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| P****r 50 | USD 187.77 | 04/12/2021 01:58:12 |
| s****7 48 | USD 177.77 | 04/11/2021 21:51:24 |
| T****a 5 | USD 167.77 | 04/11/2021 17:13:02 |
| s****7 48 | USD 160.00 | 04/11/2021 17:13:02 |
| s****7 48 | USD 157.77 | 04/11/2021 02:40:43 |
| t****n 136 | USD 147.77 | 04/10/2021 08:10:55 |
| s****7 48 | USD 140.00 | 04/10/2021 08:10:55 |
| s****7 48 | USD 137.77 | 04/10/2021 06:06:49 |
| t****n 136 | USD 127.77 | 04/09/2021 21:28:20 |
| T****a 5 | USD 120.00 | 04/09/2021 21:28:20 |
| T****a 5 | USD 110.00 | 04/06/2021 20:34:26 |
| W****I 101 | USD 100.00 | 04/06/2021 17:52:53 |
| T****a 5 | USD 95.00 | 04/06/2021 17:52:53 |
| T****a 5 | USD 82.00 | 04/06/2021 12:32:01 |
| t****n 136 | USD 77.00 | 04/06/2021 10:35:42 |
| T****a 5 | USD 75.00 | 04/06/2021 10:35:42 |
| T****a 5 | USD 65.00 | 04/06/2021 00:08:03 |
| W****I 101 | USD 60.00 | 04/06/2021 00:05:08 |
| T****a 5 | USD 60.00 | 04/06/2021 00:05:08 |
| W****I 101 | USD 46.00 | 04/06/2021 00:03:44 |
| T****a 5 | USD 44.00 | 04/06/2021 00:03:44 |
| W****I 101 | USD 42.00 | 04/06/2021 00:03:25 |
| T****a 5 | USD 40.00 | 04/06/2021 00:03:25 |
| W****I 101 | USD 34.00 | 04/05/2021 16:06:13 |
| f****s 78 | USD 32.00 | 04/05/2021 16:06:13 |
| W****I 101 | USD 0.01 | 04/05/2021 15:03:24 |
Markus designed this puzzle quite a while ago and I always liked the looks of it. Finally I emailed him asking if the design was free...and it was! One hitch though - there was more than one solution. I greatly prefer puzzles with a single solution, so I decided to enlist Tom Jolly to see if it could be modified into a single solution. Tom quickly determined that the original had at least 15 solutions. Both Tom and Markus subsequently went to work, both coming up with interesting variations. In the end we decided to make Markus's redesign of the original, but credit should also go to Tom, whithout whom this redesign very likely would not have happened.
The goal is to remove the pieces from the frame and then replace them. A maze is created by the surface pieces, making this a difficult puzzle to solve. It's basically an external iteration of the excellent "Square Dance" Tom designed later. Here is what Markus has to say about the design:
"On this page you can see my puzzle idea "framework". This is a kind of packing problem, in which it comes assemble into seven pieces in a wooden frame. But It have the parts "in itself" - or rather "in itself". For small squares and rectangles on the top and bottom of the seven basic elements are glued, making it difficult to insert the parts in the frame. The next figure shows a few parts that have been removed from the frame. One recognizes the additionally attached squares and rectangles on the bases with which the puzzle pieces into the frame, or can hook into other pieces of the puzzle. On the left side of the image of the stator can be seen, on which the puzzle can be inserted. There are many different ways to assemble the seven pieces of the puzzle outside of the frame to a square. But only one of these options can actually be built into the frame. This puzzle's really not for beginners!"
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