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Siebenstein 4 Pfeile
…or Four Arrows if your German’s as rubbish as mine!This lovely little tray-packing puzzle with a twist came as a gift from my mate Louis on a recent trip to Puzzling Times HQ. Eight little pieces...
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IPP39 - The Journey to Kanazawa
We began the journey to IPP39 the day after one of the hottest days of the year in the UK - good practice for our time in Japan you might think... problem was that the UK seems to grind to a halt when...
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IPP39 – The pre-IPP bits
Next morning we find Big Steve at breakfast and feast a little - the hotel has a goodly spread...we’ll definitely be ok here for a few days! After breakfast we head out on one of the loop buses in the...
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IPP39 – The main event starts
Next morning we head out on the Kanazawa tour after breakfast - missing the bus we’d planned to take and being forced to take the last bus of the day - Gill and I ended up having to share the coach...
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IPP39 – Exchange and Puzzle Party days
Saturday morning is the exchange so we’re up early and hit breakfast along with a large throng of eager puzzlers. Just before 9am we all troop into the hall and set up our piles of puzzles on our...
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IPP39 Post Trip
Next morning we enjoy our last breakfast in the ANA Crowne Plaza and assemble in the lobby before boarding a pair of luxury buses that will ferry us back to Tokyo via some cultural attractions and...
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Nova Plexus
I love a good story. And when there’s a puzzle involved as well, even better!This design has been around for a long time – but it was made in such limited quantities that the only way to see one or...
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MPP iXL
I collect Louis from BHX sometime after supper and I drag him kicking and screaming up to the puzzle cave – I have puzzles he needs to solve – lots of them! (The truth is not nearly as amusing, so I'm...
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Titan Lock Puzzle
I first spotted this one on a FaceBook post a little while back and Sod’s Law dictated that by the time I headed over to the Etsy store, they were sold out… so I had to watch patiently as the first...
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NPP 3
The third Northern Puzzle Party coincides perfectly with my birthday this year – not that surprising as it’s timed to be close to Frank’s birthday which is literally three days away from my own…Nick...
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Jack in the Box
(No, it’s not a child’s wind-up toy…) In between making some epic puzzle chests, Jesse Born took some time out to design and manufacture something a whole lot simpler – think of it as a palate cleanser...
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DCD 2019
After finding that DCD 2018 clashed with a week away in Wales with some good friends, I was pleased to be able to return to the scene of the crime this year. Gill dropped me off at BHX at a reasonable...
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Fuller’s Tiddlers
Eric recently announced a new series of small puzzle boxes – aimed squarely at lovers of the box, made to his wonderfully exacting standards, but on a smaller scale, resulting in a more pocket-friendly...
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Peamaru
I love simple puzzles – so here’s a nice simple one for you that I rather enjoyed fiddling with at IPP earlier this year: Peamaru was designed by the rather prolific Volker Latussek… and while he’s...
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MPP XL
This one was extra large in some senses, and small and intimate in others… but it was still a whole lotta fun, or rather, that was the majority view… The motorways were rammed so it turned out to be a...
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A puzzling weekend…
[Sorry about the hiatus – life intervened. Some of it has now calmed down, a bit.]When my mate John told me he was thinking of coming to visit for a weekend, I’ll admit that my first instinct was to...
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Heavy metal gifts…
Over the past couple of months my good friends Steve and Alihave given me a couple of rather puzzling lumps of brass…I got a prototype copy of their remake of Oskar’s Hyperboloid Burr for my birthday....
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Christmas 2019 Puzzle
I've traditionally put up a puzzle of some description on Christmas Eve for my puzzling mates around the world to amuse themselves with - I didn't really have much time to come up with a good puzzle...
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Allard’s 2019 Puzzle Puzzle Solution
Sorry! I hadn’t realised I’d made it that hard…I had exactly one correct entry – from Brendan P, who’d managed to identify all of the puzzles by midnight on Christmas eve and solved the puzzle by early...
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More little Fullers
When Eric says he’s planning a series of small boxes, he doesn’t hang about! The first two arrived at the start of October – these two over here - and then another two arrived at the start of November:...
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