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The Core and Begonia share a common basic premise (albeit a
rather unusual one) of being a 3D packing puzzle where the object is to pack
the pieces into a tray shaped like the three sides of the corner of a box. They
differ slightly in their target shape in that The Core ends up with a cube
emerging from the tray whereas Begonia targets a flat plate covering the three
sides of the corner … and Begonia has a little cubie lodged in the back corner
to “help” you.
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Eric’s made the tray out of walnut and the pieces
are rosewood, as are the splines in the box / tray.
The Core asks you to build a 3*3*3 cube (almost – there are
two cubies missing) in a frame that covers three sides and leaves a 2*2*2 gap
in one of the corners. While it only(!) has 5 pieces, and one of them is quite
large, this puzzle is also rather tricky given the constraints of having to
post each of the pieces through the 2*2*2 hole.
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Embarrassing side note: Eric ships The Core partially
assembled – with one piece separate… and it took me an embarrassingly long time
to extract the piece from the frame – it seemed that no matter what I did, they
were locked in good and proper … it took me a while to realise that I need to
stop some of the hidden pieces from moving in order to stand a chance of
getting anywhere – yip, I’m a bit slow on the uptake!
Fit and finish on both puzzles are the usual Fuller-standards-of-perfection.
I wish I had bought them now! Got the others but missed out on these!
ReplyDeleteDamn!! :(
Kevin
PuzzleMad
Yeah me too....should have bought them!
ReplyDeleteI got The Core and loved it, but now I wish I'd gotten the Begonia as well. Looks great in your pictures!!!
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