The Twisted Nail Puzzle is a classic, that has been around for a donkey’s age;probably ever since there have been nails around to bend. It’s so simple, it could be found as a “surprise” in a box of popcorn or a Christmas cracker. It can be bought alone and made of heavy, polished or stainless steel nails; or in a set of several lightweight wire material. An ideal puzzle to give to someone who is absolutely convinced they “could never solve a puzzle, so there’s no use trying”. Just to convince them how easy it is; [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Metal Puzzles

The Incomprehensible Cube is a twisty puzzle that will boggle your mind.  There is no discernable inner core.  You can stick an object through the holes and still turn it. Another great idea from Oskar van Deventer.

You can purchase Incomprehensible Cube at Shapeways.

Thank you Oskar for allowing us to use your videos.  If you would like to see more of Oskar’s videos, go to Oskar’s Youtube Channel.

Copyright (c) 2013, M. Oskar van Deventer.

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Category: All Puzzles, Rotational / Twisty Puzzles, Video Blogs

The denizens of Titan, which is Saturn’s moon, were a lived peacefully in homes made of straw huts – that is until the “space tourists” (humans) crashed through their planet’s rings, causing flaming asteroids to crash down on their homes. Now, all the Titans have created a humongous water cannon that they want you to man, in order to stop the spreading fire from consuming their homes.

The player adjusts the angle of a water cannon that is mounted on a crane in order to moves obstacles, fight fire, activate traps and spin wheels. There is no need to go [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Android Puzzle Games

The Cast G&G is one of the latest members in the vast Cast Puzzle family, just released in June 2013. Curiously enough, it’s not the first time Hanayama uses entangled letters for the theme of their Cast Puzzles. In fact, there are three other puzzles from Hanayama that also use letters: the Cast H&H, the Cast S&S and a slightly different Cast ABC (see PuzzleMaster’s version). Despite the fact that the Cast ABC has three letters, all of the above mentioned puzzles are comprised by only two [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Metal Puzzles

Cut The Rope is a puzzle game for both Android and iOS users. The premise of the game is Jon Om Nom (a cute little monster). At the beginning of the game, the monster arrives at the player’s doorstep wrapped in a box that has a “Feed with Candy” label on it. All the user has to do quench Jon Om Nom’s sweet tooth is to cut the rope and feed him candy; easier said than done since there are many obstacles and enemies that await you.

Some of the game’s main [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Android Puzzle Games, iPhone/iPad Puzzle Games

For a great science-themed puzzle game full of warm fuzzy try Nano Panda, the latest installment from Unit9 apps. Never before has physics been so cute and cuddly as pandas are shrunk down to nano-size in order to destroy evil atoms floating menacingly around their science lab. This game offers challenging game play and puzzles involving electromagnetism and gravitation while prompting the brain to push itself to new limits. The graphics give it a cartoon-type quality making each new difficult level fun and exciting to play.

Using magnetic powers, your pandas pull down the actual stars to destroy these [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Android Puzzle Games, iPhone/iPad Puzzle Games

1 x 9 by Jean Claude Constantin is a fascinating little puzzle. There are a few reasons for this, and if you’re a fan of packing puzzles you’re in for a real treat. Let’s start by its name, 1 x 9. It’s as simple as that, you have 9 distinct pieces arranged in a 3 x 3 one-layer frame and your task is to remove all pieces and pack them again so that all of the tray’s area is occupied without any empty spaces. This could easily describe a good portion of all packing puzzles out there, if we weren’t [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Wood Puzzles