Alcatraz Puzzle

This very unique and challenging puzzle was invented and designed by a magician, who after many years of searching for articles to add to his collection of original and unusual items could not find just what he was looking for.

So he sat down to invent it himself !!!

Starting out to create a invention was not a easy task. Everything you seem to think of is something you have seen before. But by not wanting something that already has been made and trying to make a better one , he went back to the basics of drawing shapes on paper starting with 2-D patterns, such as squares, circles, triangles, and rectangles.

Next was to go to 3-D shapes looking more like cubes and spheres but still had no idea as to how to proceed next......

But then he drew a cube and placed a sphere inside it and it looked like a ball in a cage.
He was simply amazed!!! Here he was looking at something he had never seen before and knew right then and there that this was what he set out to do . He knew that he could design a ball in a cage that only someone skilled in the actual mechanics of the object would be able to solve. That he would have his invention...

His first one was made of solid brass and it was used in his magic show as a trick.

As he handed it around it always seemed to draw more attention than all of his other tricks combined. Mainly because most tricks can not be handed out , but the fact that this one could be made it more personal to the people who handled it. The response was one that changed the course of how Alcatraz would be viewed even by the inventor himself. With the solution being fairly simply to do but seemingly impossible to figure out without instructions......

He knew it would be known as " Alcatraz the Puzzle "

With the interest that was very overwhelming, he made 500 hand made units in his home and of course started the patent process. It only takes one claim to the patent office to acquire a patent but this orginal product came back with a total of 7 claims.... and was granted !!!

Now it is available to you to try and "Escape from Alcatraz".

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