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Murdle Mystery Puzzle Books

Murdle Mystery Puzzle Books
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Writer G. T. Karber is the mastermind behind Murdle, a series of logic puzzles that challenge amateur sleuths to solve murder mysteries. You’ll need to suss out the suspects, identify what weapon they used, and where they committed their evil deeds.  Volume 1 and Volume 2 are out now, with Volume 3 pre-orders shipping in April 2024.

Metal Planet Puzzle

Metal Planet Puzzle
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This two-piece metal planet puzzle from Hanayama is more challenging than it looks. Designer Masui Ohno created this brainteaser that asks you to solve what should be a simple problem: release the silver planet from inside of its golden ring by twisting, turning, and pushing its bumpy surface through the jagged inner ring. Measures appx 2″ across.

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Stainless Steel Jigsaw Puzzle

Stainless Steel Jigsaw Puzzle
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This unique jigsaw puzzle from In a Flash Laser is made from a 5″ x 5″ sheet of 304 stainless steel, laser-cut into 20 pieces. With no images on the pieces, it’s trickier to solve than it might look. You can also have it custom-etched with an image of your choice for an added charge.

Honeycomb Metal Puzzle

Honeycomb Metal Puzzle

The latest brain teaser from Puzzle Master asks you to unscrew its seven machined metal bolts, then reassemble them so they fit back into its hexagonal tray. It looks deceptively simple, but it’s rated a Level 8 on a scale from 5 to 10. Created by famed puzzle designer Oskar van Deventer. Be sure to check out Puzzle Master’s other metal puzzles.

Jack in the Box Puzzle

Jack in the Box Puzzle

Two of our favorite shops, Craighill and Art of Play have teamed up to create this perplexing puzzle. Its unique design allows it to be solved in two different ways. Option 1: arrange the eight aluminum pieces to fit inside a clear acrylic cube and set it on its stand. Option 2: fit the same pieces inside the cube, but this time, fit the stand in there as well.

Only the Hardest Puzzles

Only the Hardest Puzzles
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Ready to challenge your brain? Created by Google Software Engineering Manager and puzzle fanatic Willa Chen, this book is filled with 135 of the toughest puzzles money can buy. There’s a good variety, too, from cryptograms to word searches to Sudoku, crosswords, and more.

Solving Rubik’s Cubes: Level 1 to 100

Solving Rubik’s Cubes: Level 1 to 100

A standard Rubik’s Cube has six faces, each with a 3×3 grid of colored blocks. But there are dozens of other Rubik’s variants, ranging from a single block to hundreds of blocks. Hafu Go got together with puzzle-solving expert SoupTimmy to work through progressively more challenging versions of the cube, all the way up to the $1000+ Impossible Cube.

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Sandtrix

Sandtrix

Originally known as Setris, the puzzle game Sandtrix is a unique Tetris variant where the blocks are made out of sand, so they crumble on impact. It adds a new dimension to the classic puzzler and is surprisingly fun to play. There’s a web version, or you can download it for Windows or Linux on Itch.io.

Pizza Puzzles

Pizza Puzzles

Each slice of Stellar Factory’s pizza puzzles is a smaller puzzle indicated by patterns on the back of its pieces, making them great fun for cooperative puzzle parties. Each 550-piece, 8-slice puzzle features a wavy edge and is loaded with toppings ranging from delicious to downright disturbing. Choose from pepperoni, veggie supreme, or meat lover’s varieties.

LEGO Brick Botanicals Puzzle

LEGO Brick Botanicals Puzzle
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Springtime brings flowers — including plastic posies. The LEGO Brick Botanicals jigsaw puzzle from Chronicle Books is a blooming, pretty one depicting a heck of a creative build using thousands of LEGO bricks and specialty pieces. Bonus: the 25 x 20” puzzle has 1,000 flat cardboard pieces that don’t hurt like real LEGOs when stepped on.

Making a 3-Metal Cube Puzzle

Making a 3-Metal Cube Puzzle

Seth from Robinson Foundry has created some unique metal objects. But most of his projects use a single kind of metal. This time, he made a geometric puzzle with pieces cast from copper, aluminum, and bronze. He 3D printed the shapes which he used to make ceramic molds for the molten metal. He used sand casting and woodworking to create the base.

The 2 Million Dollar Puzzle

The 2 Million Dollar Puzzle
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After giving away a massive grand prize with its Million Dollar Puzzle, MSCHF’s big money jigsaw offers double the chances. This challenging 500-piece puzzle forms a giant QR code that you can scan with your phone to see if you won. Prizes range from 1 buck to a 1 million bucks, with two of the biggest prizes being offered this time.

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Two Brass Monkeys Puzzles

Two Brass Monkeys Puzzles
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UK artists Two Brass Monkeys make wonderfully challenging sculptural puzzles from brass and stainless steel. Among their tricky designs are the spherical Gob Stopper, the hexagonal Joy of Hex, and log-shaped Pygmy and Marmoset. Each one will flex your brain as you attempt to separate and put together their geometry.

Dozen Puzzle Gift Set

Dozen Puzzle Gift Set
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Kubiya Games sells this bundle of 12 wooden puzzles, packing in months of entertainment and challenge for kids and adults alike. Its top tray holds the completed puzzles, while the bottom offers storage for the pieces if you get stuck along the way. Its puzzles range in difficulty level from medium to very hard.

Jigsaw Duel Cocktail Clash

Jigsaw Duel Cocktail Clash
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Happy hour just got more competitive with Jigsaw Duel Cocktail Clash, a puzzling (and guzzling) game for two. Each player gets their own 70-piece puzzle — a Manhattan or a tiki concoction — to simultaneously try and complete before the winner grabs the final, double-sided piece that fits both puzzles. Best played while imbibing.

Akka Arrh

Akka Arrh

Serious video game nerds might have heard of the never-released Atari arcade game Akka Arrh. Created by Tempest and Gridrunner dev Jeff Minter, a modernized version has been released for consoles and gaming PCs. Like other Llamasoft games, expect a trippy array of colors and insane swarms of attackers.

Backfirewall_ (Launch Trailer)

Backfirewall_ (Launch Trailer)

This first-person puzzle-adventure game takes place inside the brains of a smartphone. It’s your job to solve puzzles, find cheat codes, and decide if the latest OS update should be installed. Available now on Steam, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. Coming to Nintendo Switch and other PC gaming stores soon.

Intrism Mini Maze Puzzle

Intrism Mini Maze Puzzle
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Intrism is back with a smaller version of their wooden maze puzzle-in-a-cube. The 3D labyrinth comes in kit form, with 130 pieces of laser-cut wood and a clear acrylic shell. Once assembled, you’ll spend hours guiding its marble through twists and turns and 50 obstacles. Measures 6″x6″x6″.

Robot vs. World’s Hardest Jigsaw Puzzle

Robot vs. World’s Hardest Jigsaw Puzzle

A while back, Stuff Made Here showed off an early version of his robot that could solve simple jigsaw puzzles. After refining the robot’s hardware and rewriting its puzzle-solving algorithm, he turned it loose on a 4000-piece puzzle with only white pieces. Oh, and he had to move his entire shop in the middle of the project.

Learning to Make Rubik’s Cube Pixel Art

Learning to Make Rubik’s Cube Pixel Art

Mike Boyd has made a career out of learning how to do things that he didn’t know before shooting his videos. With the help of DailyPuzzles, he got his hands on 3000 Rubik’s Cubes and tried his hand at creating a massive piece of pixel art by rearranging one face on each cube into a specific pattern.

Cain’s Jawbone

Cain’s Jawbone
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Initially released in 1934 by author Edward Powys Mathers, the book Cain’s Jawbone is a fiendishly difficult mystery for puzzle fanatics. Your task: read the book’s 100 pages, cut them out and put them into the correct sequence to reveal six murders and identify their killers.

SCHiM: Gameplay Trailer

SCHiM: Gameplay Trailer

This unique indie game from Extra Nice challenges players to move through an isometric 3D environment by moving and jumping only in the shadows. It combines elements of platformers and puzzle games with a unique line-art aesthetic. Coming to PC, Mac, Linux, Playstation, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox.

The Master Theorem: Elite

The Master Theorem: Elite
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Solved all of the puzzles in The Master Theorem? This Elite puzzle book is even more challenging – offering 40 incredibly difficult Theorems to solve and five training puzzles to help you warm up your big brain. The escape room-style puzzles will test even the best code breakers and critical thinkers.

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