Karakuri Dice is a puzzle box designed by Akio Kamei from Karakuri Creation Group. I have to say right away — I have a soft spot in my heart for unusual puzzle boxes with interesting solutions.
Puzzle boxes are not entirely practical, but they are largely used by people to store some jewelry or hide something from plain sight.
Considering most puzzle boxes can be solved by anyone in less than an hour — sometimes it is very important to have a puzzle box that is not so obvious.
Karakuri Dice is a puzzle box of the exact level of difficulty I would prefer. It is quite tricky to solve, there is a nice gimmick to it and overall, if you don;’t know exactly — you might not even understand it’s a puzzle box in the first place. Perfect? Absolutely.
Made out of walnut, the actual quality and the woodwork is amazing. The reason why I mentioned that it’s not even obvious that it can be a puzzle box is that there are no seams at first glance. There are no seams on a second glance even. Really you won’t be able to find it and the puzzle box will look like a solid cube.
So how do you open it?