Why Staves stand out Stave Puzzles are revered for their innovative puzzle designs, masterful cutting and an amazing eye to detail. Over the years Stave has introduced many new puzzle types to the wood puzzle community such as Teasers, Tricks and Tormentors that are beloved by myriad puzzlers. However, when it comes to the cream … Continued
For more than 50 years Stave has been innovating and pushing the bounds of what a wood puzzles is.  With all that creativity, they have created many different types of puzzles along the way and it can be confusing to know what the differences are. This guidet will cover the highlights, but we have … Continued
In the last few years the popularity of Wood Puzzles has grown immensely. There are many reasons for this, but the Covid Pandemic was a huge catalyst in either getting people familiar with puzzling for the first time or, more likely, “reacquainted” with puzzles from years ago. With many people staying home and having watched … Continued
Have you heard of Stave Troublemakers before. We kind of look at them as the little cousin of Tricks (if you aren’t familiar with Tricks, make sure to check our blog on them!).. Arguably not as hard as Tricks, it does a great disservice to them to say they won’t frustrate you and keep you … Continued
Maybe you’ve decided to explore a little further down Stave’s amazing design library and venture into some new types of puzzles. Perhaps you’ve done a lot of Teasers or Tricks and would like to try out something a little different, whatever the reason, we are going to delve into the world of Tormentor puzzles and … Continued
Oh where oh where do we start with this? Historically Tricks have been some of the hardest puzzles Stave makes. However, in recent years, this has changed with some new, even harder types of puzzle designs including Troublemakers that often have multiple solutions or another category called Tormentors that are also becoming more popular. For … Continued
Whether you are new to the world of wood puzzles, specifically Staves, or experienced at doing traditional puzzles and looking for your next challenge, have we got a type of puzzle for you, drum roll please…Stave Teasers. Stave has been pushing puzzle innovation for nearly 50 years now and always seem to come up with … Continued
There are myriad things that children do and we as adults rarely continue. Doodling, playing with blocks, going down the slide, the list goes on and on. However, there are a few activities that seem to get more popular as we age, and puzzling is definitely in that category. When you are young puzzles are … Continued
(This page is updated from time to time as Google changes things and info below is current as of September 2025, which is when this page was last updated.) You may be asking yourself, how are we able to figure out the titles and names of the artists for a lot of the puzzles we … Continued
What if your whole world got turned upside down by doing a puzzle? For a bored housewife named Agnes it did, and that is the premise of the movie Puzzle. Before I go further, let me first start off by saying I am no movie critic. In fact, outside of an 8th grade essay, I … Continued