With Apteek, you add a sophisticated wooden packing puzzle to your collection, designed by Dr. Volker Latussek and meticulously crafted by Pelikan Puzzles. Your task: Eight pieces made of fine acacia wood must find their exact place in an elegant purpleheart box – a compact challenge with considerable complexity in how the individual elements interlock.
It sounds simple, but it is anything but: you remove the pieces and rearrange them until all eight fit completely into the box and are flush with the top edge. Important to note: the included shipping configuration is not the solution – it is only for safe transport. To succeed, you need a fully thought-out arrangement where you keep in mind both the individual shape of each piece and the constraints of the sophisticated, interlocking construction.
Apteek is based on Latussek's previous work on "Farmacia" and "Apotheca," but explores a completely different combination of piece shapes. If you are familiar with the two predecessors, new approaches and unfamiliar paths to a solution await you here. This puzzle is perfect for you if you are an experienced puzzle solver and enjoy taking on a truly demanding challenge without being focused on quick success.
You will especially enjoy Apteek if you like returning to a difficult puzzle with new ideas and appreciate variations on known concepts. The successful combination of packing and interlocking requirements rewards your sustained attention and patience, without the actual goal being difficult to understand. In this way, you get a puzzle that delights you visually through the material combination of acacia and purpleheart while also challenging you intellectually.
A high-quality collector's item for you if you love mechanical brain teasers.