Kings Day 2025
This year the Two Brass Monkeys invite me to travel over to Eindhoven and Venlo with them, so I head down to Ali’s place on Friday morning. My sat-nag takes me around a bit of a roundabout route, but...
View ArticleBag o’Tangles
A few weeks ago Gill got me an awesome anniversary gift – apparently 21 years is brass or nickel, so Gill reached out to the Nicholl that does brass and colluded to get me a personalised copy of the...
View ArticleRaDio
I first spotted a pic of this puzzle in the wild in one of Wil’s occasional emails - there wasn’t any description, just a picture of a little old-fashioned radio in a rather distinctive finish… if the...
View ArticleClutch Lock
When Andrew Coles offers me a puzzle the only question I ask is “What do I owe you?”. There’s never any point asking about the puzzle or the design process as I know that I’m going to want one, so...
View ArticleMPP LCIIIIX
Once again there’s no one staying over for the weekend so my MPP weekend consists just of MPP itself. I head down to the hall via the shops to pick up some soft drinks and fresh milk with the rest of...
View ArticleDoog’s Mother of All Weekends*
(* that was Doog's name for our Whatsapp group... in hindsight, it seems appropriate! Otherwise it was going to be Alpine Puzzle Party 1... in the hopes that there might be more of them.) A little...
View ArticleKeyring 2
Visually there are some similarities between the first and second Keyring puzzles from MW Puzzles – they’re both around the same size with a steel tube and a brass ring around them… the first keyring...
View ArticleBox 2 – Ice Bucket
Phil Wigfield loves using his old school metal-working skills to amuse and perplex. His second “box” is a riff on Rocky Chiaro’s Ice Bucket which Phil’s described as a nod to the original with a bit of...
View ArticleSomething new from Two Brass Monkeys
This won’t be a long blog post, but hopefully it will be useful, if only to the small group of thoroughly masochistic puzzlers out there…Ali and Steve have a new hexagonal stick puzzle out – as you’d...
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