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The Art of the Wooden Puzzle

In today's blog post, we take a look at a step-by-step guide for making your own wooden burr puzzles!

Several varieties of puzzle fall under the umbrella of “wooden puzzles,” from sliding tile puzzles and jigsaws to puzzle boxes and brain teasers. Heck, I devoted an entire post to wooden puzzles last year, sharing several from my personal collection. With the advent of more affordable laser-cutting machines, we’ve seen several puzzly Kickstarter campaigns (like Baffledazzle and Codex Silenda)…

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The World of Wooden Puzzles!

In today's blog post, we explore the world of wooden puzzles!

Puzzles come in all shapes and sizes, adopting numerous forms that challenge the mind in seemingly endless ways.

While I spend a lot of time on PuzzleNation Blog talking about pen-and-paper puzzles (and their electronic siblings), today I’d like to focus on a brand of physical puzzles: ones made of wood!

As you’d expect, there are hundreds of different puzzles to choose from when discussing…

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Color My Puzzle World

In today's blog post, we look at a jigsaw puzzle with 1000 colors!

I’ve written about jigsaw puzzles often in the past, because they’re an integral part of the puzzle world.

Whether we’re talking about the world’s largest jigsaw puzzle or a stone jigsaw puzzle curtain, an incredibly difficult puzzle with only 14 pieces or an entire house disassembled and rebuilt jigsaw-style, there seem to be endless variations in how jigsaw puzzles are brought to life.

Puzzle…

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It's Follow-Up Friday: New Years Resolutions edition!

In today's Follow-Up Friday post, we look back at some puzzlers' New Years Resolutions!

Welcome to Follow-Up Friday!

By this time, you know the drill. Follow-Up Friday is a chance for us to revisit previous posts and bring the PuzzleNation audience up to speed on all things puzzly.

And today, with the new year freshly started, it seems all too appropriate to return to the subject of new years resolutions.

Last year, I asked several prominent puzzlersabout their resolutions for…

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The Ultimate Jigsaw Puzzle

In today's blog post, we look at the jigsaw puzzle to end all jigsaw puzzles: an entire mansion!

Jigsaw-style puzzling is a huge part of puzzle culture, one that’s easy to overlook. Even the average jigsaw is hardly average these days.

You can get them without squared-off edges — removing that crucial first step of finding all the border pieces — or with extra pieces that aren’t intended to fit anywhere. Some, like Baffledazzle puzzles, come without the final image as a guide, leaving you…

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Girls Make Games (and Puzzles, too!)

In today's blog post, we look at closing the gender gap in games and puzzles with Girls Make Games!

[Alicia Crawford, winner of Sony Online Entertainment’s 2011 Gamers in Real Life (G.I.R.L.) Scholarship, aimed at bringing more women into the field of video game production and design. Photo courtesy of Sony Online Entertainment, by way of Wired.com.]

I am a huge proponent of seeing creative people succeed. From Kickstarters and Indiegogo campaigns to intrepid puzzlesmiths and game designers…

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Kickstarter Updates: Pairs, Baffledazzle, and Board Games for the Blind!

Kickstarter Updates: Pairs (@cheapassgames), @Baffledazzle, and Board Games for the Blind (@64ozgames)!

The Internet has truly changed everything: how we communicate, how we shop, how we learn, how news spreads, how businesses rise and fall. And the puzzle world is no different.

The Internet allows us to bring PuzzleNation apps right into your phones and tablets. Constructors are making names for themselves marketing directly to solvers. And now, with the growing influence of Kickstarter, Indiegogo

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It's Follow-Up Friday: Kickstarter Roundup edition!

In today's Follow-Up Friday, we check out some puzzly crowdfunding campaigns! (@puzzometry, @cartographygame, @imogap)

Welcome to Follow-Up Friday!

By this time, you know the drill. Follow-Up Friday is a chance for us to revisit the subjects of previous posts and bring the PuzzleNation audience up to speed on all things puzzly.

And today, I’d like to return to the subject of crowdfunded puzzles.

I’ve covered a lot of puzzle-centric Indiegogo and Kickstarter campaigns in the blog, because I think it’s fascinating…

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