Many of the puzzles made by Mr Puzzle Australia are not available anywhere else in the world!
This category includes many EXCLUSIVE designs developed over the past 16 years by Mr Puzzle Australia. There are also a number of puzzles we make under licence to the original designer which are not being made by any other manufacturer.
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.
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.
The puzzle is to remove the nails from their stand and separate the nails. Click here to see this and other nail puzzles on one stand on the puzzle called Another Nailbiter.
This puzzle was designed by Brian in early 1998 and is EXCLUSIVE to Mr Puzzle Australia. It is covered by Australian Design No 138325.
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.
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)
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 - 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 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 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.
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.
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 - 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The puzzle is to build a solid cube from the eight pieces. Rick Eason invented this puzzle and presented it as his Exchange Puzzle at IPP24 in Tokyo in 2004 and it is with his kind permission that we make this puzzle. All eight pieces of the puzzle are different which increases the degree of difficulty of the puzzle. To achieve the only possible correct solution you must find the unique combination of dovetails and grooves, and the correct order to assemble them, that allows the pieces to fit together to form the solid cube.
The puzzle is to re-pack all 9 pieces in the box so that all pieces are under the closed lid. You will need to make room for the key (dowel) to fit.
Mr Puzzle resdesigned Make Room so that this version has a unique solution.
The puzzle is made with the kind permission of Stewart Coffin. At IPP21 in Tokyo in 2001 a larger version of the puzzle #127-A was given by Jerry Slocum as his exchange gift. That version had 14 separate solutions to fit all nine pieces in the box. Click here to view this original design by Stewart Coffin.
As well as our Standard Range this puzzle is also available Craftsman Range made using 9 different Australian hardwood timbers.
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.
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.
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.
Currently we have sold all puzzles made and have orders for more. With finishing our LE puzzles and making special designs for IPPs Brian will find it difficult to find time to deliver more Telephone Boxes for quite some time.
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
This puzzle presents four different challenges: Challenge 1 - Pack all 8 blocks under the closed lid. 30 possible solutions. Challenge 2 - Make room for all 8 blocks and the gold rod under the closed lid (not in it’s packing position). 4 solutions. Challenge 3 - Make Room for all 8 blocks and the key (dowel) under the closed lid. Unique solution. Challenge 4 - Can you remember how the puzzle came packaged with the key in the lid? 3 solutions.
In 1997 Stewart Coffin originally designed Make Room and allocated it #127 in his numbering system although only one of these puzzles was made. At IPP21 in Tokyo in 2001 a larger version of the puzzle #127-A was given by Jerry Slocum as his exchange gift. That version had 14 separate solutions to fit just nine pieces in the box.
Brian had never made a packing puzzle before.... That all changed after IPP21 when he found himself playing with Jerry's exchange puzzle for many, many hours. He then got interested in redesigning the puzzle to include a challenge with a unique solution.The puzzle is made with the kind permission of Stewart Coffin.
Click here to see the legend of the different timbers used in this puzzle. Click here to see a photo of the pieces inside the box. Click here to view this original design by Stewart Coffin.
Currently we have sold all puzzles made and have orders for more. With finishing our LE puzzles and making special designs for IPPs Brian will find it difficult to find time to deliver more Telephone Boxes for quite some time. 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 puzzle is to open the telephone box to allow you to have fun with the packing puzzle inside. To open the telephone box you will need to solve a series of puzzles to find the required tools, and work out how to use them, to open the door.
The pieces packed inside the telephone box spell the words TELEPHONE box.
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
19 directional moves to remove the first piece from an 18 piece burr! This puzzle was designed by Brian (alias Mr Puzzle) without the use of a computer.
It was however analysed using a computer program by Andreas Roever (see the end of this detail page) and he found and even more difficult assembly of the puzzle, being a level 14.10.3.2.5.11.10. That makes 65 moves for complete disassembly.
Click here to see the Coming of Age MkII as it's coming apart (puzzle shown in photo is Craftsman Range puzzle not Standard Range puzzle). Click here to see a video clip of Brian putting the Coming of Age MkII together. Puzzle shown is Craftsman Range. Check out these different solutions to the Coming of Age MkII on YouTube; thanks to Barry. Level 14.10.7.3.5.12.10 assembly. Level 16.3.1.1.3.4.1.1.2 assembly.
Buy our 3 hardest burrs and get $10 discount. Click here. This puzzle also available in Mr Puzzle Craftsman Range. Click here.
These puzzles are all sold. We won't be making this puzzle in future.
19 directional moves to remove the first piece from an 18 piece burr!
This puzzle was designed by Brian (alias Mr Puzzle) without the use of a computer. It was however analysed using a computer program by Andreas Roever (see the end of this detail page) and he found an even more difficult assembly of the puzzle, being a level 14.10.3.2.5.11.10. That makes 65 moves for complete disassembly.Read more details....
Click here to see the Coming of Age MkII as it's coming apart (puzzle shown in photo is Craftsman Range puzzle not Standard Range puzzle). Click here to see a video clip of Brian putting the Coming of Age MkII together. Puzzle shown is Craftsman Range. Check out these different solutions to the Coming of Age MkII on YouTube; thanks to Barry. Level 14.10.7.3.5.12.10 assembly. Level 16.3.1.1.3.4.1.1.2 assembly.
A unique framed burr design invented by and exclusive to MR PUZZLE.
The puzzle is to take The Collective apart. Unlike normal framed burrs the five piece burr encased in the twenty-four piece frame work as one in this puzzle. After you get the puzzle apart will you be able to assimilate the pieces again into one unit?
The 5 piece burr at the centre of the puzzle is crafted from Queensland Silver Ash. The frame consists of 24 individual interlocked pieces and is available from Queensland Blackbean (option 2. Western Australian Jarrah is sold out)
We will no longer be making this puzzle although we do have a small number of standard range available. Once sold they will also be discontinued.
The object of the puzzle is find the T inside the Boston Tea Chest.
The differences between this puzzle and the Standard Range (click here) version which was the Exchange Puzzle presented at IPP26 in August 2006 are: - The puzzle is crafted from exotic Australian hardwoods. - The locking mechanism is much more complex and therefore more difficult in this version.
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.
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.
The object of the puzzle is to disassemble the thirty pieces and reassemble into this attractive collection of stellated rhombic dodecahedrons. There are 288 saw cuts in this puzzle.
The puzzle is made from different shades of Red Silky Oak, a native Australian wood.
The puzzle is to assemble the 31 blocks into the planet Saturn with it’s ring.
The puzzle is similar in concept to the Rubik’s Snake but it’s been connected into a complete ring.The puzzle also has a combination of right angled pieces and some straight through pieces to make it more challenging.
What a great Christmas present to commemorate the release of the Huygens probe from Cassini on Christmas Day 2004.
Click here to go to the NASA Home page of the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn
The blocks are strung on a closed ring of strong elastic cord so it’s difficult for you to find where the puzzle starts and ends. The puzzle was designed by and is exclusive to Mr Puzzle.
We also have a couple of copies of this puzzle on our Collectibles page as part of "Juegos de Ingenio" magazine plus Mr Puzzle designed Saturn Ring set. Click here.
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Many of the puzzles made by Mr Puzzle Australia are not available anywhere else in the world!
