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Home-built Puzzles
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 12:46 am
by maztec
Anyone here make their own puzzles? Or buy puzzles made by individuals and sold on things like Shapeways?
I have made a few in the past - mostly puzzle boxes - but haven't done anything recently.
And have you dealt with other people's home made puzzles? What is your experience with them? Does anything really stick out to you, especially ones that any of us could buy off of something like Shapeways?
Re: Home-built Puzzles
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:56 pm
by TheJuggler
Well you can seem my efforts on my blog ...
I have another couple of ideas that I'm working on, but time to create, design and test is limited as things are rather busy right now.
Re: Home-built Puzzles
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:17 am
by stet
I have a shelf full of home made twisty puzzles, some made by me and some by others. I'll try to get a picture of it up here soon.
Re: Home-built Puzzles
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:07 pm
by maztec
stet wrote:I have a shelf full of home made twisty puzzles, some made by me and some by others. I'll try to get a picture of it up here soon.
Awesome!
Re: Home-built Puzzles
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:17 pm
by Paradox
I made these:
Dice Soma Cubes by
Puzzleparadox, on Flickr
Soma cubes made from dice. One is plain black with over 200 assemblies and the other is patterned with (I think) only one assembly.
Not too extravagant, but about right for my craftsmanship skills.

Re: Home-built Puzzles
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:39 am
by Tryitloveit
Paradox wrote:I made these:
Soma cubes made from dice. One is plain black with over 200 assemblies and the other is patterned with (I think) only one assembly.
Not too extravagant, but about right for my craftsmanship skills.

Just Great...
Now I want one

Re: Home-built Puzzles
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:11 am
by TALES26275
Here are the puzzles i have built a long time ago

Re: Home-built Puzzles
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:47 am
by stet
Here is my self of home made twisty puzzles. Some were made by me, many by others. Only 2 are 3D printed, the rest are either cast or made using cut/glue/epoxy techniques with plastic sheeting and parts from other puzzles.
Re: Home-built Puzzles
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 6:11 am
by maztec
Whoa guys, those are awesome!
Re: Home-built Puzzles
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 12:24 am
by maztec
I probably should have put this thread:
http://revomaze.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic. ... 843#p21843 in here instead, but oh well. I like it over there. :p And I'm cross-posting, in case someone has some input that doesn't read the OT forum.