CABOOSE is the first in perennial IPP Puzzle Exchange participant Henry Strout's series of train car-themed packing puzzles.  Very nicely crafted, engraved, and finished by Henry in a variety of contrasting woods.  The goal of the puzzle, of course, is to pack the pieces into the body of the train car and then to fit the bottom of the train car (which has a fixed piece on it!) flat onto the bottom of the body.CABOOSE comes as received at IPP32.  The train car measures 7 inches (18 cm) long an...

Gary Foshee was a luminary of the mechanical puzzle world for the past forty years.  He was one of the early innovators of "sequential discovery" and "blind solve" modern puzzles.  He was commissioned to build the host gifts for Norman Sandfield and Bill Cutler, the hosts of IPP23 held in Chicago in 2003.  His very recent untimely death saddened many in the puzzle world and all th...