Handcrafted wooden puzzles from Mr Puzzle, educational puzzles for kids from Smart Games, Rubik's twisty puzzles and more. Our site includes many puzzles under $40.00. From easy to very, very difficult puzzles you'll certainly be able to find something here to please and challenge.
Difficulty Rating: 8/10 Adult 9/10 Teens Suitable 13 years and over Original painting by Robert Campbell owned by the Regional Galleries Association of Australia and currently hangs in the Art Gallery of Queensland in Brisbane. Finished size: 690mm x 500mm
The goal is to escape the gridlock. Rush Hour is a sliding block sequential move puzzle designed to challenge your sequential-thinking skills.
The puzzle comes with 40 challenge cards with four levels of play: beginner, intermediate, advanced and expert. Start with beginner challenges and work up from there. Colour coded cards make games setup easy. If you find yourself hopelessly stuck in traffic gridlock just tip out the pieces and start over.
The puzzle includes playing grid surface with pull out card drawer, 4 standard trucks and 11 standard cars, 1 fancy car (that's for you to drive out of the traffic jam, 40 challenge cards and a bonus storage bag for easy transport.
Once all the pieces have been scrambled to solve the puzzle slide the pieces around until the rectangular pieces form a continuous chain of dominos around the ball. As in the game of Dominos the points value must be the same as the matched side on the adjacent piece.
Set of 4 Music Series disentanglement puzzles. SAVE $5.80. Each puzzle packaged separately in sturdy window front box. Select any 4 of your choice from the 8 different puzzles. All good puzzling fun. For larger photo see detail page. Buy single puzzles here.
Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Prague, Czech Republic, August 2008 Presented by Diniar Namdarian. Made by Václav Obšívac at Vin & Co. Designed by Stanislav Knot. Difficulty 4/5 The challenge is to rearrange the eight L pieces in the frame so that the additional rectangle piece fits in as well.
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!
You and the magic goats help Pete safely conquer the mountain by finding the right sequence of moves to reach the peak.
The puzzle comes with 40 challenge cards with four levels of play: beginner, intermediate, advanced and expert. Suitable for ages 8+. Adults will love it! Start with beginner challenges and work up from there. Colour coded cards make games setup easy.
The puzzle is to return the cube to its original state... every side finally having one solid color. The Rubik's 4x4 cube (otherwise known as Rubiks Revenge) was released more than 20 years ago and remains one of the classic Rubik's must have puzzles.
The puzzle is to remove the 4 burr pieces from the cross frame.
Japanese designer Osanori Yamamoto has been publishing his puzzle designs since the start of 2003.This is one he released in 2012.
The frame is a symmetrical crossinto which the 4 burr pieces fit.They can be removed and reinserted into the frame.
There is a unique level 30.6.3 solution.That means that it will take 30 moves to remove the first piece then another 6 to remove the second piece and still 3 more to get the third piece out.
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.
Not very big but a challenging 7 moves to open. To open a Japanese puzzle box one or more sliding pieces hidden within the patterns on the box must be moved. Perfect gift box for that very special small gift. Imagine if someone has to find these moves before they can receive their gift? Perhaps you're giving a very special piece of jewellery, perhaps a ring, maybe even a diamond? This will certainly prolong the suspense.
Size: 2 Sun (a traditional unit of measure to denote length) Actual size outside: 60mm x 46mm x 37mm Space inside: 35mm x 32mm x 25mm Gift boxed as shown in this photo with a solution inside. Because each puzzle box is handmade in Japan the pattern on each one will be very similar but may vary slightly from the photo shown here.
Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange - Gold Coast, Australia, August 2007 Presented by Marti Reis. Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia. Designed by Stuart Gee.
Status: 30th March 2013. Only 10 left. Once sold we won't make this puzzle again.
The puzzle is to assemble the bracelet into a self supporting and stable rhombic dodecahedron.
Set of 12 wire disentanglement puzzles. Guaranteed 12 different puzzles. For larger photo see detail page. Or you can choose a random selerction of 6 puzzles from the set of 12. Click here.
Find the way through the double layered maze and free the Euro from the labyrinth. A very, very hard puzzle puzzle designed by Jürgen Reiche at Siebenstein-Spiele. Difficulty level 6 out of 7.
Buy the set of the beer mug and beer bottle puzzles and SAVE. A great host gift to take to that pre-Christmas Barbie! One puzzle is to reassemble the 24 interlocking pieces into the beer mug. The other puzzle is to reassemble the 11 interlocking pieces into the beer bottle (known downunder as a "stubby").
Buy a set of a wine bottle and wine glass puzzle and SAVE. Great for a special friends bar! One puzzle is to reassemble the 12 interlocking pieces into the wine bottle. The other puzzle is to reassemble the 12 interlocking pieces into the wine glass.
Written by Jerry Slocum and Dic Sonneveld. Published by The Slocum Puzzle Foundation. First published in 2006. 144 full colour glossy pages Hard cover. The story of the puzzle that started the craze of 1880 and how America's greatest puzzle designer, Sam Loyd, fooled everyone for 115 years!
There have been many amazing reviews of this book. One of the exerpts below; click this link to read them all.
Martin Gardner, Author of 15 Classic Books on Mathematical Recreations - "Jerry Slocum and Dic Sonneveld have written an amazing tour de force. It covers in fantastic detail the history of the greatest mechanical puzzle craze ever to sweep not only the United States but also England and Europe. The Rubik's Cube mania was modest in comparison. Did Sam Loyd, America's greatest puzzle maker, invent the notorious 14-15 sliding block puzzle? He claimed he did but the claim was a total lie."
The puzzle is to return the cube to its original state... every side finally having one solid color. The Rubik's 5x5 cube (otherwise known as Rubiks Professor Cube®) is the most complex of all Rubik's Cube levels.
Prepare to be absolutely amazed by the smoothness and sturdiness of this cube! This is the original patented V-CUBE 5™ made in Greece not a Magic Cube cheap copy. It's a multicoloured, five-layered cube with exceptional quality and incredibly smooth rotation.
The puzzle is to remove the 3 burr pieces from the cube frame and insert them again.
Designed recently by Japanese designer Osanori Yamamoto in early 2013 this puzzle has a very complex level 16.3 solution to solve it with a symmetrical colour pattern.
When the puzzle is completed with the symmetrical light colour bars in place on each face there is just one solution from possible assembles. If the colour pattern is ignored there are 2 solutions from 3 possible assemblies.
The level 16.3 solution means that it will take 16 moves to remove the first piece then another 3 to remove the second piece.
Edward Hordern Puzzle Exchange - Gold Coast, Australia, August 2007 Presented by Laurie Brokenshire. Made by Václav Obšívac. Designed by Václav Obšívac.
Difficulty 5/5+ The puzzle is to assemble the six differently shaped pieces into this very complex interlocking burr. This puzzle is one of the hardest that Vinco has ever invented and because of the way it has to be assembled it is not possible to solve this puzzle using a computer program.
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. This photo shows the Mega Six when it's about half way together or apart).
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!
Covered by Australian Design Registration No 151844 and is made under license to Bill Cutler.
This puzzle is also available in our Craftsman Range in Jarrah, Blackbean or Silver Ash (Click here).
Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Prague, Czech Republic, August 2008 Presented by Grant Smith. Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia. Designed by Junichi Yananose.
The object of the puzzle is to assemble the 6 piece interlocking burr. After he designed this level 5-4-2-2 burr Junichi described it as a mediocre level of difficulty; that translates to difficult for most other puzzlers.
Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange - Prague, Czech Republic, August 2008 Presented by Frank Potts. Made by Brian Young @ Mr Puzzle Australia. Designed by Frank Potts.
Status: 30th March 2013. Only 20 left. Once sold we won't make this puzzle again.
The object of the puzzle is to disassemble the burr and then reassemble. It's a level 9,3 burr but the challenge may not just be about the number of moves to disassemble the burr.
There's a slight trick to get the lid open. Not very complicated but it can be a bit of a trap for those new to puzzles. Lovely carving and brass vine leaf design in the lid.
Size - 200mm x 125mm x 55mm (space inside the box is 175mm x 100mm x 45mm) Boxes are made from Indian Rosewood also known as Sheesham wood with brass inlay decoration. They are hand made in India and whilst not the quality or complexity of the Japanese made boxes this is reflected in the price.
This puzzle jewellery box has a single move so it's not too complicated but tricky for the novice. Lovely geometric shape carving and brass vine leaf design in the lid.
Size - 250mm x 150mm x 80mm (space inside the box is 203mm x 102mm x 40mm) Boxes are made from Indian Rosewood also known as Sheesham wood with brass inlay decoration. They are hand made in India and whilst not the quality or complexity of the Japanese made boxes this is reflected in the price.
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