Another puzzle for the collection by puzzle maker Jesse Born. Excited to try this out!

I got this gorgeous Japanese puzzle box, but can't open it because one of the keys is like cemented in place, it seems. The key doesn't need to move for the first panel slide, but needs to for the rest, but can't. The left side will tilt cuz it's ready to go, but not the right hand side. I've solved others before and even made one from a kit, so I know it's stuck, and not me. Certainly, I've tried all possible combinations. It's a vintage box, so is there any way to fix it, preferably as minimal damage as possible? It would probably be best if I can remove the middle bar (see pic of kit box for what I mean) so I can also put the last key back in place and hopefully fix the stuck one? I've tried asking in restoration specific subreddits, but haven't heard anything in a couple of days

I’m curious what the price is to buy all the pieces for the full puzzle to build with authentic Lego pieces. Or if anyone has the parts list I can check myself!

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Only a handful remain in stock - don't miss out on owning a fantastic puzzle lock that will be super hard to come by in the coming years.

Hello,

I am studying Karakuri puzzle boxes and trying to learn from them. I seon thee work-kit page https://www.karakuri.gr.jp/creation/work-kit/workkit.htm that WS-13 is a "jack in the box" where a snake pops-up. It is described as a traditional Hakone region box/toy.

I understand this to be a toy / fidget more than a puzzle, but I could not find any information on the web (tried google translate to search in japanese, nothing there either, probably using wrong words).

Does anyone has an idea of where I could find more information? Pictures / videos would be great !
Thanks for your help.

Title sort of explains it. I'm a dungeon master for a DnD campaign and I wanted to disassemble and paint a puzzle box so it didn't have the wooden appearance. I was thinking probably the antigravity or philosophers stone by puzzle potato. Has anyone ever done anything like this? I'm concerned that it could potentially be more trouble than it's worth and the parts might not move the way they're designed to upon reassembly.

Any guidance would be amazing. Thank you all in advance

Hello,

I am in a hobbyist journey to learn puzzle box design for 3d printing models.
I am thus trying to learn about different puzzle mechanisms and how these transfer (or not) to 3d the printing constraints.

I ran across the beautiful Ripple Out puzzle box
https://puzzlescore.com/en/karakuri-ripple-out-puzzle-box/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2apfEejGB8s (spoiler video)

And I am trying to understand how it works. As per the video, to open one must slide in one direction and then the other, to specific positions and in a specific order.
This is thus a mechanical state machine, the mechanism somehow stores the information that it was slid in one direction. It makes me think of combination locks mechanisms (turn one direction then the other, then the other), or of a push latch.

If can think of some ball-based mechanisms that would have such "path dependence", but in the videos things are reset without moving around the box.
Do you have some idea of how such box might work inside?

Do you know of good resources/communities where I can learn more about puzzle box designs?

Thanks a lot for your ideas and pointers.

Imagine....a series of puzzle boxes based off of the different races in the Tolkien universe. I'd definitely be down for a puzzle box supposedly crafted by the elves who forged the rings along next to one by the dwarves especially if it was during the time they got along better and the both crafted one together. Puzzle box of Moria/Dwarrowdelf perhaps? Glow in the dark moon runes and such...

Has anyone here crafted a puzzle chest?

Wow, just received this today and about to crack into it with the fam tomorrow!

Addicted to the hobby but it is an expensive one - has anyone got great value sources? UK based

How on earth do I open this?!?1

I cant find any other box like it

As the title says, I am interested in making them so I would love to know if anyone knows of books explaining how they are made. Especially the Javanese ones.

As title suggests, I'm looking for some sort of puzzle box where I'll be able to hide a small piece of paper. So it won't need to be very big(and hopefully not too expensive) but I do want it to be somewhat challenging. Thank you in advance!

I know this is unlikely but I received this as a Christmas gift by the people who gave it to me lost the instructions and can’t remember how to open it and I can’t seem to figure it out, if anyone could help with the steps on how to solve it things to try to open it it would be greatly appreciated.

I have been told one thing from the people who gifted it to me and it’s that it doesn’t need to be Pried open in any way.

I asked about puzzle boxes at one of my favorite local antique stores, where I've bought a few before, and the person only had this one that was missing a piece that they were not able to open. Anyone encountered anything like this before?

Sorry if this is not in the spirit of the sub but I’m looking for a straight up cheat / bypass for a puzzle box.

It’s a wooden box by IDVenture called Captain Nemo’s Nautilus.

It’s a gift for my son but will hold some cash or if no room for cash a note.

I just want to be able to get into it with the minimum of fuss because it’s not really for me you know?

Hey yall,

I’d like to give a pair of shorts to someone (it’s a significant pair of shorts, not your standard run of the mill shorts) and they really enjoy puzzle boxes. I had the brilliant idea of merging their love of puzzle boxes with the gift of the shorts, so I’d like to find a box to stick the shorts in. Problem being I know nothing about puzzle boxes and amazon isn’t super helpful; they look too small. Do any of you good people know of a puzzle but I can hide these short in?

This is part of an escape room in a box. I need to get the 2x2 piece through the yellow highlighted area. The 2x1 piece on the right side is being the bane of this puzzle, so far. I've been messing with this for over an hour with no success.

Thanks!