BePuzzled, Legend of Zelda Master Sword Hanayama Brain Teaser, Mensa Rated Level 6, for Ages 12 and Up

This little puzzle is pretty heavy! Meaning, I am very happy with the quality of this. Maybe at the expense of embarrassing myself, I spent a solid 30min to taking it apart. I’m not an avid puzzle solver but I would say it’s at a pretty reasonable difficulty. I’ve worked the disassembly down to about 10min over the last few days. Of course, the other half of the fun is putting the sword and cylinder back together in the base. I would say this was the more challenging part of the puzzle to get everything seated where it originally sits. I still struggle with this part. Of course, after posting this I was able to get it back together in about 5 minutes. I’m starting to find the little tricks to make it easier. Overall, fun puzzle and neat little addition for Zelda fans! I did intend for this to be for our 8 year old but it may be a little difficult for them. I’m 37 and still struggle!

Good puzzle

This one took me a bit to figure out. Very well constructed.

Fun puzzle. Gave as a gift. Looks good on the desk as well!

I have a handful of these Hanayama puzzles and I have not seen one that isn't of good quality. The castings are all well done and they look and feel amazing. Huge Zelda fan so can't wait to put this on my desk at work. Great desktop decorations or figit devices while on long conference calls. As I said in the headline, I don't think I would have called this a level 6 which is why I knocked off a star. I think this should be a level 4. The UFO puzzle I got that was supposedly a level 4 was much harder to do. Even after knowing how it works, it is still hard to actually solve. This is not the case for this puzzle though. The first solve was pretty quick (<10 minutes) and subsequent solves only takes about a minute now. This style of puzzle is never really hard, just kind of stumble through until you solve it.

My sons who is 11 loves these. He has all 3 of them and they are challenging enough that he can't do them in one day but not so challenging that he can't eventually figure them out. Plus he is obsessed with all things Zelda. As an adult I also found them challenging enough it didn't take me more than an hour or so but still a fun puzzle.

Good quality. Feels heavy. Puzzle is not as easy as it looks! It's a nice gift for Zelda fans.

I really liked this one, it’s my favorite of the Zelda Hanayama’s. I was turned off it by reading reviews saying it was way too easy for a level 6, more like a level 1 or 2, but I’m glad I got it. It’s not as puzzling as Enigma or Vortex, but it has a clever design that kept me puzzled for a solid 3-4 hours before I figured it out. Repeated solvings have been much quicker, but still take me a few minutes at best, some taking more like 20 minutes. The build quality is high, typical for Hanayama puzzles. It’s more like a level 4, IMO, similar in difficulty to Padlock, Twist, H+H.