Brick Wall - Lucie Pauwels - Pelikan Puzzles

Brick Wall

Produced by: Pelikan Puzzles

Designer: Lucie Pauwels

Difficulty Level: 7/10

Dimensions: 8.03" x 5.91" x 1.02"

Material: Bubinga, Maple

Product Description:

The Brick Wall puzzle, designed by Lucie Pauwels and produced by Pelikan Puzzles, is a beautifully crafted and challenging puzzle. Made from vibrant Bubinga and Maple, this chunky puzzle measures 8.03" x 5.91" x 1.02" and features 11 uniquely shaped pieces of grout that need to be assembled inside the wall. The puzzle offers a simple premise but a complex and rewarding solution.

Kevin Sadler's Review:

"I have been watching Lucie Pauwels’ designs with great interest over the years. She seems to create them in her head using simple home-made blocks and always manages to produce puzzles that are very different to those of the other designers out there today. There does not seem to be a computer used in the design process and this means that the puzzles that she creates are human solvable and require proper thought and logic to do so. The Brick wall is a chunky puzzle (20.5x15x3cm) made from a gorgeous vibrant Bubinga and Maple. The reverse side of the puzzle is a tray which holds the pieces (Maple) which are to be the grout in the tiled wall. There are 11 differently shaped pieces of grout which need to be assembled inside the wall. The premise is very simple but the actual solution is not. I started as I always do with a random insertion of pieces in positions that looked good. With Lucie’s puzzles, this approach really doesn’t tend to work well and it ended for me several times with an almost, but not good enough assembly: After a whole 2 days of failure, I decide that it was time to think© and use some logic. The pieces are shaped in such a way that there can be only one solution and the best way to go about it is to restrict the positioning of a certain few pieces from the very beginning. Once that has been done, the sequence for insertion is really pretty logical – there is a little trial and error where a piece has a little vertical symmetry but it only requires a quick test to see which way around it goes to allow other pieces in. Despite the fact that this looks like an impossible trial and error challenge, believe me, it is not. Like most of Lucie’s puzzles, this is a test of logic which you will really enjoy once you have decided to go that path. It will also look absolutely gorgeous on display."

• Unique Design: Innovative human-solvable puzzle requiring logic and thought
• Material: Crafted from vibrant Bubinga and Maple
• Challenge: Assemble 11 uniquely shaped pieces of grout inside the wall
• Objective: Find the one solution through logical positioning and sequence

The Brick Wall puzzle is a stunning and challenging addition to any collection, combining beautiful craftsmanship with a rewarding and logical solution process.