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Get a Clue

Membership in the Cambridge Philosophical Society, the preeminent scientific organization at the distinguished English University, will cost you twenty pounds.

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Antics

Mule. Prius. Broccolini. Live-Zoom. What do these random things have in common?

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Waxing Poetic

The passage of time has been marked via the heavens since the first sentient looked skyward.

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Tray Chic

I’d like to take a moment to say thanks, and share something special with everyone. This time of year is always a good reminder to step back and appreciate the things we have in our lives that are most important.

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Born to be Wild

One of the most notorious criminals in US history, known for his bold and audacious acts of robbery and brutality, gained his fame the old fashioned way, through self-promotion.

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Requiem for a Dream

The unexpected death of Eric Fuller, the larger than life tour de force behind the puzzle crafting brand Cubic Dissection, has left the many friends and fans who knew him in a state of shock and bewilderment.

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Bank Account

Located a few miles northeast of Hollywood and known as the “media capital of the world”, the Los Angeles adjacent city of Burbank, California, is occasionally confused with a puzzle.

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Creature Feature

Three Hundred Sixty Five Million years ago, give or take, during a brief sixty million year stint known as the Devonian period (between the Silurian and Carboniferous periods) of the Paleozoic era, the first amphibious tetrapods made their appearance on Earth.

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Hidden Gem

When Eric Fuller decided to team up with Frederic Boucher and modify one of his devilishly fun designs, he knew he could create something even more outrageous, complex, challenging, unusual and fun.

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A Day at the Circus

What has 114 individual parts, weighs almost 1.5 kg, pays homage to a petting zoo, the circus, an Angel, Harry Potter, and has been confused with a berry?

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Horsing Around

One of the most famous stories from the Trojan War mythology is the crafty ruse devised by Odysseus, after ten exhausting years and the death of Achilles, to win the war, by hiding their soldiers inside a massive wooden horse.

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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.

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Prickly Situation

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Coasting Along

Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out". ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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Why the Long Face?

The famous monolithic statues of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) are instantly recognizable for their strikingly simple features that evoke mystery and mysticism.

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Transformation

Dod Yn Ol At Fy Nghoed (Welsh phrase - “To return to a balanced state of mind”; literally, “to return to my trees”)

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Good AdVice

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues” - Abraham Lincoln

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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.

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Menace II Society

Hot off the heels of Dee Dixon’s recently acclaimed sequential discovery puzzle box world dominating angry robot comes another menacing mystery.

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Shark Bait

Nothing gets the heart pounding, the people running, and the imagination spiraling quite like the sight of a dorsal fin gliding its way along the waves.

A spirited journey through the world of collectible artisan puzzles