Puzzle Box: Push My Button

Wooden Puzzle box

After building a number of dovetail puzzle boxes the HipMonsters sister team set out to make their own unique design. We explored many designs and drew influence from creations like this one on YouTube. The sisters wanted something that looked deceptively simple and easy to make.  Thus was born Push My Button! 

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DIY Wooden Puzzle box
Side View

Here is Push My Button from side view.  The sides of the box are made from a several of 1/4 wooden square dowels. These are our go-to material for many of our designs.

DIY Wooden Puzzle box
Top View

The top, sides and bottom are made from 1/8 inch plywood.

DIY wooden puzzle box
Corner view

Here is a view of a corner. We purposely made it look slapped together to confuse people. The lopsided look makes it appear that the sides of bottom can be slipped off – which cannot be done.

DIY wooden puzzle box
Which button to press?

But the key to opening Push My Button to to press the correct button… but which one? We added spacers between some of the dowels and aligned them irregularly to make harder to tell which one is the key.

DIY Wooden Puzzle box
Opened!

When we give it as a gift, we usually leave earrings or chocolate inside to reward the receiver once them uncover the trick.

Happy Creating!