It's hard to walk by a card table full of puzzle pieces and not try to fit even one into place. It's just that pull toward a mental challenge, and the way puzzles bring people together, that Fred ...

Some of the finest jigsaw puzzles on earth come from Vermont, where for four decades the craftsmen at Stave Puzzles have made them by hand. Keeping alive an almost extinct tradition, all of Stave’s ...

Plywood laser-cuts fairly well but has drawbacks when used in serious production runs, as [Marie] explains in a blog post about a quest for the ultimate laser-cutting plywood. One of the things ...

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 ...

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 ...

Growing up, Boulder’s Chris Wirth (Law, MBA’97) was inspired by his mother’s antique Falls-brand jigsaw puzzles, which were intricately cut by scroll saw during the Great Depression. He proudly ...

PHOENIX - Puzzles had a resurgence during the pandemic, with many people looking for activities to keep the whole family occupied and engaged. One Phoenix puzzle maker says he saw business go through ...