Through a blog called Random Citations, I came across a New York Times article about an upcoming exhibition of mechanical puzzles at Indiana University. The exhibition will showcase over 30,000 puzzles from the personal collection of Jerry Slocum an expert on mechanical puzzles.
The article is worth a read and contains a number of fun tidbits. For example, Chinese puzzle boxes were called “Sunday boxes” in Massachusetts in the early 19th century. Puzzles provided a major source of sabbath recreation for Puritans who could find no Biblical restrictions against puzzle solving.
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