Cast Marble - Hanayama Cast Metal Puzzle

This thing is beautiful. It's heavy in the hand but not too big. The precise milling or casting? not sure which gives it an awesome polished look, and even if you accidentally get it apart. Good luck getting it back together (until you cheat and look up the solution online) Which is what I finally gave in to doing after hours of trying to line every which way that I could contemplate and never sucedded. Worth it's weight in gold (Ok that's a little over the top) But definately one of Hanayama's best I've tried so far.

Gorgeous puzzle. It's got a great feel. The movement is smooth and precise. It has a premium heft of real metal. If you're into metal puzzles you will really enjoy this!

This puzzle is well constructed, and aesthetically pleasing. It is, in essence, a miniature sculpture in addition to being a challenging puzzle. It will be a great piece to put out on our coffee table. We have two different puzzles from Hanayama and like them both.

I love these series of puzzles. I have many of them myself. This one should have been rated a 3.

This is a good start and recommendation for getting into difficult hanayama puzzles. It is difficult enough to exercise your brain, but easy to track/orient yourself what's been done and what hasn't been done. Once solved and you figure it out, it's very satisfying and a great piece for decoration and showing off. This is a great entry for both beginners and intermediates.

I'm really not a good puzzle solver. I think many of these puzzles are shooting for form over challenge. I looked at the clock. 9:19 I started working on this. 9:20 I had 4 separate pieces in my hand. Again, I think its going to take me longer to put it back together than it was to take apart. I really was hoping for some frustration and challenge from these things. This one is going to sit on my shelf. At least it looks interesting.

Well-made, good puzzle, good looks

I purchased 6 different Hanayama Cast Metal Puzzles for Christmas gifts for the guys in my family. None had seen them before. Several days later, they are still working on them. As of yet, no one has been able to completely solve their puzzle. A few could take them apart, but not put them back together. They've had fun trying to work each others' puzzles, too. This one called Cast Marble was the easiest to take apart, but not back together