Puzzle Museum Opening at Labyrinth Woodworks - Hokianga Part 1

World Famous puzzle designer Oskar van Deventer opened New Zealands rarest attraction in the Hokianga in Januuary 2009. This puzzle museum is only one of a handfull scattered around the globe that is open to the public.

The Labyrinth Woodworks and its owners Louis and Sue Toorenburg are well know around the planet for there involvement wiith puzzles. With Louis starting his pzzle career back in 1972 at age 19, when he started making puzzles to sell at Australian Markets and wholeselling to shops.

Today his shop the Labyrinth Woodworks sells around 700 different puzzles and games sourced from all over the globe, reputed to be the largerst selection for sale in New Zealand.

The Labyrinth Woodworks also has a hedge maze visitors can have a great time in. is museum displays nearly 2000 puzzles of all sorts of shapes and sizes, the smallest made by Allan Broadman, which is about 2 milimetres square in size. His oldest a Japanese Puzzle Box which dates to about 1890. The one he has had the longest is a wooden jigsaw a map of Holland which he was given as a birthday present when he turned 6.

You will see many versions and variations of the Rubik's Cube, you will see lots of puzzle boxes, impossible object puzzles where you have to figure out how the puzzle was made. There are some beautifully hand carved puzzles from Mongolia, while puzzles from famous puzzlers Like Stewart Coffin, Bill Cutler and Akio Kamei are featured as well of course Oskar van Deventer.

Next door to the shop you will find great bush walks to the Waiotemarama Falls and the massive ancient kauri, trees that have been growing there for over a 1000 years.