The Design Competition Guide (photos, instructions, and relevant notes) is available here.

10 Cutter Blades

Designer: Mitsuhiro Odawara
Goal: Fit all 10 pieces into the rectangle tray.

Purchase: Available at PUZZLE of MINE * WEB-SHOP.

4Hex

Designer: Hiroaki Hamanaka
Goal: Assemble the seven pieces to satisfy the following:

• First form a shape that is made of four regular hexagons and all eight dots are visible
• Form the same overall shape as in part 1, but with only seven dots visible.

Purchase: Available at PUZZLE of MINE * WEB-SHOP.

4x4x3 Rhombo Box

Designer: Albert Gübeli
Goal: Put the four pieces back into the box.

Purchase: Available at albinegri; price: $60.

Albis Ball

Designer: Albert Gübeli
Goal: Put-together, take apart

Purchase: Contact the designer by ; price: $60.

Alexandria's Diamond

Designer: Albert Gübeli
Goal: Assemble the two pieces by folding into a convex solid without holes.

Purchase: Five puzzles (red, blue, yellow, green and brown) available at albinegri; price: $600.

Ball In Cylinder No 1

Designer: Jerry Loo
Goal: Remove the hidden ball bearing from the aluminium cylinder.

Purchase: Puzzle available from Jerry's Small Puzzle Collection; price: £30, plus shipping and handling.

Ball Snake Pyramid

Designer: George Bell and Joe Becker
Goal: Select a challenge card (30 are included in 5 difficulty levels), and snap the pieces together in the order specified by the color sequence. Then assemble the ball snake(s) into the target shape(s), with the aid of the appropriate base plate.

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Binary Bud

Designer: Namick Salakhov
Goal:

• Rotate each of the "leaves" from the open postion to the close (blocking) position. And then vice-versa.
• Find the shortest solution with the minimum number of moves.

Notes: The top piece can block and be blocked by the leaves; and the leaves can block each other.

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Books/T.V. ?

Designer: Sam Cornwell
Goal:

• Orientate the four blocks like books, then like a TV screen.
• Orientate books in 1234 order.
• Orientate books in 4321 order.

Bucolic Cube

Designer: Yasuhiro Hashimoto
Goal: Assemble the three identical pieces into a 3×3×3 cube.

Notes: This is similar to Best 12 (Bram Cohen, 2010).

Capsule Construction

Designer: Bill Cutler
Goal: Take apart and put together

Purchase: Visit Bill Cutler Puzzles.

Clair de Lune

Designer: Yasuhiro Hashimoto
Goal: Take out the "moon", then put it back into the cage.

Convergent Evolution: D'Artagnan

Designer: Bram Cohen and Wei-Hwa Huang
Goal: Use all four pieces to make two identical shapes.

Notes: Shapes that are mirror-images of each other are not considered identical.

Purchase: For a copy of the puzzle, contact Andy Manvell by . If you are interested in using the idea for mass-market purposes, please contact Wei-Hwa Huang by .

Cuboctahelix

Designer: Bram Cohen and Jason Smith
Goal: Assemble eight triangular pyramids and six square pyramids into the shape of a cuboctahedron.

Purchase: The Cuboctahelix (a.k.a. Helical Burr) can be purchased at Puzzle Forge Shapeways Store.

Dancing Shoes

Designer: Goh Pit Khiam
Goal: Pack the five pieces flat into the box.

Purchase: Contact Tom Lensch by for purchasing information.

Dispersed GC Lock

Designer: Namick Salakhov
Goal: Move the switches from one compartment to another, so that the sliding panel can be locked or unlocked. Then move all the switches back to the original compartment.

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Drop Slider

Designer: Lucie Pauwels
Goal: Place the blocks on the board (in one of 36 different start positions), then put a ball in each hole. Slide the blocks over the board until all the balls have dropped into the central hole.

Notes: Bonus puzzle: get the balls back out through the side hole!

Eight Wrestlers

Designer: Yoshiyuki Kotani
Goal: Make an object out of the 8 pieces so that each notch is paired with another.

Purchase: Contact the designer by ; price: ¥2000.

Elevator Puzzle

Designer: Sam Cornwell
Goal: Move the square panel out of the tube.

Notes: The square can move with gentle pushes with finger access at both ends of tube. The square has four pins in the sides.Two pins act like hinges so the square can "flip" one way, then other pins take over so the square can flip the another way. ("Flip" means a quarter rotation like a door opening.)

Elle

Designer: Frederic Boucher
Goal: Disasemble and reasemble the two sets of three identical pieces.

Purchase: Available only in Japan at www.puzzlein.com; price: ¥3000.

Escape from Alcatraz

Designer: Robrecht Louage
Goal: Remove the coin.

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Eyes, Nose and Mouth Puzzle

Designer: Sam Cornwell
Goal: Disassemble the "cube" into five pieces, then put back together.

Galaxy

Designer: Bram Cohen
Goal: Take-apart the four identical pieces, and put back together.

GEAPPLE

Designer: Andras Zagyvai
Goal: Build a tetrahedron on the base. Some balls will fit into the dents of neighboring balls.

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Helical Burr

Designer: Derek Bosch
Goal: Take apart and reassemble.

Notes: There are two possible assemblies, one is very simple (a key pieces screws out), and the other is level-11.

Purchase: Available at Shapeways, or from the designer by .

Hexagonrings

Designer: Yuta Akira
Goal: Take apart, and put back together.

Housing Crunch

Designer: George Bell
Goal: Pack the five pieces flat in the tray.

Purchase: Contact the designer by .

I'm Possible

Designer: Donghoon Pee
Goal: Assemble six pieces to form a burr-shaped figure.

Purchase: Contact the designer by .

The In'Possible Puzzle

Designer: Mike Toulouzas
Goal: Put the pieces inside the tray.

Purchase: Available at puzzzlevision.com.

Karakuri Box

Designer: Kohno Ichiro
Goal: Open the box.

Purchase: Contact the designer by ; price: $100 plus postage.

King's Court

Designer: Tim Snyder
Goal: From the starting position (one of multiple challenges), move the 2x2x2 king piece to the center bottom of the board. All pieces must remain completely on the board. Pieces can only move by rolling about an edge into unoccupied regions of the grid, leaving its previous position open.

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Ladder of Brahma

Designer: Tom Lee and Kong Tang
Goal: Exchange the positions of the green-spot piece and the red-spot piece. The three cones can nest, and start over the red-spot piece.

Purchase: Contact the designer by ; price: US$180; only two available.

Manholes 55

Designer: Frederic Boucher
Goal:

• Hide each ball underneath the coin (manhole) of the same color.
• Place each ball on top of the coin (manhole) of the same color.
• Without spinning the puzzle, move the balls to the green areas on each side of the street.

Matatom

Designer: Christian Blanvillain
Goal: Make a cube using the 12 colored and magnetic pentadrons.

Notes: The Matatom shape was discovered by Jin Akiyama, and adapted for use here as a puzzle. Using multiple sets of 12 blocks, it is possible to build a truncated octahedron, hexagonal prism, rhombic dodecahedron, and an elongated rhombic dodecahedron (the five space-filling Fedorov polyhedra).

Purchase: DIY puzzle! Matatom pieces available at Shapeways, magnets available at supermagnete, and assembly instructions available at matatom.com.

MazeRoll

Designer: Splinter Spierenburgh
Goal: Navigate the metal ball through the maze from one end to the other (and back) by following the maze paths and rotating the colored cylinder segments.

Notes: The cylindrical segments can be rearranged to create easier or harder challenges.

Purchase: The MazeRoll kit is available as kit at Shapeways; price: $103. Also available assembled at mfave.com; price: €110.

Monge's L-cubes

Designer: Peter Gal
Goal: Create a 3D shape with a specified top- and front-view. The shape must be stable and able to stand on a flat surface.

Notes: Many different challenge cards are provided; some require a specific number of shapes. The pieces are the six different L-tetracubes with two dark and two light cubes.

Purchase: Contact the designer by .

N-one 2

Designer: Osanori Yamamoto
Goal: Assemble the two pieces in the center of the frame.

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Oct-Tetraxis Assemblies

Designer: John and Jane Kostick
Goal: Two assemblies can be made with the 36 sticks. The easier (smaller) one surrounds a cuboctahedron block with twelve sticks. The more challenging (larger) one surrounds the same block with the remaining 24 sticks.

Purchase: Contact the designers at kosticks.com for information about similar puzzles.

Phantom Fish

Designer: Leslie Le
Goal: Put all 14 circular segments into the tracks without overlapping.

A Plugged Well

Designer: Brian Young
Goal: Work your way through the puzzle to find the barrel of oil.

Notes: You will have to discover a range of hidden and disguised tools to reach the final goal. No force is required to open the drawer.

Purchase: Available at Mr Puzzle Australia.

Qin Nez Borz

Designer: Stephen Chin
Goal: Determine how the "Impossible" nested balls were created.

Rain Drop

Designer: Kelly Snache
Goal: Remove the glass tube to release the $1 bill.

Purchase: Contact the designer by ; price: $140.

Rattle Twist 4

Designer: Osanori Yamamoto
Goal: Disassemble and reassemble the two pieces inside the frame.

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Ze RD - Evil Twins

Designer: Stuart Gee & Stephen Chin
Goal: Disassemble and reassemble the three nested geometric puzzles.

Rhombic Maze Burr

Designer: Derek Bosch
Goal: Slide maze and pin plates to remove a single exit plate.

Notes: This is an enhancement of Kagen Schaefer's Maze Burr - using rhombic dodecahedral geometry. It allows for thousands of challenges including one requiring 379 moves to solve.

Purchase: Contact the designer by ; available in two sizes: $150 for small (10cm), $200 for large (12cm).

Ring and Cherries on a Stick

Designer: Dimitar Vakarelov
Goal: Remove the metal ring.

Purchase: Contact the designer by ; price: $20.

Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other

Designer: Junichi Yananose
Goal: Disassemble and assemble.

Notes: Magnets are used to improve the feel, and not theoretically necessary for the puzzle. The level of the puzzle is 13-1-4-1-1-2, it is challenging but not too difficult.

Slide Twist Twist Slide

Designer: Tony Fisher
Goal: Make a 3x4x4 block of gold cubes.

Notes: The puzzle consists of three differently shaped parts--each with a 2x2x2 cube core which can twist and be scrambled.

Snake Case

Designer: Hiroaki Hamanaka
Goal: Arrange so that the snake hides completely inside its case.

Notes: No undue force is required. So please treat the snake gently, and do not stretch the snake too hard.

Symmetrick

Designer: Vesa Timonen
Goal: Lay the pieces flat to make a symmetric shape.

Purchase: Available at www.sloyd.fi.

T4-II (Tea For Two)

Designer: MINE (Mineyuki Uyematsu)
Goal: Put the four pieces into the box.

Purchase: Available at PUZZLE of MINE * WEB-SHOP.

TetraCubed

Designer: Robert Reid, Michael Dowle, George Miller
Goal: Fit all eight pieces into the box so that the cubes do not touch each other. Also, make a solid figure from the four dark pieces.

Purchase: Contact the designer by ; price: $40.00.

Tetrakis

Designer: Yavuz Demirhan
Goal: Assemble the four identical board pieces into the cubic frame.

Purchase: Available at PuzzleWood.

Tetromino Tablet 18

Designer: MINE (Mineyuki Uyematsu)
Goal: Put the five tetromino pieces into the frame.

Purchase: Available at PUZZLE of MINE * WEB-SHOP

Triangle

Designer: Volker Latussek
Goal:

• Make one square using all pieces
• Make two squares using all pieces
• Make as many different-sized squares as possible.
• Make as many different-sized triangles as possible.

Tri-Symmetrics

Designer: Vladimir Krasnoukhov and Irina Novichkova
Goal: In the given position, this object has 120° rotational symmetry. Make a new object that is even "more symmetrical": simultaneously with 120° rotational, 180° rotational, mirror, and central/point symmetries.

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Washington Monument

Designer: Brian Young
Goal: Unlock and open the puzzle, then close and then relock it.

Notes: To open the puzzle, you must lock the internal gravity pins inside the round base. If you open the puzzle by chance and the gravity pins still move freely--this is not the intended solution. To relock the puzzle, you must release the gravity pins so they move freely again. All the tools you’ll require to solve the puzzle are given with the puzzle. Take care not to lose the "lightening rod" at the top.

Purchase: Available at Mr Puzzle Australia.

ZooLogical Garden #2

Designer: MINE (Mineyuki Uyematsu)
Goal:

• Put four white pieces into the tray.
• Put any three white pieces and the red piece into the tray.

Notes: The blue piece is anchored with the screw inside the tray, but can be rotated.

Purchase: Available at PUZZLE of MINE * WEB-SHOP