Butterflies

Butterflies is an edge matching puzzle made by Tobar. The puzzle consists of nineteen hexagonal pieces each edge having half a butterfly. Artistic Ratings The ratings I have chosen for this puzzle is 6,7,7. The manufacturing is pretty good with clean cuts in the correct place. There are six different butterflies and each piece contains…

Circus Seven

The Circus Seven is an edge matching puzzle produced by Masudaya in Japan. It dates from the 1980’s. It is produced in plastic with a transparent cover. The name comes from the pieces looking like circus tents. Artistic Ratings The ratings I have chosen for this puzzle is 4,5,5. The overall feel of the puzzle…

Einstein’s Freedom Lock Puzzle

This is quite a nice little sliding block puzzle produced by Professor Puzzle. It is well made and well presented and a nice twist on the usual sliding block puzzles. In this you need to slide the pieces, using the key, to open the lock. Artistic Ratings The ratings I have chosen for this puzzle…

Not a Jigsaw

Not a Jigsaw is an edge matching puzzle produced by Constantin Puzzles. The puzzle looks like a jigsaw but it consists of twenty pieces, each cut to look like five jigsaw pieces. Artistic Ratings The ratings I have chosen for this puzzle is 6,5,8. I love the design and the contradictions. It looks like a…

Screw Up

Screw Up is a cute little puzzle, by Puzzle Potato, where the aim is to free the brass ring. The ring is trapped by three pieces of Perspex and a nut and bolt going through the middle. The nut and bolt is secured in two pieces of wood so that the nut cannot be undone.…

Wits End

The Wits End puzzle is a disentanglement puzzle. The aim of the puzzle is to remove the metal ring from the wooden frame. the rope across the centre has fixed discs on either end. These are too big to fit through the metal ring. There are also two balls on the rope which will not…

Triangle Stress Reliever

This is a nice little puzzle that tuned in to the short lived fad for fidget spinners. It consists of six circles of different coloured balls. The outside half of each circle can be twisted through 180 degrees, swapping some balls from one side to the other. The centre circle can also rotate moving balls…

Ancient Egypt

This is an edge matching puzzle consisting of nine squares that need to be arranged into a larger three by three square. Artistic Ratings The ratings I have chosen for this puzzle is 6,5,6. The pictures are quite pleasant and the production is very good. The puzzle is produced by Price Stern Sloan which is…

Impuzzable

Impuzzable is an edge matching puzzle. It consists of nine squares which need to be arranged into a larger three by three square. The edges are jigsaw like with four designs loosely based on hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades. Artistic Ratings The ratings I have chosen for this puzzle is 5,6,6. I quite like this…

The Ultimate Puzzle Two

This is a follow up to The Ultimate Puzzle. Like its predecessors it is an edge matching puzzle. There are eighteen right triangles that can be used to form nine squares. The nine squares can then be used to form a large three-by-three square. Artistic Ratings The ratings I have chosen for this puzzle is…