Impossible box

[Rufus12]

I find this randomly on another website, and it boggles my mind how anyone would be able to open this. Apparently it looks like that on all sides.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com...52345_e82ed4ecbf_b.jpg

 

[Ika]

If someone put it together, someone can take it apart.

 

[Howard]

Well, how was it assembled?

 

[Gunslinger08]

http://dclips.fundraw.com/zobo500dir/sega_per_legno.jpg

 

[Rufus12]

Originally posted by: Howard
Well, how was it assembled?

No clue. All I know is that it was handmade.

 

[CraKaJaX]

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[WingZero94]

Squeeze two of the parallel pieces together. Pull opposite side perpendicular piece out.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Its not impossible. One of my friends have wooden puzzles like that. All the pieces interact and it seems impossible to put together and take apart. However, all you have to do is shift the pieces in such a way that a single edge gets loose. Then its all easy from there

 

[Leros]

Steam it so the wood becomes flexible?

 

[rezinn]

You could get it together with a mallet, which it looks like is what they did based on the indentations.

 

[Gibsons]

You can't really see the back, maybe it's not completely interlocked?

 

[DrPizza]

smack a piece of wood so that it cracks in half. Assemble & apply a fine amount of wood glue to the surface that needs to be rejoined. Just a little touch-up with sandpaper & you'd never know it had been broken.

 

[skyking]

This should do the trick.

 

[IronWing]

Do you really want to open it? The cat might be dead you know.

 

[Kirby64]

Originally posted by: ironwing
Do you really want to open it? The cat might be dead you know.

Well played sir, well played.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

It's a very simple version of the chinese box puzzle. One side slides enough to move another side into the notch. After moving all four sides one notch, the original side slides off.

 

[EGGO]

Originally posted by: ironwing
Do you really want to open it? The cat might be dead you know.

Darnit, I said something alluding to this in the other thread before I saw this.

 

[TallBill]

How the fuck can I solve a physical puzzle by looking at a flat image?

 

[Gothgar]

nuke it from orbit...

 

[Red Squirrel]

Fire.

Then you find out they filled it with gun powder.

Run.

 

[biggestmuff]

Why does looking at the picture of the puzzle 'boggle your mind'? That's what someone would say after physically manipulating it and trying to solve it.

 

[sao123]

I have a simple childs plastic 3d puzzle exactly like this.
one side just slides out, then the rest come apart 1 by 1 in a specific order.