Hip-Flask Puzzle - Sequential Metal Puzzle — Felix Ure
✦ Locked brass flask

Hip-Flask Puzzle - Sequential Metal Puzzle

Felix Ure · Kubiya Games · Metal Enigmas
“A brass flask whose lid declines to open until its hidden mechanism is satisfied. Carries exactly one shot of triumph.”
Who it's for: a houseguest magnet, best for solvers who enjoy a real fight, with a serious smugness payoff on solving.
How hard: Wickscore 7/10 — a roaring blaze.
Where in stock: In stock at Kubiya Games for $268.00 as of Jun 11, 2026.
$268.00 ✦ Seek it at Kubiya Games 🕯 wick alight
Fun axes
Weirdness ✦✦✦✦✦
Rage-quit risk ✦✦✦✦✦
Guests will ask ✦✦✦✦✦
Smugness payoff ✦✦✦✦✦
Gift danger ✦✦✦✦✦

From the field: Per the maker, a multi-stage sequential-discovery puzzle — Ure's second design after Titan — whose locked mechanism guards the flask's lid.

In the maker's words

A premium mechanical brass puzzle by Felix Ure. The Hip-Flask puzzle is a multi-stage, sequential discovery puzzle.​ The objective of the puzzle is to remove the lid of the flask - but to do so you will need to solve the mechanism which keeps the lid locked. This is the second design by Felix Ure (his first design Titan puzzle ).

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