PUZZLE CRAFT By Stewart T. Coffin 20s $205PUZZLE CRAFT Preface to 1985 Edition Puzzle Craft was begun in 1974 as a newsletter of very limited circulation having to do with mechanical and geometrical puzzles, especially those which could be made in the classroom or shop. It was intended for persons who like to design them, make them, collect them, or just do them. It started out as an adjunct to my cottage industry of designing and making wooden puzzles, and its purpose was as much to collect information as to disseminate it. In 1978 the back issues were revised and assembled into a 24-page booklet. Booklet No, 2 "Polyhedral Puzzles,” which described my own puzzle design efforts, was first published in 1981. In 1982, Booklet No. 3 "Woodworking Techniques” was added. In 1984, all of these together with a new Part 4 "Wooden Puzzles" were assembled into one book. In this 1985 edition, the first three parts have been considerably revised, a few new designs have been added in Fart 4, and the cover and binding improved. We have these sheets run off at the local copy center a few hundred at a time, and do the binding right here in my shop as orders trickle in. The advantage of doing it this way is that revisions and additions are always coming to light, and this allows them to be incorporated almost inmediately. With this edition, a "Contents" page has been arlded and the page numbering made consecutive throughout; but because of subsequent insertions there nay be some anomalies in page numbers. Suggestions, corrections, and contribut- ions are always welcome. Among those who have contributed information for Puzzle Craft or helped in some other way are the following, listed in no particular order: David and Joel Ferola, Norton Starr, Jerry Slocum, Hans Havermnann, Joseph Lemire, Ed Hordern, William Siggson, Bill Cutler, David Barge, Mike Beeler, Martin Gardner, Kathy Jones, Woodrow Carpenter, John Ehrman, Tom Rodgers, Louis Rosenblum, Will Shortz. Assisting in shop and office have been my wife Jane and our three girls - Abbie, Tammis, and Margaret.conTENTS Part _1 - Mechanical and Geometrical (POLYHEDRAL PUZZLES ) Puzzles Seven Woods Puazle page 42 BIBLIOGRAPHY page 1 Four Corners Pugzle 42 Periodicals 3 Second Stellation Puzzle 43 SOURCES OF PUZZLES y Twelve Point Puzzle 43 Puzzle Collections 5 Broken Sticks Puzzle Ady Who's Who in Puzzles 5 Hexagonal Prism Puggle uh PATENTS 6 Triangular Prism Puggle = Wy TOPOLOGICAL PUZZLES 412 The General 45 Buttonhole Puzzle 12 Diagonal Cube Puzzle AS Moving Bead Puzzle 13 Augmented Four Corners 46 Entangled Loops 13 Vega 46 "Toony Loop" is Cluster-Buster 46 "Wit's End" 14 Improved Cluster-Buster 46 Bent Wire Mazes 15 Solid Dissections WW Other Pastimes 16 Triumph Puzzle 4? Figure Eight Puzzle 16 Star-of-David Puzzle Ly DISSECTION PUZZLES 18 Three Pairs Puzzle 48 Jigsaw Puzzles 18 Rosebud Puzzle 4B Tangrams 18 locked Nest Puzzle 49 Richter Puzzles 19 Cuckoo Nest Puzzle 49 Geometrical Dissections 20 Nine Bars Puzzle re) Checkerboards 22 Hexsticks 50 COMBTNATORTAL PUZZLES 23 Notched Pentagonal Sticks 50 Four Colored Cubes 23 Scorpius 54 Difficulty Index 23 Dislocated Seorpins 54 Fentominoes 24 Serambled Scorpius 54 Hexoninoes 25 Jupiter 52 Cornucopia 25 Dislocated Jupiter 52 Hexagonal Tiles 25 Saturn 52 Snowflake 26 Polyheéral Block Puzzles 52 Solid Block Puzzles 28 Truncated Octahedra Puzzle 52 Half-Hour Pugzle 28 Four-Piece Pyramid Puggle 53 Solid Pentominoes 30 Octahedral Cluster Puzzle 54 Checkered Solids 30 Pyracube 54 Packing Problems 31 Setting Hen Puzzle 55 Rubik's Cube 34 Three-Piece Block Puzzle 55 Convolution Puzzle 34 Pennyhedron 56 ne Burrs and Polyhedral Fuagles ee eee ean 3 Standard Six-Piece Burr 32 Garnet Puzzle 28 Design No. 72 59 Burr #305 33 Unnotchable Burrs 33 Feanut Puzzle 29 Higher Level Burrs 3b Third Stellation Puzzle 60 1 60E Queer Gear 60 Difficulty Index of Burrs 35 wee Variations, Six-Pc. Burr 36 Split Star 60 More Complicated Burrs 36 Part 3 - Woodworking Techniques, Altekruse Puzzle 36 Puzzle Making as a Business 61 jati kruse 3 Variations of Altekruse e Paxt 4 ~ A Compendium of 80 New Pin-Kole Puszle 38 and Original Puzzle Designs @1 POLYHEDRAL PUZZLES Aa Appendix Six-Fiece Diagonal Burr 41 Star Puzzle Ad