This puzzle designer, Fleb, has a YouTube channel that has in-depth videos of new and old puzzles. I love it. In this video, he tries out a puzzle called Sphaera, from Art of Play.
Sphaera – a difficult dexterity puzzle
Pick the hub word last in 4×3 and you lose 100 points
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