Mechanical Puzzles

Last modified March 14th, 2024
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Mechanical Puzzle Pages

Pencil and Paper Puzzle Pages


My articles in Cubism For Fun (CFF)

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Issue Year Title Pages Comments
123 2024 Screwy Burrs 6
121 2023 Experiments in Puzzle Destruction 3 (8-10)
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 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 The Progressive Pyramid Puzzle 6 (22-27)
110 2019 Rhombic Polyhedra Puzzles, Part 2 5 (15-19) Supplemental material
109 Rhombic Polyhedra Puzzles, Part 1 6 (16-21)
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 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: 22 articles (2008-2023)

Check out George Sicherman's Contents for CFF 111 onward

Miscellaneous Documents

Mechanical Puzzle Solutions

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