Steady There Skipper
Puzzle alarm clock: the simple, profoundly irritating idea at its heart is easy enough to guess, but why, then, is the puzzle itself so simple? It’s a toddler’s learning toy, a matter of bashing three shapes into the corresponding holes. Perhaps the idea is to force you to retrieve them from the other side of the room first-but then why not merely place the alarm clock itself out of arm’s reach?
At $40, it’s a little more expensive than a Tomy toy, too. Wake me up when there is a 20-move Japanese puzzle box version, or one inside a Rubik’s Cube.
P.S. There is a Rubik’s Cube alarm clock, but not one that forces you to solve the puzzle to end the alarm.