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Crossed Stick Addendum
Here’s another configuration of segments that could work in a crossed stick puzzle: Conveniently, all of the pieces meet at 60° angles, so if I make a puzzle using this, I won’t need to use a slot...
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Symmetry Variations on Binary Words
In exploring the space of crossed stick puzzles, I’ve gone on a tangent into the world of binary words and their symmetries. A binary word is just a string where the “letters” can be one of two...
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Three More Crossed Stick Puzzles
Since I last posted about crossed stick puzzles, I’ve come up with three new ones. Here’s one of them: This one nicely fills one of the spots in the binary word table. There are eight pieces with three...
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Ups and Downs (and Deeps and Shallows) revisited
I would like to be able to report that I have produced a successful prototype of the crossed stick puzzle I described in a previous post. But I cannot. This photo is a lie. There are two...
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A Ten Piece Triangular Grid Puzzle Configuration
Here’s a configuration that I found while doodling a few weeks ago: At the time, I was thinking of the 12 piece puzzles I found using the triangular grid; this configuration could be an easier...
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Magic figures from crossed stick configurations
When I was working on finding configurations to use in crossed stick puzzles, it occurred to me that the same configurations would make good bases for magic figures. Since each piece is a line segment...
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