Drivers Dream is a wooden packing puzzle from George Luck. You need to rearrange the town in order to park the car. This puzzle dates from the mid 1980’s and has been produced by hand. The family-run business has been making high quality and colourful puzzles since 1975 and now days uses the latest laser…
Another packing puzzle, arrange the squares into the large tray area. This version dates from the 1980’s and was made for British Home Stores. Artistic Ratings The ratings I have chosen for this puzzle is 2,4,3. I think there is very little artistic merit. On the plus side you are putting the squares into a…
This vintage puzzle dates from the late 1970’s / early 1980’s. It consists of 13 pieces which need to be arranged in a frame. On the box it says there are 1641 different combinations. I have not checked this, but my take away is that its an easy puzzle. Artistic Ratings The ratings I have…
When our children were young we liked to get involved with the Parents Association and their Summer Fares and Winter Fares. We would run a puzzle stall. We had puzzles that the children could try and solve within a set amount of time. This is one of them that was used at a lot of…
This puzzle was invented by Bill Cutler and produced by Ishi International Ltd. As Bill says: “This is my best puzzle design ever. A good puzzle is one which looks simple or straightforward, but is not. You cannot get the answer by routine analysis. What you need is a flash of inspiration. After that the…
Dog pile is a set of packing puzzles produced by Brainwright. The puzzle was invented by Bob Ferron. The set consists of twelve various shaped dogs and cards with forty-eight puzzles of varying difficulty. That being said, this is basically a cube packing puzzle. An example of one of the puzzles. Artistic Ratings The ratings…