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First you take them apart and them you put them back together. Generally, taking them apart is much easier than putting them back together. In the 1928 book Puzzles In Wood, Edwin Wyatt used the term burr to describe the symmetrical interlocking puzzles that resemble a seed burr. These burrs can contain from two to more than one hundred. The most familiar is the Six-Piece Burr, of which there are several varieties. Stewart Coffin, Bill Cutler and Philippe Dubois are responsible for most of the discoveries, designs and research into burrs. Other interlocking puzzles take the shapes of objects. Japan has produced countless interlocking puzzles in the shapes of animals, rocket ships, airplanes, etc.
 
Between 1969 and 1977, Miguel Berrocal has made remarkable puzzle sculptures from brass, bronze, silver and gold. He is known for his abstract torsos. Without a doubt, the most expensive puzzles ever made in quantity, they range in price from about $1,000 to more than $10,000.
All Star
All Star
Altek 48
Altek 48
Altekruse
Altekruse
Aries
Aries
Augatron
Augatron
Augmented Four Corners
Augmented Four Corners
Augmented Second Stellation
Augmented Second Stellation
BallCruz 36
BallCruz 36
Bart's Ball
Bart's Ball
The Big Crystal
The Big Crystal
Bill's Ball Buster
Bill's Ball Buster
Blossom
Blossom
Born Yesterday
Born Yesterday
Boxed Burr
Boxed Burr
Brass Ball Puzzle
Brass Ball Puzzle
Brickyard
Brickyard
Broken Sticks
Broken Sticks
Burr Cube
Burr Cube
Burr Muda
Burr Muda
Burr Structure
Burr Structure
Burred Box
Burred Box
Burrly Possible
Burrly Possible
Bypass
Bypass
Caged Burr
Caged Burr
Cetus
Cetus
Checker Cube
Checker Cube
Chinese Zigzag
Chinese Zigzag
Cluster Buster
Cluster Buster
Cluster Buster (Experimental)
Cluster Buster (Experimental)
Cluster Plus
Cluster Plus
Cluster's Last Stand
Cluster's Last Stand
Coated Burr
Coated Burr
The Collective
The Collective
Combination Lock
Combination Lock
Coming of Age Mark II
Coming of Age Mark II
Confessional
Confessional
Convolution
Convolution
Corner Block
Corner Block
Corner Cube
Corner Cube
Coubion
Coubion
Crooked Box
Crooked Box
Crooked Notches
Crooked Notches
Crowded Cluster
Crowded Cluster
Cube
Cube
Cube 4x4
Cube 4x4
Cubed Burr
Cubed Burr
Cubic Pyramid
Cubic Pyramid
Cubie Burr
Cubie Burr
Cuckoo Nest
Cuckoo Nest
Design Number 72
Design Number 72
Design Number 72 (Experimental)
Design Number 72 (Experimental)
Design Number 72 (Two-Tiered)
Design Number 72 (Two-Tiered)
Diagonal Burr
Diagonal Burr
Diagonal Cube
Diagonal Cube
Diagonal Star
Diagonal Star
Diagonal on Burr
Diagonal on Burr
Diamond Burr
Diamond Burr
Dic's Dozen - Level 49
Dic's Dozen - Level 49
Disinclination
Disinclination
Dislocated Jupiter
Dislocated Jupiter
Dislocated Scorpius (Experimental)
Dislocated Scorpius (Experimental)
Distorted Cube
Distorted Cube
Dodecon
Dodecon
Don Carlos
Don Carlos
Double Four-Legged Stand
Double Four-Legged Stand
Double Hexagonal Prism
Double Hexagonal Prism
Double Notch
Double Notch
Double Triangular Prism
Double Triangular Prism
Dovetail Burr
Dovetail Burr
Dual Rhombic Pyramid
Dual Rhombic Pyramid
Dual Tetrahedron
Dual Tetrahedron
Dutch Rings
Dutch Rings
ECOR-36
ECOR-36
Egyptian
Egyptian
Eight Burr
Eight Burr
Eighteen Planks
Eighteen Planks
Eighteen-Piece Burr
Eighteen-Piece Burr
Eureka
Eureka
Expanding Box
Expanding Box
Explosion Number Three
Explosion Number Three
Extreme Boxed Burr
Extreme Boxed Burr
Fancy This
Fancy This
Fifteen-Piece Diagonal Burr
Fifteen-Piece Diagonal Burr
Five-Piece Garnet
Five-Piece Garnet
Five-Piece Octahedral Cluster
Five-Piece Octahedral Cluster
The Flower Two
The Flower Two
Four Corners
Four Corners
The Four Triangles
The Four Triangles
Four-Color Hexsticks
Four-Color Hexsticks
Four-Legged Stand
Four-Legged Stand
Four-Piece Interlocking Cube
Four-Piece Interlocking Cube
Four-Piece Pyramid
Four-Piece Pyramid
Four-Piece Separation
Four-Piece Separation
Frantix
Frantix
Fusion Confusion
Fusion Confusion
Garnet
Garnet
The General
The General
The General (Enlongated)
The General (Enlongated)
Genetically Engineered
Genetically Engineered
Geodynamics
Geodynamics
Giant Hectix
Giant Hectix
Giant Steps
Giant Steps
Giga Burr 1
Giga Burr 1
Giga Burr 2
Giga Burr 2
Golden Rhombic Icosahedron
Golden Rhombic Icosahedron
Golden Rhombic Triacontahedron
Golden Rhombic Triacontahedron
Goliath
Goliath
Great Dodecahedron
Great Dodecahedron
Great Pagoda
Great Pagoda
Great Stellated Dodecahedron
Great Stellated Dodecahedron
Grizzly Burr
Grizzly Burr
Halley
Halley
Hectix
Hectix
Helix The Burr
Helix The Burr
Help
Help
Hexagonal Porcupine
Hexagonal Porcupine
Hexagonal Prism
Hexagonal Prism
Hexsticks
Hexsticks
Hollow Burr
Hollow Burr
Hybrid
Hybrid
Icosahedron
Icosahedron
Icosahedron Frequency 2
Icosahedron Frequency 2
Improved Cluster Buster
Improved Cluster Buster
Improved Corner Block
Improved Corner Block
In and Out
In and Out
Incongruous
Incongruous
Interblock
Interblock
Iso-Prism
Iso-Prism
Isosceles
Isosceles
Iwahara Burr
Iwahara Burr
Japanese Wood Joint Burr
Japanese Wood Joint Burr
Japanese Wood Joint Puzzle
Japanese Wood Joint Puzzle
Juno's Framed Burr
Juno's Framed Burr
Jupiter
Jupiter
Kammen's Korners I
Kammen's Korners I
Karin's Outline Burr
Karin's Outline Burr
Karin's Puzzle
Karin's Puzzle
Knobbly Burr
Knobbly Burr
Kuball
Kuball
L46AA Notchable
L46AA Notchable
La Boite
La Boite
Lattice
Lattice
Layered Altekruse
Layered Altekruse
Le Cube d'H
Le Cube d'H
Leaning Tower of Altekruse
Leaning Tower of Altekruse
Les Pleiades
Les Pleiades
Little Paperclip
Little Paperclip
Little Rocket
Little Rocket
Little Superstar
Little Superstar
Lock Nut
Lock Nut
Locked Nest
Locked Nest
Logo
Logo
Long-Beamed Star
Long-Beamed Star
Lovely Eighteen-Piece Burr
Lovely Eighteen-Piece Burr
Luxemburr
Luxemburr
Manolete
Manolete
Mayer's Cube
Mayer's Cube
Meteor
Meteor
Mini Cariatide
Mini Cariatide
Mini Cristina
Mini Cristina
Mini David
Mini David
Mini Maria
Mini Maria
Mini Zoraida
Mini Zoraida
Miniature Burrs
Miniature Burrs
Missing Notches
Missing Notches
Missing Piece
Missing Piece
Modified Augmented Four Corners
Modified Augmented Four Corners
New Knot
New Knot
New Sonneveld Burr
New Sonneveld Burr
Nine Bars
Nine Bars
Ninomiya Burr Set
Ninomiya Burr Set
Nob's Three-Piece Burr
Nob's Three-Piece Burr
Nonesuch
Nonesuch
Notched Corner Cube
Notched Corner Cube
Nova
Nova
Octa 30
Octa 30
Octahedral Cluster
Octahedral Cluster
Octahedron (Daniel)
Octahedron (Daniel)
Octahedron (Dubois)
Octahedron (Dubois)
Octo Burr
Octo Burr
Oskar's Cubes
Oskar's Cubes
Oskar's Matchboxes
Oskar's Matchboxes
Oskar's Paperclips
Oskar's Paperclips
Otto Y Otra
Otto Y Otra
Oursin Burr
Oursin Burr
Pagoda
Pagoda
Parcel Cube
Parcel Cube
Peanut
Peanut
Pennydoodle
Pennydoodle
Permutated Third Stellation
Permutated Third Stellation
Pieces Of Eight
Pieces Of Eight
Pin-Hole
Pin-Hole
Pollux
Pollux
Portrait Of Michele
Portrait Of Michele
Prism Set
Prism Set
Prison
Prison
Pulsar
Pulsar
Quad-Lock 1
Quad-Lock 1
Quadro-Cube
Quadro-Cube
Quadro-Inverto
Quadro-Inverto
Quadro-Prism
Quadro-Prism
Queer Gear
Queer Gear
R-D-16
R-D-16
RD Skeleton
RD Skeleton
Rebel
Rebel
Rectangular Faces
Rectangular Faces
Rhomak
Rhomak
The Ribbon Keyvos
The Ribbon Keyvos
Richelieu
Richelieu
Ring Of Diamonds
Ring Of Diamonds
Rosebud
Rosebud
S/M 24
S/M 24
Saturn
Saturn
Scorpius
Scorpius
Scrambled Legs
Scrambled Legs
Scrambled Scorpius
Scrambled Scorpius
Second Stellation
Second Stellation
Second Stellation (Experimental)
Second Stellation (Experimental)
Seven Woods
Seven Woods
Seven-Piece Hexsticks
Seven-Piece Hexsticks
Seven-Piece Third Stellation
Seven-Piece Third Stellation
Seven-Piece Third Stellation (Modified)
Seven-Piece Third Stellation (Modified)
Shift Burr
Shift Burr
Shouldered Scorpius
Shouldered Scorpius
Six Fingers
Six Fingers
Six Rings
Six Rings
Six of Diamonds
Six of Diamonds
Six-Board Burr
Six-Board Burr
Six-Piece Burr
Six-Piece Burr
Six-Piece Burr - Aluminum
Six-Piece Burr - Aluminum
Sixty-Six Piece Cube
Sixty-Six Piece Cube
Slant Six
Slant Six
Slider
Slider
Sliparoo
Sliparoo
Slocum-Pokum
Slocum-Pokum
Small Egg
Small Egg
Small Stellated Dodecahedron
Small Stellated Dodecahedron
Sonneveld Four-Piece Cube
Sonneveld Four-Piece Cube
Sonneveld's Cubed Burr
Sonneveld's Cubed Burr
Sonneveld's Illegal Burr
Sonneveld's Illegal Burr
Sonneveld's Three-Piece Burr
Sonneveld's Three-Piece Burr
Sphinx
Sphinx
The Spider Slider
The Spider Slider
Spider's Web (Cutler)
Spider's Web (Cutler)
Spirus
Spirus
Split Star
Split Star
Square Face (Improved)
Square Face (Improved)
Square-Rod Dodecaplex
Square-Rod Dodecaplex
Squirrel Cage
Squirrel Cage
Stacked Sticks
Stacked Sticks
Star 1
Star 1
Star Of David
Star Of David
Star Puzzle
Star Puzzle
Stardust
Stardust
Superstar II
Superstar II
Surface Puzzle
Surface Puzzle
Taruah
Taruah
Tauri
Tauri
Tech-Sticks
Tech-Sticks
Tectonic
Tectonic
Teddy Burr
Teddy Burr
Tetrahedron
Tetrahedron
Third Dimension
Third Dimension
Thirty Notched Sticks
Thirty Notched Sticks
Thirty Pinned Pentagonal Sticks
Thirty Pinned Pentagonal Sticks
Thirty-Five Piece Mini-Cube
Thirty-Five Piece Mini-Cube
Three Bunnies
Three Bunnies
The Three Chain Rings
The Three Chain Rings
Three Pairs (Coffin)
Three Pairs (Coffin)
Three Pairs (Dubois)
Three Pairs (Dubois)
Three Pairs (Variation)
Three Pairs (Variation)
Three-Piece Block
Three-Piece Block
Torero
Torero
Torso Damiano
Torso Damiano
Torso Leon
Torso Leon
Torture
Torture
Traffic
Traffic
Triangular Prism
Triangular Prism
Trico 90
Trico 90
Trillium
Trillium
Triumph
Triumph
Triumph and Companion
Triumph and Companion
Truncated Octahedra
Truncated Octahedra
Twelve Point
Twelve Point
Twelve-Piece Separation
Twelve-Piece Separation
Twelve-Piece Twist Burr
Twelve-Piece Twist Burr
Two Tiers (Experimental)
Two Tiers (Experimental)
Two-Three
Two-Three
U-Nam-It Burr
U-Nam-It Burr
Unnamed Dubois #1
Unnamed Dubois #1
Unnamed Dubois #2
Unnamed Dubois #2
Urchin
Urchin
Vega
Vega
Visible Burr
Visible Burr
Wausau '82
Wausau '82
Wausau '83
Wausau '83
Wood Knot
Wood Knot
Yogi Burr
Yogi Burr
Zigzag
Zigzag
 
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