Type 1: Put Together Puzzles


These are puzzles where the object is to put them together. They are grouped into 3 categories: 
  
  (a) 2-dimensional: These are puzzles that lay flat.  The object
        is usually to put all the pieces into a container, to arrange
        all the pieces into a shape, or to arrange all the pieces such
        that certain colors or patterns line-up.
  (b) 3-dimensional: These are puzzles that are 3-dimensional.  They
        differ from TYPE-3 (interlocking solids) in that they do not
        interlock when you put them together.  The object is usually
        to make some shape (cube, pyramid, etc) or to line-up colors
        or shapes.
  (c) Balancing: I made-up this category, because I had some puzzles
        such as "Architest" that I didn't know how to categorize.
        These are puzzles where the object is to balance something(s)
        on top of something else.
TYPE-1-A: PUT TOGETHER PUZZLES, 2-dimensional
Picture TITLE MANUFACTURER DESCRIPTION
Matching Puz IceCream Great Am. Puz factor 9 squares, arrange so matching sides make ice cream cones
Train Squares Whitehall Games, Inc 9 squares, arrange so matching sides make trains
Scramble Squares b.dazzle, Inc 9 squares, arrange so matching sides make civil war figures
Micro Pocket Puzzle Carlisle Co 9 squares, arrange so matching sides make birds
Heads & Tails Howard R. Swift 9 squares, arrange so matching sides make like-colored triangles
Magic Triangle Heye 9 triangles, arrange so matching sides make cats
Tricky Ickies Dan Gilbert 9 triangles, arrange so matching sides make bugs, etc
Rascally Rats Dan Gilbert 9 triangles, arrange so matching sides make rats
Tricky Triangle (unknown) 9 triangles, arrange so matching sides make lizards
Butterfly Triangles (unknown) 9 triangles, arrange so matching sides make butterflies
Tantrix Family Games Inc Make color loops w/ up to 10 pieces
Crazy Tantrix Mind Games Make color loops w/ up to 10 pieces (smaller version of 'tantrix')
Butterfly Puzzle Binary Arts Fit 9 cardboard butterflies into triangular border
Snowflake Binary Arts Build shapes with connected-hexagon pieces
The Hatching Egg David Corp Egg shape split into pieces - makes various shapes
Frustration Chas. J. Gantt 13 wood pieces made of connected squares fit into tray
Devil Puzzle Bits & Pieces 7 wood pieces fit into tray making 4-pointed star
7 piece puzzle Chas. J. Gantt 7 wood pieces form various shapes and fit into tray
Blockade Bits & Pieces 7 pieces w/holes fit on base w/pegs
I.Q. Block (unknown) 10 plastic pieces fit into square tray
Four T puzzle Binary Arts Fit 4 T's into the square tray
Square by Square Thinkfun (bin. arts) 14 plastic pieces fit in tray or make figures shown on cards
One Tough Puzzle Great Amer Puz fctory 9 cardboard pieces, each w/ dia/hear/club/spade
Bali-Buttons P.B.S. Arrange 4x4 color/shapes onto pegs so no dup piece in col/row
Lucky 7 Melissa & Doug 7 wood blocks fit into square tray
Checkerboard Puzzle Plas-trix Co 12 plastic peices form an 8x8 checkerboard
H.P. Puzzle III TabbyKat.com 8 plastic rectangular tiles - align like colors similar to dominos
Bermuda Triangle University Games 6 wooden pieces made from spheres fit into triangular tray
Unknown (1a-1) (unknown) Fit 8 wooden squares in tray so like-color dots align
Tri-Square Mag-Nif 4 plastic pieces fit into square tray
Double Cross Mag-Nif Fit 4 plastic pieces into try to make each of 2 different crosses
Tangram (various) 7 pieces can be arranged to make various shapes
Jee-Ho Barron/Scott 7 pieces make shapes (same as tangrams) w/ cards showing shapes
Nonagon Family Games Inc. Fit 12 wooden pieces into 9-sided tray
Unknown (1a-2) (unknown) manipulate plastic connected circles to line-up 36-arrows
Sliding puzzle Square Bits & Pieces Add 7th (square) wooden piece & fit in square tray
Sliding puzzle Triangle Bits & Pieces Add 7th (triangular) wooden piece & fit in square tray
Eleven L's Puzzle Creative Crafthouse Fit 11 same-shaped wooden pieces into square area
Diamond Soul Channel Craft Fit 10 wooden pieces into checkerboard diamond
Hexy Puzzle Chas. J. Gantt Fit 12 wooden pieces into diamond-shaped tray
Something Fishy Melissa & Doug 18 wooden pieces fit in tray & make stream of fish
Chiclets Puzzle Synergistics Rsrch Assemble 12-piece rectangle shaped like chiclets
I.Q. Circle Petoy Fit 8 plastic pieces into circle-shaped tray
Crazy Cheese Puzzle BlueOrangeGames.com Arrange 9 cheese pieces so all holes are round
Fits Puzzle Blocks (unknown) 8 plastic pieces fit in square tray; start w/ different piece in top left corner
The Puzzling Zoo Nemmelgeb Murr Arrange 9 wooden pieces into square w/ animal pieces to lock them
The Life Quest Swan-Son Make a square w/ 5 cardboard pieces
Fruiter Woodhead Make fruit-tree shape from 4 wood pieces
Ellipse Woodhead Make elipse shape from 5 wood pieces
Cross Puzzle Shackman 6 wooden pieces form a cross
Square Puzzle Mechanical Servants 4 platic triangular pieces form a square
Magic T Mechanical Servants 4 platic pieces form a capitol T
Double Trouble Mechanical Servants 5 platic pieces can form square or rectangle
PP4 Mechanical Servants Use 5 platic pieces to form various shapes (like tangrams)
Adams Cube Henry Adams Fit 5 plastic pieces into shapes on 6 faces of a cube
Unknown (1a-3) (unknown) Fit 18 rectangular wood pieces into Z-shapped tray
Super Star Melissa & Doug 10 wooden pieces fit into star-shaped tray
33 Problems Invicta Plastics Ltd Tray w/ 32 plastic pieces, & list of 33 problems (like matchstick puzzles)
Active Pack Puzzle Blocks James Galt & Co Ltd Fit 13 plastic blocks into square tray (blocks can also make 3-D shapes)
Brick by Brick Binary Arts Make shapes with brick-shaped pieces
Disapearing square Dollar Tree Dist. Both 16 & 17 plastic pieces fit into square tray
Think Circle Pressman Fit 9 plastic pieces into circular tray
Geometrex Nabucho Rex Games Inc Fit 7 plastic pieces into square tray w/ room for 8th square piece
Geometrex Ormazd Rex Games Inc Fit 6 plastic pieces into square tray w/ room for 7th square piece
Voodoo Kohner 7 plastic pieces form 140 different shapes
Hi-Jinx Kohner 7 plastic pieces form 92 different shapes
Kwazy Quilt Kohner Fit 13 plastic pieces into tray
34 Skidoo Hoi Polloi, Inc Arrange 16 numbered blocks as a magic square
Drive Ya Nuts Milton Bradley Place 7 hex pieces into tray while aligning adjacent numbers
Wisdom Puzzle Plonpos? Taiwan Fit 7 plastic pieces into tray
Quarter Pack Puzzle Bits & Pieces Fit 9 metal quarter-circles into square tray
Dr. Puzzle board R.O.C. Fit 9 plastic pieces into circular tray
Henry IV Jerry Slocum Use 7-piece cardboard picture of King Henry IV of France as tangrams
Missing T Thinkfun (bin arts) 4 cardboard pieces make letter T
Hollow Square Thinkfun (bin arts) 4 cardboard pieces make square or hollow square
The Taxi Puzzle Bits & Pieces 7 wooden pieces make a taxi
The Goblet Puzzle Bits & Pieces 7 wooden pieces make a taxi
The T Puzzle Bits & Pieces 7 wooden pieces make a letter T
Match Mayhem Bits N Pieces 15 matchsticks & list of 41 match puzzles
Aluminum Cats Tray Bits & Pieces Fit 4 cats into aluminum tray
Houses & Factories Bits & Pieces Fit 2 houses/3 factories into tray
Hercules Puzzle Makers Int'l Fit 5 identical metal pieces into square
Packing Arrows Bits & Pieces Fit 4 arrows into square
Square Me Objective Interfc Sys 5 pieces form a square
Last Piece Puzzle Dugald Keith Fit last piece into jigsaw puzzle
Vess Cola puzzle Vess Cola Arrange 3x3 cardboard squares & line-up colors & bottles
Raging Rapids Thinkfun (bin. arts) Fit 12 paddlers in raft facing front
Star Cluster Bits & Pieces Fit 3 metal pieces made of triangles into trangular tray
BrainDrain SquareWhere Mattell 16 colorful cardboard pieces fit into square tray
Think Tac Toe Pressman Arrange pieces to make a Tic Tac Toe win
2 Squares & Cross S.S. Adams Co. 5 pieces form 2 squares & a cross
3 Different Squares S.S. Adams Co. 4 pieces make 3 squares
Form a Star S.S. Adams Co. 5 pieces form a star
Cubits Binary Arts 16 carboard pieces make objects in accompanying book
City Puzzle Binary Arts Fit 6 city pieces into sqaure tray
City of Manhattan Dalloz Move metal peg & fit wooden pieces of city skyline into square tray
C-Box Dilema Games Fit 5 identical wooden pieces into rectangle
Tangram - Rectangle www.CanYouSolveMe.com 4 plastic pieces make a rectangle
Tangram - Shamrock www.CanYouSolveMe.com 6 plastic pieces make a shamrock
Tangram - Twins www.CanYouSolveMe.com 8 plastic pieces make a coulple standing side-by-side
Tangram - Heart www.CanYouSolveMe.com 9 plastic pieces make a heart
Tangram - X www.CanYouSolveMe.com 6 plastic pieces make an 'X'
Tangram - Train www.CanYouSolveMe.com 9 plastic pieces make a train
Tangram - Sailboat www.CanYouSolveMe.com 7 plastic pieces make a sailboat
Tangram - Star www.CanYouSolveMe.com 8 plastic pieces make a star
Tangram - Jet www.CanYouSolveMe.com 1 plastic pieces make a jet
Tangram - Necktie www.CanYouSolveMe.com 8 plastic pieces make a necktie
Shakespeare's Word puz Professor Puzzle USA Arrange 4x4 so no 2 letters same in row/collumn/diagonal
Dime Dilemma Creative Crafthouse Insert dime into large circle with circular wood pieces
Katamino Gigamic Fit 5-unit-squared shapes into various sized rectangles
IQ Mini Smart Games Set 2 blockers, then fit pieces into the square
Shape Puzzle Ganz (www.ganz.com) Fit 22 pieces into rectangular wood frame
Cathedral Door ProjectGenius.com Fit pieces into the cathedral door-shaped frame
Ten Penny Puzzle Creative Crafthouse Fit 10 pennies into square frame




TYPE-1-B: PUT TOGETHER PUZZLES, 3-dimensional
Picture TITLE MANUFACTURER DESCRIPTION
Pyramid Puzzle Bits & Pieces 2 identical wood pieces make a pyramid (tetrahedron)
Pyramid Puzzle (plastic) (unknown) 2 identical plastic pieces make a pyramid (same as above)
Pyramid Puzzle (3 piece) Pussycat 3 identical plastic pieces make a pyramid (tetrahedron)
4 piece Pyramid Binary Arts 4 identical plastic pieces make a pyramid (tetrahedron)
Unknown (1b-1) (unknown) 4 identical plastic pieces make a pyramid (tetrahedron)
Pyramid Charles Gantt 4 identical wood pieces make a pyramid (tetrahedron)
Tetra Design Science Toys 4 wood pieces make a pyramid (tetrahedron)
Khufu's Pyramid Mandalay Box Company 5-piece wooden pyramid
Pyramid Game Made in China 4 plastic pieces of connected balls make a 20-ball pyramid (4 per side)
Unknown (1b-2) (unknown) 5 plastic pieces of connected balls make a 20-ball pyramid (4 per side)
Pyramid Puzzle (2) Benlyn Gamecraftg 6 wood pieces of connected balls make a 20-ball pyramid (4 per side)
Pyramid Puzzle (3) Bits and Pieces 4 wood pieces of connected balls make a 20-ball pyramid (4 per side)
Steel Pyramid Bits and pieces 6 steel pieces of connected balls make a 20-ball pyramid (4 per side)
Perplexing Pyramid Gordon Bros 6 plastic pieces of connected balls make a 20-ball pyramid (4 per side)
Giant Pyramid Gordon Bros 9 plastic pieces of connected balls make 35-ball pyramid (5 per side)
Baseball Pyramid UseYourHeadUnlimited 10 pieces of connected baseballs make pyramid w/o like colors touching
Rubik's Triamid Winning Moves Games Attach 10 plastic pieces to make pyramid with like colors/side
Pyrra Design Science toys 15 wood pieces make pyramid
Fantastic Island Skunk Games 7 plastic pieces fit in tray or make pyramids
TiPi Bits & Pieces Pyramid shaped w/sticks, wooden ball in middle
Unknown (1b-3) Press Print 6 plastic pieces fit to make cube w/holes
Concept 5 (unknown) Connected plastic cubes make block/other shapes
9 Post Packing Frans de Vreugd 8 metal pieces fit onto 9 rods to make a cube
A Square Deal Bits & Pieces Make cube w/ 10 wooden pieces hung on 4 sticks
Clive Cube Puzzle Makers Inter Put 6 wood rods into wood cube
Cube Packing Puzzle Bits & Pieces 7 light-wood pieces fit inside darkwood frame
Clive Box Simon Nightengale Put magnetic cube in wooden box
Cubic Insanity Bits & Pieces 8-piece wooden cube w/ 12 penetrating rods
Escher Block Cube Cordon Art Arrange 8 plastic cubes to make large cube w/ Escher print on each face
Soma cube Parker Brothers 7 plastic pieces make a cube, or various other shapes
6-piece cube Melissa & Doug 6 colorful wood pieces make a cube (for ages 6 and up)
CUBRA blue Parker Hilton Ltd Twist 27 plastic blocks into cube shape
Margot Knot Chas Gantt 8 wood cubes with holes & dowels fit together to make 2x2x2 cube
Splitting Headache Bits & Pieces 6 wood pieces make a 3x3x3 cube with checkerboard faces
Metropolis DaMert Company 7 plastic pieces make a 3x3x3 cube w/city skyline
9 wood cube Chas Gantt 9 wood pieces make 3x3x3 cube with 9 types of wood each face
Gold Skull Puzzle Hawthorne Direct LLC Assemble gold skull in clear plastic cube
Rubik's bricks Oddz On, Inc Make cube or other shapes with 9 3-block plastic pieces
Woody Cube/Nankai Bits & Pieces/Japan 6 cube faces with protruding wood blocks only fit one way
PuzCube World map Bits & Pieces 6 cube faces with protruding wood blocks only fit one way
Serpent Cube Mandalay Box Co Twist wood serpent (made of connected blocks) into a 3x3x3 cube
High Roller wwwSiamMandalay.com Fit wood blocks into cube-shaped dice box
Box of Blocks 2 Chas Gantt Fit 13 wood blocks in the box
Vegas Baby wwwSiamMandalay.com Fit 9 wood pieces with red & green dots into a die & fit into box
Octacube Mindscope Plug 8 plastic cubes to make larger 2x2 cube w/ like color spots on faces
Dice puzzle Shackman Arrange 9 wood blocks w/ circles into a die
Checkered Challenge Bits & Peices Assemble 6 wood pieces into cube w/ checkerboard pattern
The Broken Die Chas. Gantt Assemble 9 L-shaped wood pieces into a die
Saikoro Bits & Pieces Assemble 9 L-shaped wood pieces into a die
Magna Cube TOYS International 8 wood pieces with magnets make a 3x3x3 cube
The Magic Cube Der Zauberwurfel 7 wooden pieces make 3x3x3 cube
The Secret Dice Bits & Pieces 7 tiny wooden pieces make 3x3x3 cube
Bedlam Cube Bedlam Puzzles Ltd 13 plastic pieces make a 4x4x4 cube
Impuzzables Orange Lakeside Games 6 orange plastic pieces make a cube
Impuzzables Green Lakeside Games 6 green plastic pieces make a cube
Impuzzables Blue Lakeside Games 7 blue plastic pieces make a cube
Impuzzables White Lakeside Games 6 white plastic pieces make a cube
Impuzzables Red Lakeside Games 5 red plastic pieces make a cube
Impuzzables Yellow Lakeside Games 7 yellow plastic pieces make a cube
Block-by-Block Binary Arts 7 plastic pieces make a cube or various shapes (same as SOMA)
Cube Conundrum House of Marbles 7 wood pieces (4 identical) make a cube
Create-a-Cubes Skor-Mor Corp 7 wooden pieces make 3x3x3 cube (wood version of Soma)
(Rhombic Cube) (unknown) Assemble 6 plastic pieces into a rhombic cube to fit in case
Happy Cube Happy Puzzle Co Ltd Build cube from 6 foam pieces (6 variations: yel/grn/pur/red/blu/ora)
Snafooz Idea Group, Inc Build cube from 6 rubber pieces
Unknown (1b-4) SMC (advertisement) Build cube from 6 foam pieces marked with network equipment names
Cube Puzzle www.SiamMandalay.com 7 wood pieces fit into cube-shaped box w/ holes in faces
Puzzle Bar Pentangle Wooden pieces make a candy bar
8 Rods Puzzle Bits & Pieces 8 brass rods fit into rectangular piece
Hippo Haven Binary Arts Pack the 6 hippo-heads w/ variable length rods
Pegged for Trouble Bits & Peices Match holes so you can put pegs thru disk into base
T-Party Bits & Pieces Fit 4 T-shaped pieces into metal box
Unknown (1b-5) (unknown) Fit 8 tire pieces onto the wheel
Infernal Triangle Gordon Bros 7 plastic pieces of connected cylindars make a triangle
6 Key Mine Bits and pieces Fit the 6 keys into the metal sphere
The Zen Puzzle Charles O. Perry 5 brass rods fit into plastic case
Eggs in a crate Bits & Pieces Fit connected balls into the wooden crate
3D Geometrex Rex Games Inc Fit extra wood block into 9-piece puzzle
Nobels dynamite Professor Puzzle Ltd Fit 8 red wooden pegs into tray
Log Stacker Elverson Puzzle Co Fit 14 wood logs into the box
Logs in a box Bits and pieces Fit 8 wood logs into tray
Backlog Bits & Pieces Slide 8 wooden dowel rods into square frame
Prairie Dog Town Binary Arts Stack holed pieces with prairie dogs
Loopy Links Golf Binary Arts Stack holed pieces with golf balls
On The Level Magnif Arrange 9 pieces with adjoining pieces at same level
Third Degree Bits & Pieces Fit 3 rhombic wood pieces in hex case
Morph Dr Peter Hajek Fit 4 wooden pieces into each of 3 compartments
Wave Puzzle Crazy Countryboy 20 wavy wooden pieces make rectangular block
Unknown (1b-6) (unknown) 20 wavy pieces make rectangular block (variation on "Wave Puzzle"
Something Fishy Hong Kong Stack 20 plastic sardines into the plastic sardine can
Sardines Fishy Puzzle (unknown) Stack 20 plastic sardines into the plastic sardine can
IQ Fit Smart Games Fit 10 3-D plastic pieces into 2-D rectangular tray
Puzzle Tower Bits & Pieces Fit solid wood pieces into tower
Tower Puzzle Magneto Fit pieces into tower
Tower of Power Bits & Pieces Fit 6 blocks so 6 symbols show each side
The Great Wall Spilsbury Puzzle Co Make wall/other shapes w/wooden pieces
Mind Madness Huntar Company, Inc Make plastic soccer ball w/ magnetic pieces
The Blockhouse Bartl GmbH 7 wooden pieces fit together to make a house
Jumping King Tut Bits & Pieces Place magnetic mummy in tomb
Match'em High University Games Stack 5 blocks so pipes are connected
4 Cube Puzzle Binary Arts Stack 4 blocks so like colors touch
Red Line Chas. Gantt Stack 4 blocks to make continious red line
Unknown (1b-7) (unknown) Stack 4 blocks so each side has 4 different colors
Digi-Disc Niddo Industries Rotate 7 magnetic disks to make equations that are accurate
Unknown (1b-8) (unknown) Rotate 9 plastic disks to make equations that are accurate
Item #8134 Toysmith / MiMi Remove ball trapped inside 12 wood balls connected by dowels
ISHI (unknown) Get 4 plastic rhombic pieces into angled tray
Unknown (1b-9) (unknown) Fit 5 pairs of plastic rods into holes so they're all the same height
Rainbow Twist Cube Pappa Geppettos Toys Twist 12-cube string into shapes
49-steps Pentangle 27 wood cubes, get 2/1 colors in each row
Apothecary Puzzle Bits & Pieces Fit 16 wood pieces w/ metal loops into frame
Treasure in Wood Bits & Pieces Fit 12 wood tiles into the box
Discon Bits & Pieces Stack 13 wood disks & pegs to make cylindar
The Fifth Chair ThinkFun Inc. Build large chair from 4 smaller plastic pieces
Hexagon Puzzle Made in China 12 plastic pieces make a 6-sided block
Bamboozler Bits & Pieces Stack bamboo rods so they're all the same height
Unknown (1b-9) (unknown) (4 cubes make arrow on top of mirror???)
K-Dron Janusz Kapusta Plastic Tangram in 3 dimensions
Kanoodle Solo Gems 12 plastic pieces make various 2-D & 3-D shapes
Bamboo Amazing Cube Bits & Pieces Insert the metal piece into the bamboo cube
Gopher Holes www.SiamMandalay.com Fit 4 pieces into wood box w/ holey top
Cerebrum The Orb Factory LTD Stack wood pieces into 2x2x5 tower
Stick structure wwwSiamMandalay.com 12 sticks fit into 8 wood triangles
Double Octagon Box Bits & Pieces 8 panels w/ dif. sized tabs fit into top/bottom
Complex Cube wwwSiamMandalay.com Fit wood pieces in cube-shaped 6x6x6 box
Camelot DaMert Company Build castle using 12 plastic pieces
The Galaxy Bits & Pieces 35 wood rods & 20 wood balls fit together with ball in middle
Globe puzzle Corners of the world magnetic jigsaw pieces make a globe
Barricade Bits & Pieces Assemble discs w/ poles on outside
Force Field Mattel 4x4 cube held with magnets
LabTest: Cell Puzzle ProfessorPuzzle.com 20 triangles & 30 wood dowels fit together
IQ Test d-ring Go! Games Austin TX Assemble 6 semi-circle shaped wood pieces
Cobweb Reiss Games Ball inside of sticks & strings
Dog Pile Brainwright 12 plastic dog pieces make various 2-D/3-D shapes




TYPE-1-C: PUT TOGETHER PUZZLES, Balancing
Picture TITLE MANUFACTURER DESCRIPTION
Architest Tim Leefeldt Lift 6 nails with the 7th nail
Architest II Tim Leefeldt Lift tripod of 3 nails w/ 4th nail
10 Nails on 1 (unknown) Balance 9 nails on the 10th
Drop in the Bucket Bits & Pieces Balance pail/ball on sticks
Balancing Dice Bits & Pieces Balance wood dice on it's corner
Urchin Toys International Balance wooden star on wood block



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