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Tartan Box

"Brothers be ye constant. The yoke which with single mind ye have taken, bear ye to the end; and whatsoever ye have seen with me and heard, keep and fulfil." – St. David, c. 589 AD

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Burr Bot

Burr Bot is a hybrid puzzle box and burr puzzle which also incorporates sequential discovery elements. For a non-burr puzzle enthusiast, it’s also an approachable and addictive introduction to the genre that manages to be both seriously challenging and incredibly fun.

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Love Arrow

“Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.” —Oscar Wilde

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SunDial

Jesse Born and Robert Yarger, two of the world’s best puzzle box artists, have created a modern masterpiece of mechanical secrets.

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Loki

“Because,” said Thor, “when something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki’s fault. It saves a lot of time.” ― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

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Box of the Celts

How do you fit all the “Gauls, Celtiberians, Gallaecians, Galatians, Britons, Gaels and their offshoots” (Wikipedia) into a little box? That stunt would take some gall, I imagine.

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The Tippenary Mystery Tour

Goodbye, Piccadilly, Farewell, Leicester Square! It's a long long way to Tipperary, But my heart's right there. – Jack Judge and Harry Williams, 1912

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Ripple Box

Poiesis - "the activity in which a person brings something into being that did not exist before.”

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Abraham’s Well

Beersheba, in the Ottoman Empire at the time, was the site of a pivotal battle in World War I.

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one, two, TREE

I’m celebrating the season this year with a perfect puzzle box from Japanese Karakuri Group artist Yasuaki Kikuchi.

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Domino Box (Stickman 16)

From the Latin dominus, “master of the house”, we have the English word for an ancient game of tiles that was invented in China sometime in the twelfth century.

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Bassackwards Box

Abraham Lincoln might have appreciated the newest creation from Ryan Hughbanks, his finest effort to date and one of the most enjoyable puzzle boxes of the year, in my humble opinion.

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Thor’s Hammer

It was a weapon fit for a god, a hammer that would never fail to strike as hard as required no matter the target, that would never miss if thrown and always return to the hand if desired.

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Honeycomb Maze Box

Kagen Sound has always had a love of mazes since his childhood, when he would hand draw them for fun and friends to attempt.

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Brass Lighthouse

Whenever I am visiting a destination where there is a lighthouse, I find a way to fit that into the journey and see it with my own eyes. So here we are again taking a little tour, or detour, to another.

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Lighthouse Keeper

I have a fascination with lighthouses, and I’m not alone. There is something evocative about them, the lonely sentinel keeping watch, keeping an eye on the sea and offering a guiding light to the lost or weary traveler. The lighthouse guards us well, but, who guards the lighthouse?

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Aquatic Bird Haniwa

Throughout the history of humankind we have been tied to the past, lavishly celebrating life with the ceremony of death and memory.

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Spirit Box

It’s everyone’s favorite holiday again and it wouldn’t be Halloween without another episode of “Boxes and Boos”! This year I’ve got just the thing to send shivers down your spine. We are going on a séance to commune with the dead. It’s a journey that’s sure to raise your spirits

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Butterfly Box

Kagen Sound has had us going around in circles over the past five years or more with his epic set of patterned boxes.

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Chess Box

Fans of Benno de Grote have come to expect a lot more than meets the eye inside his hand made laser cut puzzles.

A spirited journey through the world of collectible artisan puzzles