Timburr

Designer: Christoph Lohe

This puzzle measures: 71 mm x 71 mm x 71 mm

Material: Ash, Wenge, Purpleheart, Padauk

Kevin Sadler wrote about it:

“There seems to be no end to the design skills shown by Christoph Lohe. His interlocking/burr puzzles are always relatively simple in basic outline shape but the design of the solution is always a wonderful and very fun challenge. Over the years he has produced a bunch of burrs with frames and they have all been brilliant. I think that the Timburr (beautifully recreated here by Jakub from Purpleheart, Padauk, Wenge and Ash) is one of his very best designs. The solution level is a very high 31.3.1.3.3.3 which is astonishing for just a 6 piece burr. Despite the high level and a fair number of dead ends at first, finding the pathway is a pleasant exploration and has 2 or 3 lovely Aha! moments in the process. It took me a couple of evenings to dismantle it. Unfortunately for me, having balanced the pieces on my cat as I sequentially removed them, he rolled over and they all slid off into a pile. Despite this, I was actually able to reassemble the puzzle from scratch with only a couple of days attempting to place the pieces the wrong way around. I found the reassembly challenge even more fun than the initial disassembly (although I very much doubt I could have managed it without having done that first). This puzzle is simply fabulous – one of my favourites in this batch.”