The Puzzle Design Competition was name in honor of the great Japanese puzzle inventor Nob Yoshigahara - web site: http://www.puzzleworld.org/DesignCompetition/

The inaugural competition was held in Tokyo in August 2001.

The most recent IPP Puzzle Design Competition was judged in Washington DC, USA in August 2012. The results of the IPP Puzzle Design Competition can be view at http://www.puzzleworld.org/DesignCompetition/ and the complete list of puzzle entries can be viewed at http://www.puzzleworld.org/DesignCompetition/2012/ Brian @ Mr Puzzle received one of two Jury First Prizes for his Houdini Torture Cell puzzle.

Click here for details of how to enter next year's Puzzle Design Competition

Brian was chosen to design and manufacture the Trophies for the winners of the IPP Puzzle Design Competitions in both 2001 & 2002.

The trophy is a fourteen piece interlocking burr with the outward appearance of the IPP logo. To ensure the winning puzzle designer is suffiently challenged the puzzle has many unusual moves to be completed when disassembling and assemling it. Just balancing it on the stand could be considered a challenge.

This puzzle given as the "Puzzlers' Award" selected by IPP attendees is presented in Queensland Silver Ash with African Ebony detail.

There are four awards selected by the Judging Committee. These tropies are made from Queensland Silver Ash with Western Australian Jarrah detail and stand.