Chinese Rope Puzzle

I made a run of these two ring puzzles about three years ago and they were quite popular as gifts.

Chinese rope puzzle.

See more ideas about brain teasers wooden puzzles puzzles. The solutions were provided on the back of the pack but needless to say they were pretty hard to decipher. The object of the game is usually to remove the ring. Many puzzle boxes may look simplistic on the outside.

My mother asked if i could solve this puzzle cause she knows i like puzzles. The joy is once you know the secret you want to watch others labor over it. In the preface yu chong en expresses gratitude to ruan liuqi an old suzhou craftsman who made and sold traditional chinese wire disentanglement puzzles. Moving the shuttle through the wire arrangements to reach the rope puzzle solution would involve manipulating the shapes in a precise way to untangle the rope.

Hopefully the pictures i ve provided will aid you if you ever get stuck try. And that is for the genius. This puzzle has taken 10 years to solve. Plate and ring puzzles are usually made from wood and feature a plate with the rope threaded through its holes and an entangled ring.

I was given a pack of chinese metal wire puzzles for christmas. This is a video of the solution to the r. Metal wire puzzle solutions. Jun 11 2013 puzzles solutions for wooden take apart 3d brain teasers type puzzles.

I could not find any solutions online so i posted this video to help others. That is their attraction. But for many of them you ll need to open your mind to a realm of possibilities to find the moves or the mechanism that can open the box. Japanese puzzle boxes and a lot more.

I made an updated version of my 9 year old video to give a better view of the solution to this brain teaser puzzle. In 1958 yu chong en wrote a small book entitled ingenious rings qiao huan 巧环 with instructions and diagrams for making twenty four wire disentanglement puzzles using only a pair of pliers. How to make a wooden rope puzzle.