Boxes and Booze 4/6/24 Boxes and Booze 4/6/24

Nuclear Option

In the 1930’s, Columbia University physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi set out to determine the nuclear spin and associated magnetic moment of atoms in his molecular beam laboratory.

MRI puzzle by Benjamin Heidt

Boxes and Booze 1/13/24 Boxes and Booze 1/13/24

The Piano Has Been Drinking

It’s time to celebrate another new designer here on the pages of B&B, someone familiar to many by way of his surprisingly complex and mind boggling printed puzzle boxes but being featured here for the first time and at long last.

Boxes and Booze 3/25/23 Boxes and Booze 3/25/23

Mass Appeal

“I guess we all need to try being optimistic and keep striving to make things better. After all, there is really no other choice. At least that is the way I see things.”

- Stewart Coffin, Reflections, 2022

Boxes and Booze 5/14/22 Boxes and Booze 5/14/22

Into the Vortex

The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams about dreams. - Lord Kelvin

Boxes and Booze 3/5/22 Boxes and Booze 3/5/22

Brass Monkey 5

What’s heavy and made of brass, has six pieces that fit together, looks the same as four other things and is totally different?

Boxes and Booze 5/1/21 Boxes and Booze 5/1/21

The Joy of Hex

From the mischievous minds at play in the Two Brass Monkeys workshop in merry old England comes their most raucous achievement yet, a set of twelve hexagonal burrs stick puzzles that are sure to make you blush.

Boxes and Booze 12/5/20 Boxes and Booze 12/5/20

Humpty Dumpty

Over the next few weeks I’ll be taking you on an adventure down the rabbit hole. Many have heard tales of this fabled project, and it is time to celebrate the makers. It all begins at Christ Church, Oxford, in the afternoon on Jul 4, 1862.