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Puzzlecraft for Artists

Many types of puzzles have visual elements to them. From literal jigsaw puzzles that display an image when completed to marketing campaigns with hidden meaning through iconography and subtle placement of visual elements, embedding puzzles into artwork is a natural fit for Artists.

This guide is intended to provide Artists with an introduction to puzzle-integrated art and provide some examples and brainstorming prompts to get the creative juices flowing.

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Glass Onion’s Puzzle Box

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a movie that was recently released in 2022 following the fairly successful Knives Out movie from 2019. In the opening scenes of the movie, most members of the cast receive a mysterious box in the mail. Gathering together on a conference call, they quickly discover that it is a mechanical puzzle box and set to collaboratively solving all of its puzzles.

This article will walk you through all of the puzzle box’s puzzles individually, in the order that they were solved in the movie. Obviously, there are movie and puzzle spoilers below.

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DEF CON 30: Hac-Man

I)ruid has been bringing challenges and puzzles to DEF CON himself for over two decades, and under the Rogue Signal brand for nearly half of that time. This year, for DEF CON 30, we significantly upped our game by building and branding a custom Scramble! game interface that we’ve dubbed Hac-Man.