BePuzzled | News Hanayama Metal Brainteaser Puzzle Mensa Rated Level 6, for Ages 12 and Up

I have several of these puzzles and I thoroughly enjoy them! Now I keep them in a basket for guests to enjoy!

This was fun but very easy to figure out however it's all about lining up the threads to the mm

Perfect fun

super easy, solved in 5 minutes, I was hoping for more of a challenge

took me six months to complete it. It would sit at the end of my desk like a shining beacon of humiliation that I could not solve it. Everyday, I would stare at it as if it were scar put upon me by a gypsy temptress. It would temp and tease me by calling my name while on conference calls and say "Solve me, i'm easy" "you almost have it, keep going". Well, fall became winter. Winter turned to spring. One day, when no one was looking, I tried to smash it open on the ground. I hurled the well built piece of science fiction like I was Roger Clemens (during his juicing period, mouth guard and all). It had the upper hand on me, and the puzzle knew it. It used its powers of confusion to rocket itself off the concrete subfloor and bounce into my window, cracking it like almighty Thor unleashing the thunderclouds from Asgard. I fell to the floor, my back fell against the walls painted all white with my shame and humiliation. My hands, exasperated, ran through my hair, realizing that I hit rock bottom. I had no choice, there always comes a time when you must face the music. But, i stood up, refusing to lose to the black magic that this sorcery has brought into my life. I calmly stole the plant from the office area and strategically placed it in front of the quickly spreading crack in the glass. The reminder from my Outlook calendar reminder blares with the familiar tune of Antoine Dotson's "Hide your kids, hide your wife" another conference call...... I began to ask myself, how low have i become? Then the lightning bolt, intended for the window, strikes me! Waves of creativity and ingenuity crash over me like a tsunami. "Look up the answer on Youtube" Antoine, you are a genius. I knew that the years of ridicule of having your music on my playlist was for a future event.Over the course of the next 90 seconds, I found the How to video on solving this puzzle. Triumphantly, I raised my hands in celebration as I open the puzzle and take out the nut that was placed inside. Sweat rolling off my brow, acted like the tears of god washing and cleansing me of this experience. I felt that god's acceptance of my tempting the devil came when it began to rain outside. His celebration to the world of me beating the devil back for hundreds of years to come was the rain that fell.A few weeks later, a co-worker threw me a hard candy from the hallway. Poorly thrown as it was, it bounced off my desk and went into the same window i mentioned previously. "OMG! look what you did" i say back pointing to the cracked window. "Dont worry buddy, its our secret. I wont sell you out. But one day I may need a favor and remember this moment". my co-worker nods in acknowledgement.What have I become, I asked myself while I ran to the bathroom. I look at myself in the mirror, my eyes glowed red like I was possessed. The rolling fires in hell shine through me like a beacon....a lighthouse for evil. Then I blink, and I have horns and forked tongue.I awake from my nightmare. life it seems is back to normal. phew.Other than that, the packaging was a little bulky and I didnt like the shade of green of the box.

The media could not be loaded. Don't watch video if you want to solve it yourself.Very difficult and fun! This is the most difficult puzzle I've solved. Had a really fun time with it, the first 10minutes it felt impossible. I didn't time myself but it probably took me an hour of play time to solve it and I'm by no means a good puzzle solver. Mastering it took probably another 30mins, I can now take it apart and back together under a minute. Was good times, highly recommend if you like solving puzzles.Don't watch video if you want to solve it yourself.

Amazing thing! It took me two days, about 20 minutes per day. But I felt challenged.

This is not really a puzzle you can logically figure out on your own unless you're familiar with the mechanics. Even when you DO have the solution and fully understand the mechanics of how it works, the solution only works part of the time. For this reason alone, I do not recommend this puzzle for anyone that actually enjoys doing puzzles and coming up with the solution on their own. When you figure it out, the solution is not guaranteed to work and thus gives you the false sense that you did it wrong. I would say based on the mechanics, it's a 5/6 in difficulty but based on consistent repeat-ability, I give it a 1/6.That's my negative part of the review. It's not fun to solve on your own, but once you know the solution you can appreciate the mechanics. The construction of this puzzle where it really shines. It a 6/6. It's definitely worth the price just as a desk ornament. Very high quality. As for my negative comments, the repeat-ability of the puzzle does not appear to my puzzle being of lower quality. The craftsmanship is very good. It's just not reliable to solve.The way I ended up solving this puzzle the first time was by complete accident. I'm willing to bet the majority of folks claiming to have solved this puzzle did it by accident as well. A word to anyone new to this puzzle, do NOT try to force anything. There's no, click or sliding piece or anything that needs to be "loosened up". As you move the puzzle around, you hear tumblers inside. That's your clue. Like a lock, the tumblers need to be set appropriately before the puzzle will come apart. Do not pull the pieces apart. When you have the solution, one half will lift effortlessly off the other half. That's your other clue. The novelty is in how the puzzle was made and why the solution is the way it is. I only wish it was 100% repeatable once you have the solution. If you're like me and cannot get the puzzle apart even with the solution, I recommend shaking the puzzle before trying the solution again. Not a sure fix, but it'll increase your chances of solving it.Definitely a puzzle to add to ones puzzle collection based on it's unique design and solution. I only wish it was 100% consistent when solving.Update: Although I only give this a 3/5 star rating, I also HIGHLY recommend it. The puzzle can be maddening because you can't see the solution, but it's very well designed and the quality is very good. This is my first Hamayama puzzle and based on quality alone, I just ordered 5 more.