This checkerboarded field of waves hides a secret: 24 five-celled tiles (two forms each of 12 different shapes) uniquely patterned with frosted colors. All-acrylic construction forms an 11x11 square in 22" black tray. Handbook contains many other designs to solve. Select silver or gold paired with another color of your choice. Wall hanging strips included. $295 (plus $15 oversize shipping surcharge)

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This one's the grandest of Kate's Roundominoes series. It has acrylic 83 pieces in six luminous transparent colors plus black and white accents. They include 1 through 5 rounds, 1 through 4 bridges, and 8 new shapes called doopers, that are like double rounds with extra bridges (white pieces above). We named them that because this set was designed at the urgings of a young friend, Cristopher Jarrett, who wanted a "super dooper" version of Roundominoes. The doopers are like little cartoon figures with droll beach-scene names (Kate did design this in Florida). Can you find the bikini top? Halter top? Rubber ducky? Fish? Flying fish? Hairdryer? Even we don't know yet how many different ways the set can fit. The 16" acrylic tray, black or white, is supplied with fitted see-through lid and easel. Recommended for teen and adult puzzle lovers.$125

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Beyond a doubt, Tri-Jazz is one of our most exquisite art pieces. Each tile is a parallelogram, both left and right tilt, made up of 3 kinds of triangles: equilateral, isosceles, and right triangle that is the size of the first two combined. The 54 tiles are hand-inlaid with every combination of three colors. Here's a sample tile. Three-fold symmetries, with both colormatching and non-matching, are so gorgeous that you won't mind the effort to coax them into existence. Countless patterns are waiting to be explored, both in and outside the 18" tray. You may request your preferred colors, frosted finish recommended, in white or black tray. Please see our palette of available colors. All acrylic, with easel. For 1 or more players, ages 12 to adult. $250 (plus $15 oversize shipping surcharge)

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Chris Palmer is an artist in many disciplines, including Origami, fabric folding, weavings, Moorish tilings, Flash programming, computer graphics and more. Here we see his love for tessellations, evocative of M.C. Escher's work, where simple grids and polygons, like triangles, squares and hexagons, are transformed into "spools" that gather around vertices in threes, fours and sixes, forming spirals where they meet. Note the three-color tiling where each color pair takes a turn at checkerboarding a region. Can you spot the underlying grid? It looks a little like the diagram at right. Rich Lucite colors of topaz, aqua and ruby fill the field. Display on shelf or pedestal on its easel, or inquire about wall-mounting. For 1 or more players, ages 12 to adult. $225 (plus $15 oversize shipping surcharge)

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