A friend of mine is trying to raise some money for a really
good cause: Cancer Research in The Netherlands. He’s auctioning off a copy of
his entry in last year’s Nob Yoshigahara Puzzle Design Competition – the MiSenary
Puzzle Box – or Michel’s Senary Puzzle Box.
I first got to see a prototype of this puzzle at Wil’s King’s
Day Puzzle Party last year and it thoroughly confounded me. It was a totally
enclosed box and you could sometimes hear things moving backwards and forwards
when you fiddled around with the orientation… and sometimes it sounded like those
things were moving further, and sometimes shorter…
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The little window allows the puzzlists to see things
wandering backwards and forwards and even allows some deduction about what you
can’t see, which is rather crucial to the solving of this puzzle…
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If you’re allergic to boxes, it is clearly an n-ary puzzle
with a cavity… if you don’t have that problem, this is a neat little puzzle box
with an interesting n-ary locking mechanism… either way, this is the last one
that Michel will be selling – he’s had enough of the schlepp of fettling these
things together and reckons he’s highly unlikely to make any more of them… so
if you want one, you need to be generous to a couple of Dutch cancer charities –
it’s currently listed for sale on Puzzle Paradise and remember that none of the
proceeds are going to Michel or the auction site – everything goes to cancer
research.
Please bid generously!
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