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Tumbler

I’m flush with excitement about introducing this new designer to the world of puzzles and puzzle boxes. He’s got a pair, no, three of a kind of special puzzle design he invented during the quarantine downtime that are quite magical. Get them all and you’ll have a full house of clever items. Ok, let me get straight to the point here – these puzzles are aces.

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Sea Chest

Neverfear! I’ve just the thing for you, my boisterous Buccaneers, a treasure chest plundered by the Corsairs straight from Davey Jones Locker. How they came to acquire it, we shall never know, as dead men tell no tales.

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Turing Box

“The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure!” - Stephen Sondheim, Into the Woods

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Siesta

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled – Ovid

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Lock Box

Do you like a box that locks?

Do you like a lock like box?

Yes, I like a box that locks

Yes, I like a lock like box

Yes, I like a lock like box that looks like lock of box that locks

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Side Swiper

After investing so much time poring over the classics from twenty years ago it’s time for something new and refreshing. And speaking of investing, you can take this one to the bank. Or rather, from the “bank” – the Hughbank.

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Donay Bottle

“I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle” - Ellen DeGeneres

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Puzzle Balls

The “puzzle ball” is certainly one of the oldest known examples of a puzzling object. These ivory spheres were hand carved, with freely moving inner spheres nesting one inside the other.

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Cannon Puzzles

“The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Castle Money Box

Treen Castle is not a castle, it’s a jagged rocky promontory of cliffs that sit on the edge of Cornwall, England in the town of Treen.

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Barrel and Ball

Small wooden household and domestic objects were referred to as “treen” in the nineteenth century and earlier, a word derived literally from “of a tree”.

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Donay Pear

We’re taking a sabbatical abroad this summer at Boxes and Booze to visit England and shine the spotlight on a very special wood turner named John Berkeley.

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Clutch Box

There’s a fantastic origin story behind this award winning puzzle maker (it's appropriate that he has an origin story, given his almost supernatural abilities).

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Dragos

The following excerpts were taken from a dusty leather-bound journal, recently discovered amidst the stalls of an old bookstore in Ontario.

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AGES

“There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.” ― Milan Kundera

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Coffee Cup

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Sphere Box (Stickman 18)

Last week I reached a milestone on the blog, five years of weekly boxes and booze pairings. It seemed like a good place to pause for a bit, maybe take a break and turn attentions elsewhere. So of course here I am, rolling right along anyway.

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Milestone Book (Stickman 25)

To celebrate the occasion I’d like to present a rather auspicious creation from someone whose work I have featured here more than any other, my friend Robert Yarger.

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Lotus

The Lotus flower is an important symbol for many Eastern cultures and religions, representing the concepts of purity, enlightenment, regeneration and rebirth.

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Ursa Major

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”

― Philip Pullman

A spirited journey through the world of collectible artisan puzzles