This puzzle in the form of a Tarantula is from the General Symmetrics company.

This puzzle in the form of a Butterfly is from the General Symmetrics company.

A golden metal puzzle from Japan. 6 pieces form a sphere. In original box with instruction leaflet

A metal sphere made up of 7 pieces.

Three puzzles with the same shape, different sizes (Mug, Standard and Demitasse). Enjoyable, flat put-together. Weighs 2.3 oz without packing.

3D Tessit-Hex, designed by Joseph Tamir, abt 1993. Get the pieces in the tray. A little tricky, but not terribly difficult.

All Tetra Stick - Osanori Yamamoto, Pelikan. Lovely, well made puzzle.

Anansi's Maze, designed by Pavel Curtis. This lovely acrylic puzzle was a good bit of fun to solve. Placing "all 12 pieces flat in the tray" is really not a puzzle at all; but putting them in so that the letters don't overlap is tricky. Then, figuring out the hidden message is also tricky. That leads you to the third puzzle. Anyway, the puzzle was a little journey of solutions, and quite satisfying; took somewhat less than an hour to solve. Impressive design from 2009.

A-Pack designed by Terry Smart, made by Eric Fuller. Get the pieces in the tray. Eric's description says that there's a level-12 sliding-around you need to do to get the first couple of pieces in position.

Put the 9 orange slices in the brandy glass.

Labysnakes design by Marcel Gillen, made by Alain Zalmanski and Gillen, put together 8 colored tricubes to make a 2x3x4 solid in 3 different ways with 3 different colored snakes. IPP 29 exchange.

Cube in Cube, by Constantin. Try to assemble the pieces inside the frame. Some tiny dings to a couple of the pieces.

SIX CUSHION SHOTThis puzzle was designed and crafted by Wayne Daniel, and was Marti Reis's IPP 32 Exchange puzzle. The object is to pack the 19 pieces into the small plastic cube. The puzzle design is based on the cyclic path of a virtual six-cushion shot inside the cube. It will be shipped in it's solved state and does include a description on the puzzle design and the representation of the ball bouncing around the virtual path within the cube, but does not ship with a solution.Shipping can ...

Twisted stainless steel band given out as an IPP11 souvenir by Tim Rowett. The goal is to make it into a double Mobius strip (Mobius strip with two thicknesses). In its current state the twisted band is not a Mobius strip.

Everlasting Gobstopper by Lee Krasnow. The puzzle is a sold-out, limited edition, #2 of 8. The pieces are etched with the type of wood (see pieces photo for an example). Similar to Coffin's Peanut, this can be assembled in many different shapes besides the one shown. Fit and finish is very good; all pieces grade A-C on Lee's quality scale. The first two pictures are from a recent auction by Nick Baxter. The subsequent two pictures show the puzzle's current non-assembly. I've been unable to r...

Oskar Van Deventer's puzzle made by Tom Lensch from woods which include yellowheart, bloodwood, bocote, maple.

Place the 6 pieces flat in the CD case tray. Unique solution.

"Make a symmetric, one band Celtic Braiding using all the 19 pieces." Although it looks like a jigsaw puzzle, it is much more difficult, given that the target shape is not known. This is a really nice puzzle and is rather heavy (around 1 lb or 0.5 kg, I would estimate). Comes with original instructions, no solution is provided (available upon request).

Described by Mike as the "de-luxe" version this is a clever packing problem in oak and wenge. Check out Mike's original comments at www.puzzzlevision.com

Eight double-sided pieces (four T-tetrominoes and four P-pentominoes). Pack them in the 6x6 tray to show a checkerboard pattern (panther) or stripes (tiger). Other challenges as described in the instructions. This puzzle is very well made out of three wood types. Includes original box and solutions.