Squeezy

Squeezy

This two-parts box can be squeezed tight after assembly. If you want to do this with the pieces inside you have to make some fancy moves. With the just configuration of pieces entered and the right fancy moves made, you can then squeeze the box tight and have solved this puzzle.

Updates

2025/12/07 User "Crab" sent an improved frame for the puzzle. If should result in much smoother sliding and simpler engaging of the rails.

Printing Instructions

Print one of each piece. After printing you are ready for puzzling. The original frame of this puzzle is quite hard to print due to the rails and grooves in the frame. The 2 frame pieces have rails at the top that must slide into the grooves at the bottom. The tolerances for those are quite small. Some suggestions for printing:

• use a smooth material. Wood fibre filament will not work due to the rough surface

• print scaled up to have more tolerances

• if all failes, remove the outer part of the groves. Then the frames will still interlock, but tolerances are less of an issue

To avoid this you might want to use the improved frame provided by user "Crab", that should fix these problem.

Also: This puzzles has unintended solutions. By slighly utilizing the flexibility of the frames and play of the pieces is it possible to simply assemble the pieces into a brick shape and put the frame around. This is not the intended solution.

Difficulty

3 out of 5

The Printable Puzzle Project

The Printable Puzzle Project aims to make available high-quality open-source models of many puzzle designs. All of our models are posted with the generous permission of their designers and are licensed for **non-commercial** use only. Anyone may print copies for their own personal use, but selling or otherwise monetizing them is not permitted, and puzzle designers retain all rights as copyright holders of their work.

Our puzzles are modeled using the open-source puzzlecad library. The .scad file is included with this model in case you want to modify any of its design parameters; more information on how to do this can be found in the PPP Puzzle Modeling tutorial.

The "No Problem Puzzle Collection" contains many puzzles with complicated boxes that would be too hard to model using open-scad. Additionally the original design files for the boxes have been lost due to a hd-fault. That is why these puzzles only contain scad-files for the pieces.

About The Designers

From November 2020 to April 2023 Theo Geerinck and Symen Hovinga collaborated under the trading name of "No Problem Puzzles" to design and produce their puzzles. Many of their unique packing puzzles introduce fascinating features such as moving or sliding doors and elements. These features and the way they behave always add a playful new dimension to the more familiar exercise of packing shapes. Those puzzles could once be purchased through an online printing service. Alternatively, for those who owned a 3D printer the files could be obtained from Symen.

However, after the tragic loss of Symen, purchases through the ‘No Problem Shop’ was no longer possible. Therefore, Theo decided to publish the designs so that everybody can create 3d-printed copies to be enjoyed for personal use.