Frederic Boucher has a long history of coming up with wild puzzles, but he doesn't like to craft more than a handful of copies before moving on to the next design. Which is why I'm so appreciative of Pelikan for stepping in to make more copies of LOL for everyone to try!
LOL is a packing puzzle where the solver needs to fit all of the pieces into a 4x5 space with only a 1x2 opening to fit the pieces inside. It's obvious that rotations will be required since there are pieces that wouldn't otherwise fit into the box. But it's still hiding a devious trick that would otherwise make this an impossible puzzle to solve. I lol'd when I finally figured out how to solve this puzzle. There's also a second challenge to this puzzle, although Boucher considers it the main challenge of this puzzle. I laughed at the cheekiness of this other problem, but I had more fun with the packing part of the puzzle.
"LOL is an assembly puzzle with a very simple goal: Assemble the
five pieces to make the acronym LOL, respecting the following rule: the 3
characters must have the same size (height and width). Will you
discover the trick and succeed in the challenge? Exclusively for the
PELIKAN version, a box is included. As a second challenge you must pack
the pieces completely into the box. I hope this puzzle will make you
laugh out loud!”
The original page on the Pelikan website for this puzzle: https://www.pelikanpuzzles.eu/detail/lol/
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