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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

These twelve interlocking three-dimensional wooden puzzles were made in Japan, likely by the Yamanaka Kumiki Works. Each is individually wrapped in plastic and includes a sheet showing how to assemble ...

Chris Danner can’t remember the first time he completed an Elms Puzzle. But he easily recalls the ones that “really blew me away” as a child, like an over 800-piece set he remembers illustrated with a ...

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 ...

A small Long Island business that cuts one-of-a-kind jigsaw puzzles gets a lift amid the fallout from the pandemic. By John D. Tulenko The change was as sudden as it was baffling. For some reason, Par ...

Monkey Puzzle wood is beautiful, but these knobs made this turning project a real battle! Watch me take it all the way down, ...