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A Roundy:     A REMCO Frustration Ball (dexterity puzzle): 

A group of Rubik's Cube-type puzzles (mainly for the Hexagon 6 piece): 

Jerry Slocum's new Tangram book:     A nut and bolt (I'm hoping it is interesting): 

A 2-drawer trick box: 

Tom Cutrofello hosted a puzzle party in New York city. There were about 30 attendees, with presentations on various topics throughout the day, puzzle swapping and buying/selling, and puzzle talk. I had a great time and got to meet several "puzzle celebrities." Kudos to Tom for organizing and pulling off a very pleasant event!

I brought along a selection of duplicates and other items for show and trade, and was able to pick up some fun additions to my collection:

From Jurg and Karin von Kaenel:

[see IPP 24 entries]  Karin's Outline Burr  Burr in a Cube

From Rick Eason:

Myopic Doves   Tricky Dick   Keyhole

From Norman Sandfield:

[Jaap's Enigma page]  [Thomas-ball official site]  [Jaap's page] 

[John Rausch's Frantix page] 

From Henry Strout:

From Saul Bobroff:

I received new Dogics from Meffert's! They're offering several types of coloring. I got a type I and II.

Other auction wins:

Ordered a Cmetrick Too from eLogIQ. One went for over $35 in auction, but they're $22 with shipping from the manufacturer's site.

For Christmas, my sister got me a Cornered Cube from Wallingford Toy Works.

Included:

• Frankfurt Cube - an unexpected bonus! I thought this was just one of the newer small kumiki-style cubes. Turns out it is this cube I've been wanting.
• A clear Reiss Star
• A white Hectix
• A folding cube from Entex designed by Yoshimoto
• A clear Reiss Torment
• A Rubik's Triamid
• A Geo-Logic puzzle (not sure which one yet)
• The paper figure - the colorful model of 5 interpenetrating tetrahedrons.
• Another Geo-Logic puzzle - a nice red/blue/yellow Tauri

Some Geo-Logic puzzles: also a Geo-logic 2-in-1:

A bunch of auction items:

An auction lot, from the US, including a Dovetail:

An auction lot, from Japan, including Masudaya's Face Four and Circus Seven:

Another lot, including Mag-Nif's Tut's Tomb:

I received a "Multisphere" from Puzzlemaster.ca. This turns out to be a Scorpius - 6 identical pieces. Unfortunately the fit and finish are not very good.

This lot seems to include a Zwaalustaart (dovetail coin box)...

I found another Synergistics puzzle - the Pepsi Can bank. The principle is similar to the Wheaties box.

Bits and Pieces is now selling the Double Monad by Doug Engel.

I bought Robert Yarger's Stickman Box No. 5 from CubicDissection.com.

 SVGames delayed and delayed - so I cancelled my order with them and ordered an Olistripe from TerrificToys.

I have received all of these items. The Tamura 12-piece box is great! Even the inner cube is a puzzle and opens.

Auction wins:

All received. Catch 21 is a cool logical-progression puzzle.

Received "Pack 6" from Eric Fuller at CubicDissection.com:

Ordered from Bits and Pieces (have recieved all except the Kamei Key Box):

Received from Mefferts:

Auction wins:

Auction wins:

From the gift shop at Old Sturbridge Village, a few tanglements by houseofmarbles.com:

From Funagain, I received a couple of IQ Collection puzzles, Mosaic and Citadel:

I found a couple of great toy/hobby shops in my area. Each of them carries some puzzles. From Necker's (see my Links page), I bought some tanglements:

These are made by puzzlemaster.ca:

I also got a set of magnetic pyramidal blocks called Funangles:

We went to the southern seacoast of Maine for a little vacation. In Perkins Cove, I found several neat shops. I picked up a put-together Lionfish and Seahorse

Eternity

FigaBlock

Missing Marble

Pep-O-Mint LifeSavers

Qbism

Spears MultiPuzzle

All six of the "Marine" puzzles:

Trying to recover some childhood puzzles like this Drive Ya Nuts started a binge...	I found a Phony Baloney!	Instant Insanity is another blast from the past
Even Steven by Kohner	Hi-Q by Kohner	Kohner Kwazy Quilt
Reiss 1974 Licorice Stix	Licorice Stix pieces include: #1, #1024, #256, #928, #975, #824
Reiss 1974 Equilibrium	Reiss 1974 Star	Reiss 1974 Torment
Woodn't Cross	kumiki marked "Japan"	Kontoor
cowboy	Quoits
1950's Zenith tanglements instructions	1950's Zenith tanglements instructions	1950's Zenith tanglements
I got a misc. lot of 8 puzzles one of which was a set of 21 triangular pieces many of which are damaged	20 of them fit together to form an icosahedron one piece is left over	I believe this is an incomplete "Trilogix" which has 24 pieces.
The lot included Lifesavers one peg on the lower right disk is broken
4-piece square in case was also included	One Way was included the case is cracked	The other puzzles in the lot of 8 included: Mag-Nif's The Brain, Diamond, and Apple, and Something's Fishy. The latter 3 were each missing a piece.
Pressman ThinkSquare	Nice Cubes	Kadon Rombix
Double Knuckles	Cadaco Cluster - Figments	Cadaco Cluster - Figments
36 piece packing puzzle	Elzzup	Soma/Star/Snake set
4 piece tanglements set	Ancient Key	Contoura
DaMert Go-Getter 3	NAEF Gemini
Ten Pins	Wheaties box
Corn	Egg
Ring and Bolt	CrackerJack

TopSpin	Rubikfan Double	Rubikfan Triple
Missing Link (2)	Tower	Billiards

I received the Olizoid but evidently the Olistripe is backordered.

He's out of the Mayan Calendar - I've substituted a StellarBurr instead:

Log Stacker

Camelot

Rubik's Snake

Stormy Seas

Rush Hour 2 expansion

Rush Hour 4 expansion This was out of stock :-(

Cross in Ball

Prismastar

Sandwich

Twister 1

Cube

Burr

Circle

Fishy

Lucky 7

Space

Star

Tangram

The Fishy and Space puzzles are beyond her for the moment, though she can get 6 out of the 7 tiles correctly placed in the Space puzzle. She almost got the Star. The Circle and Lucky 7 are her favorites, and she can do the Tangram. We work the circle from the inside out. Quality is fair - I am disappointed only in the Star - the frame has a crack in the surface and the pieces are not precisely shaped. The other puzzles are all bright and colorful.

Bi-Polar tough!

Cerebrum solved in < 1 min. quality not great

Synapse

Neuroblast found alt soln

3D Geometrex solved in < 1 min but very nice!

"Alles Roger" by Constantin

Trickbolt Luxe II by Wil Strijbos

Chain by Hanayama

Keyring by Hanayama

Tetralott by Markus Goetz (Philos)

3 Pyramid Cube by Philos

Bilz Box

Rube's Cubic

AHA Brainteaser Classics

Alien Hive

Rush Hour III Expansion

Shape By Shape

Amaze

The Anaconda Cube

The TetraCube

Yasumi

Khun Phan

The 4-pc Cylinder Puzzle

• A Wood Coin Prison
• Steel Ball Through Bolt Penetration
• A Ball and Bottle Mystery
• A Magical Block
• A Mystik Kubik Puzzle

A pentomino set from Logika A Soma-like set from Logika
Mutando from Logika (like Instant Insanity) Check out Jaap's page on Instant Insanity and Mutando
I finally got (and solved) a Snake and Star disentanglement A ball pyramid from Pussycat:
Also picked up a nice aluminum and steel ball-bearing Peg Solitaire set
4 "Travel Puzzles" from Game Kingdom: ball in cage, 6x6x6 sticks, star burr, depth charge
Two hand-carved wood puzzles from Thailand: Dragon and Sphinx Here is the Sphinx apart: This was somewhat of an ordeal, as some pieces were fused by the sloppy shellac on them - but fortunately I separated them without damaging anything.
And a gift from the proprietess - a laser-carved 7-hex puzzle in a CD case
I believe this is "Hextra" from Robert Longstaff Workshops.

We stopped at Cracker Barrel for dinner and I found the last of their stock of "Hidden Passage" kumiki cubes from the Mandalay Box Company.

• 4D - fun and unique (solved it but haphazardly, and cannot reset it)
• Mysterians - similar concept to 4D (no soln yet)
• Chicago L - thought it would be nicer than it is - the pieces feel cheap and fit poorly
• Extreme Torture - just had to have a puzzle so complex, much smaller than I expected
• Sunflower - very nice, still working on it, but it seems like it should yield to careful analysis
• TriPentaHexagon - haven't opened it yet - a piece looks cracked, also smaller than I expected

• r2d2 - a very nice aluminum block, with an unusual solution - the highlight of this trip
• A black-and-white spiral zipper case - I can't figure out what's the puzzle, so I use it as a case for r2d2
• A plastic version of Enigma
• Black and White from Kubi Games (similar to Triple Trouble)
• A pair of s-nails (or trumpets)
• other items I can't recall right now (I'll have to find my receipt)

• A secret sliding box (which I really should return - it is trivial)
• A Big Wheel - with a disappointingly sloppy mechanism
• Oscar's Blocks - a small aluminum set (I already have a large wooden set by Tom Lensch)
• Brainstring - another non-keeper - where is the puzzle?
• A Kamei Gift Box - shoddy
• Balancing Dice (actually a die - OK but not great)
• Holey Bolt - OK, haven't solved it yet
• T-Party - OK, kind of unsatisfying
• Remove the Marbles - OK, still working on it
• Hercules - this was the best of the bunch, very nice
• City Puzzle - another winner - Chelsea solved it before me
• T-Dof - very nice, and very reasonably priced compared to a Rocky Chiaro original
• Money Maze Bank - OK