by dinoklein » Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:26 am
Hi all,
Last week while visiting my cousin, he took me to a puzzle shop in the city centre. Of course my addiction immediately kicked in and I bought 4 Hanayama puzzles and a 2x2 Rubiks cube on the spot. Since my colleagues are always interested I got back to puzzling at work, which included the Kuku, since my colleagues are always eager to solve puzzles before I have solved them. Unfortunately we still didn't get it open...till this afternoon. I travelled by train to the centre of Holland to visit another cousin for some sword fighting and took my puzzles with me to pass the time during my trip. Since I've already tried almost everything with the kuku, I had some theories on how it probably worked. So I started working on it again and within 2 minutes it suddenly came apart, propelling all the parts in every direction in the train compartement. Some nice travellers helped me to collect everything. Well, at least I hope it was everything. And so my strenuous and frustrating journey to open the Kuku has ended. Now an equally difficult task awaits me to crack the code and enter the vault. I'll keep you posted on that progress...
Dion