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U&U Pocket Puzzle

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$8.5 $17 In stock

Category: Brainteasers

This award-winning puzzle looks like an accident you'd find in the bottom of a hardware drawer. However, this is a highly intentional and brilliant design hiding in plain sight. When you first attempt to separate the two U-shaped bolts, you will notice that the nuts do not screw off. Even after some experimentation, it may seem the parts are stuck together permanently. An elegant dance is required to untie the knot.

U&U was named Puzzle of the Year in 2014. Designed by Kyoo Wong of Hong Kong. Manufactured by Hanayama of Japan.

Customer Reviews (4.4 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Ellie ★★★★★

The disguise is brilliant—it genuinely looks like a random bit of junk until you start fiddling with it, and then the intentional design clicks. The mechanism is smooth and satisfying once you figure out the first move, and that "aha" moment made the price worth it for me.

Hazel L. ★★★★★

Took me three evenings of staring at that innocent-looking hardware piece before the mechanism finally clicked in my brain. The way the solution reveals itself once you stop forcing it is genuinely clever engineering disguised as chaos.

Grace T. ★★★★★

The way it masquerades as a random hardware scrap is genius—I nearly tossed it twice before realizing the trick. The satisfying click when the pieces finally align makes the frustration worth every minute.