This article was written in May 2007. I posted this because it is well worth mentioning. It can tell you how a new design emerged from hard work.[The first time posted on Yahoo blog:2010-01-01]
The following two pictures are the original version, which was designed by a Russian gifted puzzle designer, Kirill Grebnev.[http://www.puzzle.palyn.ru/]
When I saw it by chance through internet, I at once picked up the right tools and materials to make it myself, and then tried to solve in the first place. I spent one night(30May07) and the next morning, mastering it, the time spent added together which was amount to about half an hour.
When I saw it by chance through internet, I at once picked up the right tools and materials to make it myself, and then tried to solve in the first place. I spent one night(30May07) and the next morning, mastering it, the time spent added together which was amount to about half an hour.
Side A
Side B(Zoomed in)
For my new version of this string puzzle, appearing in the following two photos was originated by me.
Side A
Side B(Zoomed in)
However the history of the development is deserved mentioning here. One day, I came across this new version by chance, but I was/am not sure how it came. Perhaps I myself or someone else accidentally made it and she/he or I took no notice of its significance.
The new puzzle is not easy to solve because it took me 6 straight days to successfully solve it. If hours spent were added up together, the time spent was about 8 hours. In fact, I could solve it once or twice each day for the first five days. However, I did not count myself successful that I had solved it until the sixth day, because during these five days, one thing made me extremely frustrated was that every time after I had separated the two rings from the rob, I could not put the two rings back. That meant I could solve the puzzle one way only. On the sixth day, I could remove the two rings and put them back more than four straight times without difficulty. This time I could say to myself my effort of six days paid off. Furthermore, I have upgraded myself to a higher level. In fact, during the first five days, in order to encourage myself not to give up, I was repeatedly telling to myself this was a real challenge, which was quite a good stuff of this kind!
It was worth trying because the more hours I have spent, the more difficult puzzle I have tried to learn, and the higher level I could attain.
