Treestyles

I read the reviews and thought it can’t be that bad. It is that bad. This immediately falls into a chain upon removing the twist ties. I don’t mean the gold ties that hold all Hanayamas to the packaging, this piece comes with a pair of silver ties that are part of the puzzle. Don’t throw those away!!They’re essential to hold the ‘puzzle’ in a solved state.

That’s all this is. Three interlocking rings with a permanent center ring and an extra fourth and fifth ring on the side rings. There’s nothing to take apart with this one. I repeat: THERE IS NOTHING TO TAKE APART WITH RING II.

Like all Hanayamas, it comes in a completed state. To get it apart, or as apart as possible, you

The note says there’s more challenges, like going across the middle or diagonals. I think i know what that means, but they could do a lot more in the way of including pictures with these puzzles. The one picture shows the ring in the curved corner, so I’ll use that as a start/finish point.

Got this apart and back, but i’m not sure i did it right.

Spoiler-ish part:

The grid has notches on both sides, the rings can only slide one way. There’s a way they go the right way, but before i got there, i got the rings off the wrong side. It was a little tight but no force used. Does that count? This is one of those weird ones where i’m not sure if i really solved it or the tolerances