Triple 3 - Osanori Yamamoto (2015) by Pelikan

This is a puzzle design that Osanori has made many variants over the years and still currently creates them.

It’s an ‘apparent cube’ type packing puzzle with the obvious goal of covering all of the Cherry Box openings with the Jatoba Pieces.  The level move count is 10.2.5 which is rather high considering there’s only three pieces.

Here’s what Kevin had to say about it:

“The pieces of Triple 3 leave quite a bit of space inside with the limitation of placement being provided by the large front hole and single cubie hole diagonally opposite. This required a different approach to me from the Triangle Ring 3 with placement of the specially shaped piece first and working out how to add pieces around it. A much tougher challenge which took me several days.”