MINIMA 1st DRAWER

Designer: Frederic Boucher

This puzzle measures: 56 mm x 50 mm x 45 mm

Material: Leopard/Maple

Frederic Boucher wrote about it: 
„The MINIMA 1st DRAWER is a packing puzzle combining a drawer box with hole-drilled pieces and pegs. There are also 2 pegs integrated into the box and one protrudes from a piece. This puzzle will give you a good little challenge where you will have to test your logic and imagination! PELIKAN have particularly surpassed themselves with a product of exceptional beauty. The Tiger wood box is particularly stunning, which will make it a special piece in your collection!“

Kevin Sadler wrote about it:
„This gorgeous creation is yet another Minima design by Frederic. It is also another of those must-have puzzles. This version has been created using a very beautiful Leopard wood and Maple and is stunning. It arrives with the box completely closed and one L shaped piece outside. The drawer of the box can slide in either direction, although on arrival it can will only go one way and reveals a number of pieces inside. It’s not straightforward removing all the pieces and requires the drawer to be moved in both directions to progressively release the pieces. Be careful! It’s easy to get stuck! Once you have all the pieces, the extent of the challenge becomes clear! The drawer is prevented from coming out by a one voxel dowel attached to the roof of the box inside. There is also another one voxel dowel pointing horizontally inside the drawer. The pieces and extra dowels need to be placed inside the 2x2x3 cavity as usual. Having experienced the minor challenge of removing the pieces from the transport position, I knew that multiple moves would be required and sliding the drawer back and forth. Gravity was going to be a key consideration here. There are a few arrangements that will fit the space given but it quickly became clear that most are not physically possible. The approach here has to be to find an assembly and then work backwards to see whether it can be removed from the box. I think I got somewhat lucky and found the solution after only a whole day of trying but on the way I nearly had a heart attack several times. The limited opening means that some of the pieces need to be rotated into the box and if they are not right or in the right order, they must be removed using the same rotation. Sometimes this can be very hard to achieve and leave you with a huge challenge and worry that you have trapped them inside permanently. This one is a minima for true puzzle professionals – it is fabulous!”