
Around a month ago I spotted that he’d put a couple of
puzzles up for sale on Puzzle Paradise – part of the description said that the
puzzles had been produced in his new 9 square metre workshop and he hoped it
would be the first set of many to be produced there… as I’m keen to support the
arts, as it were, I piled in and ordered one of each… not because I’m addicted
to collecting puzzles, to support the arts, you know…
And yes, there are three different puzzles – there’s a clue
in the digit in the name! (You know who you are…)

Right, a little background about these puzzles: they started
out life as “Greg’s Cube 765432”
and they came in three flavours – each flavour had pieces increasing in size
from 2 up to 7 cubies (handily summing to 27) to make up a 3*3*3 cube… and each
of the three sets has 2 solutions. Now let me start by suggesting that those
made a pretty decent puzzle on their own, but Greg had even better things in mind…
so he glued the biggest piece to a tray with a partial lip around it and
produced a whole new set of challenges: Stand By Cubes 1, 2 & 3.
Cubes 1 & 2 share a common set of pieces, bar the
longest piece that’s glued to the tray, while number 3 uses different pieces
(albeit the three smallest pieces are the same across all sets).


…Oh, and since I bought my set, Greg’s relisted them at a
lower price on Puzzle Paradise, and
there are still plenty of copies left… go on and spoil yourself – for the arts!
His designs are brilliant. Greg makes the solver think about every step along the way. People need to have his puzzles... but only after you and I have had first crack at his new offerings.
ReplyDelete-Tyler.
...that sounds about right!
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