Treasures, woods and a lacquer lid: what you collect in Hako
What waits inside Hako's boxes: a treasure at the end of every chapter, a shelf to fill, woods and lacquers for every box, and the story of the new lacquer logo.
Hako
Guides to opening the boxes, from the game where every panel slides in its own groove.
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Every box can open: how Hako makes its puzzle boxes
Why no box in Hako can ever get stuck, how its goal is the true fewest moves, how a program climbs to deep boxes, and why the boxes only get harder.
Secret boxes from Hakone, and the boxes in Hako
Hako comes from the secret boxes of Hakone, wrapped in yosegi wood mosaic. What I borrowed from that craft, and how every box got a name, a maker and a story.
Slide the panels, free the lid: the rules of Hako
Learn Hako on its first boxes: slide each panel along its groove until the lid can leave. Brass pins, stars, the hint and the treasures, one box at a time.