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PUZZLE sa JIGSAW PUZZLE sa MAZE xx TOY Fritz the wonder dog, a wooden puzzle that comes apart into seven pieces. A 3-D brain tease block puzzle. A 4" cube of wood is band sawn into an interlocking collection of 12 pieces. Sculpture game and puzzle. A collection of various shapes and colors of wood can be fitted together several ways to form a 2"x2"x8" column that stores in a V-block tray. The individual pieces can also be used for a stacking block game where the object is to avoid having them fall over. Cornish knot puzzle. Six solid-wood dowels (2.5" long) lock together. Dovetail puzzle box with spring-loaded locking mechanism. Nob's neverending puzzle. Sixteen compound-angled blocks are glued in pairs to form eight puzzle pieces. Includes instructions for a blockmaking jig. Eleven solutions are shown. Five puzzles of wood and wire you can make. Plans can be ordered. Puzzle solutions included with the article. Make a puzzle of nine squares to place over nine pegs. Estimated cost: $11. Tot's number puzzle. The digits 1-4 fit into shallow recesses on a board. Knobs atop each digit correspond to the number. Est. cost: $18. Rebuild the pyramid of circles puzzle. Tan's Chinese picture-puzzle game. A square of cardboard split into seven pieces is used to form many pictures or silhouettes. Coordination puzzle requires getting several balls into different holes. A pocket-size puzzle made from babyfood jar tops and ball bearings. Set of six box puzzles that require maneuvering buttons or small silver balls into holes in a pattern. A bag of six action puzzles to make. Pyramid puzzle. Seven disks are moved, one at a time, from one peg to another, keeping their pyramid form. Impossible dovetails puzzle. A wooden ball trapped in a small cage is carved from a single piece of wood. Solving the EIGHT QUEENS problem. A BASIC program is used to solve the venerable eight Queens puzzle. Simple wooden puzzle made from scraps of plywood. How to make punch-out puzzles from corrugated cardboard with funny animals glued to the brightly-painted face. Two wooden stacking puzzles. A hamburg and a sandwich. Painted wooden sections of cheese, lettuce, onion ring, tomato, meat and a pickle are stacked on a wooden dowel in the bread or bun. Puzzle push-out number blocks for small child. Est. cost: $4. Wooden puzzles. Easy to make but tough to solve. Making a wooden cube puzzle. Simple methods produce precisely interlocking pieces. This eight-piece oak puzzle is made up of 48 identical pyramid shapes and can be assembled 11 ways. A sliding-tile puzzle consists of nine wooden rectangles inside a small frame (5"x6"). The object is to slide the largest tile from the top left corner to the bottom right corner. Interlocking wood puzzle consists of three rectangular pieces of wood. Dimensions are given in millimeters. Puzzle clasps. Unique and decorative necklace clasps are based on variations of interlocking puzzle designs. Larger versions of the clasps can serve as belt buckles. Homemade wire puzzle made from a coat hanger. How to make a pair of puzzles. (1) The camel and the needle. (2) The ring thing. How to put two vertical pieces of wood through a small hole in a horizontal block of wood, when the hole is smaller than the ends of wood. Block of wood about 5" long and 2" square is jigsawed on two sides to made an interlocking puzzle of many pieces. Simple band saw puzzle consists of 10 pieces of light color wood which must fit together perfectly with 10 pieces of dark color wood. All-electronic version of Princeps Puzzle. Requires 170 pushes of the eight buttons in the proper sequence to turn off all the 8 lights. Est. cost: $30. Electronic puzzle box uses three 6-position rotary switches connected to an LED. The combination of switch settings needed to light the LED can be easily changed. Six wooden blocks interlock together to form this puzzle. Plunger puzzle is made from a block of wood with a wooden plunger. Letter-cube puzzle. Object is to reverse positions of words "black" and "white", moving only one cube at a time. Make this classic disc puzzle, the Tower of Hanoi. Seven wooden discs on three posts. You must move all the discs from one post to another without putting a big disc on top of a smaller one. Hen and egg puzzle. A wooden baby chick, small hen and larger hen all nest together forming a simple childs puzzle. Puzzle cubes. Four cubes of wood, with veneer on each side, sit in a rack. The object is to arrange the cubes in a row so that a different veneer face appears on all four sides. Wood puzzle consists of a cube with four "spots" on each face. The spots are ends of wooden dowels. Play consists of removing and then replacing the 12 notched dowels which form the visible spots. Circular glass top table, 21" in diameter, has a base made up of three interlocking wood strips and no fasteners. The base is actually a giant version of a simple interlocking wooden puzzle. A simple string puzzle. Two small blocks of wood (1"x2") with two drilled holes in each are joined together with an 18" loop of string. The object is to untie and retie the blocks. Cube puzzle. The seven puzzle pieces (assembled from 15 smaller blocks of wood) fit together to form a cube shape. Band saw dollhouse furniture puzzle box. Thirty-three miniature chairs, tables, and stools are cut from a single 4x4 block of wood about 7" long. The Burr puzzle. An interlocking puzzle made from 18 pieces of wood. Unlock the secrets of the puzzle box. How to build band sawn boxes with odd-shaped interlocking innards. Doll dinette puzzle. Three miniature table and chair sets fit together into a 2"x2"x4" block of scrap wood. Grandpa's wonder puzzle. A 2"x2"x3" block of wood is cut into an interlocking puzzle with just 4 curving cuts on the band saw. The amateur scientist. Cat's cradles and other topologies formed with a two-meter loop of flexible string. An exploration of the arithmetic rules that seem to emerge from the topology of simple loops. Figures studied include "ten men", "fishing net", "lightening", and Navaho loops. Puzzles that require you to fit pieces into two- or three-dimensional forms and ways to simplify their solution. Solutions for "Rubik's Magic", a new puzzle that provides a study in permutation operators. Imprint your own Valentine cards with a "rebus" puzzle for the message. Oversize pieces for two classic puzzles. The goal is to arrange the pieces into a perfect square or the letter "T". Plane perplexing. Toy wooden airplane is also a puzzle. It will disassemble into several separate pieces if your know the secret. Baffling bass. A three-dimensional wooden puzzle in the shape of a fish features 16 interlocking pieces. Three-dimensional wooden puzzle in the shape of an elephant comes apart into eight pieces. Suitable for three- to six-year-old children. Sliding-tile puzzle. Fifteen wooden tiles can be moved around in a square frame just large enough for sixteen tiles (in four rows of four tiles). The object is to arrange the tiles in correct order left-to-right, line-by-line. Geometric "executive" puzzle made from pine blocks decorated with self-stick vinyl. Penta-block puzzle made from 60 wooden cubes set into a wooden frame. Laminated-puzzle block. Spiral-shaped pieces must be fitted together to form a solid wooden cube. Wooden ball is decorated with six symmetrically spaced groups of eight concentric rings with a dimple in the center of each group. When the correct dimple is pressed it ejects a secret lidded box. Tips on turning this puzzle ball. Miniature cannon-shaped puzzle has a hidden cannon ball and screwdriver inside. Requires cutting several miniature threads. Making a screw gun (an unusual puzzle in which the aim is to find a cannonball hidden within). It is a tour de force of the screw cutter's art. Tips on turning a small, round, hollow puzzle box which has a false lid on one end and can't be opened unless you know the secret. Method and secret of the double-axis dovetail puzzle joint. Double Dovetail puzzle joint. Chinese block puzzle. Precise whittling produces a tantalizing lock box. Puzzlers' world. A selection of four wooden interlocking puzzles from simple to hideously complicated. Make your own Rubik's Cube from wood and springs. Six interlocking wooden puzzles, some of which can't actually be disassembled. A table called Shiguchi. Small circular table features a three leg support which is an oversize version of a wooden puzzle where 6 pieces of wood join together in a six-way joint to form three legs that intersect at right angles. Tower of Hanoi puzzle is a simple woodworking project for a child. Veneered puzzle consists of only 4 pieces of scrap 1/4" plywood inside an attractive box. Chinese puzzle. Six interlocking pieces of wood are joined together in their centers at right angles. Block puzzle. Twenty-seven 1" square blocks are arranged into six separate puzzle pieces. They can be assembled to form a 3" square cube. Includes a wooden base to store the cube. Pin-hole puzzle. Six wooden blocks (1"x1"x3") and six dowels are assembled to form an interlocking "X-shaped" block. Rhombohedron puzzle consists of seven wooden blocks which mate together forming a geometric shape. Moving bead puzzle. A stick with three holes is strung with a length of leather thong and two beads. The object is to move the beads from one loop to another even though they cannot fit through the holes in the stick. Spinner puzzle with two ball bearings is a lesson in centrifugal force. Eleven-piece Lion block puzzle. Wooden puzzle consists of a piece of wood with three shapes cut in it (a circle, a square and a triangle). Another piece of wood is cut to conform to each of the cutouts, depending upon how it is turned. This is a puzzle for the woodworker as well as the puzzle solver. How to build a king-size block puzzle table. Pedestal table's top is a framework with large movable puzzle blocks for the surface. Top measures 9"x11". Perplexing puzzles from the workshop. Six wooden puzzles to make (1) Box-o-blox, (2) peg puzzle, (3) roving rings, (4) contour strips in a box, (5) captive ring puzzle, and (6) Pandora's box. Checkerboard puzzle has seven possible solutions. Wood block furniture puzzle breaks down into 13 pieces. Four sided dovetail joint creates unique puzzle. Wooden riverboat toy and puzzle disassembles into seven pieces. Puzzle blocks for play or display. Cut up a photo, postcard, pictured wrapping paper, ... and paste onto small wooden blocks. Bewildering blocks. Six-piece brainteaser puzzle made from scraps. | |||||||||
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