Slideways by Raymond Stanton & Akio Yamamoto

So once upon a time, Cubic Dissection came out with a lovely puzzle called Slideways that people just went nuts over. It was a 3-piece burr that assembled unlike any burr puzzle before it with coordinate motion moves! It was such an excellent introductory puzzle to the genre of coordinate motion puzzles, also co-mo puzzles for faster speech and slang. It had it all! It was small, easily shared around to even non-puzzlers and simple enough to convey the sheer magic of the deceptively simple and yet oddly shaped pieces of wood.

I fell so hard in love with this puzzle that I was collecting multiple versions of this puzzle. I had both copies made by CD in canarywood and the mixed woods versions, along with several printed versions of this puzzle. As well as other puzzles that seemed to be inspired by Slideways such as Slideways Cube by Lee Krasnow. This puzzle was just mind-blowing to me in how it could be so simple but such a pleasure to solve. It felt like it was magical to me in its simplicity. It sparked off my journey into collecting all sorts of co-mo burrs, but that's a story for another time that people can catch glimpses of in my other currently active co-mo burr auctions.

This edition of Slideways is in this lovely canarywood that's just so nice to see in hand. Note that it's just high quality canarywood and not the canary sapwood my Double Slideways is made from. Sad as I am to see it go along with its younger siblings and cousins, it's open to a good home for any puzzle owner who wishes to adopt this lovely specimen!

This is the Cubic Dissection page for Slideways - https://cubicdissection.com/products/slideways-interlocking-puzzle-2021

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