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View Poll Results: Do you enjoy tavern puzzles? | |
What is a tavern puzzle?
|     | 7 | 41.18% | |
Keep these things away from me.
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I can take them or leave them.
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If I get hold of one of these things, just try to pry it out of my hands before it is solved.
|    | 8 | 47.06% |
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05-18-2002, 09:14 PM
|  | Usagi Yojimbo | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: The Birthplace of American Democracy
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Anyone here a fan of tavern puzzles?
I have a couple from this company which I pull out form time to time. Forgetfulness is a great thing, allowing you to enjoy old things again for the first time  . |
05-18-2002, 09:26 PM
|  | ArcAngle | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: taking a nap
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My brother collects them. 
Plus the fact that we live near Vulcan Ironworks who makes them. Makes it an easy, yet greatly appreciated, b'day or xmas present. Of course I figure them out before wrapping. 
Lynne |
05-18-2002, 10:16 PM
| | Usagi Yojimbo | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: The Birthplace of American Democracy
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Quote: Originally posted by hypotenuse
Of course I figure them out before wrapping. | But of course! You have to, um, know they are solvable.
-JP |
05-18-2002, 11:48 PM
|  | Insert witty comment here | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Alabama
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My grandfather used to work for the steel mill in Birmingham, so he knows how to work with that kind of stuff. When I was younger and he still worked there, he would bring home puzzles from time to time that he had made at work. Lots of fun!
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05-18-2002, 11:58 PM
|  | Premium Member | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: New York, NY, USA
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My husband loves these things. We don't have any ourselves (you couldn't have mentioned them sooner? Tomorrow's his birthday, you know!), but several friends have them and they're always good for bringing out his basic anti-social nature. |
05-19-2002, 12:00 AM
|  | Rockin The Suburbs | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Chantilly, VA
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I guess I've seen 'em, but I can imagine getting frustrated and banging it against a wall.  |
05-19-2002, 10:19 AM
|  | Epinions Members | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: The Nutmeg State
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I've never heard them called Tavern Puzzles -- we call them Blacksmith's Puzzles. I can take them or leave them though.
They sell them at Cracker Barrel here, and I usually walk right by them. My friend is fascinated by them though. He'll sit there and try to figure it out all day. I watch him slightly, because once he's solved it, he'll call me over to try. Then, because I saw him solve it, I can solve it on the first try  He hates that!!! I doesn't realize I sort of watch him do it though. |
05-19-2002, 10:34 AM
| | ArcAngle | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: taking a nap
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Quote: Originally posted by drmomentum
But of course! You have to, um, know they are solvable.
-JP | And they might be broken! Can't give a broken gift now can we? What would Ms. Manners say? |
05-19-2002, 04:40 PM
|  | Epinions Members | | Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Iowa
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Whehh, glad to see I am not the only one who does not know of them.
The most complex 'physical' puzzle that I have seen is probably the one that looks like two bent nails somehow stuck together. Or the one that Cubs Scouts make with the leather strip with a slit and buttons on a string going through it.
From the link, I see complexity that I never knew existed to these 'puzzles'.
But I think that I would be addicted once exposed to one of them...:-)
tom
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05-19-2002, 07:58 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2000
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Wow, either love 'em or hate 'em, here. I love them, myself. I often get collections of little ones from marketing-gift suppliers to give out at public events. It often makes my booth very popular. |
06-05-2002, 10:45 PM
|  | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Canada
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Love them. Than I was very little, my grandpa took two bucket handles, bent them a bit and somehow they become attached to each other... I spent all the day on the porch taking them apart but finally I did. To this day I'm not sure if I solved it or forced it... | |
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