Design by Peter Query

The Chinese cage puzzle is derived from the Chinese Cross Puzzle. If you glue eight of this latter puzzle together in a correct fashion, you automatically get an Chinese cage puzzle.

Just like the Chinese cross puzzle, several designs of this puzzle are possible. These puzzles vary from simple to extreme difficult. The puzzle shown here has an intermediate difficulty. The puzzle is made by 24 wooden rods with equal length. This length is 1 x 1 x 7 units, It has a nice effect if you make this puzzle out of two different types of wood.

If you want to construct this puzzle the first thing you have to do is make a 'frame' with the twelve identical pieces (the J-pieces). This are the darker rods in the picture above. After that the remaining rods has to be slid in the puzzle in the sequence: I, H, E, G, D, F, D, F, C, E, B, A. If you have made all pieces correct and slide them in a correct order into the puzzle the cage has to be completed.