Eighteen Stripe Puzzle Box

I've spent an entire evening just handing it to everyone who visits, watching them try to figure out the sequence. The wood grain is beautiful and the fit between the stripes is so precise you can barely see the seams. It's the first puzzle that's actually made me think instead of just guess.

The mechanism is so smooth that my first solve took me two hours of pure focus, and the wooden stripes fit together with a satisfying click each time I made progress. Even after cracking it once, I keep going back to reset it and test my memory.

I’ve spent a whole evening just admiring how the stripes interlock—the wood grain flows so cleanly that you almost forget it’s a puzzle until you try to slide a panel. It’s tougher than it looks, but each step clicks with a satisfying little resistance that makes you feel clever when you finally cra