I’ve solved all the little metal puzzles from this box. Once again, the majority were fairly easy- all on the same theme- if you know how to align the straight parts to slide out, or how to twist the curved x’s, the thing just falls apart in your hands. Sometimes by surprise, if you’re fiddling with it and not paying attention.
These last three were a bit more tricky. The m shaped one (bottom row) was the hardest. I had that in my pocket for over a week. When I did finally solve it, it always seemed to happen by accident- I knew what alignment would make it come apart, but could never remember how to get it into that position. I tried it over and over, able to solve it a bit faster each time- but it wasn’t until I glanced at the cheat sheet that could reliably do it in just a few manipulations.
The first one I include here with the tricky set even though it only took two motions, because if you turned it the wrong way, it ended up stuck. So it was really only two steps. The stuck scenario (to avoid). I think it would have been more challenging to have it start in this position!
My husband, by the way, is much better at these puzzles, even though he finds them tedious to do (it feels like a task, not a game, to him). He solved the m one in just a minute or two, on the first try!