#141       LABYRINTH                                     £18.00 An exceptionally complicated 18 piece ‘non ideal’ interlocking burr puzzle. It can take weeks, months or even years to get it back together again.

#164       THE OLD MAN OF HOY 2                    £18.00
An 18 piece puzzle of even greater complexity than Labyrinth although it’s not as nice to handle due to the large number of internal voids. For serious puzzlers only


 

#165       KNOSSOS 2                                           £18.00
Want the ultimate challenge? Well here it is, the most difficult puzzle we make, an 18 piece burr that’s almost impossible. You’ve been warned!

 

#129       VEGA                                                £11.00 A 15 piece ‘star’ puzzle of intermediate difficulty.

#131       ALPHA CENTAURI                            £36.00  A giant 99 piece ‘star’ burr puzzle of great difficulty and beauty that makes a very attractive ornamental talking point. Complete with display base.

#166       BALL GAME                                           £9.00 
A very attractive six piece burr puzzle, that’s not too difficult, to build
into a ball.

 

#131       CAGE                                                  £12.00 
24 identical pieces make up a cage that encases a wooden ball. Simply take it apart, remove the ball and then rebuild the cage. This is a difficult puzzle and needs lots of patience.

 

#140       LOGJAM                                            £14.00 An eighteen piece jam of timber that can prove tantalysingly difficult to rebuild. Having five hands might help, if you can remember what it first looked like.

#142       THE HENGE                                       £36.00 A 36 piece giant mechanical Altekruse puzzle and one of the most difficult and beautiful that we sell. Supplied complete with display stand.

#143       ONYX                                                £7.00 A difficult minature mechanical  Altekruse puzzle made up of 12 identical pieces.

#160       BEER BARREL                                   £10.00 What, driven to drink? This beautiful 12 piece classic can prove a real test for those with a thirst for a challenge!

#167       BOXED BURR                                    £10.00
Attempt to remove the 4 pieces from the box and then replace them.
Unlike conventional ‘burr’ puzzles, the box prevents the puzzler seeing
the inner workings, making this design, based on an idea from Japan, a
lot more difficult than normal.
 

#144       LITTLE GEM                                     £7.00 A beautiful minature version of one of the most attractive puzzle designs known, 6 pieces ‘locked’ together into a wooden star.

#163       PORLOCK                                           £11.00
Release the large wooden ball trapped in the centre by unlocking the the 12 separate pieces and then attempt to rebuild it! An attractive and quite large puzzle that is more difficult than it looks.

 

#145       EXPLODING BURR                          £11.00 An unusual 6 piece ‘burr’ puzzle that tends to ‘explode’ apart unless you’re carefull how you pick it up. Supplied complete with display stand. A real brain teaser.

#147       WHITE MISCHIEF                            £11.00 One of the most difficult 6 piece ‘burr’ puzzle designs known, this one needs no less than 9 moves to release the first piece and a further 3 to release the second. Not for beginners.

#161       BANBURY CROSS                             £10.00
An superbly made, beautiful and very difficult, minature,  multi-piece
puzzle, suitable for the more experienced.

 

#130       SIRIUS                                              £22.00 A very difficult 51 piece interlocking ‘star’ puzzle the disassembly of which starts with a single key. Supplied with display base.

#133       TUMBLE CROSS                               £12.00 A 14 piece ‘Altekruse’ puzzle the pieces of which can be reassembled two different ways. The second which needs just 12 of the pieces is probably the more difficult.

#162       MUM’S LAYER CAKE                         £9.00
An unusual puzzle made from four differently shaped and colour
co-ordinated pieces, it has just one solution.

 

#134       PUZZLE POOCH                                  £9.00 Go on give the dog a home! A novelty puzzle pooch with an identity crisis. Take him apart and then return him to his loving owner, hopefully in one piece! Fun kumiki Puzzle

#135       PLANE CRAZY                                   £10.00 OK chocks away! But can you return it to the ground again in one piece. A low cost puzzle plane for fellow ‘Biggles’ fans. Fun kumiki Puzzle

#136       DOUBLE BILL                                   £12.00 Seven pieces in one box, providing just enough parts to build two of the most difficult ‘ideal’ 6 piece ‘burr’ puzzles known. Supplied assembled in the easier of the 2 puzzles this boxed set is sufficiently testing to stretch even the most experienced. A tribute to Bill Cutler

#164       HEXAGON                                           £11.00
A puzzle with an added slant. This thirteen piece piece construction is comparatively easy to separate into separate parts but much more difficult to rebuild than you might expect. 

 

#138       ROUGH DIAMOND                           £12.00 A superb example of one of the most intriguing puzzle designs known. Easy enough to separate, it may help if you’re ambidextrous when you come to reassembling it.

#139       CITADEL                                           £12.00 A very difficult seven piece, serially interlocking, cube, designed by Stewart Coffin (he named it ‘Convolution’) this is a satisfying puzzle and is extremely tactile when handled.

#148       MATCHBOX                                      £15.00 Designed by M. Oskar van Deventer, this unusual puzzle is made up of five different pieces that must be assembled together into one solid object any one of three different ways. Supplied unassembled.

#149       CAPPUCHINO                                  £10.00 Unlucky for some! A thirteen piece ‘ideal’ burr that can prove testingly difficult to rebuild once the puzzle has been separated.

#150       BY-JINGO!                                       £10.00 A miniature version of one of the most difficult interlocking puzzles known. Now even more testing because of its small size. Ideal for those wanting the ultimate pocketable challenge.

#151       CLUSTER BUSTER                            £7.00 Six pieces of timber ‘locked’ together, all we ask you do do is to take it apart and then rebuild it! Oh and no it’s not glued!

#152       TANGLEWOOD                                  £28.00 A tangle of 15 wooden sticks that the puzzler must first separate and then reassemble before the finished puzzle can then be returned to its display stand.

#153       DEADLOCK                                        £11.00 A very difficult 6 piece burr puzzle requiring 5 moves to release the first piece.

#154       SPAGHETTI JUNCTION                    £10.00 A 12 piece puzzle of traditional design. Over the years this puzzle design has appeared in many guises. Whatever shape it comes in though, the difficulty remains.

#155       BOX PUZZLE                                    £11.00 A 12 piece puzzle that is easy enough to separate but that can prove tantalysingly difficult to rebuild.

#146       COLOSSUS                                        £18.00 An extremely difficult 33 piece ‘giant’ ideal burr.

#137       KOH-I-NOOR                                    £22.00 A very difficult 24 piece wooden jewel. Supplied with a display base this is one of our most attractive and popular puzzles.

#156       GLOBE                                                   £9.00 An unusual 6 piece ‘globe’puzzle. Lets see how many times you need to go round the world before you reach your final destination.

#157       GALAXY                                              £22.00 A difficult and beautiful multi-piece construction enclosing a giant wooden nucleus. More like a construction kit without a plan than a conventional interlocking puzzle.

#158       HEDGEHOG                                        £11.00 A thorny problem! Taking it apart is easy but it’s a lot more difficult o return it to it’s original prickly state.

#159       GOLIATH                                             £13.00 A very difficult puzzle requiring patience and spatial awareness. A good memory comes in handy too!