There’s a story about some frontier kids who were sifting through a parts box and came across a Cotton Gin coil spring and a ring linked together. The spring was welded shut on both ends. How did the spring and the ring become linked together? Can you separate them? Give up? Hold the printed solution up to a mirror to decode it if you must …

The Cotton Gin Spring puzzle is one of many old-fashioned favorites made by Channel Craft of North Charleroi. Marbles, complete with leather pouch and game handbook, jacks, jump-rope, Tiddly Winks, Pick-Up Sticks, Dominoes … all the familiar simple American classics are under one roof here.

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