A spirited journey through the world of collectible artisan puzzles

Pairing craft cocktails with crafty puzzles

Rose
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Rose

Red roses have had the symbolic meaning of love for centuries, with the origins traced back to Greek mythology. Aphrodite is usually cited as the source, perhaps from her tears, and the red color from her blood or from the blood of her lover Adonis.

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Pyramid
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Pyramid

Here at Boxes and Booze we seldom get boxed in, and certainly not into a corner. Take a standard cube, for example, with its six faces, eight vertices and twelve edges.

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POD
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POD

“POD”, by Karakuri Creation Group artist Hideaki Kawashima, is a little box with a large secret.  In fact, Kawashima says that this box represents the culmination of all he has learned about puzzle box making over the last 8 years, and that’s saying something.

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Three Cornered Deadlock
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Three Cornered Deadlock

I like continuing themes, so it’s fitting that this year I have another perfectly balanced, “three-part” puzzle box to pair with the Negroni, and it’s also by Hideaki Kawashima again. Kawashima makes intricately designed puzzles which often have components that interplay with one another, so that one section becomes blocked while the other is opened.

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Duet Box
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Duet Box

The “duet” box is a lovely puzzle composed of two interdependent cubes which are fused together, and which require one another for each to open and reveal their individual secret compartments.

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Triskele
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Triskele

A triskele is an ancient Celtic symbol with three interlocking spirals. The box has lovely raised panels on each face, which alternate directions in a spiral fashion, and overlap the corresponding edges of each side thereby locking the panels in place.

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