Part 2 in Kagen’s Lotus Trilogy landed recently – another wonderfully handsome creation
to add to the collection.
He’s been
working on the series for years now, literally, and has somehow managed to find
the time to finish off the second in the series in spite of recently welcoming
his daughter, Helen, into the world.
Anyone
familiar with the first in the series will instantly feel at home: a series of
decorative rings on the top of the box combine to form stunning patterns
radiating out from the centre… the rings each contain the same repeating
patterns but their interplay produces wonderfully different patterns – fun to
play with on their own, even if you ignore the whole puzzle box thing
underneath those rings.
The box
arrives with a slightly (deliberately!) lop-sided flower design… start spinning
the rings and it quickly vanishes and then bits and pieces of potential pattern
come into view… as with the Lotus box, you’ll find that you can get some of the
rings to line up in a particular pattern, and then discover that the last one
or two won’t quite go far enough, so you head back to the start again.
There’s a
brilliant sequential nature to the puzzle – you start with the first clue to a
pattern, solve that one on the rings and it will unlock one of the four
drawers, giving you a clue to the next pattern, and so on until the fourth
drawer opens and Kagen’s branded limited edition numbering shows up on the
base…
I had a
wonderful time experimenting with the various patterns and can’t help but be
amazed at the designs that allow four very specific patterns to unlock their
respective drawers (re-)using the same set of rings over and over…
There’s
nothing to stop you from simply experimenting with repeating patterns and
seeing if they open a drawer – but you owe it to yourself to solve it properly
from start to finish… a real thing of beauty!
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