On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me,
12 other puzzlers
David Litwin, Bram Cohen, Eitan Cher, Mr. Yao, Jason Smith, Steve Winter, Vesa Timonen, Peter Wiltshire, Mike Toulouzas, Ayi Li, Wil Strijbos, and Stuart Coffin.
11 Oskar Van Ds
10 Chinnimoto's
9 Robert Stegmann's
8 Jerry Slocum's
12 other puzzlers
David Litwin, Bram Cohen, Eitan Cher, Mr. Yao, Jason Smith, Steve Winter, Vesa Timonen, Peter Wiltshire, Mike Toulouzas, Ayi Li, Wil Strijbos, and Stuart Coffin.
11 Oskar Van Ds
10 Chinnimoto's
9 Robert Stegmann's
8 Jerry Slocum's
7 Eric Fuller's
6 Tony Fisher's
5 Richard Hess'
4 Mr. Fok's
3 Da Yan's
2 Brian Young's
And Stickman in a pine tree
It's day 12 and this little story has come to and end. I thought the best way to do that would be with 12 final puzzlers! Links and photos are provided where available. Go look, go buy, go make sure the designers keep designing and the puzzlers keep puzzling!
David Litwin is a long time friend. He's designed and built my collection of elemental puzzles along with a few others over the years.
Bram Cohen in addition to being a computer wiz has had a number of puzzles made by Hanayama as well as being the inspiration for many of Oskar's designs.
Eitan Cher is a young up and coming puzzle designer. He's currently doing post-graduate work in Chicago but still finds the time to put out a puzzle or two.
Mr. Yao is the man behind Witeden. He's designed a number of his own puzzles and that number keeps growing. In the past few months he's put out over 10 new puzzles.
Jason Smith first brought the helicopter cube to the market. recently he has been designing a series of deep cut puzzles.
Steve Winter is new to the puzzle building scene. He specializes in mazes, but has recently designed few twisty puzzles with a maze built in.
Vesa Timonen has been designing puzzles for a while now that can be found in shops all over the world. He works in all media.
Peter Wiltshire is another relatively newcomer to the world of puzzling. His Ferris box won the 2012 Jury Prize at IPP.
Mike Toulouzas builds beauties in wood. His Judges Gavel won the first prize at IPP in 2011.
Ayi Li is a designer of a number of new twisty puzzles. I love Ayi because like me, he calls his puzzles TOYS!
Wil Strijbos is the dealer of choice for the puzzle world. One and all go to him for their puzzling fix.
And finally...Stuart Coffin. He has got to be the builder of puzzles with the most designs to his name. As he numbers each design, it is fairly easy to keep track of what he's made. At IPP this year I picked up number 258 "Octet in F". That sure is a lot of puzzles!
(AND 12 bloggers blogging (Gabriel, Allard, Kevin, Jerry, Neil, Brian, Oli, Moises, Gunnar, Scott, Tom, and Rox of course!))
For a real enjoyable trip through puzzledom, click on the bloggers names above. Some of them you might have seen before others may be new to you, all are enjoyable reads. This was my originally intended ending, but as I went through all the puzzle designers in the initial write-up of this blog back in December, I realized that not all the bloggers are designers For this reason, I changed it to the above 12th day, but since we all enjoy reading about puzzles and people, I thought I'd leave it in here for you to get a small bit of extra Christmas cheer!
Merry Christmas all! I hope you enjoyed my little poem this year. I only wish there were more than 12 days of Christmas as I have many many more than 12 puzzlers I'd like to introduce you to. To do that and learn more, I guess you'll just have to continue reading my ramblings. The more I do these, the harder they get. It is becoming more and more difficult to come up with ideas....But next year....well, I'm already thinking ahead now aren't I?
And just for you Mr. Stickman:
On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me,
12 puzzlers puzzling AND bloggers blogging
11 Oskar inventing
10 Chinny spinning
9 Robert Webbing
8 Jerry Collecting
6 Tony Fisher's
5 Richard Hess'
4 Mr. Fok's
3 Da Yan's
2 Brian Young's
And Stickman in a pine tree
It's day 12 and this little story has come to and end. I thought the best way to do that would be with 12 final puzzlers! Links and photos are provided where available. Go look, go buy, go make sure the designers keep designing and the puzzlers keep puzzling!
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| Dave Litwin, Geert Hellings |
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| Bram Cohen, Adam Cowen, Bob Hearn |
Eitan Cher is a young up and coming puzzle designer. He's currently doing post-graduate work in Chicago but still finds the time to put out a puzzle or two.
Mr. Yao is the man behind Witeden. He's designed a number of his own puzzles and that number keeps growing. In the past few months he's put out over 10 new puzzles.
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| Jason Smith |
Steve Winter is new to the puzzle building scene. He specializes in mazes, but has recently designed few twisty puzzles with a maze built in.
Vesa Timonen has been designing puzzles for a while now that can be found in shops all over the world. He works in all media.
Peter Wiltshire is another relatively newcomer to the world of puzzling. His Ferris box won the 2012 Jury Prize at IPP.
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| Peter Wiltshire |
Mike Toulouzas builds beauties in wood. His Judges Gavel won the first prize at IPP in 2011.
Ayi Li is a designer of a number of new twisty puzzles. I love Ayi because like me, he calls his puzzles TOYS!
Wil Strijbos is the dealer of choice for the puzzle world. One and all go to him for their puzzling fix.
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| Wil and Tom |
And finally...Stuart Coffin. He has got to be the builder of puzzles with the most designs to his name. As he numbers each design, it is fairly easy to keep track of what he's made. At IPP this year I picked up number 258 "Octet in F". That sure is a lot of puzzles!
(AND 12 bloggers blogging (Gabriel, Allard, Kevin, Jerry, Neil, Brian, Oli, Moises, Gunnar, Scott, Tom, and Rox of course!))
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| Neil Hutchinson and Allard Walker |
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| designer and blogger Scott Elliot |
And just for you Mr. Stickman:
On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me,
12 puzzlers puzzling AND bloggers blogging
11 Oskar inventing
10 Chinny spinning
9 Robert Webbing
8 Jerry Collecting
7 Eric building
6 Tony cutting
5 Richard Hess'
4 Mr. Fok's
3 Da Yan's
2 Brian Young's
And Stickman in a pine tree
(Are there enough verbs in there for you now? I left them out intentionally because I wanted to name names and tell tales!)
6 Tony cutting
5 Richard Hess'
4 Mr. Fok's
3 Da Yan's
2 Brian Young's
And Stickman in a pine tree
(Are there enough verbs in there for you now? I left them out intentionally because I wanted to name names and tell tales!)
Fame at last! No fortune - I spent it on puzzles!
ReplyDeleteKevin
Puzzlemad
Woo hoo! I made the blog as well, thanks Roxanne : )
ReplyDeleteHow could I leave you out Peter? I wouldn't dream of it.
ReplyDeleteThanks Rox! I'm honoured to have been mentioned among such an august group of puzzle-people! :)
ReplyDeleteWishing you a wonderfully puzzling 2013!
allard