Board Thread:Midian Ideas/@comment-24302820-20140704031042/@comment-24302820-20150407195436

Puzzling Box: When first found this is a bunch of irregularly carved and engraved pieces of wood. These can be assembled into a 4x4x6" box. Not only must each piece fit into place, but it must be slid, flipped, or turned (sometimes several times) once it has been joined with other components.

Successfully assembling the box requires a successful Wits check. Having witnessed a previous assembly (whether or not you were the spud who put it together) allows you to retest with a Knowledge check. As there are multiple ways that the pieces can fit—allowing for multiple configurations of the box—there are no bonuses for prior success, at least until you've assembled it a certain way several times. One would think that the engraving would help by letting you match up the images, but not only are both sides engraved, but the engravings match up in each configuration.

The real wonder comes when you place an item in an assembled box, close the lid, and then take the puzzling box apart. The contents vanish until the box is reassembled in exactly that same way. Putting it together takes 1D20 minutes, but disassembly happens in moments: the box just seems to fall apart once the first piece is removed. It is unknown whether there is some long lost treasure waiting to be rediscovered within a nonintuitive configuration.