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 ...

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 ...

As a kid I loved doing puzzles with my father, especially around the holidays. We would get a giant jigsaw — usually an old-timey Christmas image filled with people ice-skating and horse-drawn ...

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

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For Press Puzzles owner Marc Tschida, it took several years before the pieces fell into place. “I had casually researched puzzle-making, but I thought I’d need lots of expensive equipment to make my ...

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 ...

PALENVILLE, N.Y. — On a meandering mushroom hunt at North-South Lake in the Catskill Mountains of New York, Jessica Rosenkrantz spotted a favorite mushroom: the hexagonal-pored polypore. Rosenkrantz ...