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EPP 2019
Each year Peter Hajek hosts a little gathering of puzzlists and hangers-on. Some years it’s just before New Year, some years it’s just after… this year was an after, so we started 2020 by getting...
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Juno’s Ring Case
Another absolute cracker from Juno!This was my Saturday morning treat this weekend… the ransom note had arrived during the week, but I only managed to get out to collect it on Saturday… and there may...
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MPP XLi
This one started with a bit of a bump: Louis and I arrived at the hall nice and early to set up and found a couple of ladies already set up in the smaller room for a nice day’s painting… turns out the...
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Laszlo Molnar’s Hat Trick
Barely a year goes by when there isn’t an excellent new design from Laszlo Molnar – 2019 was no exception: he gave us Hat Trick. I enjoyed playing with this one in the Design Competition so I was quite...
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Pennyhedron
Sometimes the simplest things are sent to catch you out… and when they do, you should probably keep that to yourself. You definitely shouldn’t tell your puzzling mates about how much of an eedjit you...
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Cross Windows
I remember this one being up for sale on Cubic Dissection way back when I first started collecting puzzles. There were a few available for sale but the newbie in me just couldn’t imagine dropping quite...
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Brian Young’s Ages
Everyone who’s read Brian’s blurb about Ages knows that it got its name from the estimated time to completion of the BurrTools analysis of the piece set he gave it to chew over – it’s not hard to...
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iDventure Cluebox
One of my puzzling mates dropped by to visit for a few days with his family and rather generously gave me a copy of this neat little “Escape Room in a Box” made by iDventure.They’re made of many, many...
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Rune Cube
Kagen Sound’s first foray into this field came with his Waterfall Boxes – a stunning set of boxes where the first four boxes combine to provide the map for the fifth and final box. Somewhere in the...
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Philipp’s Flux Puzzle
<I’m breaking with tradition here and jotting a blog post about a puzzle that’s not mine… in fact with any luck, quite a few people will get the chance to have a bash at it courtesy of Royal Mail…...
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Feed the Monkey
A couple of weeks ago, just after we’d all gone into lockdown mode, I received a large care package from Big Steve - he’d ordered some stuff from Japan for me and then sent it across via courier –...
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Endo’s Tunnel Cube
A little while back Big-Steve managed to snag me a copy of Endo’s Tunnel Cube – Thanks mate!As we’ve come to expect from Endo-san, Tunnel Cube isn’t just a cracking little puzzle – it is presented...
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Another mini masterpiece
Almost eight years ago now (yikes!) Jack Krijnen made a gorgeous little Level 5 burr set that I raved about over here. Five years ago he produced his version of the Ultimate Burr set, and yes, I raved...
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TriTIC and GeneTIC
Brian Menold recently made a bunch of new Turning Interlocking Cubes (or TICs, courtesy of Bernhard) designed by Andrew Crowell – the current TIC King. Having seen Brian’s work come on in leaps and...
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(re-)Discovering a gem
A while back I managed to find a copy of Markus Götz’s Edge Corner Cube. Crafted by Eric Fuller in Canarywood, this 3*3*3 cube assembly is pretty unusual in that virtually all of the joints between...
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Asymmetric cube -5-
For me, this was the pick of the bunch from my latest Karakuri club order: it looks gorgeous, it’s a handy size and as a puzzle, it rocks!Kawashima-san designed and crafted this for an exhibition...
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5 times 5 times 5
Another gem from my latest Karakuri haul – this time from Hiroshi Iwahara – master of higher move interacting and n-ary move puzzle boxes. This one was also made for the “GO” exhibition and uses the...
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Euklid for Kids
This is more my kind of puzzle!Euklid wasn’t a lot of fun – at least it wasn’t for me: I spent ages on it and was quite chuffed to find a single solution… only to be told by an American that were...
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Sixteen Move Puzzle Box
The name doesn’t really give much away (other than it’s probably going to take you at least sixteen moves to open this guy!) – it’s as though this beauty is trying to pretend to be a generic standard...
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Ribbon Keyvos Puzzle (Improved)
I’ve been bidding unsuccessfully on a few copies of this puzzle over the years and earlier this year I finally managed to find a copy that nobody else wanted even more than I did. This cute little cube...
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