Mechanical puzzle
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A mechanical puzzle is a puzzle presented a set of mechanically interlinked pieces.

Classes of mechanical puzzles

• disentanglement puzzles : Here some or all of the pieces have to be separated from the other pieces.
• lock puzzles
• rearrangement mechanical puzzles : Here the pieces have to be rearranged in a certain way in order to achieve a certain setup. Sometimes such the puzzles is presented in a solved state, but is easily changed into a difficult setup by a few moves by the player.
  • Rubic's Cube
  • Easy Cubes
• trick-knife puzzles

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