Boxes and Booze 10/16/21 Boxes and Booze 10/16/21

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.

Boxes and Booze 10/9/21 Boxes and Booze 10/9/21

Sequential Discovery Cubed Box

It’s adventure time again as we head to the outback and visit with the brilliant Junichi Yananose from Australia. Juno is well known for his complex and unusual interlocking puzzle designs which come in many styles, shapes and sizes.

Boxes and Booze 10/2/21 Boxes and Booze 10/2/21

Apple

The image of an arrow through an apple, or any other manner of small object, is ubiquitous now and can be found everywhere – like here, in this wonderful puzzle box by Japanese master craftsman Akio Kamei.

Boxes and Booze 9/25/21 Boxes and Booze 9/25/21

Blah Box

What a meal we’ve had! I hope you’ve saved room for dessert because it’s definitely worth the calories.

Boxes and Booze 9/18/21 Boxes and Booze 9/18/21

Penultimate Burr Box Set

As if having a unique and beautiful burr set made by Eric Fuller were not enough, the box that contains the set is also rather special.

Boxes and Booze 9/11/21 Boxes and Booze 9/11/21

Dabbit Invasion!

This story arguably starts back in 1892, in a German satire magazine called Fliegende Blätter (flying leaves / loose sheets), where the first published illustration of these ambiguous animals appeared with the caption “Rabbit and Duck”. Was it a rabbit, or a duck?

Boxes and Booze 9/4/21 Boxes and Booze 9/4/21

HexTrios

Third times a charm may or may not apply to this set of puzzle boxes, the HexTrios by Eric Fuller and Matt Dawson. That depends on whether you find devilishly puzzling mechanisms to be charming or not.

Boxes and Booze 8/28/21 Boxes and Booze 8/28/21

Lift Box

Next on the menu is a little light fare to lift your spirits and set the mood. It’s one of my favorite Fuller boxes because it’s just so darned clever and incredibly well executed.

Boxes and Booze 8/21/21 Boxes and Booze 8/21/21

Mame Box

Welcome to the epicurean experience of the season, a limited interlude featuring a truly passionate champion of the art form. I’m going to be serving a five course meal that will leave you a little Fuller each week.

Boxes and Booze 8/14/21 Boxes and Booze 8/14/21

Blackout

“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

A spirited journey through the world of collectible artisan puzzles