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We sell mostly
wooden puzzles, although you will find some metal puzzles and
cast puzzles as well. These puzzles are sometimes referred to
as mechanical puzzles, brain teasers, 3d puzzles, mind benders,
one person 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. |