Lacewood Puzzle Box – Peter Wiltshire
Lacewood Puzzle Box - Peter Wiltshire
This is an early effort by budding puzzle master Peter Wiltshire. So far, Wiltshire has produced only a handful of his copies, and they are not readily available for purchase. He entered the 2008 IPP design contest with “Bank Heist,” and the 2009 IPP design contest with “Trillium Box.” Trillium box was my favorite puzzle of the contest entries, and I was fortunate enough to meet Wiltshire in person at IPP 29.
This box was Wiltshire’s effort to make a traditional 10-move Japanese-style puzzle box. I actually counted 11 moves to open it. It was so tight that I originally thought he had some mechanism other than just sliding panels in the puzzle. I was able to borrow John Devost’s copy through the puzzle library at his Renegade Puzzler’s forum.
1/13/10 UPDATE: I found out from John Devost and Peter Wiltshire that one of the panels pictured above is backward. When properly assembled, all faces look like the top face. I assembled it properly, and it’s still pretty tight.
