n-ary Puzzles
Chinese Ring puzzle 9 linked rings
Perhaps China's most famous puzzle ever, certainly equally as well known as the Tangram puzzle.…
Hanayama Cast Infinity take apart puzzle
The puzzle is called Infinity not only for its appearance but also because its movement…
Hidden Corridor by Jean Claude Constantin
Stock Update: 29th August 2020 This puzzle should be restocked later in 2021. In the…
Lock 250 puzzle lock by Jean Claude Constantin
250 moves to open... that means another 250 moves to close again. And that's only…
The Bell sliding disc puzzle
Swap the dark and light discs to opposite sides of the bell. A very nice…
Tower of Hanoi puzzle
Learn the pattern and you'll soon be able to master transferring the stack of 9…
N-5 Maze puzzle 5×5 grid
This N5 Maze series is an example of the genius of Jean-Claude Constantin. This version…
n-ary Puzzles
Binary puzzles, ternary puzzles and more...
It’s not known who first looked at the old Chinese Ring puzzle and thought that the movement of the rings in the solution would have two states equating to on/of or 0 and 1 used in computer binary code. But they did. And so a new group of puzzle classifications was made.
Since the Chinese ring puzzle first appeared there’s been not only binary puzzles, but ternary puzzles where pieces have three states and more. Right up to the current record holder Generation Lock – a 15-ary puzzle.
Many of these puzzles require a lot of moves to complete due to the recursive nature of the solution. Lucky not many have the number of the Generation Lock – 341,718,750. Yes, that’s 340 million+ !
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