Other Revolving Maze Puzzles

[mhuti]

Which patent, there are a few links off the page given? You're not touting for business are you maztec?

[maztec]

I don't do patents. :p

The oldest patent I see there is 1994, which implies it might still be valid.

Again though, many of those puzzle patents are written far too specifically to the product, but that is their prerogative I suppose.

[a-maze-ing]

- a picture and more info may be added after another visit to Wil.

Here goes:

Japanese revolving maze keyring sized series
- transparent plastic ring with pin, around semi-transparent colored plastic (injection molded?) shaft with maze.
- about 8 cm long, with keychain attached.
- seen in the collection of Wil Strijbos, who bought them in Japan.
- aparently this was a PepsiCo gadget in Japan back in 2006.

Japanese Revolving Maze Keyrings

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Double revolving mazes in a single puzzle
- transparent plastic ring with metal pin (only 1 mm wide?),
. . . around a colored plastic sleeve with engravedmaze,
. . . around a colored solid plastic core with engraved maze...
- about 14 cm long (guessing, I forgot the coin in the picture )
- fine grained maze, up to 25 parallel tracks.
- seen in the collection of Wil Strijbos, who bought them in Japan.

DoubleRevolvingMazes!

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[Alimorris]

Louis you have come up trumps again with that little lot.
They are a great couple of sets.

[Paradox]

Here's something I found on eBay which looks to fit into this category:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Classic-Plastic-S ... 7758430863

[bluesign2k]

Incase anyone is interested, someone (not me) is selling a joblot of 33 "Rota-Maze" puzzles on ebay. They seem to be like Deal-o-Rings...

JOBLOT X33 ROTOR-MAZE MIND PUZZLE GAMES

[a-maze-ing]

Those look terribly much like the doolorinth puzzles. What a pity there is no blue on offer...

[mhuti]

I've got the 'No Blue blues'... Da DaDa Da Da Louis.

[Paradox]

Just found this that I thought may be of interest:


Link To Video

Link to shop

[bluesign2k]

Looks like a pretty neat idea, but HOW MUCH!? & the shipping, again... HOW MUCH?!
£70 seems pretty steep to me!