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Mona Lisa Smile

Incisors, canines, premolars or molars, pick your favorite out of thirty two choices.

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Duality

Kyle Chester’s original puzzle box from his fledgling company, Perpetually Perplexing Puzzles, the Dual Dial.

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Adventure on the High Seas

“De Vliegende Hollander” is a myth, a legend, a ghost story from the seventeenth century era when the Dutch East India Company controlled commerce on the seven seas.

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Feeling Lucky

In 1894 Charles Fey introduced the world’s first slot machine, the “Liberty Bell”.

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Animal Cruelty

The story begins in 1975, when the Japanese amusement ride company TOGO released Mogura Taij (Mole Buster), a franticly fun mole smashing game invented by Kazuo Yamada.

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Rising Above

Dee Dixon is on a roll. Or at least, his newest puzzle box is, if placed on end at the top of a slope.

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Knight Rider

Any witch or wizard worth their wand and in need of transportation, because they are too young to aparate or too old to bother, knows all that is required is to hail the bus.

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What about BOB?

Kagen Sound is trying something new. The American master of finely crafted secret opening boxes is incorporating electronics now, but at least in this case, the batteries are included.

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Dialed In

Something special typically surfaces around this time of year, out of the cold winter weather experienced in the southern hemisphere, on the other side of the world from my spot on earth.

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Ship Shape

On June 8, 1879, George Washington issued the first official presidential order in United States history.

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Red Handed

A staple of the northern European diet for over three thousand years, the tasty sardine and its big brother the herring can be enjoyed raw, salted, pickled and dried, just to name a few common preparations.

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Radio Days

For those of you following along with the robot wars saga (aka the “robopocalypse”), there has been a development.

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Dog Days

Inspiration strikes when you least expect it, and nothing motivates some people quite like a challenge.

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Safe Keeping

I’m always curious how people come up with their ideas, and how they see them to production. Akhil Sudeep, a designer from India, recently shared his story and the origins of his new puzzle box with me.

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Brick by Brick

“We are hoping to spread the word that we make the best LEGO PB out there and try to create more great puzzles in the future.”

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Cosmic Buddha

According to Mr. Puzzle (the original), the mountainous, momentous objective of this puzzling object “is to get Mt Fuji to blow it's top and find the Buddha of All-Illuminating Wisdom, the Dainichi Nyorai.

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Fish Tales

Eric Fuller’s lasting legacy is well encapsulated in many ways within his final box, the last puzzle he personally had a hand in both designing and crafting.