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[Phil Tomlinson]

Something I'm sure we all suspected anyway:

A new study shows that brain-power can be enhanced through "cognitive training", which is, of course, solving puzzles!

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=study-shows-brain-power-can-be-bolstered

[Robert Yarger]

I have heard that before, and my wife would do crossword puzzles for that reason.  In your other post, you metnioned that you currently find youself single.  That is too bad because a woman is the most puzzleing thing I have ever encountered.  I have been working on solving the puzzle (which is my wife) for twenty years now, and I still have not figured her out.

Creating puzzles is also a good way to keep yoru mind sharp, which brings me to my next question.  When do we get to see the final puzzle cabinet?  I know that you were planning of modifying the original a bit.

[Scott Peterson]

A man is walking along a beach and comes across an old lamp.  He picks it up and rubs the lamp - and out pops a genie!  The genie stretches a bit and thanks the guy for getting him out, but offers nothing.  The man asks - what, no three wishes?!? 

Well, the genie says - I guess I can give you one.  Just one?!?  Yes - just one, genies aren't like they used to be...

So the man thinks and finally asks for a bridge from California to Hawaii.  The genie quickly comes back and says a bridge to Hawaii isn't even remotely possible!  The ocean is too deep, too many ocean currents, it's just way too far an you need to pick something else.

The man thinks and thinks - and finally he says "I got it - I want to understand women."

Without hesitation the genie says....  "How many lanes do you want?"

[Canuck]

Good one Scott!!  Hey mushroom stop trying to figure out your wife, women have a way of staying one step ahead of us so picture a puzzlebox that once you get to the last move, it instantly adds another level of moves......

[Scott Peterson]

And in the solution guide is one of those trick internet windows with the "Help" button that always moves away from your mouse when you try to click it...  That's how the magnets are used in that puzzlebox - to repel the solution from the solver!

[Robert Yarger]

There is going to be hell to pay if our wives find out that we are trying to figure them out.  Again, there is going to be hell to pay if you don't care enough to try.  They are the impossible puzzle.  It does not matter what approach you take, it is going to be wrong.

[Phil Tomlinson]

I have heard that before, and my wife would do crossword puzzles for that reason.  In your other post, you metnioned that you currently find youself single.  That is too bad because a woman is the most puzzleing thing I have ever encountered.  I have been working on solving the puzzle (which is my wife) for twenty years now, and I still have not figured her out.

Creating puzzles is also a good way to keep yoru mind sharp, which brings me to my next question.  When do we get to see the final puzzle cabinet?  I know that you were planning of modifying the original a bit.

Hey Robert,
Before tackling the next cabinet, I'm taking some time to rearrange and tune up my shop.  Right now building a quick roll-around cart to stash all the layout tools and odds and ends I am constantly moving from one flat surface to another; tuning up the jointer (knife-set), planer (roller pressure); building a torsion-box for flat assembly; moving the router table; maybe even building one of the famous John White "new-fangled workbenchs", since I don't really have a good bench and this one looks not only inexpensive, but handy--(http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworking/ProjectsAndDesign/ProjectsAndDesignPDF.aspx?id=2625)

As for the wife puzzle, you are absolutely right!  But after three tries I decided I better get to some other stuff, like cabinets and puzzle-boxes, before it was too late.  So I'm on an extended sabbatical from marriage.  I do have a great German Shepherd, though, who rarely argues with me and thinks most of what I do is pretty great! 

[Robert Yarger]

Now a dog I can figure out.

[tomjolly]

On treating wives as puzzles;

It's not the solution that one strives for, it's the pleasure in the manipulation of the pieces.

TJ