Puzzle Games

It's Sudoku for people who are more visual than math-based. Start with clues from one of the 104 puzzle cards, and then try to place a single ball of each color in every row, in every column, and in every 3 x 3 box.  The ColorKu Game board and...

Dirty Dog A bone to worry for even the most rabid puzzle fans. Even a former US president was bitten by this puppy. Check out the note sent to the company from him. (1985)  Objective: Remove shuttle...

Genuine Article The real McCoy! Accept no substitutes.If you enjoy sequential ring puzzles (like Patience Puzzle), you'll find Genuine Article an interesting variation. More difficult than Dirty Dog. (2013) Objective: Remove...

Iron HeartA simple puzzle, often made by apprentices. This variation is based on a description from a Ukrainian shoemaker. (1981) Objective: Remove heart.Difficulty: Basic 100% Handcrafted in the USA

The newest Katamino game! A great brainteaser game that can be played individual or as two players. It comes with a activity guide filled with puzzles, 3D construction, and balancing activities. It also includes cards for 2-player game play.  Ages...

The perfect single player puzzle game for those 4-7 years old. Help solve the puzzle by helping Little Red Riding Hood find the path to Grandma's house. This game helps with concentration, problem solving, and planning. Contents: game board, 5 puzzle...

Love to stress your mind with mind puzzles?  Do just that with this mental block puzzle game and connect 4 to win! Includes: Block 96 pegs Instructions Recommended for ages 6 and up and up to 4 players.

A great introduction to numbers for preschoolers and early leaners! Connect your number tiles to a grid using different operations, the first player to collect all of their tiles, wins! Even if your are not quite ready for Mobi Kids, the game comes...

A fast paced numbers game that brings fun to math! Everyone will take 7 number tiles and race to create the most equations with the operation tiles that are in the middle of the table. First player to use all of their number tiles wins!  Over 5...

Change is the name of the game.Your goal in this game is to find the longest string of changes. Start with the ball on one peg and move to another disc by finding something on the next disc that is different by only changing one of three traits. Collect...

Old Shackles An old favorite, often made from horseshoes. The real test is getting the ring back on. (1981) Objective: Remove large ringDifficulty: Basic 100% Handcrafted in the USA

Patience The oldest known puzzle design, probably of Chinese origin. Popular with 19th century sailors. We make ours with nails made in New England on a machine that has been in use since the Civil War era. (1984)Patience Puzzle is more a mathmatical...

Use Q-bitz Solo as a solitaire challenge or to add another player, a new color and additional pattern cards to the original Q-bitz game. This personal-sized version of our best-selling game includes 20 new pattern cards, a wooden tray, 16 cubes and...

Qbitz Jr is a great way to introduce your kid to pattern matching, spatial reasoning, and problem solving! It helps build visual intelligence as well as STEM skills and is so much fun to play! Game play is simple: turn over a pattern card and race the...

Smooth Operator   See if you are smooth enough to solve this brainteaser! (2011) Objective: Remove large ring.Difficulty: Difficult 100% Handcrafted in the USA

Sneaky Pete   The name is American slang for fortified wine. This vintage puzzle is just as intoxicating. (1990) Objective: Remove large ring.Difficulty: Complex 100% Handcrafted in the USA

Start with all the pieces upside-down, then flip over the first three and make a loop the color of the number "3" on the back of the 3rd piece. Then flip over piece number 4 to build a loop in the color of the "4". But make sure all the colored trails...

The perfect single player puzzle game for those 3-6 years old. Play the game two ways, set up the game board with the piggies and the wold and use the pieces to try to hide the pigs from the wolf, if their is no wold try to set up the pieces so the...

True Balance is a fun coordination game. All you do is hang on to the handle and stack to solve it. Ages 8 and up

Glide through the sky with Tsuro: Phoenix Rising. You will place, rotate, and flip Tsuro tiles to transform glowing lanterns into brilliant stars. Watch out for other players as they may lea you in the wrong direction or off the board entirely. However,...

From the makers of our favorites, TENZI and SLAPZI comes this new fun game! The fast-stacking, nerve-racking, block-building game! Quick, grab a BUILDZI block and start building. Be the first to build your tower, but — careful — don’t...

Invasion of the Cow Snatchers is one of ThinkFun's most fun new stem toys for boys and girls. It's a fun magnet maze logic game that comes with 60 challenges of increasing difficulty, from beginner to expert, and is one of the best gifts you can buy for...

What the heck is a ZANGLE!?! Twist, flip, or spin your cards to make the shape on another card. Find your angle to make the best zangle and be the first to go out. Play together or challenge yourself with this brain-twisting shape-building game. Zangle...

 Choose a card to see your puzzle and place the multi-directional tiles on the board. Let the steel marbles roll to see if you land where you should on your targets. If you’re off base, move the tiles until your marble circuits deliver a...

 How quick can you spot all of the yellow stars? Red lightning bolts? Blue footprints . . . where are they? Spread out the magnetic discs, roll the dice, and scramble to match the picture and the color. Keeping score is easy—just line up...

 You and your fellow dwarves are digging through a maze of mining tunnels for gold. As things are not always what they seem, beware! Some of the miners are saboteurs trying to lead you to ruin and steal all of your hard earned gold. To find the...

Have you overplayed your original WordAround game? Now you can play all over again with the second version! This game can be played as a stand alone or combine it with the first version! The game still is to quickly figure out where the word starts...

  Sometimes, when something easy is just slightly altered, it makes it way harder to do! Who knew that positioning a word in one continuous ring would make it so tricky to read? The challenge in WordARound is to quickly figure out where the...

In this game, players learn to quickly recognize and read sight words, which are words with spelling that is not always straightforward. Sight words are the most frequently used words in the English language and make up about 50-75% of all written...

Time to test your spelling game! In this version, it's a duel head-to-head game of word smarts. Includes: Portable banana case 24 letter cubes 20 theme cards Instructions Recommended for 2 players aged 7 and up.

Place all 144 tiles face down on center of table. These tiles are referred to as the "BUNCH". For games of 2-4 people, each player takes 21 letters from the bunch, keeping them face down. For 5-6 players, 15 letters are taken. For 7-8 (or more) players,...

Construct castles, block by block and tower by tower, as you flex your logic muscles with this beautifully crafted 3-D wooden puzzle. The challenge is to assemble the wooden blocks and towers to build one of the castles in the puzzle booklet. With simple...

Each piece, or "pentamino", is shaped differently but has 5 squares of area. Play alone or race a friend to fit the pieces into the board. The more pieces you bring into play, the greater the challenge!

Math becomes more fun when players think on the fly! Roll the two 12-sided target dice and multiply them to get a target number. Roll the three scoring dice and combine these three numbers using addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or even...

Introducing MathDice Jr., the perfect complement to ThinkFun's ever-popular MathDice! Roll the 12-sided Target Die to obtain your target number, then roll the five 6-sided Scoring Dice. Using addition and/or subtraction, combine the Scoring Dice to match...

Crack the code and solve the mystery of the Runaway Ruby!  Team up with Detective Gary Gumshoe to help solve his latest case.  You will use your secret decoder wheel to decode messages and your color-change marker to inspect the scenes for...

Take the piece your opponent selects for you and play it, trying to get four in a row with shape, color, size, or hole/no hole in common. Takes 30 seconds to learn, but has so many possibilities that it's almost impossible to master! Even our veteran...

Quiddler is a beautiful word game with naturally smooth game play that plays fast. These are essentials for a successful game that few word games have. Using special cards, Quiddler draws on one's ability to combine letters into words. Players must...

The aim is to reach the other end first. The problem is that your opponent puts up fences to slow you down! Not to worry, there's always a way out. But who will find the shortest route?Players take turns moving their piece one space or placing a wall to...

Qwirkle is as simple as matching colors and shapes, but this game also requires tactical maneuvers and well-planned strategy. Now you can enjoy the fun of Qwirkle in a travel edition! Earn points by building rows and columns of blocks that share a...