How To Play

A Trizzle is a three-dimensional puzzle held together by one thing and one thing only: gravity. When a piece is placed correctly, it locks itself in position – no side-sliding, no wiggling, no cheating. Its shape, combined with the pull of gravity, keeps it perfectly in place.

That means every piece must be placed from above. Never from the side. If it could slide in from the side, it would also slide back out – and your Trizzle would collapse faster than your patience.

Below you will find a few general tips – but you don’t need to read them beforehand to solve your Trizzle.

Always build your Trizzle from the bottom up. Keep it on the ground while you’re working. Lifting it up to “test ideas” only multiplies the chaos. Trust gravity. It’s doing the heavy lifting.

Every partially built structure on your path to success has to fit into the final Trizzle someday. So if your intermediate step does not fit into the final target form, you’ve wandered off the Trizzle path.

Before you choose and place a new piece, ask yourself:
What shape must this piece have to fit here – or not have?
Which remaining pieces are worth try next?

into these categories:
A. Definitely possible.
B. Definitely not.
C. No clue (yet).
Only test pieces from group A (and maybe C). For each attempt, note not just what works, but also what doesn’t.

After placing a piece, try sliding it sideways. If it moves – wrong! If it doesn’t move, great – it’s stable. But be careful: stability doesn’t guarantee correctness. (In Trizzle logic, all correct Trizzle states are stable, but not all stable Trizzle states are correct.)

Each Trizzle piece has only one true place in the cube. Even if it fits perfectly, it might block future moves if placed too early. Remember: Trizzle isn’t just about where, it’s also about when.

Was every piece placed from above?
Have you truly tried all possible options?
Do you see a side hole in your structure? Then something’s off – a Trizzle never has gaps visible from the side. A top-down hole, though? Totally fine. It’s part of the charm of building skyward.