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Puzzles by Maker > Mr Puzzle Exclusive
 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 13 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.
Puzzles are listed by degree of difficulty. Easiest puzzles first.
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The Blitz
DIFFICULTY RATING 6
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.
Large Photo 1. Queensland Silver Ash Click here 2. Queensland Silver Ash and Queensland Blackbean Click here .
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Make Room - Craftsman
DIFFICULTY RATING 8
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.
As well as our Craftsman Range this puzzle is also available in our Standard Range (Click here).
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.
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Make Room - Standard
DIFFICULTY RATING 8
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.
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Saturn Ring
DIFFICULTY RATING 8
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.
Click here to see the Saturn Ring apart.
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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Get Hooked
DIFFICULTY RATING 3
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.
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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.
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Eureka Puzzle
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.
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Decemburr 12 piece multiple move burr Craftsman
DIFFICULTY RATING 9
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.
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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)
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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.
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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)
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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
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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.
Getting money out of a parking meter is usually illegal so please don't try to do that with this puzzle!
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.
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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.
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Boston Tea Chest Craftsman Range
DIFFICULTY RATING 8
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.
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Mega Six 6 piece multiple move burr Craftsman
DIFFICULTY RATING 9
The puzzle is to assemble the six piece 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: 1. Queensland Silver Ash 2. Queensland Blackbean 3. Western Australian Jarrah
Click here to be added to our waiting list to be notified of new stocks of this puzzle.
As well as our Craftsman Range this puzzle is also available in our Standard Range (Click here).
Covered by Australian Design Registration No 151844 and is made under license to Bill Cutler.
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Coming of Age MkII 18 piece multiple move burr Standard
DIFFICULTY RATING 10
19 directional moves to remove the first piece from an 18 piece burr!
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 in his workshop taking the Coming of Age MkII apart (note: the video clip file is 8mb).
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Coming of Age MkII 18 piece multiple move burr Craftsman
DIFFICULTY RATING 10
19 directional moves to remove the first piece from an 18 piece burr!
We currently only have one of these puzzles available - wood selection 3. Papua New Guinean Snakewood with Queensland Silver Ash centre.
We intend to make more of these puzzles but do not expect stock to be available until last quarter 2008. Click here to be added to our waiting list to be notified of new stocks of this puzzle.
This puzzle is also available in our Standard Range.
Click here to see a video clip of Brian in his workshop taking the Coming Of Age MkII apart (Note: the video clip file is 8MB. Puzzle shown is Standard Range).
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Insoma
DIFFICULTY RATING 7
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.
To do this you will need to find just one of the 240 different assemblies of the Soma Cube. Why? In this puzzle the Soma Cube has a unique solution. One piece of Soma Cube is attached to one of each of the pieces of the diagonal burr. When you assemble the burr you will need to assemble the Soma Cube inside it at the same time. Don’t forget you also need to fit the loose seventh piece of the Soma Cube in as well.....
The concept of putting the two puzzles together came to Brian after seeing a puzzle by Phillipe Dubois made with a single cube loose inside it.
Entrant IPP Design Competition 2004.
Size 95mm x 95mm x 95mm (Each piece of burr 95mm x 30mm x 30mm Each cube of Soma Cube 14mm x 14mm x 14mm)
Packaged DISASSEMBLED for your puzzling enjoyment! You must rely on the photograph on the accompanying Presentation Card to know what shape to assemble the blocks in. This ensures you'll get the maximum value from the puzzle. REMEMBER - for when all else has failed we enclose a professionally printed solution sheet.
Click here to see a photo of the puzzle apart.
Click here to read article from French puzzle magazine.
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The Collective 24 piece frame 5 piece burr
DIFFICULTY RATING 10
Entrant IPP Design Competition 2002
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 currently available from Queensland Blackbean.
Size 100mm x 100mm x 100mm
Packaged ASSEMBLED
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