Other Puzzles

[vcif]

Andrew,

If you contact Dan Feldman to get on the waiting list, please post his response here.

Perhaps he is considering making some soon

vin

[AndrewParr]

Here is Dan's reply. Not the best, I'm afraid:

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your interest in DanLock. Unfortunately it is not available at the moment.

I will put you on the waiting list but take into account that it will take long time.

All the best,

Dan

[TheJuggler]

And if you want to know why it will take a very long time, go search my blog for the reason. I talked with Dan directly on one of my trips to Israel, and he filled me in on the issues.

[AndrewParr]

I finally cashed in my birthday gift card for Puzzle Master. I thought I'd try something out of the ordinary for me. A few of these items look like toys for children, but I'll give them a try. Included are a few items by Oskar van Deventer which I hope live up to expectation based on his Hanayama puzzles. The wood puzzle is by JC Constantine called "C'est la Vie!" Anyone have any of these?

[Lucie]

I have the Perplexus, the Planets and Cast Chain, all 3 nice puzzles. Can you tell about the Smart Egg, I hesitate buying one of those, but I think they are very easy? or not?

[Mrhero]

I have the perplexus , its pretty hard to get from the start to finish without falling! I have perplexus epic too, and i got there to step 140 out of 150

[AndrewParr]

The smart egg... Well, you get what you paid for. And I didn't pay very much. It feels cheap. The rod is very thin plastic. The goal is to put the rod in the top of the egg, and follow a maze of paths and holes until the rod comes out the bottom. I solved it in about 10 seconds because there are no dead ends or wrong paths. I like mazes that come in unique shapes, but this doesn't challenge. I'll leave it on display, or maybe give it to a young person who likes puzzles.

The perplexus is surprisingly addictive!

[Mrhero]

The perplexus is one of my favorite maze puzzles!
And also, if you like the Constantin puzzle you bought, buy some of his n-ary puzzpes! They are very fun and long (the shortest is around 20 mins to solve and get it back to the start- if you remember the pattern that is!) . They are super fragile though. Veery fragile, if you buy them, keep them at a top shelf or something so your child wont be able to reach it (when he will be able to )

Greg

[Lucie]

No Smart Eggs for me then, I like my puzzles to be a bit challenging.

[Paradox]

It's a shame that the Smart Eggs were reproduced without the original moving internal mechanisms. Many of the original designs are far from trivial to solve.