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Adam & Eve

Designer: Alan Rolfs, Tom Sun, George Miller
Goal: Join the heads together, leaving the apple wrapped around Adam's legs.

Barreled Bolt

Designer: Eitan Cher and David Tsur
Goal: Use the vertical cuts and the middle band of the barrel to scramble and restore the bolt.

Notes: Designed and developed by Eitan Cher, based on a puzzle concept by David Tsur

Purchase: Contact the designer by .

Bastille

Designer: Volker Latussek
Goal: Take the seven blocks out. Then put them back.

Order from rombol.de or by , starting October 2017.

Black&White Antislide

Designer: Volker Latussek
Goal:

• Place the three white blocks into the box so that they cannot move in the closed box, and so that the four black blocks can be added to the reopened box without moving the white blocks and the box closed afterwards.
• Start instead by placing the four black blocks.

Purchase: Order from rombol.de or by , starting October 2017.

Burr Lock E

Designer: Christoph Lohe
Goal: Open the shackle

Purchase: Available at CUBICDISSECTION (Eric Fuller) after April 11, 2017.

BurrNova

Designer: Jerry McFarland
Goal: Remove the key piece and disassemble.

Notes: This is a semi-automatic burr, with magnets providing surprising help along the way.

Clover

Designer: Aaron Wang
Goal: Remove the metal ring

Purchase: Order from felixpuzzle.com or by ; price is $16.

Colonel's Bouquet

Designer: George Sicherman
Goal:

• For any pair of pieces, join to form a symmetric shape.
• Join all four pieces to form a solid box.

Color Cube Sudoku

Designer: Raphael Meyers
Goal:

• Arrange the nine cubes in a square, so that the colors form a 6x6 Latin Square.
• First goal, additionally every 3x2 rectangle that includes exactly two cubes must contain all six colors, and the overall pattern matches the first color template below.
• First goal, additionally the four squares that comprise the edge between any two neighboring cubes must form an X, where each pair of squares share the same color, and the overall pattern matches the second color template below.
• Ingore the RWBG cube, and arrange the remaining cubes into a larger cube so that each 4x4 face is a Latin Square. Bonus challenge: no color can appear more than three times on any face.

Congruent Figures by Overlapping

Designer: Takumi Horiguchi
Goal: Divide the four panels into two groups and overlap each pair to make congruent figures.

Convex Polygon IrN-6a

Designer: MINE (Mineyuki Uyematsu)
Goal: Make a convex polygon using the six pieces.

Cubemaker

Designer: Volker Latussek
Goal: Put the five blocks together to make five dark cubes.

CUBI 20

Designer: Frederic Boucher
Goal: Pack the five pieces into the box.

Purchase: Contact the designer by .

Diabolical 3 Cubed

Designer: Rod Bogart, Zach Bogart
Goal: With a single set of nine tiles, there are three different puzzle configurations, each with a unique solution.

• The tiles can be placed into the 3D tray such that the twelve meeting edges show the 12 pentomino shapes.
• Six of the nine tiles can form a cube such that the twelve edges show the 12 pentomino shapes.
• And of course, like Nob's original design, the nine tiles can be placed in a 3x3 grid, producing the 12 pentomino shapes.

Notes: This is an homage to Nob’s Diabolical 3x3.

Down the Rabbit-Hole

Designer: Peter Wiltshire
Goal: Open the box and find the White Rabbit.

The Egyptian Glove - Band

Designer: Jonathan Leaman
Goal: Use the canvas band to cover all surfaces of the tetrahedron.

Purchase: Available at etsy.com

The Egyptian Glove - Triangles

Designer: Jonathan Leaman
Goal: Use the four triangular canvas pieces to cover all surfaces of the tetrahedron.

Purchase: Available at etsy.com

Fang Duet

Designer: Hayassi (Noboru Hayashi)
Goal: Disentangle the two parts

Fang Quartet

Designer: Hayassi (Noboru Hayashi)
Goal: Disentangle the four parts

Four Hands Puzzle

Designer: Ray Stanton, Pelikan
Goal: Take it apart, and put it together

Purchase: Available at Pelikan Puzzles

Free Me 5

Designer: Joe Turner
Goal: Free the coin from the puzzle

Notes: Everything needed to solve is provided. Contains small rolling parts; please ensure that removed parts are not swollowed or roll away. No excessive force, banging, bending, or burning is required.

Purchase: Contact the designer by . Approximately 25 are available for sale. Price is $50 plus shipping.

Free the Marble

Designer: Laurence Grenier
Goal: Free the marble hiden inside the cube

Purchase: Contact the designer by . 10 handmade prototypes available, 100€ a piece. Also looking to license for larger production.

Galette

Designer: Osanori Yamamoto
Goal: Put the five pieces into the box

Ze Genie Bottle

Designer: Stephen Chin
Goal: Open the bottle and get the reward.

Hardcore

Designer: Laszlo Molnar
Goal: Pack the three identical pieces into the spherical capsule, so that it closes without excessive force.

Hazmat Cargo

Designer: Carl Hoff
Goal: Pack the nine assemblies, each consisting of six hasmat drums, onto the barge, an 11 by 11 array, such that no two assemblies touch, not even at a corner. (Any contact could lead to cross contamination, resulting in unwanted chemical or nuclear reactions.)

Notes: Each of the possible 70,607,460 sets of nine hexominoes has at least one solution; this puzzle uses the only set with a unique solution.

Purchase: Contact the designer by . The puzzles can be custom made in different materials and the cost will vary based on the material options chosen.

Homage to Mr Rubik "Egg"

Designer: Tibor Sipos, Imre Kokenyesi
Goal: Insert the wand into the cube, then manoeuvre it through the spatial labyrinth from the starting point to the exit point, rotating the three layers as needed.

Notes: This is a 3-layer "Smart Egg" style of puzzle; originally designed by Andras Zagyvai.

Purchase: Order from Art & Smart Egg Ltd. or by . Only 1974 pieces will be produced. Each piece is individually numbered and with built-in RFID chip. The price will be $1,974.

Identical Twins

Designer: Osanori Yamamoto
Goal: Assemble two pieces fully inside the frame

In a Cage

Designer: Shiro Tajima
Goal: Open the box

Kakoi

Designer: Shiro Tajima
Goal: Open the box

Purchase: Visit the website Chie-no-ki.

Kissel

Designer: Vinco Obsivac
Goal: Make an icosahedral shape

Available at www.vinco.cz

Lacing Problem

Designer: Lucie Pauwels
Goal: Connect the holes with the shoelace, with colors matching as indicated on the board, and not allowing any slack at the back.

Legominoes

Designer: Péter Gál
Goal: Use all of the pieces, form a Legomino with the following attributes:

• Rotational symmetry
• Mirror symmetry
• Yellow and blue shapes are congruent (may be rotated or reflected)
• Both the yellow and blue shapes are symmetric

Notes: A Legomino is a one-sided polyomino made from Lego.

Lucky Cube

Designer: Keiichi Miyazaki
Goal: Form a variety of shapes with the two differently colored pieces.

Notes: Similar to, but different from the Yoshimoto Cube #1

Purchase: Commercial product will be sold by Hanayama starting Spring 2018.

MiSenary Puzzle Box

Designer: Michel van Ipenburg
Goal:

• Open the box by removing the lid.
• Close the box by inserting the lid and bringing it back to the start position.

Purchase: Contact the designer by . Puzzles will be made to order. Price will be about €75, plus shipping.

Moulin Rouge

Designer: Stephan Baumegger
Goal: Open the mill and find the hidden CanCan dancer.

Purchase: Contact the designer by .

The Mouse's Tale

Designer: Simon Nightingale
Goal: Open the box

Notes: No force is required.

Purchase: One will be auctioned for charity (OXFAM) later in 2017.

Neckische Würfel (Mischievous Cubes)

Designer: Albert Gübeli
Goal: Assemble the six puzzle pieces (each with both colors on opposite sides) to simultaneously form a red and a golden "cube".

Purchase: Available at www.albinegri.ch. Two puzzles produced; price $120.

No Full Pirouette!

Designer: Namick Salakhov
Goal: Spin and slide the boards successively so that all of the blue triangles point to the right. Then restore the starting positions (all green triangles pointing to the right).

Notes: Each of the six modules obeys various recursive cardinalities: variations of binary, ternary, and quaternary.

Purchase: Contact the designer by .

Nonagon 48

Designer: Koshi Arai
Goal:

• Put the 11 kinds of tetranons and two dinons (total 48 nonagons) into either the type A or C tray.
• Find the solutions with all black surfaces.

La Pajarita Convexa (The Convex Bow Tie)

Designer: Primitivo Familiar Ramos
Goal: Find all 11 convex shapes made using the eight identical triangles.

Purchase: Contact Walt Hoppe by .

Pencil Box

Designer: Kohno Ichiro
Goal: Open the box with care

Purchase: Contact the designer by .

Pent Up

Designer: Louis Toorenburg
Goal: Place all 12 pentomino pieces on one of the six boards so that the same color shows through each of the holes, (and simply cover the black squares with the blue tiles). For each board, only three colors can be solved.

Purchase: Contact the designer by .

Perfect Match

Designer: ZhaoYue (Turing)
Goal: Put the 12 blocks (four cubes, eight cuboids) into the box and close the lid smoothly. No force is required.

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

Puzzle Bracelet

Designer: Yael Friedman
Goal: Take apart, and put together

The Rocking Horse Puzzle

Designer: Mike Toulouzas
Goal: Rock the horse, and find the nice award as it rocks.

Purchase: Future copies will be made.

Ruled Cube

Designer: Chirag Mehta
Goal: Use the eight pieces to make a cube

Purchase: Contact the designer by .

Sequence Logic

Designer: Jesse Born
Goal: Raise all four locks on the lid to open the puzzle box

Purchase: Contact the designer by .

Simplography

Designer: Péter Gál
Goal: Place the six colored blocks on a card, satisfying all of the logical constraints. Blocks can be placed in any orientation but must be within the 6x6 grid.

Notes: There are 20 challenge cards; cards #1, #6, #11, #17 are recommended.

Six-Cross

Designer: Markku Vesala
Goal: Assemble the six identical pieces, and a magnet, to form a cubical shape with a cross on each face.

Sliding Maze

Designer: Kirill Grebnev
Goal: Start from the initial position (see photo), and move the key piece from lower-left corner to the lower-right corner.

Purchase: Available at puzzle.palyn.ru

Sliding Tetris

Designer: Diniar Namdarian
Goal: Remove the ball

Purchase: Contact the designer by . Simple version can be bought for 25€. The Collectors Version, with additional 11 pieces, wil cost 47€.

Ze Super Pens

Designer: Stephen Chin
Goal: Remove the jewel from inside each pen

Sym-353

Designer: Jerry Loo, Stanislav Knot
Goal: Place the three pieces flat on a surface to form a symmetrical shape.

Notes: There are four solutions.

Purchase: Contact designer via Jerry's Mechanical Puzzle Collection blog.

Symmetrominoes

Designer: Alexandre Muñiz
Goal:

• (Warmup) Fill the tray with the pieces.
• As above, but all pieces of the same color must have holes aligned the same way.
• As in second goal, and the pieces of each color must form connected groups.
• As in second goal, and no two pieces of the same color may touch along an edge. (They may touch at corners.)

Purchase: Available at puzzlezapper.com

Tagai

Designer: Shiro Tajima
Goal: Open the box

Purchase: Visit the website Chie-no-ki.

There Goes Bill

Designer: Kelly Snache
Goal: Set Bill the Lizard free from the chimney

Notes: No force required; take care of delicate parts

Purchase: Contact the designer by . There are 6 copies avaialble.

Threaded

Designer: Haym Hirsh
Goal:

• Assemble the four L-shaped pieces using the two longer bolts so that they form a 2x2x3 shape whose components stay connected in one piece after assembly.
• Now do the same using the two longer bolts as well as the shorter bolt. Each bolt must go through more than one piece and must be fastened with a nut on its far end.

3 Pieces 9 Symmetric Shapes

Designer: Emrehan Halici
Goal: Use the three pieces to make a symmetric shape.

Notes: There are nine solutions.

Tripla

Designer: Andrei Ivanov
Goal: Take apart, and put together

Purchase: Available at metallofactura.com; price $22.

Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Designer: Brian Young
Goal: Completely separate Tweedledum from Tweedledee, and find the secret compartment. Then reassemble.

2&1

Designer: Donghoon Pee
Goal: Arrange the five pieces on the grass so all pieces of the same color (which includes the given pieces in the grass) are connected.

Purchase: Contact the designer by .

Unlawful Assembly

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

Will You Marry Me #50

Designer: Yael Friedman
Goal: Take apart to reveal the "diamond ring"

XYZ Cube

Designer: Chirag Mehta
Goal: Use the eight pieces to make a cube

Purchase: Contact the designer by .

Yo Dawg, I Herd You Like Hexominoes

Designer: Wei-Hwa Huang
Goal: Find the one intended way to assemble the hexominoes into a rectangle using the piece colors, materials, and colored vinyl markings on the mat as hints.