This cool puzzle box is a fascinating piece that I was lucky enough to acquire in a trade.
Obviously your goal is to retrieve the coin and watching all the gears in motion is quite literally mesmerizing!
It’s a very clever design from Constantin!
Constantin has a website that you can check out as well.
You can grab yourself a copy at Puzzlemaster.
Here’s a description:
“Infinity is a very unique box in the Jean-Claude Constantin range. Here, there are no twists and turns, no infernal riddles, no convoluted solutions, no flamboyant processes… The rule is very simple: a one euro coin is trapped in a sophisticated system of cogs. The “challenge” is to turn the only visible knob until it is freed from the box… and it works every time! Except that, according to its designer, you would have to turn the wheel without interruption for more than a century to achieve your ends... Infinity is in truth a philosophical reflection on time, on the fact that an insignificant action repeated ad infinitum can solve what seems futile and out of reach. This work is an ode to passing time. Its timeless beauty, mixing Art and Reason.”
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