{"id":22849,"date":"2023-12-25T20:11:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T01:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gad.net\/Blog\/?p=22849"},"modified":"2023-12-28T07:10:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T12:10:51","slug":"gads-2023-christmas-puzzle-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gad.net\/Blog\/2023\/12\/25\/gads-2023-christmas-puzzle-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"GAD’s 2023 Christmas Puzzle Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Every year all the nieces and nephews get a set amount of cash from the aunts and uncles. I find that to be terrifically boring, so this year I\u2019ve kicked it up a notch. Or three.<\/div>\n
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This is simply a pictorial of how the boxes went together and what was involved, mostly so I have somewhere to point to when I describe it to people.<\/div>\n

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The original box design was purchased from here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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First there is a box with some cash. The box is designed so it will also hold gift cards or other small items:<\/p>\n

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\nThe box gets sealed up like so:<\/p>\n

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\nThat box gets flipped over and put into this box:<\/p>\n

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\nAnd then tightened down. Note that there are blue bolts on all four sides:<\/p>\n

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\nThen a sleeve is added:<\/p>\n

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\nAnd a cap over that:<\/p>\n

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\nThe cap gets screwed on thus securing the sleeve:<\/p>\n

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\nNext a bottom cover is added:<\/p>\n

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\nAnd a top cover:<\/p>\n

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\nBoth are finally screwed into the sleeve. This is the final box all assembled:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nBut wait – there\u2019s more!<\/div>\n
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Each color of screw is a different head and thus requires a different tool. These tools are in separate boxes, and You need the previous level\u2019s tool to open that box.<\/div>\n
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In the above picture the leftmost box has red flat-blade tools inside. The middle box has blue 6mm Allen wrench tools inside, and the rightmost box has green 5.5mm Allen wrench tools inside.<\/div>\n
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The only tool that I gave out at the start was the yellow cross-head which allowed the first magenta box to be opened. There are four male cousins and I was interested to see if they would fight get the tools (they did). The nieces got the magenta boxes.<\/div>\n
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There were four nieces present, but five boxes:<\/p>\n

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\nThe youngest nephew got handed the first magenta box with the yellow tool. He then opened that to reveal four flat-bladed red tools which he hoarded. LOL. With the red tools out, that meant that the magenta boxes with the red bolts in the corners could be opened. Those boxes contained blue tools.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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With the blue tools available the second level of the original boxes could be opened and the next level of the magenta boxes could be opened. This, the last magenta box level, contained the green tools for the final layer of the boxes.<\/div>\n
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The nieces don\u2019t have to do a puzzle to get their cash (they all got a card). However to make it all more interesting one of the magenta boxes had cash in it in addition to the rattling plastic tools. Consider it a lottery. \":)\"The only one happy with this arrangement was the one who found the cash. Shocking.There were four rules presented. They were:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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