Category: Brainteasers
This puzzle looks like a piece of cake but it is actually quite difficult. A quarter of this metal pastry has been cut away, showing three identical layers inside. The object is simple, first disassemble the parts, then reassemble them to the starting position. Easier said than done.
Designed by Bram Cohen for Hanayama of Japan.
I bought this thinking it'd be a quick five-minute fidget, then spent forty minutes just getting the first layer apart. That quarter cutaway is sneaky — you can see exactly how it's built and still can't figure out where to twist. Genuinely one of the better metal puzzles I've owned.
The three identical layers inside are what fooled me — I thought it would slide apart in seconds. Took me almost twenty minutes to figure out the quarter cutaway was the key. Genuinely tricky for such a small piece of metal.
Wasn't expecting much from a puzzle shaped like a slice of cake, but those three identical layers lock together tighter than they look. Getting it back into the original cake shape is somehow harder than taking it apart.
