Having done many puzzles over my lifetime, I have often wondered what it is about puzzles that people enjoy. I am sure if someone took a survey of a 100 serious puzzlers there would be a range of answers, from filling time to an alternative to watching TV to a form of meditation. However, it’s … Continued
Think a 5 Bolt Stave Trick is hard? How about assembling 27,000 pieces of ancient stone that complete about 90 different artifacts. How long do you think it would take you? A team of archaeologists from Germany recently completed this task. It took them about 10 years to assemble, and the process was a lot … Continued
This is really a subjective question as I have done some puzzles that I felt were a complete chore to finish, while others have done the same puzzle and loved them. However, having spoken to many collectors over the years, I think there are certain types of puzzles that seem to be more popular than … Continued
As we alluded to in a previous post we spent about 2 weeks putting together a 2000 piece Victory puzzle. To give you an idea of the size it was 4feet x 2feet. That’s 8 square feet of wood puzzling! Lots of trees and leaves did not make the process any easier. We kept at … Continued
We are in the midst of completing the largest wooden puzzle we have done to date. Once complete we will post pictures. It is a Victory puzzle that contains 2000 pieces. To give you an idea of the size, it is about 4 feet long and probably 30″ tall or so (we have yet to … Continued
We have done A LOT of puzzles over the years, from 5 Sword Staves to very large traditional puzzles from all sorts of manufacturers, but we are just about done with has become what we officially declared as the hardest puzzle to date. I actually don’t think this was intentionally made to be that hard, … Continued
As we start 2012, it’s always a good time to reflect on the past year. Given this site is all about wooden puzzles, no better time than now to reflect on a few interesting things from 2011. First, we had a number of great Stave puzzles come through our hands. While all of the their … Continued