Boxes and Booze 11/16/24 Boxes and Booze 11/16/24

Pioneer Daze

The Pioneer spirit is alive and well in the debut puzzle from Dylan Christopher, a mechanical engineer with a flair for ingenious design.

Boxes and Booze 10/5/24 Boxes and Booze 10/5/24

Military Brass

Who Dares Wins is a British television show named after the SAS (Special Air Squadron) motto. It is also now a collaborative puzzle lock box from a bunch of brilliant Dare Devils....

Boxes and Booze 6/22/24 Boxes and Booze 6/22/24

Going crazy

We head back to Tel Aviv to visit our friend Boaz Feldman, Israeli puzzle maker and heir to the Feldman lock legacy.

Boxes and Booze 4/27/24 Boxes and Booze 4/27/24

Open and Shut

From the workshop of French mechanical engineer Benjamin Baley, proprietor at Simple Puzzle and creator of the original Simple Lock 1, comes, to put it simply, the sequel.

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Simpleton

Simplicity of design and elegance in motion can make for historically great inventions or products throughout history. The same can be said for puzzles.

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Looping In

I’m unlocking another episode of “Locks and Libations” this week on the blog to visit with our old friend Boaz Feldman, heir to the DanLock legacy and a brilliant puzzle maker in his own right.

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Reindeer Games

They say imitation is the greatest form of flattery.

Boxes and Booze 9/24/22 Boxes and Booze 9/24/22

Keepsake

The Norman invasion of England brought with it an architectural fortification system known as motte-and-bailey, which was fairly simple to construct even for unskilled laborers, while at the same time being militarily effective.

Boxes and Booze 8/13/22 Boxes and Booze 8/13/22

Cheap Goods

“The North American word schlock”, according to Vocabulary.com, “comes from the Yiddish word shlak, … "junk," or from the German Schlacke, "dregs," "slag," or "refuse."” It’s crap.

Boxes and Booze 1/29/22 Boxes and Booze 1/29/22

Loki

“Because,” said Thor, “when something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki’s fault. It saves a lot of time.” ― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

A spirited journey through the world of collectible artisan puzzles