Puzzlepedia™ Mechanical Puzzles
Dexterity Puzzles
Dexterity puzzles require careful manipulation, often involving endurance, balance and skill.
Dexterity puzzles often require skill and practice to complete the challenge. The first popular dexterity puzzles were small boxes with a clear lid and a ball inside. The goal being to tilt the box and get the ball to fall into the hole. Often multiple balls and multiple balls were involved. A Ball Labyrinth is another example of this type of puzzle.
Other types of dexterity puzzles require balance, or careful and precise manipulation of an object to cause certain pieces to align in the correct way.
Examples
Bottled Frustration
Free the marble from its bottled captivity. Once you know what has to be done, the trick is doing it and then undoing it!
Learn More...Jacobs Revenge
Get the wooden ball past the obstruction and into the neck of the bottle. Breaking the bottle doesn't count!
Learn More...Stilletto
Can you nail down the solutions to the tricky Stiletto puzzle by getting the washer all the way on the nail?
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