
Now these weren’t his first foray into boxes teeny – he’s
been producing pristine pint-sized boxes for years: Small Button Box and Reactor
were pretty small – and his 14-move Mame box showcased some superb craftsmanship…
so he’d set the bar pretty high.

One side has a large porthole cut into it giving a view of
what seems to be the bottom of a drawer that protrudes a little outside the one
end of the box. There’s a little play on the drawer, mirrored in that piece you
can feel through the porthole. There appear to be a few magnets inlaid into the
sides of the box and that’s about it – nothing else to see here, guv.
Fiddling around with it, there are definitely some rattily
bits inside the box – there always are, right?

It’s unusual and Eric’s once again done a nice job of making
it less trivial than it might have been – nice bloke that Fuller!
Small Box no. 2 is Eric’s homage to Alan Boardman’s A-Ha Box
– an instantly recognisable (when you solve it!) classic design. There’s a huge
amount of elegance in the simplicity of the puzzle’s design – nothing is wasted…
and it’s almost too easy to convince yourself that it’s impossible to open –
until you find exactly the right thing to do to it – and then it puts a fat
grin on the puzzlist’s dial.

Judging by the first two, Eric’s onto another winning set of
puzzle boxes… and they’re still available for sale because he made a decent
sized batch of the little chaps!
If you’re a box-lover, you won’t regret it.
"Fuller'd it." I like that!
ReplyDelete...why thank you, kind sir!
DeleteAnd 3 and 4 are even better. 1 and 2 got me excited. 3 and 4 are like, oh snap sh*t just got real.
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