Over 1 MILLION pageviews since I began! Incredible!
When I began my little website in March 2011 I did it just for some fun. I wanted somewhere to chat about these new toys that were taking over my head and also it would be a chance to learn a little bit about web publishing and html. I’ve certainly learned a lot about puzzles, met/communicated with a whole lot of wonderful puzzlers around the world, chatted to some incredibly talented designers and craftsmen and can even call a lot of them my friends. My pageview stats just crept up gradually and I suspected that most of them may have been my mother keeping an eye on my drivel but after she passed away the numbers continued to rise so someone else must be responsible! I am continually amazed that anyone reads the garbage I publish but I’m pleased that my words get read.
Thank you all for your time! Having just passed the 1 million pageviews just before New Year I am very grateful. I will try to keep you all entertained for another million! The first million took 448 posts, let’s see how many the next requires.
Tune in for my Top 10 puzzles of 2017 on the last day of the year....that would be tomorrow.
Back in 2015 I received, totally out of the blue, 2 separate deliveries from an amateur puzzle designer and craftsman called Carsten Elsäßer. In March I really enjoyed his 2 Piece cube and marvelled at the craftsmanship which not only was of wood but included some very nicely made metal components which really takes some skill for an amateur to create. The whole idea was very clever and nicely implemented with a great Aha! moment. Then in August he completely blew me away with a mostly metal construction called the Naga puzzle which was a sequential discovery puzzle of similar scope and wonder to the limited edition puzzles made by the great Brian Young. A truly amazing thing also is that Carsten spends most of his time living and working aboard a cruise ship travelling all over the world! This gives him very little time at home to actually manufacture his puzzles.
I had communicated with Carsten earlier this year and was aware that he was busily designing away but, to be honest, I had totally forgotten about it. Then out of the blue earlier this month he asked for my address again and sent me another lovely new toy through the post. To make this even more incredible, he has become a father for the first time just a month ago and still managed to work on a fabulous new puzzle! Congratulations my friend! You are amazing! Helping with the development of this puzzle Carsten has discovered the amazing capabilities of 3D printing. The Pirate's casket is made from sintered nylon and has many magnets. It is also one of the first times I have ever come across a puzzle pade with 3D printed metal components too.
The pirate's casket was found after centuries at the bottom of the ocean.....OK it's nylon so maybe it wasn't! But it has been aged to look like it has - apparently judicious use of coffee and charcoal has given it the "bottom of the sea" look. The aim of this puzzle is firstly to find the gold coin inside and then as a secondary challenge I have to establish which pirate it belonged to. YES!!!! I lurve sequential discovery puzzles! I was told that it is strong enough to resist a bit of abuse but banging and prying at it is entirely unnecessary.
The skull ball rotates and can be removed
A keyhole in the bottom
The puzzle is surprisingly weighty for a plastic printed puzzle - it feels like there is metal inside. Maybe it's a gold doubloon? Time to explore....the ball on top rotates freely but has a tendency to ping into certain positions - if you hold a compass near this then the needle goes haywire all over the place! There seems to be magnets involved....LOTS of them! With a bit of a tug the ball will come out too. Underneath the casket there's a keyhole but no key...yet. In fact, looking in the keyhole gives no clue of what's inside as there doesn't seem to be any way for the key to turn inside. It gets more and more intriguing.
The panels rotate
Obviously the next thing to try is look closer at the panels on the faces of the casket. They appear to rotate fairly freely but in 45º increments they click into place. Try this with each in turn and aha! One won't move at all! Explore, explore, explore. My usual is to move things over and over again in the hope that one day I will prove Einstein wrong. Of course that is not the correct thing to do but I do find it therapeutic. OK! Time to be more systematic....rotate each of the panels in turn and see what happens....nothing! Puzzles like this actually require a light touch and during my investigation something feels different and I'm not sure why. Back-track and Aha! again. A panel shifts slightly and seems to require a bit more. What if??? YES!!! I seem to have a key.
A key has come out.
I am told that the key has also been 3D printed! Incredible! I can hear you shouting at me...try it in the keyhole! These damned voices are really starting to worry me!
A perfect fit
The key goes into the keyhole perfectly and..... well you know that NEVER works in the puzzling world. My friend Shane keeps sending me puzzles with keys and so far I don't think any of them have done anything. Puzzle designers are nasty that way - they raise your hopes and dash them.
I give up on the keyhole and notice that the key is held inside fairly firmly. Interestingly there is another magnet stuck inside the key itself. Maybe the key has other uses? I am aware that there are rather a lot of magnets in the casket as floating the key over various parts makes pushing and pulling motions all over the place. I proceed to go round and round in circles for a while and get nowhere. I do make a useful discovery during my further exploration but at this stage it doesn't help me at all. Interestingly moving the key over the ball makes exciting clicking noises and something rather heavy moves around inside it. I have a brainwave which as always doesn't work and give up for the day. After a couple of evenings of attempts my main thought doesn't seem to be working so I contact Carsten for a clue. As a Dad of a new baby, I suspect he doesn't get out very much just now and he replies very quickly. My thoughts had been nearly right and his very teeny tiny hint got me my next step.
The ball can be split
The mechanism is totally ingenious! I love it and I could see why I missed it for so long! Inside the ball is another "thing" to help you on your way but of course it is not quite that straight forward. The interior of the casket is still locked tight. Moving "things" around makes a very tiny change on the outside and this with my earlier finding gives me a bit of a bwainwave. Yet again another very clever mechanism has been implemented and I suddenly find that the locked panel can be moved and then removed:
A revealing movement
A panel comes off and...
I think I am almost there! It has taken me 4 evenings of gentle play and discovery and I finally have found the pirate's coin. I don't think it is a doubloon or even gold but 3D printing makes for a very nice and beautifully detailed momento.
Heads - CE 2016
Tails
Coordinates on the edge
What about the final piece of the quest? Finding out who was the original owner of the casket? This takes good eyesight, some GoogleFu and a bit of reading. I learned there are things you can look up on the internet with only very tiny pieces of information. It would appear that Captain Arthur Catt may have been a very wealthy man before he lost his 3D printed coin and chest in an ocean with coffee in it!
This puzzle has been nearly 2 years in the design and manufacture - it is truly wonderful! Yet again, I am aghast at the incredible skills and design ability of Carsten Elsäßer whilst he spends half his life at sea and also finishing off with a newborn in the house. Thank you so much my friend, I will be bringing this to a Midlands Puzzle Party in the 2018 to let the guys have a play. I am sure that they will solve it quicker than me but will still greatly enjoy it.
Now all that is left for me to do is to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year - may it be happy, healthy and puzzling. I hope you all receive what you have been asking for and that next year is truly puzzling for you. I have to quote another friend, Michel, who always signs his emails and letters with this:
I count myself very very lucky for many reasons. First of all, not only have I been at home with Mrs S for a month after surgery, I have been on a "too much time on my hands" spending spree and bought lots and lots of wonderful toys (see my New Additions page) and despite all of the deliveries and being underfoot, she has not murdered me in bed! I suspect, listening some of the not so under her breath muttering, that it has been a pretty close thing and I damn well better get back to work soon or I will be an ex-puzzlemad! A particular reason for me to feel lucky is that my friendship with Jakub and Jaroslav at Pelikan puzzles allows me the opportunity to buy their latest offerings ever so slightly early and this year I have some reviews for you that may help you with your last minute Xmas gift buying for the special puzzler in your life. Yes there are some fabulous new toys available and I got 'em all!
Lucida
Lucida by Osanori Yamamoto
Arrives with pieces locked together
Simple pieces
Just beautiful in Wenge and Ash
Only 27€ is a bargain
Lucida is another brilliant design by Osanori Yamamoto. When you see that name you should straight away think of rotations. Allard had already recommended this one to a few people on Facebook and I had seen that another very talented puzzler (my friend Richard Gain) had 3D printed it and then spent 3 weeks before managing to assemble it. This made be ever so slightly fearful of this one. It has been beautifully made and is sent out disassembled with the pieces cleverly locked together. So far in 6 days of concerted play, a number of ideas have occurred to me but so far none have worked - I am blocked at every turn - my head hurts just now because I seem to have run out of ideas. I did find for 5 heart-stopping minutes I had everything locked together and couldn’t get them apart at all - eventually I managed to undo what I had done! Just like the Identical Twins, this puzzle is such a simple idea and yet this one is tremendously difficult. I will keep going and hopefully not take 3 weeks! This is a great puzzle for the true puzzler - if Allard says it's good and Rich found it tough then you can be sure that this is well worth buying!
Coriolis is another new design by the incredibly prolific Lucie Pauwels and has been made by Jakub and Jaroslav in a number of different finishes (I chose Ash and Purpleheart). Recently Lucie has been focusing on puzzles that require rotational moves in their solution - the Knobbel puzzles are more traditional Turning Interlocking Cubes or cuboids but she also has been looking at other interesting shapes. It consists of just 4 simple pieces in a complex frame and the aim is disassembly and then reassembly again. The first disassembly is a nice voyage of discovery - it is not really difficult but does make you realise that what looks so simple in construction is actually much more complex inside.
Coriolis pieces - more complex than you would expect!
The real challenge however is the reassembly after you have scrambled all the pieces and left them a while. It is not hugely tough but takes a little thought and planning. This is certainly suitable for a beginner but experienced puzzlers and collectors will want a copy too. It also looks lovely on display.
Top is another fabulous design by Osanori. Again you should straight away think of rotations. This puzzle has been beautifully made by Pelikan from Ash and Bubinga with perfect tolerances and a couple of tiny magnets prevent the pieces falling out of position. The aim again is disassembly and then subsequent reassembly. There are a good few linear sliding and rotational movements possible and careful analysis of the board shapes is required to get the pieces into just the right positions to allow a clever rotation to occur. After a few more moves the first piece comes out. I expected the other piece to come out linearly after that but no, Osanori would never make it that easy. There are 2 choices for the last piece removal – both require more shuffling and rotations. A similar but opposite movement to the first piece surprisingly failed. Further thought required and I had 4 separate gorgeously made pieces.
Just look at the grain on that Ash!
I heartily recommend scrambling the pieces and leaving them a while before reassembly. Then you have a real challenge on your hands! The reassembly of this puzzle requires some real thought if you make a proper attempt to ensure that you haven't just memorised the moves. It is perfectly manageable and great fun. A similar design is available from Brian Young's MrPuzzle store. He has made another puzzle by Osanori with similar moves - the 2 & 2 in Acrylic and Western Australian Jarrah. It is just as much fun but much smaller. Of course all serious collectors need to have both!
Recede is, I'm afraid, already sold out on the Pelikan site. This is the third of Alexander's designs to be commercially produced (I raved about the first two here). This is just slightly more conventional in shape than the Tortoise and Knot on my watch puzzles but still has elements that are highly unusual. It actually looks like a packing puzzle (when I posted my initial picture on Instagram someone actually asked whether it was a packing puzzle) and bears a similarity to some produced in the past by Eric Fuller (One Hole - reviewed here, or The Core which I regret I didn't buy). However do not be fooled - this is a burr/interlocking puzzle with very unusual shaped pieces which lock together in a really interesting way. There are a few blind ends and it is a delight to get lost in them and have to work back and discover where you went wrong. Gradually as you work through the level 14.1.4.2.2.2 solution you can see more and more of the maze like complex interior but still cannot see enough to plan the disassembly. When the first piece is removed it is with a breath of relief and the rest follow quite quickly.
Seriously complex pieces - well done Jakub making something so stable!
The disassembly took me so long that I thought I had memorised the movements but apparently I had not done it well enough. That final 4 pieces come apart fairly quickly (although they are very stable right to the end and as you can see 3 of them are very similar. This meant (and still does now when I repeat it) that it didn't just slide back together easily! I knew the rough configuration but not particularly well and had to spend quite a while figuring out the correct piece orientation from scratch. I am not like the late (and sorely missed) Laurie Brokenshire - I really struggle to work things like this out but it is just just possible for me to manage and for those of you who have obtained a copy, I suggest that you have a go at scrambling the pieces and leaving them a while. Burrtools will be able to get you out of trouble if you need it but I don't think you will. Simply fabulous Alexander and Jakub!
All but Recede are still available at the moment on the Pelikan site so do yourselves a favour and go and buy them now. They will make a nice Xmas present to yourself or another puzzler in your life. Thank you Jakub for letting me have these.
As most of the UK settles into a rare snow filled excitement, we in Sheffield are still waiting with baited breath for a coating of the white stuff. Several friends are very upset that the stuff that brings the whole city to a standstill and fills our hospitals up with the elderly sick and the fallen fractured has not hit yet. Whilst I am not fond of the white stuff outside, I am delighted to play with some of the white things indoors. These are three successive years of lock creations by the "puzzle solving machine" that is Louis Coolen. Allard frequently has him stay over before and after an MPP and I suspect that he relies on him to solve half of his puzzles! I very seldom write about locks because I am frankly rubbish at them! My good friend Shane has been a locksmith as well as a Master carpenter for years and recently added the accolade of Master Locksmith to his list of qualifications. This means that he understands the damned things and seems to be able to solve them all with minimal struggle and even seems to have enough knowledge to manufacture his own (more of that later). If you do need a Locksmith in London and the South East of England then he's your man!
Over successive MPPs I have seen and played with Louis' devices and to my shame up until recently only had a 50% success rate in opening them. Each year I passed on buying one for my collection because I had always spent my pocket money earlier (not that they were expensive). At the last MPP Louis had a set of all 3 available for the meagre sum of £15 each - my recent spending spree had inured me to the pain of bank account depletion and I couldn't resist 3 as a set! These puzzles are produced in the Shapeways 3D printer from WSF (White, strong and flexible) plastic which is a substance that is definitely Verboten in this house! I have 2 or 3 twisties made from it and they leave a trail of dyed black power over everything when I play with them which usually leads to an inevitable Whack! Ouch! These however don't really have much movement to be done and don't shed powder. At least that is what I have told the fearsome Mrs S.
The 2015 version is the original and by far the toughest - initially it doesn't even appear to be provided with a key! I recall working on this at an MPP and was only able to solve it with the aid of Louis and a chorus of jeering MMPers helping me. The solution requires just a smidgeon of force in places and that is where the WSF holds its own - it is really rather strong as well as flexible and of course.....white! With a little cajoling and help I was able to solve it there and to prove to myself that dementia has not set in yet I was able to solve it after I bought the trio of them in November. Only a hint of trouble and I had a nice open puzzle.
Coolen 2015 lock solved
It needs at least 4 separate movements to open it and is a nice discovery sequence. It would appear that a copy has been manufactured in wood and despite not having the same material properties as the WSF it works beautifully.
I am very proud to say that at an MPP last year I actually managed to solve the 2016 Coolen lock. This one has a particularly clever start. There are only two possible moves at first and the obvious one does nothing leading you on a hunt for anything else that you can do. The second move needs to be done repeatedly until something changes inside and then you've had a great Aha! moment ending in an Oh! not there yet! At this point it required a very light touch and what I can only imagine picking a real lock feels like. It requires a nice delicate touch and a certain movement to produce this:
Coolen 2016 lock solved
Everything is there for a particular reason and it does sort of lead you to the solution. Only 3 particular steps but very very clever indeed. I did remember how to solve this a year after my original success and still no white powder on our precious black granite surface.
Again the mechanism is hidden from view. The shackle has been placed behind the main body for the picture above. The wonderful 2017 lock puzzle is now available from Puzzle Paradise here and the older versions are available on request from Louis if you contact him using the Paradise messaging system. They are inexpensive and Louis will even consider puzzle swaps if you have anything of interest to him.
Next up is a puzzle that I had to get a copy of, the B-Lock by Boaz Feldman. Yes that name is very familiar! Boaz is the son of Dan Feldman maker of the incredible Danlock. Boaz learned a lot from his dad! He also seemed to have learned a few new tricks. The B-Lock was exchanged by Boaz at the IPP and many of us were desperate to get a copy later. I was accused by a good friend who is not a puzzler (but was accompanying one) of behaving like a druggie with Boaz as my "dealer" at one point when in a corridor of the hotel I sidled up to him and made a casual enquiry about getting hold of his "special thing". Luckily for me Boaz came through with the "good stuff" the following day.
Looks like a standard Israeli padlock? It is.
I saw this being solved at the IPP dinner and so never got to try it from scratch myself. I seem to be unable to forget the solution method but every time I go through the process of opening the lock, I marvel at the incredible machining skills that Boaz has developed to carry out that incredible modification with such subtlety. You need amazing eyes to notice the teeny tiny thing that is required to open this lock. I cannot wait for the next puzzle he produces.
After this I have nothing but pain!! Shane's most recent creations have so far completely defeated me! Haleslocks 3 and 4 were the IPP exchange gifts of my friends Peter Hajek and Allard Walker and hence 100 of them were handed out in Paris. I had planned to purchase a copy from the creator or the 2 humble gentlemen at the puzzle party (I was an exchange assistant only and so did not participate in the receiving part of the exchange, only in the record keeping and the repair of my exchanger's puzzles). At the end of the exchange I was truly grateful when Shane sidled up to me and handed me 2 nice heavy metal objects! This meant I had money left over for the party the following day! Oh boy! I certainly used all of that!
Haleslock 3
Haleslock 4
So far I have worked on both of these for 3 months and got absolutely nowhere! I did find an unintentional shortcut in Haleslock 4 but this was so obviously trivial that I knew it could not possibly be the solution. I have 2 little brown envelopes sitting in my drawer that are enticing me but so far I have held off opening the solution - I am not sure how much longer I will last! I just don't really understand locks very much apart from the very basics of a mechanism.
Still closed! I'm rubbish! Sob...
Shane is not the only Puzzle lock maker who has me beaten! I have been working on the Popplock T10 for a year and still not got the damned thing open! It sits on my desk throwing insults at my puzzle manhood! I look at it sadly and have to admit that it has me beat....I am a puzzle wimp!
I cannot wait for the T11 to be released. I got a look and a hold of a copy at the IPP (it was a delight to finally meet Rainer) and apparently it is incredible. For a preview photo have a look at Goetz' page. It will be significantly expensive but I cannot wait! Whack! Ouch! Oh well, I'm only going to live once even if it might not be for very long now!
After last weeks announcement that I had bought some twisties and that they had come from someone other than my friend Martin's puzzle store (he struggles to get hold of Witeden puzzles, I felt that I had to make amends and buy some new twisties from him to atone for my sin. A few people have been showing of some new designs by the very talented Moyu company and I decided to buy the latest challenges. The Fisher Wheel of Time looks confusing enough but who could possibly resist the Axis Wheel of Time? I couldn't resist either! They arrived yesterday much to the disgust of Mrs S and, to be honest, I very much doubt I will survive this time I am spending at home recovering from my operation....there are so many packages arriving that she has begun to look suspiciously at our postie when he arrives and is definitely muttering murderous intent under her breath every day!
The original Wheel of Time was an interesting puzzle which I bought in 2015 (PuzzleMaster link) and consisted of a simple 3x3 cube with what became known as "baby faces" on the front which were able to turn independently of the rest of the cube. This massively increases the number of pieces that need to be solved and hence makes the puzzle much more interesting BUT as you can see, the pieces on the baby faces are not all unique. There are 4 identical slim wedges and 4 identical curved corners on each baby face and so the puzzle was not as difficult as one might expect. I would call it a very pleasant diversion or just a little extra for a beginner puzzler/cuber.
In my very popular "advice to beginners post" twisty post which still gets a huge number of views, I did extol the virtues of shape modifications of the standard 3x3 to give a nice added challenge and the Fisher cube (PuzzleMaster link) or Axis cube (PuzzleMaster link) are fabulous additional challenges for anyone:
Fisher cube
Axis cube
I found it both incredible and slightly horrifying that Moyu were able to combine these brilliant shapemods with the baby faces but how could anyone resist a shapemod COMBINED with additional baby faces? I do tend to choose the coloured plastic for twisty puzzles where they are available but these puzzles are available in black or white plastic (with stickers) too if that is your preference.
I had a quick look at the turning of these puzzles after they arrived and was very impressed. Starting with the Fisher version which should be less mind boggling:
Faces turned
Centres turned
At this point it becomes clear that there are a whole lot more non-identical pieces in the baby faces so this should be a very nice challenge. OK let's go for it:
It looks a little bit tough
There is nothing terribly new to this puzzle. Can you solve a standard 3x3? Can you understand and cope with the Fisher cube parity? And finally do you know the method to cycle centre pieces around a cube? If you can solve a 5x5 or bigger then you should be able to do this. Well that is ALL you need. I really enjoyed this puzzle - it is a very nice challenge and a little arduous at times but has a few nice Aha! moments. It is very high quality and reasonably priced. Go for it! What about the Axis Wheel of Time?????? Aaaaaargh!!!
It turns in a very similar fashion - faces and centres/baby faces:
One face turned
One baby face turned
Straight away I realised that this was going to be a little more........tough. So I threw caution to the wind and did this:
Dear Lord! What have I done?
There is absolutely nothing new to this puzzle! It should be exactly the same solve as the Fisher version but with the Axis shape there should be no parity to worry about. Oh boy! I was wrong wrong wrong! This puzzle indeed doesn't have anything new and yes, no parity BUT it is a LOT more confusing. First of all the centre pieces are absolutely tiny and this makes matching them up with the edges to start making the top cross (as one does with a Rubik cube) really hard to visualise. I found that I kept making mistakes so I decided to start solving the baby faces first. BIG MISTAKE (have I said before that I am not terribly bright? I made up a few baby faces and then tried to align the edge pieces along side only to realise that I had wasted my time...moving the edges disrupts the baby faces (Doh!). Start again.
I spent a very long time today swearing under my breath as I slowly slowly solved the Axis cube part with a gap between edges and centres for an added challenge. The top face was a particular challenge as I really needed to remember how to solve a supercube (cube with a specific orientation to the centre). My usual cube solution method doesn't allow this and I had to work out again what to do. Lovely extra challenge! I soon had the small matter of the baby faces left:
All 6 are scrambled
This is where I met the only downside of this particular puzzle. The movement of the baby faces within a centre is really fiddly and if it takes a bit to do then it's very important that you don't forget what you were trying to achieve as each piece placement requires 4 baby face turns. At one point I lost track and for a heart stopping moment I thought that I had re-scrambled a significant part of the puzzle all over again. This puzzle may have no new features but it is a HUGE challenge and if you can get over the poor turning of the baby faces then it is a stunning puzzle for the price. I think I will try to solve it again but maybe I will try and catch my breath for a bit!
Super Cuboids (part one)
Witeden super cuboids
Many years ago now I really enjoyed the Crazy 3x3 planet cubes and the 4x4 versions too. Since then I have bought a number of variants many of which have stumped me. Recently Witeden produced 3x3x5 and 3x3x4 cuboids which incorporated circles in their top ± the bottom faces and I bought these from Calvin's HKNowstore. I began exploring these too last week and had a very nice time with the versions with traditional cuboid shape and two circles. I adore the cuboid twisties and described a beautiful classification of them based on solving approach here. The 3x3x5 is of the "Domino" type and is definitely a fun one to solve. The circles definitely add to the puzzling quite considerably. The 2 standard cuboids are of type 00 and 01 which means that one has top and bottom zero faces and the other has a zero and a one face:
Zero face - the inner circle is fixed
One face - the inner circle turns too
I started on the 01 meaning that one face has a fixed inner circle and the other is free to turn (but it doesn't turn independently) - I quickly realised that the zero face is attached to the equatorial layer and if that gets turned the as long a the circle is complete then the zero inner piece will turn inside the outer part - this ruins some of my normal algorithms! It gets more and more interesting! After a few minutes of play I threw caution to the wind and did this:
Hell yessssss!
After working out how to reassemble the circles (cuboid solve), I went on to make sure that the inner and outer parts were matched up - very pleasant task. Then it was time to solve the rest of the cuboid - this is a FANTASTIC and not too difficult challenge.
"I must be becoming a genius", I thought to myself.
I solved the 01 version several times to further convince myself of my genius and then started on the 00 version. First of all I had to tighten a screw inside to make it work properly and after that I had 2 inner circles that were both attached to the equatorial layer. OMG! This really made a huge difference. It means that 2 opposite faces cannot turn at all if the circle is not complete and this totally ruined my cuboid solving technique. I needed to work out my own algorithms to get around the incredible bandaging that was occurring. Progress was made gradually until I finished it......with an awful parity - I could not work out why. I spent hours and hours and hours working on this until I had an epiphany - this is a REALLY difficult twisty puzzle and not for the faint of heart. Mrs S thought at one point that I was going to have a heart attack with all the swearing and groaning that was going on. I have solved it once and will scramble it again tonight to make sure that it was not a fluke. Wish me luck!!!
I definitely think that this series of puzzles is worth purchasing but unlike the 2 Moyu puzzles these are not suitable for beginners. If you are a reasonably accomplished twisty freak then you MUST buy these two (00 here and 01 here) - start with 01 to get warmed up! You will lurve these puzzles and they will cause you pain.....but a good sort of pain!
There are others in the series which I will report on in the future when i have solved them. I have however had a quick look at the offset 3x3x5 super cuboid and it frightens me to death! I made a little video showing what it does to explain to Derek why it is horrific (he seem to agree with me) and I have uploaded it to my YouTube channel. Have a look at the video and let me know your thoughts:
