easy to follow instructions included




Pacific Puzzleworks is proud to present this comprehensive set of Oskar van Deventer's knot puzzles. If board-burrs in general can be thought of as a family of puzzles, then this set of Oskar's Knots can be thought of as a genus (or sub-set) of that greater family.

Although the 12-piece version has fewer pieces than Oskar's Knot 14, it has been our experience that the 14-piece version is easier for most people to put together, however neither one is especially difficult.

On the other hand, Knot Mass 36 is not only ridiculously difficult to put together, it's even hard to get apart! Knot Mass 36 requires eight specific shifting moves in order to get the first piece out, and then another eight moves to get the next pieces out! Fortunately, the 12-piece and 14-piece puzzles have characteristics which are similar to the 36-piece version, and so lessons learned from solving the smaller ones will help the determined puzzler solve the big one!

Here at Pacific Puzzleworks, we're proud to offer such high quality reproductions of Oskar's puzzle designs, and are pleased to devote our second Boxed Set of laser-cut puzzles entirely to his creations. Each Boxed Set includes easy to follow instructions, and comes packaged in an attractive blue-ribboned box, ready to give to some lucky friend or relative... or maybe just to keep for yourself.

Production Notes: Over the past year, the team at Pacific Puzzleworks has been developing our own super-high-quality hardwood laminate product by pressing together cross-grained sheets of veneer cut from sustainably harvested trees (cherry, walnut and maple) using non-toxic aliphatic resin wood glue. This special eco-friendly puzzlemaking plywood is laser-cut with high-resolution etching on both sides of the material, and then gently sanded down to thickness tolerance, leaving clean and spicy-smelling cuts without the sticky residue commonly found on inferior laser-cut products. The unsurpassed quality of the resulting puzzle pieces can be seen by examining the full-size versions of the photographs that you find on this website. The perfect fit and meticulous attention to detail is what you would expect from anything bearing a Pacific Puzzleworks logo.
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