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Magic Puzzleboxes

A natural phenomena in Battal, the magic puzzlebox resembles an oversized treasure chest that can only be opened either by A) figuring out the magical puzzle contained on it, or B) by pressing a key matching the box's color against it. Puzzleboxes often contain useful treasure or money (typically Quilder).

They feature heavily in The Wizbits Videogames, Epic Fantasy Warrior Quest, and Elemenstorer. They also appeared in an episode of ElamenSTAR, The War Men's Day Off (and thus, by association, an episode of The Wizbits Cartoon as well).

Whatsinyeeargh

A variation of the traditional puzzlebox, the Whatsinyeeargh (properly called a Trick Puzzlebox) made its first appearance in Book 3 when it removed the right arm of the rather unpopular character Tyrose. The Whatsinyeeargh, thought to be named for the phrase first used to describe it, is similar to the traditional puzzlebox save for the fact that when a limb or extremity is placed inside the lid snaps shut, often with amusing consequences.

Epic Fantasy Warrior Quest

Occasionally, Magic Puzzleboxes in Epic Fantasy Warrior Quest will turn out to be monsters in clever disguise called Metamon.