Miscellaneous

Serhiy Grabarchuk is a famous Ukrainian puzzle designer who lives in Uzhgorod. The puzzle depicted on the piece of drawing that he sent me looked like a strange adornment weaved into a “coiffure” design. If you put a glass carefully onto the completing puzzle, it becomes, indeed, a coaster. Using this when serving drinks to guests will on doubt create stimulating conversation. The theme is...

Cast Cyclone is a puzzle in which each piece interlocks with the other three. While all the pieces initially look the same, there are in fact two different kinds of pieces. The design of each ring has been carefully calculated, highly restricting the amount of possible movement and creating an extremely puzzling puzzle — the pinnacle of a long line of challenging puzzles created by a master...

The Delta puzzle is formed by joining three separate pieces that mesh with each other. It is designed by the brain-child of Hong Kong native Kyoo Wong who, with the eye of an engineer, has worked on a number of cast puzzles. While this puzzle is simple in form, its geometry somehow challenges and stirs up our creativity. Designed by Kyoo Wong from Hong Kong. The theme is the number three.

Three pieces with spots on them, look almost ready to tumble free from their dice-inspired frame. However one piece coming out draws another one inside, making it hard to get a handle on this teaser of a puzzle. Designed by Australian designer Timothy Collins.

Cast Donuts has beautifully shaped rings that look like 2 donuts intertwined together. Try solving the puzzle by imagining the inner structure and using each of the rings’ division lines as a hint. You will be pleasantly surprised by the unique movements needed to separate the rings. This puzzle is a masterpiece in design and concept. Created by Vesa Timonen from Finland. The theme is...

Each piece is solid so that you can feel its weight when you hold it in your hands. At the first glance, “G&G” has a pretty rugged deisgn. As you start to play with it, you will see the sophistication that covered under it. The puzzle has many possibilities and, as soon as you start trying to take it apart, you will notice the several protrusions that will hinder your path. These are the...

Just as the name suggests, this puzzle, shaped like the letter “H”, is made of two pieces entwined together. At a glance, the piece that make up the puzzle may appear to be of the exact same shape, but the pieces actually differ slightly. Do you think you can disassemble the two pieces? This movement of the pieces is very tricky, so you need to be careful that your memory doesn’t play...

The plate shaped pieces intervene with each other for the perfect balance. The pieces all fall apart instantaneously, unbelievable when considering all the straight moves you make with the pieces to take them apart. Designed by Yoshiyuki Kotani from Japan and Kirill Grebnev from Russia.

This puzzle stands for the tight bond holding together the hearts of lovers the world over. The first step is to free the gold and silver hearts from the chain. Once complete, you have to try your best to get them back together. This Puzzle, to be quite honest, is really tough. So… here’s to success in love and in puzzles! This is even the kind of puzzle that I would recommend trying with –...

A puzzle made up of a collection of hexagon shaped pieces. It is made up of an inside with three pieces and an outside frame. One slides them around inside the frame and rotates them to try to get them out of the frame. At a glance the pieces appear to have the same shape but the exterior and interior are different, ending up with three pieces whose shapes are different. Created by Mine Uyematsu...