Extremely Puzzling - Goetz Schwandtner's Puzzles

On this page some extremely puzzling objects are displayed: My private puzzle collection consisting of a wide range of three-dimensional puzzles, from industrial produced Rubik's Cube like puzzles to my custom builds, from production range Pihilos wood puzzles to rare and special puzzles from various excellent craftsmen, and not to forget the Japanese Himitsu Bakos, including some equisite works of the Karakuri Creation Group. Please note that you won't find any (standard) jigsaw puzzles on these pages, may they be two or three dimensional.

My gallery is grouped into categories, with graphical overview pages:			Some special groups:	Feature:
Twisty Puzzles Rubik's Cube and alike	Sliding Pieces Puzzles Flat and other sliding piece puzzles, including mazes	Packing Puzzles Puzzles with pieces to arrange into box or to match a shape	n-ary Puzzles Twisty Octahedra 18pcs Burrs Burr Zoo	Game Craze
Interlocking Puzzles Burrs and other interlocking puzzles	Disentanglement Puzzles Puzzles made of wire and/or threads	Puzzle Boxes Karakuri, Himitsu Bako and other puzzle boxes
Sequential Discovery, Take Apart Take aparts requiring several steps (sometimes involving builtin tools), usually to free a coin or other award	Puzzle Locks Traditional and modern puzzle locks	Other Puzzles Everything else, including puzzle games
List of all puzzles (may be ordered by name, class, manufacturer and designer)		Interlocking Explorer	Compendium of Chinese-Rings-Like Puzzles

News/Updates:

Added on 2025-01-20

After enjoying his Piano puzzle a lot, and also some others I already have, I ordered myself some more of Alex Owen's puzzles, and they arrived today: Gravity and Rainbow. I selected them in a beautiful black and red colour scheme, and it looks great in person. I have already found a moving part of the Gravity, and it is hard to miss, and on the Rainbow I have found a tool and some use of it to extract the first piece. This is going to be fun! Both boxes are nicely 3D printed in high quality and have a nice weight as well. This — and all the rattling inside of both boxes — must indicate that there are a lot of components interacting to add up to the puzzles with their internal mechanisms. If you are wondering about the name of the Rainbow, this is more visible in the original colour scheme with rainbow colours, but also here a nice rainbow is showing between two clouds.

Added on 2025-01-14

Don't click on today's link if you do not like spoilers of any kind, while the ones in my description are only mild ones. For the others, there is an unusual visit to the Zoo Burr today, with no detail pictures, a mystery dog, and finally giving in to machine help to keep the zoo organised.

Added on 2025-01-10

I have bought myself a Cabriolet, and in the middle of the winter. Does that make sense? The first update of this year contains two of the latest beautifully crafted puzzles from Pelikan: The first one is the mentioned cabriolet: Euklid's Cabrio. This is a combination of two earlier series, the cabrio packing puzzles with a sliding lid with some space in the lid, and then the cuboid shapes from the Euklid series. These are not only made from beautiful dark wenge wood, but they also seem to come in different sizes and shapes making this a non-trivial packing exercise, I guess. The other one is tiny compared to this, but that is due to its name and also due to being part of a mini puzzle series: Minima Smiley. Like the one shared as an Exchange gift at the latest IPP, this one has a screw and is some form of sequential discovery puzzle, with the goal to get the simley out — a small yellow wooden ball with a smiley face on it. While I have made some progress solving some puzzles recently, it seems I am now stacking up again, but there are still many puzzles in my solving backlog.

Other/Older updates:

Can be found on the update history page

Hints:

Hints: If you need solution hints to any puzzle in my gallery, feel free to e-mail me. My e-mail address can be found on my homepage.