Welcome on this website.

This website has been on the net for approximately four years. In that time the site has inspired hunderds or even thousands of people in designing an d making puzzles. That's nice, because the subject of this site is designing and making threedimensional puzzles. These are nice puzzles in al kind of shapes and sizes. wo-dimensional puzzles are more common, examples are Tangram, jigsaw puzzles or sliding puzzles. Three dimensional puzzles go further, they don't only have an height and width, three-dimensional puzzles have more depth...

There are a lot of different three-dimensional puzzles. Common is of course the box of building blocks in which all pieces have to be put in a specific kind of way till the lid can be put on the box. clear out a kitchen cabinet can also be a hard puzzle. The puzzles on this website are more abstract and vary from simple packing problems to complex cage puzzles.

This website is not only a collection of puzzles, but also offers clues to make the puzzles by yourself. All puzzles on this site can be made out of wood, metal or even paper. Electrical tools can be useful, but almost all puzzles can be made with a metal saw, fretsaw, file and sandpaper. Sometimes a electric drill is necessary. A working table is most of the time necessary to make the puzzle in a safe and accurate way. Sometimes the most important tool for making a puzzle is a lot of patience.

The puzzles on this website a categorized into four groups. When you search for a puzzle you have to select one of these groups before you can select a specific puzzle. Every puzzle gives a short description of the puzzle itself and clues for making the puzzle. Sometimes extra design graphs are added.

If you have make a puzzle for yourself you have to find the solution. If you can't put the puzzle together after hours of puzzling or you are to lazy to find out the solution on your own, you can check the solution pages. But remind two things: There are no solutions for all puzzles and the solution pages are only for emergency.

Next to the puzzles, a part of this website is dedicated to the description of polyhedra. If you are talking about three-dimensional puzzles, you will see that you have to cope with polyhedra. More knowledge about the solids will aid in designing puzzles. The polyhedra can also serve as source of inspiration for developing puzzles. 

For more information about three-dimensional puzzles you can search the web. Look at the link page for more website. You can also read books about this subject if you are bored of your computer.

New puzzles will be added to this website on a regularly basis. Do you have your own 3D puzzle design and would like to see it on the web you can contact me by e-mail. I'm also interested in all other suggestions and remarks about this website (such as errors in puzzle design and correction of texts). 

Have much puzzle fun,

 

Peter Query, 2005

e-mail: peterquery@3dpuzzles.nl