the sweet Caramel Box

Caramel Box

What is your favourite caramel flavour? The puzzle here uses butterscotch and chocolate. Your task is to pack all of one flavour into the Caramel Box.

The wooden variety of this puzzle is now very rare. It was designed by Yasuhiro Hashimoto and entered in the 2014 IPP (puzzle) competition, A version of the original puzzle is shown in the attached pictures and I have tried to create this model in that image.

Packing each flavour of caramel (all one color) into the box presents two separate challenges. To the seasoned puzzler, these will not be difficult. But to the less experienced, they will be a joy; as this is a very approachable puzzle. I have also added a case to hold all pieces so that you may give this as a gift. It has an instruction plate, and packing all the pieces into the case presents a third packing challenge. If you cannot arrange the pieces and box to fit into the case, look at the PDF file for the orientation of the pieces.

The instruction plate goes in the bottom of the case, then put the pieces and box on top.

Printing

You do not require an AMS or MMU.

All pieces, instruction and name plate, and the box, can be printed at 0.2 layer height. 2 perimeters and 15% infill. However, I tend to use 3 perimeters and 40% infill for the pieces, to give them a more solid feel.

I printed the case top/bottom in vase mode with a 0.8mm extrusion width. I've included the 3MF file (PrusaSlicer) for you to use or examine. If you have a different slicer, set the extrusion width of all perimeters to 0.8mm and bottom walls to 4. 

I used color changes by layer height for the name and instruction plates and for the top case. 

Glue the name plate to the box.

If you wish to print items faster, 0.3mm layer works fine on everything.

Copyright

This design is strictly for your own personal use and cannot be sold. Y.Hashimoto holds all rights to the commercial distribution of his work.