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That was such a great answer that I believed it without even trying it out.

You may be totally correct, but unfortunately my NEWS puzzle didn't behave any differently when I tried your suggestion.

pcad wrote:That was such a great answer that I believed it without even trying it out.

You may be totally correct, but unfortunately my NEWS puzzle didn't behave any differently when I tried your suggestion.

That's strange,... I got mine buried somewhere in a box of puzzles. If I've time I'll try to find it and come back to you.

Well, you learn something new everyday, if you're lucky. After hearing how others solve the NEWS I've realized I didn't fully understand this puzzle. It seems that I was more lucky than good when I solve it my way. If anything, my NEWS may be a bit defective since I can open it my way. The right solution is more elegant and works every time. Thanks to those that responded to my question.

Does anyone know is there are any other hanayama cast puzzles other than these?

1. ABC
2. Amour
3. Baroq
4. Box
5. Bike
6. Cage
7. Chain
8. Claw
9. Coaster
10. Coil
11. Cricket
12. Cuby
13. Cylinder
14. Delta
15. Devil
16. Disk
17. Dolce
18. Donuts
19. Duet
20. Elk
21. Enigma
22. Equa
23. Flag
24. G&G
25. Galaxy
26. H&H
27. Harmony
28. Heart
29. Helix
30. Hook
31. Horse
32. Key
33. Key2
34. Keyring
35. Keyhole
36. Laby
37. L’oeuf
38. Loop
39. Marble
40. Medal
41. Medallion
42. News
43. Nutcase
44. O’gear
45. Plate
46. Quartet
47. Radix
48. Rattle
49. Reef
50. Ring
51. Ring2
52. S&S
53. Seabream
54. Seahorse
55. Shark
56. Spiral
57. Square
58. Star
59. Starfish
60. Twist
61. U&U
62. Violon
63. Vortex
64. W-U

I didn't even know that there were 64 of them.

This website tries to sell all of them. You can see if there are any on here that are not on your list.

http://www.puzzlemaster.ca/browse/group ... ma-puzzles

Here is the new set of chess puzzles in limited edition gold:

These are Hanayama puzzles? They look great! I hope Puzzle Master carries them.

I actually got these from PuzzleMaster. They had 100 sets specially made in gold for IPP35 and sold the leftovers on their site. They sold out very quickly (I don't know how many sets they had left). They should have the standard silver colored ones soon, and at a much cheaper price. For the standard ones, each piece is sold separately but PuzzleMaster may offer a discounted package for all 6.

If you can't wait, you can try ordering them from Amazon. There are a few sellers in Japan selling them on there but with the long shipping times (and higher prices) you would probably be better off just waiting for PuzzleMaster.

I'll never understand the business logic of discontinuing a product while you still have significant demand.
If people want to pay more for gold chess puzzles, why would you risk alienating some of your customers by saying you can't have it, unless of course you only expect fewer than 100 customers.

In this case it is not like they have discontinued them. Hanayama is still making the puzzles. PuzzleMaster arranged to have 100 sets specially made for IPP35 (these are all laser etched "IPP35" on their bottoms) and intended to sell them all during the event. They didn't sell out during IPP35 so they sold the few remaining left over sets on their site (for a higher price than what they were selling for during IPP35).

These were really only intended for those who were invited to IPP35.