Talk:Mechanical puzzle

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Anybody know what the Nintendo Ten Billion Barrel puzzle is? I'm just curious. If somebody can point me to a source, I'll put the article in. --Barry 00:27, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)

  • It's at Nintendo tumbler puzzle (but feel free to move it to a better title or create links, I wasn't sure what the best title was.) —Blotwell 4 July 2005 02:31 (UTC)

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[edit] VfD results

This article was nominated for deletion. The result was no consensus, but some merging/redirecting might be in order. For details, please see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/MoreKarlScherer. -- BD2412 talk 00:38, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

It was immediately listed again. The result was keep. Copyright issues are being resolved in the appropriate forum. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 04:33, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

As a result I have reverted it to the version before the import of the puzzlemuseum.com material. That article states that it can be freely reused in its entirety with appropriate credit. We therefore cannot put it in the editable Wikipedia or license it for other people to modify under the GFDL. --rbrwr± 20:35, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 100 or 12 moves ?

I have changed the sentence "The level of difficulty reached levels of up to 12 moves for the first piece, a scale humans would struggle to grasp".... back to what it was before, ie with a 100. This is because nobody has given any source that says that what is said in the German Wikipedia article de:Mechanische Geduldspiele is wrong - and this is where the 100 comes from. Regards

ACH 10:46, 22 December 2005 (UTC)


Perhaps I should clarify, after reading what the page posted in the edit summary said. The sentence should mean that there have been analyses of up to the complexity given, so perhaps it does refer to a different Chinese wood knot. Not sure about it, though.

213.6.91.147 10:57, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Translation from German

I have finally finished the translation of the German article, and added it to the meager original article. Some questions remain, however:

  • you will notice one of the images is commented out - this is because I have not been able to find a good place to put it, as it belongs to the rather short section of "dexterity puzzle". Any solutions ?
  • Do we need the "simulated mechanical puzzles" section ? It does not really have much information, and it links to a non-existing article. Plus, some discussion of simulated mechanical puzzles is in the text.
  • Do we need "a few notable puzzles" ? Or should it be under "See Also" ?

These are just some - I am sure there are more, waiting for you to pick up on :).

Regards

ACH 22:52, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] External Links: Spam?

Those external links look like spam to me. Anybody think like me? ycc2106 12:15, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Care to nominate which ones you want to delete? To be fair, each one should be considered individually on its merits. SpinningSpark 14:59, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Snake Cube

Anybody have an idea where the Snake cube fits in the puzzle types? Soulrefrain (Talk) 00:29, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Some would call categorise this sort of thing as a combination puzzle (for which I recently created a category). However, my personal feeling is that it does not sit very comfortably in this category. It's more like an assembly puzzle to my mind SpinningSpark 14:48, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Disentanglement Puzzle

The disentanglement puzzle pictured is known as "The Deringer" (sans ring), and is commonly considered to be very difficult despite the fact that it looks so simple. Most puzzle selling sites rank it among the hardest disentanglement puzzles they sell. Additionally, in my personal experience the deringer was a much harder to solve than chinese rings variants with dozens of moves. The quote: "The image shows an easy version of this puzzle, which may still be solved by chance." should be changed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.203.237.75 (talk) 12:59, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible addition: Orb (US)/Orb-It (UK)

I own one of these, but can't find any good sources for information about it. The only webpage I found it mentioned on is a fanpage on mechanical puzzles. 67.135.49.211 (talk) 01:43, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

I used this [1] Google search and got a good number of hits, most of them relevant. Some of them with info you could use in an article. SpinningSpark 14:45, 12 January 2008 (UTC)