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False Profit - Trick Box for Gift Cards
For me, I am a through and through natural born up-cycler.
In this journey I have been enjoying retrofitting old boxes, sometimes they are cigar boxes, sometimes they are vintage boxes. Every time, each box brings unique challenges, and lessons if we are able to see them.
I am a playful person at heart and could never really see myself giving a gift card without making it more fun. Trick Boxes can be a fun place to explore with mechanisms and secret compartments to explore that don't keep the box locked. Generally surprise is the fun angle to explore.
There is a fairly standardized vintage box out there, and they all once held playing cards. So easy to make a bunch, or a line of different ones. This particular design is the 5th in a lifetime goal of 10. Other designs were one that fired a kids gun cap when opened, 2 different spider flingers, a magic prop, and one that was a puzzle.
Perhaps the part I am enjoying is the insert that locks into place once in the box. This novel idea just sort of fell together and even though this particular insert was designed to come out fairly easily, I can see how the insert could look many different ways.
So young Jedi of the puzzle realm, your challenge if you decide to take it on is to find a couple of these playing card boxes and make one like this, but then for the advanced class, can you create something different, something with more challenge using the insert template?
Good Luck!
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False Profit - Trick Box for Gift Cards
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