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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 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 Berlin, Germany in August, 2011.  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 28 different puzzles available from previous years 2003-2010 so there's a wealth of new and unique designs to choose from.

	Houdini's Torture Cell sequential discovery take apart puzzle	QTY:
	Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Berlin, Germany August, 2011 Designed, made and presented by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle. The object of the puzzle is to free Houdini from The Torture Cell. To do that you'll have to discover the tools and work out how to use them. The idea for Houdini's Torture Cell came from one of the locks in the incredibly complex The Opening Bat puzzle (part of Limited Edition 2010 series http://www.mrpuzzle.com.au/prod80.htm). Brian felt the idea was unique and very satisfying to solve so he revisited the idea and changed it to present in a way that would suit IPP; this way it's available for lots more people to experience a great 'Ah Ha' moment. The puzzle has been presented in such a way that most elements of the puzzle are visible to you. The puzzle is to then work out how to use them to solve it. You can literally sit and think about the solution without even touching the puzzle. Another feature that Brian builds into these types of sequential discovery puzzles is to give you something to find almost immediately; better to maintain interest in the puzzle. You'll find that with this puzzle too.

	Burrliner Kruse complex Altekruse plated burr	QTY: Assembled Disassembled
	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

	P & L packing puzzle	QTY:
	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.

	Fuji 1707 take apart puzzle	QTY:
	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.

	Free Pause 6 piece burr	QTY: Assembled or Disassembled Assembled Disassembled
	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 why not choose to receive your puzzle apart?  Choose Disassembled or Assembled when ordering.

	A Drive Down Lombard Street dexterity slide puzzle	QTY: Tiles - Wood selection Queensland Blackbean Western Australian Jarrah
	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.

	T Burr interlocking burr puzzle	QTY:
	Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange  - San Francisco, USA, August 2009 Presented by Grant Smith.  Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia.  Designed by Grant Smith & Brian Young. Like most interlocking burr puzzles the T Burr puzzle should be more difficult to assemble once apart.   However, the T Burr has a unique set of moves to take this puzzle apart so we decided to sell it assembled and give the puzzler the very interesting challenge of disassembling it.  This multi-level six piece burr is quite unusual in its disassembly because it is not always just a single piece that moves at each level.  The minimum number of moves to remove the first piece is four.  Grant had the idea to design a burr that looked like a letter T on each end.  He and Brian then collaborated to refine the basic shape to include more complexity in the actual assembly of the burr.

	San Francisco Cable Car wooden puzzle	QTY:
	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.

	Hammerhead Vitex wood Burr	QTY:
	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.

	The Karst Phenomenon cube puzzle	QTY:
	Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange  - Prague, Czech Republic, August 2008 Presented by Karst Nauta.  Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia.  Designed by Karst Nauta. The puzzle is to separate the two halves of the cube.  Hint: Karst is a type of terrain characterised by sinkholes, caves and the like. Karst processes tend to be secretive and imperceptible because most development occurs underground over long periods of time.

	Sly Burr made from Vitex	QTY:
	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. 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.

	Sputnik Returns 9 piece wooden puzzle	QTY:
	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.

	Eight L Plus wood put together puzzle	QTY:
	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.

	Diagra wood cube puzzle	QTY:
	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!

	Betty's Baffling Bracelet jarrah wood puzzle	QTY:
	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.

	The Cube wooden packing puzzle	QTY:
	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)

	Straight Forward tricky puzzle	QTY:
	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.

	Dicey Box 12 piece wooden burr puzzle	QTY:
	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.

	Sydney Harburr Bridge level 6 burr	QTY:
	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.

	Pohaku	QTY:
	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

	Boston Tea Chest wooden puzzle	QTY:
	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.

	NZanity brainteaser	QTY:
	Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange  - Boston, USA, 2006 Presented by Louis Toorenburg.  Made by Louis Toorenburg.  Designed by Louis Toorenburg. The object of the puzzle is to match colours keeping the NZ in the right perspective on all exterior sides of the cube.

	Diagonal Twins eleven piece interlocking puzzle	QTY:
	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.

	SEARious Burr 13 piece burr with secret lock	QTY:
	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. Is 13 your lucky number?

	IPP wooden Burr 14 piece	QTY:
	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.

	Gold Coast Parking Meter puzzle	QTY:
	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. 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.

	SOLD OUT Condor's Peeper very difficult multiple move 18 piece burr	N/A
	Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange  - San Francisco, USA, August 2009 Presented by Frans de Vreugd.  Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia.  Designed by Jack Krijnen in 2008. Jack Krijnen has invented a number of different 18 piece burrs in the past few years but this one stood out from the others.   The puzzle has 29467 possible assemblies.  To assemble the puzzle in this symmetrical colour combination the puzzle has a unique solution.  This solution is a level 62 disassembly; this means that it will take a minimum of 62 moves in exactly the correct order to remove just the first piece.  The puzzle requires a total of 105 moves to remove all pieces and take it completely apart.  The number of moves to remove each piece in order is first piece - 62 next piece - 4 next peice, then 21 next piece 1 and so on - 2.2.1.1.1.2.2.2.1.1.1.2.  We cannot stress enough how hard this puzzle really is - that's 105 moves in exactly the right order as a computer would solve it and along the way you will find that there are many, many moves you can make which will lead you in completely the wrong directiion. In almost 20 years of manufacturing puzzles for a living Brian says that Condor's Peeper is up there as one of the hardest puzzles he has ever had to assemble. The only one that he remembers being harder is Puzzlers Cage http://www.mrpuzzle.com.au/category103_1.htm which he made as a Limited Edition in 2002.  At least he only had to make and put together 24 of those! If you don't believe it's as hard as we stay check out this fantastic solution on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgvOMZPMyVE  Thanks Barry!

	SOLD OUT Twisted's Sister puzzle on wooden stand	N/A
	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.   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.

	SOLD OUT LT - Lateral Thinking	N/A
	There were 340 of these puzzles made.  98 were given at the Puzzle Exchange.  Unfortunately all of these puzzles have been sold and will not be made again. 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)

	SOLD OUT The Blitz 6 piece burr	N/A
	There were 580 of these puzzles made.  84 were given at the Puzzle Exchange.  Unfortunately all of these puzzles have been sold and will not be made again. 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. A small number of puzzles is still available in a selection of Australian hardwoods in our Craftsman Range.

	SOLD OUT Around the Bend	N/A
	There were 150 of these puzzles made.  91 were given at the Puzzle Exchange.  Unfortunately all of these puzzles have been sold and will not be made again. Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange  - Helsinki, Finland, August 2005 Presented by Frans de Vreugd.  Made by Brian Young.  Designed by Frans de Vreugd. 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)

	SOLD OUT One Four All & All Four One packing puzzle	N/A
	Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange  - Osaka, Japan  July 2010 Presented by Pantazis Houlis.  Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia.  Designed by Arcady Dyskin & Pantazis Houlis. 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. A larger version of the puzzle judged in the TOP 10 in the 2010 Nob Yoshigahara International Puzzle Design Competition is available here.