Cooksey Maze is a maze concept invented by an Englishman named "Mr. Richard Cooksey" in the 1970's. An evolved metal+plastic version with springs and pins was prototyped by Pentangle, but it was never taken in production. Oskar has been trying to locate Cooksey for quite some time, as the original "Cooksey Cilinder" has been an inspiration for many of Oskar's puzzle designs. This is a modified version of the original Cooksey Cylinder with a much simplified mechanism.

Earn a free Cooksey Maze if you can bring Oskar in contact with the original inventor of this maze concept. We know nothing more than his name, the fact that he is an Englishman, and that he already was an adult in the 1970's. Also the people who operated Pentangle in the 1970's do not have more identifying information.

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These are two knots linked together. The two knots turn though eachother in a gearing motion in a 2x3 ratio.

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Total Eclipse is a spherical cage with two rings inside. The object is to get the two rings out. That is difficult, as each of the rings is solving a maze.

The name of the puzzle refers to the total eclipse of the sun in 1999, which was visible in Europe. The puzzle was developed earlier that year.

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This is the sixth puzzle out of a series of six. It is a tribute to the Cooksey Maze by Richard Cooksey. See
http://www.shapeways.com/model/113356/cooksey_maze.html --- This specific puzzle has a ring two different rectangular pins at an angle of 22.5 degrees, and a matching maze cylinder. It is very confusing to solve, as you have to check both pins simultaneously.

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This is the second puzzle out of a series of six. It is a tribute to the Cooksey Maze by Richard Cooksey. See
http://www.shapeways.com/model/113356/cooksey_maze.html --- This specific puzzle has a ring two identical square pins at an angle of 45 degrees, and a matching maze cylinder. It is very confusing to solve, as you have to check both pins simultaneously.

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This is the third puzzle out of a series of six. It is a tribute to the Cooksey Maze by Richard Cooksey. See
http://www.shapeways.com/model/113356/cooksey_maze.html --- This specific puzzle has a ring two identical square pins at an angle of 22.5 degrees, and a matching maze cylinder. It is very confusing to solve, as you have to check both pins simultaneously.

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This is the fifth puzzle out of a series of six. It is a tribute to the Cooksey Maze by Richard Cooksey. See
http://www.shapeways.com/model/113356/cooksey_maze.html --- This specific puzzle has a ring two different rectangular pins at an angle of 45 degrees, and a matching maze cylinder. It is very confusing to solve, as you have to check both pins simultaneously.

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Rising Sun is a take-apart puzzle: remove the sun from the cloud. It is like a maze to solve.

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Simplicity is the brilliant design of sliding-piece guru Jimmy Stephens from Atlanta. Using a computer search and a genetic algorithm, he discovered the hardest sliding piece puzzle there is on a 4x4 grid. Even though the puzzle has only four pieces, many people have tried and failed to solve this seemingly simple puzzle.

You can play an on-line version of this puzzle at Jimmy's website, but if you want to baffle your friends, nothing beats an original 3D-printed Shapeways sample.

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Connectivityis a mechanical puzzle maze. The object is to move the five rings from the base of the puzzle to the top. There is a catch: the rings have to be turned upside down on their way up. This is a reduced-size version of the Connectivity puzzle statute in the garden of the Dutch research institute TNO. Please contact Oskar if you are interested in obtaining a full-size version of this sculpture.

Markus Mystery box is a solution to Markus Goetz' challenge: "can you make a solid mechanism with three axes in a plane going through the origin, in which each axes end is solidly coupled to an opposite axes end".

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Commissioned by Ed Pegg. Six identical irregular tetrahedra form a prism.

Spiral Burr is a six-piece burr of interlocking spirals. Next to sliding and rotation, spiraling is the third fundamental way of turning pieces in an interlocking puzzle. The spirals are notched. The object is putting the puzzle back together after turning it apart.

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PlaySpirals is a construction toy, which can be used to build three-dimensional structures. PlaySpirals are a specially designed corkscrew-type of spirals. Two PlaySpirals can be put through each other at a straight 90-degrees angle. A third PlaySpiral can then be put through the first two. The full set has 28 spirals, the largest number that fitted with a single Shapeways model.

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Cold Fusion is a six-piece burr, but not a classic one. The pieces are helical and the puzzle is taken apart and put together by pushing the pieces in a helical motion.

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Arch Burr is a six-piece burr, but not a regular one. Six bent pieces intersect each other at two different places.

Bit and Pieces produced a batch of metal Arch Burr in the past, but these seem to be sold out.

Candy Wrapper is a six-piece burr with spiral parts. The six pieces intersect each other at two placed at a 90-degrees angle. Because of the looks of the puzzle, George Miller coined it "Candy Wrapper". The seventh part is a little ball, which is the candy that is hidden in the wrapper.

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Tanacube Too is a put-together cube puzzle with tangram-shaped faces. It was Oskar's answer of a challenge by George Miller and Peter Rasmussen. Size: 60x60x60 mm, same as a Rubik's Cube.

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Snake Ball is a mechanical maze. The object is to separate the two rings. The complexity from this puzzle is that one ring has a little pin that slides in the grooves of the other ring and vice verse. So you will have to solve two mazes simultaneous. The puzzle also has another surprise. When you are at the point that you think you have finally solved the puzzle, you will discover that you are only halfway.

Snake Ball was originally 3D-printed by George Miller, and sold at his Puzzle Palace website. However, with his shop closed down and demand for this puzzle continuing, the puzzle is now for sale here.

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A solid 3mm metal rod can slide (almost) effortlessly through the block. How can that be?

The mechanism for this puzzle is related to the ancient Heron's Horse, where the magician slices a sword through the neck of a horse state without the head falling off. However, whereas Heron's mechanism (see page 109) uses rotors, Oskar's mechanism features meshing gears. The result is a less friction and a smoother cut.

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Hyperboloid Burr is a six-piece burr six-piece burr, made of six identical hyperboloid pieces. It was designed with the help of Naoaki Takashima. The wooden version was made as a limited (sold-out) edition for Naoaki Takashima by the Kanagawa Toy Company in Odawara. While working on the wooden pieces, the manager of Kanagawa Toy found an unexpected 7-piece solution.

The Shapeways version has the same shape as the wooden, and it has seven pieces, so you can try both challenges.

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Gardner Ball is a tribute to Martin Gardner. This tribute has the name "Gardner" tessellated around a sphere. The tessellation was designed by Scott Kim, and Oskar 3D-ified it. This math-art object was commissioned by Tom Rodgers. Samples were handed out at the Gathering for Gardner (G4G10) at Atlanta, end March 2012.

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Dancing Ampersands is a kinematic art object. Seven snakes rotate in coordination. They look like the shape "&" (ampersand) when seen from above.

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Switched Maze is a mechanical maze. The object is to roll the metal ball from "Start" to "Goal". The ball is impeded by gates at several points in the maze. By rolling the ball against the levers, gates can be opened and closed.

This maze is related to Robert Abbott's Sliding Door Maze and Eldon Vaughn's Amaze. The rules of Abbott's puzzle is electronically enforced by the software implementation. The rules of Vaughn's maze is psychologically enforced by the game rule that says not to lift the stylus from the board. The switched Maze is fully mechanically enforced. That is, you cannot cheat without taking the puzzle apart or removing the transparent cover.

Switched Maze implements logical one-way gates, logical crossings and a Chinese-Rings type of passing point. Most likely, one could build a Turing Machine using the Switched Maze concept.

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