2009 Puzzle Design Competition
Entries

The 2009 Design Competition Guide (photos, instructions, and relevant notes) is available here.

The following is a summary of the 80 entries in the 2009 competition (click on images for larger photos). 

All designs are copyrighted and are the intellectual property of the designer. All rights are reserved.

1 Platypus Egg!

Designer: Stephen Chin
Goal: Open the egg.

Materials: Color pencils, pins, electronics
Classification: Trick opening (Slocum 2.1)

Purchase: Contact the designer.

3 Identical Piece Burr ON

Designer: Osanori Yamamoto
Goal: Assemble the 3-piece burr.

Materials: Wood
Classification: Interlocking

Purchase: Contact designer by email.

4 Piece Burr in Frame

Designer: Osanori Yamamoto
Goal: Assemble all four pieces into the frame so that none of them stick out.

Materials: Wood
Classification: Interlocking

Purchase: Contact designer by email.

4x2

Designer: Petar Zaharinov
Goal: Fold (roll over) and rotate the mechanism to find at least eight different English letters and 10 different mathematical symbols.

Materials: Wood, thread
Classification: Sequential movement, folding

Purchase: See pesheto.org or contact the designer by email.

4x6

Designer: Petar Zaharinov
Goal: Assemble the twenty-four elements (four types, six pieces each) into the interlocking structure shown in the picture.

Materials: Wood
Classification: Interlocking

Notes; The design was found while examining the possibilities of using interlocking puzzles in the field of industrial design and architecture. The goal was to find an interlocking structure, that is not too complex and difficult to produce. Furniture and houses were the main objects of interest. Probably the task was just the opposite of the one of puzzle design, but the result can be interesting even taken out of its practical application – as abstract structure.

Purchase: See pesheto.org or contact the designer by email.

5 Floor Pyramid

Designer: Hasan Yurtoglu
Goals:
1-Construct a 5-level, square-based pyramid.
2-Write a relief iPP with the same pieces.

Materials: Plastic cubes
Classification: Put-together

Purchase: Contact the designer by email.

5-Minute Puzzle That Might Take Longer

Designer: Andy Turner
Manufacturer: Andy and Joe Turner
Goal: Using the six pieces, make a cube. All pegs and holes should be hidden somewhere inside.

Materials: Wood blocks, wood pegs
Classification: Put-together

Notes: Most pieces appear to switch parity.

6 Board Burr #3

Designer: Junichi Yananose
Goal: Assemble and disassemble the board burr.

Materials: Chestnut and padauk
Classification: 3.4 Burr puzzles

Agincourt

Designer: Alexandre Muñiz
Goal: Make 4 4×4 squares with all arrows pointing the same direction. For a harder challenge, make an 8×8 square (again with all arrows pointing the same direction) where none of the 2 and 3 square pieces are adjacent to either each other or the perimeter of the square. (These pieces may touch at a point but not along an edge.)

Materials: Acrylic
Classification: Two-dimensional assembly

Purchase: Puzzles will be for sale at puzzlezapper.com for $18 plus shipping. 24 puzzles were produced.

Aquadron

Designer: Pantazis Constantine Houlis
Manufacturer: MindStrat Puzzles Pte Ltd
Goal: Use the gravitational property of the water to move/rotate the pyramids, and to connect the tentacles to the head of the jellyfish.

Materials: Polycarbonate spheres, ABS pyramids, water
Classification: Sequential movement

Purchase: mindstratpuzzles.com or email. Estimated price: US $35. Possible release date: January, 2010. Quantity to be determined.

Ark of the Covenant

Designer: Ronald Locke
Goal: Manipulate the moving pieces to open the box.

Materials: Walnut with 24K gold gilding
Classification: 2.1. Take-apart

Purchase: Contact designer by email; $500.USD, limited quantity (40).

BalloonBoggler

Designer: William Waite
Goal: Arrange any number of pieces so that there are no concave outer edges on any one piece (the outer edge should always be nicely rounded).

Materials: Alder wood or birch plywood
Classification: 2D put-together

Notes: This is a particularly unusual polyform puzzle in that there is no regular grid pattern for the puzzle. Because the pieces might be closer or farther apart, depending on the size of the "bite" that separates them, the grid of center points underlying each solution is irregular.

Purchase: Available at puzzlemist.com for $29.95.

Barb's Cube

Designer: Jose W. Diaz, John Devost
Goal: Take apart and reassemble seven checkered pieces.

Materials: Holly, wenge, bloodwood, and padauk
Classification: Interlocking

Purchase: copies will be available at davans.com; approx. 20 copies will be made, price $95 U.S.

Black Leaves

Designer: Kohfuh Satoh
Goal: Overlap the two pieces so that no worm cannot be seen. You may bend the pieces slightly without folding.

Materials: polyvinyl chloride board and adhesive sheet
Classification: Interlocking solid (3.6); interlocking (INT-OTH)

Blackbeard's Revenge

Designer: Allan Stein
Manufacturer: Puzzle Master
Goal: Remove the knife from the guard.

Materials: Maple, cherry, hemlock
Classification: Trick-opening

Bolaris Domino

Designer: Hannu Hjerppe
Manufacturer: Diff Design Oy
Goal: Slide the tiles to form a continuous chain of dominoes over and aroud the ball, matching the point value (1-4) with the adjacent tiles.

Materials: Strong and impact-resistant injection moulded ABS-plastics
Classification: Sequential movement

Purchase: Many retail outlets; see bolaris.fi pr contact design by email. Price about €15.

Bolaris Globe

Designer: Hannu Hjerppe
Manufacturer: Diff Design Oy
Goal: Scramble and restore the image.

Materials: Strong and impact-resistant injection moulded ABS-plastics. The Earth image is printed on the ABS-plastic parts using special UV-inkjet printer.
Classification: Sequential movement

Purchase: Many retail outlets; see bolaris.fi pr contact design by email. Price about €40.

Bolaris Grey

Designer: Hannu Hjerppe
Manufacturer: Diff Design Oy
Goal: Scramble and restore the gray-scale shift of colors.

Materials: Strong and impact-resistant injection moulded ABS-plastics
Classification: Sequential movement

Purchase: Many retail outlets; see bolaris.fi pr contact design by email. Price about €15.

Case Closed

Designer: Stewart Coffin
Goal: Assemble to fit fully into the box.

Materials: Oak dowels and birch plywood
Classification: Interlocking solid

Purchase: Nine made so far. Price $85.

ChooChooLoops

Designer: Kate Jones
Manufacturer: Kadon Enterprises, Inc.
Goal: Connect path segments to form loops and patterns. Booklet includes 18 separate main goals and many variations, plus 2 games.

Materials: Laser-cut acrylic
Classification: Put-together

Purchase: Available October 2009. Order from gamepuzzles.com at list price listed.

Click-Clack Cube

Designer: Namick Salakhov
Goal: The goal is to separate one of the balls from the cube. In successive steps of uplifting the lids and rotations of the cube, one of the balls must be freed by oneself due to the terrestrial attraction--do not use excess force.

Materials: Wood, metal balls, laminated HDF board, screws, coloured water-based varnish (environmental)
Classification: Sequential movement

Purchase: Contact designer by email.

Confetto Box

Designer: Hiroshi Iwahara
Goal: Open two compartments.

Materials: Padauk, cherry
Classification: Take apart, secret-opening

Purchase: For Karakuri Club members.

Crystalline

Designer: Iwahiro (Hirokazu Iwasawa)
Manufacturer: Sakura Plastics Co. Ltd.
Goal: Pull out the four black pieces from the crystal-like frame and reassemble them.

Materials: Acrylic and POM
Classification: 1.2 3-D Assembly

Devil's Gate

Designer: Ferdinand Lammertink
Manufacturer: George Miller
Goal: Put all 15 gates into the grid.

Materials: Acrylic
Classification: Slocum 3.2 Interlocking geometric shapes

Notes: This puzzle can be thought of as a 2-dimensional extension of the Langford problem.

Purchase: Available at puzzlepalace.com for $15.

Dodek Duo

Designer: Jerry Langin-Hooper
Manufacturer: Dodek Puzzle Company, LLC
Goal: Assemble the puzzle pieces while matching either just the colors (easier) or just the geometric shapes (harder) across each edge of the finished dodecahedron.

Materials: Polypropylene plastic and neodymium magnets
Classification: Hordern/Dalgety -- Pattern Puzzle; Slocum -- Put-Together Puzzle

Notes: The twelve Dodek Duo pieces contain specifically-polarized magnetic elements so that each puzzle piece can be attached to any other puzzle piece.

Purchase: Available at .DodekPuzzle.com. The regular price is $32.95; use promotion code "PuzzleParty2009" for a $6 discount. Thousands of DODEK DUO puzzles have been produced.

Double Head

Designer: Man Leung Lee
Goal: To remove the "sword" (handle) from the frame.

Materials: Stainless steel wire 3.5mm in diameter, copper wire 3.0mm in diameter, iron rings and alloy metal rings
Classification: Disentanglement wire puzzle

Purchase: Contact the designer by email. Hand-made; price: US$150.

Easy Pyramid, Hard Pyramid

Designer: Joe Becker
Goal: Assemble the pieces of the same color to make two 4-layer square-based pyramids.

Materials: Acrylic
Classification: Three-dimensional assembly

Notes: The Easy Pyramid (gold), named "8I2V", is a variation on Torsten Sillke's set of 10 "V" right-angle trispheres. The Hard Pyramid (blue), named "Just Right Angles", is the best of the few possible sets of all-different right-angle pieces.

Emerald Isle

Designer: James Kerley
Manufacturer: Walter Hoppe
Goal: Set the piece with the holes in different positions, and then try to place the remaining 15 pieces to fill the map of Ireland.

Materials: Laserable Plastic
Classification: 1.12 Dimensional Assembly Puzzle

Purchase: Contact the designer by email; $45.00 plus P&P.

Funny Cubes

Designer: Tom Lensch
Goal: The puzzle consist of four "Funny Cubes" and a square frame. Each Funny Cube is made up of two halves that are connected by an internal bolt which allows them to rotate with respect to each other. The objective is to place four Funny Cubes halves into the square frame. The halves that stick above the frame must also form a solid square.

Materials: Maple, with avodire, bloodwood, bocote, canarywood, Indain rosewood, makore, purpleheart and yellowheart. Frame base is redheart.
Classification: Put Together

Purchase: Available at web site tomlensch.com.

Good Hookin'

Designer: Sam Cornwell
Goal: Dissassemble and assemble eight pieces.

Materials: Mahogany and oak
Classification: Interlocking 3.2

Grandmass Trunk

Designer: Mike Toulouzas
Goal: Open the box.

Materials: Mahogany, Bubinga rosewood,Padauk
Classification: Secret opening

Purchase: puzzzlevision.com or email.

Great Escape

Designer: Simon Nightingale
Goal: Put the ball bearings down the tube - then get them out!

Materials: Corian, brass tube and four steel ball bearings
Classification: Exchange puzzle

Groovy Cubes

Designer: Derek Bosch
Goal: Assemble/disassemble the cubies into a 2x2x2 cube.

Materials: Acrylic, stainless steel
Classification: Interlocking

Purchase: two copies made for IPPDC. I will be gauging interest at IPP for possible production in the fall. Maybe as a DIY kit.

Hexdominoes

Designer: Kate Jones, Glenn Iba, Paulo Bouhid
Manufacturer: Kadon Enterprises, Inc.
Goal: Assemble tiles to meet the different goals.
1. HexMate: match tiles to colors on grid.
2. Color separation
3. “Latin” color arrays
4. Color pairs
5. Color trios
6. Color quads
7. Daisies, Pinwheels and Symmetries

Materials: Acrylic, lasercut. Tiles hand-inlaid in 6 colors.
Classification: Put-together

Purchase: To be produced in two formats: In display tray, $75; in drawstring pouch, $55. Order from gamepuzzles.com at list price listed.

Hextasy

Designer: Ronald Kint-Bruynseels
Manufacturer: John Devost
Goal: Disassemble and reassemble the six pieces.

Materials: Mahogany
Classification: INT-POLY

Purchase: Limited quantity in cherry or mahogany: $99.00, at davans.com

Impossible Magic Geometric Jig Saw Puzzle

Designer: Greg Evans
Goal: The puzzle is a 3 stage problem. It consists of 7 different regular and irregular shaped pieces.
1. Using the 5 non-square pieces make a square.
2. Then, using the same 5 pieces and the 6th piece (the smaller square piece) make a slightly larger square.
3. Now adding the final piece (also a square), use all 7 pieces to make an even larger square.

Materials: 3.5mm acryllic sheet
Classification: Jigsaw assembly puzzle non-interlocking

Purchase: Contact designer by email for original copies, for $35.00 + postage, or visit web site gebs.net.au/puzzle.html.

Irrational Dissection

Designer: Peter Conrad
Goal: Assemble the pieces into each of three possible different rectangular solids and then enclose each in the styrene box, which assembles three different ways.

Materials: Basswood, styrene
Classification: Put-together

K-Nob

Designer: Kim Klobucher
Goal: By moving sections of the puzzle box in the proper sequence, a piece can be removed to reveal the secret chamber inside.

Materials: Brass, ebony, tulipwood, goncalo alves, ziricote, bloodwood, purpleheart
Classification: Sequential Movement Puzzle Box

Purchase: Contact designer by email or web site kcubedesigns.com.

Krystalledron

Designer: Pantazis Constantine Houlis
Manufacturer: MindStrat Puzzles Pte Ltd
Goal: Match the edge patterns of the pyramid faces, which will make the puzzle look as sparkling as possible.

Materials: Polycarbonate spheres, ABS pyramids
Classification: Sequential movement

Purchase: mindstratpuzzles.com or email. Estimated price: US $40. Possible release date: January, 2010. Quantity to be determined.

La Cerradura 3D

Designer: Robrecht Louage
Goal: Open the lock and free the smiley.

Materials: Trispan, polycarbonate
Classification: Sequential movement

Purchase: Contact designer via email. Price 69€ + shipping.

Lattice

Designer: Tom Jolly
Manufacturer: Eric Fuller
Goal: Take 3 pieces apart, then put them back together again. Twenty-two moves to get the first piece out!

Materials: Acrylic
Classification: 3.2 Interlocking geometric object

Purchase: Available at sixmill.com. Price TBD (less than $20), unlimited quantity.

LEO brass

Designer: MINE (Mineyuki Uyematsu)
Manufacturer: RYUUZYU (Ryuusei Kaigo)
Goal: Disentangle the two parts.

Materials: Brass
Classification: Disentanglement

Purchase: Available ONLY in Japan at PUZZLE of MINE * WEB-SHOP.

Lost Jewel

Designer: Stuart Gee
Goal: Arrange the snake of 12 triangular prisms to form a stable octahedron. Each great circle should have the same colored accent.

Materials: Wood, elastic
Classification: 3D Assembly

Purchase: Contact the designer by email for purchase or swap.

Marusenko Sphere

Designer: Felix Perez, Aleksandr Marusenko
Manufacturer: Marusenko S.L.
Goal: Restore the colored sphere.

Materials: Injected thermoplastic
Classification: Rotational puzzle

Purchase: See web site marusenko.com.

Nine Bed Nightmare

Designer: George Bell
Manufacturer: Bernhard Schweitzer / Puzzlewood
Goal: Pack all nine L-shaped pieces into a 5x5x5 cube; or pack all nine pieces into 5x4x4 plus 5x3x3 bricks. A subset of the pieces can also pack a 5x5x4 brick or a 4x4x4 cube.

Materials: Maple and bubinga
Classification: 3D assembly (or ASS-CART)

Purchase: Limited availability at davans.com and puzzlewood.de.

No Boundaries Circle

Designer: Blair Buchanan
Manufacturer: Ponoko
Goal: A 7" circle divided into 25 pieces. Mix them around in a pile and then arrange them to complete the laser engraved design.

Materials: 0.12" bamboo plywood
Classification: Put-together 1.1

Purchase: Contact web site ponoko.com. Price: $16.00. Small pieces; not recommended for kids under eight.

No Boundaries Square

Designer: Blair Buchanan
Manufacturer: Ponoko
Goal: A 7" square divided into 25 equal squares. Mix them around in a pile and then arrange them to complete the laser engraved design.

Materials: 0.12" bamboo plywood
Classification: Put-together 1.1

Purchase: Contact web site ponoko.com. Price: $16.00. Small pieces; not recommended for kids under eight.

Obama's Star

Designer: Albert Gübeli
Goal: Build one white and one blue golden rhombic icosahedron, each with 5 pieces in the red supports. Build one golden rhombic triacontahedron with a white star on a blue globe, in one red support

Materials: 10 pieces from spruce wood and 2 supports from plywood
Classification: ASS-SHAP 3D Assembly, other shapes

Purchase: See web site albinegri.ch. Price $100. Ten pototypes produced, signed and numbered.

One Piece Puzzle

Designer: Harry L. Nelson
Manufacturer: Doug Engel
Goal: There are two challenges:
1. Make it flat
2. Make a cube

Materials: Copper wires and flexible tubing
Classification: 9. Folding puzzle

Purchase: Contact the designer.

Onion

Designer: Vesa Timonen
Manufacturer: George Miller
Goal: Take apart, put together.

Materials: ABS plastic
Classification: 3.2. Interlocking geometric shapes

Purchase: Available at puzzlepalace.com for $225.

OX BLOX

Designer: Louis Toorenburg
Goal: There are eight cubes, with letters on all sides. The object is to put 3,4,5 or 6 cubes together, to make English words. The words need to be on each of the four sides at the same time. The outward facing sides of the cubes are not involved.

Materials: Pine timber with lables
Classification: Sequential movement, constrained edge-matching

Purchase: Price: NZ$25. Contact designer by email or web site nzanity.co.nz.

Pagoda Puzzle

Designer: Matthew Dawson, Yasutoshi Makishi
Goal: Open and then close the box.

Materials: Red oak, walnut, PVC pipe, steel
Classification: 2.1 Trick or secret opening box

Purchase: Contact the design by email.

Paralhell

Designer: Sam Cornwell
Goal: Start the pieces in any position. Slide and/or turn the pieces (each is a pair of circles with the same markings) within the hexagon so that all surface rectangles are parallel and the empty space is in the middle.

Materials: Ramin dowell, foam, plywood
Classification: Sequential Movement : 2D 5.3

Notes: The edges of the tray are rubber, which allows pieces to squeeze past their neigbors.

Pickering's Puzzle

Designer: Barry John Pickering
Goals:
1. Arrange the light number font: #1 in the top-left, #35 in the bottom-right.
2. Starting with goal #1, flip over and arrange heavy font: #1 in the top-left, #35 in the bottom-right.
3. Arrange the colors according to the random arrangement of colored balls (top row gets first color, second row gets second color, etc.)—5040 problems and solutions.
4. Solve #3 but with only light or dark fonts showing—10080 problems.

Materials: Acrylic, wood, brass, felt and paint
Classification: Sequential movement

Polarity

Designer: Chris Enright
Manufacturer: Lyall Turbosonics, Inc. and Rapitech
Goal: Open up the two halves.

Materials: ABS-Plus 3D printed plastic using Stratasys Dimension Fusion Deposition Modeler, steel springs, neodymium magnets, epoxy, paint
Classification: Hordern/Dalgety Opening

Purchase: Contact the designer by email.

Pyramid in a Box

Designer: Thomas Beutner
Goal: Open the box, use the pieces inside to assemble a pyramid-like structure of stacked balls.

Materials: Walnut, birdseye maple, bamboo, birch, magnets
Classification: Trick opening box, assembly puzzle

Purchase: Contact the designer.

Qboid

Designer: Colin James
Manufacturer: Lakeland Puzzles
Goal: From the 12 pieces there are over 10,000 separate challenges/goals spread over 4 levels Stack the cubes to form one, two, three, or four number/letter combinations.
Number challenges: 3, 23, 431, 2012.
Hexadecimal challenges: F, 3E, b7A, 32Ad.
Letter challenges: p, Hy, Gub, LCEF.
Word challenges: I, BE, DOG, LEAF.
Mixed challenges: 8, C5, H2O, S49b.

Materials: Wood base then sealed and printed stickers applied
Classification: Put together

Purchase: Contact the designer by email. 50 available at US$24, including postage.

Rhomby

Designer: Vinco Obsivac
Goal: Take apart this rhombic dodecahedron and put it together again.

Materials: Walnut and maple
Classification: Interlocking puzzle

Purchase: Contact designer by email. Price is US$60.

Roll Up!

Designer: Simon Bexfield
Goal: Move ball to top of spiral.

Materials: Wood, perspex, metal
Classification: Dexterity - other

Purchase: Contact designer via email.

Sabine's Twist

Designer: Albert Gübeli
Goal: Put together and take apart a golden rhombic icosahedron built with five of the six pieces.

Materials: Spruce wood
Classification: INT-POLY, Interlocking polyhedral 3D

Purchase: See web site albinegri.ch. Price $100. Ten pototypes produced, signed and numbered.

See Thru SOMA

Designer: David Haycock
Manufacturer: David Haycock, Laser cutting by Ponoko
Goals:
1: Assemble pieces to form a cube such that one can see through the cube in one dimension (such as top-bottom, front-back, side-side)
2: Assemble a cube such that there are no holes through the cube when viewed from any cube face.
3: Assemble pieces such that resulting cube has one see-thru hole visible on each face.
4: Assemble pieces such that their are two see-thru holes visible on each face.

Materials: Laser cut bamboo, wood glue
Classification: 1.2 Three-Dimensional Assembly (non-interlocking)

Purchase: Contact designer via email.

Self-Referential Panels

Designer: Wei-Hwa Huang, Eric Harshbarger
Manufacturer: Tom Lensch, Laser Perfect, J&J Imprints
Goal: Arrange the 9 tiles in a 3x3 layout such that each tile describes the 9 colors in its position on the other tiles. For example, if you look at the top-center of each tile in the photo, that set of 9 little pieces looks exactly like the tile in the center of the top row.

Materials: Mahogany, tulipwood, yellowheart, Indian rosewood, printed vinyl
Classification: Put-Together, PAT-OTH

Notes: The solution can be found through logic solving, not trial-and-error.

Siamese Torbus

Designer: Ray Fischer
Manufacturer: Progressive Designs Inc.
Goal: Take apart; all rings are interlocked and can not be separated. Reassemble the laminated rings with different permutations.

Materials: Pliable polyurthane foam ribbons
Classification: Entanglement

Purchase: Visit web site torbuspuzzles.com. Price $20; 10+ for $10.

Spanner

Designer: Kirill Grebnev, Dmitry Pevnitskiy
Goal: Separate the screw nut from the spanner.

Materials: Regular spanner, metall chain and a brass inside screw.
Classification: 4.4 Miscellaneous disentanglement puzzles

Purchase: Contact designer via web site puzzle.palyn.ru/, or by email.

Sphere PuzzleBox

Designer: Robert Yarger
Goal: Access the hidden chamber in the center of the puzzle's core.

Materials: Monticello, pauduk, holly, bloodwood, cocobolo woods
Classification: Take-apart

Submarine

Designer: Man Leung Lee
Goal: Remove the string without using cutting the string and breaking any parts of the main frame.

Materials: 4mm stainless steel wire, string, plastic bead
Classification: Wire disentanglement puzzle

Purchase: Contact the designer by email. Hand-made; price: US$110.

Suntrapment

Designer: Alexandre Muñiz, Joseph DeVincentis
Goal: Place the colored octomino pieces on the outlined area in the white plate. When solved, you can place the clear plate on top of the puzzle and shake the puzzle without any pieces coming out.

Materials: Acrylic and neodymium magnets
Classification: Two-dimensional Assembly

Purchase: Puzzles will be for sale at puzzlezapper.com for $45 plus shipping. 9 puzzles were produced.

Super Floppy Cube

Designer: Katsuhiko Okamoto
Goal: First scramble the 1x3x3 figure, then restore all faces, like Rubik's Cube.

Materials: ABS resin
Classification: Sequential movement

Notes: There are moves not possible with the originall Floppy Cube.

Purchase: Will be commercially available in six months (early 2010).

Super-Hamilton

Designer: Ed Pegg, Jr.
Manufacturer: Walter Hoppe
Goal: On either side, place A and Z into any two of the 26 empty squares. Add the rest of the alphabet so that the sequence A-Z connects neighboring positions or positions connected by a path. Paths going to an edge wrap to the opposite end of the tray. All 650 possible puzzles have solutions.

Materials: Laser engraved cherry wood, cubic alphabet beads
Classification: RTF = Routefinding

Notes: Based on the Icosian Game, developed in 1857 by William Hamilton. Not all starting and ending positions are solvable in the original puzzle.

Purchase: Contact the designer by email. Limited edition of 150; price: $25.

Surround

Designer: Kohno Ichiro
Goal: Interlock six parts surrounding the black cube.

Materials: Japanese torreya, ebony and magnet
Classification: Interlocking

Purchase: Contact designer by email. Price is $40 + shipping.

T-Pot

Designer: Rocky Chiaro
Goal: Get the lid off the pot.

Materials: 360 Brass
Classification: Take-apart

Purchase: Visit designer's web site brasspuzzlesbyrocky.com.

Transforming Burr

Designer: Kouki Kusumi
Manufacturer: MINE (Mineyuki Uyematsu) with Taichi Tsuchiya
Goal: Disassemble and reassemble the 7-pieces to form four different burr shapes.

Materials: Bubinga, movingui, purpleheart
Classification: Put-together interlocking burr

Purchase: Available ONLY in Japan at PUZZLE of MINE * WEB-SHOP.

Trick Key

Designer: Teddy Sakamoto
Goal: Open the "lock" with the "key".

Materials: Plastic, steel
Classification: Take-apart

Trickier Trivet

Designer: Ginda Fisher
Manufacturer: Kathleen Malcomson
Goal: Take it apart and put it back together. Or, put it on your kitchen table and put hot pots on it, using it to protect your table.

Materials: Mahogany, oil finish
Classification: Slocum 3.6 or Dalgety/Hordern INT-OTH

Purchase: Contact the designer or Kathleen Malcomson by email.

Trihx, the Puzzle Ninja

Designer: Pantazis Constantine Houlis
Manufacturer: MindStrat Puzzles Pte Ltd
Goal: To achieve all 27 faces of the Puzzle Ninja, or to go from one face to another in the fewest moves as possible.

Materials: Polycarbonate spheres, ABS pyramids
Classification: Sequential movement

Purchase: mindstratpuzzles.com or email. Estimated price: US $20. Possible release date: January, 2010. Quantity to be determined.

Trillium Box

Designer: Peter Wiltshire
Goal: Open the box!

Materials: Walnut, Cherry, Maple, Brass, Metal.
Classification: 2.1 Trick or secret opening box

Tubular Burr

Designer: Derek Bosch
Goal: Assemble and disassemble the burr inside the tube.

Materials: Acrylic
Classification: Interlocking

Purchase: May take orders if enough interest after IPP.

Twice the Insanity

Designer: Stuart Gee
Goal:
1. Use two of each colors on one side so that no two colors are in the same line (easy)
2. Same as above but use two of each color on both sides so that no two colors are in the same line on ether side (hard).

Materials: Wood
Classification: PAT-SIMI

Purchase: Contact the designer by email for purchase or swap.

Twin Snake

Designer: Edi Nagata
Goal:
1. Assemble to make the symbol picture on the puzzle.
2. Assemble so that the black line makes a complete loop.

Materials: Wood (movingui)
Classification: Disentanglement/TNG

Ze Chinnyhedron

Designer: Stephen Chin
Goal: Open the box.

Materials: 5 Wood species, diamonds!
Classification: Slocum 2.1

Purchase: Contact the designer.

 


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