Diabolical Dice Puzzle

Very cool! I may have to make one of these for my desk at work and drive sales reps crazy when they can’t solve it, as long as I remember to make a solution cheat sheet before setting it out.

-- "The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself." -- Benjamin Franklin

Huh, seems like it would not be that difficult. But I will take you word on it.

I like the marketing attack.
Steve

-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon

JayT,

I’ll be happy to mail you the pattern if you wish – just LMK. Now, if you want the solution….... ;-)

Steve, It does look simple, doesn’t it – I think if you knew at least one side it probably would be but you don’t know which side you are building at any given time – it’s strange to describe it.

-bob

-- Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. - Thomas Carlyle http://www.ffrf.org

Awesome project!! I can believe it is a good challenge.

Looks like it would be easier to build than solve!

Thanks for sharing.

-- Steve - Impatience is Expensive

OK, OK….looks/sounds easy, but I think I might wait until you give us the cheat sheet before I try to make one! Be embarrassing to show people a puzzle you made but don’t know how to solve!!

-- yesterday today was tomorrow

Great puzzle. This is a level of puzzle that even I could build. Thanks for posting this. From my SketchUp calculations, it looks like there are only two sticks with the same dot patterns.

-- Backer boards, stop blocks, build oversized, and never buy a hand plane--

That is awesome! I love trying to solve physical puzzles. I also enjoy watching other people scratch their heads trying to figure out the solution to a puzzle I made. I think I’ll try making this on my own!

Is this your creation? I love it. Like to make one. Can you use a regular die for the pattern?

-- Gary, DeKalb Texas only 4 miles from the mill

Instead of Rubik, we have Bob’s cube now.. Let us know the secret. Please don’t burn em if you can’t figure it out… lol

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Looks like a fun puzzle and should be easy to make. Thanks for posting.

-- And my head I'd be a scratchin'

yeah, that does look deceptively easy. I’d probably have been mean and put on a couple extra pips. might have to make one to keep idle hands busy.

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I would like to make a set of this insanely simple puzzle and drive me crazy! LOL So, please post each of the nine pieces’ six sides for placement of the dots. I can’ wait to do this! Oh, wait!!
What I think I’d do is to make the nine pcs and assemble them as pictured. draw the dots as shown in your pix and then turn to other sides and draw those dots according to an actual die. My cheat sheet: don’t take them apart! LOL

-- Paul - The sweetest sound in my shop, next to Mozart, is what a hand plane makes slicing a ribbon.

Love it! The difficulty is not obvious.

It looks simple to make and I will make that my next wood puzzle project.

I have a SOMA cube made with 27 individual 1/2” die glued to make the seven SOMA shapes. It can be solved without making one large die but the real/final solution is to end up with one large die. When I find this in my puzzle drawer I will post it.

This Diabolical Dice will fit into my genre of dice puzzles!

Thanks for posting this!

-- "I never met a board I didn't like!"

It doesn’t look that hard, but I’ll take your word for it too ;-)) Guess I’d better make one. Nice job on it.

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My guess is that you take a regular die and look at it while looking at the photos. The plan should fall neatly into place ( I think ) though I could be wrong. Anyways thanks KnotCurser!

-- Love thy neighbour as thyself