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Loach Bed packing puzzle by Osanori Yamamoto, a compact desk gift for a colleague

Gifts for Coworkers That Stay on the Desk

The useful test for a colleague's gift is not whether they like it when they open it. It is whether it is still on their desk in March.

Gifts for Coworkers That Stay on the Desk

The useful test for a colleague's gift is not whether they like it when they open it. It is whether it is still on their desk in March.

2-Piece Pyramid puzzle, two identical wedges that form a pyramid, a compact stocking stuffer

Stocking Stuffers for Adults That Are Not Junk

The stocking is the hardest part of Christmas shopping. Most things that fit the brief get used once, and a small mechanical puzzle is one of the few that does...

Stocking Stuffers for Adults That Are Not Junk

The stocking is the hardest part of Christmas shopping. Most things that fit the brief get used once, and a small mechanical puzzle is one of the few that does...

Multi-Grain Burr, from the Greg Puzzles range

Gifts for Engineers: Problems, Not Tools

The trouble with buying for engineers is that the obvious gifts are tools, and they already own better tools than you are going to find.

Gifts for Engineers: Problems, Not Tools

The trouble with buying for engineers is that the obvious gifts are tools, and they already own better tools than you are going to find.

6N Puzzle, from the Greg Puzzles range

Mechanical Puzzles

Liking one type of mechanical puzzle tells you almost nothing about whether you will like another. Here are all seven, and how to find yours before you buy.

Mechanical Puzzles

Liking one type of mechanical puzzle tells you almost nothing about whether you will like another. Here are all seven, and how to find yours before you buy.

A6L Puzzle, from the Greg Puzzles range

Assembly Puzzles: What They Are and Where to Start

Take a packing puzzle apart and you still have the box. Take an assembly puzzle apart and you have a handful of shapes on a table, telling you nothing.

Assembly Puzzles: What They Are and Where to Start

Take a packing puzzle apart and you still have the box. Take an assembly puzzle apart and you have a handful of shapes on a table, telling you nothing.

Conga Line, from the Greg Puzzles range

3D Spatial Reasoning Puzzles: What the Research...

Spatial reasoning gets sold as if it were one skill. Researchers gave up on that idea long ago, and the framework they use instead sorts this shelf neatly.

3D Spatial Reasoning Puzzles: What the Research...

Spatial reasoning gets sold as if it were one skill. Researchers gave up on that idea long ago, and the framework they use instead sorts this shelf neatly.