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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 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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