Trying out my first-ever puzzle box and seeing how it works from start to finish. Simple idea, tricky mechanics, and a lot ...

[Kagen Sound] is a woodworker and artist who gives a great behind-the-scenes look at his amazingly high-quality puzzle boxes (video). Not only do his varied puzzle box designs show his math background ...

Let me first introduce myself and this blog, which is titled Total Brain Workout. I am a professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto, and one of my main areas of cultural research is ...

As teams huddled around tables of scattered jigsaw puzzle pieces, their matching shirts proclaimed: “The jig is up.” “A piece of cake.” “The dining room table is mine.” Over the course of the day ...

Fans of puzzles know that it can be fun to put that 1,000-piece monster of the Grand Canyon together but then what? A Havertown woman has taken puzzle swapping to the streets. Janet Mount has followed ...

A simple box with an unusual locking mechanism challenges guests who attempt to solve it. A box that can't seem to open challenges several people to think critically on how to open it. Curiosity, ...