Interlocking

Gregory Benedetti

Nicolas et Fridolin

Puzzle Design Competition 2010

designed by Gregory Benedetti

made by Pelikan

Boards and Sticks

designed by Gregory Benedetti

made by Eric Fuller

CEI Kreuzknoten

designed by Gregory Benedetti

made by Pelikan

6 piece slide cube

designed by Gregory Benedetti

made by Pelikan

2 Halves Cages 4A

designed by Gregory Benedetti

made by Maurice Vigouroux

Stéphane Chomine

4 in 2

designed by Stéphane Chomine

made by Eric Fuller

Cage for Four Sticks

4 pieces + frame

Level: 24.6.3

designed by Stéphane Chomine

made by Eric Fuller

Triaxe

frame + 3 pieces

Level: 24

designed by Stéphane Chomine

made by Eric Fuller

Simple Sharp

Level: 13.3.5

designed by Stéphane Chomine

made by Pelikan

Stewart Coffin

Cuckoo Nest

designed by Stewart Coffin

made by Tom Lensch

Hexsticks

designed by Stewart Coffin

made by John Devost

Sleeping Viper #241-A

designed by Stewart Coffin

made by Andy Manvell

Vega

designed by Stewart Coffin

made by John Devost

Improved Corner Block

designed by Stewart Coffin

made by Kerry Verne

Ring of Diamonds

designed by Stewart Coffin

made by Mark McCallum

Pieces of Eight

designed by Stewart Coffin

made by Eric Fuller

Double Triangular Prism

designed by Stewart Coffin

made by Pelikan

The General / Four Star

designed by Stewart Coffin

made by Pelikan

designed by Stewart Coffin

Hexagonal Prism

designed by Stewart Coffin

made by Pelikan

designed by Stewart Coffin

made by Scott Peterson

Brahm Cohen

Lock Nested Cube

designed by Bram Cohen

made by Tom Lensch

Visible Cube

designed by Brahm Cohen

made by Eric Fuller

D.Sam Cornwell

Caged Spheres

IPP 23 Exchange / Chicago

quality: poor

designed by D.Sam Cornwell

made by Steve Strickland

In Brackets

designed by D.Sam Cornwell

made by Eric Fuller

Bill Cutler

Wausau '81

designed by Bill Cutler

made by Eric Fuller

Wausau '82

designed by Bill Cutler

made by Brian Young

Wausau '83

designed by Bill Cutler

made by Brian Young

Wausau '84

designed by Bill Cutler

made by Eric Fuller

The Slider

IPP 30 Exchange / Osaka + Hakone

designed by Bill Cutler

made by Jerry McFarland

Yavuz Demirhan

Columnata 2P3C

designed by Yavuz Demirhan

made by Pelikan

Estergon

designed by Yavuz Demirhan

made by Pelikan

Pylon

designed by Yavuz Demirhan

made by Pelikan

Estergon 2

Level: 14.1.1

designed by Yavuz Demirhan

made by Pelikan

Knotty

Level: 2.2

designed by Yavuz Demirhan

made by Pelikan

Burrito

Level: 4.2.1.3

designed by Yavuz Demirhan

made by Pelikan

Tetrakis

Level: 7.3.3.3

designed by Yavuz Demirhan

made by Pelikan

Tetradyma 7 x 5

Level: 10.2,2

designed by Yavuz Demirhan

made by Pelikan

Chiasma

Level: 16.4.6

designed by Yavuz Demirhan

made by Pelikan

Warped

Level: 13.4.3

designed by Yavuz Demirhan

made by Pelikan

Oskar van Deventer

Domino Tower

designed by Oskar van Deventer

made by Tom Lensch

Oskar's Patchwork Box

designed by Oskar van Deventer

made by Tom Lensch

designed by Oskar van Deventer

made by Tom Lensch

Oskars Matchboxes

designed by Oskar van Deventer

made by Philos

Domino Cube

designed by Oskar van Deventer

made by Scott Peterson

Domino Block

designed by Oskar van Deventer

made by John Devost

Oskar's Triple shift

3 pieces

designed by Oskar van Deventer

made by Tom Lensch

Oskar's Shift Burr

6 pieces

designed by Oskar van Deventer

made by Tom Lensch

Victor Genel

Long Beamed Star

designed by Victor Genel

made by Interlocking Puzzles

Quaddode

IPP 21 Exchange / Tokyo

designed by Victor Genel

made by Interlocking Puzzles

QuadroCube

designed by Victor Genel

made by Interlocking Puzzles

QuadroPrism

designed by Victor Genel

made by Interlocking Puzzles

Franklin Gonsalves

Dilemma

designed by Franklin Gonsalves

made by Pelikan

Quintuplets

designed by Franklin Gonsalves

made by Pelikan

George W. Hart

Frabjous

30 identical pieces

Difficulty: easy / medium

Playing Time: 2 - 4 hours

Frabjous, designed by George W. Hart, is a highly symmetrical geometric sculpture and interlocking puzzle.

The name Frabjous is borrowed from Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll: “O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”

The puzzle has a perfect regularly form, as the corners form a (pentagon) dodecahedron,

although they are not connected. The thirty identical S-shaped pieces interfere with each other

in the inside without touching each other. Three S-shaped pieces always build a corner.

In order to get a short imagination which corners connect the S-shaped piece,

you should look at two pentagons which share an edge.

The two corners which are farthest away are connected with each other by the S-shaped piece.

The symmetry corresponds to a (pentagon) dodecahedron. In addition, Frabjous has a chirality.

Puzzle Review

designed by George W. Hart

made by artifacturestudios.com

Tom Jolly

simplified keyholes in a cage + 2 pieces

designed by Tom Jolly

made by Pelikan

Caged Knot

IPP 25 Exchange / Helsinki

designed by Tom Jolly

made by Pelikan

LATTICE

IPP 29 Exchange / San Francisco

designed by Tom Jolly

made by sixmill.com

Rattle Box

designed by Tom Jolly

made by Eric Fuller

Tom's Square Dance

designed by Tom Jolly

made by Eric Fuller

Jürg van Känel

Swiss Cube #2

designed by Jürg van Känel

made by Jürg van Känel

US Cube

IPP 26 Exchange / Boston

designed by Jürg van Känel

made by Kreative Puzzles

Ishino Keiichiro

Nested Burr

designed by Ishino Keiichiro

made by Eric Fuller

Nested Burr / eingenisteter Kreuzknoten

designed by Ishino Keiichiro

made by Pelikan

3 Q Cube

designed by Ishino Keiichiro

made by Pelikan

Goh Pit Khiam

DECEMBURR

designed by Goh Pit Khiam

made by Brian Young

Quantum Entanglement framed burr

Limited Edition of 30

designed by Goh Pit Khiam

made by Brian Young

Ternary Burr

Limited Edition of 30

designed by Goh Pit Khiam

made by Brian Young

Ronald Kint-Bruynseels

Anderson's Delusion

designed by Ronald Kint-Bruynseels

made by Eric Fuller

Self Framing Burr

designed by Ronald Kint-Bruynseels

made by Eric Fuller

Sheffield Steel 6BB

designed by Ronald Kint-Bruynseels

made by Philos

Dracula's Dental Disaster

designed by Ronald Kint-Bruynseels

made by Pelikan

Vladimir Krasnoukhov

The Molecule

designed by Vladimir Krasnoukhov

made by Vladimir Krasnoukhov

Curly Cube

Puzzle Design Competition 2011

designed by Vladimir Krasnoukhov

made by Vladimir Krasnoukhov

Bird's Nest PUZZLE

IPP 27 Exchange / Australia

designed by Vladimir Krasnoukhov / James Dalgety

made by BITS & PIECES

Bird's Nest PUZZLE

IPP 27 Exchange / Australia

designed by Vladimir Krasnoukhov / James Dalgety

made by Vladimir Krasnoukhov

Curly Cube

Puzzle Design Competition 2011

designed by Vladimir Krasnoukhov

made by BITS & PIECES

Leonid Mochalov

8+1 W¨rfel

designed by Leonid Mochalov

made by Pelikan

Hakenwürfel

designed by Leonid Mochalov

made by Pelikan

Vaclav Obsivac

Vaclav Obsivac (Vinco), a Czech puzzle designer and maker produces puzzles since 2001.

Many of his designs (over 200) are interlocking and packing puzzles.

His favorite puzzles are coordinate motion puzzles.

These are interlocking puzzles, where the puzzle parts cannot be taken apart piece by piece,

but where all puzzle parts have to be moved at the same time so that they can fall apart.

Moreover Vinco has designed many half-cube puzzles.

If a cube is dissected into two identical parts, then two half-cubes are created.

A half-cube puzzle consists of several puzzle pieces, where each puzzle piece is made of two half-cubes.

Many of his half cubes have the shape of a 2 x 2 x 2 cube.

Furthermore he has designed many sphere puzzles.

The puzzle parts in Vincos puzzles are composed of many (in most cases 6)

triangular prism and cuboids so that the puzzle parts look unusual.

For his puzzles he uses different timber sorts of fruit trees

such as acacia, ash, beech, cherry, elm, larch, maple, pear, plum and walnut.

His interlocking puzzles have different degrees of difficulty from simple to moderate.

coordinated motions puzzle

Hi S. Coffin

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 30 minutes

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

maTRIOshka

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 30 minutes

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

cross in ball

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 30 minutes

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

Half-cubes

Xcruci8

IPP 28 Exchange / Prague

Difficulty: easy - medium

Playing Time: 1 - 2 hours

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

Sphere puzzles

VINCOXIV

IPP 25 Exchange / Helsinki

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

other

kamarad

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

superstar

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

prismastar

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

Duodeciburr

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

Krbana

IPP 27 Exchange / Australia

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

four marbles

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

hexatresor

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

cohedron

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

crossex

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

TRICKBOX

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

Coming of Age

IPP 27 Exchange / Australia

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

Six Piece Cross

IPP 30 Exchange / Osaka + Hakone

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

twister

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

cross 132

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

nugget-box

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

plus cross

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

ufo

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

nugget

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

cross in circle

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

Double Pyramid

IPP 31 Exchange / Berlin

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

rambo

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

Nugget

IPP 31 Exchange / Berlin

designed by Vaclav Obsivac

made by Vaclav Obsivac / VIn&CO

Roger von Oech's

X-Ball (US patent: US 7247075)

30 identical pieces

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 15 minutes

X-Ball, designed by Roger von Oech, is a set of thirty identical magnetic building pieces. The puzzle can be played

alone as well as in combination with the Y-Ball, Star-Ball or the Ball of Whacks.

It is interesting to see how the idea for this puzzle was developed:

Roger von Oech had the inspiration for this puzzle when he looked at a skeletal icosidodecahedron which had the shape of a ball.

In this geometrical form every corner is linked with further corners by four edges. If you halve the four edges,

you obtain a X-shaped object, therefore the name of this puzzle.

This X-shaped object has strong earth magnets on each of its corners.

Due to the strong earth magnets different figures and shapes can be built.

The puzzle can be played with in different ways.

Puzzle Review

designed by Roger von Oech

made by Creative Whack Company

Star-Ball (US patent: US 7247075)

6 + 6 five-legged Stars and 10 + 10 three-legged "Tri's"

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: ~1 hour

Star-Ball, designed by Roger von Oech, is a set of 32 magnetic design pieces.

The puzzle can be played alone as well as in combination with the X-Ball, Y-Ball or the Ball of Whacks.

The name is due to the resemblance of the main shape, a skeletal rhombic triacontahedron, to a star-shaped ball.

As the Ball of Whacks can also be formed to rhombic triacontahedron, both puzzles can be combined

with each other in interesting ways.

Star-Ball consists of 32 pieces of which 12 are shaped as fived-legged stars and 20 as three-legged “Tri“s.

On each end of the pieces is a magnet.

As the magnets have different polarities, there are 6 strong fived-legged stars and 6 weak fived-legged stars.

There are as well 10 strong three-legged “Tri” and 10 weak three-legged “Tri”.

For better recognition, one type of magnetic pole is marked with a point.

The puzzle can be played in different ways:

You can either rebuild the Star-ball shape or construct new figures and shapes.

The puzzle is a typical head and tail puzzle. The head is represented by a magnetic pole and the tail by its magnetic counterpart.

That is why it is not sufficient to simply rebuild the shape, but also necessary to consider the magnetic polarities.

It is not very difficult to build the Star-ball shape and it takes about one hour.

Star-Ball differs clearly from X-Ball and Y-Ball.

It has different parts and involves also magnetic polarities.

Puzzle Review

designed by Roger von Oech

made by Creative Whack Company

Y-Ball (US patent: US 7247075)

30 identical pieces

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 15 minutes

Y-Ball , designed by Roger von Oech, is a set

of thirty identical magnetic building pieces.

It is interesting to see how the idea for this puzzle

was developed. Roger von Oech was inspired

for this puzzle when he examined a truncated icosahedron,

which had the shape of a ball. In this geometrical form

every corner is linked with further corners by three edges.

If you halve the three edges, you obtain a Y-shaped object.

If you connect two of these Y-shaped objects,

then you get the pieces, therefore the name of this puzzle.

This Y-shaped object has a strong magnet on each of its

corners. Due to the strong magnets different

figures and shapes can be built.

Puzzle Review

designed by Roger von Oech

made by Creative Whack Company

Charles O. Perry

Double Puzzle

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 5 minutes

designed by Charles O. Perry

THE ZEN PUZZLE

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 5 minutes

designed by Charles O. Perry

Dic Sonneveld

Sonneveld Cubed Burr

designed by Dic Sonneveld

made by Tom Lensch

Illegal Burr wooden burr

Limited Edition of 30

designed by Dic Sonneveld

made by Brian Young

Hidekuni Tamura

TWELVE PIECE BOX

designed by Hidekuni Tamura

made by Hidekuni Tamura

Divide Cube / Four Part Cube

designed by Hidekuni Tamura

Mineyuki Uyematsu

Double Cs 444

designed by Mineyuki Uyematsu

made by Pelikan

TripleCs 444 Β

3 pieces

designed by Mineyuki Uyematsu

made by Pelikan

TripleCs 444 Β

3 pieces

designed by Mineyuki Uyematsu

Osanori Yamamoto

Four Piece Burr Cube

Puzzle Design Competition 2011

designed by Osanori Yamamoto

made by Eric Fuller

Ice Pillar

designed by Osanori Yamamoto

made by Pelikan

Cockpit

designed by Osanori Yamamoto

made by Pelikan

Castle Hole

designed by Osanori Yamamoto

made by Pelikan

2 pairs one

Level: 9.4

Osanori Yamamoto

made by Pelikan

N-One

Level: 15.3

designed by Osanori Yamamoto

made by Eric Fuller

Junichi Yananose

Square Headed Burr

IPP 29 Exchange / San Francisco

designed by Junichi Yananose

made by Hiroshi Iwahara

Heavy Headed Burr Junior

designed by Junichi Yananose

made by Hiroshi Iwahara

Kumiki Airlines

designed by Junichi Yananose

made by Brian Young

Brian Young

T-Burred.

IPP 29 Exchange / San Francisco

designed by Grant Smith & Brian Young

made by Brian Young

Alchemy

designed by Brian Young

made by Eric Fuller

SEARious Burr

IPP 23 Exchange / Chicago

designed by Brian Young

made by Brian Young

Tumen-Ulzii Zandraa

Mongolian Zad

IPP 22 Exchange / Antwerp

designed by Tumen-Ulzii Zandraa

made by Tumen-Ulzii Zandraa

designed by Tumen-Ulzii Zandraa

made by Tumen-Ulzii Zandraa

Old interlocking puzzles in the 18th century

Nine Piece Burr

no copyrights

Twelve Piece Burr

no copyrights

Six Piece Burr

Difficulty: easy

no copyrights

Old Russian Puzzles

Others

Spatzennest

made by Sipo & Sapelli

designed by Ms Zora Brunette

made by Ms Zora Brunette

Great Dodecahedron

designed by David Bruce

made by Interlocking Puzzles

Twelve Straight / Twisted - Interlocking Puzzle

designed by Yukio Hirose

made by Eric Fuller

Dragon Cube

designed by Douglas A. Engel

made by Philos

Lolly Box

designed by Alfons Eyckmans

made by Eric Fuller

The Minotaur's Burr

Limited Edition of 30

Puzzle Design Competition 2010

designed by Frank Potts

made by Brian Young

Rik's Kiddy Wrapping

designed by Kevin Holmes / Rik Van Grol

made by Eric Fuller

Hollow Cross 6 piece interlocking puzzle

made by Brian Young

Outline Burr

designed by Eric Fuller

made by Eric Fuller

made by Tom Lensch

Cross Knot

2 x 3 identical pieces

designed by Markus Götz

made by Philos

Encaged

designed by Eric Harshbarger

made by Pelikan

Condor's Peeper

designed by Jack Krijnen

IPP 29 Exchange / San Francisco

made by Brian Young

reframe

designed by Kohfuh Satoh

made by Pelikan

"Twenty" Cube

designed by Rick Eason

made by Rick Eason

Trirods

designed by Grabarchuk

made by Pelikan

Boxed Burr

designed by Tom Lensch

made by Tom Lensch

Arabesque

designed by Jose W. Diaz

made by Jose W. Diaz

made by Wisdom Toys

made by Wisdom Toys

Barb's Cube

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 20 minutes

designed by Jose W. Diaz / John Devost

made by Scott Peterson

surround

Puzzle Design Competition 2009

Difficulty: easy

designed by Kohno Ichiro

made by Kohno Ichiro

Slow Waltz

Level: 14.8

designed by Jeff Namkung

made by Eric Fuller

Nervenbündel

Playing Time: < 1 hour

made by VOCK Spiele

no copyrights

Global Puzzle

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 10 minutes

3 komplett gefangene Weise

Primitivo Familiar Ramos / Rafael G. Abad

made by Pelikan

Gordian's KNOT

designed by Frans de Vreugd

made by ThinkFun (BINARY ARTS)

New Cube

designed by Wayne Daniels

made by Les Éditions FABBRI

oblo spheres

designed by Marko Pavlovic

made by Great Circle Works

Difficulty: very easy

Playing Time: ~1 minute

The Trefoil Knot

IPP 22 Exchange / Antwerp

3 pieces

designed by Irina Novichkova

made by Irina Novichkova

Pyramystery

designed by Silvia Heinz-Matthes

made by Philos

HELP

17 pieces + frame

designed by Trevor Wood

made by Pelikan

made by Pelikan

Trigemino

6 pieces

designed by Sonja Heinz

made by Philos

Internal Combustion

4 pieces + frame

made by BITS & PIECES

PLANET

IPP 30 Exchange / Osaka + Hakone

designed by Kouki Kusumi

made by Mineyuki Uyematsu

PENTAPOD 024

designed by Steve Nicholls

made by Steve Nicholls and Simon Bexfield

Two Colour Knot

Ceres key puzzle / Magic Disc

Difficulty: simple

Playing Time: < 15 minutes

The puzzle has the shape of a flat cylinder.

It consists of three identical parts which look like three-step stairs.

The opening mechanism is based on Coordinate Motion.

Puzzle Review

designed by Frank Nichols

made by Mif Predmet

DEVIL'S CUBE rekubus

Puzzle Design Competition 2008

Difficulty: medium

Playing Time: 3 - 4 hours

38 pieces

rekubus is an interlocking puzzle in the shape of a hollow cube that was invented by Mike Klotzki.

You immediately notice the rather unusual shape of the pieces.

rekubus consists of three different pieces:

8 corner pieces, 12 edge pieces and 6 side parts.

Additionally, there are 12 rails which serve to hold the pieces in place.

Puzzle Review

designed by Mike Klotzki

made by rekubus

Solution

made by Pelikan

Burrlephant

designed by Jerry McFarland

made by Jerry McFarland

made by mi

6 pieces

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 30 minutes

made by Naef Ag

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 30 minutes

Kumiki Puzzles from Japan

Difficulty: easy

Playing Time: < 5 minutes

Chupa Chups

Chupa Chups

Nanook

HARTLEY'S Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty

sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had

a great fall.

All the King's horses

and all the King's men

couldn't put

Humpty Dumpty

together again.

Dice

made by Jean Claude Constantin

From

Europe Puzzle Brussels

27 pieces

designed by Prof. Dr. F. Müller

made by Philos

Europe Puzzle Straßburg

12 pieces

designed by Prof. Dr. F. Müller

made by Philos

Literature

Stewart Coffin Geometric Puzzle Design

Stewart Coffin The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections

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