16 wood blocks make the usual magic square, the primary object of which is to arrange the numbers so all rows columns and diagonals total 34. However, there is a secondary objective which is to find a solution in each of the 12 "classes" of solutions; a class is determined by the different ways the solution can be arrived at in terms of the location of the groups of two numbers whose total = 17 (two of these classes have only 8 solutions each). Ca. 1970.Solid wood numbers 1.25 inches square and...

The box reads, "One Tough Puzzle." It's an edge-matching puzzle but the edges of each of the 9 pieces have two protrusions and two indentations in the form of card suits. 1987, Great American Puzzle Factory, licensed to The Missing Link Trading Co., UK.I ship internationally. All payments from outside the U.S.A. should be paid in euro to the PayPal address shown in the invoice (if your currency is not euro, it will be converted automatically). NOTE TO AMERICAN BUYERS only: Please pay in dollars ...

Standard pyramid puzzle with 3 wood posts that fit into a heavy cardboard base and 8 wood or pressed cardboard discs. Object is to move the discs, which start on one peg, stacked larges to smallest on top, to another peg, moving one disc at a time onto an empty post or on top of a larger disc. Great board illustration. "A Master Thinker Creation" from Sherm's (unmarked).I ship internationally. All payments from outside the U.S.A. should be paid in euro to the PayPal address shown in the invoice ...

Peg puzzle with nicely shaped purple pegs that fit into a heavy pressed cardboard base. Jump the pegs one at a time, ending with one in the middle. "A Master Thinker Creation" from Sherm's.I ship internationally. All payments from outside the U.S.A. should be paid in euro to the PayPal address shown in the invoice (if your currency is not euro, it will be converted automatically). NOTE TO AMERICAN BUYERS only: Please pay in dollars to this PayPal address: games@thebiggamehunter.com; if you wish ...

Peg puzzle with wood pegs that fit into a heavy pressed cardboard base. Puzzle booklet with 113 problems! Jump the pegs one at a time, ending with one in the middle. "A Master Thinker Creation" from Sherm's.1927, Lubbers & Bell Mfg. Co., Clinton, IowaI ship internationally. All payments from outside the U.S.A. should be paid in euro to the PayPal address shown in the invoice (if your currency is not euro, it will be converted automatically). NOTE TO AMERICAN BUYERS only: Please pay in dollar...

Peg puzzle with heavy solid wood board that has 4 hollows in the corners for holding the jumped pegs. (In the photo, an optical illusion makes the hollows look like mounds.) NO PEGS! Jump the pegs one at a time, ending with one in the middle. Instructions on bottom of box include 6 other Problems to solve.Board is nice. Box is pretty rough.I ship internationally. All payments from outside the U.S.A. should be paid in euro to the PayPal address shown in the invoice (if your currency is not euro, ...

Soli-Peg peg puzzle with nice illustration on the cover. Rosebud Art Co, ca. 1930s. Board is cardboard buildup with 2 metal cups as inserts to hold the pegs. Instructions and solution inside cover.Jump the pegs one at a time, ending with one in the middle. I ship internationally. All payments from outside the U.S.A. should be paid in euro to the PayPal address shown in the invoice (if your currency is not euro, it will be converted automatically). NOTE TO AMERICAN BUYERS only: Please pay in dol...

A dexterity game with "umping beans" -- weighted plastic capsules with ball bearings inside the make the capsule "jump" as you try to move them and get them into the holes. This is from the early to mid 1900s, manufactured by Doremus & Schoen & Co., New York.Photo of the box cover detail has been enhanced to show the illustration -- please check the other photos for a more accurate look at the condition.I ship internationally. All payments from outside the U.S.A. should be paid in euro t...

Pooh container for sandwiches or stuff is 5" x 5" and 2.5" deep. The puzzle part is the top: a simple 8-piece sliding block puzzle which forms the Winnie the Pooh bear watering his garden. The container comes in a cardboard sleeve. Nice Walt Disney product. Mint, unused, makes a good gift.I ship internationally. All payments from outside the U.S.A. should be paid in euro to the PayPal address shown in the invoice (if your currency is not euro, it will be converted automatically). NOTE TO AMERICA...

21 puzzles are packed into 5 envelopes which are spiral-bound in a book of puzzles. Unique -- from 1939. Many of the puzzles use the cardboard pieces to form a perfect sure. One puzzle is a Vanishing puzzle in which one arrangement of small squares = 17, but another arrangement yields 16 and still another, 15. There is also a tangrams puzzle called "The Seven Ha-Cho Tiles."The book's preface is by Broadway columnist Louis Sobol, and there is a photo of star of stage and radio Benay Venuta as she...

Each Cup a Soup package, produced by Unox in the Netherlands, had a different puzzle premium in the package. What you are bidding on here is one of the soup packages containing 6 of the nine available puzzles, all of them still sealed in their plastic bags. The puzzles include tangram-style Square, T, and #4 puzzles, a Variety puzzle package, an Alphabet puzzle, and a three-dimensional Cross puzzle. All puzzles are made of wood. No soup!I ship internationally. All payments from outside the U.S.A...

8 wooden 1"-long pegs sit in a wood log illustrated with two frogs. Object is to change position of the 4 pegs of one color with the 4 of the other color by jumping one at a time. Easy to do -- BUT can you do it in the fewest amount of moves?The puzzle is from the mid to late 1960s or 1970s (possibly as late as the 1980s). Instructions inside the lid. Nice presentation, excellent condition.I ship internationally. All payments from outside the U.S.A. should be paid in euro to the PayPal address s...

Tangrams-style puzzle with 9 wood pieces. Cute! Unfortunately, no instructions or puzzle images.The puzzle, in a slipcase tray packaging, is from the 1940s (if not earlier) or '50s and bears the logo of Marx Toys, as the company, Jaymar, was financed by Louis Marx.I ship internationally. All payments from outside the U.S.A. should be paid in euro to the PayPal address shown in the invoice (if your currency is not euro, it will be converted automatically). NOTE TO AMERICAN BUYERS only: Please pay...

10-piece puzzle in a heavy plastic hinged snap case. From 1950. Instructions give 4 puzzles: different ways to put the puzzle together so that the 3 different colors touch or do not touch one another. The presentation makes this one of the nicest of its kind I've seen.I ship internationally. All payments from outside the U.S.A. should be paid in euro to the PayPal address shown in the invoice (if your currency is not euro, it will be converted automatically). NOTE TO AMERICAN BUYERS only: Please...

Small sliding block puzzle from A.C. Rhodes in Clifton Springs, N.Y. Box is 2.5" square; pieces are wood, marked in red ink. A handy pocket piece.I ship internationally. All payments from outside the U.S.A. should be paid in euro to the PayPal address shown in the invoice (if your currency is not euro, it will be converted automatically). NOTE TO AMERICAN BUYERS only: Please pay in dollars to this PayPal address: games@thebiggamehunter.com; if you wish to pay through PayPal with a credit card i...

It looks like a standard dexterity puzzle, but it isn't. The object is to get the 3 black balls to one side and the 3 red balls to the other side, which of course is difficult or impossible since the balls from one side will move to the other side when you tilt the puzzle. However. there's a trick in the device. The black balls will stick to one of the two sides, after which you can tilt the puzzle the other way to get the red balls to the other side without the black balls moving. It's magic!I ...

Large sliding block puzzle with 31 numbers instead of the usual 15. Attached to cardboard sheet. Near mint.I ship internationally. All payments from outside the U.S.A. should be paid in euro to the PayPal address shown in the invoice (if your currency is not euro, it will be converted automatically). NOTE TO AMERICAN BUYERS only: Please pay in dollars to this PayPal address: games@thebiggamehunter.com; if you wish to pay through PayPal with a credit card in the USA, please add 3% and contact me ...

Large sliding block puzzle with 31 letters instead of the usual 15. There is no name on the puzzle, but it is the companion piece to the Puzzle of Numbers puzzle also in this auction. No cardboard backing, no instructions, no solution. It's a word-making puzzle -- can you figure it out?I ship internationally. All payments from outside the U.S.A. should be paid in euro to the PayPal address shown in the invoice (if your currency is not euro, it will be converted automatically). NOTE TO AMERICAN B...

Nice flying saucer theme and illustration in this 1957 ball dexterity 3" x 5" puzzle. There are 5 red and 5 white balls, and 5 spaces ("seats") on the spaceship, with 5 spaces surrounding it. Instructions say you can play it as a two-player game, each player taking a different color and moving until all seats in the flying saucer are filled, then score based on color.I ship internationally. All payments from outside the U.S.A. should be paid in euro to the PayPal address shown in the invoice (if...

This cardboard box contains a heavy wood put-together puzzle from the 1960s (could be '70s). 16 long, wavy strips of wood fit together to from a rectangular block 6" x 3" x 2". Half the pieces are red, half are white, and the puzzle is assembled so no sticks of the same color are next to one another and the ends look like a checkerboard. The puzzle is excellent, probably never used.I ship internationally. All payments from outside the U.S.A. should be paid in euro to the PayPal address shown in ...