Brian and Sue have now retired. Our last day of trading on this website was 21st December 2023. If you need to contact us we can still be reached via the Contact Us page or email directly to mrpuzzle@mrpuzzle.com.au    A few copies of Brian’s sequential discovery Abraham’s Well puzzle are still available for purchase but not online.  Click here to go to the Abraham’s Well post for details.   For a little while from February 2024 some of the last of our stock will be available at the Mr Puzzle eBay shop. https://www.ebay.com.au/str/mrpuzzleshop?_trksid=p4429486.m35 ..read more

A celebration of 30 years of making puzzles. Sequential Discovery puzzle designed and made by Brian Young Total number of puzzles to sell : 340 Sold so far : 150 This puzzle project was started back in 2022 and it’s not yet finished!  Brian has been steadily working on making the puzzles but hasn’t got to the end of the wait-list as yet; there are still a lot more puzzles to make.  Lifestyle changes are complicating progress too.  We decided to work part-time in 2023 then retire 21st December 2023.  Our Blog and Archive pages will remain but we will stop selling p ..read more

Made for Edward Hordern IPP Puzzle Exchange – Kyoto, Japan. August 2016. Presented by Lambert Bright. Designed by Junichi Yananose. Made by Mr Puzzle. 636 made. Now sold out. Added to archive. Original Price: AU$27.50 6 piece board burr. Unique solution. 2483 false assemblies. Junichi Yananose was the first puzzle designer to create a board burr way back in 1990. Eventually the board burrs were also analysed; work done by Frans de Vreugd and Bill Cutler in early 2002. This Holey 6 Board Burr II is one of the designs that came out of the analysis of another set of burrs that Junichi did in 2009 ..read more

Edward Hordern IPP31 Puzzle Exchange – Berlin, Germany. August 2011.  282 made. Presented by Brian Young.  Made by Mr Puzzle Australia. Designed by Brian Young. Original Price: AU$47.00 These puzzles have resold at Auction. Cubicdissection June 2017 USD 230.00. Haubrich Auction in January 2020 Euro 455. PuzzleParadise August 2020 GBP 1062 (that’s about AU$1920.00) and even higher on Puzzle Paradise in May 2021 for A$2400.35. Update 31st January 2021:  A non-limited edition brass version of this puzzle is now available here. The object of the puzzle is to free Houdini from T ..read more

They both look like puzzle locks. But are they really? They’re actually more closely related to the old Chinese Ring puzzle than a puzzle lock. They are n-ary puzzles, a specific subset of the sequential movement group of puzzles.  Many of these puzzles require a lot of moves to complete due to the recursive nature of the solution. But working out the pattern is part of solving the puzzle. Lock 250 (250+ moves) and the Void Lock (300+ moves) are both n-ary puzzles but are solves quite differently. But in both cases the solution would have two states equating to on/of or 0 and 1 like ..read more

Great puzzle bang for your buck. This one is pretty hard to work out.  And unless you really understand this puzzle it will probably be more challenging to put it back together than take apart. Designed by Jean Claude Constantin who has been inventing and making puzzles since the 1980’s.  He invents all his own designs. Often known to invent over 50 puzzles in a single year!  His work is very distinct and many puzzle collectors can look at a puzzle like this one and know that it is his design and manufacture. Many of his designs are eleborate and complex puzzle boxes but he’s st ..read more

Made for the Edward Hordern IPP40 Puzzle Exchange which unfortunately has not yet taken place due to Covid.  356 made.   Designed by Laszlo Molnar. Made by Mr Puzzle. February 2023. This puzzle is now SOLD OUT. This puzzle is likely to still be part of IPP40 if it happens. This information forms part of our IPP Archives. 5 pieces, each made from two joined diamond shapes. Two challenges. Two very difficult puzzles in one.   The 10 of Diamonds card was chosen for the puzzle because the pieces have in total 10 diamond shapes. The front of the 10 of Diamonds card has a rectang ..read more

The results are in and we’re very proud to announce that Brian’s Abraham’s Well puzzle was voted the Puzzlers’ Award in this year’s Puzzle Design Competition.  The win is made all the more meaningful because the voting for this award is by the puzzlers themselves. There were 66 puzzles entered in this year’s competition. Very special congratulations to our Aussie friend Juno who was awarded the Jury Grand Prize for his ingenious Mittan puzzle.  Well deserved.  Congratulations too to all the other Award winners.  The judges must have had a very tough time making their f ..read more

How great to see a new puzzle designed by Edi Nagata.   As early as 2001 Edi was awarded the First Prize in the inaugural IPP Puzzle Design Competition for his Arrow Case and he followed that in 2002 with the even harder puzzle, Polo Shirt Case, winning the Grand Prize.  That was one tough puzzle and caused quite a stir amongst collectors.   This puzzle’s many angles limit the movement of the pieces. Reminiscent of the Cast Coil also designed for Hanayama by Edi? You will need to use vertical, horizontal, diagonal and rotational movements to solve this puzzle. But in what o ..read more

Made specifically for IPP to represent the IPP logo in 2001. 180 made. Now sold out. Added to archive. Original Price: AU$80.00 Brian created a completely new burr design for IPP. The puzzle was not used as an IPP exchange puzzle. Just a fun burr to represent the logo.  It has 14 interlocking pieces and takes 13 directional moves to remove the first piece.  Brian also designed the original IPP Design Competition trophies. The basis of their design lies in this puzzle although a number of pieces have been changed to make it even more difficult. The puzzle is presented in Queensland Si ..read more