Please explain the Level rating

[Skiprat]

Hi Puzzlers.
Couple of newbie questions if I may.

1. Is the primary object of all puzzles to take them apart or put them together, or both?

2. I just saw that Johan had listed the Level with his swap puzzles. Please explain how this level works.

Thanks
Steven

[Canuck]

Yeah some puzzles are somewhat easier to take apart but putting them back together can be quite tricky if you weren't careful with dissasembly...level simply refers to how many moves for a particular puzzle so for example a level 12-5-3 would refer to 12 moves before the first piece can be removed and then 5 moves for the next piece and so on....make sense

[Skiprat]

Thanks John.

Well that just made mine Toys-R-Us-Poop-Easy to dismantle 

But getting it back together................

[Roby]

A cereal box is a 1-0-0

[DCBluesman]

Unless you are a consultant like me.  Then the 1-0-0 must be preceded by 16 hours of paid thought.

[Roby]

For another 16 hours of pay, will you tell me how to close it???

[DCBluesman]

Yes, but I'll need to add a Junior Staff member for 8 hours as well.  (Remember, I'm near Washington, DC - your tax dollars at work!)

[Skiprat]

A cereal box is a 1-0-0

I made a cereal box?? Is that cos' you can easily do it while you eat breakfast?? 
It just gets worserer and worserer

................mind you, even Cornflake boxes are getting difficult to open these days. Don't you just HATE 'Child-proof' wrapping?

[Johan Heyns]

Did you hear about the blonde who was battling with this jigsaw..........  until somebody told her its actually a box of cornflakes!