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

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

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 ...

Some of the most devoted hobbyists are willing to shell out big bucks for what one called “a couture puzzle.” “The return of analog is, I believe, the recognition that the simple and well-made can ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whitney came up with the puzzle book hybrid idea for his senior thesis research project at Iowa State University and has turned his inspired idea into an intriguing Kickstarter project that has ...

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 ...