| What to say about this? It's a puzzle, I'll give it that. It's colourful, there's paths all over the place, but there's no marble in it any more! What can you do with a puzzle that you can't puzzle? That's puzzling, and I am puzzled. |     |
| Oh right, it's a Perplexus puzzle and stuff! So yeah, I've had a few Perplexii kicking around, and since this one (the "regular" difficulty version) was pretty easy to finish, I decided to repurpose it for shits and giggles. Yes, yes, made of plastic, blah, blah, I've heard all of that. I've used it all of a tiny handful of times, and cleaning it with rubbing alcohol doesn't kill it, so it's fine. I made it for fun. After popping the Perplexus in half, I eventually located a place where a downstem would reach well enough. Working with a perfect sphere with a whole pile of jumbly stuff inside made this a bit interesting to figure out. It's not permanently adhered to the base either, so you've gotta be careful when putting it down. I kinda like it, it forces you to be careful with your things :P |
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| After lopping a hole in it about where I wanted, I found that a vanilla syrup bottle that I had kicking around for meking English Fogs had an excellent stem size for this. Same-looking plastic as well? Hell yeah, couldn't ask for much better. I used Goop glue to attach the two together, attempting to keep the glue sandwiched between the plastics as much as possible. It turned out decently. A few iterations of gluing the top and the bottom together again, and I could glue the purple outer band overtop of the seam again, both to make it better-looking, and more watertight. I haven't thoroughly tested every inch of the seam or whatever, but since I was just throwing it together, I wasn't concerned about that too much. I haven't had any drips escape from it so far, so I imagine it's decently done. One way or the other, partially filled with water, it looks cool as hell :D |  |
