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Game — Triple Cross

Game — Triple Cross

Designer: Piet Hein
Manufacturer: Skjøde Skjern, Denmark
Material: Rosewood
Dimensions: H16–27 cm

NT$8,000
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Description

Piet Hein (1905–1996) was an important Danish polymath active in the fields of poetry, mathematics, and design. Between the 1960s and 1970s, he collaborated with the Danish manufacturer Skjøde Knudsen to produce a series of games, including the Soma Cube, Hex (Con-Tac-Tix), Polytaire, and Morra.

Skjøde Knudsen was originally a bookkeeper who later began manufacturing wooden games. Combining design with fine craftsmanship, these products became popular in Danish households and were even embraced by the Royal Family at Amalienborg. The collaboration between the two parties lasted for approximately one decade, ending in 1973.

Triple Cross, listed as No. 680 in this series, was designed in the 1960s. The work consists of six interlocking three-dimensional elements forming a three-axis cross structure. Its logic lies in identifying the correct sequence of disassembly and reassembly through spatial reasoning, allowing each component to be gradually released or locked into place—an exemplar of mechanical puzzle design.

Rules of Play

  1. Triple Cross consists of 3 pairs of square pins, each pair being joined by an elastic band.
  2. The pins are then put together by intertwining the elastic bands, thereby producing a three dimensional cross.
  3. The first problem is to rotate the arms until 3 different colours face at each intersection.
  4. Those who are experts in the art of puzzles, can try, by untwisting the 3 elastic bands, to solve the problem from the very beginning.
  5. This is not so simple as it sounds, for if you do not find the right position for each pin in relation to the other five, you will not be able to arrange the colours in their correct combination.
Triple Cross is a challenging jig-saw puzzle, which demands all your patience and wits.
Having achieved a correct combination at one intersection you will very likely find a wrong one at another.

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.— Piet Hein

Item No.: OT434

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