- At your next gathering graciously present your favorite liquor or brandy with this ingeniously wicked wooden vise attachment watch as they struggle to free their libation from lock-up
- The vise puzzle in the don’t break the bottle series is a new edition and works especially well with liquor and liqueur bottles
- Includes 3 wooden puzzle pieces instructions
- Difficulty rating medium
- 1 player challenge, ages 8 and up
Product Description
At your next dinner party, graciously offer your guests a sampling of a favorite liquor. Present the bottle, clamped closed with the wooden VISE attachment. Watch as they pull, push, and probe at the puzzle components in their struggle to release the libation from lock up. Will they earn themselves a well deserved snifter of Brandy? A shot of Tequila? A swig of Whiskey? A snort of Rum? A jigger of Gin? It’s your party, you decide! Fits opened or sealed standard liqu… More >>
Family Games Don’t Break the Bottle The Vise Puzzle
Tags: family games, jigger, libation, liqueur, player challenge, puzzle pieces, snifter, snort, swig, wooden puzzle
#1 by James R. Fletcher on June 24, 2010 - 7:22 pm
I gave this bottle puzzle to two friends, one trapping a bottle of whiskey and the other a bottle of bourbon. The one woman (who got the bourbon) gave it to her eight year old niece who worked out the puzzle in eight min.
The other puzzle may still be on the bottle.
A fun gift.
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by Cat on June 24, 2010 - 8:55 pm
I gave this as part of a wine gift. It was fun, but the directions were not very clear. It took some time to figure it out just to put it on the wine bottle.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by J. Pi on June 24, 2010 - 9:32 pm
Its a great gift, works great, tho the instruction of putting it together was a bit tough to figure out.
I ended up googling other instructions and then found out the instructions it came with was wrong. they flipped the last two bits a and b. but once that was figures out, everything was great.
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by Ames Reviewer on June 24, 2010 - 11:26 pm
We gave this to my husband’s Aunt who loves puzzles. We thought it was going to be a great gift, and something that would be hard, but could be done. It took everyone that was there Christmas day ALL day, and no one could figure it out. Even when we knew how to open it, it wouldn’t work. It only works on certain size bottles, so be careful you get the right thing or you won’t be able to even get this thing on a bottle. I’m sure someone can figure it out, and will have fun with it, but none of us could and it took the fun out of it.
Rating: 2 / 5
#5 by Lemissa on June 25, 2010 - 1:24 am
I thought this might be a fun way to present a bottle of liquor as a gift but it’s not as interesting as it looks. First, as everyone states the directions are really confounding. I tried to find help on the internet that other reviews have mentioned but had no luck. I just kept trying to repeat the instructions until it somehow worked – I don’t know what I did differently the last time that made it work either.
As a note, the string isn’t very stiff and it is hard to thread through the puzzle to get it set up. I pushed a small nail through the thread and used it as a pseudo needle. I don’t think it would have been possible to set up without something to help guide the string.
Another disappointment is that the puzzle doesn’t sit flat on top of the bottle. A person could reach in and unscrew the cap and pour a drink without solving the puzzle at all. The bottle is the right size and the vise fits on it, the neck is long enough to provide plenty of room to tighten the vise down lower on the neck so it can sit flush on the top, but I just couldn’t get it to stay in place.
The final disappointment is that someone can just cut the string and not worry about solving the puzzle to get at the bottle – i.e. there is no real incentive to even try to find the solution.
In short, even if you can get past the bad directions and find the right sized bottle to use, it doesn’t look interesting sitting on the bottle and I’m not sure anyone would even know what the intention of the object is without having the gift giver there to explain it.
Rating: 1 / 5