If you own a reasonable engraving laser, have 10 kids and pay your bills in Aussie $s, you could save $251.90 by making your own and stuffing the Christmas stockings with them… as they retail on the internet for a small fortune,
and don't get sucked in by the "free delivery". You don’t have a laser or 10 kids?… off your rrrs and get to work and after some love making, buy a laser… the migration to Ausieland is not mandatory.
This entry was published at LJ on 25th. June, 2021 and migrated here to save you all those shekels. The following is what the poor buggers at LJ were exposed to. Maybe some of those exorbitant "Internetters" red it.
BTW, C125, ya gotchaself a laser yet? That path to the water source needs to be paved. For those without cutting capabilities on their laser, draw a border and cut on the TS. As they were designed as a freebie give away, I didn't Timbermate backfill the engraving, however, that would make the puzzle more presentable.
Suggest you download the paper version of the puzzle and give it a try first. The solution for those chickenshit to undertake the challenge... or brave and failed,
For those that may have noticed an absence of my so called "contributions"… I'm ba-a-ack, and for those that haven't or don't care… tough!
Been diagnosed with a pinched nerve in my back… beside the excruciating pain in my left shoulder blade for the first week, it has somewhat desisted in persecuting me and now persisting as an inconvenient continual ache… the clincher was that I lost about 80-90% use of my left arm. Being my drinking arm, I realised I had to get pissed to logon to LJ, hence my prolonged absence. Don't be intimidated, my neurologist's appointment is still 1 month away.
Not being game to venture down to the workshop, I found that my laser room was not out of bounds and I did some internet searching for some inspiration. As I have recently managed to sit upright at my computer for more than a few minutes, came up with something much to my anticipated adverse pottzy reaction as this is another puzzle to rattle his chain and other people's brain.
Consequently it was time to get back on the horse… pun intended…
This puzzle is based on the famous Trick Donkeys invented by Sam Loyd in 1858. The object of this puzzle is to rearrange the three pieces so that the riders appear to be riding the donkeys (horses).
Unlike my previous 1940 puzzle, this one has to be cut on the dotted line into 3 seperate pieces.
It has been modernised to a pair of bucking broncos and two shoot from the hip cowboys…
hence the chaps.
Downloaded from the internet, the design eventually made the transition to MDF with the assistance of CorelDraw, my laser and some vino induced programming,
I package these into baggies with some basic instructions, gallery picture #5, to be included in my swag of puzzles to be given away as freebies to any tragic that happens to walk across my path,
I have not provided the solution here, however, all can be downloaded from here...
Files available:-
Trick Donkey (A4 cutouts).pdf - Paper cutouts in case you don't own a laser/CNC.
Trick Donkey (Laserable).pdf - Laser engravable with red-hairline borders for cutting.
Trick Donkey (Solution).pdf - Baggie solution (folded in half) if you mass produce.
If you don't have access to a laser, the paper version of the puzzle can be downloaded from this A4 PDF and suggest you cut out around the borders of the cowboy page.
Adventurous Boys and Girls, If you haven't been exposed to this puzzle previously, I would appreciate if you would download the paper puzzle, cut it out (page 2) and give it a hardness rating from 1-10, with 1 being easy and 10 being looked at solution eventually.
If you have trouble with it, revel in the fact that someone said that the higher your IQ, the harder to solve. I never believed him, but your faith in him may make some feel better.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
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