from pentangle/cleverwood.com“This puzzle is primarily meant to arouse and confuse you rather than lead you a merry dance. A ball is concealed inside the assembly and obstructs the movement of the pieces in certain locations. By orientating the puzzle in different ways the ball can be moved, thus making it possible to take the assembly apart completely. You are next faced with a much more difficult task - reassembly Including the ball! CAN YOU HOLD A ‘BALL’ IN THE ...

This puzzle was made for some exhibitions.The icosahodron puzzle has c. 50 cm in diameter.The wedge of this icosahedron has c. 32 cm.For this puzzle was used balls in diameter 45 mm.The using wood is beech and colored beech.On the wedge of the icosahedron is 8 wooden balls.There is 10 different pieces - together 80 pieces.For this puzzle was used 362 wooden balls.The puzzle has c. 14 kg.Shipping cost around the Europe is 80 USD.Shipping cost to USA is 220 USD.

This puzzle was made by Lee Krasnow. It is called the Cluster Buster but it is made in a truncated version and uses three different woods to make this puzzle which is an easier puzzle according to Lee because of the truncated end pieces of the puzzle. They make it easier to grab in order to take it apart as well as put back together. I find them both difficult but understand what Lee means when he says the flattened tips make it so that it does not require 6 fingers to take apart the non truncat...

This puzzle is made by Lee Krasnow, Lee considers this puzzle a relatively easy puzzle as well as a very beautiful puzzle. The design is made using 6 woods for each face of the cubic design and one more wood for the interior or center of the puzzle pieces. It’s complexity lies in the ability of the puzzle solver to match up each of the six sides of the puzzle with the same woods so when the two halves of the puzzle are joined the matching woods compliment each other. This puzzle ...

This puzzle is made by Lee Krasnow, Lee has this to say about Stewart Coffins design "Design notes: this difficult puzzle consists of 12 pieces, ten of which are the same rotationally symmetrical shape. Of the remaining two, one is missing an end block (it's the key piece) and the other one has that missing end block augmented onto its side. They assemble into a symmetrical cluster, and although the shape is not obvious, it is not too difficult to figure out how the pieces ...

Like Stewart Coffin's Diagonal Cube, the external appearance of this puzzle deceptively hides its internal construction. It is similar to the Crowded Cluster, but uses rhombic pyramid blocks with truncated faces instead of prism blocks. The puzzle is made from three each of left and right handed pieces, which are color coded to ensure that only one solution has color symmetry. Assembly is fairly easy for anyone familiar with puzzles based on the Diagonal Burr. According to ...

This puzzle is a variation of the Diagonal Burr, however you wouldn't think so from looking at it. Like many of Coffin's designs, the six pieces of this puzzle represent a complete set of non-symmetrical permutations, and will assemble in only one way. Disassembly is possible on only one of the four-fold axes. This design is isomorphically the same as many of Coffin's other puzzles such as Augmented Four Corners and Triangular Prism, however the average person will probably have ...

The six pieces of this puzzle all have the same shape, but different arrangements of the four colors of wood. The pieces will assemble in many different ways to form the third stellation of the rhombic dodecahedron. It is essentially a third stellation version of Stewart Coffin's Nova -- the obvious goal with this puzzle is to get the same colored sticks to line up. There are other ways to put the pieces together with color symmetry as well. Disassembly is possible along any of the...

By lengthening the triangular stick segments of the Permuted Third Stellation, a puzzle that resembles a nest of triangular sticks results. At first glance one might expect to be able to simply pull one of them out thus collapsing the whole thing... not so easy! Comparing this puzzle to the Permuted Third Stellation, the additional length of the triangular stick segments eliminates one of the two solutions, and makes it so that the remaining unique solution is only able to dis...

By lengthening the triangular stick segments of the Permuted Third Stellation, a puzzle that resembles a nest of triangular sticks results. At first glance one might expect to be able to simply pull one of them out thus collapsing the whole thing... not so easy! Comparing this puzzle to the Permuted Third Stellation, the additional length of the triangular stick segments eliminates one of the two solutions, and makes it so that the remaining unique solution is only able to dis...

The Diagonal Star is a variation of the Diagonal Burr. All six pieces are identical. They are like the pieces in the Diagonal Burr, but with the ends beveled to an edge. The resulting shape is the first Stellation of a rhombic dodecahedron. It is assembled by making two subassemblies of three pieces each, and sliding them together. This design is very old -- nobody really knows who invented it. In Stewart Coffin's book Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections, he writes: Someo...

The Diagonal Star is a variation of the Diagonal Burr. All six pieces are identical. They are like the pieces in the Diagonal Burr, but with the ends beveled to an edge. The resulting shape is the first Stellation of a rhombic dodecahedron. It is assembled by making two subassemblies of three pieces each, and sliding them together. This design is very old -- nobody really knows who invented it. In Stewart Coffin's book Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections, he writes: Someo...

One of my favorite designs. These puzzles are examples of workmanship that I don't care if they sell, they are so well made it is WOW!

Crafted by Wayne Daniels, this interesting six piece burr can has six unique solutions and is the only notchable, voidless set that can be put together six different ways. It is marked "Interlocking Puzzles 2001". IP is out of business, and it is highly unlikely any more will ever be made. Woods used look to be: Walnut, Paduak, Maple, Mahogany, Pau Ferro and sappy Granadillo This item is on consignment and is being listed by me for an anonymous seller. I have it in my possession, ...

Lattice is Bill Cutler's earliest difficult-to-take-apart design

S/M 24 is a high-level solid notchable 24 piece burr. Very challenging!! Many moves to remove the first piece.

Bill says, "Helix the Burr Features the most interesting disassembly sequence I have created".

This is a tricky augmentation of a 6-piece burr, addingcubies to fill a 6x6x6 cube. It is difficult to disassemble, much less put back together! It is a level 10 puzzle...Buyer is responsible for paying 3% PayPal fee if paying via PayPal

Stewart Coffin's Four Color Nova puzzle (STC #8-B) made from Goncalo Alves, Yellowheart, Tulipwood and Tropical Walnut. Puzzle is from my personal collection.This is the fancy version with end blocks in four contrasting woods. Stewart only made three of these in 1987. There are three color symmetry problems to solve. The photograph depicts the "Rings" solution. A beautiful puzzle with excellent fit and finish. Puzzle made by me and has my signature.If the buyer chooses to use Paypal, then ...

This nifty puzzle was Rick's 2006 exchange gift. Very fun to solve. <br> Shipping cost will be calculated after the end of the auction. Winning bidder will pay the actual postage amount plus $3 for the first item and $1 for each additional item to pay for packaging costs. Please add 3.5% for paypal payment.