You can help design a Stave Treasure
Last week Paula, Jennifer, and I sat around the table in Steve's office and began conjuring up a concept for a new Stave Treasure puzzle.
The TREASURE line of puzzles includes Treasuretrove and the puzzle, Palace of Pranks. These puzzles were created in celebration of over 30 years of puzzling. They contain a combination of the most devious, intricate, and tricky elements (of the Trick and Teaser puzzles) together with the artistry and elegance of our Traditional puzzles.
So here is our concept of a new Treasure puzzle with a theme of life in the city. Don't laugh, this is REALLY how the puzzle design begins. Isn't it pretty with those little stick figures?
You can be part of the design process since we will be asking questions about what you want to have included in the puzzle and give you the opportunity to vote at various stages of the process. For instance, the first thing to vote on is whether we should include a museum or a zoo in the upper left corner of the puzzle. Keep in mind that what you choose will dictate some of the design possibilities.
Feel free to leave any comments or suggestions here and stay tuned for details about voting and emails keeping you up to date with the progress of this design.
DESIGN DECISION #1: SHOULD THE PUZZLE CONTAIN A ZOO OR A MUSEUM?
CAST YOUR VOTE HERE- http://stavepuzzles.com/resources/poll2.php
Hi all!
Here's an UPDATE on the progress of this project
As you may have already guessed, Museum won the vote but just by a slight margin! There has already been a lot of discussion and great ideas about the kind of museum and exhibits that should be included in the puzzle. We've chosen Molly Delaney to be the artist and she is anxiously awaiting the next phase of this design. Molly is the artist of the Stave Limited Edition Riddle Puzzles Peter Pan & the Irate Pirate, Dickens of a Christmas, and Twain Foolery. Please be patient while we move to the next phase of designing and keep in mind that Rome wasn't built in a day. This is a looooong process. We promise to keep you updated and will definitely be asking for more of your suggestions and showing you snippets of what artwork we have completed as we move along.
For now, I'm starting a museum photo album and everyone is welcome to upload photos of their favorite museum or exhibits for all to see. Plus this will give Molly more inspiration!
You can upload your photos to StavePuzzleNuts.com by going to the Add Photos page. If it's your first time uploading photos to our site, you'll be asked to "trust" the application that makes uploading photos easy. Please accept the application. Nothing will be downloaded to your computer. Once you've uploaded, I'll put them into the Museum Photo Album.
Thanks for all the help and great ideas. Keep them coming! Thanks!
The TREASURE line of puzzles includes Treasuretrove and the puzzle, Palace of Pranks. These puzzles were created in celebration of over 30 years of puzzling. They contain a combination of the most devious, intricate, and tricky elements (of the Trick and Teaser puzzles) together with the artistry and elegance of our Traditional puzzles.
So here is our concept of a new Treasure puzzle with a theme of life in the city. Don't laugh, this is REALLY how the puzzle design begins. Isn't it pretty with those little stick figures?You can be part of the design process since we will be asking questions about what you want to have included in the puzzle and give you the opportunity to vote at various stages of the process. For instance, the first thing to vote on is whether we should include a museum or a zoo in the upper left corner of the puzzle. Keep in mind that what you choose will dictate some of the design possibilities.
Feel free to leave any comments or suggestions here and stay tuned for details about voting and emails keeping you up to date with the progress of this design.
DESIGN DECISION #1: SHOULD THE PUZZLE CONTAIN A ZOO OR A MUSEUM?
CAST YOUR VOTE HERE- http://stavepuzzles.com/resources/poll2.php
Hi all!
Here's an UPDATE on the progress of this project
As you may have already guessed, Museum won the vote but just by a slight margin! There has already been a lot of discussion and great ideas about the kind of museum and exhibits that should be included in the puzzle. We've chosen Molly Delaney to be the artist and she is anxiously awaiting the next phase of this design. Molly is the artist of the Stave Limited Edition Riddle Puzzles Peter Pan & the Irate Pirate, Dickens of a Christmas, and Twain Foolery. Please be patient while we move to the next phase of designing and keep in mind that Rome wasn't built in a day. This is a looooong process. We promise to keep you updated and will definitely be asking for more of your suggestions and showing you snippets of what artwork we have completed as we move along.
For now, I'm starting a museum photo album and everyone is welcome to upload photos of their favorite museum or exhibits for all to see. Plus this will give Molly more inspiration!
You can upload your photos to StavePuzzleNuts.com by going to the Add Photos page. If it's your first time uploading photos to our site, you'll be asked to "trust" the application that makes uploading photos easy. Please accept the application. Nothing will be downloaded to your computer. Once you've uploaded, I'll put them into the Museum Photo Album.
Thanks for all the help and great ideas. Keep them coming! Thanks!
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Erik on -
(1) Thanks for helping share some of the creative process with us.
(2) So my $0.02...
Zoo offers more teaser (and trick) possibilities to my mind than Museum. But zoo is also closer to other Stave teasers & tricks in terms of theme so it would be cool to see what you guys could do with a museum theme, though that probably plays more into trick than to teaser in terms of content/shapes.
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Permalink Reply by Kerry H on -
I would like to see a museum - just seems like there are so many more possibilities for the design.
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Permalink Reply by Paula on -
Hi PuzzleNuts - So glad to see your creative minds are already at work. I LOVE my job and it's so good to be able to make you all a part of it. I can't thank June enough for starting this community for us - we've never had the ability to have so much feedback and participation.
What you see above is just a rough sketch and before the process is over this design could change completely - but that's okay. I know the result will be a fantasic design that will incorporate almost every puzzling element we offer. Cindy will posting the real voting tool soon - so stay tuned! Paula
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Permalink Reply by Cindy on -
Hi! You guys are great! I'm happy to see you are already thinking about the possibilities.
Here is the link to vote on whether we should include a Zoo or a Museum in this new design?
http://stavepuzzles.com/resources/poll2.php
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Permalink Reply by Jennifer on -
Oh Man! This is going to be tough... some say zoo, some say museum, some say potato, some say potahto... :)
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Permalink Reply by Sebastian on -
Sounds like it will need to be a really big puzzle to fit it all in. Seems like you could turn it into several Treasure puzzles that can connected together.
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Permalink Reply by Paula on
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This is a good suggestion! And we had even considered that in our initial discussions. keep this stuff coming - it's great! Like I said before, you never know until the artwork is finalized.
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Permalink Reply by Bryan on -
Wow...I of course vote for a Museum. I of course would like to see just a Museum puzzle with one room for prehistoric animals and one room for contemporary art and one room for impressionist art and one room for Greek sculptures, etc. Now as far as this layout design is concerned....why not model a puzzle on NYC? It would be great to put in fifth ave and include a museum like the Met and then you can also include a small zoo in central park and then have the theatre district midtown and then include all of our favorite restaurants and historic shops. Of course one puzzle can be just Manhattan and then you could add puzzles for the other Boroughs as well or you could do Manhattan and have individual puzzles for the various neighborhoods (I would so love that!)
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Permalink Reply by Jennifer on
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We were hoping someone would suggest this. We'll take any excuse to get a trip into the city! That Paula is such a city girl. What she's doing here I don't know. She loves all that action. Me? I love the theater so we travel well together. Hmmm, when can we leave????
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