Star Maze – Fiddl’ Widdit
Star Maze - Fiddl' Widdit
This is a basic disentanglement puzzle made by Fiddl’ Widdit, a small local company. Marichu Hernandez and Paul Wood cut, bend and braze all the puzzles by hand. The puzzles are in between the hefty Tucker-Jones house tavern puzzles and the small, cheap puzzles sold by Daiso et al. The Star Maze runs $7.50, though some of the more difficult puzzles run $18.50. By contrast, the Tucker-Jones house tavern puzzles retail for $22 and the Daiso puzzles for $1.50.
I ran into Fiddl’ Widdit selling puzzles at a local art fair. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find a vendor selling puzzle boxes, though there are many woodworkers, a few which even sell secret boxes.
According to Fiddl’ Widdit, the Star Maze was patented in 1907 as an advertising premium. It’s fairly easy to solve. I decided to buy a basic puzzle because I know disentanglement puzzles can get very difficult quickly.
