I'd long admired this design by Boucher, and finally got around to tracking him down and asking permission to make it. I'm so glad I did! It's really a great puzzle; even if you don't necessarily like packing puzzles you should give it a try. There are three solutions for packing all the wood pieces plus the metal dowl in. However, once you put the dowel in the hole, there is only one solution and it's very, very tricky.Construction of this puzzle is outstanding. The tray had to be very precisel...

Taken from Stewart Coffin's Ap-Art compendium:"This is the first in a long and seemingly unending family of designs that start with the basic Star geometry, with parts then added on judiciously. It is made in four contrasting fancy woods plus a fifth for the center blocks. Here in tulipwood, oak, purpleheart, and rosewood, with center blocks of poplar. When assembled correctly, each “corner” is one kind of wood. R indicates right-handed prism block (see Appendix). In the second drawing, the ...

Taken from the Pelikan website found here: https://www.pelikanpuzzles.eu/detail/euklid/?v=9c049173fad5Kevin Sadler wrote about it:“This puzzle by Dr Latussek is a masterpiece! It is not for the fainthearted because it is seriously difficult but the eventual solution is simply superb! Anyone who is interested in packing puzzles needs this in their collection and should expect to spend a very long time on it. It is a ‘straightforward’ packing puzzle where 7 blocks need to be placed into a b...