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11 Step Antares Wooden Puzzle Box
Coming soon! Due later in July 2020. The wood finish of the puzzle will be…
24 Step Orion Wooden Puzzle Box
Coming soon! Due later in July 2020. The wood finish of the puzzle will be…
3 Boxy wooden interlocking puzzle
Difficulty 4/5 The puzzle is to take apart the 6 pieces. Once apart you will…
Feed the Monkey packing puzzle
Take the puzzle out of its silicone banana case and you'll find the first packing…
Hanayama Snow cast maze puzzle
Following the designed route will not be that easy. But it's the only way to…
Hexator 6 piece hard interlocking puzzle
Your challenge is to assemble the 6 pieces into the symmetrical cross shape. [...]Read More...
Minecraft Magnetic multi-challenge puzzle
Select one of the 40 different challenges. Each one has a hidden arrangement of nine…
Moon Spinner twisting brainteaser
Your goal is to scramble the various coloured sections, and then figure out how to…
My First Rush Hour match & go maze game
Match all the Vehicles and the Safety Officer to their proper positions on the Puzzle…
Pyramid Twisty Puzzle
A twisty puzzle that's in the shape of a pyramid instead of a cube. Not…
Rubiks Cube Light that really turns
Lighting with a twist! The perfect desk lamp for the twisty puzzle fan in your…
Puzzles by Type
Different classifications of puzzles to help you choose
Slocum’s Classification is probably the most widely used classification for mechanical puzzles. James Dalgety has also published an even more detailed list of classification which he uses to group puzzles in his collection. See his classification page at The Puzzle Museum website.
We’ve sorted puzzles into more generalised groups to help you find the puzzle you’re looking for so look for the + sign and expand the sub categories under this heading.
Metagrobology is the study of puzzles.
A metagrobologist is a person who studies puzzles.
Metagrobolise means to puzzle, mystify, baffle or confound.
The words are uncommon in everyday use and the only reference in print that I could find was this quote from Rudyard Kipling’s Stalky & Co in 1899 “It’s the olive branch,” was Stalky’s comment. “It’s the giddy white flag, by gum! Come to think of it, we have metagrobolized ’em.”
More recently many puzzlers have used the word metagrobologist to describe themselves. Wikipedia credits the American wire puzzle designer Rick Irby with first applying it to a puzzler in the 1970’s but that’s open to argument.
A search of the Oxford English Dictionary show no listings for either metagrbology, metagrobolise or metagrabologist so it seems the word is still puzzling us!
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