This is a group of puzzles and brainteasers is called Take-Apart puzzles. Sometimes it's hard to distinguish these categories of puzzles and brain teasers from each other so we grouped them to make it simpler. Whatever the puzzles are made of the object of the puzzle will always at least start with the overall object to separate the pieces of the puzzle or remove a piece of the puzzle.
The objective of the puzzle is to separate the two halves of the apple.
A beautiful example of an impossible dovetail, made for generations in wood, but being precision made in alumnium you can't beat the accuracy.
Once you open it you'll discover a nice lock, not too difficult and space inside to put a small ring. It must be a ring because like any other apple it has a core; but there's a space around the core. An alternative to a more traditional puzzle box to present a ring.
Size: Diameter of the apple is 33mm. Maximum outside diameter of ring inside is 25mm. Diameter of the apple core is 12mm.
In 1980 the Dutch designer Wil Strijbos created his first puzzle and this is it. The Aluminium Cross. And it's design is still as unique and intriguing as when he first created it over 30 years ago.
At first you might think this is the same as other 'cross' puzzles you've seen before. It's not! You might also think it does not look very difficult to take it apart. It is! And once you have it apart you might think it will not be very difficult to put it back together. It is!
Possibly the most intriguing thing about this puzzle is that even if you see the elements of the puzzle when it's apart the solution is not obvious. Wil is so confident of this fact that the puzzle even comes with a photo showing the internal workings of the puzzle. But he does not supply the solution.
The object of the puzzle is to open the cylinder. As usual with Wil's designs, this is nowhere near as easy as it sounds!
And sound is important when solving this puzzle. This puzzle does not give up it's secrets easily and like a lot of Wil's puzzles you are often working blind.
The puzzle is to separate the 4 pieces of the two rings. Yes 4 not 2. Even thought the puzzle looks like 2 cast Donuts intertwined together. There is almost no movement in the puzzle. The two donuts will spin within each other but the parts of each donut will barely move. Or will they?
Hanayama puzzles come packaged with a printed solution. Not offered as standard by other sellers.
Even though these are just new we still offer them as part of our discounted sets of 6 or 12 Hanayama puzzles.
Difficulty - Hard but not Extreme The puzzle is to remove the washer from the bolt - without going insane. Not quite the regular nut and bolt puzzle you've seen around the place.... there's a slight change to the design of this one. Being a threaded bolt, please excuse the pun but it has an extra little twist.
We also sell a different Nut and Bolt puzzle in this same series. Click here.
Difficulty - Hard close to Extreme The puzzle is to remove the cannonball from this curious brass cannon. This is one of a group of Take Apart puzzles that some refer to as Progressive Move puzzles. There is no simple, single move, straighforward solution.
The puzzle is to separate the eight pieces - if you can never do this puzzle it can always be used a a teapot stand.
At first glance this puzzle appears to be an impossible object. In puzzle terms, an impossible object is a puzzle that will not come apart or looks physically impossible to make. For this type of puzzle, the puzzle is to determine how it was made in the first place. The Puzzle Sticks is NOT an impossible object. It will come apart without the use of force.
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.
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.
Difficulty 3/5 The puzzle is to interlock these 4 pieces to make the burr. As with many of Vinco's puzzle you are also presented the challenge of getting it apart before you can even begin the assembly process.
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.
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.
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 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.
Drop in your coins, accumulate the cash, and make a withdrawal? Not so fast! Money talks and it's telling you to invest in the future. It could take a long time before you figure out how to release your savings!
The puzzle is to try to open the wooden box and get the money, tickets or whatever out.
Instead of giving money in a plain white envelope, slip it into this crafty wooden puzzler and watch the recipient turn green!
Fits gift certificates, concert, airline or lottery tickets, paper money, greeting cards, paychecks... Inside space is: 160mm x 70mm and it will fit 6 - 10 sheets of regular paper inside. I folded an A4 standard sheet of paper in half, then in three, and it fitted comfortably.
First, try to disassemble the six very complex pieces and get the marble out. Once you done that you'll now have the challenge to put it together again.
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.
Only the Rooster left of the 12 different Mongolian zodiac animals. Each of these animals has a different set of pieces and therefore a different solution. There is a small space inside each box to allow storage of a trinket. The puzzles range in difficulty but in general they are similar to the easiest of the Japanese puzzle boxes or the small mystery box.
Mr Puzzle - We've got puzzles! 
This is a group of puzzles and brainteasers is called Take-Apart puzzles. Sometimes it's hard to distinguish these categories of puzzles and brain teasers from each other so we grouped them to make it simpler. Whatever the puzzles are made of the object of the puzzle will always at least start with the overall object to separate the pieces of the puzzle or remove a piece of the puzzle.
