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 ...

In the late 1800s, children had an assortment of treats and toys that kept them amused for hours. There were mechanical banks that gobbled change, china dolls with their own dishes and rocking horses ...

You know about puzzle books---books of puzzles, or books that are themselves puzzles. But then there's Codex Silenda---a gorgeous, wooden book of brainteasers that is itself a multi-part mystery. As ...