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Japanese puzzle box, closed Japanese puzzle box, open. A puzzle box (also called a secret box or trick box) is a box that can be opened only by solving a puzzle. Some require only a simple move and others a series of discoveries. Modern puzzle boxes developed from furniture and jewelry boxes with secret compartments and hidden openings, known ...
Hoffman's packing puzzle is an assembly puzzle named after Dean G. Hoffman, who described it in 1978. [1] The puzzle consists of 27 identical rectangular cuboids, each of whose edges have three different lengths. Its goal is to assemble them all to fit within a cube whose edge length is the sum of the three lengths.
A number of different types of wood are used in the creation of yosegi.Both the spindle tree (Euonymus spp.) and Ilex macropoda are used for the colour white; aged wood from the Katsura tree (Cercidiphyllum japonicum) is used for black; Picrasma quassioides, mulberry and the Chinese lacquer tree (Toxicodendron vernicifluum) are used for yellow; the camphor tree (Cinnamomum camphora) and ...
Similar to Soma cube is the 3D pentomino puzzle, which can fill boxes of 2×3×10, 2×5×6 and 3×4×5 units. The Bedlam cube is a 4×4×4 sided cube puzzle consisting of twelve pentacubes and one tetracube. The Diabolical cube is a puzzle of six polycubes that can be assembled together to form a single 3×3×3 cube.
Simply Jigsaw. Piece together a new jigsaw puzzle every day, complete with themes that follow the seasons and a super useful edges-only tool. By Masque Publishing
Kagen Sound (formerly Schaefer) is an American puzzle box and puzzle furniture craftsman, and is recognized as a leader in these fields.. Sound has developed a worldwide following, and is recognized as a Friend of the Karakuri Creation Group, the world's only puzzle box guild, and remains the only member of this group to be of non-Japanese origin (as of June 2017).
Also common are puzzle boxes, simple three-dimensional puzzles with a small drawer or box in the center for storage. Jigsaw puzzles can vary significantly in price depending on their complexity, number of pieces, and brand. In the US, children's puzzles can start around $5, while larger ones can be closer to $50.
A complex Baguenaudier puzzle. The goal is to free the string. The "mini rope bridge puzzle". The goal is to remove the two rings. (solution shown). Wire-and-string puzzles usually consist of: one piece of string, ribbon or similar, which may form a closed loop or which may have other pieces like balls fixed to its end. one or several pieces of ...