Cat 3D Puzzle

It’s a puzzle why cats love to lie on things like newspapers — usually right when you want to read them. Now, you can piece this puzzle together. This 3D puzzle, made exclusively for The New York Times by Locknesters in Brooklyn from nontoxic U.S.-sourced bioplastics, is hand-lacquered and sure to provide hours of pleasure. The cat is asleep atop a pile of papers with The Times’s iconic “T.”

Part of the New York Times Pet collection, this companion to our popular dog 3D puzzle is made with new and old techniques: Models are designed digitally, then 3D printed, sanded and tumbled before being hand lacquered. It can be a prized desk or shelf ornament, ready to be disassembled and put back together.

Locknesters is a Brooklyn-based studio that has a fascination with unconventional geometries and a desire to create things that encourage interaction, much as The Times encourages interactions with its audiences. Their products are part toy, part puzzle.