Hol(e)y is the third and final puzzle in a trilogy of lego puzzles from Josiah, and it ends things with a major challenge!
The goal is to simply open the drawer to find your prize. But if anyone was paying attention, just like with the prior puzzles in the trilogy, you also have to figure out the reset as well which is not a simple reversal of prior steps! It's yet another major step up from Prison Block with 30+ steps and Josiah was gloating about including some diabolical sneaky mechanisms to torment solvers with. I had a hard time with this puzzle and even took it apart afterwards just to see how everything went together and functioned. Josiah was not fooling around with this puzzle!
The pdf of the building instructions will come included with the puzzle to whoever the winner of this auction is in case the puzzle breaks apart for one reason or another. No need to publicly admit to smashing it apart out of frustration and needing help to put the bricks back together!
Legos are a lovely medium to work with when designing puzzles. Too often, hidden steps are revealed due to visible seams which designers deal with in a variety of ways. But with legos, seams are a natural part of its appearance! Furthermore, there are so many parts out there that a wide range of mechanisms can be implemented with minor difficulty instead of needing complex designing, prints, or extreme creativity and skills to deal with. Plus it doesn't hurt that parts are very easily reusable from one project to another. With a stack of construction instructions and a pile of lego parts, people can theoretically have an endless number of lego project to mess around with! Although I don't blame them if there's reluctance to break down their hard work afterwards.
So Josiah's design work in this space is a very welcome addition to the sheer variety of mechanical puzzles in the world!
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