For that very special person who loves puzzles. Choose from a number of very special collectible items, some Limited Editions. There's also sets of puzzles at discounted rates.
Designed by John Kirkman. Made by Brian Young. Put the 8 pieces in an 8x8 array in checkerboard pattern. All pieces may be turned over but some are different on the reverse side.
The object of the puzzle is to put the Witchetty Grub back together.
The 5 beautifully hand sanded pieces of Red Gum interlock to make the shape of a witchetty grub, a creature known to aboriginal people as ngarlkirdi. The live grub is white and its head is black and yellow. It is up to 120mm long and 30mm thick. It lives in the roots of the Witchetty Bush which is part of the acacia family and found in the central deserts of Australia.
Size: Footprint approximately 270mm x 80mm Height 90mm
A seven piece wooden ball (koule in Czech) puzzle on a turned wooden stand.
The basis of this puzzle is the Stewart Coffin designed Convolution Cube. The puzzle is rated as Demanding. Each of the 7 pieces is made from a combination of different species and colours of wood. The pieces are totally interlocked to make a solid sphere with a single solution. Yes, there are no voids inside the sphere. The bigger challenge is probably putting this puzzle back together, but in disassembly, even after you've found the first couple of pieces it still hasn't released all it's secrets.
Each puzzle piece is made from many smaller complex shaped pieces glued together; finding the correct combination that are not glued, to push or pull to take apart, may be quite difficult.
Solution: A video on assembly and disassembly is supplied on DVD with the puzzle.
osm is the Czech word for 8. An 8 piece interlocking wooden ball puzzle on a turned wooden stand which will really challenge your dexterity skills. Precise positioning of fingers from both hands may be required to take the puzzle apart and then you still have the challenge to reassemble it paying particular attention to colour uniformity.
Each puzzle piece is made from many smaller complex shaped pieces glued together; finding the correct combination that are not glued, to push or pull to take apart, may be quite difficult.
Solution: A video on assembly and disassembly is supplied on DVD with the puzzle
The object of the puzzle is to put the Witchetty Grub back together.
The 6 beautifully hand sanded pieces of White Cedar wood interlock to make the shape of a witchetty grub, a creature known to aboriginal people as ngarlkirdi. The live grub is white and its head is black and yellow. It is up to 120mm long and 30mm thick. It lives in the roots of the Witchetty Bush which is part of the acacia family and found in the central deserts of Australia.
Size: Footprint approximately 290mm x 60mm Height 75mm
Set of all 4 Bolaris 3D sliding block puzzles. Harmaa. Vastavari. Domino. And includes special limited edition Maailma. SAVE $2.00 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 12 of the Hanayama cast metal puzzles from our range and get a huge $18.00 discount; that's $1.50 off each puzzle. Tick 12 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.
LIMITED EDITION of 30 puzzles released December 2008
Status: 29th January 2012. We have 4 of these puzzles still available.
Stewart Coffin wrote in "Geometric Puzzle Design" that assembling a cluster of separate hexagonal sticks and dowels can be a puzzle but a more difficult and therefore more interesting puzzle will be made when some of the hexagonal sticks and dowels are joined to make elbow-shaped pieces. The more elbows the harder the puzzle. Stewart theorised that the maximum number of elbows that can be joined before assembly becomes impossible is half the number of each type of piece, so that's what Brian has done.
If this puzzle looks too daunting Brian has also made a series of 6 other Stewart Coffin burr puzzles using hexagonal stock. They range from 6 to 18 piece puzzles. Click here for details.
Set of 5 interlocking animal puzzles hand crafted from lead free pewter plated with silver oxide. Save $20.00 when you buy them as a set. Packaging: Maroon organza gift bag.
Robin Turner presents PuzzleArt from his Remarkable Rocks collection. The object of the puzzle is to put a Devil's Marble back together.
The 7 beautifully hand sanded pieces of South Australian Red Gum interlock to make the shape of one of the many rounded granite boulders which were formed from erosion of the original rectangular granite masses. The puzzle is presented on a small black tripod stand. Size: 110mm x 110mm x 110mm
Robin Turner presents PuzzleArt from his Remarkable Rocks collection. The object of the puzzle is to put the Pinnacle back together.
The 7 beautifully hand sanded pieces of South Australian Red Gum interlock to make the shape of one of the Pinnacles. Size: Approximate Footprint 125mm x 100mm Height 245mm
Status: 4th December 2011. We have 6 of these puzzles still available.
For the top part of the puzzle Brian was looking for a complex but rare burr that could attach to the main shaft of the puzzle without coming apart accidentally. He decided to use Stewart Coffin's design called Triple Slide. Although Stewart does not seem to have allocated this puzzle it's own number in his system he did describe it as "having a most unusual action to assemble". Bill's Cutler's analysis in the late 1980's found it to be a unique level 3 solution.
Brian created a new design to wrap around a central post by using 4 six piece burrs that must work simultaneously. The 16 piece burr is a level 5-5-22 burr; very solvable, especially when you have 200+ international puzzlers in your backyard! In fact the giant puzzle was taken apart and reassembled by a group of enthusiastic puzzlers on the IPP27 Giant Puzzle day. A copy of BurrSolver solution file for both upper and lower burrs can be supplied upon request.
This 12 piece burr has all the hallmarks of a Junichi Yananose design and a few surprises too. It looks straight forward but it's surprisingly difficult. The design is elegantly symmetrical. The visibility into the puzzle is amazing and yet once together it's very stable. It has a unique assembly and solution. It takes 20 moves to get the first pieces out. The puzzle has lots of pieces that move at the same time; some of these moves include up to 5 or 6 pieces moving at the same time, counted as a single move.
When you have a puzzle with so many parts moving at the same time it needs to be very accurately cut. By definition this (and the time involved to assemble the puzzle - although hopefully Brian will get better with practise at putting them together!) does not lend itself to mass production; hence a perfect design for a Limited Edition series.
During 2007 Junichi was researching some of the subspecies of the Alterkruse puzzle. The Windmill Burr is one of the variations that came from that project.
LIMITED EDITION of 50 puzzles released 1st December 2010 - Price fully inclusive of freight.
Status 29th January 2012 Just 6 of these puzzles left.
Designer: Brian Young Three major locks and much much more. No gravity pins; no "bashing" or "tapping". Tools to discover for all steps in the puzzle.
The name is The Opening Bat and that's exactly what you have to do; open the cricket bat to find all you will need to play test cricket and win that holy grail.
By buying this single Limited Edition puzzle you're getting a number of puzzles in one. It's not just a single puzzle. This puzzle will seem to go on and on. You will be continually finding more tools and more puzzles to solve. This mammoth puzzle combines many ideas into one sequential discovery puzzle that tells a story as you solve each step of the puzzle. And there are a lot of steps including three major locks and more different puzzles, locking mechanisms and tools than Brian has ever incorporated into a single puzzle before.
Yes, there are lots of locks, but no gravity pins. And yes, there are lots of magnets but no "tapping" or "banging"; there's tools supplied to solve each of the locks.
Brian has machined over 20 individual metal components which make up the locks and the tools required to operate them. There's a lot of woodturning too, right down to the wooden urn which is an essential key to one of the locks. Since returning from IPP30 in Japan he seems to have done nothing else!
Price fully inclusive of freight - no freight will be calculated on this puzzle at checkout.
Telephone Boxes are now being made. Currently we have sold all completed puzzles. Brian is now working on finishing the last batch and aims to complete them about end of first quarter 2012. The exact number of puzzles available is uncertain but it will not be more than 20 and of these more than half are already allocated.
If you would like to order one of these puzzles you can do so by paying this A$50.00 deposit. Puzzles will be delivered on a first ordered first delivered basis. We will keep you updated by email when delivery is expected. The balance of payment for the puzzle is due only when your puzzle is made and ready to ship.
Price A$660 (International price ex GST A$600) Domestic postage please request exact rate for your postcode. International postage: New Zealand A$40.35, Asia/Pacific A$50.75, USA/Middle East A$60.75 & Europe/UK/Africa A$76.75
Telephone Boxes are now being made. Currently we have sold all completed puzzles. Brian is now working on finishing the last batch and aims to complete them about end of first quarter 2012. The exact number of puzzles available is uncertain but it will not be more than 20 and of these more than half are already allocated.
If you would like to order one of these puzzles you can do so by paying this A$50.00 deposit. Puzzles will be delivered on a first ordered first delivered basis. We will keep you updated by email when delivery is expected. (Click here).
The first puzzle is to open the telephone box to allow you to have fun with the packing puzzle inside; it's a sequential discovery puzzle in it's own right.
To open the telephone box you will need to solve a series of puzzle locks; three locks in all and each has a number of steps to it. To do this you need to find the required tools, and work out how to use them, to open the door.
The three dimensional packing puzzle inside has 12 pieces that spell the words TELEPHONE box. It's a difficult puzzle with a unique solution.
The box is a replica of a full size 1950's Queensland PMG telephone box. We have one here at home which Brian has restored. For the IPP27 Giant Puzzle day pieces have been made from cardboard to make this same packing puzzle inside the real telephone box.
The dimensions are 115mm x 115mm x 225mm tall. The telephone box is made from Sycamore wood. The letters of the telephone box are made from other exotic Australian timbers: T Blush Alder E Grey Gum L Queensland Blackbean E Grey Gum P Red Oak H Brown Quondong O Saffron Heart N Flooded Gum E Grey Gum b Red Oak o Black Wattle x Blackbutt
If you like very difficult burr puzzles then this is the set for you. Two burrs rated 9/10. They don't make them much harder than this. SAVE $10.00 by buying them as a set.
MEGA SIX Difficulty Level 9/10 Enhanced Bill Cutler design. Packaged disassembled. DECEMBURR Difficulty Level 9/10 Level 13 multiple move burr. Goh Pit Khiam design.
All puzzles handcrafted in Australia by Mr Puzzle.
To open this Japanese puzzle box you must slide hidden panels in order. There are 21 moves to make in the correct order and still this box holds one more secret. One more move is required to find the second secret compartment. You will hear the rattle of a Japanese coin to remind you that there is one more compartment to discover. Can you find the yen coin as well?
This very special puzzle box is made of walnut with decorative strips of contrasting coloured woods on both top and bottom. There are 4 different designs to choose from - pick the desired design code from the drop down box. The finish on all aspects of this box is amazing; even other sliding panels on the walnut face are well matched so that they are almost impossible to see.
Size: 5 Sun (a traditional unit of measure to denote length - 3.03cm to be exact) Actual size outside: 150mm x 100mm x 68mm Space inside: 100mm x 76mm x 42mm Gift boxed as shown in this photo with a solution inside.
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