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 ...

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

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 ...

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

You know about puzzle books---books of puzzles, or books that are themselves puzzles. But then there's Codex Silenda---a gorgeous, wooden book of brainteasers that is itself a multi-part mystery. As ...

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 ...