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Jean Claude Constantin Puzzle Toys For Adults

September 6, 2016 by Scarlet

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Every year, the the largest international trade fair for toys and games (Spielwarenmesse) is held in Nuremberg, Germany. Every year toy enthusiast, Ken Kahn, visits the fair and finds some cool, unique toys that are true gems to share with his customers. This year, at Nuremberg, he fell under the spell of some amazing brain teaser toys which are hard puzzles to solve. Jean Claude Constantin Puzzles like the Viking Puzzle Box are legend among avid puzzle lovers. When it comes to puzzle toys for adults, Jean Claude Constantin is known for being a prolific puzzle designer who beautiful, complex, challenging puzzles.

Jean Claude Constantin Puzzles 

puzzle toys for adults

Jean-Claude Constantin makes unusual puzzles that challenge the mind with unique and interesting shapes. This ingenious puzzle designer is known for his popular laser cut puzzles in a wide range of brain teasers for kids and adults. He makes puzzles in 2D, 3D, disentanglement and interlocking as well. Constantin’s brainteasers are a challenge for even the most dedicated puzzler and they encourage lateral thinking. That is to say reasoning that is not immediately obvious.

First, I should mention that though I refer to them as challenging puzzles for adults, they can of course be used by children who are puzzle enthusiasts too. However, these puzzles really are challenging so they may need some adult help. Without further ado, here are several challenging Jean Claude Constantin Puzzles.

The Viking Puzzle Box (Also serves as a great maze money holder puzzle)

The Viking Box Puzzle

Once again puzzle designer, Jean-Claude Constantin, created a fascinating, brain-twister that is unusual, beautiful and baffling. The Viking Puzzle Box is a combination of maze and sequential puzzle. It can only be opened when you solve the maze puzzle on the top of the box so it makes a great money maze puzzle gift holder. You can put cash, jewelry or a gift card inside the Viking Puzzle Box and then they have to solve the puzzle to get it out!

To solve the Viking Box Puzzle, you must manipulate the combination of turning wheel, metal balls and sliding pieces. The Viking Box Puzzle is a difficult puzzle for the truly dedicated puzzler.

The Steering Wheel Puzzle (Steuerrad Puzzle Box)

Jean Claude Constantin Puzzles, Steering wheel puzzle

The Steering Wheel Puzzle is only for the daring and the determined. The object is to get all of the spokes to their outermost position and it is a real challenge. The puzzle is made with laser-cut wood and stainless steel to last and is sure to be a heritage toy that can be passed down to the next generation.

The Nailboard Puzzle (Nagelbrett)

Constantin Puzzle, nailboard puzzle

Looking for more puzzles to solve? The Nailboard Puzzle is a treat for anyone who loves a good challenge! Level of difficulty is 5 out of 5. It’s a packing puzzle, so you need to fit pieces into the frame and the placement of metal pins means that each piece has only one correct position (no rotations or mirror solutions).

Constantin Brain Teaser Toys For Adults

brain teaser toys

Do you and your child love brain teasers? Then you are sure to love Constantin Brainteasers! These are unconventional designer puzzles that challenge your mind all while entertaining you in play. Constantin brain teaser toys require a lot of thought to solve. However, the harder you work to solve them, the more satisfaction they offer. Constantin brain teasers are for both kids and adults. The skill levels for these wooden puzzles are all very high so these are only for older children or those that are especially clever at brain teaser games. They are great gifts for those that enjoy a good challenge. These brain teaser puzzles are complex and challenging, but fun too!

Constantin Meandros Puzzle

Jean Claude Constantin Meandros Puzzle

This surprisingly challenging packing puzzle is comprised of just 13 wood pieces and a wooden base. The challenge is to see if you can you fit the 13 pieces back together once you take them apart! This wooden brainteaser is based on the greek key or meander decorative border design. Your family is sure to enjoy working on this puzzle and collaborative solving may just do the trick!

Constantin Blumenlaby Puzzle Maze (Flowers Labyrinth)

Blumenlaby Constanin Brain Teasers For Kids And Adults

The Blumenlaby Puzzle Maze or Flowers Labyrinth is a maze with a twist, literally! You move the ball through the maze, back and forth between the two levels. Solving this one is a real brainteaser and it is like solving two labyrinths simultaneously. Plexiglass, wood and ball bearing makes a most unusual, baffling puzzle for the mind.

Constantin Heptominoes Puzzle Maze (Flowers Labyrinth)

heptominoes puzzle brain teaser

Heptominoes is a challenging “pack” puzzle of 108 wooden puzzle pieces in 6 different tones. What is a pack puzzle? A Pack Puzzle is a puzzle that require you to “pack” the contents into the space allotted. Heptominoes can be used in more than one though. For a “quick puzzle,” (about 10-15 minutes), you take any 7 pieces out of the 108 pieces and try to make a square. There are thousands of possibilities! This is one toy that can be used in countless ways and it is a brain teaser in each variation. Heptominoes puzzle is pretty enough to leave it out on the coffee table and challenge yourself or your family to a new variation any time.

Constantin Daedalus Labyrinth Brainteasers

Daedalus Labyrinth brain teaser by Jean Claude Constantin

German puzzle-maker Jean-Claude Constantin delivered another puzzle for the mind with the Daedalus Labyrinth. Two separate mazes, one on top of the other, with a rotating disk between them that allows the ball to travel between levels as you try to find your way through this complex puzzle. This brain teasing toy has a high difficulty level and is great for adults as well as older kids.

Brain Tach Puzzle Toys Conclusion

Challenge Quote (Food For Thought):
“To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It’s not about winning and losing; it’s about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge.” – Summer Sanders, Olympian

These make great toys for those that enjoy a good logic puzzle. These brain teaser puzzle toys are available for purchase through various quality toy stores. A few of his puzzles are even available through my affiliate link on Amazon. Which of these new challenging puzzles to solve appeals to you the most? Have you tried any of the Jean-Claude Constantin Puzzles before? Who is the puzzle master that thrives on challenges in your family?

Fascinating, beautiful and baffling these Constantin brainteasers for adults and kids are sure to be an extraordinary treat for anyone who loves a good challenge! Passing the afternoon with a puzzle box is a fun way engage in problem solving and creativity at the same time. So what do you think of the designer puzzles by Jean-Claude Constantin?

A Couple more classic brain teaser toys:

A rubik’s cube (an 80s favorite!)

Fat Brain Toys Crankity Brain Teaser

Puzzle games sure are fun stuff. Do you agree?

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  1. Joy says

    September 7, 2016 at 12:34 am

    My favorite is the Blumenlaby (Flowers Labyrinth) puzzle. I love these brain teasers toys!

  2. Stephanie Phelps says

    September 7, 2016 at 10:03 am

    My favorite puzzle is the Daedalus Labyrinth. All of them are so super cool!

  3. Debra Holloway says

    September 7, 2016 at 10:56 am

    I like the Constantin brainteasers. The Daedalus Labyrinth just looks so cool.

  4. jan says

    September 7, 2016 at 1:35 pm

    I love challenging puzzles for adults so I want to try the Meandros.

  5. Lesley F says

    September 7, 2016 at 2:09 pm

    The Jean Claude Constantin puzzle box is my favorite. I think the Viking Box puzzle is the best one I have ever done.

  6. Vicki Wurgler says

    September 7, 2016 at 6:30 pm

    The Meandros looks fun because I love difficult puzzles for adults.

  7. Sherri Lewis says

    September 7, 2016 at 7:57 pm

    the Steurrad Steering Wheel puzzle looks fun and challenging

  8. Catherine L Lewis says

    September 7, 2016 at 8:22 pm

    My favorite is the Bluminlaby puzzle. I would love to give that to my son for his birthday!

  9. Renee Walters says

    September 7, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    I would love to try the Viking Puzzle Box. So cool!

  10. Kathy Lane says

    September 8, 2016 at 8:31 am

    The Daedalus Labyrinth looks like it would be fun to try.

  11. Tammy Horn says

    September 8, 2016 at 11:56 am

    Wow, I really like them all. I think my first choice would be the Heptominoes, but really they all seem fantastic and fun.

  12. Valerie Schlicht-Conway says

    September 8, 2016 at 1:41 pm

    Love the Labyrinth puzzle!!!

  13. Christine Jensen says

    September 9, 2016 at 9:25 am

    Heptominoes looks fun!

  14. DEBIJOT says

    September 12, 2016 at 6:49 pm

    I like the Daedalus Labyrinth Puzzle.

  15. elizabeth miller says

    September 13, 2016 at 4:06 pm

    I love the Heptominoes. this would keep my husband busy for hours.

  16. Nancy says

    September 17, 2016 at 10:22 am

    This is the puzzle that I especially like!

  17. Mindy DeLisi says

    September 25, 2016 at 8:57 am

    The 3d wooden puzzle looks interesting.

  18. Michelle C says

    September 25, 2016 at 2:09 pm

    I like the Blumenlaby (Flowers Labyrinth).

  19. Corey Olomon says

    September 25, 2016 at 4:30 pm

    The Blumenlaby (Flowers Labyrinth) looks like it would be fascinating to try and solve.

  20. Betty Gonzalez says

    September 26, 2016 at 5:17 am

    The Viking Box Puzzle sounds like a lot of fun. Sequential puzzles for adults are the best!

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