Category: Puzzle

  • Locking Egg

    Locking Egg

    I have very happy memories of Easter egg hunts as a child, and that makes me want to help contribute somehow to the Easter hunt tradition for those who do it.  My parents had us hunt around for clues, with each clue leading to another clue and so on until we found a prize at the…

  • Locked Heart

    Locked Heart

    I have been trying to come up with something fun for Valentine’s Day and to be honest it has been a struggle (from a creative design perspective). The shape of a heart is really quite challenging to make into a functional thing. I have a few ideas and I am going to continue exploring those…

  • Spin Release Gift Box

    Spin Release Gift Box

    I decided I needed to make some gift boxes and this is the first one. I think it is fun and entertaining but functional at the same time. This box locks and there is no key to open it. But you do need to know the secret… centrifugal force.

  • StashCan V2.0

    StashCan V2.0

    What seemed impossibly ambitious to me when I started this project has become a reality. A programmable combination lock, hidden in the bottom of a faux soda can, with a sequential puzzle lid that can only be opened when first the correct code is entered into the combination lock. I give you… my “StashCan 2.0”.