Orange Perplex

Another participant in the 2019 Design Competition was Orange Perplex. There are five three-slices pieces to combine in an orange. A bit harder than Donut Perplex Junior, but doable for puzzlers with a healthy appetite. The solved orange fits into the enclosed peel. Put together the five pieces to form an orange. Each pieces has three slices so, to place the next piece becomes increasingly difficult. This puzzle is PIP (Print-In-Place), so it comes fully assembled. The solved orange fits into the enclosed peel. Orange Perplex was an entry at the Design Competition in 2019. This mind-twister is doable for puzzlers with a healthy appetite.

Printing Instructions

Print one of each piece. The Orange pieces are all printed in one go. Print this with supports or the connectors in the middle might bend upwards due to their overhang and then the print head might rip the pieces off. Also add a brim for further stabilisation of the pieces in the printbed. After printing, you need to take the orange apart, remove the support and “forget the solution” and you are all ready for puzzling.

Difficulty

3 out of 5

The Printable Puzzle Project

The Printable Puzzle Project aims to make available high-quality open-source models of many puzzle designs. All of our models are posted with the generous permission of their designers and are licensed for non-commercial use only. Anyone may print copies for their own personal use, but selling or otherwise monetizing them is not permitted, and puzzle designers retain all rights as copyright holders of their work.

Our puzzles are modeled using the open-source puzzlecad library. The .scad file is included with this model in case you want to modify any of its design parameters; more information on how to do this can be found in the PPP Puzzle Modeling tutorial.

The "No Problem Puzzle Collection" contains many puzzles with complicated boxes that would be too hard to model using open-scad. Additionally the original design files for the boxes have been lost due to a hd-fault. That is why these puzzles only contain scad-files for the pieces.

About The Designers

From November 2020 to April 2023 Theo Geerinck and Symen Hovinga collaborated under the trading name of "No Problem Puzzles" to design and produce their puzzles. Many of their unique packing puzzles introduce fascinating features such as moving or sliding doors and elements. These features and the way they behave always add a playful new dimension to the more familiar exercise of packing shapes. Those puzzles could once be purchased through an online printing service. Alternatively, for those who owned a 3D printer the files could be obtained from Symen.

However, after the tragic loss of Symen, purchases through the ‘No Problem Shop’ was no longer possible. Therefore, Theo decided to publish the designs so that everybody can create 3d-printed copies to be enjoyed for personal use.