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Burrs

Knot Shaped Three Piece Burrs
Wood Knot
Cross Keys (a.k.a. Three Piece Puzzle)
Knotted Cube
Oskar's Blocks
Shaekel Knot
Cheers

Standard Shaped Three Piece Burrs With A Single Trick
Segerblom Knot
Sideways Burr
Sonneveld Three Piece Burr
Triple Play

Standard Shaped Three Piece Burrs
Just The Three
3 Piece Burr Yamaosa
Three Open Windows
GigaBurr & GigaBurr-2
Cubie Burr & Cubie Burr #2

Burrs With Four or Five Pieces
JA6PB - Just Another 6-Piece Burr
Switch Board Burr
Octo Burr

Standard Six Piece Burrs
Simple 6-Piece Burr
Mikado Block Puzzle
Yamato Block Puzzle
The Puzzle
Misfit Puzzle
Coffin's Improved Burr
Bill's Baffling Burr
L5 Notchable
Computer's Choice 3-Hole
Computer's Choice 4-Hole
Eight Is Enough
Compter's Choice 5-Hole
The Piston Puzzle
Computer's Choice Unique-10
L46AA Notchable
Mega Six
Love's Dozen
139 Burr

Non-Standard Six Piece Burrs
Twelve Points To Insanity
Dragon Fly
Butterfly
Explode-A-Burr
Programmer's Nightmare
Holey Astigmatism
U-Nam-It Burr
Bill's Ball Bearing Burr
Luxemburr
Around The Bend
Frantix
Dovetail Burr
Lock Nut
Three Pieces Puzzle
Tri Again
Zauberflote
Zig-Zag Knot

Six Piece Plate Burrs
Chocolate Dip Burr
Gordian Knot
Bent Board Burr #2

Burrs With More Than Six Pieces
Japanese Shape Burrs (a.k.a. Kumiki Puzzles)
Uranus
Miyako 9-Piece
Sydney Harburr Bridge
Bill's Ball Buster
Hectix (a.k.a. Hexsticks, Notched Hexagonal Sticks)
Locked Blocks
Block Puzzle Senior
Satellite Burr
H Burr
Sears Tower
Wausau '81
Wausau '82
Wausau 83
Wausau 84
Burry Joint
Lassen Risti
Old Oak Of England
Lattice
Quadlock1
The Pacco Puzzle
Q.E.D.
Miyako 21-Piece
Binary Burr

Multi Burrs
Four Burr Stick
Four Burrs
Lost Day (a.k.a Eight Burrs)
Berserk BurrCirc

Framed Burrs
Oskar's Cube
Two Piece Oddity
Three Sticks Trapped
Three Trapped Sages
Pandora's Box (a.k.a. Internal Combustion)
Locked Sticks

Burr Sets
Simple 6-Piece 6-Solutions Burr Set
Burr Set JCC
CCH Level 1 Key Piece Burr Set
Interlocking Puzzles Burr Set
Interlocking Puzzles Burr Set #2



Cube Assembly

Pieces Made from Unit Size Cubes
Soma Cube
Half Hour
IP Five Piece Cube
Coffin Quartet
Four X
Bedlam Cube
Century Cube

Pieces Made from Rectilinear Non-Cubic Shapes
Patio Block
Patio Block MPA
Splitting Headache

Pieces Based on Polyhedral Dissections
Quadro Cube
Diagonal Cube

Pieces With Interlocking Connections
Cubes And Pegs
Cubes And Pegs Version B
L-Bert Hall
Five Minute Puzzle
Corner Block
Pieces Of Eight
Groovy Cubes
Twenty Cube
Rik's Kiddy Wrapping

Manipulation of Connected Cubes
Folding Cubes
Hinged Cubes
Kev's Snake Cubes (a.k.a. Serpent Cubes)
Cubra Cubes



Packing

Checkerboard Puzzles
Checkerboard (a.k.a. All Square Novelty Puzzle, Check-A-Board, ...)
Sectional Checkerboard Puzzle
Chequers (a.k.a. Famous Bug House Puzzle)
The Bug House Puzzle
Famous Baffling Checkerboard Puzzle
XceL Checkerboard Puzzle No. 1
XceL Checkerboard Puzzle No. 2
Gyro Checker Board Jig Saw Puzzle
Draught Board Puzzle (a.k.a. Krazee Checkerboard Puzzle, Zebas Puzzle,...)
Adams Idiot's Delight Checkerboard Puzzle
Japanese 19 Piece Checkerboard Puzzle

Richter Tangram and the Other 36 Anchor Stone Puzzles
Anchor Puzzle Tangram (a.k.a Caricature, Cut-Up Square ... Richter No. 8)
The Nine (a.k.a. All Nine, Richter No. 1)
Lightning Conductor (a.k.a. Richter No. 2)
Egg Of Columbus (a.k.a. Columbus' Egg, Columbian Puzzle, Richter No. 3)
Patience Prover (a.k.a. Richter No. 4)
Trouble Killer (a.k.a. Richter No. 5)
Heart Puzzle (a.k.a. Richter No. 6)
Kobold (a.k.a. Richter No. 7)
Circular Puzzle (a.k.a. Richter No. 9)
Cross Puzzle (a.k.a. Richter No. 10)
Not Too Hasty (a.k.a. Richter No. 11)
Pythagoras (a.k.a. Richter No. 12)
Tormentor (a.k.a. Richter No. 13)
BeQuiet (a.k.a. Richter No. 14 /3)
Sphinx (a.k.a. Lott's Stone Puzzle, Richter No. 15 / 16)
Magic Egg (a.k.a. Miracle Egg, Richter Anchor Stone Puzzle No. 16 / 17)
Wrath Breaker (a.k.a. Richter No. 17)
Richter Anchor Stone Puzzle No. 23
Richter Anchor Stone Puzzle No. 26
Richter Anchor Stone Puzzle No. 27
Richter Anchor Stone Puzzle No. 30
Richter Anchor Stone Puzzle No. 35
Richter Anchor Stone Puzzle No. 36
Richter Summary

Some Other Richter Puzzles and Games
Richter Piccolo Nr. T1 (a.k.a. Richter Picco Nr. T1)
Richter Star Puzzle
Richter Meteor 1
Richter Meteor 6

Other Tangram-Like Puzzles
Daddling
Pythagoras
Voodoo
HiHo
Sherlock Holmes
Scrambled Egg
121 Puzzles
ELZZUP
King Tut's Puzzle
HIQU
Shape By Shape

Other 2D Puzzles With Polygonal Shapes
Four Piece Square (a.k.a. Magic Square)
Double Square (a.k.a Square Me, Five Block Puzzle, Madagascar Madness)
Missing T (a.k.a. T Puzzle, Magic T, Cut-Up T, Pa's T Puzzle
H Puzzle
Pie Without E
Make A Square

Other 2D Packing Puzzles
Krazee Links (a.k.a Endless Chain)
Batee Baseball
Blockade
Pencil Puzzle
Pearl In The Shell
Czech Farms

Pentominoes
Pentominoes (a.k.a Polyominoes)
Twin Box Pentominoes

3D Box Filling
Block Head (a.k.a. Sneaky Squares, Stark Raving Cubes, Square Fit, KUBI)
Three Piece Block Head (a.k.a. The Third Degree)
Log Stacker
Dice Packing Box
Pack It In
Parcel Post
Bermuda Hexagon



Matching

2D Matching
Rubik's Tangle 3x3 (a.k.a Rubik's Mini Tangle)
Rubik's Tangle 3x3 Double Sided
Rubik's Tangle 5x5
Crazy Puzzles
Lost Rope
Drive Ya Nuts
Circus Seven (a.k.a. Mind Exerciser)
Circus Puzzler (a.k.a. Color Matcher)
Color Match
Thinkominos
Match The Colors
Triazzle
Bee
Invisible
Snake Pit
Frog Pond
Tool Trouble
Transposer 6 & Bonbons
Transposer Kaboozle
Tantrix Discovery
Tantrix Extreme
Great Gears
Spectra

Instant Insanity Family
Instant Insanity (a.k.a Katzenjammer, Great Tantalizer, Face-4, ...)
The Grand Army Puzzle
The Allies Flag Puzzle (a.k.a. The Allied Flags Puzzle)
The Allies Flags Puzzle
Iribako
Drives You Crazy
Boer War Puzzle

Other 3D Matching
Bolygok
Double Disaster
Mental Blocks
Disney Cubes
Make A Dice (a.k.a. Spots Puzzle)
Twice Dice
Loony Tunes Blocks
Smarts Pyramid
Smarts PyramidJr
The Rock
Einstein Cube
Rubik Triamid



Other 3D Shape Assembly

Convex Polyhedral Shapes
Two Piece Pyramid (a.k.a. Magic Pyramid)
Three Piece Tetrahedron
Four Piece Pyramid, Version 1
Four Piece Pyramid, Version 2
Four Piece Tetrahedron
Truncated Tetrahedron
Five Piece Tetrahedron
Truncated Octahedra
Truncated Cubes
Garnet

More Complex Polyhedral Shapes
Three Piece Block
Three Boxy
Three Pairs
Augmented Four Corners
Turnabout
Triumph
Fusion Confusion
Rosebud
Twelve Piece Separation
Crystal Pyramid

3D Jig Saw Puzzles
Jig Saw Dog
Wonder Puzzle Block
3x3 Chinese Zigzag
3x4 Chinese Zigzag
Four Piece Jig Saw Puzzle
Wonders Of The World Cube Puzzle

Misc. Shape Assembly
Oskar's Matchboxes
Pegged Puzzle
Wood Star
Saturn Ring
Rubik's Snake
Yin And Yang



Rubik's Cube Etc.

Rubik's Cube
Rubik1x2x2
Rubik 1x3x3 Floppy Cube
Rubik1x3x3 Floppy Mirror Cube (a.k.a. Magic Floppy Cube)
Rubik1x3x3 Scramble Cube
Rubik's 2x2x2 Pocket Cube
Rubik 2x2x2 Bandaged
Rubik 2x2x2 Double Bandaged
Rubik 2x2x2 Nested (a.k.a. Rubik 2x2x2 Super Square)
Rubik 2x2x2 Cubes Fused
Rubik 2x2x3 Tower Cube (a.k.a. Slim Tower, Franken Tower)
Rubik 2x2x4 Tower
Rubik 2x3x3 Domino
Rubik2x3x3 Layered
Rubik's 3x3x3 Cube
Rubik 3x3x3 Mirror Cube (a.k.a. Mirror Block, Yong Jun Cube)
Rubik3x3x3 Fisher Cube (a.k.a. Square King)
Rubik 3x3x3 Void Cube (a.k.a. Holey Cube)
Rubik 3x3x3 Edges Only (a.k.a. Cornerless Void Cub)
Rubik's 3x3x3 Fourth Dimension
Rubik 3x3x3 Layered
Rubik's 3x3x3 Perpetual Calendar
Rubik 3x3x3 Bandaged (a.k.a. Bicube)
Rubik 3x3x3 Patched (a.k.a. Fused Cube)
Rubik 3x3x3 Brick (a.k.a Brick Cube)
Rubik 3x3x3 Latch Cube
Rubik 3x3x4
Rubik 3x3x9
Rubik 3x3x9RoadBlock
Rubik 3x4x5
Rubik 4x4x4 Revenge
Rubik 5x5x5 Professor
Rubik 6x6x6 (a.k.a. V-Cube 6x6x6)
Rubik 7x7x7 (a.k.a. V-Cube 7x7x7)
Large Rubik Cubes

Evil Cuboids
Evil Cuboid 2x3x4
Evil Cuboid 3x3x3
Evil Cuboid 3x4x5

Crazy Cubes
Crazy Cube 2x3x3
Crazy Cube 3x3x3
Crazy Cube 3x3x7 (a.k.a. WitEden Super Magic Cube)
Crazy Cube 4x4x4
Crazy Cube 4x4x4 Two

Other Rectangular Shapes
Axel Cube
Skewb
Holey Skewb (a.k.a. Void Skewb)
Golden Cube
Dino Cube (a.k.a. Dinosaur Cube)
Blue Magic (a.k.a. Black Flower Cube, Star Cube, Rex Cube)
Mosaic Cube
Square 1 (a.k.a. Super Cubix, Cube 21)
Helicopter Cube
Gear Cube
Gear Cube Extreme
Gear Shift

Pyrmid and Diamond Like Shapes
Pyraminx
Jing's Pyraminx (a.k.a. Rounded Halpern-Meier Pyramid)
Crazy Pyraminx (a.k.a. Crazy Tetrahedron Plus)
Tetraminx
Professor Pyraminx
Vulcano
Megaminx (a.k.a. Supernova)
Holey Megaminx
Crazy Megaminx
Kilominx (a.k.a. Flowerminx)
Master Kilominx
Gigaminx
Teraminx
Pyraminx Crystal
Skewb Diamond
Super Skewb Diamond (a.k.a. Diamond Octahedron)
Skewb Ultimate
Skewb Kite
Skewb Fourteen
Pyrastar
Pyramorphix (a.k.a Figurenmatch, Distortion Demon Square)
Starburst (a.k.a. Star of David, Sterns Puzzle)
Mastermorphix (a.k.a. Master Pyramorphinx)
Pillow Cube (a.k.a. Cushion Cube)
Enhanced Pillow Cube (a.k.a. Polish Cushion)
Confused Pillow Cube
Hungarian Diamond
Rhombi Diamond (a.k.a. Diamond Style Puzzler)
Octahedron (a.k.a. Magic Octahedron)
Full Octahedron
Flowered Jewel (a.k.a Jewel Puzzler, Christopher's Magic Jewel, ...)

Disc and UFO Shapes
Rubik's Cheese
UFO Cheese
Rubik UFO
Puck Puzzle (a.k.a Hockey Puck Puzzle)
Saturn
Hungarian UFO (a.k.a. Varia Disk)
Tricky Disky (a.k.a. Tricky Disk, Mind Trapper)
Smart Alex (a.k.a Alpa-2-Go)
Netblock UFO / Sando Ring (a.k.a. King Ring)
Octo (a.k.a. Meeting Colors, Disco Puzzle)
Gerdig UFO
Brain Ball

Sphere Shapes
Rubik 2x2x2 K-Ball
Rubik 3x3x3 Ball
Rubik 3x3x3 Apple
Master Ball (a.k.a. Duo Master, Geo Master)
Skewb Puzzle Ball (a.k.a Creative Puzzle Ball)
Impossiball
Dogic

Other Shapes
Rubik Barrel
Cuboctahedron
Rainbow Cube
Dino Star
Alexander's Star
Platypus
Skewb Egg (a.k.a. Golden Egg, Silver Egg, etc.)
Brain Twist
Roundy



Other 3D Manipulation

Panel Puzzles
Rubik Mini Magic Panels (a.k.a Rubik Magic Junior)
Rubik's Magic Panels
Rubik Magic Panels Create The Cube
Rubik's Master Magic Panels
Rubik Magic Cross Panels
Rubik Super Magic Panels

Towers Of Moving Balls Or Tiles
Whip-It Towers (a.k.a. Genius Puzzle)
Varikon Towers
Whip-It Ball
Babylon Towers
Calendar Bank
Thai Tower (a.k.a. Clever Toys Tower)
Numbers Barrel
Missing Link
Reduced Missing Link
Extended Missing Link
Doubled Missing Link
Mini Missing Link

Other Puzzles With Moving Balls or Tiles
Hungarian Globe (a.k.a. Equator Ball, Magic Sphere, IQ Ball)
Magic Sphere
Touchdown
Twister (a.k.a. Wooden Screwball, Clever Toys Natural)
Atomic Chaos (a.k.a. Kaos)
Entrapment
Pakovalec (a.k.a. Stupid Cylinder)
Ten Billion Barrel (a.k.a. Billion Barrel, Tumbler Puzzle)
Russian Revolver (a.k.a. Russian Flower, Russian UFO, Soviet UFO)
Back Spin (a.k.a. Loophole)
Sliding Piece Can Puzzle
Sliding Piece Can Puzzle
Brain Racker
The Orb (a.k.a. Orb-It, l'ORBS)
Rubik's Shells
Astrolabacus

Movement of Pieces by Tilting or Pushing
Varikon Box 2x2x2
Varikon Box 3x3x3
Inversion
Peter's Black Hole / Vadasz Cage (a.k.a. Inside Out, Magic Jack, IQ Cube)
Mad Marbles
Dice Box
Clark's Cube
Pionir Box (a.k.a. Pionir Cube)
Rubik Dice

Movement of Discs and Rings
Towers Of Hanoi (a.k.a. Pyramid Piling Puzzle, Brahma Puzzle)
Chinese Rings (a.k.a. Cardan's Rings, Baguenaudier)
Spinout
Hexadecimal Puzzle
WanderRings
Panex

Manipulation Of Positioned Balls, Levers, Buttons, Etc.
Cmetrick
Cmetrick Too (Hard)
Planets
SaturnLD
Orbik
Cross Teaser
Rubik's Clock
Cerebral Rings Puzzler

Misc.
Wisdom Ball (a.k.a. Mind Twister)
SpongeBob PuzzlePants (a.k.a. SpongeBob Cube)
Flip Side
Kabalabda
Rubik's Rabbits (a.k.a. Rubik's Hat)
Enigma



Sliding Pieces and Other 2D Manipulation

Square Pieces
Fifteen Puzzle
Sixteen Puzzle
Nine Puzzle
Ditho (a.k.a. Fourteen Puzzle)
Great Fifty Puzzle
Panama Canal Puzzle
Moving Day (a.k.a. a.k.a. 5-Block Puzzle, Lodging House Difficulty)
Bull's-Eye (a.k.a. Target)
Good Luck
Twenty
Double Trouble Puzzle
Twenty Seven
Cornell Crossword Puzzle
Thirty One (a.k.a. Jumble)
SKOR
Missionary Puzzle
Mystic

Square Pieces WIth Obstacles
Grandpa's Car (a.k.a. Slide-Blocked Sliding Block)
Time Puzzle
Work Or Golf (a.k.a. Motor Garage Puzzle, Parka Car, Sputnik, E Peg Puzzle)
Honor And Glory (a.k.a. Black And White)

1x1 and 1x2 Pieces
Get My Goat (a.k.a. Kapture The Kron Prinz, Boogie Man, Center Point, ...)
Line Up The Quinties
Johnson City Puzzle
Four Suits 2
Slidem WWII Puzzles
Monarch

Dad's Puzzler Family
Dad's Puzzler (a.k.a. Moving Puzzle, Tit-Bits Teaser 1, Penant Puzzle, ...)
Dads Puzzler - Humdinger Version
Dad's Puzzler - Exchange Version / Infants' Hospital Puzzle
Quzzle And Quzzle Killer
Nine Block
Red Donkey, with Simple TJ, Century, Super Century (a.k.a. L'Ane Rouge, ...)
Traffic Jam / Let Me Through
Century and Super-Century
Grand Master With Century And A Half and Little House
Ushi And Ushi-Flipped
Hole In One With Royal Out and King Out
Fence The Cow
Dad's Puzzle Family Set With Fujiwara 15/22/25 and Super Compo

Beyond Dad's Puzzler Family
Infants Hospital Puzzle (a.k.a. Infants Progress Puzzle)
Trans-Atlantic (a.k.a. Ten Block Puzzle, Traffic Cop Tangle)
Happy Couple (with Ten Block and The Hughes Puzzle)
Flying Puzzle (a.k.a. Starry Puzzler, Tit-Bits Teaser No. 2, Ching Foo, ...)
Technocracy
George Washington Puzzle
Tit Bits Teaser No. 5
Century Of Progress
Sliding Block Puzzle (a.k.a. Fifteen Block Puzzle, 1-2-3 Puzzle, ...)
Slide A While & Model Garage
Tokyo Parking / Rush Hour

Further Beyond Dad's Puzzler Family - Non-Rectangular Shapes
Ma's Puzzle (a.k.a. Spirit of '76, Wooden Puzzle, Rectangle Puzzle)
Mini Ma
Traffic Jam Puzzle (a.k.a. Tit-Bits Teaser No. 4)
Slider (a.k.a. Hole In One)
Heart-In
Soap
Block Ten
Neo Black And White
Neo Pink And Blue
Kuroko And Dairu
Dinosaur Egg (a.k.a. Egg Puzzle)
Dog And Cat
RunAway
Trap
Tricky
Two Sliding Squares

Movement of Buttons, Balls, Numbers, etc.
New Fifteen Puzzle
Perplexity Puzzles (Perplexity, Automobile, This is Jonah, Panama Canal)
One To Ten
Good Luck Railroad Puzzle Game
Rotos
Puzzler Novice / Challenge / Avenger (a.k.a. Turnstile, Twinspin, ...)
Rotascope (a.k.a. Taquinoscope)
Hungarian Rings
Hungarian Rings Triple
Hungarian Rings Quad
Hungarian Olympic Rings
Billiards
Billiards 9-Ball
Flower
Trio
Trio 2
Butterfly

Movement of Tokens
Eight Peg Puzzle
TeeZ / Brain Buster
Peg Puzzle
Hopper (a.k.a. Downsize)

Mechanically Assisted Sliding Pieces
Top Spin / No. Crunch
Magic Cross (a.k.a. Zauberkreuz)
Rubik's XV (a.k.a. Rubik's Fifteen)
Tsukuda's Square (a.k.a. It, 4x4 Four By Four Puzzle)
Uriblock (a.k.a. Mix Box)
Trillion
Port To Port And Triple Cross
Switch Back
SwissMad
Mad Triad Challenge (Twisting Tri-Side Puzzle)
Mad Triad Handy (Twisting Tri-Side Puzzle)
La Cerradura Doble



String and Wire Puzzles

Move or Remove a Ring
Horse Shoes
Ball And Ring (a.k.a. Ball And Chain)
Moving Rings (a.k.a. Moving Beads, Tiger Cross)
Wits End
Single Loop Wit's End
Loop Trap
Parallel Dimension

Disengage Two Pieces
Wire U's
Wire P's
Wire Heart
Vortex
Simple Knot 47091
EZ Atom 47092
Lucky Clover

Misc.
Rod and Loop
Hide The Knots



Other Puzzles

Mechanicl Challenges
TakitaparT (a.k.a Take It Apart)
Double Puzzle
Rook Puzzle
Bolt And Ball
Cage Puzzle
Drive The USA
Screwball
Magic Chalice

Dexterity Puzzles
Abercrombie & Fitch Dexterity Puzzles
A Ward In The Infant's Hospital
ElsieCow
Reiss Style 393
Crazy Maze
Springs And Balls

Brain Teasers
What's Your Age

Puzzle Boxes
Parrot Box
Spin Box
Stickman Fulcrum Box



Games
Goblet
Quixo
Quarto
Othello
Nine Mens Morris (a.k.a. Mill, Muhle, Merelles / Merilles, Mulino)
Tablut
Senet
Nannon (a.k.a. Nano Backgammon)
Make Numbers



Books
Hoffmann's Puzzles Old and New (1893)
Hordern's Edition Of The Hoffmann Book
Hoffmann Posthumous Books
Hoffmann's Best Math Book
Hoffmann Study Book
Hoffmann's Magic Trilogy Books
Robert Merry's Books Of Puzzles 1-3 (1866)
Excursions Into Puzzledom (1879)
Everybody's Puzzle Book (1890)
New Book Of 200 Puzzles (1908)
Dudeney Books (1920's)
Dudeney Posthumous Books
Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia Of Puzzles (1914)
Sam Loyd and His Puzzles (1928)
Wyatt's 1928 and 1946 Books
Johnson Smith Catalog (reprinted from 1929)
Hirschberg Book (1930)
Filipiak Book (1942)
Everythings A Puzzle
Bell's History of Board Games
Murray's History of Board Games
Winning Ways Books
Hordern's Sliding Puzzle Book
The Mathematics Of Games
Slocum and Botermans Books
Coffin's Book On Polyhedral Dissections
Coffin's Puzzle Craft Books
Cutler's 6-Piece Burr Books
The Puzzle Archade
Frederickson's Dissections Book
G4G Tributes To Martin Gardner
The Follette Puzzle Design Book
The Tangram Book
Haubrich's Checkerboard Puzzles
The Fifteen Book
A Visual History of The S.S. Adams Co.
The Self and Lensch Puzzle Design Book
Boardman's Puzzle Projects Book
The Anchor Puzzle Book