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Mr Puzzle - We know puzzles!
We sell mostly mechanical
puzzles but also stock jigsaw puzzles and some other puzzling items.
Mostly we have wooden puzzles, although you will find many other puzzles
including cast puzzles, other metal puzzles, even ceramic
items. Unlike word or jigsaw puzzles,
mechanical puzzles are hand-held objects that must be manipulated to
achieve a specific goal. These puzzles are sometimes referred to as
mechanical puzzles, brain teasers, 3d puzzles, mind benders, one person
games, logic games, or just plain wooden games or wooden toys. In fact in
languages other than English 'head breaker' is often the literal
translation. Puzzel or legpuzzel in Dutch, Pussel in Swedish are probably
the closest to English but the French call them Casse-Tete, in Spanish
it's Rompecabezas, the Germans usually say Geduldsspiel and the Hebrew
words Hidat Shihzur is literally translated as Restoration
Puzzle. Many of our puzzles are often
referred to as 'Chinese' puzzles (puzzle in Mandarin is pronounced Pintu)
or Japanese puzzles (puzzle in Japanese is pronounced pazuru), or Rubiks
puzzles. In fact these puzzles rarely originate in China and only one of
them is of the Rubik style however certainly many modern day puzzles have
been invented in Japan like the Pandora's Box and the Hanayama cast metal
puzzles sold on this site. On this site you will find
many original wood and metal puzzles by Mr Puzzle, very difficult puzzles,
as well as classic well known puzzles and brainteasers. We will have
included details about the inventor and whatever history we know about
each puzzle on the Presentation card which is packaged with it. We sell high quality jigsaw
puzzles with Australian themes. The only crossword puzzles or logic
puzzles we sell are printed on our puzzle cards. To read more about the history
of puzzles click here.
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