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The Stomachion: a 12 by 12 grid and the fourteen piece areas to scale

ストマキオン:アルキメデスの失われたパズル

A puzzle designed in the third century BC, erased in the tenth, recovered in the twentieth, and finally counted in 2003. Nothing else in the hobby has a history like...

ストマキオン:アルキメデスの失われたパズル

A puzzle designed in the third century BC, erased in the tenth, recovered in the twentieth, and finally counted in 2003. Nothing else in the hobby has a history like...

The seven tangram pieces: five triangles, a square and a rhomboid

タングラム:歴史、数学、解き方

The tangram is the most widely taught mechanical puzzle in the world. It is also, almost always, taught with a history that is not true.

タングラム:歴史、数学、解き方

The tangram is the most widely taught mechanical puzzle in the world. It is also, almost always, taught with a history that is not true.

An impossible object: an arrow through a block, too wide to have passed

インポッシブルオブジェクト:ありえない造形

Most puzzles ask you to do something. An impossible object asks you to explain something: not how to open it, but how on earth it was made.

インポッシブルオブジェクト:ありえない造形

Most puzzles ask you to do something. An impossible object asks you to explain something: not how to open it, but how on earth it was made.

A dexterity puzzle: ball bearings in dished depressions under glass

手先のパズル:頭ではなく手で解く

Every other mechanical puzzle is finished the moment you understand it. A dexterity puzzle is the one kind where understanding is only the start.

手先のパズル:頭ではなく手で解く

Every other mechanical puzzle is finished the moment you understand it. A dexterity puzzle is the one kind where understanding is only the start.

A handheld maze puzzle with a ball part way along a cut channel

迷路パズルとは:平面から立体まで

A maze on paper is trivial because you can see all of it at once. Take the view away and the same problem becomes something else entirely.

迷路パズルとは:平面から立体まで

A maze on paper is trivial because you can see all of it at once. Take the view away and the same problem becomes something else entirely.

A laser-engraved wooden escape-room puzzle box with a dial

クルーボックス おすすめランキング

iDventure make six escape-room-in-a-box puzzles. They look similar, cost about the same, and every one of them sounds essential. Here is how they actually compare.

クルーボックス おすすめランキング

iDventure make six escape-room-in-a-box puzzles. They look similar, cost about the same, and every one of them sounds essential. Here is how they actually compare.