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Re: New Brickbay Store - Puzzle Kits
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Fri, 23 Feb 2001 13:42:53 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Charles Adams writes:
> Burr puzzles are a series of puzzles that are made of interlocking notched
> sticks. The most common of these is the 6 piece burr that are made of 3 sets
> of 2 perpendicular sticks.
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> The instructions give you the steps to create the six pieces. These pieces
> come together to form the puzzle. When completed it appears that the puzzle
> is 1 solid piece, when in fact there are notched areas inside the puzzle for
> the pieces to slide together to form the puzzle.
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> It ends up being an X with the 3rd section coming in from the 3rd Dimension.
> I'm working on getting extra bricks to put some pieces in different colors
> to show how the pieces interact.
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> A Burr is commonly guaged by it's level. A level is the number of turns it
> takes to remove the next piece. Thus a level 9 burr takes 9 moves to remove
> the first piece and a 4.3 burr takes 4 moves to remove the first piece and 3
> moves to remove the second.
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> Hope this helps explain it. Again, better pics are coming soon.
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> Charles
> >
> > Can you elaborate on what exactly a Burr Puzzle is? The pic on the store
> > helps a LITTLE bit but I don't quite get the idea.
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> > Thanks.
> >
> > (I hope this works out, seems a new twist on "things to sell", whatever it is)
> >
> > ++Lar
Lar,
Charles does a very good job describing what a Burr puzzle is here, and you
can get more detailed images of his particular style of Burr from Eric
Harsbarger's website on the subject of puzzles, including pics of the
individual pieces:
http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/puzzles.html
Eric's got a link to IBM's site on Burrs, and you can design your own, but
translation to LEGO is up to you.
...I've thought about making one of these, but Charles will simplify that
process - good luck to him!
Ed
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| (...) <snip> (...) Indeed. Now i know what these are! I think many of us have some of the common ones (perhaps with additional lobes so that they form cubes or spheres, etc) and I have an old hexagonal variant on this sort of puzzle too.. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| Burr puzzles are a series of puzzles that are made of interlocking notched sticks. The most common of these is the 6 piece burr that are made of 3 sets of 2 perpendicular sticks. The instructions give you the steps to create the six pieces. These (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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