Here I was, a temporary traveller on a spinning globe, alone yet connected to every single one of these: a piece in a puzzle of a journey whose design I would probably never know, but whose path had restored my sense of the whole, in the ruins of Banteay Chhmar.

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"We've been working on it for five years, " said Janos Kovacs, chief executive at the puzzle-master's Rubik Studio design firm.

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Now that the Android-powered game console on a stick, GameStick, has been fully funded ( five times over), another piece of the puzzle is falling into place: its final design.

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Part of that is game design, but another major piece of the puzzle is the engines driving those games -- each game that Quantic Dream makes is built in a unique game engine, which is both very expensive and very time-consuming.

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The puzzle boxes are excellent tools for teaching these same skills to design engineers and are equally successful in captivating the minds of kids in real-world problem solving with a tangible reward for success.

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So to facilitate the training of camp attendees (and design engineers) next summer, I purchased many different puzzle boxes in Hakone to use as teaching tools.

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