Stickman Burr Tile Box

Designed and made by Robert Yarger (Stickman No. 30), 2017.
(leopardwood and walnut, with tamo burl tiles, 7.5 x 4.5 x 4.5 inches)

Here is a description provides by the maker:
"This puzzle has a single hidden chamber, which can be accessed only after manipulating its tiles to complete intricate burl patterns on both sides of the box. Aside from the challenge of lining up tiles using little more than their intricate wood grain patterns as a guide, one end of this box also rotates. This allows tiles from one side of the box to be moved and exchanged with the other.

If that were not enough, a few rogue tiles are purposely rotated to be 90 degrees off from being able to match up with anything. A well-hidden trick must be discovered to resolve how to properly orient these tiles to line up with others to complete their patterns. For those who may find this exceptionally challenging, there are subtle clues that can also aid in proper placement of tiles - and of course there is always the solution book.

Finally, once the box is solved, its internal logic bars can be flipped over and re-inserted to create an entirely different puzzle solving process. This secondary solution requires just as much logical deduction as the primary method, but does not necessarily require that the patterns on both sides match.

In some ways this makes things easier, yet the challenge of the secondary method is that it locks certain tiles in place so that they no longer move until neighboring tiles are manipulated into proper positions. Manage to free a tile, and it is possible that its new position will indirectly lock yet another tile in place. The puzzle in this state can still be solved in the original way if desired, but flipping the logic bars adds an alternate secondary solution and provides other challenging components.

Limited in edition to only 50 completed boxes."

The Burr Tile Box Instruction Booklet


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