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Good Travel Puzzle?
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 12:57 am
by hadem
Thought I would get everyone's opinion for a good travel puzzle. I will be traveling shortly and would like some sort of puzzle for the plane trip (nearly 24 hours in total on a plane). Being that I need to take it with me traveling it needs be smaller. I would guess that someone would suggest the Cast puzzles but I already have a few of those and would like something different.
I have found the
Eni puzzle and the
Tower of Babel/Babylon and the both look like they might be good travel puzzles. I think they might be a bit easy to solve once you have the hang of it but I guess almost any puzzle is after the Revomazes!
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Right now I am torn between the two. Anyone have either of these two puzzles?
Any thoughts and/or suggestions? Thanks!
Re: Good Travel Puzzle?
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 3:10 am
by y2khappens
What's wrong with a revomaze?, too heavy?......obsession?
Re: Good Travel Puzzle?
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 3:28 am
by hadem
I only have the blue and green and I have opened them both already. That and I don't want to try to take them through TSA/customs.
Re: Good Travel Puzzle?
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 7:07 am
by mhuti
Hadem, of the two puzzles you mentioned the Tower of Babylon is a better challenge since the beads need to be arranged by colour gradient as well as column. This would be a good travel puzzle choice and it is the best of these type of puzzles IMHO.
Re: Good Travel Puzzle?
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 7:07 am
by Paradox
Check out 'Rush Hour' by Thinkfun. That should keep you amused for a plane journey. Plus you can get expansions for it too!
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Re: Good Travel Puzzle?
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 7:43 am
by Stigy
y2khappens wrote:What's wrong with a revomaze?, too heavy?......obsession?
Try reading this one y2k:
http://www.revomaze.co.uk/phpBB3/viewto ... ?f=7&t=322
Re: Good Travel Puzzle?
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 9:19 am
by AFKAN
I never go anywhere without a trusty rubik cube
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Re: Good Travel Puzzle?
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 1:38 pm
by hadem
mhuti wrote:Hadem, of the two puzzles you mentioned the Tower of Babylon is a better challenge since the beads need to be arranged by colour gradient as well as column. This would be a good travel puzzle choice and it is the best of these type of puzzles IMHO.
I was leaning towards the Tower of Babylon for that exact reason. I guess there is an Eni puzzle that has numbers on the pieces but I can't find it for sale on any website. It looks like the Tower of Babylon moves a little nicer too. If anyone has an iPhone (or other iOS device) and you want to try a puzzle like this, check out
Twistrix. It's free!
Exactly. That and an airplane isn't a great spot for trying to precisely move the Revomaze. Bumps and whatnot make it pretty difficult to get around that corner slowly.
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Re: Good Travel Puzzle?
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 3:18 pm
by DatabaseMonkey
Psst.
http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-Tower-Babel-Ne ... 1c1bc953b6
Same puzzle, I've had good luck with this guy, and it's half the price
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Re: Good Travel Puzzle?
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 3:47 pm
by hadem
Nice find! I have never bought anything off of eBay before. This might have to be my first purchase. Thanks for the link!
Edit: I bought the Tower Of Babel from PuzzleProz! Thanks again for the link!