Kagen Sound is an artisan of remarkable skill, engineering and constructing incredibly intricate puzzle boxes made entirely of wood. WIRED brings you inside his workshop as he breaks down the design process behind his wonderful creations, and the woodworking skill he leverages to make everything snap together perfectly.
Director: Charlie Jordan
Director of Photography: Colin Witherill
Editor: Jordan Calig
Expert: Kagen Sound
Creative Producer: Wendi Jonassen
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: D. Eric Martinez
Production Coordinator: Fernando Davila
Camera Operator: Tucker Neary
Sound Mixer: Ted Thacker
Production Assistant: Jay Boersma
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
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@alexfooify
December 20, 2023 at 2:20 pm
New favorite type of man just dropped
@Misteribel
December 20, 2023 at 2:23 pm
This is real art, and mind boggling at the same time! Escher would be proud ❤
@Spencerlayne
December 20, 2023 at 2:27 pm
My brain thinks like this man. Im on medicetion for it 😅
@Misteribel
December 20, 2023 at 2:31 pm
4:50 i love how you make the dovetail in part by chisel, even though you clearly have the tools, like that router, to do it fully machined (I use the router solely, I don’t have the patience otherwise 😅).
@ropro9817
December 20, 2023 at 2:32 pm
This is insanely cool! 🤠
@kitefan1
December 20, 2023 at 2:32 pm
Wow!
@oldcowbb
December 20, 2023 at 3:26 pm
he has that musky accent
@markedis5902
December 20, 2023 at 3:56 pm
Anyone else thinking of hellraiser?
@richardconway6425
December 20, 2023 at 4:02 pm
Does this guy sell his puzzles in some kind of unique marketplace? It seems that every one of his little creations is unique – meaning that they would be very expensive. Incredible to think what they might sell for in a competitive bidding environment.
I really liked this video, a lot of information (if you’re new to puzzle boxes) packed into a very compact short. I could have watched a much longer version of this, easily 20 – 30 minutes. Any chance of a longer edit Charlie? For some reason it’s really interesting to watch other people solving puzzles, and I would have liked to have seen the interviewer try a few more.
Wood is such a beautiful material, and working with it seems to be the complete antithesis of the insane digital age we live in.
@TheOriginalJohnDoe
December 20, 2023 at 4:06 pm
Creating a clicking sound out of wood. What a genius, I love it.
@BentusiProgenitors
December 20, 2023 at 4:30 pm
We people say crap like “we are all equal”
No, we aren’t. Here’s your proof if you need it.
@1.4142
December 20, 2023 at 4:45 pm
Watching this while making a puzzle
@jamuojisan
December 20, 2023 at 4:54 pm
he’s the poet of puzzle box
@rocketRobScott
December 20, 2023 at 5:03 pm
Someone needs to make sure Nick Offerman knows about this guy.
@angryb0325
December 20, 2023 at 5:14 pm
Cool vid
@ireneinbarcelona
December 20, 2023 at 6:05 pm
Just amazing!
@sasunive
December 20, 2023 at 6:37 pm
is it just me or does the voiceover seem ai generated
@janetf23
December 20, 2023 at 6:46 pm
I love the way this took me right back to the moment of joy I felt as a small child the first time I solved a puzzle box in the 50s – time travel rocks❗ Thanks, Kagen‼
@SebastianTinajero
December 20, 2023 at 7:12 pm
I bet these puzzles smell amazing too, I love the smell of wood so I’d be stopping every few minutes while solving these to get a good whiff lol
@BenjamintheTortoise
December 20, 2023 at 7:20 pm
Truly remarkable!! So fun to watch!!
@adnaanu
December 20, 2023 at 7:23 pm
He is gonna end up summoning the Cenobites
@maxmusterman8999
December 20, 2023 at 7:30 pm
He is a Prodigy!😊
@janemiettinen5176
December 20, 2023 at 7:44 pm
Wooden puzzles are very dear for me and my family, we have pretty nice collection of different ones. I might need to start collecting those boxes too, I fell seriously in love with the cafe wall one.. Imma go broke!
@mgmoemgmoe3719
December 20, 2023 at 7:45 pm
Wow. Just seeing is an art!
@joakaro
December 20, 2023 at 7:52 pm
I would watch a video on opening the box that requires 5,000 moves.
@nak3dxsnake
December 20, 2023 at 10:20 pm
This is a wooden spring… *Say what now?*
@rachel_rexxx
December 20, 2023 at 11:41 pm
Math degree makes sense
@michaeldoody3831
December 20, 2023 at 11:56 pm
I never thought that there could be a wooden spring! 👍
@ediblelipscrubs9466
December 20, 2023 at 11:59 pm
5:20 I understand that feeling, to proudly look back on a good, productive decision you made that led you to doing something you’re really happy to continually do. Not on his level though, this guy is a genius! Very insightful.
@ediblelipscrubs9466
December 21, 2023 at 12:08 am
10:57 I love this part.
@currykingwurst6393
December 21, 2023 at 1:04 am
Shame that they show him opening the Lament Configuration puzzle box he made.
@hoilst265
December 21, 2023 at 1:54 am
It’s all fun and games until the Cenobites show up.
@maur1cius
December 21, 2023 at 2:01 am
Absolutely amazing 😍
@solomonyaakobov4428
December 21, 2023 at 2:04 am
Alien level IQ
@CoinOpTV
December 21, 2023 at 2:25 am
Pinhead would love this guy!
@scottgrout2640
December 21, 2023 at 3:56 am
Dude, you need a laser cutter.
@adamharika269
December 21, 2023 at 4:34 am
I just wonder, since he created a ton of puzzle boxes. Does he ever forgot how to solve one of his old puzzle? I mean completely lost and unable to open it at all😅
@MisfitRia
December 21, 2023 at 11:34 pm
Probably not, due to the muscle memory will be triggered due to the amount of time taken to make the puzzle in the first place
@werdsmyth
December 21, 2023 at 5:09 am
All fun and games…until you summon Pinhead.
@Eluwilussit
December 21, 2023 at 5:39 am
10:16 here we witnessed 2 people falling hopelessly in love with each other…. and the latest news is that she is expecting and she wants to have 6 more
@iisan1
December 21, 2023 at 7:04 am
The only thing that is harder to solve than these wooden boxes is the heart of the girl i like
@HoldingCells
December 21, 2023 at 8:18 am
*what a hipster*
@MonsieurBiga
December 21, 2023 at 9:03 am
This guy will summon the Cenobites, someone stop him
@DC9V
December 21, 2023 at 12:13 pm
Puzzle Box: Extremely detailed.
This video resolution: 1080p.
Why?
@bjornquadt6871
December 21, 2023 at 3:31 pm
the goat of puzzle making 😎❤
@plaintextures
December 21, 2023 at 5:13 pm
Amazing.
@StarCrusher.
December 21, 2023 at 5:55 pm
Hellraiser
@andrewpatterson3662
December 21, 2023 at 6:31 pm
I feel like given enough time, I’d be able to unlock/take apart any of these type of puzzles you could throw at me. But when it come to putting it back together…that seems like an impossible task, even for the easiest ones.
@TheNorwoodCat
December 21, 2023 at 7:45 pm
I think this is in my top 5 Wired videos! Was totally fascinated the whole video and did not want it to end! LOVED it.
@SuperLocrian
December 21, 2023 at 8:17 pm
What type of Cenobytes do these puppies call forth?!?
@Lynette21122431
December 21, 2023 at 9:58 pm
Oh, my goodness! Awesome, absolutely! Thank you so much for making this documentary, y’all!
@timothydahlin5321
December 21, 2023 at 10:01 pm
Hellraiser Signature Series.
@ShinobiEngineer
December 22, 2023 at 5:29 am
Genius and skillful… AMAZING!!! 🤯
@SnarkHunter64
December 22, 2023 at 6:17 am
Kagen is not only an amazing craftsman and a puzzle box design genius, but he is also a wonderful human being. A genuine gentleman, whom I am feeling privileged I ever got to know.
@user-nx2dc4ro2f
December 22, 2023 at 6:58 am
His puzzle boxes seems like “Karukurihakobako”
@mattwilson8298
December 22, 2023 at 1:07 pm
Finally, someone who can build the Lament Configuration.
We have such sights to show you.
@romanbucharist4708
December 22, 2023 at 2:47 pm
Imagine what he can do with a harder material.
@TheCanadianJon
December 22, 2023 at 2:54 pm
We need @ChrisRamsay52 here ASAP!
@alloriginalpirates
December 22, 2023 at 5:40 pm
If Da Vinci were alive today…
@soul-candy-music
December 22, 2023 at 10:13 pm
so happy to see puzzlemakers like Kagen be celebrated in videos like these. It’s such a pleasure to see this passion shared and grown via communities like youtube.
@velasco2015
December 23, 2023 at 1:09 am
THIS IS AWESOME! Perfect gifts for my niece and nephew 😀
@rochakanim8
December 23, 2023 at 1:25 am
Genius ❤❤
@whatilearnttoday5295
December 23, 2023 at 3:06 am
One of the hundreds of thousands of annual tablesaw victims in the making.
@connieartist1907
December 23, 2023 at 4:01 am
Veneer…… ? Why
For $500+ puzzles I don’t get it
@iamnotmydepression
December 23, 2023 at 5:59 am
I absolutely adore wooden puzzles and puzzle boxes. Would love all of these ❤
So clever
@michaelinglis567
December 23, 2023 at 5:51 pm
These are actually really great. I love these. I build guitars on occasion (I’m much more into building amps and pedals) but I have just enough wood working experience to understand what must go into these which makes me appreciate what he is doing even more. I love that he is also a mathematician because this is exactly what I’d expect a mathematician wood worker to make lol!
@boondogglet132
December 23, 2023 at 11:47 pm
I bet that workshop smells amazing
@DannyDusse
December 24, 2023 at 2:42 am
Y’all should have Chris Ramsay on next to solve puzzles of different complexities!!
@invox9490
December 24, 2023 at 8:41 am
Humans are amazing.
@everetthancock2043
December 24, 2023 at 9:00 am
As a Hellraiser fan, I am mortified
@chuck_stones
December 24, 2023 at 9:41 am
Ever since finding Kagan’s puzzles, I have vowed that one day I will own and solve one. They are genuine works of art and genius. So lovely to see some of the inner workings of his creative process and to see a spotlight being shone on his talents.
@kyledmorgan
December 24, 2023 at 4:38 pm
Now I know all of he secrets.
@logreene1071
December 24, 2023 at 4:50 pm
the small boxes start at 400$+ and the big ones go for 3000$ and up.
@user-dp9wc5bu7n
December 24, 2023 at 7:16 pm
Would love to talk with this man.
@peterfitzgerald790
December 24, 2023 at 11:45 pm
Am I the only one surprised he’s not Asian?! We r making a come back ppl!
@yotaruvegeta
December 25, 2023 at 10:12 am
Feels almost unfair that this guy is so great at woodworking and puzzle making.
@seanchen9265
December 25, 2023 at 10:58 am
Yu gi oh but wood…
@ldnboy07
December 25, 2023 at 11:27 am
To have an idea as complicated as these is in itself great already but to create and give life to his idea himself in the form of wood worked puzzles is just pure genius and talent.
@tarsbremer4442
December 25, 2023 at 3:03 pm
You can easily imagine his house, completely neat, beautifully organized, everything in its place, and not a grain of dust around.
@finnmarr-heenan2397
December 28, 2023 at 5:39 am
Yea but I’d struggle to figure out the secret move to open the toilet door
@timothyrussell1179
December 25, 2023 at 5:30 pm
The cenobites are coming 😱
@itypethetruthnobshere8975
December 25, 2023 at 7:19 pm
White people and Asians are amazing at this! The blacks could never do something like this in a million years!
@daudimasinde6280
December 26, 2023 at 5:32 am
We’re too busy dominating most sports.
@ghostmantagshome-er6pb
December 26, 2023 at 2:42 am
More clever than Rubic. A craftsman.
@Xzor
December 26, 2023 at 2:53 am
Everyone’s talking about puzzles but I’m just sitting here stressing out because this guy is wearing loose fitting clothes in a wood shop.
@2lasizwe
December 26, 2023 at 3:48 am
This is super super cool
@juninamura6375
December 26, 2023 at 5:35 pm
This is the guy that in a distant future where aliens discovers ancient remains of our civilization after being long gone, would amaze them the most, in the tiny possibility that manuscripts of how to make puzzle boxes were discovered.
@19LG99
December 26, 2023 at 7:11 pm
do you ever see someone and know exactly what their profession is?
well, he looks exactly like a mathematician who became a woodworker 😂
@pedraosantos1418
December 27, 2023 at 12:35 am
dude is a genius!!!
@arc3944
December 27, 2023 at 6:31 am
You could’ve told me this guy is a mad scientist and I would’ve believed you 100 percent
@tomholroyd7519
December 27, 2023 at 8:51 am
Genius
@AnimecrazySakura7
December 28, 2023 at 10:20 pm
Honestly incredible that he had all these puzzle making ideas since he was a kid and carried that passion over to adulthood. You can tell how much he loves his craft and creating. Kudos to him 👏
@TS_Mind_Swept
December 28, 2023 at 10:29 pm
I’ve bin wanting to get my hands on puzzle boxes since I first came across them as an early teen, but I’ve never really bin able to find a place to..I wonder if this guy has a shop somewhere 🤔 (I don’t remember it being mentioned in the video, and there doesn’t seem to be anything in the description 🤷🏿♀)
@oddgeir2330
December 30, 2023 at 5:11 pm
I could open all of those
with an axe.
@d173adpool
December 31, 2023 at 7:11 am
Most orgasmic video Ive ever watched
@d173adpool
December 31, 2023 at 7:18 am
“Playfulness” = 10 10 10
@BertLiu
December 31, 2023 at 3:45 pm
Magnificent. Not only are the puzzles and mechanisms breath-taking, but the boxes themselves can also be quite functional as they tend to have very large spaces inside, which is not always true with many other puzzle boxes.
@RoleyChiu
December 31, 2023 at 8:09 pm
If I ever need to perform inception, I’d like him as my architect.
@aryanpatel5524
January 1, 2024 at 1:01 pm
Genius.
@ForLorNVuLgaR
January 2, 2024 at 11:19 pm
What a genius!
@SuperSerb07
January 6, 2024 at 4:01 pm
Imagine boasting about solving a puzzle you designed…wow. 😂
@speaklifegardenhomesteadpe8783
January 7, 2024 at 7:42 pm
Beautiful!!
@kaiholeung903
January 7, 2024 at 11:18 pm
Remind me that lady destroy the wood puzzle with axe in glass onion😂😂😂
@netizencapet
January 8, 2024 at 1:32 am
This brilliant and aesthetically advanced man would have found enormous success in the ancient world. A shame he was born in the wrong time.
@flavioxy
January 9, 2024 at 6:32 am
send those to @ChrisRamsay52 !!
@notsoquiet6598
January 16, 2024 at 6:57 am
This is amazing!
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