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New Seven is a Japanese puzzle made by Kasawa. It is simply a frame containing seven tiles in a row. You place the tiles in any order into the frame and then try to put them back in order. The only moves you are allowed to do are lifting out the middle tile and sliding it into the row from either end. The tiles have pictures of an apple in them progressively being eaten up. The packaging also has drawings of a version which has a red cartoon crocodile on it. Azig by Central Hobby is another Japanese puzzle that extends this idea slightly. The base is an upright triangle, and the seven cubeshaped pieces lie on its slopes. The middle piece is at the apex, with three cubes resting on each slope. A move on this puzzle is to take out either one of the bottom cubes, causing the other cubes on that side to slide down, and placing it at the apex. This is essentially the reverse of a move on the New Seven puzzle. In the solved state six solid triangles should be visible on the sides of the puzzle. A cube can be reoriented during a move, so that makes it more difficult to figure out where each cube belongs. An extra set of inserts is provided so that the design on the cubes can be changed to show coloured dots instead of parts of triangles, making it more difficult to determine the orientations. The only English words in the packaging call this puzzle a "Comfortable Fullness Intellectual Puzzle". If your browser supports it, you can click on the link below to play with a Javascript version of New Seven.