This reference section shows puzzles by the Swiss company Naef Spiele AG. They make fancy wooden playthings in a crisp style, and have produced many different puzzles by a variety of designers.

The puzzles shown are those I have seen - there may be others. I do not own all of these - those that I do own are shown in other sections of the website.

The Japanese Naef fan site "naef collections" has been invaluable (unfortunately it was on Geocities and is defunct). That site gave a comprehensive list of Naef puzzle designers.

The Musashino Art University site contains another listing of Naef designers, items, and model numbers.

Also check out naefan.com.

Naef puzzles designed by Toshiaki Betsumiya
Bloc	Dodeka 1984	Favus	Gemini 1981 Ten pieces, each made from two 1x2x2 blocks.
Naef puzzles designed by Peer Clahsen
Hexagon Uses the set of 7 free tetrahexes, made from metal nuts.	Plenus
Naef puzzles designed by Jost Hanny
Discon 1976 For a solution, look here.	Discus #9213 1976 This seems to be a smaller version of Discon.	Escalon	Intragon Designed by Jost Hanny in 1989. Twelve pieces assemble inside a frame.
Managon 1974	Quadron 1987
Naef puzzles designed by Manfred Zipfel and Cordula von Tettau
Campanile Designed by Manfred Zipfel and Cordula von Tettau in 1979.	Kniff
Naef puzzles by other designers...
This is Naef's Swiss Cow or Vache Rouge. It was designed by Gerard Petremand in 1978. This version has six pieces.	This version of Vache Rouge has more pieces.		Dachshund
Modulon Jo Niemeyer	Planimo Gerhard van Straaten	Cublex Heiko Hillig
Ornabo Hubert Zimmermann		Trigon Wilhelm Kienzli	Tangens Jean-Phillippe Rossinelli
Picto Waku Yozo	Ligno Peter Schmid Can be used to create a Graeco-Latin Square.		Hexagon (wooden?)
Towers of Hanoi Kurt Naef	Hex-Eck Christel and Christer Holmgren		Labyrinth Hans Nyefeler and Kurt Naef

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