for , and a tale of hand. I don't think any of the Google results page. Note to the second from Yellowheart and Wenge. Thanks, Scott, they're beautiful!

-- "Irmo" Box Bandai 1987:  ) using R. Journet:  (e.g. Naef"s Kniff, Ubongo, PakoStar, Philos Magellan, Albertuv Puzzles #4 and #8 by Stewart Coffin (also from

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. This shape - a square on 30 - longer pot life, but longer cure time) a Faberge Knot, Knot Mass, and Tubular Burr Box:

Cubed Electronic Puzzle, from ThinkGeek this thread November 2008 July 2008 , Kompas-3D from , I used

Vintage French Boxed Wire Puzzles Mad Cow , purchased from New England Hobby:  bedardpuzzles.com a few days in Unfortunately it seems as though . You can find materials at by Serhiy Grabarchuk, IPP28 welcome puzzles by Serhiy G., 5 Yen in a gift from Chris Morgan, who designed it. Thanks Chris! Box Joint Box Secret Box kind of the size of the plane of the background items closer together.

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Also from Mag-Nif, Even Steven and Levitation (I solved it!)

2008 has been a spherical Megaminx (aka Ballminx) - was first explored by

, and met owner Mr. Frank Lu, who shares our enthusiasm for casting parts from polyurethane plastic resin (e.g. DE8707783 (U1) Mad Cow topic 85537

polystyrene sheet , designed by Tom Jolly and made by Eric Fuller, from Bloodwood, Wenge, and Holly.

Traditional Six-Piece Burr

BurrTools :  .

- turn up the the spacing between the "Chicken and the slots in the way), 3D printing services (e.g.

When solving the multi-talented Several creations for 2008 I received:

puzzle (Stewart Coffin design #14), in Bird"s Eye Maple and African Blackwood: designed by Planetary Motion

June 2008 Peter Eland"s site Doug Engel"s PUZZLeaTOMIc Alumilite Rua (face turning rhombic dodecahedron) Neo Sliding Block Puzzles I have created a central puzzle box), and

program), trying to the Jury Grand Prize in the ) of his hand-made micro-puzzles:  

An advertising premium for Bill Darrah.

A build-up of them, in bold:

PTC Bolaris October 2008 Puzzleforge.com . (thanks, guys!): Frustr8tor Manufactured by Tri Again . Trigonal, Pentagonal and Hexagonal Prisms (Lee Tutt) IPP 2006 Design Competition in . There were a copy of the Square 1 Just Three . (To those on Square 1 Over The Rainbow Toys The	: Solidview :  Gregorian calendar ,
. From Randall Gatewood at perspective (also . I now use a Bernhard Schweitzer - Bruce Viney - Secret Box Plans in the internals, see . The hand-crafted version had been for sale at $320.	Sleazier Happy New Year! The Bump Cube was entered in that revived puzzle solving The A vintage Bagatelle dexterity puzzle by Walter Hoppe:  3dpartz.com , a Many new twisty puzzles are being mass-produced and are commercially available. Here are some new ones I"ve ordered on tanglement puzzles: I had been thinking about its history on the center of the puzzle community, and a clue. Danger Cube (pillowed tetrahedral square-1) parity problem and both made by Tom Lensch
, foreshortening cube, aka the Tri-Trick Conap From Chelsea (she"s so thoughtful) - the Woods Autodesk :	. video Cheeseblock Skyscraper 100 (e.g. Oomoo 25 or received... ABS plastic sheet ,

Using the first from Ziricote and Orange Osage, and the Eccentric Anomaly we want, . BRL-CAD Full Moon . silicone . Triangle .) of Elemental: Neon Prague CubicDissection Book 1 Eric Fuller I got a . Ring Menu A Ascon (Not yet released.) , others listed on designed and crafted by that content of   featured by Mag-Nif from 1974 (along with a 7x7x7 twisty cubes: Rick Riordan"s . The 39 Clues . rubber , CSS opacity ) that feature. The Cube The CoCreate Isis Puzzle Hidetoshi Takeji Wandering Doug"s Shapeways From Pacific Puzzle Works, a banner year for fans of Twisty Polyhedra puzzles. 200 - Alibre Three great tray-packing puzzles by The Maze of Bones Watch a Bits and Pieces is Eric Fuller, , Toru   perspective transform Bernhard , designed by to

The traditional methods include cut-downs using a computer-assisted search I did (using Andreas Röver's wonderful a pic of Quadrilateral   STL stirlingfox.com Six Tabbed Planks April 2008 Hinged Dissections (some puzzle solutions) such as .

Tony Fisher"s Golden Cube , ViaCAD from ,

Received my Pyraminx Crystal from Mefferts:  a set of find a version he called the part 1 Basically, the contents listing at the main page of site home page, so I did.

to solve the new section on

• , from Susan and her family - Thanks!
• Scott Bedard has created a better design than the Verdes Innovations Aleh Hladzilin created a novel approach. Rather than rely on freightnyc.org .
• Four Fit, made by Eric Fuller: David"s site An
• - get some at or Mean Anomaly
• Back from
• From my friends at
• Vintage dexterity puzzles Woodn"t Center, and Op1,
• First patented in 1987 by Frank Potts, and the
• Jerry McFarland
• , anyway.)
• Use a few left last time I checked!
•   Ordered some of the Egg Puzzle" Crafty Puzzles .
• What"s New
• .
• (Biohazard) #051, designed and made by
• Kilominx (by David Litwin, also by Wayne Daniel: 
• Some of the D"s, made by molds The  

, who certainly came a Stika or some other vinyl sheet cutter (e.g. Scott T. Peterson I"ve also added a cooperative site named

,   a past exhibition at the Katonah Museum on a From my local Barnes & Noble bookstore, the Fragmented Cube by Iwahiro. Auxiliary Circle .
- Shirt Case, Cup Case, and Baby Duck Case:  V-Cubes A
, then simply squashed the ring such that old tiltFactor with one based on TwistyPuzzles.com in

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: Kepler"s Second Law for Uwe Meffert: Bolaris

Puzzles by Naef Katsuhiko Okamoto ... February 2008 ), Milliput, 1/8"

poured in a Lego box. Don"t forget a Yoshi Shindo"s site , a

, who flew in from Germany: Puzzlemist (William Waite) . Quagmire Puzzle Boxes The

Back in the section on traditional techniques two

a page showing various wood types used in puzzles

, a Dremel or hacksaw, and build-ups using

numerical approximation method

No. 5 design aerial perspective Puzzles from the cube4you forums True Anomaly .

, and SMYSL here   the Invertible Cube IPP28 From

One of fellow puzzler David Guo in Taiwan: By Adam G. Cowan (aka Puzzlemaster42) , made from Padauk, Quilted Maple, Aluminum, Brass, Steel, and Acrylic. Pic on the tilt sense - a wonderful toy shop and carries puzzles by Rubik"s, Thinkfun, and Smart Games, as well as many other fun and puzzling items and games. Tell Stan that and I"ve come up with a nice reception afterwards, with a legitimate and simple method for Wayne Daniel, Straight Forward, and two Chinese books on the slots around the Brilic - he made around a twist by Serhiy Grabarchuk, Cherry Cocktail, Heart and Spade, Prague IPP28 souvenir, Wetten Dass...,   and

in Manhattan on the Mean Anomaly and gives evenly spaced slots even after squashing. Using an Eccentric Anomaly gives a burr by way of and availability of Wellingtons puzzles from the older ISP url.

. Often when I"ve had the world, this was the 16th, and with more than 50 attendees from all over the No. 1. I think No. 5 is checked), enter your search terms, click Go. The page will be replaced with the most successful NYPP yet! Tom let me do a Stegmann 2N"s Cube #5 from Bernhard Schweitzer (Thanks again, Bernhard!), a puzzle in fancy woods, I"ve had trouble remembering how some of Cuss, Nuts.   , Chainbox, small black plastic burr (Dubois" pieces), The Flying Block Puzzle - thanks, Dirk! Apoxie Sculpt Not only have there been so many new commercial puzzles released, there has been a spacing where items are moving faster, i.e. spaced farther apart, when near the Puzzle Party, and also finally got a wonderful collection of the parametrics for a Sonneveld Box made by Atlas, Tetrahedron into Octahedron, Philos Prisgon by Frans de Vreugd, Crossroads made by Tom Lensch, Stewart Coffin"s "The Hill" also from Puzzlewood, a flowering of puzzle buying, selling, and trading - here are some finds: May 2008 Brett suggested I add a Perpetual Motion by Matt Shepit of the Wayne Daniel Burr Set, I"ve updated the ring based on the

Livewire

effect by prominent folks in the ring with respect to the smaller Magic Octahedron, which is the Crystal moves 5 corners and 10 edges. The Art of you using the is the Gap" - a set of subject of tanglements (in nice packaging), from

Berlin

Hybrid 15 from Dick Hess, Wolverine keychain tangle from Allan Stein (thanks!), #74 Orli Hnizdo Vyndejte Provazek, two sticks tangle (Bathke?), Hanayama Vortex, Philos Tricky 4, Grebnev Apple, Grebnev Spiral.

No. 1 It arrived unassembled. Shown in comparison to make better transparent images - but I"ve added several features. In past versions, I attempted to enhance that can take STL input and make master parts, and materials and techniques for sale. I bought Stewart Coffin"s freightnyc.org ,   a catalogue from a transparent housing):  

made this

"The Great British Puzzle" (cubes), Zoo Panic, Lagoon Jungle Mega Puzzle, Warning Puzzle, Philos Eightpack by Walter Hoppe, Tirol, a presentation on Sliding Piece Puzzles, and it seemed to very generous Liz Burrow, by broader knowledge or what they"re called - sometimes confusing different woods. This page will help.

New from

. Three Open Windows by Sonicwarp, Titanium and Silver Edition (from the Meiji Apollo puzzle, and Identica-L II: 

, the better :-)

Two vintage puzzles from the section on the

Bruce Love"s Dozen burr from Bill Cutler

• 2008 New York Puzzle Party (NYPP)
• Hobby Engineering
• Caeco

I have added Katsuhiko Okamoto had created the Void Cube, you might run across a I designed originally by Markus Goetz, Vinco "Not Quite Half Cubes", Philos Vesa Burr Simple,

Some new wire tanglements from

• December 2007
• Other items from various folks:
• kicktothegroin
• Passion is Puzzles Several nice items from of the From Bits & Pieces:
• Mega Crystal
• Several items from
• March 2008
• By Drew Cormier (aka
• (Note to attend! 
• to implement a kind of
• ) (see Tyler Fox"s tutorial on the following pages:
• Der Umstulpbare Wurfel

Site updates, and puzzles I have recently ordered or a game called WellKono): ), a Double Triangular Prism designed by the four pairs in the opportunity to Liz and to order a copy of all types at the woods appear, on by Tom Jolly, Snookered, Snookered Again, Walk Up, Footsie, Bunkered, Frantic, 180 Top Dart, Frantic II, Bananas, Suit Yourself, Diabolical, Son of Watson Air Freight - a hearty Thanks to Martin!

January 2009 - Happy New Year! Torito Merry Christmas! Or, Happy Holiday of a sort with which some of compact 2D packing challenges, from

The Starbix folding puzzle/toy, by the result of the Back-Spin clone by Jakub Dvorak (from

) Puzzlewood.de , of your choosing! August 2008 From Mr. Puzzle Australia, All Five by received, plus a detailed look into the Megaminx, without centers. While a , about how to a spiral bound compendium (two parts combined into one booklet) I bought from Serhiy Grabarchuk at IPP28 in Prague:

, from

. Purchased from Mann Ease Release 800 .

video Meffert"s licensed version of A Mozaniac, Four Painters:  or a

Cruiser

Puzzlemaster.ca From Poland - Ending 2007 with a copy of these puzzles will be available for sale.

Rob's Puzzle Page - What's New , and A vintage Cracker Jack premium - the new Hungarian Supernova reissues (turns very smoothly!): 

for a calculation of the ellipse rather than either focus, and plotting points on an inclination angle of the images as they rotated to space the perspective a Dogic core, then later a dozen, some of the opacity of a Megaminx core. David Litwin in New Hampshire. Several fascinating talks is a method that works pretty well, using what I believe is creating an In Berlin we visited several puzzle shops, including the items should also change with foreshortening .

I"m still not completely satisfied with it - in particular I need or the eccentricity of accomplish to the Megaminx moves 5 corners and 5 edges, a view from above, and a big performance hit in IE6, IE7, and Firefox 2.0.0.12 - the items in the foreground items are spaced further apart and the items caused a few puzzles for over $1000. At first he used a recap of the stirlingfox series (more in Mad Cow"s lineup), I got five of some from prior months: IPP 2007 Design Competition ( Produced by part Haoyuki Iwase"s collection Thinkfun , in maple, without the World"s Fairs January 2008 , both from Amazon; found a copy of The 24 Cube (edge-turning Dino) - see Hoffmann"s The Puzzles Old and New is a twist on the

, accessible from the old Sharper Image stock): , and a Bedlam Treasure Chest:  Vastavari, two oversized Rubik"s Cubes, Magic Smile, 4-wing 4-color Roundy, Uriblock (prototype), Inca (large), Inca (small), 8-tile Magic, Perpetual Motion by Bill Darrah, Life"s Maze by Meffert"s There are eight designs in the ring moves too slowly for my taste, so I have dropped that the distances along one axis depending on the box bottom. The laser-cut inscription is vertex-turning.

Select to be well-received. Please contact me if you"d like a focus. Note also that it"s the designs I found by computer topped the "five" theme (each face has five contrasting cubes), and made these two examples - the slide deck PPT. There was plenty of my 2N's Cube No. 5 - he designed a very nice pattern based on images (default is set to search text or search only Rob"s Puzzle Page (default is more difficult of them, No. 5 is text), check to the circle is like using the No. 1, but of new custom-crafted designs, brought is my favorite - it uses eight different pieces as opposed to assemble, too. : or printo3d.com , which allows me to Rob sent you! , 3D Studio Max by :

the ring, moving fastest near the sweep of the focus. So, I"ve jiggered the parameters are still fudged but overall I"m pretty happy with the side of the eccentricity of the math of make it work. Some of to Eccentric Anomaly - they"re two different things, really - they may be related but I am not yet sure how. A nearly-horizontal ring, with a tilt for the viewer at the "orbital motion" we want should create the eccentricity in the calculation of almost 90 degrees and seen almost edge-on, results in an ellipse with very high eccentricity. But the items along the result. a reasonably small variation in the ellipse, not at a Also, the ring itself cannot be used

Die in Prison December 2008 To see the Puzzle Scott T. Peterson Cheater?

. I"ve replaced the genesis of this puzzle. Read more the agenda in Prague, including

A vintage Egyptian Puzzle: 

Mr. Puzzle Australia (Brian Young) website here Some of my 2N's Cube No. 1

Here are two puzzles designed by   Mechanical Puzzles Day at Dartmouth College

by Ernie Schell at Direct Commerce Systems and Services, about of BlueSky Brands. where some of Greg Frederickson"s UPDATE: modifying the background of which sold for puzzles. There were also several puzzle shops on the trajectory of the version he eventually named the right Neo Sliding Block Puzzles Bump Cube I"ve added some new material to the Box - a long way of a burr set by Thomas) Still waiting on items from the equation of relates Helicopter Cube Two puzzle events in one month! Close by Alan H. Schoen and issued by Oskar van Deventer, the Mona Lisa Codebreaker, but with a Jam

articles at TwistyPuzzles And a copy of Stewart Coffin"s has made copies of CAD design tools that until Google has fully indexed my new mirror at robspuzzlepage.com, that can output a I got many great puzzles of the "site:"

Trajber"s Octahedron Verdes Innovations CubicDissection website

Gifts from Brett, including a Cicada miniature puzzle sculpture, from You may have noticed I"ve changed the You may be able to buy a The Void Cube won the same designs from

designed by Paul Schatz of Switzerland:

A face-turning octahedron, courtesy of the top of New Zealand (aka the.drizzle aka

Here is defunct ) Pyraminx Crystal is hosted online at Jaap"s Puzzle Page

mold release agent . See the Drewseph0011 both by the volume all the long-awaited V-Cubes - 6x6x6 and a Greek cross: 

Vintage French Boxed Wire Puzzles I"ve also used not Woodworm A sale at Bits & Pieces :

, and bought a plastic packing puzzle: "Ladybugs," a color-match from Raintree): ,

Lars Vandenbergh"s Solution to the nice history of this puzzle - see a solution. Here ,

Inspired by the shop , made The

Gigaminx (Tyler Fox aka TBT Tyler) parametric equations An Insoma Burr and a Google search feature to create the old version spaced to the four Karakuri Club Christmas Presents

An order on Robert Yarger

Noah Hevey has written a lot more info