YouTuber Simone Giertz originally appeared on our radar in 2016 as the self-proclaimed Queen of Shitty Robots. Since then, Giertz has built whacky, wonderful and shockingly useful things. Some of ...

Some people really like puzzles. [Simone Giertz] is one of these serious puzzle lovers and built a transforming table (YouTube) to let her easily switch between puzzles and more mundane tasks, like ...

In the Hellraiser series of movies, there’s a devilish puzzle box called the Lament Configuration, also known as Lemarchand’s box, that contains numerous secret tricks and compartments. When fully ...

I cleared off a table in the basement to do jigsaw puzzles. It turned out to be too small to do a 1,000-piece puzzle. So I laid down posters on the floor, white side up, to have a surface. I can’t ...

Director Lori Craft and her staff at the Clarendon Hills Public Library always keeps their eyes and ears open to patrons, who sometimes come up with outstanding suggestions. It was something Craft ...