1 September 1997 Sue Young

Coming of Age – Brian’s original design

Made in September 1997 in our standard range.  250 made. All sold.

An additional 5 puzzles were made in our Craftsman Range from Queensland Silver Ash early in 1997. These puzzles were not for sale.

The first batches made were branded with our original Mr Puzzle Tamborine logo. In the later 1990s we introduced our new and still current Mr Puzzle Australia and later puzzles were branded with that logo.

Original Price: AU$42.00

 

In 1953 Willem L van der Poel, a leading Dutch computer scientist, set out to design a puzzle with as many interlocking pieces as possible and came up with an 18 piece burr.  Van der Poel’s version required 3 moves to get the last piece in place.  

In 1997 Brian @ Mr Puzzle changed the burr to create a puzzle with 5 moves to get the last piece in.  The redesign also minimised the number of identical pieces in the puzzle.  This was the start of Brian journey to create the Coming of Age MkII.

The puzzle was sold disassembled with a card and a printed solution.

 

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