Unique Features
- No picture of the completed puzzle is provided with the puzzle.
- Clown piece: All Stave Puzzles contain a silhouette of the company trademark clown.
- Phony Corner: It looks like a corner piece, but it’s not. Usually crafted into the interior portion of the puzzle.
- Whammy Edge: Adjacent edge pieces that don’t actually interlock with each other (due to, e.g., a wedge-like piece), foiling attempts to assemble the puzzle using the straight edge first.
- Monkey Fist: Contains multiple, identical large open interlocks into which multiple sections of the puzzle, with identical smaller interlocks, will fit. In terms of differentiating a Monkey Fist from Crazy Claws, Monkey Fists have two types of pieces: the repeating open interlock and small fists to go inside the interlock. In contrast, Crazy Claws have repeating loose interlocks that are virtually identical to one another.
- Crazy Claws: Loose interlocks shaped like horseshoes that can connect with each other in two distinct ways and can also connect with several other claws.
- 2-way Tricks: Some pieces fit together in more than one place. Therefore, the puzzle may go together several different ways with only one correct solution.
- Color-line Cutting: Cutting precisely between two different colors so you can not depend on color clues when hunting for the right match.
- Dropout: Empty (or void) space inside a puzzle.
- Enlarged Silhouette: Multiple pieces which form the shape of an object when put together.
- Interacting Silhouette: Two or more silhouettes within a puzzle which relate to each other and touch. example: man and lawn mower
- Rebus: A picture riddle within the puzzle comprising silhouette shapes.
- Sculpt: Slivers of wood removed from the puzzle that form an image or accentuate an image in the print.
- Split Corner: Pieces that don’t look like they form a corner until they fit together.
- Tumblers: Multiple puzzling cavities in which to fit your Teaser pieces.
- Modular Puzzles: Each module is a separate trick puzzle and stands alone. However, the Trick center can be rearranged to fit inside other puzzles within its set. For example the Marlin Mischief, Lobster Lubbers, and Whale Watch trick puzzles are a collection of modular puzzles. Each has an outside border that holds its own interior pieces in a single configuration. However, if you take the center pieces from Marlin Mischief, they can be re-arranged to fit inside Lobster Lubbers (or Whale Watch). Thus if you buy 1 puzzle, you get 1 solution, 2 puzzles, 4 solutions, and 3 puzzles, 9 solutions.
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