Havana's Box #2
Updated: 2012-02-28 21:17:00
: skip to main skip to sidebar Brian's Damn Puzzle Blog A chronicle of my descent into the realm of the . puzzle-obsessed February 28, 2012 Havana's Box 2 I recently purchased the next box in Eric Fuller's cigar puzzle box series , called Havana's Box 2 : The Heather It is named after one of the part-timers that works at Eric's local cigar shop . Like its predecessor this box is crafted mainly out of quartersawn Sapele . It was available with either a Bleached Lacewood or Quilted Primavera veneer on the lid . I chose the lacewood since it looked nice I thought the Wenge veneer on Havana's Box 1 worked alright , but I'm a bit less happy with the Lacewood on Havana's Box 2. As with the Wenge , due to its thinness , it probably can't be sanded down to a nice smooth finish . As such , there
: skip to main skip to sidebar Brian's Damn Puzzle Blog A chronicle of my descent into the realm of the . puzzle-obsessed February 25, 2012 2012 New York Puzzle Party Part 6 On Sunday morning , I woke up a bit later since we didn't have anywhere to rush off to . After a quick bite of breakfast , we got right back to puzzling First I tried out this IPP exchange puzzle by Gary Foshee named Excalibur It is made out of metal , and has the unique appearance of sword stuck in a stone . I fiddled with this one for a while , the sword spins around quite freely , but not much else After a good 10-15 minutes of making little progress , something changed a bit and I tried to figure out what had happened . With a bit more experimentation and fiddling , I had the sword removed Does that mean I'm the
: skip to main skip to sidebar Brian's Damn Puzzle Blog A chronicle of my descent into the realm of the . puzzle-obsessed February 20, 2012 2012 New York Puzzle Party Part 5 Continuing where we left off in Part 4 I was hanging out at Brett's house after the New York Puzzle Party , working on some puzzles with Brett , Nick , Rob , and . Rick One puzzle that had me vexed for a bit was this Painted Lady Tavern Puzzle by Tucker-Jones House . I fiddled with it for a bit and ended up with a jammed up mess , but when I untangled the mess the ring came off That's can be quite a bad thing with this type of puzzle , since it is often hard to figure out how to get it back on After a while of trying , I didn't have any luck and asked somebody to look at the instructions and put it back , so I could
: skip to main skip to sidebar Brian's Damn Puzzle Blog A chronicle of my descent into the realm of the . puzzle-obsessed February 16, 2012 2012 New York Puzzle Party Part 4 After the actual New York Puzzle Party described in Part 3 Brett , Rob , Rick , Nick , and I headed back to Brett's house to continue playing around with puzzles . The NYPP event is fun , I really like just hanging out and trying out puzzles best of all First up , I tried a puzzle that Nick Baxter had just purchased from Will Strijbos at NYPP called Safe . It was designed by Jurgen and is hot off the presses The goal is to remove the coin , which is accomplished by moving the two overlaid mazes and shifting the rivets in and out . The mechanics are similar to Oskar's Medallion in that sense , but the coin adds an
: skip to main skip to sidebar Brian's Damn Puzzle Blog A chronicle of my descent into the realm of the . puzzle-obsessed February 15, 2012 2012 New York Puzzle Party Part 3 We woke up bright and early on Saturday to head into New York for the 2012 NYPP The event started at 9:30 AM and we wanted to make sure we got there a bit early in case seating was limited . Fortunately , this year the event was held in a large room with a good number of chairs set up to watch the talks and tables set up for buying and . selling Before the lectures started , folks milled about greeting each other and showing the various puzzles they brought . I saw a number of people that I knew from previous NYPP and IPP events , including Tanya Thompson , Saul Bobroff , Chris Morgan , Tim Udall , David Leschinsky ,
: skip to main skip to sidebar Brian's Damn Puzzle Blog A chronicle of my descent into the realm of the . puzzle-obsessed February 14, 2012 2012 New York Puzzle Party Part 2 When we left off in Part 1 I was hanging out at Brett's house on Friday the night before the puzzle party . There were plenty of puzzles to try , so I was having a grand old time . At one point we stopped for dinner : a magnificent spread of sushi from the local sushi shop . After that , back to the puzzling Throughout the evening , I had been working on Quickstep designed by Jeff Namkung and available through Richard Gain's Microcubology Shapeways shop . Check out a review over on Puzzle Mad What had me vexed about this one was that it seemed impossible to combine the piece on the far left with the piece in the upper
: skip to main skip to sidebar Brian's Damn Puzzle Blog A chronicle of my descent into the realm of the . puzzle-obsessed February 13, 2012 2012 New York Puzzle Party Part 1 This last weekend was the 2012 New York Puzzle Party , organized by Tom Cutrofello I had an awesome time last year so I was really looking forward to going again . Brett Kuehner was kind enough to invite me to stay at his house again this year , along with Nick Baxter Rob Stegmann and Rick Eason . Nick was actually in the Boston area to visit his son at MIT , so I gave him a ride down to Brett's place in New Jersey . It was great getting a chance to chat with him about puzzles When we got to Brett's house , Rob was already there and we started playing around with some puzzles . The first one that caught my eye was The
: skip to main skip to sidebar Brian's Damn Puzzle Blog A chronicle of my descent into the realm of the . puzzle-obsessed February 7, 2012 Reilly's Cube Reilly's Cube is a puzzle designed by Mike Reilly and manufactured by Creative Crafthouse The folks at Creative Crafthouse were kind enough to send me a copy to review . Thanks Photo by Mike Reilly The puzzle consists of eight blocks , each with three faces with a peg and a hole . The peg and hole can be in one of four different configurations . The goal is to assemble the cube such that all the pegs and holes fit together . Simple enough , right I thought so , and quickly dissembled the puzzle and expected to be able to put it back together without too much trouble . About 15-20 minutes later I hadn't made much progress : I kept getting
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