Disentanglement Puzzle - Wire Puzzles

  • A wire puzzle in unsolved form

  • The same puzzle in solved form

Wire puzzles consist of two or more entangled pieces of more or less stiff wire. The pieces may or may not be closed loops. The closed pieces might be simple rings or have more complex shapes. Normally the puzzle must be solved by disentangling the two pieces without bending or cutting the wires.

Early wire puzzles were made from horseshoes and similar material.

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