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Pinball Wizard
The latest sequential discovery masterpiece from MW Puzzles made an early guest appearance at MPP a while back and, even though it wasn’t quite finalised yet, it already looked stunning… I can’t really...
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Minima Texas
I managed to pick up a bunch of new puzzles from Tye in Houston and one of them has had me scratching my head for an inordinate amount of time: Frederic Boucher’s Minima Texas, produced by Steve Smith....
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Chained Key
A Keychain SD Pocket Puzzle from Waier Creations – your task is simply to remove the key which is currently trapped in the barrel of the lock – sure it’ll wiggle a little, but it ain’t going nowhere....
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Visiting the World Puzzle Centre
(Sorry, I can’t bring myself to spell it wrong!) A couple of weeks ago I found myself heading down to Stansted to meet up with Peter, Ali and Louis – it turns out it’s quicker to fly to England and...
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Freeze 14
This may be a short blog post – but I am a MASSIVE fan of this puzzle!I’ve been following the release of Yuu Asaka’s puzzles fairly closely since Louis gifted me a copy of Jigsaw Puzzle 29 just after...
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DCD 2024
A week after DCD I find myself in a little cottage on a farm in Cornwall… I’ve got a couple of crates of (mostly unsolved) puzzles and Gill is stitching a festive panel at the kitchen table, and more...
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MPP LCIIII
[I think that's what I ended up calling it on the day...] This one starts with a Friday 5pm airport run to collect three blokes from The Netherlands and a chap from Bulgaria… I time the first arrival...
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Box 1
Phil Wigfield’s been hand-crafting stunning brass puzzles for ages and he’s had a bit of an itch that he’s been wanting to scratch for a while now: he’s wanted to make a puzzle box… he’s been talking...
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Burrr.exe ERROR
I reckon this one deserves a specific shout-out given just how innovative it is… spoiler alert: there might be a little repetition of some of my gushy praise from the last MPP write-up! You’ve been...
View ArticleChristmas Puzzle 2024
Who doesn’t love a bit of a conundrum competition at this time of year… I guess I can’t break with tradition, so here are some random questions that might just lead you to a name… send me that name to...
View ArticleSolution to the Christmas 2024 Puzzle
Yikes – I guess I made that one too hard! I got a grand total of two correct entries… the first one a little over an hour after the puzzle was posted, and the next one a few hours later… Mike showed...
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Fáfnir’s Fortress
Having recently really enjoyed Chained Key from Luke Waier, I was intrigued to spot an impending offering from Luke in the form of a little castle… I signed up for the pre-order and it arrived just...
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Zodiac
Doog and Radek are at it again… this time their latest Demonticon is delivered safely trapped inside a cage, for our safety, presumably… and then the cage is neatly ensconced inside a handsome leather...
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Free Me 9
Joseph Turner’s been producing excellent trapped coin puzzles for a while now… I’ve been lucky to have been gifted or acquired a couple of them so far, but I totally missed out on the first round of...
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Sniper Scope Puzzle
From the grande old school of “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”, Engineer Bruns brings us his Sniper Scope Puzzle. I can’t imagine what the appropriate response is to having your country...
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Tricklock T14
I was lucky to get hold of a copy of Rainer’s latest creation from my usual source back in October last year… and until last weekend, it had me thoroughly beaten. This thing is a beast – not just...
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Minima Smiley
If you’ve been reading my blog at all, you’ll have to have noticed that I’m a big fan of Frederic Boucher’s Minima series of puzzles. The tiny 2*2*3 form factor always feels approachable and...
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Lewis Evans’ Gordian Knot
About a year ago Lewis asked if he could borrow my copy of Stickman’s Gordian Knot so I posted it down to him… a short while later it was back home again with Lewis saying he’d really enjoyed the solve...
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Cast Jam
<Apologies for the hiatus: been feeling rubbish and not doing a huge amount of puzzling – and the little grey cells were definitely not up to writing anything vaguely coherent or passably amusing! I...
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MPP LCVX
This was another slightly weird one for me: nobody staying for the weekend means I’m getting packed up at home on my own on a Saturday morning before heading down to open up the hall. Ali had let me...
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