Puzzling World

Puzzling World near Wanaka, New Zealand; the Leaning Tower of Wanaka can be seen on the left.

Stuart Landsborough's Puzzling World is a tourist attraction near Wanaka, New Zealand. It started out as just a maze in 1973, but over the years expanded to accommodate a "puzzling café" where guests could try out several puzzles, rooms with optical illusions, the Leaning Tower of Wanaka (which has a backwards clock that was started on the eve of the new millennium) and other things. The operators of Puzzling World have for many years offered a monetary prize for anybody who can prove themselves to have psychic powers; all a potential winner needs to do is use their powers to locate a specific item located somewhere in Puzzling World's environs. To date the prize goes unclaimed, although 6 "professional" psychics have attempted the challenge. The biggest challenge: A huge maze in which the traveller must reach four towers while navigating the maze.

The Leaning Tower of Wanaka

The Leaning Tower of Wanaka is, as the name implies, a tower that is seemingly impossibly balanced on one corner, making the whole structure lean at an angle of 53 degrees to the ground.

External links

• Puzzling World's official homepage
• A picture showing the angle of the Leaning Tower
• Photo journal highlighting many of the features of Puzzling World