Hello prospective bidders! Come and enjoy the pretty pixels of whichever puzzle is being listed for this page!CatharTIC is definitely what I feel when I finally solve a tricky tic and it lives up very well to it's name when this one irritating piece finally moves into juuuust the right spot! However despite what its name implies, I don't actually consider this too difficult of a tic. The rotations are fairly straight forward, and the difficulty is in navigating the internal openings as the piece...

Hello prospective bidders! Come and enjoy the pretty pixels of whichever puzzle is being listed for this page!GalacTIC is a strong contender for being Andrew's most difficult tic. I get so lost working on manipulating the pieces it's like I'm wondering in a vast galaxy with just as likely odds for finding my way to freedom! Some people actually suggest trying it as a disassembly puzzle instead of the usual approach with tics to put the pieces together. Either way, Galactic is equally hard when p...

Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange – Ottawa, Canada August 2015. 302 made.Presented Rosemary Howbrigg. Designed by Osanori Yamamoto in May 2014. Made by Mr Puzzle.The puzzle is to assemble the 4 piece interlocking burr. An interesting symmetrical shape made from 2 pieces of clear 10mm acrylic around 2 wooden pieces.This puzzle is fun, a really good challenge, but not impossibly difficult, a good size, not too fiddly, not too big. So it depends on how much of a puzzle challenge your up for… y...

Girish Sharma wrote about it: “Shiba Inu” is an assembly zoo burr with standard 6 piece burr pieces and a (drum roll)… dog. The goal of the puzzle is to take the 6 pieces and first assemble it into standard 6 piece burr shape. Then disassemble and assemble it back again, but with the dog piece inside!” Kevin Sadler wrote about it:“Here we have a couple of challenges in one from the amazing Girish Sharma. It’s a 6 piece burr with a single solution (no key piece) and then a 7 piece b...

"Minima Tower" is a restricted packing puzzle designed by Frederic Boucher and produced by NothingYetDesigns. Goal: Pack the 4 pieces into the 2x2x4 frame to create a 2x2x3 solid. Rotations are allowed. This puzzle was very tricky!Shipping cost to be calculated at auction end

Hello prospective bidders! Come and enjoy the pretty pixels of whichever puzzle is being listed for this page!Little Bruce is a fairly easy tic and one often recommended to beginners to serve as a starter puzzle when dipping a toe into the tic genre. But it's a quality classic that many have tried and loved.  It has the interesting feature of 2 half-cubes which need to go together for assembly which further helps the beginner: https://woodwondersonline.com/collections/black-friday-sale/products...

Hello prospective bidders! Come and enjoy the pretty pixels of whichever puzzle is being listed for this page!Macaroon is one of 6 in the Dessert TIC series where they follow a theme of 2 interlocking ring-like frame pieces and then several smaller pieces to form a "solid" 4x4x3 cube. All six are considered to be on the easier side and good introductory tics for a beginner to try. The difficulty within the series, from easiest to hardest is Cake < Macaroon < Cookie < Baklava &...

The puzzle is to assemble the six pieces into this unique shape.This burr has a locking mechanism unlike any other that we know of. It was designed in 1999 by Brian and is covered by Australian Design Registration No 142132. This puzzle is EXCLUSIVE to Mr Puzzle Australia.This burr has a locking mechanism unlike any other that we know of.There are only two identical pieces out of the six that make up this puzzle. Although symmetrical this puzzle is difficult to visualise because the shape is off...

Just three pieces to assemble around the black hole cube. How hard can it be? As many, many puzzle collectors know, surprisingly so when it’s a Junichi Yananose design. It may not be the hardest puzzle in the world but for a really good Aha feeling, it does not have to be. And this one has it. Aha! Got it! Never felt so good.Puzzle sold disassembled for maximum puzzling enjoyment.Shipping cost to be calculated at auction end

What is the definition of pulsar?A rapidly spinning neutron star that emits a bright beam of radiation from its magnetic poles. The name derives from the fact that the star appears to pulsate every time the beam sweeps past us. Pulsar is short for ‘pulsating star’.And that’s what we thought the burr looked like when assembled!The puzzle consists of 4 pieces of 10mm acrylic and a single wooden piece from Western Australian Jarrah. One of the acrylic pieces is quite unique to any other burr ...

Identity I A is a lovely puzzle exchanged from Frans de Vreugd at IPP 38. It was made by Pelikan and masterfully so.From the blog page: https://www.zenpuzzler.com/2019/05/identity-i-a.htmlFrans’ exchange puzzle for last year was Identity I A designed by Andrey Ustjuzhanin.  It consists of four identical pieces packed into a U-shaped frame.  Although many exchange puzzles may be of a slightly lower quality than a craftsman would make to sell, the Identity I A puzzle is of top notch quality.�...

Hello prospective bidders! Come and enjoy the pretty pixels of whichever puzzle is being listed for this page!Cluster is yet another tic where the final assembly isn't a convenient cube to make deducing how the pieces should go together a fairly complex task. Good luck with this one: https://woodwondersonline.com/products/clusterLong story short, I'm selling several dozen Turning Interlocking Cubes on behalf of a collector. Due to health complications, they don't have the spare time or energ...

We were surprised when JinHoo contacted us with his latest design, Taco Cube. JinHoo is a very successful puzzle designer with multiple creations manufactured by the esteemed Hanayama company. He honored us by choosing Cubicdissection to craft his latest puzzle from wood!Taco Cube is a tricky and fun assembly. This interlocking puzzle is made from two identical frame parts combined with two sets of identical pieces. While not overly difficult, the solution is exciting and satisfying.This batch o...

Hello prospective bidders! Come and enjoy the pretty pixels of whichever puzzle is being listed for this page!X-Lattice is a 2-piece Interlocking Cube without any rotations involved, which makes it a very easy puzzle. It's a fun puzzle to continually take apart and reassemble for relaxation purposes. I believe this copy was made by Pelikan, but I can't be sure of this fact, so I can't promise it's the case: https://puzzles.schwandtner.info/puzzle_107.htmlLong story short, I'm selling several do...

Hello prospective bidders! Come and enjoy the pretty pixels of whichever puzzle is being listed for this page!Sun is a 2 piece tic where the goal is to align the 2 half-circles into a "sun" in the solved state: https://cubicdissection.com/products/copy-of-sunLong story short, I'm selling several dozen Turning Interlocking Cubes on behalf of a collector. Due to health complications, they don't have the spare time or energy to manually sell any puzzles directly. So I'm handling auctioning of...

Hello prospective bidders! Come and enjoy the pretty pixels of whichever puzzle is being listed for this page!Leftovers #3 is a fairly easy 3 piece tic, but it's fun to find the assembly especially when the intended gaps in the assembled state makes the solve counter-intuitive when it comes to figuring out how the pieces are meant to come together: https://cubicdissection.com/products/leftoversLong story short, I'm selling several dozen Turning Interlocking Cubes on behalf of a collector. Due ...

Hello prospective bidders! Come and enjoy the pretty pixels of whichever puzzle is being listed for this page!Twist the Night Away is a rare tic which I consider to have an almost festival feel to it. It's hard to describe, but the twisting moves involved feels as if I'm spinning around a tree during a holiday party which I suppose makes the name particularly apt for this tic: https://woodwondersonline.com/products/twisting-the-night-awayLong story short, I'm selling several dozen Turning Interl...

Hello prospective bidders! Come and enjoy the pretty pixels of whichever puzzle is being listed for this page!ElfTIC is a rare tic with the unusual property of having two distinct methods of solving it. This means that the solver can put the pieces together in 2 completely different paths of moves and rotations and end up with the same final assembly. This was unintentional on Andrew's part, because his custom tic-solving program only looks for solution paths involving rotations with a perfect 4...

Hello prospective bidders! Come and enjoy the pretty pixels of whichever puzzle is being listed for this page!Packtics are among the hardest of all Crowell tics because their difficulty doesn't lie within assembling the cube, but rather deducing what the final arrangement will be. Knowing how all of the pieces are meant to end up as is no easy feat for the tics from this series, and #3 is on the easier side for this series.Long story short, I'm selling several dozen Turning Interlocking Cu...

Hello prospective bidders! Come and enjoy the pretty pixels of whichever puzzle is being listed for this page!Packtics are among the hardest of all Crowell tics because their difficulty doesn't lie within assembling the cube, but rather deducing what the final arrangement will be. Knowing how all of the pieces are meant to end up as is no easy feat for the tics from this series, and #2 is a tricky one to solve.Long story short, I'm selling several dozen Turning Interlocking Cubes on beha...