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Hanayama is a Japanese toy company founded in 1933. [1] They are best known for their series of metal disassembly puzzles , " Huzzle [ jp ] " (also known as "Cast Puzzle"), which include reproductions of older designs, and new puzzles by other inventors such as Oskar van Deventer and Akio Yamamoto . [ 2 ]
[2] [3] [4] Many of his combination puzzles are in mass production by Uwe Mèffert and WitEden. Oskar van Deventer has also designed puzzles for Hanayama. He was a Guinness World Record holder for his 17×17×17 "Over the Top Cube" Rubik's cube-style puzzle from 2012 to 2016, [5] [6] when it was beaten by a 22×22×22 cube. [7]
He penned over 80 books on puzzles. [1] Perhaps best known as a puzzle inventor, he commercially licensed his designs, such as the Rush Hour puzzle game, to companies including Binary Arts (now known as ThinkFun), Ishi Press, and Hanayama. He was also an avid computer programmer who used computers to help solve mathematical puzzles.
Find answers to the latest online sudoku and crossword puzzles that were published in USA TODAY Network's local newspapers. ... Puzzle solutions for Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. USA TODAY.
A baguenaudier Diagrammatic representation of a four-ring baguenaudier A metal version of the puzzle. Baguenaudier (pronounced; French for "time-waster"), [1] also known as the Chinese rings, Cardan's suspension, Cardano's rings, Devil's needle or five pillars puzzle, is a disentanglement puzzle featuring a loop which must be disentangled from a sequence of rings on interlinked pillars. [1]
The puzzle consists of thirteen polycubic pieces: twelve pentacubes and one tetracube.The objective is to assemble these pieces into a 4 x 4 x 4 cube. There are 19,186 distinct ways of doing so, up to rotations and reflections.
The ant on a rubber rope is a mathematical puzzle with a solution that appears counterintuitive or paradoxical. It is sometimes given as a worm, or inchworm, on a rubber or elastic band, but the principles of the puzzle remain the same. The details of the puzzle can vary, [1] [2] but a typical form is as follows:
Hashiwokakero (橋をかけろ Hashi o kakero; lit. "build bridges!") is a type of logic puzzle published by Nikoli. [1] It has also been published in English under the name Bridges or Chopsticks (based on a mistranslation: the hashi of the title, 橋, means bridge; hashi written with another character, 箸, means chopsticks).