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Hanayama USHY25 Nut Case Cast Metal Brain Teaser Puzzle Review

Hanayama USHY25 Nut Case Cast Metal Brain Teaser Puzzle
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Got this as a gift, the nuts where hard to turn, they got miss threaded before the puzzle was solved and the toy no longer worked, this toy was made in china.

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HANAYAMA CAST PUZZLE - KEY II Review

HANAYAMA CAST PUZZLE - KEY II
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This puzzle is not at all hard. I would say the average time for an adult to solve it would be 10-20 minutes. Anyway, this toy is very well done, durable and creative. Everyone likes it! One of the best if you are looking someting between levels 1-3.

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BePuzzled Hanayama Cast Metal Brainteaser Puzzles - Hanayama Elk Puzzle (Level 6) Review

BePuzzled Hanayama Cast Metal Brainteaser Puzzles - Hanayama Elk Puzzle (Level 6)
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I bought this as a gift for a friend who collects Hanayama puzzles. It did not take as long for him to complete it as I would have hoped, although after hours of playing with it I could still not figure it out. It is a great quality toy, and although it can be a little frustrating, I believe it would be a good gift for almost anyone.

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The antlers are the key to unlocking the mystery of this 19th century British conundrum. It was discovered in Britain by Nob Yoshigahara, who brought it across the Atlantic so that we could present it to you as a real puzzler's challenge.

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HANAYAMA CAST PUZZLE - HELIX Review

HANAYAMA CAST PUZZLE - HELIX
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This is a heavy metal puzzle, that looks just as gorgeous as the picture suggests.
This is a very hard puzzle, though. The object is to free the metal ring. It took me several hours to solve this one. Might be too hard for children. Still, it's gorgeous, so it's a good puzzle to have out on display.

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BePuzzled Hanayama Cast Metal Brainteaser Puzzles - Hanayama Quartet Puzzle (Level 6) Review

BePuzzled Hanayama Cast Metal Brainteaser Puzzles - Hanayama Quartet Puzzle (Level 6)
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I bought this as a present and was a little disappointed when he figured out how to take it apart within a half hour. :( However it seems he is having a little trouble putting it back together so I guess it was worth it. I'll definitely be purchasing Hanayama puzzles in the future, they are very durable and fun.

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True bonds are hard to form, yet they are eternal. Inventor Mine Uyematsu has designed a cast puzzle whose bond is truly difficult to unravel. Consider how to go about forming and breaking such a bond. There are two approaches to this puzzle; are you good enough to find them both?

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BePuzzled Hanayama Cast Metal Brainteaser Puzzles - Hanayama Ring Puzzle (Level 4) Review

BePuzzled Hanayama Cast Metal Brainteaser Puzzles - Hanayama Ring Puzzle (Level 4)
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Ordered July 12,'11 w/ 2 day Prime promised. Confirmation says won't ship til Sept. 12th. Amazon has always been terrific with their service. Some of these third party sellers are quite lax, to say the least.

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This puzzle, introduced to us by Nob Yoshigahara, is based on an original design called the Puzzle Ring. Popular in 15th century Europe, it was actually used as an official marriage ring in some circles. See if you can pull the rings apart - then have your husband, wife, boyfriend or girlfriend reunite them!

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BePuzzled Hanayama Cast Metal Brainteaser Puzzles - Hanayama Nutcase Puzzle (Level 6) Review

BePuzzled Hanayama Cast Metal Brainteaser Puzzles - Hanayama Nutcase Puzzle (Level 6)
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My husband enjoy these brain metal puzzles to pass time every now and then, we ordered two puzzles but the nut/bolt one was more like a guessing game than anything else. We enjoy the ones you have to fidget with that are two, three or more pieces to intertwine, etc.

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The nuts and bolts appearance may lull you into believing this to be a straightforward puzzle, but it is a total brain drain. Inventor Oskar van Deventer presents two challenges: 1) remove the small nuts by disassembling the nutcase, and 2) change the order of the wording on the bolts from nut-case to case-nut.

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Ring - Cast Puzzle - Level 4 Review

Ring - Cast Puzzle - Level 4
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I'm a 30 year old guy, and I've always loved these kinds of puzzles. This one was actually a lot of fun, and the solution is simpler than you'd think. That's what's so hard about it. I actually spent about half an hour, while looking at the picture for reference, trying to get this back into one piece. I'm still having fun playing with it, watching how the pieces slide together... and of course, challenging my friends with it.
I just wish it was a bit larger. This is definitely too large to be classified as a ring, but it could be a bracelet for a young child or very small woman. I don't really have anything bad to say about this... I just don't think it's 5 stars worthy.

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BePuzzled Hanayama Cast Metal Brainteaser Puzzles - Hanayama Equa Puzzle (Level 5) Review

BePuzzled Hanayama Cast Metal Brainteaser Puzzles - Hanayama Equa Puzzle (Level 5)
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First, this puzzle is a work of art. It looks awesome and is extremely well made. It's solid, polished metal and it's nice and heavy. A friend of mine had one and I was shocked to find out that the price was under $50. Brilliant, unique design. It's a refreshing change from the common loop-based puzzles. I've worked at it for at least 3 hours with no success...I can't comment on the how cool or cheap the solution is, but I can say that it is quite difficult. I'd strongly recommend this to anyone looking for a unique, extremely challenging puzzle.

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This sphere-shaped puzzle represents a planet and its surrounding ring. Positioned snugly inside the ring, the planet looks as if it cannot be removed. It may appear that all you can do is rotate it on its axis, but is that really the case? Hold this puzzle invented by Oskar van Deventer and have an intergalactic, mind-expanding challenge!

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BePuzzled Hanayama Cast Metal Brainteaser Puzzles - Hanayama Seahorse Puzzle (Level 3) Review

BePuzzled Hanayama Cast Metal Brainteaser Puzzles - Hanayama Seahorse Puzzle (Level 3)
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This Seahorse Hanayama puzzle is really cool. It feels great in the hands and is well built. It even has a little hole at the top of one of the horses so that it can be worn as jewelry. It took me an hour until it came apart, and then another hour to put it back into the starting position again. One of my friends solved it in 10 minutes however, but he still liked it a lot. It took another 4 hours before I had the movement really fluid, and for a couple of those hours it was quite frustrating (in a good way!). Now I enjoy playing with it sometimes when I watch TV. Any time a friend comes over and sits on my couch, they immediately pick it up from the coffee table and start playing with it.
It's definitely one of the easiest Hanayama toys, hence it's level 3 out of 6 hardness rating, and a great first one to buy if you are new to this brand of puzzle.
Way more advanced puzzles by this brand that I have used and recommend: Vortex, Enigma, Cast Quartet and Cast Spiral. The Revomaze brand maze toys are also really unique and highly addictive (just start at the easy levels, because the hard ones can take 40+ hours!)
Revomaze Revomaze Obsession - Blue - Difficulty Rating 50/100 (difficulty 10 of 10)

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The Seahorse is one of the most unusual of ocean finds. Now, thanks to inventor Akio Yamamoto, two of these captivating creatures have gotten themselves tangled together! It is up to you to separate them so that they can freely float off into the sea!

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Hanayama - Cast Square Puzzle - Level 10 Minda Boggling Review

Hanayama - Cast Square Puzzle - Level 10 Minda Boggling
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I thought I would love this puzzle just from the look of it.
I am serious when I say this: It took me much longer to free this puzzle from its box, than it did for me to end up with a pile of separated pieces laying on my desk. I struggled with the packaging which included two pieces of tape, several pieces of cardboard and what looks like freezer wrap. Once I got the puzzle out of the box, I turned it around in my hands a couple times tugging at it, and it simply fell to pieces onto my desk.
Where is the challenge in that?
Now it turns out one of the movements within my square is defective and sticks, so that might be why it fell apart, but even if that were resolved, I'm betting the same would continue to happen.
The square is interesting enough to mindlessly fiddle with, and what i find is with minor fiddling, it will fall apart on me, but it is much more difficult to put back together than for it to fall apart. So I fiddle with the square intact, it randomly falls apart, then I have to stop what I was doing to actually work at putting the pieces back together into the more interesting assembled square, which will then quickly fall apart on me again as I go back to fiddling.
Again, I'm disapointed with this one. There is a good chance I'll be sending this back as defective.


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