Wil Strijbos!!!

[Brassassin]

Received the first cylinder and a sweta cross today. I’ll try to solve these before starting on my next maze.
Ordered these through a third party reseller. Did anyone get the newsletter recently?
I only had one email last october, shortly after signing up. Nothing since then. Did he forget just me, or just didn’t send any emails/newsletters?

[darenwhitaker]

Sept. 13th, 2018 was the last newsletter I got.

[ghxost]

A lot of it is still in stock although limited. Maybe that is why.

He resent the 2018 newsletter to me in 2019 upon request for inventory

Still had most of the items in stock as of 3 days ago go

[Brassassin]

First cylinder already open. Very nice puzzle.
I think I was a little lucky. It felt like that,because I only partly understood what was going on.
Great to see the mechanism of this one!
Tomorrow I will start on the Sweta Cross. That looks much more intrigueing than I thought from the pictures.
What a genius that Will Strijbos.

[ghxost]

First cylinder already open. Very nice puzzle.
I think I was a little lucky. It felt like that,because I only partly understood what was going on.
Great to see the mechanism of this one!
Tomorrow I will start on the Sweta Cross. That looks much more intrigueing than I thought from the pictures.
What a genious that Will Strijbos.

Please post an honest review of the Sweta Cross. I keep wanting to get it but all reviews say get the other strijbos cross, its better....
I'd rather the opinion of someone here vs some stranger who knows jack about puzzles!
Thanks in advance!

Edit: I also got first cylinder long before understanding what was happening. I just knew i had a pattern going!

[Swyrm]

Sweta Cross is less good than First Cross but it is still a really good puzzle... in fact it has a similar mechanism than a recent successful and much more expensive puzzle... but in the Sweta Cross it is made a wiser way! In fact solving this other puzzle made me realise how much Sweta Cross is genius and I am now hesitating buying it even if I solved it already on a copy which was not mine.
However it is a really unusual puzzle from Wil, quite easy and without any hidden mechanism, everything is in plain sight! It wont take you more than 10 minutes, but pleasant ones

[Brian706]

I agree pretty much with Swyrm's review. In my opinion the aluminum cross is a better puzzle. It really is a great puzzle. Sweta cross was made to be easier. I believe the story was that it was a gift for a group of people who aren't puzzlers. It's still a neat puzzle and worth having a copy if you can afford it. But if you can have only one, I'd definitely say get the original aluminum cross

[Swyrm]

I believe the story was that it was a gift for a group of people who aren't puzzlers.

Yes for a Swiss Bank if I remember well, that's why there is a wooden holder provided: to make like the swiss flag when you watch from above

[ghxost]

Will the aluminum cross take longer than 10 minutes? Lol
That is about my average on most sequential puzzles and locks, lower price range haha!

[Brian706]

Hmm... I'm not sure how difficult it was for other people but I think my open time was around 20 minutes. I found putting it back to the start was a little harder, which is odd since you have seen the whole mechanism once you open it.