Stewart Coffin

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Stewart Coffin is recognized as the world's best designer of polyhedral interlocking puzzles. Before he started exploring beyond the world of orthogonal (all of the pieces are at right angles to each other) puzzles, there were very few examples to be found. To date, he has more than 140 original designs to his credit. A few have been commercially produced in plastic. Most notably, Hectix. His book, The Puzzling World Of Polyhedral Dissections, is a definitive work on interlocking puzzles having a geometrical theme.
 
In a few cases, Stewart has discovered a simple, but beautiful design and carried it to the extreme with amazing results. It reminds me of Bolero, which starts out with a quiet melody and builds into a frenzy at the end. A good example, is where he went with the Diagonal Burr. Many of his puzzles are variations of this simple puzzle and are by no means a complete representation of variations. Most are composed of six pieces having similar internal structure. The variations are created by adding or removing "blocks" to the ends of the pieces. The most surprising are the Diagonal Cube and the Broken Sticks puzzles.
 
See Stewart's AP-ART-The Sculptural Art That Comes Apart and his follow up compendium. The 2003 compendium covered puzzle numbers up to 195, his follow up 2018 compendium is well in to the 200's.
Abbie's Waffle
Abbie's Waffle
All Star
All Star
Altekruse
Altekruse
Aries
Aries
Augatron
Augatron
Augmented Four Corners
Augmented Four Corners
Augmented Second Stellation
Augmented Second Stellation
Brickyard
Brickyard
Broken Sticks
Broken Sticks
Burr Muda
Burr Muda
Button Box
Button Box
Cetus
Cetus
Checkout
Checkout
Cluster Buster
Cluster Buster
Cluster Buster (Experimental)
Cluster Buster (Experimental)
Cluster Plus
Cluster Plus
Cluster's Last Stand
Cluster's Last Stand
Combination Lock
Combination Lock
Confessional
Confessional
Convolution
Convolution
Corner Block
Corner Block
Cornucopia
Cornucopia
Crooked Notches
Crooked Notches
Cube
Cube
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 Cube
Diagonal Cube
Diagonal Star
Diagonal Star
Disinclination
Disinclination
Dislocated Jupiter
Dislocated Jupiter
Dislocated Scorpius (Experimental)
Dislocated Scorpius (Experimental)
Distorted Cube
Distorted Cube
Double Four-Legged Stand
Double Four-Legged Stand
Double Hexagonal Prism
Double Hexagonal Prism
Double Notch
Double Notch
Double Triangular Prism
Double Triangular Prism
Egyptian
Egyptian
Engelberg Square
Engelberg Square
Expanding Box
Expanding Box
Fancy This
Fancy This
Five-Piece Garnet
Five-Piece Garnet
Five-Piece Octahedral Cluster
Five-Piece Octahedral Cluster
Four Corners
Four Corners
Four Pieces In A Tray
Four Pieces In A Tray
Four Sleezy Pieces
Four Sleezy Pieces
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)
Geodynamics
Geodynamics
Giant Hectix
Giant Hectix
Giant Steps
Giant Steps
Grizzly Burr
Grizzly Burr
Half Hour Puzzle
Half Hour Puzzle
Hectix
Hectix
Hexagonal Prism
Hexagonal Prism
Hexsticks
Hexsticks
Improved Cluster Buster
Improved Cluster Buster
Improved Corner Block
Improved Corner Block
Incongruous
Incongruous
Iso-Prism
Iso-Prism
Isosceles
Isosceles
Jupiter
Jupiter
Leaning Tower of Altekruse
Leaning Tower of Altekruse
Lime
Lime
Little Rocket
Little Rocket
Little Superstar
Little Superstar
Lock Nut
Lock Nut
Locked Nest
Locked Nest
Make Room
Make Room
Meteor
Meteor
Missing Notches
Missing Notches
Missing Piece
Missing Piece
Modified Augmented Four Corners
Modified Augmented Four Corners
Nine Bars
Nine Bars
Nine-Piece Pentagon
Nine-Piece Pentagon
Nonesuch
Nonesuch
Nova
Nova
Octahedral Cluster
Octahedral Cluster
Octo Burr
Octo Burr
Outhouse
Outhouse
Patio Block
Patio Block
Peanut
Peanut
Pennydoodle
Pennydoodle
Pennyhedron
Pennyhedron
Pentagonal Star
Pentagonal Star
Permutated Third Stellation
Permutated Third Stellation
Pieces Of Eight
Pieces Of Eight
Pin-Hole
Pin-Hole
Pineapple
Pineapple
Prism Set
Prism Set
Queer Gear
Queer Gear
R-D-16
R-D-16
Rectangular Faces
Rectangular Faces
Rhombic Blocks
Rhombic Blocks
Ring Of Diamonds
Ring Of Diamonds
Rosebud
Rosebud
Saturn
Saturn
Scorpius
Scorpius
Scrambled Legs
Scrambled Legs
Scrambled Scorpius
Scrambled Scorpius
Second Stellation
Second Stellation
Second Stellation (Experimental)
Second Stellation (Experimental)
Setting Hen
Setting Hen
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)
Shouldered Scorpius
Shouldered Scorpius
Six of Diamonds
Six of Diamonds
Six-Piece Burr
Six-Piece Burr
Slant Six
Slant Six
Sleeper Stopper
Sleeper Stopper
Slider
Slider
Sliparoo
Sliparoo
Slocum-Pokum
Slocum-Pokum
Snowflake
Snowflake
Solid Pentominoes
Solid Pentominoes
Sphinx
Sphinx
The Spider Slider
The Spider Slider
Spirus
Spirus
Split Star
Split Star
Square Face (Improved)
Square Face (Improved)
Star Of David
Star Of David
Stardust
Stardust
Super Sleeper Stopper
Super Sleeper Stopper
Superstar II
Superstar II
Tangram Plus
Tangram Plus
Tauri
Tauri
Tech-Sticks
Tech-Sticks
Tectonic
Tectonic
Teddy Burr
Teddy Burr
Thirty Notched Sticks
Thirty Notched Sticks
Thirty Pinned Pentagonal Sticks
Thirty Pinned Pentagonal Sticks
Three Bunnies
Three Bunnies
Three Pairs (Coffin)
Three Pairs (Coffin)
Three Pairs (Variation)
Three Pairs (Variation)
Three-Piece Block
Three-Piece Block
Triangular Prism
Triangular Prism
Trillium
Trillium
Triumph
Triumph
Triumph and Companion
Triumph and Companion
Truncated Octahedra
Truncated Octahedra
Twelve Point
Twelve Point
Twelve-Piece Separation
Twelve-Piece Separation
Two Tiers (Experimental)
Two Tiers (Experimental)
Two-Three
Two-Three
Unhappy Childhood
Unhappy Childhood
Vega
Vega
Windmill
Windmill
Yogi Burr
Yogi Burr
 
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