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Boxes and Books

In celebration of World Book Day (April 23), I had the inspired idea to pick up a book. OK, I know what you’re thinking …

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Ze Tomago

There are a few well known makers who have eggcelled at [making eggs] but none are quite so prolific as Australian dentist Stephen Chin, who has made, shall we say, an eggcess of egg puzzles over the years.

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Lift Off!

Spaceflight historians acknowledge the three “fathers” of rocketry who helped launch human beings into space.

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Pirate’s Compass

“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.” — Mark Twain, ‘Life On The Mississippi’.

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The Fisherman’s Wish

Japanese Karakuri Creation Group artist Yoh Kakuda weaves magical tales in wood. Each wonderful creation tells a story, but some are simply more magical.

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Piston

Louis Sullivan was the pioneering American architect of the Chicago “Prairie School” style which embraced his famous tenet “form follows function”.

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Angry Walter

“The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.” ― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

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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?

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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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