puzzle box

nounPsychology.

an enclosure, used in experiments in animal learning, from which an animal must escape or in which it must manipulate various devices.

Origin of puzzle box

First recorded in 1865–70

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I loved it when Westworld constructed this amazing puzzle box story and dared you to solve it.
The Wheel of Time episode 7 finally tells us who the Dragon is | Andrew Cunningham | December 17, 2021 | Ars Technica
“Twelve Minutes” is a cross between a malevolent puzzle box and a theatrical chamber piece, and if outright entertainment is what you’re looking for this is not the game for you.
‘Twelve Minutes’: Grueling repetition with an interesting payoff | Christopher Byrd | August 27, 2021 | Washington Post
The trained cat performs repeatedly for the other's benefit, and is then taken away and the untrained cat put into the puzzle box.
Psychology | Robert S. Woodworth
Is it about the burglars that got into Miss Ransoms store and took the puzzle box?
The Curlytops at Silver Lake | Howard Roger Garis
A pyramid seemed to have been constructed something after the manner of an onion or a Chinese puzzle-box.
History Of Egypt, Chalda, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery | L.W. King and H.R. Hall

No man in his senses would place a diamond inside a twopenny-halfpenny puzzle box.
The Lock And Key Library | Various
That comes of Harry dying so inconsiderately and leaving this puzzle-box on my hands.
Michael, Brother of Jerry | Jack London

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