Hanayama Puzzle: Enigma

Can you remove it? Can you return it? Challenge the brains of the world!

Patented in America in 1975, the somewhat swirled pieces of this puzzle by Eldon Vaughn must be disjoined and then put back together. I once found a smaller version of this puzzle about twenty years ago in America, but considered it impossible to solve at the time. We have made a new version maintaining the difficulty of the original and licensed it for the Cast Puzzle series. This is without a doubt among the most difficult of all puzzles. Don’t use too much force... the pieces should just slide apart.

The key word is "twist".

Difficulty 6 stars