Category: Brainteasers
Two mighty bucks lock horns in battle, their metal antlers desperately intertwined. Can you separate the dueling beasts? Wonderful styling gives the elk-head pieces more personality than traditional abstract designs. Deceptively simple, this two-piece puzzle is surprisingly difficult to master.
Designed by Nobuyuki Yoshigahara for Hanayama of Japan.
The metal finish on these elk heads is surprisingly detailed, with each buck’s expression giving the puzzle real character. Took me a good twenty minutes of twisting before the antlers finally slid apart, and I felt genuinely clever when they did.
I wasn’t expecting the antlers to be this intricately cast—the way they twist and overlap actually makes you stop and study the puzzle before you even start solving it. Took me a good twenty minutes to separate the bucks, and the satisfying click when they finally came apart was worth the effort.
The metal antlers really do look locked in a proper fight, and the elk heads have way more character than I expected from a pocket puzzle. Took me a good twenty minutes of twisting before I finally got them apart, which was the perfect little brain-break.
