Hello! I’m Greg, your host in a new world.
A world packed with challenges and crazy experiences, a world unknown to many. It is a world you may not have known of, but this world has been waiting for you to unravel it. The world of mechanical puzzles is waiting for you.
“What is a mechanical puzzle??? The only puzzles I know are jigsaws that assemble a picture!”
When we were young kids, we all have been living next to the puzzle world in one way or another. We got some puzzles here and there but couldn’t understand what is the object sitting in front of us. We thought it’s just some kind of 3D riddle. But not further than that have our minds wandered. What exactly is a puzzle?
Let’s see for ourselves with a classic example – the Rubik’s Cube.
Most of us may remember the Rubik’s Cube as an item for tormenting helpless friends.
Surprisingly, along the years people much smarter than myself have invented relatively simple methods of solving it, which are nowadays available to the common YouTube learner. The beginner’s method is not as easy to learn as you’d expect, but the learning process is very fun, and the first solution from beginning to end is always thrilling.
The Rubik’s Cube is a Twisty puzzle, and it’s just the tip of the iceberg. There are so many puzzles from different categories, which I’ll thoroughly explain in the next posts. There are Burrs, an interlocking object built from several pieces. In the picture below, it’s the left one.
Maze puzzles, in which the solver will have to navigate a small object, usually a ball bearing, in a maze, like the ball at the right in the picture.
Even Sequential Discovery puzzles, a special type of puzzles. These are my personal favorites, where you will have to gradually explore the puzzle, revealing intriguing tools along the way, which will need to be used to advance further (in the middle of the pic below).
We can define a puzzle as – “a physical object with a certain objective, without obvious right steps to achieve this objective, where the solver will have to use wits and logic in order to discover the steps.”
There is so much to discover.
Each category has an incredibly big range of sub-categories with arrays of puzzles, varying in materials, difficulty, and prices. You cannot solve everything, but you can try new types, choose your favorites, discover new mazzles and challenge yourself repeatedly.
This is not the first puzzle blog in the internet, and most of the available ones are accessible mostly to the experienced puzzler. My goal is to provide simple information for those who are interested in the curious world of puzzles, who aren’t sure what suits them most or where should they start.
I invite you to sit comfortably and enjoy your journey to this amazing world.
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