The International Intellectual Museum

Moreover these famous puzzle exhibits include ‘Eiffel Tower’, ‘Statue of Liberty’, ‘Egyptian Pyramid’,’ Maugli’, ‘Ancient Temple’, ‘Sea Angel’, ‘Puzzle Spaceship’ which is composed of 673 different wooden pieces interlocked and requires 5000 locking tricks, ‘Mickey Mouse’, ‘Tom and Jerry’, ‘Cat Master’ and ‘The Doll’. The smallest and the biggest chess sets attract particular attentiaon, as the pieces of smallest chess are 5-10mm and of biggest are 35-55cm and the length of the chess board is 7.6 m. The black pieces are made as knights of Chinggis Khaan, the white pieces are designed on the theme ‘The three manly games’ and made from famous real people and this chess set is considered to be rare art work that can be included in the world’ s cultural heritage fund. Undeniably, the Mongolian puzzle chess set is seen as the one of the wonders of the world by its complexity, design, carvings, interlocking method and its shape and the all pieces are designed based on Mongolian traditional ‘Hosh’ puzzling method. The each chess piece is made with a owner and is separated into 4-6 pieces, interlocked through 3 dimensional movements and requires up to 18 different locking tricks. Moreover the pieces consist of 160 parts and the total 1022 gemstones from 18 different categories are placed on the pieces, the board, the table and the chairs. It has been announced that an award of $10.000 will be given to someone who could assemble the king of this chess within 10 minutes and people and audience from 177 countries have so far taken part in the bet. 
The one copy of this chess set is given as a gift to The International Chess Association in 1998, the President of this organisation Mr Ilumjinov highly valued it as ‘a piece of wonderful and rare art of intellectual work which is worth far more than $1 million and rewarded a honorary award to the creator and praised him for being a great contributor for the development of art of chess in the world.
Games and toys are very important educational tools played by people of all ages, reflecting philosophical, mathematical and technological knowledge and values of a particular nation and these values can have a deep impact on a culture and development of the country. 
The museum has exhibited over 80 international exhibitions and fairs in 50 countries and rewarded a number of gold, silver and bronze medals for its excellence. Every year, many visitors and tourists come to Mongolia to see the museum.