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Puzzles by Maker > Hanayama - cast metal puzzles
 Hanayama Toy Co. began life in the mid-1930s as a manufacturer and retailer of traditional games, indoor pursuits and other toys, and from the very beginning has placed great emphasis on creative ideas, good quality and friendly service.
More than seventy years later, Hanayama continues to make board games, puzzles and bingo games as well as this wonderful range of cast metal puzzles that are guaranteed to be the life of the party at family gatherings for people of all ages.
Not only was this range of cast puzzles chosen for our website because because of the attention to detail in manufacture but also because Hanayama suitably acknowledges and credits the inventors of these ingenious puzzles. These are original metal puzzles made with the permission of the inventors not unauthorised copies.
These cast metal puzzles are divided into six levels of difficulty; but don't think you'll start with the most difficult. Don't dismiss level 1 puzzles like the Hook or the Loop out of hand as without challenge. And level 4 metal puzzles like Marble have taken experienced puzzlers hours to master. Take on the level 6 Elk, Nutcase or the NEW Square and others at your peril.
Read more details about the Hanayama cast puzzle philosophy here....
You don't have to return later and ask for the solution. We've been supplying the official printed solutions from Hanayama with the puzzles since February 2006. Not offered as standard by other sellers.
DISCOUNTED SETS. The only seller when you can choose the puzzles in your discounted set of 6 or 12. Not standard sets. Choose your own combination of puzzles for your set.
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Square - Cast disentanglement puzzle Released January 2010
Difficulty Level 6
The puzzle is to separate the four pieces from each other then put them back together again.
Even when you think you've almost got it there's another secret to unlock... and then there's the problem of putting it back together.
The solution is coming soon. This puzzle is very new and Hanayama have not yet provided us with the solution.
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Helix - Cast Take-apart puzzle Released January 2010
Difficulty Level 5
The puzzle is to take the ring off the cast metal flower. If you can do it then you must try to put it back on again.
The grooves engraved in the two rotating boards are called "logarithmic spirals." These two grooves always cross at right angles, and a square hole is formed at their intersection. The goal of this puzzle is to remove the helix ring that goes through that hole.
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Set of ANY 6 Hanayama cast metal puzzles
DISCOUNTED SETS. The only seller when you can choose the puzzles in your discounted set of 6 or 12. Not standard sets. Choose your own combination of puzzles for your set.
Choose any 6 of the Hanayama cast metal puzzles from our range and get $1.00 off each puzzle. Tick 6 boxes out of the 30 in any combination you want to make up your discounted set. Yes, the choice of what's in the set is yours!
These cast metal puzzles are divided into six levels of difficulty; but don't think you'll start with the most difficult. Even level 2 metal puzzles like Medal have taken experienced puzzlers hours to master. Take on the level 6 Enigma, or the new Square and others at your peril.
Click here for a page with one large photo of all the puzzles.
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Set of ANY 12 Hanayama cast metal puzzles
DISCOUNTED SETS. The only seller when you can choose the puzzles in your discounted set of 6 or 12. Not standard sets. Choose your own combination of puzzles for your set.
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 30 in any combination you want to make up your discounted set. Yes, the choice of what's in the set is yours!
These cast metal puzzles are divided into six levels of difficulty; but don't think you'll start with the most difficult. Even level 4 metal puzzles like Marble have taken experienced puzzlers hours to master. Take on the level 6 Chain, Elk, NEWS and others at your peril.
Click here for a page with one large photo of all the puzzles.
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Hook - Cast Puzzle released 2009
Difficulty Level 1
The two entangled pieces are exactly the same in shape and very simple. They look like hooks used to hang things. The pieces can be separated and connected, in a fascinating and magical series of movements.
This puzzle is not particularly difficult being rated at level 1 out of 6 but the solution is all the more elegant for it's simplicity.
The cast puzzle was invented by Finland's Vesa Timonen. The theme of this puzzle is "Hook."
Size: Presented in a view window box which is 75mm x 115mm x 45mm
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Medal - Cast Puzzle released 2009
Difficulty Level 2
Two ancient looking medals engraved with a flowing river and a swimming salmon.
Will you be able to retrieve the ring the salmon holds in its mouth?
This puzzle was designed by British puzzle creator, James Dalgety, after the legend of the Ring and the Salmon, which figures on the coat of arms of Glasgow City. The theme of this puzzle is "Legend."
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Marble - Cast Puzzle released 2009
Difficulty Level 4
This puzzle has such a beautiful shape that it could easily be mistaken for a piece of jewelry.
Its surface features extremely unusual cuts; actually, this marble is a puzzle that can be broken up into 4 pieces.
This advanced design is the creation of Bram Cohen & Oskar van Deventner. If you succeed in breaking up the marble, carefully examine the surface of the sections of each piece. The theme of this puzzle is "Sphere."
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Amour - Cast Disentanglement Puzzle
Difficulty Level 5
Can you separate the 'Adam' and 'Eve' loops from the heart?
Of course, this is only half the puzzle... don't forget you have to put it back the same way you found it to say you've actually done the puzzle.
Size: Presented in a view window box which is 75mm x 115mm x 45mm Makes a great Valentine's Gift, Engagement Gift or Wedding Present.
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Baroq - Cast Puzzle
Difficulty Level 4
The puzzle is to separate the two pieces fashioned after the image of intertwining Bach melodies.
At first glance this puzzle may seem similar to the interloced nail puzzles.... Beware, it's nothing like it. With this puzzle almost every surface of each of the two pieces needs to touch every surface of the other piece to get them apart. Quite some manouvering involved. A personal favourite of Mr Puzzle's.
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Chain - Cast Disentanglement Puzzle
Difficulty Level 6
Can you separate the three links of the chain and then get it back together again?
What's special about this puzzle is that it can be solved three different ways, depending on which of the three pieces has been chosen as the middle link.
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Coaster - Cast Puzzle
Difficulty Level 4
The puzzle is to try to get the three pieces apart and then back together again. To the people at Hanayama it looked like a strange adornment weaved into a "coiffure" design.
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Cricket - Cast Puzzle
Difficulty Level 2
This puzzle, utilising pieces resembling equipment used in the sport of cricket, can be traced back to a puzzle patented in England back in 1898. The world's only remaining original version of this puzzle is part of the personal collection of James Dalgety in England.
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Cuby - Cast Puzzle
Difficulty Level 3
This cube is actually a maze from which you have to remove the segment of a sphere. The segment inside can be moved around but how to find the 14 set moves, in order, to remove it from the cube? There are many reviewers, including Rik van Grol writing in CFF Magazine, who believe this puzzle warrants a rating even higher than Level 3 out of 6.
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Duet - Cast Puzzle
Difficulty Level 5
At first glance it looks like there is only one ring hanging from the grid but there are in fact two rings attached with a magnetic force.
Can you separate the rings from the grid and return them to their original positions?
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Enigma - Cast Disentanglement Puzzle
Difficulty Level 6
The three pieces of this puzzle just slide apart, you don't need to force them. Can you work out the twisting movement required to achieve this and to then get them back together again?
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Equa - Cast Puzzle
Difficulty Level 5
The object of this brilliant cast metal puzzle is to take the two interlocked loops apart and take them out of the surrounding planet like structure, then get the puzzle back together again. The puzzle was designed for Hanayama by Oskar van Deventner of The Netherlands and released in 2008.
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Laby - Cast Puzzle
Difficulty Level 5
This puzzle is one of these rare puzzles revived in it's new form. The key of the puzzle is decisively navigating its labyrinth, in which exists one point of weakness for you to break through. For the indecisive part of you!
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Loop - Cast Puzzle
Difficulty Level 1
Can you take it apart? Can you assemble it again? Getting the two parts of the loop back together again will be much trickier than you might think. The puzzle comes on a leather thong so that you can use is as a pendant – it certainly makes a baffling piece of jewellery.
Created by the young Finnish puzzle designer Vesa Timonen. The key word is "Synthesis".
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News - Cast Metal Puzzle
Difficulty Level 6
The object is to separate the two parts - N E W S. The level of difficulty is very high because it's very difficult to work out the solution to the puzzle. Once done the puzzle is not difficult to memorise.
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Nut Case - Cast Puzzle
Difficulty Level 6
There are two goals to the Cast Nutcase created by the Dutch puzzle inventor, Oskar van Deventner.
1. Remove the small nut by disassembling the Cast Nutcase.
2. Cast puzzle enthusiasts (some call them nutcases) can enjoy trying to change the wording on the bolt from "nut-case" to "case-nut".
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Quartet - Cast Puzzle
Difficulty Level 6
Separate the 4 pieces of the puzzle. True bonds has always been hard to form, but once formed such bonds are eternal and hard to break. The inventor Uyematsu says that his original version was created with this image in his mind, but the puzzle was completed into a cast puzzle with a bond that is truly difficult to unravel. How would you go about breaking and forming this bond? There are two approaches to this puzzle and we challenge you to both!
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Radix - Cast Take Apart Puzzle
Difficulty Level 4
The name comes from the mathematical term, "radical axis", and also means root in Latin. The innovative concept that it is, you might even be tempted to call it "radical". Whatever you call it, have fun.
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Ring II - Cast Puzzle
 Difficulty Level 5
The five separate rings can be taken apart and put back together again to form a very large ring. The ring is a puzzle, not meant to be worn as jewellery. The diameter is 30mm.
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Spiral - Cast Take Apart Puzzle
Difficulty Level 5
Can you separate the five pieces of the 3D jigsaw and then get them back together again?
At first glance the pieces do not seem as though they are un-lockable. If you do get them apart there's a whole new problem for you to get them back together again.
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Vortex - Cast Take Apart Puzzle
Difficulty Level 5
Can you take the three pieces of the puzzle apart? Can you get the puzzle back together again? There are three interwoven pieces to the puzzle. Can you separate each piece of the puzzle?
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Starfish - Marine series cast puzzle
Difficulty Level 2
Can you take it apart? Can you assemble it again? Try to take the 'ring of fish' from around the Starfish. The puzzle comes with a cast loop at the top of one of the pieces so by putting it on a chain you can make it into an attractive pendant.
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