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EDWARD HORDERN (1941-2000) - the world's leading authority on sliding block puzzles, and was renowned for his puzzle solving abilities. Hordern had an extensive mechanical puzzle collection and was an author on the topic of mechanical puzzles. His best known book is "Sliding Piece Puzzles", originally published in 1986 by Oxford University Press. In 1993, Hordern edited, corrected and privately published a Centenary Edition of the famous "Puzzles Old & New" by Professor Hoffmann.
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Jigsaws
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Puzzle Museum
JAMES DALGETY - an English puzzle designer and collector. He is currently the owner of the largest known collection of puzzles in the world, which is referred to as the Puzzle Museum. In 1990, James invented the name Nonograms after Non Ishida, and The Sunday Telegraph started publishing them on a weekly basis.
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Puzzle Competition
Take Apart
First Place
Brain Teasers
In London
London
WIL SRIJBOS - a puzzle designer and cllector. Will started collecting puzzles in 1972. He was interested mainly in dexterity puzzles at the time. In 1979 he discovered many of the nicely made Pentangle puzzles in London and redirected his interests. Through most of his puzzles are Take-Apart puzzles, he won first place in the 1990 Hikimi Puzzle Competition with Just Fit and second place in 1994 with Anti-Slide.
HARRY ENG (1932–1996) - a master bottle-maker. Although a school teacher by profession, it is estimated that he created 600 to 700 impossible bottles, containing objects as diverse as golf balls, padlocks, baseballs and books. Eng's trademark was an ability to tie knots inside each of his bottles, most of which were too big to pull out of the bottle neck. He took most of his secrets to the grave. Golf Balls, Tie Knots, Golf Ball, School Teacher, The Secret, Golf, Books
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HARRY ENG (1932–1996) - a master bottle-maker. Although a school teacher by profession, it is estimated that he created 600 to 700 impossible bottles, containing objects as diverse as golf balls, padlocks, baseballs and books. Eng's trademark was an ability to tie knots inside each of his bottles, most of which were too big to pull out of the bottle neck. He took most of his secrets to the grave.
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Secret Compartment Box
Japanese Puzzle Box
Japanese Puzzle
Puzzle Boxes
Wooden Items
Beautiful Crafts
Secret Box
Secret Compartment
Cleverwood Marketing
KATHLIN MALCOLMSON - a designer and maker of trick opening boxes and wooden mechanical puzzles. Has produced hundreds of Japanese puzzle boxes, mechanical puzzles, puzzle boxes, jewelry boxes, heartwood secret boxes, and many unique, fine quality amazing wooden items.
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Kate Jones
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Laser Cutting
Philosophy
The Originals
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KATE JONES - has designed and made over 150 original puzzles and games since 1979. A graphic artist, writer and editor, she particularly likes artistic and beautiful tilings, mainly polyform and colormatched “combinatorial” sets that have an Escher-like look. Her design philosophy is a celebration of mind, capturing a bit of cosmic truth in each group of tiles. Her designs have won 48 “Games 100” citations in 33 years. She works mostly in lasercut acrylic and wood.
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Learn Computer Science
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Computer History
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Don Knuth's Home Page
DONALD KNUTH - a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming. Knuth has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms. He contributed to the development of the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and systematized formal mathematical techniques for it. In the process he also popularized the asymptotic notation.
ROBERT REID - the most revered and illustrious former pupil of Arnold House School, London, with a well-deserved world-wide following in recreational mathematics, 3D dissections, tessellations and number theory, and was later educated at The King's School, Canterbury. He has travelled in Europe and the United States, expanding the horizons of fellow mathematicians, often many years his junior. Number Theory, Canterbury, Europe Travel, United States, Education
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ROBERT REID - the most revered and illustrious former pupil of Arnold House School, London, with a well-deserved world-wide following in recreational mathematics, 3D dissections, tessellations and number theory, and was later educated at The King's School, Canterbury. He has travelled in Europe and the United States, expanding the horizons of fellow mathematicians, often many years his junior.
LEE KRASNOW - a designer of interlocking wooden puzzles, master puzzle-craftsman, and owner of Pacific Puzzleworks: a California based puzzle manufacturing business. Wooden Puzzles, California, Mens Tshirts, Mens Tops, T Shirt
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LEE KRASNOW - a designer of interlocking wooden puzzles, master puzzle-craftsman, and owner of Pacific Puzzleworks: a California based puzzle manufacturing business.
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Toys
IVAN MOSCOVICH - a designer of games, puzzles, toys and educational aids, and developing them commercially. He is the author of several books and is internationally recognised as one of most innovative inventors in the toy industry.
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Allan Boardman
ALLAN BOARDMAN - a retired aerospace engineer living in Woodland Hills, California. Like many other puzzle craftsmen, he is an avid woodworker. He is the only craftsman who makes miniature puzzles. Nearly all of his puzzles will fit into a one-half inch (13 mm) or less cubic space. Most of his puzzles are burrs with a few put-together puzzles and an impossible object or two. He calls himself a microxylometagrobologist.
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ROCKY CHIARO - a designer of mechanical puzzles, primarily manufactures his puzzles by hand from solid brass stock, and he is especially well known for his trick nut & bolt puzzles.
FRANS DE VREUGD - a designer of mechanical puzzles, The Netherlands. One of the types of puzzles he likes best is interlocking puzzles. The Netherlands, Netherlands, Mens Polo, Polo Ralph Lauren, Men's Polo Shirt, Polo Shirt, Ralph Lauren
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FRANS DE VREUGD - a designer of mechanical puzzles, The Netherlands. One of the types of puzzles he likes best is interlocking puzzles.
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MIGUEL BERROCAL (1933-2006) - an artist known for his puzzle sculptures. He was born in Villanueva de Algaidas, Málaga, Spain, and married Maria Cristina de Bragança (the daughter of Portuguese throne pretender Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança). He received formal training in mathematics, architecture, chemistry, and art. Berrocal ran a foundry in Negrar near Verona, Italy. Berrocal made sculpture puzzles, some gigantic, some suitable for assembling on a table top.
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BILL CUTLER - an American mathematician and systems analyst, living in Illinois USA. His main interest and area of research is in Burr puzzles and Packing (box-filling) puzzles. He published articles in the Journal of Recreational Mathematics on the Six-Piece Burr and published two booklets, Holey 6-Piece Burr! and A Computer Analysis of All 6-Piece Burrs. Cutler has designed a wide variety of burrs in addition to his well-known work on the Six-Piece Burr.