Bullet puzzle in 5 parts. Wooden puzzle knots from bars. What is

Puzzles are not just fun logic puzzles. They perform an important psychotherapeutic function - they distract us, allow the brain to reconfigure, and we - to look at familiar things in a new way. This is true for logic puzzles as well as for puzzle toys. Fun souvenirs like the Bullet Puzzle at the same time develop our fine motor skills and work as an anti-stress. No wonder so many of us twist something in our hands during a difficult conversation or an important lecture: it helps to focus.

With benefits, everything is clear, but something else is important for the Mr. Geek store. To make it not only useful, but also a nice gift! Agree: a cool puzzle equally pleases both adults and children. Playing with these wooden bullets, trying to disassemble and then reassemble the structure, you will be the whole family. Or by the entire work team, if you decide to give them to a colleague on February 23rd.

What is

These are six wooden fragments covered with paint, with notches on them. Upon purchase, you receive them connected in a symmetrical design. And, as with all such puzzles, your task is to disassemble it into its component parts. Of course you can't use force! Only logic. Well, and a bit of luck: just twisting the parts in your hands, you can solve this riddle completely by accident.

But, having disassembled the toy, do not relax: now try to fold it back. This task turns out to be more difficult for many, and there are no hints in the package. Be patient. Well, then, when you get the hang of assembling and disassembling the puzzle without looking, it will become original decoration desktop and excellent anti-stress.

Characteristics

for children over 3 years old;
material: wood;
color: beige;
size (L*W*H): 10*10*10 cm;
packaging: cardboard box;
package size (L*W*H): 7.5*7.5*7.5 cm;
weight: 30 g;
brand: Eureka.

Homemade wooden puzzles presented on our website:

07.05.2013.

Knots of six bars.

I think I will not be mistaken if I say that the six-bar knot is the most famous wooden puzzle.

There is an opinion (and I fully share it!), that wooden knots were born in Japan, as an improvisation on the theme of traditional local building structures. Perhaps that is why the modern inhabitants of the Land of the Rising Sun are unsurpassed puzzlers. IN best sense this word.

About twenty years ago, armed with a rented machine for children's art "Skillful Hands", which is still unique to this day, I made many variants of six-bar knots from oak and beech ...

Regardless of the complexity of the original components, in all versions of this puzzle there is one straight bar without cutouts, which is always inserted into the structure last and closes it into an inseparable whole.

The pages below from the already mentioned book by A.S. Pugachev show the variety of knots from six bars and provide comprehensive information for their independent production.

Among the options presented, there are very simple, but there are not so. Somehow it so happened that one of them (in Pugachev's book it appears at number 6) got its own name - "Admiral Makarov's Cross".

Knot of six bars - Puzzle "Admiral Makarov's Cross".

I won’t go into details why it’s called that - either because the glorious admiral, in the lulls between sea battles, loved to make it in the ship’s carpentry, or why else ... I’ll just say one thing - this option is really difficult, despite the fact that there are no "internal" notches so unloved by me in the details. It is painful to pick them out with a chisel!

The images below, created with Autodesk 3D Max 3D modeling software, show appearance details and solution (order and orientation in space) of the puzzle "Admiral Makarov's Cross"

In the computer graphics classes at Children's Art School No. 2, among other things, I also use puzzle models made "on hastily Styrofoam. For example, the details of a six-bar cross are great as "nature" for low-poly modeling.

And the simplest three-bar knot is useful for understanding the basics of key animation.

Among other things, in the same book by A.S. Pugachev there are drawings of other nodes, including twelve and even sixteen bars!

Knot of sixteen bars.

Despite the fact that there are a lot of details, it is quite easy to assemble this puzzle. As in the case of six-bar knots, a straight piece without cutouts is inserted last.

DeAgostini Magazine "Entertaining puzzles" №№ 7, 10, 17

In issue number 7 of the magazine "Entertaining puzzles" of the publishing house "DeAgostini", a rather curious, in my opinion, puzzle "Slanting knot" is presented.

It is based on a very simple knot of three elements, but at the expense of "beveling" new version became much more difficult and interesting. In any case, my students at art school sometimes twist and turn it, but they can't assemble it...

And by the way, when I was going to model it in the 3D Max program, I suffered a lot ...

The screenshot below from the magazine shows the assembly sequence of the "Oblique Knot"

Very similar in its inner essence to the "Knot of Sixteen Bars" presented on this page is the puzzle "Barrel-Puzzle" from issue 17 of the magazine "Entertaining Puzzles".

Yes, I would like to take this opportunity to note high quality production of almost all the puzzles I purchased from the publishing house "DeAgostini". In some cases, it was necessary, however, to pick up a file and even glue, but this is so ... costs.

The process of assembling the puzzle "Barrel puzzle" is shown below.

I can’t help but say a few words about the very original “Cross Puzzle” from the same series of “Entertaining Puzzles” No. 10. It looks like a cross (or a knot) too, from two bars, but to disconnect them, you need not smart head, and strong arms. In the sense - you need to quickly spin, like a top, a puzzle on a flat surface, and it will figure it out!

The fact is that the cylindrical pins locking the assembly under the action centrifugal force diverge to the sides and open the "lock". Simple but tasteful!

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