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 ...

“Puzzles create an opportunity to solve something, which can calm that anxiety,” Strongin says. So whether you’re hunkering down on a jigsaw by yourself or getting to work on a 1000-piece with your ...

Kagen Sound is an artisan of remarkable skill, engineering and constructing incredibly intricate puzzle boxes made entirely of wood. WIRED brings you inside his workshop as he breaks down the design ...

Chris Danner can’t remember the first time he completed an Elms Puzzle. But he easily recalls the ones that “really blew me away” as a child, like an over 800-piece set he remembers illustrated with a ...