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Wardrobe Malfunction

Enter a winter wonderland that is just in time for the holidays courtesy of Dee Dixon, master storyteller at DED Wood Crafts, who presents his most whimsical puzzle adventure yet in the form of a magically mysterious wardrobe.

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The Adventure in the Cardboard Box

Listen closely, or you may well find your ears roughly severed and mailed to your next of kin, packed in salt in a cardboard box. The game is afoot again in Scotland Yard …

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Stream of Consciousness

We are celebrating our collective love of the TV with a limited series on the B&B Network. Tune in!

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Pearls of Wisdom

Fans of Brian Young know of his occasional “limited edition” puzzles, which he has released in small numbers since practically the start if his business.

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Beauty Mark

Here at Boxes and Booze, we love books. Someday, when I need to give up drinking entirely (is that possible?), I might change the theme here to Boxes and Books, in fact. It has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?

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Does Not Compute

We are returning to the French Alps to brush up on some basic arithmetic this week, where our host Doug “Doog” Menzies has written a puzzling equation to ponder.

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Feeling Dizzy

I continue to be impressed and inspired by the big ideas from QuizBrix, and thrilled with their wonderfully fun creations which are made completely out of Lego bricks.

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Mona Lisa Smile

Incisors, canines, premolars or molars, pick your favorite out of thirty two choices.

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Duality

Kyle Chester’s original puzzle box from his fledgling company, Perpetually Perplexing Puzzles, the Dual Dial.

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Adventure on the High Seas

“De Vliegende Hollander” is a myth, a legend, a ghost story from the seventeenth century era when the Dutch East India Company controlled commerce on the seven seas.

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Feeling Lucky

In 1894 Charles Fey introduced the world’s first slot machine, the “Liberty Bell”.

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Animal Cruelty

The story begins in 1975, when the Japanese amusement ride company TOGO released Mogura Taij (Mole Buster), a franticly fun mole smashing game invented by Kazuo Yamada.

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Rising Above

Dee Dixon is on a roll. Or at least, his newest puzzle box is, if placed on end at the top of a slope.

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Knight Rider

Any witch or wizard worth their wand and in need of transportation, because they are too young to aparate or too old to bother, knows all that is required is to hail the bus.

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What about BOB?

Kagen Sound is trying something new. The American master of finely crafted secret opening boxes is incorporating electronics now, but at least in this case, the batteries are included.

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Dialed In

Something special typically surfaces around this time of year, out of the cold winter weather experienced in the southern hemisphere, on the other side of the world from my spot on earth.

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Ship Shape

On June 8, 1879, George Washington issued the first official presidential order in United States history.

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Red Handed

A staple of the northern European diet for over three thousand years, the tasty sardine and its big brother the herring can be enjoyed raw, salted, pickled and dried, just to name a few common preparations.