Rochard Sudoku Number Puzzle Limoges Box

A Sudoku grid gets the porcelain treatment, a playful salute to the number puzzle that took over newspapers around the world. This Japan-themed puzzle box is a Rochard Limoges piece, hand-painted in Limoges, France.

Nine by Nine

Sudoku became famous in Japan before it swept across morning papers and phone screens everywhere. This box borrows that grid of numbers and squares for its design, with each line and digit brushed on by hand, so the puzzle never needs an eraser.

The Game Room Shelf

• A Rochard game design, hand-painted in Limoges, France
• Fits a game, puzzle or Japan themed collection
• Pairs with chess, crossword, dice and playing card boxes

For the Puzzle Solver

Set it on a desk beside a pencil cup, on a coffee table next to the puzzle books, or in a study where the morning paper is read. It makes a clever present for a math teacher, an accountant, a retiree who solves a grid every day, or the friend who finishes the hard ones in ink.

Puzzle themed pieces are a smaller corner of Limoges collecting, which is part of their appeal. A Sudoku box tends to start conversations, especially among guests who also cannot resist a blank grid.