Like Elms, Stave Puzzles also makes hand-cut puzzles and is more widely known among puzzlers. Many of Stave’s puzzles are ...

Kagen Sound is an artisan of remarkable skill, engineering and constructing incredibly intricate puzzle boxes made entirely of wood. WIRED brings you inside his workshop as he breaks down the design ...

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From Lego sets to 3D wooden puzzles and miniature model kits, these adult-friendly building kits offer hours of focused fun and a finished product worth showing off.

When puzzles were first invented, they were made out of wood, and carpenters used jigsaws to cut the pieces (which explains how they got their name). Perhaps that’s why it feels so good when you put a ...

In the 2025 competition, Tortoise Protocol was runner-up for the Puzzlers’ Award, which is determined by attendees who vote ...

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Growing up, J. B. Manning spent many weekends at his family’s deer lease in South Texas or on another parcel of land they owned outside of Georgetown. He’d sit in the blind for hours, peering through ...

Chris Wirth still remembers the day everything went berserk. It was the weekend of March 14, 2020, the last weekend before everything in Colorado shut down. His company, the Boulder-based Liberty ...

When Steve Richardson was an 8-year-old in Attleboro, Massachusetts, he butchered his fingers trying to make a puzzle with a miniature Dremel saw. He had grown to love the feeling of fitting pieces ...