Mechanical Puzzles

Last modified January 8th, 2021
My etsy shop: PolyPuzzles
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	Comments
114	2021	Fun with Tops, Part 2
113	2020	Fun with Tops, Part 1	Design document
111	2020	The Progressive Pyramid Puzzle
110	2019	Rhombic Polyhedra Puzzles, Part 2	Supplemental material
109		Rhombic Polyhedra Puzzles, Part 1	Supplemental material
108		More Balls in a Box
106	2018	Hexagonal Ball Pyramid Puzzles	Supplemental material
101	2016	Clock Solitaire	Updated 2020
98	2015	Pentomino Case Puzzles	Solution notes
95	2014	Making your own Ball Puzzles
94		Pyradox: A Pyramid Packing Paradox
93		The Pennyhedron Revisited	Supplemental material
90	2013	Solving Jerry Gordon's Giant Pyramid	Updated 2019
87	2012	More Icosahedron Puzzles
85	2011	Five Intersecting Tetrahedra
84	2011	Sphere Octahedron Puzzles
81	2010	Classification of Polyspheres	Supplemental material
77	2008	Solving Puzzles using Maps	Updated 2014

Miscellaneous Documents

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])
Ball Puzzle Maker Links

Mechanical Puzzle Solutions

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

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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