cube, and the other nine shapes, from the 8 pieces of the puzzle. The shapes are amazingly complex - even for Vinco!
Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange - Gold Coast, Australia, August 2007 Presented by Marti Reis. Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia. Designed by Stuart Gee.
Status: 30th March 2013. Only 10 left. Once sold we won't make this puzzle again.
The puzzle is to assemble the bracelet into a self supporting and stable rhombic dodecahedron.
Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange - Gold Coast, Australia, August 2007 Presented by Laurie Brokenshire. Made by Václav Obšívac. Designed by Václav Obšívac.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mr Puzzle - We've got puzzles! 
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 IPP Puzzle Exchange over the past few years. 
