tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13253211545177730602024-03-13T10:05:42.918+00:00Puzzling Times...the occasional ramblings of a bloke who enjoys being puzzled...allardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02137859069894390167noreply@blogger.comBlogger784125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325321154517773060.post-63128993067416537402024-03-03T14:15:00.011+00:002024-03-03T14:16:39.648+00:00Minima Series (#1-12)<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQEucDbaDFucHnUHVPv5EcBsQVqN8DTqHrUjjfNMNCKg1C32JekYi9ZtG46sVBxBGkTtHHsDWhMEzm7IQrmLpfsgbkxDqWSkzcvIUrYVpBB37T6tRr9k1eRvKl9JZk6Vf1h8s8BXXh4KOXvpyIy7Pn17J9gmtVbPZnO9CpHx0D_oInRRpKdyFZJeNoCCM/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1942.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="800" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQEucDbaDFucHnUHVPv5EcBsQVqN8DTqHrUjjfNMNCKg1C32JekYi9ZtG46sVBxBGkTtHHsDWhMEzm7IQrmLpfsgbkxDqWSkzcvIUrYVpBB37T6tRr9k1eRvKl9JZk6Vf1h8s8BXXh4KOXvpyIy7Pn17J9gmtVbPZnO9CpHx0D_oInRRpKdyFZJeNoCCM/w200-h133/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1942.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">This week, dear reader (for there can surely only be one!) I
bring you thoughts on a most excellent little set of puzzles – the Minima
Series, designed by Frederic Boucher and made by <a href="https://www.nothingyetdesigns.com/">NothingYetDesigns</a>. </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I missed out on these when they were initially put up for
sale (in my defence they didn’t last long!) so I was very chuffed when I
spotted a set on Puzzle Paradise at a reasonable price. One or two of my
puzzling mates had said some encouraging things about them so I was intrigued. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">NYD have done a great job of making up the boxes in frosted acrylic
– all neatly marked with their appropriate identifiers. The pieces are all in
their own little drawstring bags and there’s an instruction card for each of
the dozen little terrors. Most of the instructions just ask you to place all of
the pieces inside the box and remind you that rotations are allowed. (A couple
of the later puzzles impose some restrictions on where certain coloured blocks need
to be placed.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Diving right in, I figured I’d start at number one because,
clearly, that would be the easiest one, right?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">M1 has just three pieces to be placed inside the 2*2*3 box
(the boxes are all 2*2*3 – it’s just the openings that differ between them) –
the pieces take up 11 voxels so we have one spare voxel inside the box when we’re
done… given the shape of the openings, there’s literally only one place those
pieces can be inserted, sure there are a couple of places where a bit can be
temporarily parked outside the box, but they’re all going in through that single
little opening…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiITzlxIVKdaV4r4cfkdDPKfDyEuzB_b_L-XNyJ6jCO7tXZqnfLNd146kfXTHR19iannNVw9NhLnHx_iIAGFWlfD9_ZGO9O7CCXDmQI8JcE0BLdAGeZ4njLlgHk99sxy42o9tUXnkGXu9mgaQHm1TeGdaQuKb0-cxiWN6UKmASuvJuB9gwc-fIA3wsEKNc/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1944.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="800" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiITzlxIVKdaV4r4cfkdDPKfDyEuzB_b_L-XNyJ6jCO7tXZqnfLNd146kfXTHR19iannNVw9NhLnHx_iIAGFWlfD9_ZGO9O7CCXDmQI8JcE0BLdAGeZ4njLlgHk99sxy42o9tUXnkGXu9mgaQHm1TeGdaQuKb0-cxiWN6UKmASuvJuB9gwc-fIA3wsEKNc/w200-h133/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1944.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div>I end up spending some time thinking (literally) outside the
box while exploring the different assemblies that <i>might</i> fit inside the
box, and then trying to reverse pieces out of the way using the imaginary holes
in the right places… that doesn’t immediately lead to a suitable solution so I
go back inside the box and begin exploring all of the potential rotations that
might be possible with that combination of holes… and then some pennies start
dropping… and M1’s solved.<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A brief break to enjoy a little dopamine hit (hey, I’ve got
to take all I can get, this solving thing doesn’t happen that frequently!) and
I’m onto M2…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I make steady, albeit slow progress until I get to M4 which
proves to be a bit of a blocker for me… but that’s nothing like M8, it turns
out – that one keeps me thoroughly stumped for a long time – and it remains the
only one in the series that I haven’t solved for weeks.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">You’d think things might get a little samey after the first
half dozen or so – but they don’t – Frederic’s put together an excellent set of
challenges that never gets predictable – to the point that going back to the
start again a week or two after you’ve solved the lot of them will still
provide some amusement – and in my case – another serious challenge. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I really love this set of puzzles, and so far, everyone I’ve
inflicted them on has had the same reaction: “How the heck can this simple
little thing be <i>that</i> difficult?” </span></p>
allardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02137859069894390167noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325321154517773060.post-74290296840639710352024-02-24T12:13:00.003+00:002024-02-24T12:13:14.305+00:00MPP XXXXXC <div class="separator"></div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge4Cmu3QtgVXYBkY5HBRRAbHyIPugyDNKnI5skCb0YONzS2iRlgmtLJ42JCgCqY_okEA772o5g9dRATZNBKmNiLEtQh40gePyJXV79-hDymHMDcBHzXtnulurzKZCbvk4slRSSCe8Zv0yxRc5PArAwzo0zfY4KkzvMTSr0xMNbB3fxB8Tv2JBi2L1RYR0/w200-h150/IMG_4046.jpeg" width="200" /></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Yes – our fiftieth actual in person MPP! That’s pretty cool
for a bunch of guys who started getting together in my dining room because we
thought it’d be cool to meet up and share our puzzles with other nutters.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Louis and Mieke arrived on Friday evening fresh from an escape
room and a city tour of Oxford. After dinner we settled into some gentle
puzzling – Louis had brought over a copy of Michel’s new Mibinity puzzle so I
had to have a go at that. It’s a really neat little 2D n-ary design that’s been
beautifully made by Jack… I take all the pieces apart and examine them and then
realise that finding the right starting position turns out to be a bit tricker
than I thought it would be… it does go back together again reasonably quickly so that
others can have a play the next morning. </span></p>
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which I’ve managed to get into an awkward configuration, but between us we can’t
reset it so it stays in the “to be solved” pile.</span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Next morning we gather our bits and head off to the new
venue and try to work out where everything is. We find the tables well-concealed and Louis and I set about putting some out while the first few folks start
arriving. When I get back from the shops to collect some fresh milk (there’s
always a half empty somewhat sour bottle of milk in every hall we hire for some
reason) I spot a familiar old face we haven’t seen in a while – it's great to
see Chris after quite a long break. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjeKgIgcMstQ6lqWnO5emU2896PGWXd3lqvYj77opn_wDuTMKVIkSnNzvzNXErIcYT-QZOFHCoTr5K8Xa-dMwsx3x4cmY5CGb9FO2C2LIaIvA5cxXFDM-ZvXyclBvJ-19o3CuSBc1MmouBdJ5czoIxROSQKNZi7l0su4M5b2NlFPg3GhI4VJK5ajV24Cs/s800/IMG_4050.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="629" data-original-width="800" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjeKgIgcMstQ6lqWnO5emU2896PGWXd3lqvYj77opn_wDuTMKVIkSnNzvzNXErIcYT-QZOFHCoTr5K8Xa-dMwsx3x4cmY5CGb9FO2C2LIaIvA5cxXFDM-ZvXyclBvJ-19o3CuSBc1MmouBdJ5czoIxROSQKNZi7l0su4M5b2NlFPg3GhI4VJK5ajV24Cs/w200-h158/IMG_4050.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I’ve taken a few spare copies of Oskar’s Zigguchain, George’s
Trapdoor Octahedron and his version of Rik Brouwer’s tRIKube. Steve settles down
at the table and begins to assemble tRIKubes in the wrong colour combinations
and we end up jousting for a while as I try to disassemble them as fast as he’s
assembling them – in my defence, the fit is snug and getting a grip on the right
pieces is tricky… he tries the same thing on the Zigguchains but the odds are a
bit more in my favour on that one. I manage to get rid of all of the copies I’d
taken along and then realised I hadn’t kept a tRIKube apart for myself so end
up printing another copy on Sunday.</span></p>
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made little hardwood puzzles for Steve to dish out to all-comers – and he
kindly set aside a set of them for me… I say kindly – he gave me a pile of bits
and didn’t tell me what puzzles were in there… just an extra puzzle really.</span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">When Frank arrived, he set out a table of books from his
Potty Puzzles days and several folks ended up adding to their libraries… he
also brought along a couple of custom-made plush toys for the Two Brass Monkeys
– complete with their faces printed on the front…. Not at all terrifying for
any children who might chance upon them – no siree! They did generate an awful
lot of mirth in the room though… job done! :-)</span></p>
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themselves on (for science!) and many people had a bash with 7 people actually
recording a time (for science!) – the sheet ended up with some amusing answers
to the question of puzzle experience – among them “Yes”, “Rubbish at them!” and
“No, but lucky” – the latter against the best time of 51 seconds by one S. Nicholls…
I think my first attempt took more than 45 times that! (It’s true what they say
about my dimness…) </span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I’d also taken along my recently acquired set of Minima
puzzles and ended up encouraging several folks to have a bash of some of them –
they really are an amazing little set of a dozen puzzles where the aim on
almost all of them is merely to get a few little wooden bits inside an acrylic
box. When you hear they’re designed by Frederic Boucher, you’ll understand
these are quite challenging… there was lots of agreement about how weirdly hard
they were for something that looks like it should be so simple. </span></p>
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Tamsin decided that it would be wise to bring her daughters along for some
puzzling – they seemed to have a grand time, although that may have had more to
do with the hall’s wi-fi than the puzzles. Hopefully the puzzlers and their
plushies didn’t scar the poor kids for life!</span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Around noon we wandered up to the High Street for some brain
food – with pig rolls winning over kebabs by about 12 to 3 – we missed you, Ed!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVIMhf5Cl_QV_O2Ja0HlShR7OiwfBsZchdWTm2zQgsW5jR4-glXCx15MuGWZZokBHlprQBE0FvDGgWmmSxKW2wyOUb0b_Cxv3_GY6ozp4_7_K360IKYc72uZGjCmTpMosNpfham67Nl8p_YHU3X3azyD52NqITVZUNvVXe9NzEC3ChKVpfuG46Niw9r6o/s800/IMG_4052.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVIMhf5Cl_QV_O2Ja0HlShR7OiwfBsZchdWTm2zQgsW5jR4-glXCx15MuGWZZokBHlprQBE0FvDGgWmmSxKW2wyOUb0b_Cxv3_GY6ozp4_7_K360IKYc72uZGjCmTpMosNpfham67Nl8p_YHU3X3azyD52NqITVZUNvVXe9NzEC3ChKVpfuG46Niw9r6o/w150-h200/IMG_4052.jpeg" width="150" /></a></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">After lunch it was back into the puzzling – the Karakuri
Christmas presents had a pretty good playing with, with several opportunities
for answering the question “Have I finished?” with “Have you found the hanko,
yet?” – the answer was always “No…”, but they got there in the end. When you
know, you know. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I managed to spend a while chatting with Mikael before
foisting Mike’s 234 Cube upon him – and I know this makes me a really bad
person, but I was relieved when he didn’t just bang it together in a couple of
minutes – thank for making me feel a tiny bit less silly, Mikael! You’re
welcome back anytime! :-)</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPS8f7TAF3ZvMFtcMR0udnVtQMlyzENiBtGUWVxXhFGNlx4huHFlnra1qNbD70EjEg7UQtHdA3nkViou-DY9TYHM136ru-8EBbSyZrcLFEa4cLdw2BMxsJ6W3x9BpG3toPzbN_ZwW0o0WAa24yB1qWJPPKfFgUdIcv_aK-beGya1SA_P8lSljcS5UM9Jc/s800/IMG_4055.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="800" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPS8f7TAF3ZvMFtcMR0udnVtQMlyzENiBtGUWVxXhFGNlx4huHFlnra1qNbD70EjEg7UQtHdA3nkViou-DY9TYHM136ru-8EBbSyZrcLFEa4cLdw2BMxsJ6W3x9BpG3toPzbN_ZwW0o0WAa24yB1qWJPPKfFgUdIcv_aK-beGya1SA_P8lSljcS5UM9Jc/w200-h162/IMG_4055.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dan had brought along a couple of variants of GPK’s Numlock…
including a stupidly long version that will probably take a lifetime to open
properly – we don’t think he assembled that one “properly”…</span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Louis had brought along his copy of Mail Call and it got a
lot of attention – I’d had a chance to play through the first part of it on
Friday evening, before resetting it for folks on Saturday, and then on Sunday I
got to play through the last section. For my money, the first and last bits are
absolutely excellent – seriously good – and if the middle bit were a little
less complicated, it would be almost perfect… YMMV. </span></p>
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everything back more or less where we found it before heading up to the house
for yet more puzzling and the traditional fish supper, which didn’t disappoint.
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">After supper there was a lot more chatting and a bit less puzzling
than usual, although there was still a hardcore bunch who insisted on cramming
in as much puzzling as they possibly could – everyone seemed to be enjoying
themselves … and there was cake in honour of the golden anniversary. What more
could you want?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Another great puzzling weekend with my mates – awesome sauce!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhlW2hmitm31xpKG29aBM-45WHDXb7JgQRmEuOIHTaV_3sIHcLBeHr70C6_7vVaT-nQgG8U3RjdrVh9JLsXjAC7qg4Ik13d0QfC1r0FEpUysaf4_y4uje3UyHEbCMSr7ajjE7VcEHTTkpg0zFSyBrN3ZquoqirTOk_48-T8dDcngMxGY4vCmJJMr_IdMA/s800/IMG_4049.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhlW2hmitm31xpKG29aBM-45WHDXb7JgQRmEuOIHTaV_3sIHcLBeHr70C6_7vVaT-nQgG8U3RjdrVh9JLsXjAC7qg4Ik13d0QfC1r0FEpUysaf4_y4uje3UyHEbCMSr7ajjE7VcEHTTkpg0zFSyBrN3ZquoqirTOk_48-T8dDcngMxGY4vCmJJMr_IdMA/w300-h400/IMG_4049.jpeg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fun, Fun, Fun!<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2OM_ewskfALeazzv20XRUXSFz6dSaTWIOZEEu94PPacC6w4txLlvQKoXfe7mi93mPi6VZnpLGwZYZN9XmUonyTgZb37weL1KIMYfejsRUYZpJ7A5nV8_OG1h7iwb13K9mfsKlMp_FELz9j8R4T2M4M7qdvnMxUEFLG9zHcBKTnV0KIYVJ1nqHXepebx4/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1928.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="611" data-original-width="800" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2OM_ewskfALeazzv20XRUXSFz6dSaTWIOZEEu94PPacC6w4txLlvQKoXfe7mi93mPi6VZnpLGwZYZN9XmUonyTgZb37weL1KIMYfejsRUYZpJ7A5nV8_OG1h7iwb13K9mfsKlMp_FELz9j8R4T2M4M7qdvnMxUEFLG9zHcBKTnV0KIYVJ1nqHXepebx4/w200-h153/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1928.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Some folks who know me think that I’m a completist, and I do
like a nice set of things… and if they happen to look really good together, AND
happen to be excellent puzzles, then I’m a bit of a sucker for them…</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.demonticon.com/">Radek and Doog’s collection of Demonticons</a> has been steadily
growing in a corner of my <a href="https://en.rademic.cz/">Rademic</a> shelf over the past few months and the
announcement of Scarlett produced a predictable order from Barnt Green.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Scarlett is a delightful shade of, err, scarlet and she
looks suitably goofy with some seriously exaggerated eyelashes on one side,
and, err, not on the other. The supercilious grin invites you to come and have
a go (‘cos of course you think you’re hard enough!). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">One thing is very clear from the off, there is a lot going
on inside there – something that a casual shake will confirm before you even
try anything! If you’ve spent any time with the earlier Demonticons, there are
a couple of things you’ll try to get things going, and some of them may well
appear to be useful… but they won’t get you very far at all. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBFHPlWJs2AI2ue3JREltkvTC26-IjIpB5VKlz8SdtrjnXB9bylGux11lnnELjkpV6Os3MESBscz6ftL-Nt3b6stN_qDh9m9pOrx65Vb0qyETyhdsAEkLG0NPUaYZE87dpKyUbsIw13_tUffteHy5yIC9ptRzDFgVUX1OXFrl8roUzybzcoA48oiOaj7A/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1929.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="800" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBFHPlWJs2AI2ue3JREltkvTC26-IjIpB5VKlz8SdtrjnXB9bylGux11lnnELjkpV6Os3MESBscz6ftL-Nt3b6stN_qDh9m9pOrx65Vb0qyETyhdsAEkLG0NPUaYZE87dpKyUbsIw13_tUffteHy5yIC9ptRzDFgVUX1OXFrl8roUzybzcoA48oiOaj7A/w200-h133/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1929.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">From here on you’ll need to summon your wits and your puzzle-solving
(and potentially adjacent!) skills if you’re going to make any progress
whatsoever. The guys have given you enough clues to be able to work out what
you probably want to – if you’re paying attention – and then it’s all down to
you to execute… </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Scarlett’s backstory tells you that she’s in the fashion industry
and challenges you to find out what’s she’s working on when you get inside. Once
again, there are some excellent easter eggs to reward the solver – I thought
Zak’s easter egg was really cool and on theme – this one’s even better! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I love the fact that these puzzles look great on the outside,
provide a decent challenge and then give you an extra reward when you finally
crack them open. Once again, the machining and finish is seriously top-notch,
but then you wouldn’t expect anything less from Doog and Radek, would you? </span></p>
allardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02137859069894390167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325321154517773060.post-27001718203722480002024-02-10T12:43:00.001+00:002024-02-10T12:43:19.289+00:00234 Cube Puzzle<p></p><div dir="ltr">
<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqLR8DVJDgDEeYNusGOwOBA4h7YV175r5jFuJpcpHH4kUixb4yv5VEXoLmyyphXeufJOs-rT8_bVMIWaurfaXY4w-n3qosZuwZ__wcorTfhfG2zEeirU5FOlGHLC052ZajBVBNbjuIDw-JBPIw4UwVilKPF9-6oV1Q4zRVZjtUS-pkFNh03SbCwMe0Av8/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1940.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="800" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqLR8DVJDgDEeYNusGOwOBA4h7YV175r5jFuJpcpHH4kUixb4yv5VEXoLmyyphXeufJOs-rT8_bVMIWaurfaXY4w-n3qosZuwZ__wcorTfhfG2zEeirU5FOlGHLC052ZajBVBNbjuIDw-JBPIw4UwVilKPF9-6oV1Q4zRVZjtUS-pkFNh03SbCwMe0Av8/w200-h168/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1940.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Just before Christmas I had an email out of the blue from Mike
Toulouzas asking to confirm my address, which was a bit strange as I
wasn’t expecting anything from him at the time. We confirmed that he had
the right address, and when I asked him why he needed it, he was a
little evasive and just said he wanted to send me something… errm, OK. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;">A few weeks later a neat little package arrived courtesy of Royal
Mail and Hellenic Post… as I unwrapped the carefully packaged puzzle I
found that Mike had been incredibly generous - nestled in a bubble wrap
cocoon is a gorgeous little wooden box, complete with a large wooden
hinge securing a lid in place. Open the lid with a little click and you
find a bunch of multi-coloured cubies looking up at you begging to play…</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;">As luck would have it I didn’t have time to play that evening, so I
dashed off a quick email to Mike to let him know his gift had arrived
safely and that it looked stunning… and then left it on the desk for a
couple of days until I had some time to play…</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtMqarCq117TAEfL88fBVdLfHyAztl9gShXi_t2WPBU4i_nVVVAHMn9AENS2FboKmArxujPD7grsN4FnlLRxAncnNp6p20UeeLWXLR7N105sU-qRHRFsL0SRTvTK2pKpmJ4sCJaEeDSCeXXY3Xrt1oU8ez1U1sBzGZvrYbrKp4DIIATo04iR7Q8NcBzac/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1938.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="800" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtMqarCq117TAEfL88fBVdLfHyAztl9gShXi_t2WPBU4i_nVVVAHMn9AENS2FboKmArxujPD7grsN4FnlLRxAncnNp6p20UeeLWXLR7N105sU-qRHRFsL0SRTvTK2pKpmJ4sCJaEeDSCeXXY3Xrt1oU8ez1U1sBzGZvrYbrKp4DIIATo04iR7Q8NcBzac/w200-h153/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1938.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div>A couple of days later I tipped out the pieces and set about trying
to assemble a 3x3x3 cube - there’s a cubie attached to the inside of
the box in case you’re concerned that 2x2x7 <> 3x3x3. You have six
pieces ranging from a simple domino up to a rather odd 7-cubie shape…
in fact, the pieces step up nicely and form a set of 2,3,4,5,6 and 7
cubies… which is interesting…(c)LB.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;">OK, so you’ve got six pieces and you’re “only” trying to build a
3x3x3 cube…. and what’s more, you’ve got some pretty simple pieces that
should make finishing off the construction pretty trivial… right?</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Wrong!</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;">It turns out that your brain is going to seriously get in the way of your solving this puzzle… </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mike had asked me to time myself on my first three solves, so I
sort of felt obliged to tell him him just how long it had taken me to
assemble this cube the first time… and it was embarrassingly long!</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5q_LdC3na2ZE9mIv8cYXzqbza2ftTpAkGtyGu0Ds9OkmqwDupsJRoGcBZT7qsU-El8QPTtfyxiOLDqzYp_1GxS6PQ0dDlrHiJbuc4jawhNw-fOnExoM_NN1jenf4f8owKN_spYkifAhzr2DwTiMyK4mosdlBYbqOcqdXXjk3j2f2bgByLxFHqAAYxstU/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1941.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="800" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5q_LdC3na2ZE9mIv8cYXzqbza2ftTpAkGtyGu0Ds9OkmqwDupsJRoGcBZT7qsU-El8QPTtfyxiOLDqzYp_1GxS6PQ0dDlrHiJbuc4jawhNw-fOnExoM_NN1jenf4f8owKN_spYkifAhzr2DwTiMyK4mosdlBYbqOcqdXXjk3j2f2bgByLxFHqAAYxstU/w200-h133/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1941.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div>I thought I’d learnt from my mistakes the first time around when I
tried it a second time, but it still took me longer than I’d care to
admit and it was only when I did it a third time that I felt I achieved
something I wouldn’t have been embarrassed by, had it been my first
attempt! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">That set of pieces seriously messes with your head and makes
you do exactly the wrong thing and without fail you’ll end up over and
over with holes that don’t match up to the piece that you have left in
your hand. I lost count of the number of times that I ended up with
three holes in a straight line on my assembly while I stared at a
v-shaped tri-cube in my hands.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I’m looking forward to inflicting this one on the MPP gang in a
week's time and while I’m sure they won’t take nearly as long
as I did the first few times, I know they’ll get a kick out of it…</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thanks so much Mike - that was an incredibly generous gift…</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">PS <a href="https://www.puzzlemad.co.uk/2024/02/mike-makes-me-feel-foolish-and-happy.html">Kevin</a> had a similar experience to me, except he managed to solve it a LOT faster than I did! :-) <br /></span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdXZB3r4peOHlLoR3r85DKOWkEpRnuWcpN1stk5Kc77FmXPDZ_8VfnXZRaqFIiz9PdDUtsYofDlxNeGGtm5jQ6J51_ZftmVFdxqIiYxoNdLAxhVXOHDV4LeqCwW8R9gLX4y19fzRqXvS0UgsbwPNmUeW_hwH7JsrydK-_ULbJXi3I3y5KDVPPFPXCZhJA/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1909.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="771" data-original-width="800" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdXZB3r4peOHlLoR3r85DKOWkEpRnuWcpN1stk5Kc77FmXPDZ_8VfnXZRaqFIiz9PdDUtsYofDlxNeGGtm5jQ6J51_ZftmVFdxqIiYxoNdLAxhVXOHDV4LeqCwW8R9gLX4y19fzRqXvS0UgsbwPNmUeW_hwH7JsrydK-_ULbJXi3I3y5KDVPPFPXCZhJA/w200-h193/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1909.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div>A while back I received an email out of the blue from
Fabien Wirig. He described himself as an aspiring puzzle designer and was
looking for some thoughts on a new puzzle he’d designed. While I was delighted
with the approach, I was also more than a little surprised given that I really
don’t consider myself an expert on either solving or designing puzzles (albeit
I am an enthusiastic hoarder!), so I did what I thought was the most sensible thing
and replied saying that I was flattered, but that he’d be far better off
seeking the counsel of my mate Louis who is both a far better solver than me, and a
proficient puzzle designer… but when Fabien admitted that he’d already sent a similar
email to Louis and he was on board, I signed up to help as well. </span><p></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A few days later I received a little package in the post
containing a prototype of Fabien’s sequential discovery puzzle called “Pick Me”
– which gets its name from the grinning alligator guitar pick trapped inside,
begging to be freed. The puzzle’s been very nicely 3D printed and it’s a really
convenient size for leaving in a pocket and fiddling with whenever you feel the
urge. Most sides have something interesting on them, be that some sort of
button or slider or window. The bottom has some intriguing glyphs neatly embedded
in the 3D printing (cute touch!) and the sides have a nice grippy surface
texture – Fabien’s clearly thought a lot about this little package!</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There’s a lot to explore when you start out – there are all
sorts of things that look interesting and some yield some sort of reaction
almost immediately… albeit most aren’t quite ready for you yet. It’s definitely worth
looking at every little detail very carefully – there is ultimately <b><i>a lot</i></b>
going on in there. </span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV2LVpncQlyt2272MnoJe35xueD1ZAwYkB6OJqPmBtTsq8SWhZYyTGPmcKnIrrT61qVVRAeXsc037BJibeziOwbL_xDopTK7oIHPZ_m4ZCVq7Qtqj5MLxlgJHfbC-Eg2jaR4yJmxtzAZUQPdh71R5Pe3MxS8TqTRYZpXp8m2l15neKWmp8tbnCATnmqk4/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1915.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="800" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV2LVpncQlyt2272MnoJe35xueD1ZAwYkB6OJqPmBtTsq8SWhZYyTGPmcKnIrrT61qVVRAeXsc037BJibeziOwbL_xDopTK7oIHPZ_m4ZCVq7Qtqj5MLxlgJHfbC-Eg2jaR4yJmxtzAZUQPdh71R5Pe3MxS8TqTRYZpXp8m2l15neKWmp8tbnCATnmqk4/w200-h197/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1915.jpeg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Once you find the first figurative thread to tug on, you’re
rewarded with a little tool and that leads to some interesting new games to
play… although further progress will definitely require a bit of thought. The
first time I solved this puzzle it took me several sessions over a couple of
days, <i>and</i> a nudge from Louis!</span><p></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Along the way you’re rewarded with a few more tools and at
least one really surprising mechanism – there’s a delightful little moment when
a little bit of magic pops up – I love that bit!</span><p></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">When you’ve got a few tools, things really get interesting as
you work through a number of different little challenges. I love the way that some
things that have been staring at you all along suddenly become far more
interesting when you look at them in a different (figurative) light – the
interactions between all the little bits are excellent, and sometimes very confusing,
and at times you’ll be convincing yourself there are stacks of red herrings
dotted around, only to realise your mistake in the next stage of the solution. </span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">When you finally get to release the pick, take a moment to
appreciate the engraved congratulatory message (another cute touch) and the serial
number on the back of the pick – Fabien’s done a really great job on this one…
and I told him so a couple of days after I received it. I also told him I don’t
think he’s an aspiring puzzle designer – I think he’s already proved he’s a
great puzzle designer, he just needs to let more people get hold of his puzzles
now…</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Several months later a second iteration arrived that looked a little sharper and had some internal modifications to make things a bit more robust, but Fabien was still not ready to release his new baby to the wider world - I thought it was great...</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLYyyx_11s_TwZCajGp38GQWu2-owaH2JZpPtaLWKEC_XtYoKfxSSUk4XciDCh9noWlf0mOjaLwVHN9h4i0scA1K-RCSJ1yuepdzSFiuYpw7HI_mocntPMWkgBUFlmkR6p2yO9TrH2pbFulwnvwN8SppjYrrty08ldCYH29Y3avKiqrwN5pj7ucKCRTf8/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1905.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="623" data-original-width="800" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLYyyx_11s_TwZCajGp38GQWu2-owaH2JZpPtaLWKEC_XtYoKfxSSUk4XciDCh9noWlf0mOjaLwVHN9h4i0scA1K-RCSJ1yuepdzSFiuYpw7HI_mocntPMWkgBUFlmkR6p2yO9TrH2pbFulwnvwN8SppjYrrty08ldCYH29Y3avKiqrwN5pj7ucKCRTf8/w200-h156/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1905.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Fast forward an even longer while and Fabien was excitedly back in touch with news that he thought it was ready now - Pick Me #12 duly arrived in the post and it really looks the part - body is now a matt black with gold writing on the top and those glyphs on the bottom now look even sharper... the mechanics are really reliable (to the point that at one stage I thought they weren't, only to realise I'd been caught out by Fabien's trickery) and there are some helpful visual clues to show you progress... it's begging to be played with now. <br /></span><p></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">…if you want a copy of this little wonder, please reach out to Fabien (SelkisFR on the Mechanical Puzzle Discord) and he'll sort you out... </span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This one keeps on bringing new challenges to the table – I defy
you not to be impressed by the ingenuity inside this little pocket-sized
puzzle. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">[In the interests of full disclosure - Fabien wouldn't let me pay for the (three!) prototypes I received, but I'm in the queue for a bunch of copies for some friends I thought would really get a kick out of it - that's how impressed I was with it!]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX_VYgR0tJJynD7IbJZfW0T2HgL5JxC1p5io2pL4IFlin8B9QGUAri9NztRUGEbRF2zs3f-2eO_Yd8Vh8iqbyuWSLDwxeLpZeBJ9dr1BKI_xiOrrFAdYrERiCaqvVXQcsJSPahtYameFCw02hOrGT2X6KX75jIJFDZQVpb-S_om6iBbCCxqdxejpWbEYY/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1666.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="800" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX_VYgR0tJJynD7IbJZfW0T2HgL5JxC1p5io2pL4IFlin8B9QGUAri9NztRUGEbRF2zs3f-2eO_Yd8Vh8iqbyuWSLDwxeLpZeBJ9dr1BKI_xiOrrFAdYrERiCaqvVXQcsJSPahtYameFCw02hOrGT2X6KX75jIJFDZQVpb-S_om6iBbCCxqdxejpWbEYY/w200-h133/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1666.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I managed to miss out on Andrew Crowell’s TIC Vault when it
was first released, but I certainly took notice when it garnered a jury honourable
mention at this year’s Puzzle Design Competition… so when Andrew offered some
copies for sale I didn’t hold back and one duly arrived at Puzzling Times HQ a
little while later. </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It’s a very handsome puzzle that speaks of a man who has not
only designed some rather good-looking puzzles, but also one who has seriously
mastered his 3D printer(s)! The quality of the printing is excellent with “inlaid”
text on the base and logos all around the sides… it’s a good-looking piece of
puzzle!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Initially the interesting bit appears to be the top with some
semi-exposed pieces that look like they might make up a 4*4*4 cube… only they
appear to be rather trapped in place. They’re in the centre of a red ring, that
rather teases some interesting movements may be lurking in our future, but
certainly not yet! Tipping things upside down reveal that the grey bits of the
cube want to come out of their retaining frame, but they just won’t for some
reason…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">That, and not a lot else is pretty much where we start… and
as it turns out more or less where I stopped for a couple of weeks of gentle
fiddling… I got nowhere!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbO9E78oHLyp3Gas_TN7JqXhQU_pVxkfHQqnTMA0dXhcFDf-RU45Ubd5xENgVmYR8p9ebPrBeXnywePt3W8dUOh1kBTVOwJHbZYgsnfMV6-yIm84r0KO0h1JdOBpgCLuzQ4d0HuywTZZ73mfnTzlQ68b0FOmJFlGCypjbLUflLpzQ373D2IlJ5B20suo8/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1667.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="800" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbO9E78oHLyp3Gas_TN7JqXhQU_pVxkfHQqnTMA0dXhcFDf-RU45Ubd5xENgVmYR8p9ebPrBeXnywePt3W8dUOh1kBTVOwJHbZYgsnfMV6-yIm84r0KO0h1JdOBpgCLuzQ4d0HuywTZZ73mfnTzlQ68b0FOmJFlGCypjbLUflLpzQ373D2IlJ5B20suo8/w200-h134/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1667.jpeg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">After a little Think(c)ing I managed a little bit of
progress and then found myself up against a different little brick wall… albeit
by now I was seeing why so many of my mates had been recommending it and why it
had been singled out in the Design Competition. This one’s special. </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I didn’t get a lot more time to fiddle with it until I took
it along to the last MPP where I was determined to make some more progress… it
turned out there were a lot of TIC Vault fans there and I got all sorts of
encouragement to solve it… and I really enjoyed the journey – right from the initial
discovery that evaded me for so long, through the progressive unravelling of
things and the gradual dawning of what was happening and then just what the endgame
might entail, through to seeing the little bit of magical mechanical wonder as
things finally unlocked and presented me with my treasure for the day.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It really is an excellently puzzling journey of discovery
with several delightful moments along the way. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Resetting the puzzle for the next victim isn’t too
challenging but does require a little thought…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Andrew’s managed to build a wonderful sequential discovery
puzzle around a well-disguised TIC (even if the clue’s there in the name all along!)
… and the jury were spot on to honour his design – it’s great!</span></p>
allardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02137859069894390167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325321154517773060.post-31271148846596813302024-01-14T20:48:00.002+00:002024-01-14T20:48:56.373+00:00Brass Monkey Sixential Discovery [BM6]<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKb90EHd77g-EgPnKTx94lNFlRSmyMeygFETUHC5fvVhQY6vub3PFY8dZuRR2Ld7HZ9mQwb9JVALhC7GFRtiBSfe5qo5N_v2BL4sodDcz87zkUasd5LKjFueAeqyGqjaxv0ujmsCkp22tikUSMPI14_oLEiFtqLN0dWV2JXbNbm3GuxRihvGlre9_N2hk/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1734.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="800" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKb90EHd77g-EgPnKTx94lNFlRSmyMeygFETUHC5fvVhQY6vub3PFY8dZuRR2Ld7HZ9mQwb9JVALhC7GFRtiBSfe5qo5N_v2BL4sodDcz87zkUasd5LKjFueAeqyGqjaxv0ujmsCkp22tikUSMPI14_oLEiFtqLN0dWV2JXbNbm3GuxRihvGlre9_N2hk/w200-h150/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1734.jpeg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">The daddy has arrived. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">For five years now <a href="https://twobrassmonkeys.com/">Steve and Ali</a> have been bringing us an evolving
series of puzzles - all with precisely the same form factor. In fact, if you
just glanced at them, you’d probably think they were all the same thing… spend
a little time with them and it immediately becomes apparent that they’re very
different!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">There was the simple standard burr, the one that reminded me of another
entire series of puzzles, the one that seemed to be welded together, the one
that made you laugh out loud, and now there’s this one… the one entire series
has been building up to: Brass Monkey Sixential Discovery is, in my humble opinion, the daddy!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Aside from the marks to identify the number in the series on the ends,
this one looks exactly like every other BM in the series… same size, weight and
appearance…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">The solve on this one is something else entirely – there’s a clue in the
name - this one is a rollicking ride through some new uncharted sequential
discovery territory - this is some next-level prize-winning stuff… and if I was
on YouTube you’d probably all be accusing me of being too click-baity… but
trust me on this one.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">My first acquaintance with this puzzle came through a prototype that
arrived in the mail - I spent several hours over a couple of sessions trying to
bash my way through several virtual brick walls… the start for example kept me
really confused for a while…nothing like having a lump of brass literally
mocking your inability to even find the first step!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Once I was in, I could see that I was going to enjoy this little guy A
LOT. There’s some early exposure to some exquisite little tools that you’ll be
absolutely itching to use… and you won’t be disappointed. The mechanisms and
the tools are really clever and innovative, and each mechanism you get through
puts a smile on your face…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">At some point you’ll come across a monkey and when you’re done, you’ll
have the opportunity to Feed the Monkey – cue gratuitous product reference.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">The first time I ran through it all I was left somewhat astounded at the
number of little bits and pieces strewn around the desk, having started with
“just” a six-piece burr… reassembly felt a little daunting but some Think (c)
will see you right…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmjrJyz2C-xmZNdALaiYGyhEGABMBMV4D6EZBcEwCpnElBbBF5b7BiDeDOCFDmXiRkk_i9kKj2gxSnIDgXLOAC_oeoAzUNaaZFvDhbQWpb4LRH0dhwUn8DUTu8ahYFLltFHW1n7FjL0hBFpzV8jWnYzVtsTXOpOHdSIYSG_GLAAkC-IiM6kfl3dEubpc8/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1747.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="800" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmjrJyz2C-xmZNdALaiYGyhEGABMBMV4D6EZBcEwCpnElBbBF5b7BiDeDOCFDmXiRkk_i9kKj2gxSnIDgXLOAC_oeoAzUNaaZFvDhbQWpb4LRH0dhwUn8DUTu8ahYFLltFHW1n7FjL0hBFpzV8jWnYzVtsTXOpOHdSIYSG_GLAAkC-IiM6kfl3dEubpc8/w200-h184/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1747.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Once I’d done that I sent off some highly effusive congratulatory
messages to Ali and Steve who immediately asked me exactly how I’d solved a
couple of specific aspects and when I told them (I was particularly proud of
one of my approaches) they “ummed” and “ahhhed” and duly set about changing
some of the tools a little to stop anyone else doing that… a few weeks later
some replacement bits arrived and I set about re-solving it and replacing the
bits… and it’s even better now because it forces you to do things the way
they’d intended (even if my way seemed so good, theirs is even better!).
They’ve tweaked a couple of bits to make things more predictable and more
honest, and they are now happy that it’s ready to be inflicted on puzzlers
everywhere.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">This thing is literally as far removed from being “just a six-piece
burr” as you could possibly imagine - Ali and Steve had some serious ambition to
try and cram all of this into that form factor, and the engineering is sublime
as usual… I’m a huge fan of this one - I defy you not to think it’s awesome.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">If you're interested, Steve and Ali currently have a <a href="https://twobrassmonkeys.com/pages/announcement-brass-monkey-sixential-discovery">special offer</a> with free shipping on all orders placed by the 21st of January. [They're already shipping... this isn't one of those pay now and get your <strike>(insert favourite example here)</strike> puzzle later scams!] </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>
allardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02137859069894390167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325321154517773060.post-70770131697967416742024-01-13T09:29:00.000+00:002024-01-13T09:29:33.314+00:00Window Lock 3<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTc-62CqurMqM1nOQE6_AbrVyWQupbd0iiX05XQkAdv2YrfS3QNmDH1UsN1aZscSXnzfJ7OMHfVbuImxYjyH43nPoWlO6koPUOhX07Lg9L1CNRiKho2TdKi2_o-6goRLcQjgKYMiXy-qDh2OGa71pjnOSaKH7YSzkloXfmeXJQFpfFfav1lgt7uagPTRY/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1789.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="800" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTc-62CqurMqM1nOQE6_AbrVyWQupbd0iiX05XQkAdv2YrfS3QNmDH1UsN1aZscSXnzfJ7OMHfVbuImxYjyH43nPoWlO6koPUOhX07Lg9L1CNRiKho2TdKi2_o-6goRLcQjgKYMiXy-qDh2OGa71pjnOSaKH7YSzkloXfmeXJQFpfFfav1lgt7uagPTRY/w200-h151/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1789.jpeg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dick Hensel’s Window Locks just keep getting better and
better. One was good. Two was even better, and number Three definitely steps it
up again!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Shane had told me that Dick was working on a new Window Lock
and there was a knowing wink that said it was going to be a good one, so when
Dick reached out and offered me a copy, I shot him some PayPal and bided my
time. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There’s a definite family resemblance on Window Lock 3 – a neat
little oak package with a generous acrylic window showing off (almost!) all of
the innards. The shackle is well and truly locked in place. There are lots of
little sliders and goodies inside and the usual ball bearing waiting to do your
bidding. As usual there’s a means of moving some of the internals so let’s start
playing. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisGebzR0r6mHfhqbnOzOrCRrdxJlzNMkYybPUwVfOt01kc-6t4nyQM0cLPU8nZ44VUN5hXK1NzoK-ylebHqNR-ZrbcgrUGaO7FVMj0lpYNJACqbl-7DkUxHkX22pK0ADUYJZ7CQEkE01idAkHs-usp8XiyYiWTpHE7LKjWQgPJQxIESPXkskbKnHyKYck/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1788.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="800" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisGebzR0r6mHfhqbnOzOrCRrdxJlzNMkYybPUwVfOt01kc-6t4nyQM0cLPU8nZ44VUN5hXK1NzoK-ylebHqNR-ZrbcgrUGaO7FVMj0lpYNJACqbl-7DkUxHkX22pK0ADUYJZ7CQEkE01idAkHs-usp8XiyYiWTpHE7LKjWQgPJQxIESPXkskbKnHyKYck/w200-h148/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1788.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">There are plenty of visual clues and a little logic will
suggest what you might like to do… and the good news is that it doesn’t take a
lot of dexterity to get things to do what you want them to do… and I thought I
was doing pretty darn well until I hit a rather dramatic dead end – I thought I’d
done all I needed to do, only problem was that the darned shackle remained
resolutely locked shut… which was weird – it <i>should</i> have been open!</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Turns out that Dick’s added another wonderful layer of
complication – you’re going to have to review everything you think you already
know about these puzzles before you’re going to find a way to finally open the
shackle. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Definitely my favourite Window Lock so far – I love how Dick’s
really upped the ante on this one without sacrificing any of the consistent family
looks.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Great job Dick!</span></p>
allardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02137859069894390167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325321154517773060.post-1645141921650805952024-01-07T09:04:00.001+00:002024-01-07T09:04:23.809+00:00Chained Lumbers<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJg2H_8mBJ1oSAU_vXkRTeKDbSXugRZTrud2kyreimr4wE4fJDj9t2PDK8ZakJnWxdewFg7Pj52Yen9q-M1CKzu1paSFf9nxD2OiNPuyYwVyEL2vH4fv0ukYKqTQ0P0X8p9OiwZxVDavwlK83vfY9y7iK7zGRyJ6mmOT9Ek5lbq577rurRTrPJcajo/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1105.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="682" data-original-width="800" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJg2H_8mBJ1oSAU_vXkRTeKDbSXugRZTrud2kyreimr4wE4fJDj9t2PDK8ZakJnWxdewFg7Pj52Yen9q-M1CKzu1paSFf9nxD2OiNPuyYwVyEL2vH4fv0ukYKqTQ0P0X8p9OiwZxVDavwlK83vfY9y7iK7zGRyJ6mmOT9Ek5lbq577rurRTrPJcajo/w200-h171/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1105.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Another wonderfully simple little puzzle from the mind of
Koichi Miura and the hand of Mine. </span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">You’re given a set of six three by one blocks joined
together by a short length of bathroom sink chain and a box with a three by
three by three void inside. The only possible little wrinkle is a single cubie
fixed in the corner of the box’s lid. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Once again, the aim is immediately clear: place all the blocks
inside the box and close the lid, properly.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Now at this stage it shouldn’t surprise you that the blocks and
the box have been rather accurately made – so the box will fit three blocks
next to one another in any direction, but it will not allow for the additional width
of a single bit of the chain as well…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2vP0xGrBg9c8Z9U82rEJIjJzfvHKj7WywfTl96hFmXWbaVjWngcCv87rjoTJZjUf8CrD7YLuuAYLHHREedzU-5cprposGrB5Lo2bqZiUm2FVIOud_M9zjVJIN2IcjTSb8iZVLBn2Fi_u1fqhfTYnvuYUn-ONPrVboUz1HYrkzp-tgV3f_mKRwRUG6/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1108.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="800" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2vP0xGrBg9c8Z9U82rEJIjJzfvHKj7WywfTl96hFmXWbaVjWngcCv87rjoTJZjUf8CrD7YLuuAYLHHREedzU-5cprposGrB5Lo2bqZiUm2FVIOud_M9zjVJIN2IcjTSb8iZVLBn2Fi_u1fqhfTYnvuYUn-ONPrVboUz1HYrkzp-tgV3f_mKRwRUG6/w200-h154/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1108.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">…and that rather cuts down on the possible ways of getting
things into the box…</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">…and just when you find a way to do that, that single little
cubie in the lid will almost certainly send you back to the drawing board. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A super little puzzle that really does reward a bit of a
Think (c).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">...and it's not just me that loves it - it was one of the Top 10 Vote Winners at the 2023 Nob Yoshigahara Puzzle Design Competition!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <br /></span></p>
<p></p>allardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02137859069894390167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325321154517773060.post-74750561981256834142024-01-01T10:32:00.001+00:002024-01-01T10:32:23.677+00:00Happy 2024<p class="MsoNormal"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I hope you’re all enjoying a festive break with family and friends!
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thanks a stack to those of you that played along with my
Christmas 2023 puzzle… </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I’m sure that everyone noticed the morse code around the
edges of my “Christmas card”… and some of you </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">decoded it and </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">followed the trail…
the morse decoded to “sorry no time to make a nice puzzle this year, head over
to bit dot ly slash allard231225” – although the pesky comma (--..--) confused
at least one person along the way.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbivA64REpia-zbt38yJe-FcOQXH0161hkNmv1gjobUrVzoEYtqFKBGiPUE8OBMGuXY2fA73Fe1lQk6ewk9WfQ6AqwsPx5a21MNNbf-iqlTIXBKfw38PvLyDUX9PbDLFLfTTKsyWR-sz5bkBPO6ONevom67xVdlhNtyXCCRw-qrQMLOV5Zsln9kRT85xE/s1754/Xmas%20quiz%202023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1754" data-original-width="1240" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbivA64REpia-zbt38yJe-FcOQXH0161hkNmv1gjobUrVzoEYtqFKBGiPUE8OBMGuXY2fA73Fe1lQk6ewk9WfQ6AqwsPx5a21MNNbf-iqlTIXBKfw38PvLyDUX9PbDLFLfTTKsyWR-sz5bkBPO6ONevom67xVdlhNtyXCCRw-qrQMLOV5Zsln9kRT85xE/w453-h640/Xmas%20quiz%202023.jpg" width="453" /></a></div>If you headed over to “bit.ly/allard231225” you were
redirected to a PDF file on my Google drive with a simple puzzle on it in the
form of crossword clues without a grid… answering those clues gave you the
following: <p></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Think © Sticks</span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: verdana;">Rosebud</span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: verdana;">Andy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(he’s mentioned
in my second blog post…) </span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: verdana;">Yuu Asaka</span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: verdana;">Box with a Key (recognise the Karakuri
numbering?) </span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: verdana;">IRMO </span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: verdana;">Eric Fuller</span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: verdana;">Nova Plexus</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">…which is interesting, so now what?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">You might try and find some more
clues of what to do in the pics below, but you’d be well advised to decode the
semaphore script – “just some nice pics of puzzles / nothing more / i promise” –
and heed its advice – they literally were just a few of my favourite pics from
this year… I wasn’t trying to mislead anyone… this time. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So back to those answers above,
if you don’t have a grid, then the only thing you can do is put them in a list,
right? … and if you read down the left-hand side it says “TRAYBIEN” - which
sounds a bit French, but clearly it’s mis-spelled – or it’s someone playing a
little on words… and then there’s my request for a three-digit answer to be emailed
to me – know anything that might link a three-digit number to some wordplay via
a fiendish puzzle? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It turns out that Stewart Coffin
was fond of using the occasional bit of wordplay in naming his puzzles and one
of his tray-packers was in fact called Tray Bien – it was #196. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nick submitted his correct
response 48 minutes after the blog post went up on Christmas eve which sort of
surprised me as I hadn’t really announced that there was a puzzle… what really
blew my mind was when Bill submitted his correct answer a minute later…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mike popped in a (remarkably
close!) random guess of 200 based on the pictures I told you all to ignore and
then Georg came in third spot on Christmas morning… there was a bit of a flurry
of discorders with Tamsin, Dan and then Mike showing up with the right answers –
Dan pipping Mike due to the latter’s typo going unnoticed for a few minutes! It’s
amazing what people will do for bragging rights! :-) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nigel dropped in a correct solution
a few days later, as did Steve, in spite of a couple of folks suggesting he
knew what the answer was well before that… I guess he was just giving others a
chance… a couple of others had some pretty decent partial solutions too.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thanks to all for playing along –
a copy of Yuu Asaka’s Pond 12 will be winging its way to Nick and to Bill in
due course… (given there was literally only a minute between them - excellent effort!)<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I hope you all have a wonderful
2024 with friends, family, and of course puzzles!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p>
allardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02137859069894390167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325321154517773060.post-34431787366164185982023-12-24T20:00:00.002+00:002023-12-24T20:00:00.138+00:00Merry Christmas<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> ...all you get this year is a rather janky-looking Christmas card - and of course my very best wishes for a lovely Christmas. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_7VXY41pUnMyNb6XGfhQypnXy0HxnRusd2_P_OI-lqUuhCyNutrtRixRL-kluVtOzbh7LvOy_u6C_T1G0oGrt1jxUijbdJIvvZ66mKZmMCzxEauiXR2Ikvo0LvvyGyGU5viGc4lVmq-LvGAF0juZzBLDEgrimf5YlnIa7zoaugzL4CjE_NjMHl4MGR6g/s1119/Xmas%20Card%202023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="1119" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_7VXY41pUnMyNb6XGfhQypnXy0HxnRusd2_P_OI-lqUuhCyNutrtRixRL-kluVtOzbh7LvOy_u6C_T1G0oGrt1jxUijbdJIvvZ66mKZmMCzxEauiXR2Ikvo0LvvyGyGU5viGc4lVmq-LvGAF0juZzBLDEgrimf5YlnIa7zoaugzL4CjE_NjMHl4MGR6g/w400-h257/Xmas%20Card%202023.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>allardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02137859069894390167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325321154517773060.post-17490593935025997572023-12-21T15:56:00.001+00:002023-12-21T15:56:14.346+00:00Free Me 5 – Tartarus<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ3ocxiRAEnuk4R76QWtK_JS_fP5m1s-qypd6r7IgZMkx7mAdHqaOydMHa8kW6CTz4e458gOknTYplDjD1cWtT2o1yAFkD6AqxK9x2NX4y6WpBcBqKx022C-eU2lW4cevU_d9VO5u_6Zy_-Cfz1TosR1j9Z8d_O_NpwGGiuoHSAZh7aPGfCaa-jNp4X7Q/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1603.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="621" data-original-width="800" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ3ocxiRAEnuk4R76QWtK_JS_fP5m1s-qypd6r7IgZMkx7mAdHqaOydMHa8kW6CTz4e458gOknTYplDjD1cWtT2o1yAFkD6AqxK9x2NX4y6WpBcBqKx022C-eU2lW4cevU_d9VO5u_6Zy_-Cfz1TosR1j9Z8d_O_NpwGGiuoHSAZh7aPGfCaa-jNp4X7Q/w200-h155/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1603.jpeg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sometimes I feel like a puzzle really needs a shout-out –
this is one of those times…</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I really enjoyed Free Me 5 when I got my original Joseph Turner
copy from the Coolen clan <a href="https://allardspuzzlingtimes.blogspot.com/2017/12/free-me-5.html">several years ago</a> - I enjoyed playing with it, I wrote about it and several visiting puzzlers
have enjoyed it over the years…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">…so when I spotted mention of a shiny aluminium version
courtesy of a new collaboration between Joseph and Jon Keegan (the Bananas
guy!), I politely asked if I could purchase a copy and a few days later one was
indeed on its way to Barnt Green.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It’s every bit as good-looking in real life, with a “genuine”
doubloon waiting patiently to be released. It’s pretty much the same size as
the original wooden version, has all of the same visual clues on the outside
and it actually plays almost identically to the wooden version, but I love this
version. It’s rock solid and there is zero chance of anyone managing to damage it…
and judging by the number of times it’s come out to play with various puzzlers,
I’m not the only one who thinks that way. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">An excellent production from Tartarus Puzzles: great design
from Joseph Turner and superb implementation by Jon Keegan – a winning
combination. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p>
allardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02137859069894390167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325321154517773060.post-77297963158643325542023-12-15T07:55:00.000+00:002023-12-15T07:55:03.817+00:00Hokey Pokey <p>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpz7rWvAiEoY7zDGtK5ZVoD49-zu6Xo-ULFnHnWlexI0nq_0X99E_p4vr2d8RnlZ46sfRgAmCw3-thHW3PBBUE9tMbzyV3gc1g7D1LGh_-fiRXNlEQ8mnfXRllIhqe7o3atzAxPUToGXmTTKAtBCMa6fnYzJd9bPDlFzBZV-9JNJgf5EbVsa9apn0pKgI/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1411.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="800" height="107" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpz7rWvAiEoY7zDGtK5ZVoD49-zu6Xo-ULFnHnWlexI0nq_0X99E_p4vr2d8RnlZ46sfRgAmCw3-thHW3PBBUE9tMbzyV3gc1g7D1LGh_-fiRXNlEQ8mnfXRllIhqe7o3atzAxPUToGXmTTKAtBCMa6fnYzJd9bPDlFzBZV-9JNJgf5EbVsa9apn0pKgI/w200-h107/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1411.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hot on the heels (Hey, he’s been busy!) of Hokey Cokey in
2018, Steve Nicholls brought us Hokey Pokey in Jerusalem earlier this year. <b><i>Apparently,</i></b>
half the world was somewhat confused by the Hokey Cokey and couldn’t quite
bring themselves to sing the right words, insisting that it was the Hokey <b><i>Pokey</i></b>,
so in order to appeal to as wide an audience as possible, Hokey Pokey was born,
and duly exchanged at IPP40.<b><i> </i></b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The handsome packaging (replete with encouraging hamsters!) provides the goal: Remove the shackle and Identify the pun. It
cradles a brass padlock and a keyring with some of the strangest items you
could possibly imagine. Apart from the pair of keys (<i>not that strange</i> I
grant you), there is a cork and a wine stopper with a large 40 on top of it…
now in fairness the hamsters on the top label are imbibing a good red, so
perhaps we’re being encouraged to partake as well? (There is no wine in the
packaging – I looked…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The lock helpfully has the name engraved across the top so
you’ll always be able to tell you Cokey from your Pokey (DON'T!), and that cork has the
name on it too, so you can’t get the keys mixed up… not that the keys seem to
be of any use at all – Steve appears to have given us a couple of keys that don’t
do anything at all: inserting them into the keyway and turning in the
traditional manner confirms that Steve might have given us the wrong keys… <i>quelle
surprise</i>!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">OK, so if the keys don’t work, what else can we do?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjktypa2Iz_V0IHnFFsLoPuQY3SM5GW23AIXCflpUXzwv5mTuIUPPfD1_FULlsqQr90o6_740QufHAkmjrB4wiTKX5XcUoObRP1YjN8wPakDjShbQd4g1OalWoA3W6ooxE6jCSD_Dmbo6isSXHbOQNTZsVqPrBti8R53USdJeDYptqkV1MLdVuheuQrd_I/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1619.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="800" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjktypa2Iz_V0IHnFFsLoPuQY3SM5GW23AIXCflpUXzwv5mTuIUPPfD1_FULlsqQr90o6_740QufHAkmjrB4wiTKX5XcUoObRP1YjN8wPakDjShbQd4g1OalWoA3W6ooxE6jCSD_Dmbo6isSXHbOQNTZsVqPrBti8R53USdJeDYptqkV1MLdVuheuQrd_I/w200-h176/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1619.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">We can tug on the shackle and see it move a tiny bit… but no
more. We can take everything off the keyring and examine them, yup, that’s a
wine stopper with a big fat forty on top of it (it was exchanged at IPP40 remember?)
and the cork can be removed from its eyelet – weird, but not unusual, at least
not for Steve…</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The first part of the puzzle turned out to be fun and a
little surprising and I was dead chuffed when I had the shackle open…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The second half of the puzzle was somewhat more elusive and
I ended up spending months toying with various bits of wordplay, trying to work
out how all those weird things on the keyring could possibly be described and
what to make of some of the other bizarre discoveries that I haven’t mentioned
in here for fear of spoiling a surprise… I literally had lists of words and I
spent ages trying to combine them and squeeze something funny out of them as
Steve had told me I’d know when I had found it…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It turned out I needed a fair amount of nudging on a rather
long train trip with Steve before I groaned big time and admitted he’d outdone
himself… the pun is definitely worth hunting for – you’ll love it and hate him
for it at the same time – it’s perfect!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Chapeau sir!</span></p>
allardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02137859069894390167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325321154517773060.post-88079250185157323182023-12-10T13:00:00.001+00:002023-12-10T13:00:46.038+00:00Zak<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvu00aIlQs3dIIj068brs9669CklXm_pjjtsoc8iZeS7XunHGg8drC_umd59eUqiKXjEg4orAoF6cyNl4PR0QEQGcfeDX5wSb3eKtXryT-PVFHfIjc7a5MJoK8d3s6030z5McgwkbqX6gKkawBLIqyzkBCjyEls5-bZjdSZi_g4vdI1EKjevWwQ5pTpd0/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1791.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="800" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvu00aIlQs3dIIj068brs9669CklXm_pjjtsoc8iZeS7XunHGg8drC_umd59eUqiKXjEg4orAoF6cyNl4PR0QEQGcfeDX5wSb3eKtXryT-PVFHfIjc7a5MJoK8d3s6030z5McgwkbqX6gKkawBLIqyzkBCjyEls5-bZjdSZi_g4vdI1EKjevWwQ5pTpd0/w200-h165/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1791.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Doog and Radek recently launched their third Demonticon,
Ziggy’s dad named Zak… I pretty much ordered one as soon as I saw them go up on
the <a href="https://www.demonticon.com/">website</a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>and a few days later my copy duly arrived in
Barnt Green... literally two days before the last MPP. </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">My first attempts at finding Zak’s secret dreams were pretty
pathetic – I spent a while staring into his somewhat googly eyes, pondering his
melancholic looks and wondering how on earth I was going to find out what he was
dreaming of…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There was one little gimme, and while it changed something,
it didn’t seem particularly helpful at all… </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg20bsRWhh3JDwmf0BLBA40YN4A4VmPlRTazXou2iUvSJ1MRWqAjskcC61iKENqnzgo8iHp_6IjopbLEtLXSBCaVejhmkCNlBvsnZjC1ZnISTrPjRLabZdYI_XHid7WkHIz8MzC0yE3rxlFythBl8mV_JAdJIx7GB26VKiBPArBeIeitt90Ta8hgvDxj1M/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1792.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="800" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg20bsRWhh3JDwmf0BLBA40YN4A4VmPlRTazXou2iUvSJ1MRWqAjskcC61iKENqnzgo8iHp_6IjopbLEtLXSBCaVejhmkCNlBvsnZjC1ZnISTrPjRLabZdYI_XHid7WkHIz8MzC0yE3rxlFythBl8mV_JAdJIx7GB26VKiBPArBeIeitt90Ta8hgvDxj1M/w200-h138/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1792.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div>The next day I managed to get in a little bit of playtime
before the MPP gang descended from the airport… and that was what I needed. <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I managed to work out what that gimme really did and how it
might be useful and then I managed to look past those googly eyes and imagine
what was going on deep inside Zak’s soul… and opened him right up. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">To be fair, I surprised myself when it opened as I thought I’d
tried that very thing a few times already, but when I saw what was going on
inside, I realised it would have been pretty easy to mess things up and undo
any good work one might have done along the way. Zak is a delightfully subtle
puzzle with a song in its soul. Several folks had a play with Zak at MPP and he
didn’t disappoint, jealously guarding his secrets against all but the most
dedicated solvers!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvKxASuX2N98tUhwQM4WHSx6TBua60A2gNDuTuWJ7VekK9AoanSYLoPPFb1GcpmhlsAwnZZ0DYF9Xpz_00GoIG2ItIrv6OfKydRFq3DzuG81FA3er-xARiDSM2djpJGBitCos7PZ2gtxrvML37zkEtpCglS0gPB1EC5D8TsBnokV7GtodiSWyAfqKmp_k/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1793.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="800" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvKxASuX2N98tUhwQM4WHSx6TBua60A2gNDuTuWJ7VekK9AoanSYLoPPFb1GcpmhlsAwnZZ0DYF9Xpz_00GoIG2ItIrv6OfKydRFq3DzuG81FA3er-xARiDSM2djpJGBitCos7PZ2gtxrvML37zkEtpCglS0gPB1EC5D8TsBnokV7GtodiSWyAfqKmp_k/w200-h113/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1793.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As you’d expect from Radek, the machining on the puzzly side
of things is sublime and the aesthetics are gorgeous – everyone is going to
love those googly eyes! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I’m definitely looking forward to the next Demonticon…</span></p>
allardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02137859069894390167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325321154517773060.post-33517281406094522202023-12-03T08:02:00.001+00:002023-12-03T08:02:43.845+00:00Smack-N Moles – Stickman #37<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDZ010k4MIljBmvXPPIAmGGW6SlfdLUpncmeUEnykAbgfzQ8ZF04iN3Xmme8m_RYQk7A3otYkQgzAXDxD1wGrZAUkb898WKo52r_0RwQfrqjtNcVs6zpU7XFzX4GZIvP_gS1GkYzoDXgIHV8FG8tpwR-Fxgqk0UlPA15dYWZbbnaMENPv0dI13PUeREAU/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1425.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="800" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDZ010k4MIljBmvXPPIAmGGW6SlfdLUpncmeUEnykAbgfzQ8ZF04iN3Xmme8m_RYQk7A3otYkQgzAXDxD1wGrZAUkb898WKo52r_0RwQfrqjtNcVs6zpU7XFzX4GZIvP_gS1GkYzoDXgIHV8FG8tpwR-Fxgqk0UlPA15dYWZbbnaMENPv0dI13PUeREAU/w200-h133/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1425.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Chinny’s exchange puzzle at IPP40 was the stand-out for me –
and not just because I’m a massive <a href="http://www.stickmanpuzzlebox.com/stickman-puzzle-gallery.html">Stickman</a>-fan-boy!</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This little walnut box has a bunch of pesky critters poking
out of the top of the box and a handy mallet attached to the side of the box
for pounding on them – what more could you want for an afternoon’s
entertainment? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And pound on them you can, but they invariably pop up again and
taunt you when you pound their mates into submission… you can chase them around
in circles, attack them randomly and even try and find that elusive sequence
that leaves them all submissively in their little mole holes… well you can try…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Stepping back for a moment - that mallet is attached to a
steel cable that’s not quite long enough, if you know what I mean, and the
cable is seriously well-attached to the side of the box with a rather large
bolt. A careful examination of the box shows what might be a lid and you can
confirm that it is indeed those little moles that are keeping it from opening…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMjlIMbfS5onszeCGabR8vh-DaeCtlJNS5KhfYD0ig6NS5hA2VTpNKXniVGAmhvXh-bfBiAV6Z5XrezfgG2gZYmRJu5Ak6OKRsvzB8DNQDRI4hdCoCFrOQx9bLhql3EJl9aj-VO2gcl6GXXnuXMBUis2KuyZfkQmH3SUXUemJL4D7UBMNK_-Xq3X88LaE/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1426.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="800" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMjlIMbfS5onszeCGabR8vh-DaeCtlJNS5KhfYD0ig6NS5hA2VTpNKXniVGAmhvXh-bfBiAV6Z5XrezfgG2gZYmRJu5Ak6OKRsvzB8DNQDRI4hdCoCFrOQx9bLhql3EJl9aj-VO2gcl6GXXnuXMBUis2KuyZfkQmH3SUXUemJL4D7UBMNK_-Xq3X88LaE/w200-h148/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1426.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">If only there was some way of getting them all back down
into their little holes…</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I ended up spending several hours finding things that
definitely didn’t work on this puzzle – occasionally I found little things that
moth possibly be helpful, even to the point of finding what I thought might be
helpful tools, only finding something useful to do with those tools seriously
eluded me… until something really weird happened one day and a little part of
the world opened up to me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It was a wonderfully unexpected little thing, but it
obviously meant something useful had happened… OK, at least <i>something</i> had
happened!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">From there, with some new things to explore, places to go,
people to see and stuff to control and do… and then ultimately a lid to remove
and expose all of the little bits inside that have had me chasing my tail for
many, many hours. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgTTS4lsp6gtodBy25GmGsTn5cnx_dTSi197drOiuSN9JKL-Wxm4IEvJGfit2KgpJ4PP53l3r9VDaH_VTIIifEQbLnx5pgjdpGt21UUSzUg5u3L0XlDbTnimB-zzJm-ShmTKr1BKaXpznVRSz8VctCqzB6hyphenhyphentg5-McyYAkHGu0NZCiQvIsMLkLVJBQkiw/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1427.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="621" data-original-width="800" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgTTS4lsp6gtodBy25GmGsTn5cnx_dTSi197drOiuSN9JKL-Wxm4IEvJGfit2KgpJ4PP53l3r9VDaH_VTIIifEQbLnx5pgjdpGt21UUSzUg5u3L0XlDbTnimB-zzJm-ShmTKr1BKaXpznVRSz8VctCqzB6hyphenhyphentg5-McyYAkHGu0NZCiQvIsMLkLVJBQkiw/w200-h155/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1427.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I love the fact that Rob’s left his elegantly simple
mechanism open for all to see and I’ll wager quite a lot that I’m not the only
one who has totally overengineered things in my own little head and then been amazed
at Rob’s clever design. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thanks to Chinny for bringing this little bit of joy into
our lives this year and for Rob for coming up with the goods yet again!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiatTqPVqp5gneVnKKX9Tvy3YR4z8khpVmybWK54Ri2TxeXOYInE4XtXFOUCRKWO4UgHeaNxuxmPp_KwLPVUfCHGChcyPt-pBeQnDBYW66KGpiLf76dMRGJw8c6pORL0WuMUBUrYGuezZ6iPsnHOHBGYqV7R3kEzJaE_m1pyEXKCjLvde8bidGW_pbMLI4/s2048/IMG_3881.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiatTqPVqp5gneVnKKX9Tvy3YR4z8khpVmybWK54Ri2TxeXOYInE4XtXFOUCRKWO4UgHeaNxuxmPp_KwLPVUfCHGChcyPt-pBeQnDBYW66KGpiLf76dMRGJw8c6pORL0WuMUBUrYGuezZ6iPsnHOHBGYqV7R3kEzJaE_m1pyEXKCjLvde8bidGW_pbMLI4/w200-h150/IMG_3881.JPEG" width="200" /></a></div>I find myself late getting back from a work thing so Gill
ends up doing the airport run to collect Rob K, Wil and Louis from their
Amsterdam flight and Stefan from Sofia – and shortly after I get home, the
car-load of puzzlers arrives at <i>chez</i> Walker. <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There are some quick hellos – it’s only been a few weeks
since we all met up in The Hague – we make sure that Rob knows where to find
the puzzles – and we get some pizzas in the oven as we’re all ravenous. By the
time the pizzas are ready we have a serious challenge to clear enough space on
the dining room table given all of the puzzles that have already come out to
play… it’s a good start to a fine puzzling weekend. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">We manage to polish off most of the pizzas, maintaining the proud
Walker reputation of never knowingly under-catering. The puzzles come out again
in full force and I get to join the gang for some chatting and puzzles. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb4vydBKbqmL2dPpUJKhyphenhyphenHv7E0Y3T-vPLVN7xvqrKjXOQDzgikjh1NfOxrB6ViYDe7rKlPLb6PB_GNCIVPmlElj9rHDfnp6dZODZ9457W-acfehqc9bY16GQjKHePOgDKGoUPafn3lKTLQm-uUXk-t5jvrDtA2y_HtB616jm4BXJT0xd8n49mk_FShsK4/s2048/IMG_3879.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb4vydBKbqmL2dPpUJKhyphenhyphenHv7E0Y3T-vPLVN7xvqrKjXOQDzgikjh1NfOxrB6ViYDe7rKlPLb6PB_GNCIVPmlElj9rHDfnp6dZODZ9457W-acfehqc9bY16GQjKHePOgDKGoUPafn3lKTLQm-uUXk-t5jvrDtA2y_HtB616jm4BXJT0xd8n49mk_FShsK4/w200-h150/IMG_3879.JPEG" width="200" /></a></div>Stefan’s been whipping up some amazing 3D-printed beauties yet
again and he gifts me a matching copy of Wavelinks and Spheres – they make my amateurish
prints look decidedly sub-par and I’m delighted with them…<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Two recent arrivals (Zak from Radek and Doog) and the Third Window
Lock from Dick Hensel come out to play and I’m intrigued to see Zak putting up quite
a good fight, while Window Lock 3 continues to beat all comers… me included. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Rob begins his mission to work his way through the Karakuri
boxes and Stefan spends some quality time with Roger’s Maze bolt + while Wil
starts a wonderful relationship with a copy of Singmaster’s 25 Packing puzzle. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">At the end of the night I drop the Dutch contingent off at
their Airbnb down the road and I crash for the night. The pups make sure I’m up
pretty early and after some pastries for breakfast, I drop Stefan at the hall while
I head down to collect the Dutch contingent. By the time I get back Stefan has
sorted out all the tables and chairs and been joined by Rich, Ali, Steve and
Michael… it’s like there’s going to be a puzzle party or something. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinzc80_95FSBa0sv_cWWeoFy1dzkLRFEndNFqvPzYZhJ3vq-om6O30eut5lIr2jO3Q57t7L28ezR7K8HgOLv8YtZFZFpMSrGx7PqEESDAMf-neqpwNU8owKp9V2PETJ2oJtGuX8VOghGj5LaXxyKNnoYROxSa_J-YukeWjnGmt3WgGhte4ihpRdn4sNYs/s2048/IMG_3892.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinzc80_95FSBa0sv_cWWeoFy1dzkLRFEndNFqvPzYZhJ3vq-om6O30eut5lIr2jO3Q57t7L28ezR7K8HgOLv8YtZFZFpMSrGx7PqEESDAMf-neqpwNU8owKp9V2PETJ2oJtGuX8VOghGj5LaXxyKNnoYROxSa_J-YukeWjnGmt3WgGhte4ihpRdn4sNYs/w200-h150/IMG_3892.JPEG" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">A short while later we have the hot drinks up and running,
there are piles of biscuits and a there’s a throng of puzzlers. I’m really
chuffed when I spot Shane as we haven’t seen him for a while – as usual his
personality fills the whole hall with fun and laughter. Andrew Coles has
brought with him a new toy to play with and after a suitable period of fiddling he pronounces
it excellent and tosses it to me to play with… and after a considerably
longer period, I too pronounce it excellent and seek out Andrew and strongly
encourage him to make some of those and make them available for sale as it’s a
really unique new puzzle lock mechanism – fingers crossed he’ll find the time and
space to make some as I’d love to add one to my little hoard. </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">James, Lindsay and Rosie spend a good few hours visiting on
their way back down south – James works his way around the assembled masses
catching up with folks he hasn’t seen for a while and at some point we announce
a December White’s Plot Puzzle Party – which sounds like a fabulous excuse to
visit with friends again and possibly even play with some puzzles. James is
still insisting that he’s no longer collecting puzzles and then generally in the
next breath is asking everyone what new puzzles he absolutely must buy…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGP5a41hFLD87W9azoj9WVmtB-zZwNd_Vj9pDFXG8pUsebMCZCSWICu_u58QCCbacB_OTIn1pJ8cBCc15RsDKzHkc22DeZV6kfpTyzZgtpBFtZh0a5oLF4CJl0PhH1Nn5uGVJwIUfG4F9N_lVGMMZcFnhPaZHoWwMIx_p0M-g32uhND9EQ-86c0VM6Ue4/s2048/IMG_3893.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGP5a41hFLD87W9azoj9WVmtB-zZwNd_Vj9pDFXG8pUsebMCZCSWICu_u58QCCbacB_OTIn1pJ8cBCc15RsDKzHkc22DeZV6kfpTyzZgtpBFtZh0a5oLF4CJl0PhH1Nn5uGVJwIUfG4F9N_lVGMMZcFnhPaZHoWwMIx_p0M-g32uhND9EQ-86c0VM6Ue4/w200-h150/IMG_3893.JPEG" width="200" /></a></div>Fraser brought his long-suffering better-half along. I
suspect Vic was hoping for a quiet corner to read a book but she ended up
spending most of the day chatting with puzzlers and playing with puzzles – and to
be fair, she didn’t look any less expert at solving them than any of the rest
of us!<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Amy and her hubby joined us for most of the day, along with
the twins and she managed to do a great job of wrangling a couple of wee ‘uns
while also solving a bunch of puzzles along the way – I suspect the boys are
going to have to turn into puzzlers!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Ml6nGGxgMJ6Pxb0_s9MKnjVNI97F0EgFXDIVREit0mL2-7Pdk1A6imq2lUYgPZWxUwLzQlDvKOQvnqqOFfP7rHqFf5e51hN4K5jLOoz-WcpjlWoWVtT0eWInp4sMFfPyJ1EpbWpSKebYJQbFtTWBHs-qLxrjKgdI788onpnOtTawVlSbXtIwXnB140E/s2048/IMG_3898.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Ml6nGGxgMJ6Pxb0_s9MKnjVNI97F0EgFXDIVREit0mL2-7Pdk1A6imq2lUYgPZWxUwLzQlDvKOQvnqqOFfP7rHqFf5e51hN4K5jLOoz-WcpjlWoWVtT0eWInp4sMFfPyJ1EpbWpSKebYJQbFtTWBHs-qLxrjKgdI788onpnOtTawVlSbXtIwXnB140E/w150-h200/IMG_3898.JPEG" width="150" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dale had brought a whole collection of
ever-so-slightly-naughty pottery thingies for Wil – who was thoroughly delighted,
and I suspect that Dale was delighted to find a good home for them…</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lily had come along for the day too – so it was good to have at
least one responsible adult in the room!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A couple of us snuck out a little early for lunch lest we
find the pig rolls had run out like last time… no such trouble this time –
there was heaps so when we got back we told everyone it was lunchtime… ‘cos we’re
nice like that. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIANfHfZ5KIhILDRPvtkM77ICfOitrVy3ytokwYteoTxMTCP0Fo_bTDLU8X6BHn_jatSdRrFrJR4-9F_jn8UwNRyjK-yloM7LaZBia6ux2hn9G4tARWNR2stPuI0ZOpb2-DQ7euLk_GCcINvQms_g-Foc0ru6t7no8gYq9InycdVnsmhEdgvsJljDXTQQ/s2048/IMG_3890.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIANfHfZ5KIhILDRPvtkM77ICfOitrVy3ytokwYteoTxMTCP0Fo_bTDLU8X6BHn_jatSdRrFrJR4-9F_jn8UwNRyjK-yloM7LaZBia6ux2hn9G4tARWNR2stPuI0ZOpb2-DQ7euLk_GCcINvQms_g-Foc0ru6t7no8gYq9InycdVnsmhEdgvsJljDXTQQ/w200-h150/IMG_3890.JPEG" width="200" /></a></div>Lots of folks ended up spending time playing with Oskar/Bram’s
Ziguflat – it was a huge hit, definitely one of the nicest DCD giveaways we’ve
had. Rich did me a solid by not only taking apart my copy of Climburr, but actually
solving it as well… and leaving it in a solved position this time! (Thanks Rich
– there’s no way I was getting that apart, or back together again!)<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Fraser very kindly gave me a copy of a couple of his recent
Christmas puzzles – a beautiful little snowflake edge-matching puzzle and a
mini Towers of Hanoi with three Christmas trees for towers – Thanks Fraser!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMuZcmA25u4ZE1mT4Wx3m9W6Y4W6UWzLGO_UejdtWpUFgU8dlbzxIYbWELcCkV3PnFHLWK58QSSRRqNUB14saHTRZ8uryjZ4ptMhkxo2HPlgE5SyYTCSl7ydFx0eB0gt2TBI6YPLVMuK1vDPlE-lqZ82JDim_eo440nJsAYURAmads3KIjPRUNk6XatpY/s2048/IMG_3896.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMuZcmA25u4ZE1mT4Wx3m9W6Y4W6UWzLGO_UejdtWpUFgU8dlbzxIYbWELcCkV3PnFHLWK58QSSRRqNUB14saHTRZ8uryjZ4ptMhkxo2HPlgE5SyYTCSl7ydFx0eB0gt2TBI6YPLVMuK1vDPlE-lqZ82JDim_eo440nJsAYURAmads3KIjPRUNk6XatpY/w200-h150/IMG_3896.JPEG" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">My new little Rocky treasures got a good playing with and
most folks managed to find their way around the Beerstein and Teapot, but the Ice
Bucket tended to put up a bit more of a fight. </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">My sneaky plan of taking along a couple of new Osanori’s
that needed solving totally backfired as everyone else who had a bash at them
failed as well…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sometime after sunset we tidied up the hall and headed back
up to the house where we procured a large box of fish suppers (and a plain sausage
and chips) for the hungry horde. Mikael had cooked what I probably incorrectly
referred to as a potato bake and that went down a storm alongside the more
pedestrian fish suppers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCqBqFhQOQlLCIkuSd8z7op1tdn15c6HQopa_JSliPW5MFAUJNo98m4rPO7SoOftJrwa64_PmE-jC3Z5Fn8mYIc1BGMhEXUPjbHlyq2KWyZHa9Cz8dd9Fy0xXX4HjWFWOkRDjficIPpNTc901ilVpD_B5kn43DRsCZHE-jJHLTiSqAoomtS4CnoYYnN7o/s2048/IMG_3897.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCqBqFhQOQlLCIkuSd8z7op1tdn15c6HQopa_JSliPW5MFAUJNo98m4rPO7SoOftJrwa64_PmE-jC3Z5Fn8mYIc1BGMhEXUPjbHlyq2KWyZHa9Cz8dd9Fy0xXX4HjWFWOkRDjficIPpNTc901ilVpD_B5kn43DRsCZHE-jJHLTiSqAoomtS4CnoYYnN7o/w150-h200/IMG_3897.JPEG" width="150" /></a></div>There was many hours of puzzling with a long line of old
Stickman Puzzleboxes coming out for a play and an even longer line of Karakuri
boxes cycling between the dining room and Puzzle Cave #2. It was great to see
them getting played with as folks discovered some of them for the first time!<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The masses began drifting homeward at a reasonable hour –
probably just as well given at least one of the major motorways had been closed
for the night – ironically one that had had no roadworks on it for the first
time in years… I guess they missed having the roadworks. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Dutch contingent were duly dropped off at their digs
before another late (for me!) night…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifVCJ8ZD8bzrGBqmDF8wfee41BXuIa_Cpz1T-dRpsI7vin-aBMhRehql8H2-QufNe7eICMBZ_LTAkZvP0s64UjRowy78SAEQSdSLJ3HcvSMHeuaeNh14EPbpRhytrxyk5ycECGeZXdm26P2ARY4H3DgKgGwNVGm2UE8z1yOxI7sYBjl5qm4U3chGy8dNA/s2048/IMG_3899.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifVCJ8ZD8bzrGBqmDF8wfee41BXuIa_Cpz1T-dRpsI7vin-aBMhRehql8H2-QufNe7eICMBZ_LTAkZvP0s64UjRowy78SAEQSdSLJ3HcvSMHeuaeNh14EPbpRhytrxyk5ycECGeZXdm26P2ARY4H3DgKgGwNVGm2UE8z1yOxI7sYBjl5qm4U3chGy8dNA/w150-h200/IMG_3899.JPEG" width="150" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Next morning bright and early Stefan and I had a quick
breakfast before dropping him off at the airport and then collecting the
Dutchies on the way back home… for a few more hours puzzling, and some delicious
homemade soup with freshly baked rolls courtesy of Gilly.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">By the early afternoon Rob had made serious headway through
my Karakuri collection, Louis had helped me analyse, fix and solve a plethora
of puzzles I had lying around and Wil had made sufficient in-roads on his
Analysis of Singmaster 25 that he was smitten by it… a fine end to a superb
weekend’s puzzling fun with my friends… thanks all!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p>
allardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02137859069894390167noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325321154517773060.post-83662100248472554182023-11-20T07:43:00.001+00:002023-11-20T07:43:42.145+00:00A Bolt from the BLUE<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Km7bKsG-bbIwkGpzuXOBDjTSvrWMtdwnf4hSovyBbvLiLxCbsvrVNlsgQT9by3-bCixl8FATAIpQdau_3XT5Qmyqq0ZPj0zewrd2ruflsZ7WLsF2pbaQ_l2SJHcRmXi8fnqDyXJUov6SyLVNUwwBC2_6pSWSSZl_a6jzhyphenhyphenVd9qBcic72HvjP4HHzGdg/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1406.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="800" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Km7bKsG-bbIwkGpzuXOBDjTSvrWMtdwnf4hSovyBbvLiLxCbsvrVNlsgQT9by3-bCixl8FATAIpQdau_3XT5Qmyqq0ZPj0zewrd2ruflsZ7WLsF2pbaQ_l2SJHcRmXi8fnqDyXJUov6SyLVNUwwBC2_6pSWSSZl_a6jzhyphenhyphenVd9qBcic72HvjP4HHzGdg/w200-h164/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1406.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ali Morris’ 2023 exchange puzzle was a new bolt puzzle – a
big old man-sized bolt with a brass washer on it - it had to be brass, didn't it! Your goal, as usual with
Ali’s bolts, is to remove the washer…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This one comes in a handy 3D printed carrier that makes it
look a little sinister – almost hand grenade-ish… retrieving the bolt from the
carrier is almost trivial – spoiler alert – the base unscrews – presenting you with
the full metallic glory of Ali’s latest little torture device…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I exchanged this for some of my Think Sticks in Jerusalem
and had a few plays with it while I was still in Israel – getting absolutely
nowhere…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Back in Blighty, I spent some more time on it and began to
reassess my approach several times over the next few months as I managed to thoroughly
fail to solve it. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDVCVJlA3Nry8aMngwzN9XmwTfBynWTfy3Ls-KZ4LDbrW94n85DbWkvLwHMKwji_XZuZJ4vaGhJ02LKYeUSQPfHLCQZg0vJg4WHEnrOHo9K0Ltvqpq1e7d0on6rAhWSnS4RA0t54JrqCF5bLAC5eoLCBzVL7cATUtLwB-PhsexUn-UHx-u_f0307lnNjk/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1407.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="708" data-original-width="800" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDVCVJlA3Nry8aMngwzN9XmwTfBynWTfy3Ls-KZ4LDbrW94n85DbWkvLwHMKwji_XZuZJ4vaGhJ02LKYeUSQPfHLCQZg0vJg4WHEnrOHo9K0Ltvqpq1e7d0on6rAhWSnS4RA0t54JrqCF5bLAC5eoLCBzVL7cATUtLwB-PhsexUn-UHx-u_f0307lnNjk/w200-h177/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1407.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Apart from the tiniest bit of play in the nut securing the
washer on the outside, I couldn’t find anything interesting at all… I tried
spinning it, I blew on it, heck I even tried leaving in the freezer for an hour
or two thinking that the reference in the name might be to something cold
rather than something surprising…</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I’d regularly report my (lack of) progress to Ali and the lads
would laugh with (at!) me a little and we’d move on…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">At one point I thought I’d found a way to increase the amount
of play on that well-stuck nut, but that didn’t really pan out… I explored it
all manner of strangeness-detectors and everything came up blank. I spent a
long time examining the sticker on the carrier, certain at one point that
something magical would happen if I treated it just right… but it didn’t…</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf7dfzdlF6yZiPXUxFegyhp6heAh-303aDwTLBX9HgKNPRdBacgz7UVNzvNkbRgTQ5ho4LqjYXy_tHX7uMGW8wzktjrttV-m6vjs5skbFl3qvxL1jq9-NgZpv_hLiAjQ_WhsSVp4gxTABGuwEfml29t2CiZedvWGrOvQbscu1Q305ICSxb5uGJMiBm6NI/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1634.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="796" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf7dfzdlF6yZiPXUxFegyhp6heAh-303aDwTLBX9HgKNPRdBacgz7UVNzvNkbRgTQ5ho4LqjYXy_tHX7uMGW8wzktjrttV-m6vjs5skbFl3qvxL1jq9-NgZpv_hLiAjQ_WhsSVp4gxTABGuwEfml29t2CiZedvWGrOvQbscu1Q305ICSxb5uGJMiBm6NI/w199-h200/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1634.jpeg" width="199" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And so it continued for well nigh three months, until my
recent trip to The Netherlands for DCD – where I tried something I hadn’t tried
at all up until now, and I found myself swearing at Ali – who sadly wasn’t in
the room at the time due to a family birthday – as I suspect that he’d have
enjoyed my little outburst at his, err, design ingenuity. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">He’d been telling me all along that it was a bit of a Marmite
puzzle, you’d either love it or you’d…. turns out I’m definitely in the love it
camp – it bested me for over three months and it still got a massive smile from
me when I finally solved it - it’s a goodie!</span></p>
allardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02137859069894390167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325321154517773060.post-15804139792635312762023-11-12T12:42:00.001+00:002023-11-12T12:42:33.837+00:00Picolock<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX_wUoVCZ0FP5UCzNIsyAKgJdTPUhx5ghVzaZS3eOAcUI0kzDOCDGOIJ_hi4iV-MROn7Yhybo8SS35_9s_CqIfrEonDdEG4wYq9H01CJUHEkxBDG5_j83L4r5P1mgk8JkOBBeStDxaVmyfTrzLj_F-69GP7k6-oI2lQaN_-TbF9IZ7HR7Qe8eVP3lfR6g/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1419.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="800" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX_wUoVCZ0FP5UCzNIsyAKgJdTPUhx5ghVzaZS3eOAcUI0kzDOCDGOIJ_hi4iV-MROn7Yhybo8SS35_9s_CqIfrEonDdEG4wYq9H01CJUHEkxBDG5_j83L4r5P1mgk8JkOBBeStDxaVmyfTrzLj_F-69GP7k6-oI2lQaN_-TbF9IZ7HR7Qe8eVP3lfR6g/w200-h133/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1419.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Boaz Feldman has been carrying on the family tradition of
<a href="https://puzzlocks.com/">creating excellent puzzle locks</a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>for a good few years now and this year he
entered his latest baby, Picolock, in the Nob Yoshigahara Puzzle Design
Competition. </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I had a couple of goes at it in the Design Competition Room
and I can confidently state that I made absolutely ZERO progress, so when the
Puzzle Party rolled around, I made sure that I had some cash to hand over to
Boaz for a shiny new copy of Picolock. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Back at home I had several more goes at trying to open the
lock (yup, that’s the goal!) and continued my unblemished record of not
troubling the solution in any way… I did get to know the lock rather well. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">You receive a neatly engraved, ever so slightly modified
40mm Nabob padlock. The key(?) is attached to the shackle by one of those
ubiquitous super-strong cable keyrings. All of that comes in one of Boaz’s neat
little embroidered pouches along with an instruction card – there can be no
doubt what the goal is and that you shouldn’t be using any external tools…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn5_PcM7_GdtrBCXok4bZtZV84D9tjZp8o_wPASTOa9OFW6YKp0u5zQA67x8PwSTeQu3jDL0nbI-b_vhX6kVFg-aRqPFibgGieGguCsAxMOxR39cqPOh6yLY_dU9baAGfT_bgWxqq2BUyiTE8fOJQnujyfx46Z11VyWAL5VBUNxMN-sdPDKva8UxNH98k/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1421.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="800" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn5_PcM7_GdtrBCXok4bZtZV84D9tjZp8o_wPASTOa9OFW6YKp0u5zQA67x8PwSTeQu3jDL0nbI-b_vhX6kVFg-aRqPFibgGieGguCsAxMOxR39cqPOh6yLY_dU9baAGfT_bgWxqq2BUyiTE8fOJQnujyfx46Z11VyWAL5VBUNxMN-sdPDKva8UxNH98k/w200-h116/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1421.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Over the course of my several unsuccessful goes at opening the
lock I explored what I considered to be all of the usual tricks of the trade –
there are one or two interesting visual clues and I found myself focusing on
them… but unable to make anything useful of any of my observations. </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">If truth be told, I did rather obsess on one of those visual
clues rather a lot and I’d pretty much convinced myself that something magical
would happen with a particular feature, only I failed to find the secret
release that would allow that to happen… and in the end I spent most of the
three intervening months concentrating on those things, and getting nowhere at
all… not that any of my friends took the proverbial – well not much… well…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the end I found I’d succumbed to the gravest of errors:
not properly discounting something before moving on and leaving it behind – it turns
out there <i>was</i> something I could do that I’d previously convinced myself
wasn’t possible because I’d explored all of the possible avenues exhaustively… well,
not quite. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">…and having revisited that avenue, a whole new world opened
up before me and all of a sudden, I was on a wild and exciting ride of new discoveries,
tools and techniques and soon enough, an opened shackle.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmyUDkl49e9XjqeNBRhyc-6qY4-bEU9evaEzpwOMXaFICS_CBbgYe6demZjMOYydGyfYb8BiGh4j9zJQU0fFkRNupA4Vpq286V1S-papONNJNCg-tlU11cBq9CjNuM8VBmzYQtgcYb6rqRxQU2wF494SbSYjmx3ySx3ku7U0eVYTIMKAot998kdcZWKaM/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1420.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="561" data-original-width="800" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmyUDkl49e9XjqeNBRhyc-6qY4-bEU9evaEzpwOMXaFICS_CBbgYe6demZjMOYydGyfYb8BiGh4j9zJQU0fFkRNupA4Vpq286V1S-papONNJNCg-tlU11cBq9CjNuM8VBmzYQtgcYb6rqRxQU2wF494SbSYjmx3ySx3ku7U0eVYTIMKAot998kdcZWKaM/w200-h140/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1420.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Having spent three months being thoroughly baffled, the
final fifteen minutes of this journey were sheer excitement and joyful
discovery – the three months of zero progress and self-doubt are totally
forgotten and once again I’m an enormous fan of Boaz’ creativity and serious
puzzle-designing-chops – Picolock is exceptional and deserves its place in the
family dynasty. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Great work Boaz!!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">...and the good news is that Picolock is now available for sale at Boaz' webshop <a href="https://puzzlocks.com/products/picolock">over here</a>...<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p>
allardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02137859069894390167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325321154517773060.post-14156451762180320362023-11-04T09:54:00.001+00:002023-11-04T09:54:26.081+00:00DCD 2023
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS3x5lYblThyphenhyphenmMhcMWjKj2SuXcBwpy1PkbjCbn-1ZlIEdWhhvBMwt1AA8zHasvgLs5grXytWIcgEzWs0XTKAgcAU0EeUmkK_c5bGZ3RvbyP42UYxOflhWHchc-Nh4EPL_dMYeoX3Z-bCzoMAti90ep2-9cejeQRzsf_yoqorrFS0aYr1sGUaKCOsLJs3Q/s2016/IMG_3826.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS3x5lYblThyphenhyphenmMhcMWjKj2SuXcBwpy1PkbjCbn-1ZlIEdWhhvBMwt1AA8zHasvgLs5grXytWIcgEzWs0XTKAgcAU0EeUmkK_c5bGZ3RvbyP42UYxOflhWHchc-Nh4EPL_dMYeoX3Z-bCzoMAti90ep2-9cejeQRzsf_yoqorrFS0aYr1sGUaKCOsLJs3Q/w150-h200/IMG_3826.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">I grabbed a train down to London on Friday afternoon and met up with
Rich in the bar. Ali and Steve drove into town and then Ali carted us off to
Cluequest for a couple of escape rooms before dinner. We manage to save the
world from being mutated into sheep(!) in spite of some of us managing to
ignore massive big clues along the way and then we disarmed a post box…
excellent rooms at Cluequest - we’ve got one more to play there, but there’s
news that they may be getting a new room sometime next year, so hopefully
there’ll be a couple for us to play by the time DCD comes around again…</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2z8mcpKaA2OzJ_dFLeN4BkQ5ovfMVs1FXyxpEGWoZsM48u-AmOj9X18LoNLDHEOJDtCsxlPi63-MUMvkUNQl5bMHvuJnODUdU03JgAKGfHmw4JWLD5C0fAxzNN4HF1LeIMVQMi1oH7HL9ZhsoxEXYfVzsFbepjr7ChR72aclDEkGs6cS_hAhYt6KTExc/s2016/IMG_3821.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2z8mcpKaA2OzJ_dFLeN4BkQ5ovfMVs1FXyxpEGWoZsM48u-AmOj9X18LoNLDHEOJDtCsxlPi63-MUMvkUNQl5bMHvuJnODUdU03JgAKGfHmw4JWLD5C0fAxzNN4HF1LeIMVQMi1oH7HL9ZhsoxEXYfVzsFbepjr7ChR72aclDEkGs6cS_hAhYt6KTExc/w150-h199/IMG_3821.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>After putting the world to rights, we grabbed a pizza at a very trendy
place (you could tell by the fact that the rest of the clientele was about half
our age – and we had Rich with us remember!) where the pizza turned out much
better than we’d been dreading it might be from the descriptions on the menu.
After we’d refuelled we headed back to the hotel bar for a libation and some
banter. Rich disappeared off upstairs to drop something off in his room and
Steve and I spent about 15 minutes trying unsuccessfully to get served at the
bar - mainly because it had closed about half an hour earlier - turns out
Londoner’s don’t drink in hotels on a Friday evening - who knew? <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Steve and I give up on waiting for Rich and head upstairs, only for the
lift to decide it’s overloaded - really rude given there’s literally only four
of us in the jolly thing! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">We meet up in the lobby before the sparrows wake up and Rich amuses us
by telling us he’d been locked out of his room the night before - Liz had gone
to sleep and turned off her phone with the only key inside the room, and it
seems she’s not a light sleeper so it took half an hour of bashing on the door
to raise her…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPt11W3Klao_8m-OiEIEIaYrr7H7KVzsf6IRtFsSspSNv1VA-DNbvwwdNZoNXi_AsHkwQEjrEtFRlQLnoVRSGf38YY8TxilDPCNa_zrN3qh7Kgobss7m-EBqMC49ww59xzfbTkCrLgUHQr5UaoYO0o2XWyxBZaYHrao55lJ1_YdJ4nSKix50HNB1XKeOQ/s2016/IMG_3814.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPt11W3Klao_8m-OiEIEIaYrr7H7KVzsf6IRtFsSspSNv1VA-DNbvwwdNZoNXi_AsHkwQEjrEtFRlQLnoVRSGf38YY8TxilDPCNa_zrN3qh7Kgobss7m-EBqMC49ww59xzfbTkCrLgUHQr5UaoYO0o2XWyxBZaYHrao55lJ1_YdJ4nSKix50HNB1XKeOQ/w200-h150/IMG_3814.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>At St Pancras there are a lot of people in Springbok rugby shirts
heading off the Rugby World Cup final in Paris… there aren’t many springbok
supporters on the train to Rotterdam. We amuse ourselves with some puzzles and
briefly with a Professor Puzzle escape room in a box - we get an extra hour’s
puzzling time because there’s a problem with a train ahead of us so we grind to
a halt for a while… Rich has brought snacks and there’s plenty of coffee and
puzzles so we don’t mind at all. <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">We navigate the Metro (a first for me) to find Louis in Voorburg and he
takes us through to the school so we can dump Steve’s stock and considerably
lighten his load. We swing via the hotel to collect Stefan and squash him into
the back seat between Rich and I and head off to Delft to find Rob’s new house…
we miss it on the first lap of Delft city centre but manage to spot it on the
second lap… we blame Rob’s directions, which in fairness are excellent as long
as you know what’s coming up next, e.g. turn before the building site… but you
only know it’s a building site once you’ve driven past it…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">A couple of the guys are already drowning their sorrows in caffeine so
we join them… the puzzles come out, the helpful banter begins to flow and more
puzzlers arrive until we’re more or less filling Rob’s new lounge with laughter
and encouragement - and the odd bit of abuse. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">We spend several hours playing with puzzles and catching up with folks
we haven’t seen for a while - the customary pizzas arrive and there’s a bit of
a lull in the noise levels as we feast, and then we’re back into full tilt
puzzling again. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAdgZG16MWyhv_GQrhwIyWDXRsFyJE-y4li6ErDjiga12FouOELWQh2j4viN0YmgsjVl9RiEaUyaj7BFQn5o6cCGoo1e9YsupGusmgI5GBMIDMD_NZbL4y57aUT_Sn9upOa5NJN7jUYxRpAGS3yj1A-j3lDafHAj_K-pSu-tU0rbNm0O8fxob7-GBQm8w/s2016/IMG_3820.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAdgZG16MWyhv_GQrhwIyWDXRsFyJE-y4li6ErDjiga12FouOELWQh2j4viN0YmgsjVl9RiEaUyaj7BFQn5o6cCGoo1e9YsupGusmgI5GBMIDMD_NZbL4y57aUT_Sn9upOa5NJN7jUYxRpAGS3yj1A-j3lDafHAj_K-pSu-tU0rbNm0O8fxob7-GBQm8w/w150-h200/IMG_3820.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>Rob brings out<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a shopping bag
full of what looks like bits of a dinosaur skeleton and in a fabulous bit of
misjudgement, he entrusts the assembly to Steve and Rich – who proceed to build
a franken-beetle-saurus which Steve then proudly displays on top of Rob’s
puzzle cabinet.<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">I decide to embarrass myself and have another go at solving Ali’s
exchange puzzle from Jerusalem -YES - I’ve been trying to solve it for three
months now… and finally get the inspiration to do the right thing and it turns
out I am an eedjit and Ali has beaten me thoroughly! Given that I’m already
getting so much grief for the fact that I’m spending literally three months
longer solving these puzzles than the rest of the assembled rabble, I pick up
Rob’s copy of Picolock expecting to add another few hours to my unsuccessful
solving time… but some helpful comments on some of the things that I’m randomly
verbalizing while I’m <i>not solving it</i> lead me to reassess a few
assumptions I hadn’t realized I’d made and soon I’m actually making some
progress on that one… and about ten minutes later it’s also solved and I’m
ready to sing Boaz’s praises for a long time…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkayybDk5VSTPhkbkX7MKCLS_M7jxSqT9-AYdJ7uGEK6F2Lf4Di5Mv4trG36z73mxU135klgJ-zvYCJDgvGTUAytAIKYOt3pXdO9wP1rEHFdMdhQy9Ed89YZqgj75GBiLuzejOeYbrNAtSNHsBAUobG_x6Vw9OOlUwTp0nT81qE0JyIIIMondhkjpj4-Y/s2016/IMG_3830.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkayybDk5VSTPhkbkX7MKCLS_M7jxSqT9-AYdJ7uGEK6F2Lf4Di5Mv4trG36z73mxU135klgJ-zvYCJDgvGTUAytAIKYOt3pXdO9wP1rEHFdMdhQy9Ed89YZqgj75GBiLuzejOeYbrNAtSNHsBAUobG_x6Vw9OOlUwTp0nT81qE0JyIIIMondhkjpj4-Y/w200-h150/IMG_3830.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>I go three for three by picking up Peter’s exchange puzzle and literally
solving it in seconds… well, OK, three months and some seconds…<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Somewhere around midnight we figure we better head back to Voorburg and
check into our hotel - we find the night manager and get our rooms and collapse
until the next morning…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Breakfast is excellent and Louis takes a car-full of puzzlers back to
the school for the main event. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYPKzacdqstg9uvSmMgIisrXfcnMRKnLSCVSvCkIEVCpHLd56xZCxs1QQ1vTez5nQ0nJ3yNmNU4v1IeHmT1xiyiEYAZPgkAI40qVy6eoPy1uf8cKkUuPnswmFifg094nJedtZMhi9_Sd9N2E5xMzD5SEmMDgta2zTMQdvRjbSYUGdbQ4SlPmKyBTqj404/s2016/IMG_3822.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYPKzacdqstg9uvSmMgIisrXfcnMRKnLSCVSvCkIEVCpHLd56xZCxs1QQ1vTez5nQ0nJ3yNmNU4v1IeHmT1xiyiEYAZPgkAI40qVy6eoPy1uf8cKkUuPnswmFifg094nJedtZMhi9_Sd9N2E5xMzD5SEmMDgta2zTMQdvRjbSYUGdbQ4SlPmKyBTqj404/w150-h200/IMG_3822.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">There are already piles of puzzlers there so Steve sets out his stall
while the rest of us set about chatting to friends and shopping furiously, or
indeed some combination of the two. </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">I spend a while chatting to Jan Willem and spot some Rocky Chiaro
puzzles on his table and end up purchasing a few of the ornate “things” that
Jan Willem has decided to let go - I promise to give them a good home. Wil has
his usual long array of crates of treasure - where else are you going to find
most of the Roger D puzzles stacked up next to some collectible Karakuri boxes
and a Pachinko box for sale? Marcel had a huge selection of stuff from the
latest Hanayamas through to several of his own original chess pieces and some
Sandfield and Trevor Wood treasures… </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi31XLWpmhhmMnYQZbJPlfYQZzJrie98th9JC1BvyifuSjWX2NkCwe-Lnr8dA_9Gf5GXD_gwkPmUSxizAtWv74kIpzPlDzG7Sg73fJcwKYsUC3o-ef-ajQDU-UKynXWWcfBM2y-LwPoNpmFGXJYjz15j1ay9V3o72ifFt2E7wiPcnggYJY2QFi0Iub0v4s/s2016/IMG_3823.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi31XLWpmhhmMnYQZbJPlfYQZzJrie98th9JC1BvyifuSjWX2NkCwe-Lnr8dA_9Gf5GXD_gwkPmUSxizAtWv74kIpzPlDzG7Sg73fJcwKYsUC3o-ef-ajQDU-UKynXWWcfBM2y-LwPoNpmFGXJYjz15j1ay9V3o72ifFt2E7wiPcnggYJY2QFi0Iub0v4s/w150-h200/IMG_3823.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Tony Fisher has brought a few throughly bonkers creations over for our enjoyment - I have never seen a skewb that large or indeed dinosaur eggs like that...(fact!). <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">The usual excellent spread at lunchtime filled us all up. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Jack had a huge selection of petite puzzles and I held back from his
table until much later in the day, before I hoovered up a bunch of his tray
puzzles and a few other little bits and pieces that make excellent puzzling
gifts. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjExcUDM15ptqt_GgwH7kGzOp7zgYrfoy0PMrATdtpEPCGpL6qGAUYy18i97EOqqcPvBBTyaKZKefOd8fokK2xl1afzsWrnQOVvqS292Cxbft5bdu51uS7kbbn1fXG3CeHeQuLtnt1JUpB8MNE1isc5siF0IqDRT0jPq20s5YDmvOkhVr97aJ8tpzN06Bs/s2016/IMG_3831.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjExcUDM15ptqt_GgwH7kGzOp7zgYrfoy0PMrATdtpEPCGpL6qGAUYy18i97EOqqcPvBBTyaKZKefOd8fokK2xl1afzsWrnQOVvqS292Cxbft5bdu51uS7kbbn1fXG3CeHeQuLtnt1JUpB8MNE1isc5siF0IqDRT0jPq20s5YDmvOkhVr97aJ8tpzN06Bs/w200-h150/IMG_3831.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Leo was auctioning off some rather collectible items in an actual
real-world silent auction which was really amusing to watch. Grown men
scribbling on post-it notes and then watching everyone else like a hawk… and
the real-life sniping at the end of the auction that was almost entirely undone
when Leo began closing out the auction three minutes before the appointed time,
much to the consternation of the snipers in the audience. Peace did prevail and
Steve bought an expensive jam jar with some sand and a few marbles in it and I
bought an expensive pair of scissors with some string attached - and we were
both delighted. <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZwB2-zS5CmXL8Uf_WS9_vIdwWMXYrd27kkuEfDm3z6o83LX2Ac13QJq-YApNxS0l5fzSUfm5WZ9w4XswHY6KBvcvueRfW-VtmnPQ07z0Qw6F1YGt5-Ax5ieeddKaTful5s5zg_1v0JHmII-NAD4p8iEpe8O7Nu-yZpYlBEq7LJziuvS6o0wlCcaPVj18/s2016/IMG_3842.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZwB2-zS5CmXL8Uf_WS9_vIdwWMXYrd27kkuEfDm3z6o83LX2Ac13QJq-YApNxS0l5fzSUfm5WZ9w4XswHY6KBvcvueRfW-VtmnPQ07z0Qw6F1YGt5-Ax5ieeddKaTful5s5zg_1v0JHmII-NAD4p8iEpe8O7Nu-yZpYlBEq7LJziuvS6o0wlCcaPVj18/w150-h200/IMG_3842.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>The afternoon lectures included some insights into 2*2 Rubik’s cubing at
world championship level from someone who does (that was way more fascinating
than I thought I’d find it!), an update from George and Rox on the World Puzzle
Centre (I suspect they’ve spelt it wrong!) and Rob gave us a canter through a
selection of the exchange puzzles from Jerusalem this year… well, the ones he
won’t be covering in the upcoming CFF article anyway…<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">After we’d reset the hall for the school lunch, a bunch of us headed off
to a nearby Chinese joint where we duly caused havoc - there were fourteen of
us… we had fun, and the buffet survived the onslaught, just…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">After dinner Louis ferried Chris to the station and our baggage back to
the hotel where Steve and I found him about twenty minutes later… some of the
others who were walking back with us took a more scenic route and got to the
hotel about half an hour later… </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjObd3Ziyt9Pxu_YIPbzEOpLeuyFo5lImdGe9eO9jKjsaahb4tSh3nw4vuIiV7p38hYMD3DpjXDCit8cAqWuiPn30O-k8e2mGA5ejHFidARXNAHqVVhyipNkmbd-0LyWVDqVnrfIzvmL64tEo85a7_8qVSES_i8H1EHNh1SCVO0WRTHLyw5-bS7wwQpNGQ/s2016/IMG_3843.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjObd3Ziyt9Pxu_YIPbzEOpLeuyFo5lImdGe9eO9jKjsaahb4tSh3nw4vuIiV7p38hYMD3DpjXDCit8cAqWuiPn30O-k8e2mGA5ejHFidARXNAHqVVhyipNkmbd-0LyWVDqVnrfIzvmL64tEo85a7_8qVSES_i8H1EHNh1SCVO0WRTHLyw5-bS7wwQpNGQ/w150-h200/IMG_3843.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>Four of us ended up in the bar playing with puzzles - I know, weird, eh?<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Next morning Steve and I ended up having a leisurely breakfast while
Rich topped up his beauty sleep (and I’m not going to comment on whether or not
he needed it) before Steve headed off on a bit of a wander and I headed off to
the room to type up my thoughts before I forgot the more important stories of
the weekend. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6DoaqRr9DIJvlTRe4gT3sOuhA80Ep0UkgNVCJHqkJEDyFchK5EDohwDsbaFmxMayzqKX4eSzIscam4fmfYzVIdz1vxPlATonl_JWyHckKveMQT9rBBsC1yYC8Z9EQ5CIQv11co92zzKxAVPwFveH7dhJd14NTpB2xLT1R9CWT3Rrd_NENrnNewNc6C_Q/s2016/IMG_3841.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6DoaqRr9DIJvlTRe4gT3sOuhA80Ep0UkgNVCJHqkJEDyFchK5EDohwDsbaFmxMayzqKX4eSzIscam4fmfYzVIdz1vxPlATonl_JWyHckKveMQT9rBBsC1yYC8Z9EQ5CIQv11co92zzKxAVPwFveH7dhJd14NTpB2xLT1R9CWT3Rrd_NENrnNewNc6C_Q/w200-h150/IMG_3841.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">...fashionable gentlemen meet-up<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">We checked out at the bell and then navigated the public transport
system back to Rotterdam to find some lunch and our Eurostar back to St
Pancras… we found a great burger joint just outside the station and then headed
across at the appointed time, where we found a slightly tetchy crowd of folks
outside the Eurostar check-in area – it seems that the high-speed trains
weren’t running through Rotterdam, as such, there was no Eurostar to catch. The
advice was to make our way to Brussels where the staff would put us on a train,
promise! The next three hours turned into a mini-Race-Around-The-World as we
took four trains to get ourselves to Brussels, where the friendly staff did
indeed put us on a train from Brussels to London as there was still no service
north of Brussels…</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuj1SvMHLpdgucgJlmFGDV3n6jnRb8mTEaXpUWnFHE5ZJ4kk1J5GP_a9enFc9vN82rqKfXJ0I-kKvxdAPe0jiX2HFSi3tBgccVfXd6-SsKC7XevLZ9L16zCDlcdG3WimbXHmhuMslloeJD0MkzqVCtOaPlY0kRalN1wVQkl8eFWtnQtwKGFWKWAxr1Pbc/s2016/IMG_3829.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuj1SvMHLpdgucgJlmFGDV3n6jnRb8mTEaXpUWnFHE5ZJ4kk1J5GP_a9enFc9vN82rqKfXJ0I-kKvxdAPe0jiX2HFSi3tBgccVfXd6-SsKC7XevLZ9L16zCDlcdG3WimbXHmhuMslloeJD0MkzqVCtOaPlY0kRalN1wVQkl8eFWtnQtwKGFWKWAxr1Pbc/w150-h200/IMG_3829.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">We ended up with a table to play with our puzzles and made our way
through the Exit the Game Lord of the Rings adventure… to the occasional
amusement of a rather serious fellow traveller on our table. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">We may have gotten into St Pancras about three hours later than
anticipated, but it was still an awesome puzzling weekend!</span></p>
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allardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02137859069894390167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325321154517773060.post-2743999252119868342023-10-30T10:31:00.003+00:002023-10-30T10:31:39.587+00:00Traffic 15<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPHfa_K1jDlur9jagBicoN_RlXd8qPxzGUPrGHYKaOvNfXilis7TYx6Lbfje2N1PwYx5HnLYiKesKlt3GOL1oCMIZ8O-5BRkFL8XAWPE_stk8u7eoUTXPyBo82XYOh5Peki4GIgUQHXs-SCbFZHwt-KE0Z1ZnXux3sdHGAyvPaE9pOMXWgJ00phqr5XTA/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1670.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="800" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPHfa_K1jDlur9jagBicoN_RlXd8qPxzGUPrGHYKaOvNfXilis7TYx6Lbfje2N1PwYx5HnLYiKesKlt3GOL1oCMIZ8O-5BRkFL8XAWPE_stk8u7eoUTXPyBo82XYOh5Peki4GIgUQHXs-SCbFZHwt-KE0Z1ZnXux3sdHGAyvPaE9pOMXWgJ00phqr5XTA/w200-h111/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1670.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.4px;">I spotted a new puzzle from Yuu Asaka on social media a little while back so I duly put in an order for a few copies, knowing that some of my mates were going to want a copy as well…</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.4px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.4px;">This one really stands out for me - it presents as a simple enough packing puzzle - <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a square tray with a couple of rounded corners, nine big white pieces, some with rounded-corners again and then three pairs of traffic sign sort of arrows. The white pieces have cut-outs for the arrows and it’s pretty easy to see how things need to go together to make the spaces that you seek… and you can pretty much just do that for virtually all of the pieces… except there’s always one stubborn arrow that just won’t slot into place… what’s interesting is that it’s not always the same piece that won’t slot into place, but you are always left with one… “which is interesting” as Laurie used to say. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.4px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.4px;">Somewhere around this point I realise that my usual approach of just trying to bash things in randomly probably isn’t going to serve me well, so I take a little of my own advice(!) and I Think(C) a little…</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.4px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9O55IKHGlJO_ccpZzhFzMPQxPVntEwV49GFnO1m4OrOxbJHK6G8t6hZt1pg-YEIESgo_TR1i9GcyRHwvEar4EZ39U4WIME168ZGAMkDP9fGFg5ZVgtD3tYCCxawQxDXq8_QoOYilLhen6iKLdq9_7TbQAfu2Jsrm-SsEGIGeQ7dNIrHqhq7hm_qnjJJA/s800/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1671.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="800" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9O55IKHGlJO_ccpZzhFzMPQxPVntEwV49GFnO1m4OrOxbJHK6G8t6hZt1pg-YEIESgo_TR1i9GcyRHwvEar4EZ39U4WIME168ZGAMkDP9fGFg5ZVgtD3tYCCxawQxDXq8_QoOYilLhen6iKLdq9_7TbQAfu2Jsrm-SsEGIGeQ7dNIrHqhq7hm_qnjJJA/w200-h217/AW_Puzz_Cat-DSC_1671.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.4px;">…and it dawns on me that there are some rather interesting constraints I hadn’t spotted into my random packings… </span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.4px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.4px;">Clearly I’m now onto something important so I explore that with renewed vigour, only to come up somewhat short yet again - even more analysis may well be required…</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.4px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.4px;">So I Think(C) even more… experiment a little and then remind myself of just how devious some of Yuu’s other designs have been in the past, and throw away all of my preconceived ideas, even the ones I hadn’t realised I had… and that turns out to be rather important - the solution is excellent and I love how it’s literally taken me through three whole cycles of thinking I’ve known what to do, and then realizing I didn’t in order to finally settle on the solution. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.4px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.4px;">… this is definitely one of my favorite puzzles from this very clever designer!</span></p><br /><br /><p></p>allardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02137859069894390167noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325321154517773060.post-14617598352870878952023-10-14T09:34:00.001+01:002023-10-14T09:34:39.169+01:00NPP 2023 (part 2)<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitt-umVwBIx237sA7S6-h50PoBMI8xDtL58wgPhQh8lBUJuy8_9jdO_LSV5BUgSEu7ZTDpHWVe-yVwPvcKAGluU3A6mPi3kQoc91LgjmOeGk4rYV61aXdtGwh9ILydJM5pg0mvRftm1uuFueiRaZv1B2O3wTjyfNwxRM6ImJN4ybr4uZ36qVpm41LPuRg/s2016/IMG_3783.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitt-umVwBIx237sA7S6-h50PoBMI8xDtL58wgPhQh8lBUJuy8_9jdO_LSV5BUgSEu7ZTDpHWVe-yVwPvcKAGluU3A6mPi3kQoc91LgjmOeGk4rYV61aXdtGwh9ILydJM5pg0mvRftm1uuFueiRaZv1B2O3wTjyfNwxRM6ImJN4ybr4uZ36qVpm41LPuRg/w150-h200/IMG_3783.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I’m an absolute eedjit!</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Not only did I ignore most of the photos I’d taken during
the course of the day at NPP, but I also omitted one of the funniest stories of
the day… so here are some more pics and the story I forgot!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This story starts with Frank’s pre-NPP rituals – he likes to
dust the puzzles in his puzzle cave so that when we move things around to find puzzles
to play with, we don’t spread the puzzle-dust all around the house – at least
that’s what I think he said. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">During said ritualistic cleansing, Frank spotted that his Klein
Bottle was a little (puzzle-)dusty and set about cleaning it… and at some point
he decided that introducing some water would be helpful – yes, yes, we ALL know…
and that didn’t go quite to plan, so on the Saturday morning Frank had a slightly
moist Klein Bottle with some little drops of water in some rather hard to reach
places…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi40P3vK2w5kSG1bzsxDCqvFzwu9i8O3XGeqSP-s9onCV22pdnr22Am4R4nfegsUwN81yCgmm6I1TnS1_bCD046yDn3LuodzjOu3EdXyqBmxFGLBsUdv2kZOflItkcSfzgm1jNsQYJJR5nzW2r1UPscq6pR37MkLTm1AFrQ34h1wyoDnFvxAepGm8g_hNA/s2016/IMG_3749.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi40P3vK2w5kSG1bzsxDCqvFzwu9i8O3XGeqSP-s9onCV22pdnr22Am4R4nfegsUwN81yCgmm6I1TnS1_bCD046yDn3LuodzjOu3EdXyqBmxFGLBsUdv2kZOflItkcSfzgm1jNsQYJJR5nzW2r1UPscq6pR37MkLTm1AFrQ34h1wyoDnFvxAepGm8g_hNA/w150-h200/IMG_3749.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>Which is where Steve, our super-cleaner takes up the
challenges and broadly announces that what it needs is rice – everyone who’s
ever seen anything on the internet knows that rice is used to dry out anything
precious… Frank helpfully provides a 3-kilogram sack of rice (Basmati, if you’re
interested) and some rice is duly decanted into a lovely little milk jug (no
milk is currently in residence). <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Steve pours a little into the orifice and shakes it around and
it does indeed do a passable job of mopping up the moisture – HURRAH!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Somewhere around now Dan and Andrew arrive and between the usual
greetings, Dan asks what Steve is up to so he explains that Frank had tried
washing his Klein Bottle only to find some moisture trapped inside it so we’re
trying to help him – Dan solemnly raises his hand and comes up with the single
geekiest comment of the day: “Hang on – may I just take exception to the fact
that there is moisture <i>inside</i> of a Klein Bottle?” – cue short
philosophical discussion about the fact that there is no inside of a Klein
Bottle. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS6jdc1xi2CXnIa4o75TPXBBuKkwxIjf60saPGZ_oUOxUePuBnqCf-lLO3lA_FLOxstxVFuu2zR-c_yOtK6EwS43wGXovX338XAxZMGn3ZUt4NcQqXc4tdiA7nDhawkP1nTObjl-9VjILvgnarmWQe8e8WF-QZRg1jb5cmSSaKF5SuaZbmVF16YSg8YDQ/s2016/IMG_3744.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS6jdc1xi2CXnIa4o75TPXBBuKkwxIjf60saPGZ_oUOxUePuBnqCf-lLO3lA_FLOxstxVFuu2zR-c_yOtK6EwS43wGXovX338XAxZMGn3ZUt4NcQqXc4tdiA7nDhawkP1nTObjl-9VjILvgnarmWQe8e8WF-QZRg1jb5cmSSaKF5SuaZbmVF16YSg8YDQ/w200-h150/IMG_3744.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Anyhow – back to the rescue mission - the rice, however, is
now somewhat damp, and doesn’t really slide as well as it used to and sort of
sticks to the glass and won’t come out… but Steve doesn’t panic, for he knows
that the answer to this new problem is in fact more rice… enough rice to bash
the original rice off the wall and carry it out of the way with its momentum!</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">By now Rich is involved and they dispense with the little
milk jug and resort to pouring rice straight from the 3-kilogram sack into the
dainty Klein Bottle… until they fill it with rice. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Right about now Quigley looks up from his puzzle and tells
the lads they’re all idiots and they’re just going to end up with white rice
dust inside it (I know, I know – but you know what he means!).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5xU-sE0XlGTaKaLWHSih3Yz7tbIynEQ-BGqwGfCteyWknt2lYYGVoJX1zp6scNLtQqmZSOs-TPEjJDwi-f87OLHt8K9K14v5kTOKwHgskgsWVQ-4lceXbdwpSK8biwTIpOJP8PFA-YvLK6vjz2zZ9L6Bcxt-vg9rwhLAD71kFM7gYP627v41G7NHZWx8/s2016/IMG_3755.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5xU-sE0XlGTaKaLWHSih3Yz7tbIynEQ-BGqwGfCteyWknt2lYYGVoJX1zp6scNLtQqmZSOs-TPEjJDwi-f87OLHt8K9K14v5kTOKwHgskgsWVQ-4lceXbdwpSK8biwTIpOJP8PFA-YvLK6vjz2zZ9L6Bcxt-vg9rwhLAD71kFM7gYP627v41G7NHZWx8/w150-h200/IMG_3755.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>Undeterred, Steve persists with the Klein Bottle puzzle
until all of the rice, and indeed all traces of the moisture are out of the
Bottle… which would have been absolutely brilliant had it not been for the
little film of white rice dust coating the inside of the glass… Quigley doesn’t
crow, much…<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Frank declares it even messier than before he’d started his
ritual and duly puts it under the warm water tap and washes it again… this time
he refuses to give it to Steve and places it on the radiator in the kitchen…
where it dries gently without the need for any further rice. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">No Klein Bottles were harmed in the making of this story –
some rice may been sacrificed in the name of science. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBArQStu-gmEHQY-HG_Wyi2-OnJB1ilLfVwII4Yv2yz0bBVj_XU34NbMmuIpsGkSfmbdkcg_OT6D7zy4aBzSVAp1EsjgVq6z7gC6fQAa7VOCXTSyOi3YXHXAkXM2dCl4xKeNmJfrQH4_u4Vlkff7ydRkXmz62TJ8KPgyI_Rc7DiLvv3u7TF8JFFbxrlWk/s2016/IMG_3752.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBArQStu-gmEHQY-HG_Wyi2-OnJB1ilLfVwII4Yv2yz0bBVj_XU34NbMmuIpsGkSfmbdkcg_OT6D7zy4aBzSVAp1EsjgVq6z7gC6fQAa7VOCXTSyOi3YXHXAkXM2dCl4xKeNmJfrQH4_u4Vlkff7ydRkXmz62TJ8KPgyI_Rc7DiLvv3u7TF8JFFbxrlWk/w200-h150/IMG_3752.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlkVsfmv1y2Jb02lBfbm2ZZFWVXameofCWUe0HkJy8qyru1fBYwYQBy5PZFyUYpYRrjqhdEdT-Y5tACpbYQzRg-pK9Jqt7H5NjsT9QvqGeciRjjRwwYAG7xU3nOelKPl2sNpEaZZwgM7kc_6Apr2KSUztxRvtonolzfTzjMzIyry5zc2S9QaIek9qMdmM/s4032/IMG_3763.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlkVsfmv1y2Jb02lBfbm2ZZFWVXameofCWUe0HkJy8qyru1fBYwYQBy5PZFyUYpYRrjqhdEdT-Y5tACpbYQzRg-pK9Jqt7H5NjsT9QvqGeciRjjRwwYAG7xU3nOelKPl2sNpEaZZwgM7kc_6Apr2KSUztxRvtonolzfTzjMzIyry5zc2S9QaIek9qMdmM/s320/IMG_3763.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Frank and I almost share a birthday, and that’s a good
enough excuse for a puzzle party, every year. There’s some debate over when the
first Northern Puzzle Party was, since Frank and I didn’t know about the first
one – sure, we were both there, we just didn’t realise it was actually an NPP,
anyhoo – about a week ago we had another…</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Some of the lads drove up on the Friday and had an early start
on the puzzling and some games – one of which saw Steve repeatedly chasing
Frank’s wife around the ground floor of the house waving something – don’t ask –
I have no idea. </span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Gill and I headed up on Saturday morning a bit earlier than
we usually do having taken the hounds to their weekend holiday home the night
before – glad we did that as the traffic was really nice and light – it was certainly
better than when Andrew and Dan headed up the road a couple of hours later!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As we arrived, we were handed a hot drink and a large
selection of cakes, to which we added a tub of Gill’s delicious honeycomb rocky
road. Mike and Tamsin had already arrived and the Monkeys plus Rich were
well-settled-in from the day before. There were one or two puzzles on the dining
room table and the kitchen island already… I probably didn’t need to bring a
crate of puzzles along. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I’d brought along a bunch of puzzles that I hadn’t solved
yet in the hopes that some kind soul would solve them for me, and that sort of
worked once or twice – folks would take the bait and then duly solve them in front
of me – usually without letting me see anything that might just resemble a
spoiler – and then scrambling them again… the one exception was Rich’s solve of
my copy of Climburr – he duly dismantled it and then “reassembled” it in a
configuration that has had me scratching my head for a week now – unable to
either take it apart or actually put it into the proper assembled position.
(That’s what mates are for, eh?!)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfWaX2Lb8FW-zmqXRNrl5A99sI4y_BuTXXgvIZNs_JO4-VxxcAx2XznUZ-CPVdnKlcZDKzpgD3HKfDSGwKF6x9bs8610xUYsOj-g_Db2D9zyqNCng83XFsVAUcwaZkensyDmWtKDHPJi2L3TvGQuVcrBcMVqkYgu2hAin21rFqDgkLQARvWeC8SG7y2g0/s4032/IMG_3764.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfWaX2Lb8FW-zmqXRNrl5A99sI4y_BuTXXgvIZNs_JO4-VxxcAx2XznUZ-CPVdnKlcZDKzpgD3HKfDSGwKF6x9bs8610xUYsOj-g_Db2D9zyqNCng83XFsVAUcwaZkensyDmWtKDHPJi2L3TvGQuVcrBcMVqkYgu2hAin21rFqDgkLQARvWeC8SG7y2g0/s320/IMG_3764.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Several folks successfully solved my copy of Triple Product
and waved it in front of my snout snuggly inside its little acrylic box and I
still have no idea how to solve it…<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Steve and I spent a while playing with a pre-production copy
of Oskar’s Screw Pack – seven interacting screws screw into a large nut-shaped
frame – we took turns at trying to build on one another’s’ logical deductions
and until we’d jointly solved it in theory, and then started putting it
together – at which point we realised there was another potential little issue –
so we co-solved that one too and then had it all neatly reassembled… however,
that wasn’t sufficient for our Steve – who then proceeded to find a lovely chaotic
“solution” with all the screws at different heights – the perfect “assembly” to
leave it in for those with OCD to worry to about. </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Some time before lunch Andrew and Dan arrived having had a
bit of a nightmare journey up the M6. Frank called Lunch and duly rolled out several
trays of sandwiches and wraps – the Potts track-record of over-catering remains
sound. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi987mUcxU2MJ_SV1fsY0nEMWdYSj43_lOUxznxeSAUUlCRX7fXK2qs56qusx6efEfdBe-aTKaHpTvZdl_zegJboPcnX2G3mn0YdOOSRAgwVLzW-k0mp-BhQRD8g1NjIEQkhHa8WtW609dl0xdYYpcfOZUnPFou-4cDsILzSi9qZ8F1NA16BrUGrwMPT-0/s4032/IMG_3769.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi987mUcxU2MJ_SV1fsY0nEMWdYSj43_lOUxznxeSAUUlCRX7fXK2qs56qusx6efEfdBe-aTKaHpTvZdl_zegJboPcnX2G3mn0YdOOSRAgwVLzW-k0mp-BhQRD8g1NjIEQkhHa8WtW609dl0xdYYpcfOZUnPFou-4cDsILzSi9qZ8F1NA16BrUGrwMPT-0/s320/IMG_3769.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sometime after lunch I tried to interest some folks in attempting
my World Traveller Society Kickstarter adventure box… I’d had a little dabble
at it a week or so earlier and solved the first puzzle, only to hit a brick
wall of “This is tough, I’m going to need help – why don’t I take this along to
NPP and get some help from some real puzzle solvers?!” During the course of the
rest of the day several people did indeed pitch in and try to help – Tamsin did a
sterling job of opening up the first compartment in spite of me giving her a
duff steer on where to line up the answer on the first padlock. That provided a
veritable trove of intriguing looking artefacts and very little idea of where
to go next… so we tried a few avenues and generally came up blank on most of
them. After some serious head-scratching and not a lot of progress, we elected to
try some hints and ended up wandering down a long and winding road<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>right into a rabbit hole… having traced
through all of the hints, and the actual answer – we found ourselves a bit lost
as to how the heck we were supposed to settle on that answer, so we tried
another puzzle – only to find ourselves in a similar position once more, and
then not getting much joy from following an extended trail of hints and
eventually the solution itself… so we decided it was clearly meant for far cleverer
puzzlers than us, and went back to playing with our other puzzles. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnpX6beEULBmRbiBQ3e2e0uahQX8LxdJrbwWMLHXD7Oy1hvdXE4pahZG_b17qk3Ujk6EZJMNnuZHEPSksXLuxiA4JK_TDuqB5-FqYl9HpLemiEOE6Uqp17vs9G_RCE_pvGkKuOlArfGBEpPHlvBBmmbkA9LBSf6wXFtmro0e6IwgHJhIhBvlHJ-7Wi2Q/s4032/IMG_3771.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnpX6beEULBmRbiBQ3e2e0uahQX8LxdJrbwWMLHXD7Oy1hvdXE4pahZG_b17qk3Ujk6EZJMNnuZHEPSksXLuxiA4JK_TDuqB5-FqYl9HpLemiEOE6Uqp17vs9G_RCE_pvGkKuOlArfGBEpPHlvBBmmbkA9LBSf6wXFtmro0e6IwgHJhIhBvlHJ-7Wi2Q/s320/IMG_3771.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dan had brought along his (half-sized) copy of Goh Pitt
Khiam’s Numlock with a super valuable Israeli Scheckel secured in place… and it
duly became the object of an arms race between Steve-the-destroyer-of all-things-orderly,
and Dan, who doesn’t have OCD but is seriously considering a long-term
relationship with it. They went back and forth many, many times over the course
of the afternoon with Steve disassembling and reassembling it with the numbers
in the wrong order, only for Dan to calmly open it up in about a third of the
time and reorder them properly… somehow neither of them thought it made sense to
concede and just leave it alone…</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A couple of folks worked their way through Iwahara’s new
Quaternary Box and one or two managed to find the second compartment in Bars
Box III – so I know that one’s not broken – I’m just being more incompetent than
usual…</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVUkINskwzLS9wUEW-EpCzZoU95ULSRS6w5bmNDuu9qUuY7YjhZMa3VUDz6zvxbQRVhvvgYUpdggLRB8Fe9CBS0_9dV12mJ4mc72fxsRQbQa9cfu5m_f7jX-PJes54yNiXtjva_t0Vw9wGslZlZoFXBAQuK1ceUQg_Gjm2YGT466qzv9oZt7NUJCMbxFM/s2016/IMG_3783.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVUkINskwzLS9wUEW-EpCzZoU95ULSRS6w5bmNDuu9qUuY7YjhZMa3VUDz6zvxbQRVhvvgYUpdggLRB8Fe9CBS0_9dV12mJ4mc72fxsRQbQa9cfu5m_f7jX-PJes54yNiXtjva_t0Vw9wGslZlZoFXBAQuK1ceUQg_Gjm2YGT466qzv9oZt7NUJCMbxFM/s320/IMG_3783.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Frank had to step out at some point in the afternoon so we
played another fun round of hide the Kumiki – Steve had found another bunch of
old Kumiki puzzles in his collection that he thought Frank would like, so he
gave us each one to hide somewhere in Frank’s house… and then challenged Frank
to find them all. Frank really loves this game – in fact he’s still playing
last year’s round. [Editor’s note: in the week following NPP he found the Kumiki
pig that I’d hidden in his dining room last year. The man is on fire…]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">At one point Ali announced that it was time for the
competition and produced a copy of his new NPP burr for everyone to solve – as a
competition… virtually everyone solved their copy before I finally managed to
work out just how I was being stupid and what might work a little better –
finally managing to assembly the little bugger – only for Ali to present me
with a giant sized version and ask me to repeat the process on the larger one…
Frank had just done exactly that and discovered he’d assemble them in mirrored forms…
it took me almost as long to assemble the second copy – not that sharpest brush
on the line… or something. ;-) </span></p>
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storm (and nomming cakey!) and when they returned we started prepping for
dinner (because we were all famished by that stage – NOT!) – once again it was
clear that there was going to be a huge spread, but before dinner, Frank
announced there’d be an awards ceremony based on some secret challenges he’d
given each one of us to do with Steve during the course of the day. This took
Steve a little by surprise and he hadn’t really noticed anything too weird – we
each got invited to tell Steve what we’d had to get him to do and in return for
our successful achievement of our challenges, Frank awarded each of us with a ceremonial
NPP Challenge medal… I had to get Steve to tell me his age and get him to
fist-bump me twice (not really my style, but he was very obliging during our
co-solve of Oskar’s Screw Pack), Gill had to get him to dance (Hokey Pokey
obviously!), someone had to get him to make an animal noise - worryingly he did
that entirely of his own accord, Mike had to get him to play rock, paper,
scissors and so on… we all had a lot of fun with it – and medals!</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">After dinner Frank divided us into two teams and we competed
in a head-to-head solve of an envelope escape… we came second…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There was a bunch more banter and solving and then it all
got a bit too much for some of us… Tamsin took a bit of a nap with Chiquitito
but her years of being an on-call doctor kicked in when Frank gently woke her
and she jumped up and was fully awake in about 3 microseconds…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Everyone headed off to their respective Airbnb’s and we
headed upstairs to bed. </span></p>
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fit for a king (or three!) before we met up with the rest of the gang at
Lucardo in Rawtenstall for a couple of escape rooms. Claus for Concern turned
out to be a LOT more puzzly than we’d thought it would be - and Corruption was really
excellent – lots of surprising elements in the room that had us absolutely buzzing.
</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">After we’d all finished there was the obligatory comparison
of finishing times across the room and bonus points – before a team photo
outside the rooms for posterity…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">…after a few pretty torrid weeks in the office, that was an absolutely
brilliant couple of days with some of my favourite friends – Thank you Frank and Jo for
another awesome weekend!</span></p>
allardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02137859069894390167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325321154517773060.post-6424373172590330612023-09-23T12:39:00.002+01:002023-09-23T12:39:32.226+01:00Simple Lock 1<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Most definitely not!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I missed out on the first release of this puzzle a while
back, but on Louis’ most excellent recommendation, I joined the waiting list
and managed to grab a copy from a <a href="https://www.simple-puzzle.com/product/8254184/simple-lock-1">subsequent batch</a>… and I’m rather glad I did. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It is an exceedingly handsome little beast – plenty of nicely
brushed aluminium, a super-solid looking stainless-steel shackle and a conspicuously
removable plate on the back. (The lock comes with a hex-tool and an instruction
to only use it after fully solving the puzzle in order to see your serial number
inscribed inside.) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The accompanying key actually fits in the keypath (great
start!) and will actually turn (we’re two-for-two already!) and you may even be
surprised when the shackle starts coming out (it’s all going swimmingly so
far!), but there’s a rather large “but” in your pretty immediate future at this
stage! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Roundabout now things go a little Pete Tong, and you may
well find yourself picturing Ben, the creator of this little monster, having a
laugh at your expense. </span></p>
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yourself unable to turn around and head back for the safety of your starting
position – game on… ready or not!</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">That whole bit of the journey takes mere seconds… the rest
of it took me many, many weeks!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">At various stages I had a shackle in one hand and a
locked-up padlock with a key that wouldn’t budge in the other – in fact that
was quite often the position. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There are some lovely discoveries and some very subtle
little touches that had me barking up the wrong tree for an awfully long time. There’s
a tool or two to be discovered (including some “where the heck did that come
from?”!) and then a really long (‘twas for me!) journey of discovery to work
out all of the steps required to get everything back to the starting position. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's really an excellent puzzle from just the solve
perspective - what makes it really mind-blowing IMHO is taking the back cover
off and seeing just how elegant the innards are – there is zero
over-complication anywhere. Every precisely shaped piece is there for a reason –
some to allow you to do something, most to stop you from doing something. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ultimately this puzzle’s design really earns its name – just
don’t be fooled into thinking that the name will be descriptive of the solution
in any way, shape or form!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bravo Ben! </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(Yes, I know that’s not a real Roman Numeral…try and keep
up!) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGUElUsfxep_a5xMA1rfhXwrRrW1zC-Sg0vQAuhdIlnWx2b-V09ax300tdy13FlJYGTbniW20z6_tx6E0J36A-E67qXq38Rl6t29k5nbI-ZcpylvDA-_1CGAYJ1ohSUip_vBbcRV7THWgMB6hH8kaUgqy0HvCKP58Qo7L6O_V7_vIdetCbQsz8Khylq1o/s2016/IMG_3692.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGUElUsfxep_a5xMA1rfhXwrRrW1zC-Sg0vQAuhdIlnWx2b-V09ax300tdy13FlJYGTbniW20z6_tx6E0J36A-E67qXq38Rl6t29k5nbI-ZcpylvDA-_1CGAYJ1ohSUip_vBbcRV7THWgMB6hH8kaUgqy0HvCKP58Qo7L6O_V7_vIdetCbQsz8Khylq1o/w150-h200/IMG_3692.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">MPP XXXXVIII was another rather select affair – a few of the
usual suspects weren’t able to make this one and I ended up in the decidedly weird
position of not having anyone staying for the weekend and heading down to the
hall entirely on my own on the Saturday morning – it really felt quite weird!</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I got there before anyone had arrived and set about getting
the urn up and running, laying out the refreshments and setting up all the
tables – I put up a couple of the traditional signs and then headed across to the
shops to grabs some cold drinks and some fresh milk – good thing as Phil later discovered
that the milk left in the fridge was somewhat beyond its best…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sod’s Law dictates that while I was at the shops two loads
of puzzlers had arrived, and George and Rox seemed to be packing or unpacking
their luggage in the car park while Steve, Ali and Rich looked on – I didn’t
ask and they didn’t offer… the mystery remains…</span></p>
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banter, fiddling with puzzles, more banter and the occasional bit of friendly abuse,
aka banter. <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A couple of us had brought along a full set of our exchange
puzzles so that anyone who hadn’t been at IPP 40 could experience our pain at
not being able to solve quite a few of them; and perhaps solve one or two of
them. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dale had a rummage through the exchange puzzles and found a
goodly number that interested him. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Kevin had brought along a huge number of recent Pelikan
productions and several of us had a bash at some of them that we hadn’t had our
grubby paws on yet. I reciprocated by encouraging him to have a bash at George
Bell’s Another Broken Burr – a lovely little six-piece burr that might look
like a “standard” diagonal burr when it’s properly assembled, a badly coloured diagonal
burr when it’s not, and a really scary pile of pieces when it’s not assembled. It
turns out there’s a sliding axis assembly for the wrong assembly, and the right
assembly requires six pieces to be simultaneously assembled… Kevin loves a
challenge after all… and after one or two false starts he was victorious, which
is great because I can now store that puzzle assembled! (I’d had no luck trying
to do that myself a few days earlier – so well done, and thanks Kevin!)</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifoGQEh240iISj9xugmysq0NjSwooWwWjRgvhmq75eEpC3YaKogTX4miohVqYpecXyjzuRebgar14CS-eapWg7E6sIIVSsEtHMJo-nr4p3s5_cQ3pA7XFuGICVrj8_3eLCDVNDhIX1Q_KVz5CPuBEOhkgbu2ocCajh7mOBGCZH_MtatXns-s_nt5gsA7Q/s2016/IMG_3687.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifoGQEh240iISj9xugmysq0NjSwooWwWjRgvhmq75eEpC3YaKogTX4miohVqYpecXyjzuRebgar14CS-eapWg7E6sIIVSsEtHMJo-nr4p3s5_cQ3pA7XFuGICVrj8_3eLCDVNDhIX1Q_KVz5CPuBEOhkgbu2ocCajh7mOBGCZH_MtatXns-s_nt5gsA7Q/w150-h200/IMG_3687.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Kyle had brought along one of his new creations and Tamsin
spent a while sitting next to me working her way through it – every now and
then there’d be a delighted squeak as a new bit of progress was made – spoiler alert:
she enjoyed it!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Phil had arrived with a few copies of his latest creation:
a set of three dexterity puzzles beautifully machined out of chunks of brass – they
had to be, didn’t they?! I’d already arranged to take a set and handed him some
cash – mainly so that I could annoy visiting puzzlers – I’m really rubbish at
dexterity puzzles and probably don’t stand a hope in all heck of ever solving
them – especially after hearing how he’d struggled with them – Quigley will no doubt
consider them all a mere child’s toy and complete them in minutes – in fact he
may have even done that in the hall and completed them so quickly that I wasn’t
even aware of him doing them. <I did subsequently try and solve them when I
was taking some pics and managed to solve one out of the three… I’m going to
have to try the other two again, not that I’m a proud man, but…></span></p>
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Crowell, before George tried to throw it at BurrTools and found himself asking
a familiar question…<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Quizbrix latest release, Vertigo, had several folks playing
with Lego for a while – not a single bad word was uttered – everyone loves
playing with Peleg’s latest design. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Ap6HAU7jEUhiFdTZDNdI_ujj-kkru-pXrOZmPQb3NKGuamzYj6-eJazOPwNWLP4TauVDD_PJ_nr0VYQdMFuC-ikGKohYH8WUERRbu39zlqxQxyQNhhgszZW4aAAtrD9-Ov-mUCU2yRSuLuZzijYPmZIAHDZOagZrl3CXDfxPWg399SmWPF8g93IDkbo/s2016/IMG_3694.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Ap6HAU7jEUhiFdTZDNdI_ujj-kkru-pXrOZmPQb3NKGuamzYj6-eJazOPwNWLP4TauVDD_PJ_nr0VYQdMFuC-ikGKohYH8WUERRbu39zlqxQxyQNhhgszZW4aAAtrD9-Ov-mUCU2yRSuLuZzijYPmZIAHDZOagZrl3CXDfxPWg399SmWPF8g93IDkbo/w150-h200/IMG_3694.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Several folks had a bash at solving Chinny’s Ze Tooth Fairy
Puzzle – with some people finding some rather unconventional approaches to
solving some of the steps and then finding themselves thoroughly out of sequence
with things, finding tools with no apparent use having cooked an earlier step
or two – Chinny’s puzzles never fail to put a huge smile on folks' faces – that never
changes!</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I embarrassed myself severely spending an absolute age totally
failing to solve Ali’s copy of his Bolt From the Blue in front of him… only to
be told that Mike had just solved my copy of the bolt without any issues – I’d
been hoping my copy was somehow defective and that it wasn’t merely a case of
the solver being defective – turned out ‘twas. Hey ho… onwards and… somewhere…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Being a smaller bunch – about 13 of us, I think – there seemed
to be more time for chatting with everyone and chillin’ with puzzles – no that
is not a euphemism!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsj16yDJtiIZvfLgcNBnL_nPzB7VFEHGLs8BhASJqm-7Kbbt5ap-hshH2ZrPgAAOt5DgG_fB3n1MNwIi-FB1NiHFe835S-pZyMehetnA_FvOlo1im57UxGgVyVkOC3RXwN9aY3aeITCeXJuTfYmmkMuRDcAjiw09GWVJ19VHDRX_VYxSFa_FVbsdzmiAc/s2016/IMG_3696.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsj16yDJtiIZvfLgcNBnL_nPzB7VFEHGLs8BhASJqm-7Kbbt5ap-hshH2ZrPgAAOt5DgG_fB3n1MNwIi-FB1NiHFe835S-pZyMehetnA_FvOlo1im57UxGgVyVkOC3RXwN9aY3aeITCeXJuTfYmmkMuRDcAjiw09GWVJ19VHDRX_VYxSFa_FVbsdzmiAc/w150-h200/IMG_3696.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I managed to disappoint Rox (and no doubt one or two others,
including myself!) at lunch time when the deli had just run out of pig buns
when we got there – mental note: must leave earlier for lunch next time! With
my staple not being available I opted for a curry sausage roll, which turned
out to be delicious, so all was not entirely lost! There was a smattering of
some wonderfully unhealthy pickings around the various lunch tables – kebab-man
I’m looking at you! – and even some really healthy choices – puzzlers are an
interesting mix!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbOtSJQZeE3mf9X2fJblbyFKq1f-j2_Wu6lYh_4lJ1_748RWnTY7J3bEMwjhq5RmtMUZKNvJFpCB4mVh0AeWWwlL7Xw8hPA41Y3QiFObn7WH7Wv-DA_YriyABZ9mMJn_eXuHYdfiJJx1V0teo3wK8cM-w9BdsGva5HAG1OVwE2E6S9QU0qonsq93hzPzg/s2016/IMG_3699.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbOtSJQZeE3mf9X2fJblbyFKq1f-j2_Wu6lYh_4lJ1_748RWnTY7J3bEMwjhq5RmtMUZKNvJFpCB4mVh0AeWWwlL7Xw8hPA41Y3QiFObn7WH7Wv-DA_YriyABZ9mMJn_eXuHYdfiJJx1V0teo3wK8cM-w9BdsGva5HAG1OVwE2E6S9QU0qonsq93hzPzg/w150-h200/IMG_3699.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><p></p>
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Chinny’s exchange puzzle and seemingly trying to play a tune on some poor
unsuspecting moles’ heads for some reason. Possibly it was just that he had the
wrong tune, but the puzzle didn’t magically open – suggestions for the right tune
on a postcard to Steve please. <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I managed to give away a few copies of my exchange and the
Monkeys had copies of their exchanges and one or two other recent goodies
available for sale at most reasonable prices. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There was a fair bit of fiddling with Rik’s exchange, albeit
not a lot of progress beyond the predicted first stage of the solve… I got
lucky with that one and solved it during the preceding week – I had a line of thought
and managed to make elements of it start working and then bashed through to the
final solution – definitely a bit sneaky!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF6zZ91rvYkRCmrtC3bqs5p0samdiO2eiFtdZ6SJp0bUnyFOhhqI_TOuCWiMY2EmmLDM76lYBpcCUuz5Yno7G7QQsg0blzF67Jg9IWfZv9mD3DeotrE-m0mv2BaO_3DYT46lIDNCJmrr5vm10YKeHSP0qg4GOFJPwZSZgxXr8BI53gLTEbjF3StEDy1jo/s2016/IMG_3701.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF6zZ91rvYkRCmrtC3bqs5p0samdiO2eiFtdZ6SJp0bUnyFOhhqI_TOuCWiMY2EmmLDM76lYBpcCUuz5Yno7G7QQsg0blzF67Jg9IWfZv9mD3DeotrE-m0mv2BaO_3DYT46lIDNCJmrr5vm10YKeHSP0qg4GOFJPwZSZgxXr8BI53gLTEbjF3StEDy1jo/w200-h150/IMG_3701.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Dmitry’s Third Wheel got a LOT of attention across a couple
of copies, and to my knowledge nobody managed a solve at MPP, although I’m
pretty sure that Ali has subsequently solved it… the rest of us mortals struggle
on… Nobody got anywhere at all on Brian’s exchange… that one’s going to go down
in history as a mean bastard! (The puzzle…) <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Somewhere before six o’clock we packed up the hall, bid some
folks farewell and then headed off to my place for the traditional fish supper,
only this one turned out to be a little less traditional: the weather on the
afternoon was absolutely wonderful, so Gill was sitting out on the deck making one
of her scrappy wreaths and a few folks ended up sitting around the table
chatting with her… until pretty much everyone was outside around the table just
chilling and chatting, with nary a puzzle in sight… </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4oJ0SmiD8OWK4Ge-b64NFMFI8ergHDtqSIjUMf4DZ-Q-tc8Yob2UsjTsN-LdevNIgnOrem81Vb50Gv-P5aFaMyYtvcbg-lpIO6ArvIVv_pxZQfhaNv-Q0RNXpw5jmQQx95QRlpqUq1ctzofxTYsGe4MJ2karYd7g-oTBmbn6_JzF1RZtLKGCNpvKomow/s2016/IMG_3704.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4oJ0SmiD8OWK4Ge-b64NFMFI8ergHDtqSIjUMf4DZ-Q-tc8Yob2UsjTsN-LdevNIgnOrem81Vb50Gv-P5aFaMyYtvcbg-lpIO6ArvIVv_pxZQfhaNv-Q0RNXpw5jmQQx95QRlpqUq1ctzofxTYsGe4MJ2karYd7g-oTBmbn6_JzF1RZtLKGCNpvKomow/w200-h150/IMG_3704.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">We had supper out there, and chatted some more and literally
just ended up chatting and laughing out on the deck for the rest of the evening…
until folks needed to head home – a really lovely end to a super day’s puzzling
with friends, once again – thanks for another memorable MPP, folks!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p>
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<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEictpuQatLDfD4Kw3ZhzVPeai7EcUxVyWKJRJvbH56lTzOQVo9KjYHrrMMckTCPzHRqTFkGh_aTWwO3rW5hB43Za8CUscmXgh2ZeQJCO8KyI5vpLftjixFcfypCdY31WG4cha79OdnulYcTGlDjeu3ChmPm7wn3JY96OFXHB5JDcBK6hqLC-6BIHBfsu7A/s2048/IMG_3225.JPEG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEictpuQatLDfD4Kw3ZhzVPeai7EcUxVyWKJRJvbH56lTzOQVo9KjYHrrMMckTCPzHRqTFkGh_aTWwO3rW5hB43Za8CUscmXgh2ZeQJCO8KyI5vpLftjixFcfypCdY31WG4cha79OdnulYcTGlDjeu3ChmPm7wn3JY96OFXHB5JDcBK6hqLC-6BIHBfsu7A/w150-h200/IMG_3225.JPEG" width="150" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Tuesday </b>is exchange day: I grab a quick
breakfast with Sabine, Stefan and Zack before retrieving the heavy suitcase of
puzzles and dragging it downstairs where Louis and I build an impressive
pyramid of brain food. There are six of us with matching comedy shirts with
plenty of hamsters, bananas and of course our exchange puzzles… we all pretend
we’re shocked to see anyone else wearing the same shirts as us. Steve and Ali
have done an awesome job on my exchange puzzle and I’m really proud to be
giving them away this year- it’s a brass burr set with multiple challenges for
9-piece burrs and then an option to build a bunch of 6-piece burrs as well…
Louis is my incredibly capable assistant cum wrangler, he gets me pics with
everyone and lugs piles of puzzles around the room for me. Thanks Louis!</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCGep8L8uz2w3Ia18OJpRk9Pv7CBiFyoQR0hf90EwuaTkQAnkx6iZKmKz2QlywdeHdelGjqPqeeAl2L936EVCttWgsJHqAXhnnlTRS6uxlHZYjVYv33c062fPOcyzWyZ87EGyfVZhn0qEGAw6q47aV_VgBL7Z2fYuEZoACgwnD4shRlt1Bu2PWvEzeoxw/s2048/IMG_3233.JPEG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCGep8L8uz2w3Ia18OJpRk9Pv7CBiFyoQR0hf90EwuaTkQAnkx6iZKmKz2QlywdeHdelGjqPqeeAl2L936EVCttWgsJHqAXhnnlTRS6uxlHZYjVYv33c062fPOcyzWyZ87EGyfVZhn0qEGAw6q47aV_VgBL7Z2fYuEZoACgwnD4shRlt1Bu2PWvEzeoxw/w150-h200/IMG_3233.JPEG" width="150" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">The number of exchangers is a bit lower this
year so we manage to finish our rounds before lunchtime and end up having a
leisurely boxed lunch in the room while chatting about the morning’s fun…</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Steve’s exchange routine involved plenty of
hokeying and pokeying with Frank and was another highlight this year. There are
some stunning puzzles waiting to be played with when I finally get the chance.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">We have a couple of hours to spare before the
lectures, where Guy teaches us to fold an origami puzzle and we’re amazed with
a couple of talks about blindfold solving of sequential movement puzzles and
co-ordinate motion puzzles - I feel very thick…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSywMiYKHWkwfVqGFOWcQ_vtmTIZNm-s0ytErTdjj0LH2jcpHsRX4noF_CwLfBPCKLrR2V18zyx1is4-FonPObFiTl43B-qhGwW-JEMmDyk076ZQeIzL3ARyysW58-xqlcUuDpoh6z_cinCyX-aGCPbRydN_aCDhG5OCHe2S7DZVOH1-Daxc36LNobbXg/s2048/IMG_3492.JPEG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSywMiYKHWkwfVqGFOWcQ_vtmTIZNm-s0ytErTdjj0LH2jcpHsRX4noF_CwLfBPCKLrR2V18zyx1is4-FonPObFiTl43B-qhGwW-JEMmDyk076ZQeIzL3ARyysW58-xqlcUuDpoh6z_cinCyX-aGCPbRydN_aCDhG5OCHe2S7DZVOH1-Daxc36LNobbXg/w150-h200/IMG_3492.JPEG" width="150" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">I dish out a few more copies of my exchange
puzzle before typing up some notes for the day while Gill has a shower before
the evening’s banquet…</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">While we’re queuing for the banquet I manage
to give away a couple more of my Three Triangle Test giveaway and a couple of
my exchange puzzles to some greenhorns I haven’t gotten to yet… the doors swing
open right on time and everyone enters politely (it’s not always like that!)
There’s some jockeying around to make up tables with friends and invariably we
find ourselves making friends with folks we haven’t spent much time with yet.
There is a pretty epic spread of food and a couple of queues at a pair of
serving stations mean that even if you do join when there’s a queue, it doesn’t
take long to get your food… and there’s plenty food for everyone- Israelis can
cater! I find myself trying a bunch of new things I hadn’t previously tasted -
nothing disappoints. </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5AEs263a_l8RbzI3A9O6y-natu-OssVp0xn6MMPM4tc7TTGbogZ2KyX0qiYeJwJ8cPJs19ubKW0ttIul8WggjF_t9wnxMv4Ks0_SMA7cfkn99SSA3sEGp2PbNZ7UiUK_nHn4GjCKUNOXnrHqxqYymPN-5vDwfM4tl-fSfljSH7wmJNZO33cNHck-2MKo/s1596/IMG_3373.JPEG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="1596" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5AEs263a_l8RbzI3A9O6y-natu-OssVp0xn6MMPM4tc7TTGbogZ2KyX0qiYeJwJ8cPJs19ubKW0ttIul8WggjF_t9wnxMv4Ks0_SMA7cfkn99SSA3sEGp2PbNZ7UiUK_nHn4GjCKUNOXnrHqxqYymPN-5vDwfM4tl-fSfljSH7wmJNZO33cNHck-2MKo/w200-h141/IMG_3373.JPEG" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">After dinner we have an entertaining local
mentalist - he kept reminding us that English wasn’t his first language, but
boy did he know his way around it and his (English) patter was superb… Steve
ended up donating a 100 shekel bill to the entertainment cause but did end up
with a lovely lemon-scented memento of the evening’s fun. </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">I had a very intense conversation a new friend
about how some of the effects might have worked. (She disagreed strongly with
my theories on the methods being employed on a combination of book tests and
ended up heading up onto the stage to quiz said entertainer about how he performed
his miracles.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPjMUI_Dl9206yiTk8JMRVGw5DOryHXMPJHuegpq4MQ4B-yJI93n7eJLCR7vv8VLdOh5tAvJwxcMZWfhqCN_P11KoOelOzeRrQHrMZM9hKnJkrYUC2GzS0atF7i5KDaWNkWVjlBftjzBV0Ms3ONtn3gDBKPVOXgvjGzRpqmfXXYDqsAYC6RCtScpxkqNY/s1580/IMG_3559.JPEG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1580" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPjMUI_Dl9206yiTk8JMRVGw5DOryHXMPJHuegpq4MQ4B-yJI93n7eJLCR7vv8VLdOh5tAvJwxcMZWfhqCN_P11KoOelOzeRrQHrMZM9hKnJkrYUC2GzS0atF7i5KDaWNkWVjlBftjzBV0Ms3ONtn3gDBKPVOXgvjGzRpqmfXXYDqsAYC6RCtScpxkqNY/w200-h162/IMG_3559.JPEG" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Dessert after the show was every bit as good
as the main event and then the room dissolved into a tangled mess of puzzlers
catching up and chatting while puzzles were being handed around for others’
amusement. </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Wednesday </b>is puzzle-party-proper day, the
chance to pick up copies of some seriously lust-worthy puzzles that literally
aren’t available anywhere else… my first stop is always at Perry’s table to
grab a copy of his latest creation - this year the Puzzled Guy Bakery brought
us a slice of wedding cake - he took my money. :) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">From there I made a bee-line to Boaz’s table
to grab a copy of his Design Competition entry, Picolock - I’d spent a while
working on it in the Design Competition room and got literally nowhere so I
needed my own copy to fail on at home too!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxdAH_ZsMTWq5P3nFx1XgKca6AT64z8SdNf9jY7CoFsG74fWhKQ-9vDCYLoyBsAOmUDxEGtgY48xBbBr3khBj8IrpIp-QleI1jAhug1q6bPBE_kji-8S7pLkditlakKYHHrEX6mDY3zHaiyXketYnrLMsGRvvPCjtRwecORRu8Yg-7f7RvXq0X4syv2Ps/s1934/IMG_3579.JPEG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1934" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxdAH_ZsMTWq5P3nFx1XgKca6AT64z8SdNf9jY7CoFsG74fWhKQ-9vDCYLoyBsAOmUDxEGtgY48xBbBr3khBj8IrpIp-QleI1jAhug1q6bPBE_kji-8S7pLkditlakKYHHrEX6mDY3zHaiyXketYnrLMsGRvvPCjtRwecORRu8Yg-7f7RvXq0X4syv2Ps/w159-h200/IMG_3579.JPEG" width="159" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Next stop was the Gaby Games table where
Philippe DuBois’ daughter (the Gaby!) was arranging the sale of the last of her
dad’s works… Nick was advising all-comers on which bits he thought everyone
should have a copy of… I selected one or two and then over the course of the
day kept returning to see what new wonders had been unpacked and put on
display… in the end I made three trips to that table to pick up something else…
so I now have a few Philippe DuBois puzzles in the stash. #HappyPuzzler </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Brian was selling his latest sequential
discovery puzzle, Brian’s Big Bolt, so I can now write about one of the best
puzzles I got hold of last year before they’d been more widely released. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">William Waite literally had over a hundred
puzzle designs available for sale on his table and there’s an entire row of
tables with Russian puzzle designers selling their wares. Ethel has some
absolute treasures for sale next to the Two Brass Monkeys who’re doing a
brisker than expected trade in shirts(!).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">I ended the day with more money left than I’d
anticipated, but didn’t feel like I’d passed up on anything that I specifically
wanted… although there was plenty more available!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit6EylVC3chcuU-x5g31E4zoMSbXNjINziIr6BQRkxZfJmkDpmFYApfetuasySlRUGRnix-YiNqqGzHANilqXqaykkRWxTY5z2o3ukbwDcVdu_xYOX2hMrzRckiDgetw97NffiuMWHNNrGbvsIpVwSsLeQpih8wXUx3JMR5_5uxCmNaXBTt-4BTZ8kZ1s/s1608/IMG_3567.JPEG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1436" data-original-width="1608" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit6EylVC3chcuU-x5g31E4zoMSbXNjINziIr6BQRkxZfJmkDpmFYApfetuasySlRUGRnix-YiNqqGzHANilqXqaykkRWxTY5z2o3ukbwDcVdu_xYOX2hMrzRckiDgetw97NffiuMWHNNrGbvsIpVwSsLeQpih8wXUx3JMR5_5uxCmNaXBTt-4BTZ8kZ1s/w200-h179/IMG_3567.JPEG" width="200" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">I did enjoy several long chats with various
puzzlers during the course of the party, including a long session with Bram
teaching Louis about some relatively new developments in Sudoku and some of his
new (Sudoku) designs - I tried really hard to keep up and almost managed!</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">After the party a few of us got sucked into
the coolth of the bar and ended up getting trapped in there and missed the
afternoon lectures… managing to escape its steely grip just in time for a quick
shower before the Awards Dinner.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">We snagged a table up front with the cool kids
and enjoyed seeing the results of the Design Competition getting announced and
guessing who the final award winners were from the ones who’d picked up the
runners up prizes… glad to see some of my own picks getting a mention and
realising I owned quite a few of the award-winning puzzles already.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4AKHQeaMpID_y1KJ6MCtoxyptUsyt60s4PzCug3-tAobhEp9r4AiYyZWnxnzzIJb1PuA87p421JH7HUYilNZEO2rxDmvHWiJfrMkAVijhq8HjKV0FARsf-DwEH8t-feHO0cT8w3BA_T6YSl_9Tx1XbH6un8YEUzWcSuXDpxnbP-oK6SgDisnyXj8mVSQ/s1586/IMG_3610.JPEG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1586" data-original-width="1044" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4AKHQeaMpID_y1KJ6MCtoxyptUsyt60s4PzCug3-tAobhEp9r4AiYyZWnxnzzIJb1PuA87p421JH7HUYilNZEO2rxDmvHWiJfrMkAVijhq8HjKV0FARsf-DwEH8t-feHO0cT8w3BA_T6YSl_9Tx1XbH6un8YEUzWcSuXDpxnbP-oK6SgDisnyXj8mVSQ/w132-h200/IMG_3610.JPEG" width="132" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hamster for scale<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Yael’s host gift was presented to her by
Stefan Baumegger who amused us by recounting his heart attack when he realised
that Yael’s surname had changed when she recently got married after he’d spent
a while custom-designing a puzzle around her maiden name - she seemed chuffed
to bits anyway!</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">There was a literal standing ovation when the
organising committee was acknowledged and presented with their thank you gifts…
they’d gone through a lot of ups and downs over the past four years trying to
get this IPP to happen, and it really had been a massive success - thank you
and well done to Yael and her whole team. </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">After all the ceremonies (and food) things
wound down and there was a lot of hanging around with folks keen to make IPP40
last just a little longer by lingering… when I crashed there was still a stack
of folks hanging around and chatting and I’ve no doubt things moved off to the
bar for another (really) late-night sesh…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">On <b>Thursday </b>we’d opted to skip the organised
tour and had a leisurely start with a late breakfast before heading out to Mahane
Yehuda as I wanted to see it for myself after hearing Gill’s enthusiastic
descriptions… it was truly a feast for all of the senses.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-c8utZf-Lri4Gj7NZr43xZ8gxZsuSjp5m76XrNWrBqurXPiOfQ4AqraajOEkwGbs2xOVWwECe8Uj60Ww2KgeYjLHC8BQMgZ66SU-5HLY04ksewMuodG1GrW6OOwRQmb2BXiuviwF615POYBvYya-v7Mb4pksLN68B-K6ycKHbI7db9uCPWLzj2KgJE_M/s2048/IMG_3634.JPEG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-c8utZf-Lri4Gj7NZr43xZ8gxZsuSjp5m76XrNWrBqurXPiOfQ4AqraajOEkwGbs2xOVWwECe8Uj60Ww2KgeYjLHC8BQMgZ66SU-5HLY04ksewMuodG1GrW6OOwRQmb2BXiuviwF615POYBvYya-v7Mb4pksLN68B-K6ycKHbI7db9uCPWLzj2KgJE_M/w150-h200/IMG_3634.JPEG" width="150" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">We headed back to the hotel and chanced upon
the Coolen’s and the Monkeys lurking in the lobby waiting for their respective
taxis. We all had an excellent laugh when Steve appeared carrying two boxes of
puzzles and told Ali that they weren’t quite as completely packed as they
thought they were and then proceeded to virtually spill the contents of his
entire suitcase on the lobby floor… it all ended well and they got their cabs. </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Gill and I grabbed lunch by the pool and
managed to finish almost half of our portions before heading up to the room for
some packing prep and a short nap. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">We met up with Brian and Sue and took the tram
out to the Jaffa Gate a couple of hours ahead of our final tour so we could
grab a bite to eat for dinner. We found a neat little joint just inside the
Armenian Quarter where our friendly host sorted us out with some excellent grub
and some really interesting knaffa for dessert. It had to be done… what also
had to be done was the round of ice creams while we waited for the start of the
evening tour - a walk along the ramparts of the city wall.</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlsrEFFVN6nzDe_aNDfBztg2VbeTvc32makOlb-twoVcc71HAoQCVpUs_Xu3YyyrXOwFXuPJizJZWiJMuIGYEt-0PGcz19ftmVlQDQLMAJOwSRNk8EKsz4Jxfl1HnWiER0QtCn_IyvellwTJX8UXI2HdC_r0Q855EMUeTbihpIOZ4JLtDauH42zjdLeGo/s2048/IMG_3640.JPEG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlsrEFFVN6nzDe_aNDfBztg2VbeTvc32makOlb-twoVcc71HAoQCVpUs_Xu3YyyrXOwFXuPJizJZWiJMuIGYEt-0PGcz19ftmVlQDQLMAJOwSRNk8EKsz4Jxfl1HnWiER0QtCn_IyvellwTJX8UXI2HdC_r0Q855EMUeTbihpIOZ4JLtDauH42zjdLeGo/w150-h200/IMG_3640.JPEG" width="150" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">We met Zev our big bear of a tour guide just
outside the gate and he proceeded to entertain and educate us in equal measure
for several hours as he led us up and down the city wall as the sun was setting
(at the start of the walk) and into the early evening. Seeing the sights and
the sounds of the city beneath us, including the bustling fair and the joyful
screams of the kids playing in the fountain and a trio playing local tunes up
on the ramparts… all really memorable - it felt a real privilege to get to do
some of this sort of stuff all around the world…</span></div><p></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">We ended up needing to wait a while for the
bus to collect us and had a prime opportunity to analyse the Israeli approach
to “queueing” for public transport - they seem particularly keen to get on the
bus before anyone has been able to get off it - no one was seriously hurt so it
was all good!</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Back at the hotel we started saying some our
goodbyes as we weren’t sure who we’d see the next morning before we headed off
to the airport. It’s always a bit of a downer having to say goodbye to friends
we’ve just caught up with again, but hopefully it won’t be another three years
before our next get together! </span><p></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Next morning we slept in rather successfully
and then found Nick and Anne had just arrived so we ended up joining them for
breakfast and one last chat. After the final bit of packing we checked out of
the hotel and grabbed a cab to the airport courtesy of the front desk…
something I certainly won’t trust in the future - let’s just say there was a
fair bit of abuse, but I didn’t get ripped off. </span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFbVruliv8TpX4xgOEeQrQqys8vIJadUKcG69VCE7D6c7oEoBxReRLFF9328uJv7v5ESLsc7WDofDf3btJXvJM8345y-v1S2pDE1KdoQhQ6oJF0MGPvbcHQ1_FU7z0jWSj5TUgiBiYI5HMuyeApyt0DQ2JhNoZfilFwjeRFKEXb9v2YOVIVqcBLSaHqlI/s2048/IMG_3641.JPEG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFbVruliv8TpX4xgOEeQrQqys8vIJadUKcG69VCE7D6c7oEoBxReRLFF9328uJv7v5ESLsc7WDofDf3btJXvJM8345y-v1S2pDE1KdoQhQ6oJF0MGPvbcHQ1_FU7z0jWSj5TUgiBiYI5HMuyeApyt0DQ2JhNoZfilFwjeRFKEXb9v2YOVIVqcBLSaHqlI/w150-h200/IMG_3641.JPEG" width="150" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Security, check in, security and passport
control were all relatively painless, but Steve had warned us that his bags had
all been unpacked and “repacked” for him en route, so who knows what we’ll find
when we retrieve our baggage at Heathrow - we’ll look out for the dreaded yellow
stickers and steel ourselves for the results as I suspect they won’t be quite
as careful as Gill was (re-)packing all my puzzles. </span><p></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">We grab a light lunch in the lounge while
jotting some more notes on the last couple of days before I forget what we got
up to, and then we’re joined by Peter, who, it turns out is not only on the
same flight, but sitting right behind Gill and I... perhaps IPP40 hasn’t quite
ended yet after all. </span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b>One final Thank You and Well Done to the IPP40
team - you did great!!</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><b> </b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIGKS2g3NMFccMgxCOEsdnlhr78EZsZ8YVb7wCsJ7LmUX3eQoWBDsWBN4A1Umayisnd9eXk3GA7trnzLquO55lw8UDDgN15uIpwEZ1ZYd1AwHOu2xlUE5rl3q1d8uujYqSwLGV2xuqM2YuBnnatiiA8uBWngnuLRgWzSUdvrnHYRUHagdznBCJL3QhQP8/s2016/IMG_3663.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIGKS2g3NMFccMgxCOEsdnlhr78EZsZ8YVb7wCsJ7LmUX3eQoWBDsWBN4A1Umayisnd9eXk3GA7trnzLquO55lw8UDDgN15uIpwEZ1ZYd1AwHOu2xlUE5rl3q1d8uujYqSwLGV2xuqM2YuBnnatiiA8uBWngnuLRgWzSUdvrnHYRUHagdznBCJL3QhQP8/w300-h400/IMG_3663.jpg" width="300" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p>
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