This is one of the original puzzles exchanged by Peter Hajek at IPP22 in Antwerp 2002. It has the original label printed by Peter to give with the puzzle. An adaptation of an historical design by Professor Hoffman. Peter designed a completely new opening mechanism while maintaining the appearance of the Victorian era puzzle.Goal: Open the puzzle boxMaterials: The puzzle is made from wood by A. Sykora.Size: Diameter of the barrel is 25mmCondition: It comes with its original solution inside a zip...

Designed and made by Wayne Daniels with input from David Allwright on the mathematics. The puzzle was exchanged at IPP29 by Abel Garcia.  There’s six pieces with equal quadrilateral faces to make “not-a-cube”.Goal: Assemble the six pieces into the “not-a-cube” shape.Size:  The footprint of each piece is 47x44x42x10mmMaterials: Padauk with steel dowel pins.Condition: Good. The puzzle is in its original box with labelling. Box is a little browned from age. See photo. One piece of the ...

Designed by Victor Genel and made at Interlocking Puzzles by Wayne Daniels.This puzzle was the IPP21 exchange of Marti ReisGoal: Assemble the four identical pieces to form a rhombic dodecahedronSize:  The diagonal of each rhombus face is 50mmMaterials: Macawood & WalnutCondition: Good. No paperwork with the puzzle. Brian has disassembled and reassembled and the fit is good – the woodworking of Wayne Daniels is as perfect as ever. General Information:This is Brian and Sue Young from Mr Puzzl...

A trick opening puzzle that Wil made in the early 2000’sHow to open the apple and retrieve the plain metal ring inside? Original Wil Strijbos design with his signature engraved inside.This is one of the not so difficult take apart puzzles that Wil likes to make. Elegant. Ingenious. Enjoyable to solve.Size:  34mm diameter and 30mm tall without the stem.Materials: Green anodized aluminiumThe puzzles are boxed in a funky psychedelic apple theme box. No printed solution available.Condition: The ...

This puzzle is designed and made by Hidekuni Tamura.There are many puzzles in this series.  This one is Comb 22-5. Hidekuni selected 12 L pieces from a possible 16 in his original design group to make this puzzle.Goal: Assemble the 12 L shaped pieces into a box around the small cube inside.Condition:  Brian’s taken the puzzle apart. It has lovely snug fit. It was a surprisingly unusual construction. It looks trivial but it’s not. Especially if you mix the pieces up before you try to reasse...

Designed by Akio Kamei and made at Karakuri.  The Small Cubi puzzle was given as a gift for attendees of Karakuri Welcome Banquet at IPP30 Osaka+Hakone.The top of the box is engraved IPP30 Akio Kamei.The puzzle is the forerunner to a series of Binary Cube to come later from Karakuri.Goal: The box requires 32 moves to open.Materials: The puzzle is made from a dark wood.Size: 55mm x 55mm x 55mmThere is a paper solution taped inside the box.Condition: The puzzle has been kept in its original box a...

IPP22 Antwerpen Exchange Gift of Brian Young Manufactured & Designed by Brian Young in 2002Use all seven pieces to make the letter LUse all seven pieces to make the letter TThe real challenge is to use all seven pieces to make the letters L and T at the same time.Note: the dimensions of the vertical and horizontal strokes in the letters and are in all cases exactly equal and symmetrical.An added challenge may then be to get the puzzle back into the tray.Original Mr Puzzle information page: https...

This puzzle is designed by Junichi Yananose and made by Taichi Tsuchiya of Tsuchiya Woodworking in 1998.Goal: Assemble the 12 pieces into a 4x4x4 cube. There are 11 other shapes on the enclosed paper to make.Size:  60x60x60mmMaterial: Wood unknown but it is probably Oak.Condition:  The puzzle is new and unopened from original.General Information:If you have questions please email me separately via our Mr Puzzle email address mrpuzzle@mrpuzzle.com.au  But please don’t email and ask to discon...

This tiny TINY micro-puzzle was the IPP17 (1997) exchange puzzle of Alan Boardman.The original design is by Jacques Frossard. It has 12 pieces. The puzzle can be assembled in two halves that slide together if you have the eyesight, the patience and the dexterity!Goal:  Assemble the 12 piece burr.Size:  8mm x 8mm x 8mm assembled.Condition:  Packaged in it’s original tiny acrylic box with black velvet backing and the IPP17 label. I think we can safely say it’s never been played with.Materia...

The goal of this wooden burr puzzle is to assemble the 11 piece burr.It is #16 puzzle in a Limited Edition set of 24 made by Mr Puzzle in 2001. The puzzle is signed by Brian.The puzzle was designed by Leonid Mochalov, a Russian mathematics teacher, who first published a book of puzzles in 1980 and updated it in 2000 releasing “400 Puzzles & Tricks” (very loosely translated by a friend who is not actually Russian).This puzzle is taken from that book and we think Leonid’s name for the puzzl...

Frantix was Stewart Coffin's variation of the classic Altekruse using pins and holes instead of notches. The puzzle was the exchange puzzle of Marti Hitchcock from IPP18 and it was made by Wayne Daniels at Interlocking Puzzles.NOTE: The actual puzzle I’m selling is the one photographed disassembled in the package.I photographed another copy of the puzzle that I have assembled in my collection just for reference about how the puzzle will look once assembled.Goal:  Assemble the 6 pieces into t...

Designed and made by Simon Nightingale as his exchange puzzle for the IPP22 puzzle party in 2002.Goal: Open the drawer in the box by pushing the drawer or tilting the box. Shaking, hitting and magnets are not required.Materials: The puzzle is made from woodSize: 110mm x 70mm x 55mmCondition: The puzzle is wrapped in it’s original paper as it was given in the exchange.Brian opened it and completed the solve – three times! - to be sure it works correctly and rewrapped it.  Even then he had to...

Made for the Edward Hordern IPP36 in Kyoto, Japan. August 2016Designed by Laszlo Molnar. Made by Mr Puzzle.As soon as Brian saw this design published by Yavuz Demirhan on Facebook he immediately wrote to Yavuz to get permission to produce it.  He knew it would be a winner!  A nice balance of wood interwoven with acrylic makes a good looking puzzle.  This puzzle is not so difficult to take apart.   But mix up the pieces, walk away and forget about them, come back later and you’ll find it q...