Wooden puzzle assembly guide
A general assembly workflow when the original puzzle name or box has been lost.
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Crafty Puzzles sitemap
Browse the archive, solution pages, history, interactive puzzles, printables, education and collector resources.
Main pages
Discover and history
- Puzzle history hub
- Interactive Puzzle History Timeline
- Puzzle Family Tree
- A Brief History of Puzzles
- History of Mechanical Puzzles
- History of Wooden Puzzles
- History of Sliding Puzzles and the 15 Puzzle
- Famous Puzzle Crazes
- History of Jigsaw Puzzles
- History of Puzzle Boxes
- History of Burr Puzzles
- Tangrams and Dissection Puzzles
- History of the Rubik’s Cube
- History of Metal Disentanglement Puzzles
- History of Pentominoes
- Types of Puzzles
- Puzzle Glossary
- The Crafty Puzzles Story
Play and print
Education and projects
Archive detective cases
Education lessons
Encyclopaedia articles
Mechanism explainers
Collector guides
Build projects
History articles
- The Crafty Puzzles Story
- The History of Wooden Burr Puzzles
- The History of Jigsaw Puzzles
- The History of Metal Disentanglement Puzzles
- The History of Pentominoes
- A History of Puzzle Boxes
- A Brief History of Puzzles
- The History of the Rubik’s Cube
- Puzzle Glossary
- Tangrams and Dissection Puzzles
- Types of Puzzles: A Visual Guide
Practical guides
- How to Care for Old Wooden Puzzles
- How Can 8 + 8 = 91?
- How Many Steps? A Classic Monk Puzzle
- How to Identify an Unknown Wooden Puzzle
- How to Approach Metal Disentanglement Puzzles
- Puzzle Boxes: Identification, Safe Opening and Archive Research
- How to Read Old Puzzle Assembly Diagrams
- A Beginner’s Guide to Six-Piece Burr Puzzles
- Snake Cube: What It Is and How the Solution Works
- Swap One Letter to Make Two Synonyms
- Metal Puzzle Solutions & Brain Teaser Guides
- Wooden Star Puzzle Solutions & Assembly Guides
- Barrel Puzzle Solutions & Assembly Guides
Puzzle solutions
- All Cuffed Up
- Ancient Key
- Aristotle's Number Puzzle
- Atom
- Barrel
- Bats in the Belfry
- Block Pyramid
- Brain Buster
- Bulldozer
- Caged Ball / Lock It Up
- Cannon Ball
- Chain Block
- Chequer Cube / Serpent
- Comet / Halley's Comet
- Comet and Cross Wooden Puzzle Set
- Cross
- Crystal Ball
- Cube
- Da Vinci's Ball Bearing Puzzle
- Darwin's Chest
- Darwin's Egg of Evolution
- Deadlock
- Diamond 12
- Dragon
- Eiffel's Tower Bolt Puzzle
- Excavator
- Franklin's Key Puzzle
- Galileo's Globe
- Gridlock Cube
- Harley-Davidson
- Heart Attack
- Hercules
- Hubble's Galaxy
- Japanese Crystal
- Japanese Crystal (33-piece)
- Japanese Puzzle Box
- Jinx / Jungle Jinx
- Kepler's Planetary Puzzle
- Key 9
- Knot
- Log Pile
- Lumberjack
- Magic Cube
- Marble Release
- Maze Block
- Microchip
- Millennium Falcon Metal Earth Model
- Mini Links Cross
- Molecule
- Motor Cross
- Nelson's Barrel Puzzle
- Newton's Gravity Defying Puzzle
- Nobel's Dynamite Puzzle
- Orion
- Oval Ball
- Panda Carrier
- Panda Monium
- Particle
- Pentomino Puzzle
- Pillar 2
- Pillar 5
- Pillow
- Puzzle Chest: Box
- Puzzle Chest: Cage
- Puzzle Chest: Grid
- Puzzle Chest: Square Chain
- Puzzle Chest: Star
- Puzzle Chest: Twist
- Puzzle Man
- Pyramid
- R2-D2 Metal Earth Model
- Rifle
- Rocket
- Round Ball
- Saturnus
- Saxophone
- Set of Four Wooden Puzzles
- Shakespeare's Word Puzzle
- Sirius / Hexagon
- Six Classic Metal Puzzles
- Six Stars / Snowflake
- Skyscraper
- Small Ball
- Smuggler's Revenge
- Snake Cube
- Socrates' Logic Puzzle
- Spheres
- Sports Bike
- Sports Car
- Star
- Star Urai
- Stephenson's Rocket Bolt
- Striped Magic Cube / The Hide / Soma Cube
- Tank
- The Boomerang
- The Case of the Treasury Safe
- The Chest Wooden Puzzle
- The Claws
- The Menace
- The Ring Leader
- Think Outside the Box
- Torpedo
- Tower
- Train
- Tropical Teaser
- Trumpet
- Ursa Major
- VW Beetle
- Van Gogh's Box
- Van der Poel
- Wicked Wire Maze
- William the Conqueror's Antler Puzzle
- Wonder Block
New brain teasers and games
- Brain Teasers hub
- Logic Brain Teasers
- Number Brain Teasers
- Pattern Brain Teasers
- Word Brain Teasers
- Codebreaker
- Lights Out
- Pattern Detective
- Maze Runner
- Logic Printables
- Number & Pattern Printables
- Word Printables
- How to Solve Brain Teasers: Five Reliable Strategies
- Brain Teasers for Adults: A Short Challenge Routine
- Visual and Spatial Brain Teasers: Shapes, Cubes and Movement
Original Crafty Puzzles photo archive
Browse restored higher-resolution photographs from the original Crafty Puzzles collection.
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New puzzle guides
Interlocking wooden puzzles
Burrs, crosses, cubes, balls and other self-locking constructions.
Mechanical puzzles for adults
Choose a challenge by solving style rather than a generic difficulty label.
Mechanical puzzle types glossary
Plain-English terms for burrs, boxes, disentanglement and other puzzle families.