Boxes and Booze 9/28/19 Boxes and Booze 9/28/19

Where’s My Hammer

The box alone is a work of art, but the puzzling aspect makes it particularly appealing. This is a 7-step sequential discovery puzzle box, with well-hidden secrets and a clever combination of items to find and use to open it.

Boxes and Booze 9/21/19 Boxes and Booze 9/21/19

Golden Ratio Box

Let’s contemplate ratios for a moment – specifically, when two quantities have a ratio that is equal to the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities.

Boxes and Booze 9/14/19 Boxes and Booze 9/14/19

Magic Hat

Shiro Tajima, former Karakuri Creation Group artist gone solo rogue puzzle maker, created a clever animal series of puzzle boxes based on the signs of the Japanese Zodiac.

Boxes and Booze 9/7/19 Boxes and Booze 9/7/19

Secretum Cista

The provenance of the name, “Secretum Cista”, is rather auspicious and steeped in mystery. From the Latin, “Secretum” has many translations, notably “secret seal”, or more simply just “secret”.

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Trike

I’m on a transportation kick it seems, following up the Slammed Car puzzle box with an offering from Karakuri Creation Group artist Osamu Kasho. This little baby goes from zero to twenty in two minutes!

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.

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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

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Jack in the Box

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

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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.

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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?

A spirited journey through the world of collectible artisan puzzles