Newsgroups: rec.games.misc, rec.puzzles
From: hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 7 Oct 92 21:25:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Wooden "Puzzles"...

ch...@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (HCE) writes:

>I have a "puzzle" that my grandfather gave me which is a wood
>sphere made up of a number of interlocking pieces.  You can take it
>apart and you have about 10 pieces.... I would really appreciate any
>suggestions on where to find such puzzles.

There is as mine of information on this type of puzzle in Stewart T.
Coffin's book _The_Puzzling_World_of_Polyhedral_Dissections_, part of
the Oxford Press Recreations in Math series, ISBN 0-19-286133-6.
Nearly 200 pages, over 400 illos and photos.  Hundreds of puzzles, and
tips on building them yourself.  The suppliers they mention are

Kadon Enterprises, Inc, 1227 Lorene Dr, Pasadena, MD 21122, USA
Pentangle, Over Wallop, Hants SO20 8JA, England

Trench Enterprises, Three Cow Green, Bacton, Stowmarket IP14 4HJ,
England

from whom you may be able to get catalogues.

Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil