Puzzles from Around the World
France
Country where Édouard Lucas introduced and commercialized the Tower of Hanoi.
5 in catalog
Difficulty 6/10
A two-symbol puzzle: on an even-sized grid, place 0s and 1s so each row and column has equal counts of each, no three identical symbols run consecutively, and no two rows or columns are identical.
Difficulty 5/10
A mechanical puzzle of linked rings on a handled bar: following two simple rules, take the rings off one by one, or put them back on. The classic nine-ring set takes hundreds of moves.
Difficulty 5/10
A 3D interlocking wood (burr) puzzle: notched sticks assemble into a rigid cross without glue; take apart and reassemble.
Difficulty 4/10
A one-player pegboard puzzle: jump a peg horizontally or vertically over a neighbor into an empty hole and remove the jumped peg, usually until only one peg remains.

Difficulty 2/10
Move a size-ordered stack of disks between three pegs without placing a larger disk on a smaller one.