tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341941751324943000.post2783414604148945848..comments2024-03-25T14:53:54.413+00:00Comments on PuzzleMad: Turning Madness - Probably the Best Ever!Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05649523779226834414noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341941751324943000.post-71019948530545612502017-01-28T20:34:51.739+00:002017-01-28T20:34:51.739+00:00The pit is bottomless! It only ends with one of: m...The pit is bottomless! It only ends with one of: madness, bankruptcy or divorce or a combination of them! As I advised you by email long ago, try to keep it vaguely under control....never get into debt for a puzzle!<br /><br />If you stop at just the first piece then you are missing half the fun. I also do the back and forth thing but once I have properly learned the first sequence then I do it again with the second and third and so on. With the very high order (above 30) puzzles I seldom manage to learn all the pieces but using Burrtools is still fun and not for me an admission of failure. Some people will manage to go all the way in both directions for those puzzles but not me. For puzzles with less pieces like the Tronc commun then I always go all the way and can usually go both directions after enough to and fro work.<br /><br />In reality I always have said that a puzzle is only solved when it's fully understood! That is done both directions and done more than once to prove that it wasn't a fluke! I wrote about it a very long time ago here:<br /><a href="http://http://www.puzzlemad.co.uk/2012/05/when-is-puzzle-truly-solved-gordian.html" rel="nofollow">When is a puzzle truly solved</a><br /><br />Keep going with the Tronc, I can help if need be.Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05649523779226834414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341941751324943000.post-2770410588280747542017-01-28T19:18:43.493+00:002017-01-28T19:18:43.493+00:00Yep, that's me.
I thought the order from Step...Yep, that's me.<br /><br />I thought the order from Stephan Baumegger was as far as the pit went. Turns out it's bottomless, at least so far :)<br /><br />It's all about being able to get a puzzle back to how it was. Taking the whole thing apart, scrambling the pieces, taking a 1 hour break and then assembling it back seems to work for you. For me with any serious burr I may be able to make the ~20 moves needed to take the first piece out. Once it's out I admire my accomplishment and then put it back in while I still remember the exact state of the puzzle as the first piece came out. On those rare occasions I went much further (say take the whole thing apart) I'm then hopeless and need a burr tools file to get it back together.<br /><br />It's scarier here with the Tronc with no burr tools file available...<br /><br />- IBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341941751324943000.post-7901196465110295802017-01-28T09:19:49.249+00:002017-01-28T09:19:49.249+00:00The first two pieces are the easy bit! Keep going ...The first two pieces are the easy bit! Keep going - if you get stuck then I'm sure I can help. <br /><br />I do think I know who you are - I suspect you have someone who has spent a fortune last year on puzzles by Stephan Baumegger and a few other craftsmen. You have communicated with me using a Hebrew name (I also have one but it's never used).Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05649523779226834414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341941751324943000.post-77574717971060217102017-01-28T01:23:17.005+00:002017-01-28T01:23:17.005+00:00I just took the first two pieces out the other day...I just took the first two pieces out the other day and quickly put them back in before I'd forget how to reset the puzzle. I think I'm starting to see where the magic is. Very excited to give it a proper chance soon if it weren't for the huge backlog of unsolved puzzles.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />IB<br /><br />P.s. I believe you know who I am. Let me know if you don't (but it's cool of course to refer to me as IB here)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341941751324943000.post-14188536033280983212017-01-09T06:43:53.516+00:002017-01-09T06:43:53.516+00:00Hi IB,
You've not played yet? Go get it and tr...Hi IB,<br />You've not played yet? Go get it and try it out! Maybe you're much better than me and it won't take you so long but I'm sure you'll enjoy this puzzle!Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05649523779226834414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341941751324943000.post-54497904326221233812017-01-09T06:28:45.727+00:002017-01-09T06:28:45.727+00:00Rotations have never been so well sold before :)
...Rotations have never been so well sold before :)<br /><br />I took a risk when I got a copy, not in terms of quality of work, which is great as always, but in terms of this being just another cube with some rotations. After this review I'm not sure if I'm more excited, or more scared of actually giving it a try...<br /><br />-IBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com