Boxes and Booze 8/24/19 Boxes and Booze 8/24/19

Slammed Car

Slammed Car, designed by Junichi Yananose (Juno) and produced by his puzzle company Pluredro (Juno and his wife Yukari) in Queensland Australia, is their latest and greatest sequential discovery puzzle, and one of the best new puzzles in the world.

Boxes and Booze 8/17/19 Boxes and Booze 8/17/19

Puddleduck Pastures

Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild with a faery hand in hand, for the world's more full of weeping than you can understand - William Butler Yeats

Boxes and Booze 8/10/19 Boxes and Booze 8/10/19

Jack in the Box

Some ideas have existed forever, since time and consciousness alike, have always been, and some ideas are Born.

Boxes and Booze 8/3/19 Boxes and Booze 8/3/19

Ned Kelley

Behold the infamous tale of Ned Kelley, the notorious Australian bushranger and outlaw wanted for a series of police murders in the late 1800s. Kelley and his gang’s evasion of police capture for over two years ended in a famous gun battle in which the outlaws wore makeshift iron suits and helmets which have become iconic.

Boxes and Booze 7/27/19 Boxes and Booze 7/27/19

Memo Pad

Every so often I come across a puzzle box which happens to embody something inherently apropos for the central theme of this odd blog of mine, which attempts to pair puzzle boxes (and the occasional non-box puzzle) with craft cocktails. I call them “perfect” Boxes and Booze boxes, which is not to imply they are my absolute favorite boxes, but how can I not like them?

Boxes and Booze 7/20/19 Boxes and Booze 7/20/19

Tracy's Box of Tricks

It’s been a while since I featured something from Tracy Wood Clemons, an American woodworker who, when asked how she became so talented at designing intricate and complex wooden puzzle boxes, can honestly say, “well, that’s my middle name, after all”.

Boxes and Booze 7/13/19 Boxes and Booze 7/13/19

Bloom-Box

“Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.” – Oscar Wilde

Boxes and Booze 7/6/19 Boxes and Booze 7/6/19

Plugged Well

“My formula for success? Rise early, work late, strike oil.” - John Paul Getty

Boxes and Booze 6/29/19 Boxes and Booze 6/29/19

Corkscrew

Perry, as many know, is a master woodworker who creates some of the most surprising and beautiful puzzle boxes featuring incredibly complex and elegant mechanisms.

Boxes and Booze 6/22/19 Boxes and Booze 6/22/19

Color-colo

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life” – Oscar Wilde, 1891

A spirited journey through the world of collectible artisan puzzles