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 Paula on -
Wow! Lots of great ideas here. I love the idea of a train or subway winding through the entire design and maybe connecting separate sections of the puzzle together. And I hadn't even considered going international with the design. And I think June's suggestions above for the museums are fantastic. We could even make an entire puzzle section that focuses only only different types of museums. There is just ssooo much to cover! Thanks for all the suggestions - keep them coming! You never know where this design will "go" next.
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Permalink Reply by Christiane on -
I think you should consider doing a mega puzzle - doing 4 separate collector puzzles that if you have all four they actually connect together to make one big one - all right it is early and I have not had my coffee yet :-)
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Permalink Reply by Paula on
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Christiane - I think this is a great idea. I can envision it. the four sections are what could be connected by the subway/train/roadway. Not bad for no coffee!
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Permalink Reply by Sherlock on
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It would be cool if there was a "you are here" trick piece that could be in any of the four sections
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Another interesting idea would be to take a key architectural feature or exhibit from a museum and incroporate exhibits from that museum inside it. For example, the Louvre pyramid, David, T-Rex, Chagall Windows, etc. Each of the items (puzzles) could be an item in the Stave museum. You could also put classic stave puzzles as art on the walls. Include Steve as the docent!
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Permalink Reply by Bryan on -
I think Stave needs to do a Museum themed puzzle....there are so many good ideas posted in this forum involving a Museum themed puzzle. Maybe Steve will get the hint and make one so we can all try and overwhelm Stave with placing orders for it ;-)
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Permalink Reply by Erik on -
That's awesome news Cindy, thanks for helping include the community in this effort.
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Permalink Reply by Cindy on -
Hi Eric,
I love all the suggestins and wonder how come we haven't done a museum puzzle before???? So many possibilities..........
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Permalink Reply by June Herold on -
What's the latest on the museum puzzle? Any chance it will be out for Xmas?
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Permalink Reply by Steve Richardson on
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Chief Tormentor here..... Paula recently reeled me in to help cook up the puzzle concept for this Treasure/Mystery puzzle. I love the four(4) element concept... four quadrants. For the past week I have been working on a mock-up/test puzzle which is really a mystery/who-done-it puzzle. Right now I have each of the 4 quadrants being a "Double-Trouble" teaser where each set of pieces goes together two different ways, the second way, for instance, once solved, will show you who stole what from the museum. (Note: this is not a Trick puzzle). So I need help coming up with three(3) more London-based themes... yes, I want to use London as the overall scene. (There will be 4 separate mysteries.) So how do we do this?
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Permalink Reply by Erik on
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Sounds exciting Steve.... well London based themes offer a lot of well known geographic landmarks that could feed in to the mystery.... the eye, big ben, tower (not london) bridge, etc.
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Permalink Reply by June Herold on
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Hi. British Museum replete with Rosetta Stone, mummys, chinese, gargogyles, taxidermied beasts and wonderful arrays of other curriousities and mysteries of the cosmos is perfect for the puzzle. Go to the british museum web site to refresh your memory on what lives in that museum.
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