Strijbos Egg

Wil Strijbos' Egg puzzle, #133.

In excellent condition.

"The story of this famous puzzle takes its roots way back in 1986 where it was originally designed and made. At that time, the Egg by Wil Strijbos was deemed too hard to manufacture, and eventually less than 10 pieces were made.

Years later, Wil found one of his original creations in the collection of a friend. That inspired him to try and produce more Eggs to share with the world.

Nevertheless, to this day, there are no more than 300 Eggs exists and those are quite difficult to come by. Most probably, you will be able to find it used or re-sold at different websites.

As for now, there is no information on whether new Eggs will be produced and manufactured anytime soon so it is a good idea to always keep an eye on some retail shops to see if it there."

PuzzleMad description:

"This puzzle is very similar to Wil's Aluminum Cross puzzle - many people open it entirely by accident but it is only in the resetting strategy that you truly have to work out its secrets! and even then it can take a good bit of really deep thought to truly understand it. I can now confirm my old adage that you need to solve and reset more than once before you can claim to have truly solved a puzzle - the Egg is a perfect eggsample of this!.. Subsequent solves now take me about 5 minutes and the positions are exactly like I did the very first time. It is still a really tricky thing to do even knowing in great detail how it works. Whilst the cost was high for this one, it is a seriously beautiful thing, very well engineered and amazingly complex inside. Anyone buying it will enjoy it - I know there are limited numbers and am not sure how many Wil has left for sale but I think once you have really understood the puzzle you will be eggstremely pleased you bought it!"

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