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Topic: Recommend puzzles to collect
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Charlotte Hodgson
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Member # 1933
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posted March 08, 2012 10:37 PM
     
Hello all, I am relatively new to the world of puzzling. After stumbling across Oli's puzzle blog, I was inspired to try some puzzles, and now I am hooked. Some I remember from my childhood, such as 'Laby' and 'ABC' by Hanayama, although I doubt they were made by the same company. Initially, I bought a few from a local gaming shop, that I found too easy , and so I ordered a few online. Bought;
Mimi wire puzzle; brain twister
Enigma; Cross-Threaded (puzzle bolt)
Enigma; aMazing twins (same as Hanayama Cast Laby)
Eco puzzle; Bamboo burr style puzzle, like Japanese crystal Ordered; Japanese puzzle box (10 steps)
Hanayama; Cast Enigma
Hanayama; Cast Coil
Luban Lock; Torpedo
and....a Revomaze!!! (Green) I am very excited about the Revomaze, as they are reputed to be quite difficult, and I am hoping that the enigma is quite challenging, although I think that the Coil may be too easy.
After doing some research, and trying (not very well!) to stay in budget, I have my eye on a few puzzles; Aluminium cylinder, Washer cylinder, Concave and Convex Dovetails, by W. Strijbos
Writers block; Oskar van Deventer
Anything by Constantin, preferably Kugellager, Fat lock, Black jack, Labyschloss and Maischloss I am already addicted, and can see myself collecting puzzles for the rest of my life. My question to you all is what puzzles would you recommend that I start with?
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Carl Zebooker
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Member # 1893
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posted April 20, 2012 04:46 PM
Try a lot of things to learn what you like. Collect what pleases you. I'd love to work crosswords, double crostics, mazes, and otehr paper-and-pencil puzzles, but my blindness makes reading and writing so harmful to me that I have chosen to work mechianical, interlocking solid, packnig, and disentanglement puzzles because working them won't injure me; you'll find certain type of puzzles are fun and others are just a slog in deep mud. I cherish the really challenging puzzles I manage to sovle and hand the easiest ones to friends to have the (sadistic?) pleasure of watching them work at solving them. Eye appeal, hand appeal, and brain appeal are all factors in how appealng a puzzle is to me. What to collect is a puzzle in itself, and I am confident you will solve that puzzle.-------------------- Carl Zebooker
AKA Blind Grapefruit Fillmore
(I'm not kidding about my blindness; please keep it brief and cogent!)
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Aaron Davila
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Member # 1874
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posted April 23, 2012 02:43 PM
It is hard to recommend puzzles, they are all great!
Me personally, I enjoy burrs I have a decent collection ranging from 6 to 48 pieces and from level 4 to 152. One I have called the Ultraburr is a level 214 without rotations and is level 115 with rotations. Burr puzzles are my favorite, it seems the possibilities are endless a far a designs are. A few I have have hidden pieces inside that make the burr more difficult. I also enjoy maze puzzles. I have seriously considered the revomaze. As for the Constantin puzzles those are very fun! Good luck on your search! [ April 23, 2012: Message edited by: Aaron Davila ]
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