Our Story
It started with my father.
Dan Feldman was one of the first puzzle collectors in Israel. He spent decades acquiring mechanical puzzles from around the world, studying how they worked, and eventually designing his own. He was not a professional engineer. He was just someone who could not walk past an interesting problem without wanting to understand it.
In 1996, after years of modifying commercial padlocks by hand, he created the DanLock. It quickly became known in the puzzle community as one of the best puzzle locks ever made. Enthusiasts who had solved hundreds of puzzles called it extraordinary. For my father, it was just another Tuesday.
Growing up in that house was not always easy. There were puzzles everywhere. On the shelves, on the dining table, in the car. My father would hand me something to figure out before I had finished breakfast. I did not always appreciate it at the time.
I appreciate it now.
Dan Feldman passed away in June 2024. He left behind a collection, a legacy, and a way of looking at the world that I have been absorbing all my life without realizing it.
Puzzlocks
I founded Puzzlocks to continue what my father started, and to take it somewhere new.
Every puzzle in the Puzzlocks collection is built the same way my father built the DanLock. Starting with a real industrial padlock, modifying the internal mechanism by hand, and hiding a challenge inside something that looks completely normal from the outside.
The result is a puzzle that feels different from anything built from scratch. The weight is real. The brass is real. The mechanism has history in it.
All designs are original.
The collection ranging from beginner to expert, all made from solid brass and stainless steel, and all shipping worldwide.
About Boaz Feldman
Boaz Feldman - Founder of Puzzlocks
My name is Boaz Feldman. I grew up in a house full of puzzles, with a father who could not stop thinking about how things worked. Solving and understanding mechanical puzzles was part of my life from childhood. I did not always choose it. Eventually I realised I did not have to - it had already chosen me.
I am proud to continue my father's legacy and carry Puzzlocks forward.