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Virtual MPP 2
A couple of weeks ago we held our second virtual MPP and got to chat with our puzzling friends from (literally) across the globe again. We kept to the idea of running three two-hour sessions over the...
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Euklid for Nick
First there was Euklid, and I did not enjoy it – managing to eventually find a single solution. Then there was Euklid for Kids,and I did enjoy it…Now we have Euklid for Nick and I started out not...
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Marbled Walnut Sheet Cake
Perry McDaniel makes some very fine cakes. I’ve had several in the hoard for a while now, but this one had eluded me for quite a while. Whenever I found one on an auction, it seemed someone else wanted...
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Manolete
Hmmmm… shiny!A couple of years ago I bought my first Berrocal while on a visit to the Berrocal Foundation that Nigel organised for us. (There may have been an entire weekend of silliness wrapped around...
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The Joy of Hex
The Two Brass Monkeys are at it again: this time they’re jam-packed with a whole lot of hex and a decent filling of double entendre – vintage monkey business!Steve and Ali have leant on Derek for some...
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Allard's Christmas Puzzle Puzzle 2020
It's been a jolly weird year and I didn't have a lot of inspiration for this year's puzzle, but I really didn't want this to be the first year in a while where I broke with tradition - hopefully it...
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Allard’s 2020 Christmas Puzzle Puzzle Solution
So it turns out this is the tenth time I’ve done a Christmas competition – I hadn’t realised that I started doing them on the first Christmas Eve of this blog – and they’ve run all the way through to...
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Blah Box
by Eric Fuller, is anything but!It is excellent!And yes, I know that the name came from his disappointment that he couldn’t use it the way he’d first intended, but boy am I glad he decided to release...
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One Hand Puzzlebox
Towards the end of last year my fellow Fellow Asher got in touch with me and asked if I’d be interested in a copy of something he’d been developing with Robert Yarger – a quick check on whether Hades...
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Pentasticks
A good friend recently offered me a number of puzzles made by Tom Lensch and I had a really hard time turning any of them down… in the end, the only reason I could find for not taking any of them was...
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OLEO 10
Yuu Asaka burst into my puzzling consciousness (is that a thing?!) at the IPP38 Nob Yoshigahara Puzzle Design Competition with his Jigsaw 29… think of it as a jigsaw and it simply won’t compute… think...
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Lensch Lovelies
Another little treasure from my recent haul of Lensch Lovelies – this time a Magic Box with a surprise inside it. The Magic Box is a neat, unassuming design from Oskar. The box comes apart into six...
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VMPP 3
Apologies for the tumbleweed recently – I’m back on it now…Just over a week ago now we held our third virtual Midlands Puzzle Party – unable to get together in person, we invite our puzzling friends...
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The (even more) self-indulgent post...
Health Warning: this post is going to be significantly more self-indulgent than usual. There may not even be much talk of actual puzzles. This blog post is about this blog –I reckon I’ve earned the...
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Triple Chocolate Box
George Bell has a knack for designing mean puzzles that mess with my head – admittedly I’m setting a low bar here – but I suspect that his love of playing with spheres and truncated octahedra manage to...
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Juno's Crooked Six-Piece Burrs
Somewhere around the tail-end of December Juno released a few new puzzles on Pluredro and I wasn’t quite quick enough to pick up a copy of each, but I did manage to get a pair of the Crooked 6 Piece...
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Easter Baskets
Most of my puzzling time over the Easter long weekend was spent packing baskets – which seemed entirely appropriate! There was also quite a bit of chocolate (puzzle-solving fuel) around that weekend...
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Akku
This one stood out for me from the latest Pelikan Workshop update. From the ever fruitful (and somewhat devious) mind of Volker Latussek, we get Akku– the now familiar slightly lipped acacia box now...
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Virtual MPP 4
With the world still either firmly in the grips of a global pandemic or beginning to emerge from one, depending on where you currently find yourself, there was zero chance of holding a physical...
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Basket redux
After spending a goodly while solving Akaki’s Picnic Baskets over the Easter weekend, a few more have arrived to keep me amused. First off, Eric Fuller made up a mini set of picnic baskets with pieces...
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