Aluminium L(8)tice & Dirty Dozen on Kickstarter

For lovers of interlocking puzzles (and those of you who missed out on my Dirty Dozen), there is a Kickstarter project ongoing now which features two of my designs, the Dirty Dozen and L(8)tice. The third design Slideways, comes from Ray Stanton. All the puzzles are made of heavy aluminium and anodised in attractive orange, blue and magenta. Lovely to look at and challenging to solve.

I had produced a couple of dozen (no pun intended) copies of Dirty Dozen in stainless steel previously for sale in small batches and these were always sold out the moment I listed them on my puzzle site www.mechanical-puzzles.com. Same for the L(8)tice which was manufactured in acrylic.

Here's the link to the Kickstarter page. 

All three puzzles are very affordable, considering they are all produced in anodised aluminium. The Slideways is $20, while both the Dirty Dozen and L(8)tice are going for $25 each. If you buy all three puzzles, there is a package price of $66. Shipping and handling not included.

Both the above designs and their piece shapes are also featured on Puzzlewillbeplayed.com

Dirty Dozen - 

http://puzzlewillbeplayed.com/CombCross/DirtyDozen.JL/

L(8)tice - 

http://puzzlewillbeplayed.com/CombCross/Leighttice/

Coin Puzzles by Rex Rossano Perez

A very Happy New Year to my puzzling friends and blog readers. This is my first post of 2019.

I have just played with two of Rex Perez's Coin Puzzles and uploaded a post on them to my puzzle site below.

http://mechanical-puzzles.com/coin-puzzles-by-rex-perez/

Of Mice & Mazes - A Puzzle Card Box

Sorry folks for my infrequent postings...

Here's my puzzle for this weekend.

http://mechanical-puzzles.com/of-mice-mazes-a-puzzle-card-box/

GyroTwisty

Here's another Diniar Namdarian-designed 3D printed "twist" puzzle. Exchanged by Hendrik Haak at IPP38 in San Diego, USA.

http://mechanical-puzzles.com/gyrotwisty/

Double Vision

A puzzle with a rather neat "trick" for the solution. Allan Slocum's IPP38 Exchange Puzzle.

http://mechanical-puzzles.com/double-vision/

The Vault - Guest Post by Mike Desilets

Here is Mike Desilets' second guest post on my blog. Another interesting magician's tool kit, which can also double up as an interesting puzzle box. 

http://mechanical-puzzles.com/the-vault-guest-post-by-mike-desilets/

Partitions

"Partitions" designed by IPP award-winning puzzle designer Goh Pit Khiam is now available for sale. Consisting of 8 identical shaped pieces, it is fabricated from 5mm stainless steel. Very challenging no less with an unusual second piece move!

http://mechanical-puzzles.com/product/partitions-stainless-steel/

The Metagrobologist

Issue #5 of The Metagrobologist is available for pre-order. For more details, please click on the link below.

https://www.themetagrobologistmagazine.co.uk/product/themetagrobologist-magazine-issue-5