Mechanical Puzzles

Last modified October 15th, 2024
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Contact email address: gibell-at-comcast-dot-net

Mechanical Puzzle Pages

List of my IPP exchange puzzles
Orchid Pennyhedron blog post (IPP exchange puzzle, 2014)
Lomino Cube 4 and blog post (IPP exchange puzzle, 2012)
Exploding Ball Puzzle in action (UTube video, 2012)
Screwy Octahedron aka Screwy Octahedron1 (IPP exchange puzzle, 2010)
Interlocking 20-Ball Tetrahedron aka Interlocking 20-Ball Tetrahedron1 (2009)
Nine Bed Nightmare aka Nine Bed Nightmare (2009)

Pencil and Paper Puzzle Pages

A 12-Loop 4 G4G12 (12th Gathering for Gardner, 2016)
Lominoes for G4GX (10th Gathering for Gardner, 2012)
Lominoes for G4G9 (9th Gathering for Gardner, 2010)
The mathematics of Septoku (2008) (a Sudoku variant invented by Bruce Oberg)
G4G8 Chess Conundrum (8th Gathering for Gardner, 2008)
Diagonal Peg Solitaire (7th Gathering for Gardner, 2006)

My articles in Cubism For Fun (CFF)

Most recent first ...

Issue	Year	Title	Pages	Comments
125	2024	Alphabet Stew	6	With Stewart Coffin and Dave Rossetti
124		Tetrahedron and Octahedron Puzzles	5 (20-24)	Supplemental material
123		Screwy Burrs	6 (c, 16-21)
121	2023	Experiments in Puzzle Destruction	3 (8-10)
121		Designing Chocolate Pack	6 (18-23)	Supplemental material
120		Coordinate Motion Puzzles, Part 3	6 (10-15)
119	2022	Coordinate Motion Puzzles, Part 2	6 (10-15)
118	2022	Coordinate Motion Puzzles, Part 1	6 (16-21)	Supplemental material
116	2021	The Ball Burr	6 (6-11)
115		Soma Gravity Puzzles	2 (26-27)
114		Fun with Tops, Part 2	6 (14-19)
113	2020	Fun with Tops, Part 1	5 (26-30)	Design document
111	2020	The Progressive Pyramid Puzzle	6 (22-27)	STL files
110	2019	Rhombic Polyhedra Puzzles, Part 2	5 (15-19)	With Stephen Chin Supplemental material
109		Rhombic Polyhedra Puzzles, Part 1	6 (16-21)	With Stephen Chin Supplemental material
108		More Balls in a Box	6 (20-25)
106	2018	Hexagonal Ball Pyramid Puzzles	6 (24-29)	Supplemental material
101	2016	Clock Solitaire	6 (4-9)	Challenge booklet, one page
98	2015	Pentomino Case Puzzles	5 (c, 14-17)	Solution notes
95	2014	Making your own Ball Puzzles	4 (30-33)
94		Pyradox: A Pyramid Packing Paradox	4 (10-13)
93		The Pennyhedron Revisited	8 (c ,4-10)	Supplemental material
90	2013	Solving Jerry Gordon's Giant Pyramid	5 (6-10)	Updated 2019
87	2012	More Icosahedron Puzzles	7 (c, 10-15)
85	2011	Five Intersecting Tetrahedra	3 (20-22)
84	2011	Sphere Octahedron Puzzles	5 (28-32)
81	2010	Classification of Polyspheres	7 (c, 18-23)	Supplemental material
77	2008	Solving Puzzles using Maps	5 (27-31)	Updated 2014
Total: 28 articles (2008-2024)

Check out George Sicherman's Contents for CFF 111 onward

Miscellaneous Documents

Designing the Trapdoor Octahedron Puzzle (15th Gathering for Gardner, 2024)
Designing a Flippe Top (14th Gathering for Gardner, 2021)
The Dynamics of Spinning Polyominoes (13th Gathering for Gardner, 2018)
Some Notes on Ball-Pyramid and Related Puzzles, Leonard Gordon (1986), 18 pages
[I scanned in this obscure document, adding a few comments in red.
Last modified: June 2014])
A Compendium of Polysphere Puzzles by Bernhard Wiezorke, August 1996, 64 pages.
Ball Puzzle Maker Links

Mechanical Puzzle Solutions

Spoiler alert!! Do not open solution links unless you want to see the solution!

Trapdoor Octahedron puzzle solution and YouTube video (2023)
Frankenstar puzzle solution (2022)
Housing Crunch Hint and Housing Crunch Solution and blog post (2015)
Tricky Dick Solution (2013)
Exploding Ball Puzzle, how to assemble (UTube video, 2012)
Three Piece Whatsit Solution, aka Tilted Cube aka Donz Q'b (IPP exchange puzzle, 2011)
Christmas Ornament Solutions aka Interlocking 10-Ball Tetrahedron and
Three Piece Octahedron (2010)
Teaser Balls Solution (2008)

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