Customer Reviews

Cast Devil - Hanayama Cast Metal Puzzle

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Someone gave my husband a couple of these puzzles. The first one we did, the Hanayama USHY33 Key Cast Metal Brain Teaser Puzzle was very easy. This one was a lot harder for how simple it looks. At least for me. It took me a week of fiddling with it occasionally to solve it, another hour after that to figure out the solve. It took my husband 2 weeks with me spending the last day working with him and showing him how to get the pieces unhooked.
It took my son 15 minutes. Nothing more humbling.
These puzzles are very well made, but not a lot of fun once you solve them. I suggest giving them to the first person who just can't stop messing with it trying to solve it. Let them get frustrated. But while your working on solving them, it's addictive, because you know they can be solved if you just figure out how.

As of this typing, I own nine Hanayama puzzles. Like almost all of the Hanayama puzzles this is built out of quality material and puts up with lots of abuse and frustration from friends and family. I believe this puzzle, the Devil, is one of the funner puzzles. The solution is actually quite simple. Most people will realize within a matter of minutes what needs to happen, but "it just won't fit that way". This is a good puzzle because even though you may have solved it once, if you set it down and come back to it later, it is difficult to remember how you did it last time. It is much easier to put back together than take apart. Sometimes I will take it apart for a friend, watch them put back together quite easily, and then laugh at their frustration as they try to tak it back apart.

It's a good puzzle, but I wouldn't rate it a level 4. I solved it pretty quickly.

Overall, it's fun (especially for those new to puzzles of this type). But for a harder puzzle, try the Radix. That's a true level 4.

Link: BePuzzled Hanayama Cast Metal Brainteaser Puzzles - Hanayama Radix Puzzle (Level 4)

My high-school calculus teacher had one of these. No matter how many times I solved it and studied it, I never mastered it. It just doesn't... fit... ARGH!