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Subject: 
Re: New Brickbay Store - Puzzle Kits
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
Date: 
Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:26:08 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Ed McGlynn writes:
In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Charles Adams writes:
<snip>

Hope this helps explain it. Again, better pics are coming soon.

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..

<...> 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.

Thanks Ed (and Eric, whichever of the Erics you really are :-) ) for that
link, IBM Research does get to work on some of the coolest stuff sometimes!
Awesome site.

++Lar



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(...) 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: (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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