Grid

Designer: Lucie Pauwels

This puzzle measures: 132 mm x 132 mm x 16 mm

Material: Wenge/Acrylic

Lucie Pauwels wrote about it:

“The design of this puzzle started with a little sketch on paper. When I found a set of puzzle pieces that fitted in the grid pattern, I checked on Burrtools how many solutions the puzzle had. There were too many solutions, so I changed the pieces several times until the puzzle had only 1 solution. So here is the result: a set of 10 nice-looking pieces to fit into the Grid.”

Kevin Sadler wrote about it:

“Grid is the third design by Lucie Pauwels in this release by Pelikan. It has complex pieces made from Wenge to be fitted into 5×5 grid constructed from an acrylic plate which has been beautifully frosted. We are accustomed to amazing wood from the Pelikan team but even their plastic work is perfect.
 
My initial approach was the usual random placement of pieces onto the grid which always progressed very nicely until I realised that I had isolated one small section of the grid and could not place a piece to fill it. Maybe starting with the more complex pieces would help? It did up to a point but then I always got trapped with a couple of pieces unplaceable. This was going to need planning – not only are there 3 complex pieces but there are also a couple of simpler pieces that have missing side voxels. My head was starting to hurt and I was on a deadline. I decided to use Burrtools to give me the position of just one piece and this was miraculous. After finding the position of just one of the complex pieces, the remainder of the assembly was wonderfully logical with literally only a few possible piece placements making the final assembly a lovely exploration. Maybe you talented puzzlers out there can solve it without help? If you can’t, then making the BT file is fun and just makes the puzzle all the more satisfying.”