These Meiji chocolate bar puzzles come in different difficulties, too -- as the chocolate flavor gets more bitter (white, to milk, to dark), the piece placement gets harder. Of course, the hardest part would be the test in willpower. It's not easy to play the puzzle after you eat all the pieces, we're sure.
These might stale by the time you import them, but if you'd like some anyway for the novelty they cost 730 JPY (about $7 USD) each at Strapya World, sans shipping. As of posting this, there were only four units in stock, so you might want to get on that quickly if you covet such treats.
We just hope there's not too many zigzags.
[Update: I just found out that the chocolate isn't actually edible! (Hear that? It's the sound of my heart breaking.) Sorry if I got any of your hopes up, too!]
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4-18-2008 @ 12:55AM
istrasci said...
Your story is wrong... This is not real chocolate... It's just a puzzle... You can't eat it... I have one... It says in giant writing on the back of the box "This is not edible" (in Japanese of course)... So don't buy one expecting to be able to eat it; you'll be disappointed... It's just really hard plastic... Unless you're into eating that, I guess...
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4-17-2008 @ 11:32PM
Candace Savino said...
Wow, what a bummer! Thanks for the info, I'll update the post.
4-18-2008 @ 12:56AM
istrasci said...
Actually, that was a big claim of me... I should know better... So I'll restate, saying I don't know that edible ones *don't* exist, but all the hundreds of ones I've ever seen are just the plastic kind...
4-17-2008 @ 11:40PM
Candace Savino said...
Yeah, but now that you said that, I think you're right. The poorly translated writings on the site make more sense now :).
4-18-2008 @ 4:45AM
Dio said...
OBJECTION~!
How... HOW COULD THEY CALL IT CHOCOLATE IF IT ISN'T EDIBLE? PREPOSTEROUS.
4-18-2008 @ 1:04AM
Mad Martin Kinderhook said...
From the color and shape of that, it looks like you could do this sort of thing with a square waffle and a little precision cutting. Come to think of it, foods in the form of a grid of squares are surprisingly rare.
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4-18-2008 @ 1:07AM
Candace Savino said...
Yep, you totally could do that with a waffle.
http://www.dsfanboy.com/2008/03/02/eating-tetris-is-our-new-hobby/
:)
4-18-2008 @ 8:40AM
Igmolicious said...
NEW CHOCOLATE BAR!
(Now with 100% less chocolate!)
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4-18-2008 @ 11:59AM
TurboFool said...
White chocolate isn't chocolate anyway, so even if it was edible, it wouldn't have contained any chocolate.
And it's for this very reason that I don't touch white chocolate. I'm a chocolate lover, and anything that claims and fails to actually be chocolate doesn't deserve the name. Also, I don't like the taste of it, but that's incidental.