It feels like a tragedy to let go of any favorite puzzle, especially one that's considered by many, many puzzlers (including me!) as their absolute top-favorite puzzle of all time. But I've got puzzling bills to pay and a hunger for the newest and up-coming puzzles peeking over the horizon to me. Just fancy words to excuse my need to grub for money at this time. Why can't we live in a utopian world where every selfish whim of mine can be met without consequence!?
Patrick Daggitt over at Plumbus Puzzle saw the crucial lack of SDBBMs in the world and took it upon himself to alleviate this lack as a noble hero of justice! He did a wonderful job of duplicating the puzzle in plastic and I happened to own a wooden copy to compare between the two. I actually have pictures of every part place side-by-side if anyone happens to be curious and don't mind being spoiled due to already solving the puzzle themselves. Long story short, other than the materials and one specific hole being slightly rotated from a diagonal orientation to a horizontal orientation for easier printing, the puzzles are identical twins! Just y'know one twin is insanely successful in life due to being rich and married to a supermodel while the other twin is a homeless bum begging for coins.
In print, SDBB Master solves exactly the same and there is no difference in any moves or parts. The size is one-to-one with nothing being bigger or smaller than the original. The tactile feel is very different and I'm sorry to say it doesn't compare to how it feels in wood, but I'm not sure if it's ever possible for a print to have the same feel of buttery-smoothness and wonderful feedback Juno has achieved. The print feels fine and is a joy to solve, but the physical sensation just isn't as pleasant as in wood.
I admit that I've considered keeping the print and selling off the wooden version of SDBB Master for the eye-popping auction prices it'd fetch. But after holding both puzzles in hand, I just can't bear to let it go even if I'm still keeping the same puzzle in plastic. The wooden version just has a special magnetic charm to it thanks to Juno's impeccable skills in craftsmanship beyond his puzzling design skills.
For anyone planning to wait for more copies to be sold from Plumbus Puzzles, I don't think any reruns are going to be planned.
Puzzle page: https://shop.pluredro.com/products/sdbb-master
The pictures are to show the puzzle under different lighting so people can have a sense of how the color of the print looks. One's on a black blanket for the most contrast, then under a yellow light-bulb, and the last one is under natural lighting right before sunset. Also there's an image taken from the Pluredro website from when they originally sold SDBBM. So the very last picture is me recreating it with the SDBBM-3D parts and should not be considered a significant spoiler since it was also shown by Juno and Yukari themselves first. But there's a spoiler warning image before showing some of the internal parts just in case people want to be completely blind about every detail of this puzzle.
Please note that I'll be busy this upcoming week, and can't promise that I will be able to immediately ship out the puzzles after the current set of auctions end. I may be delayed until next Monday the 16th before I ship out to the auction winners.
I accept and prefer using Zelle as my payment method of choice.I
accept Paypal. I prefer Friends & Family due to the IRS tax rules.
But if you rather pay with Goods & Services, I will accommodate that
preference.I accept Wise for international buyers.
I am willing to consider other desired payment methods.
Shipping is USPS or UPS
Buyer
chooses the shipping service and shipping speed, First Class or
Priority (assuming the package is under the weight limit for First
Class).
Insurance is optional, but buyer has to cover it if it is desired.
I ask the winner to hold off on paying until after I calculate and message final shipping costs to be added to the final bid.
