Love's Dozen

Original Traditional 6 piece burrs
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Product description from GraveRaven.com:

This burr is very special - not only is it the highest level 6-piece burr possible, requiring 12 moves just to remove the first piece, but it is the ONLY burr with level 12!

"Love's Dozen" is named after its late designer Bruce Love, who designed it manually with paper-and-pencil. Some years later, Bill Cutler wrote software to explore all possible 6-piece burrs and discovered that Love's Dozen is the only burr at level 12. Unfortunately, there are other ways to put the pieces together into a burr shape, only one of which is level 12.

Some smart puzzle designers then discovered that if you carefully assign 3 different colors for the 6 pieces, the only solution that keeps the colored pairs together is the desired level 12 solution!

GraveRaven manufacturers this burr in 3 different colored metals (Copper/Brass/Aluminum) to really make this puzzle stand out.
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Disassemble, then reassemble.
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$95.00
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6
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12.3

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