Games and Puzzles

STET! A game for language lovers, grammar geeks, and bibliophiles

Whats’ wrong with this sentence? If that misplaced apostrophe leapt right off the page, this is the game for you. Based on the New York Times bestseller, 100 sentences await you, the copyeditor, to correct—or to STET (a copyeditor’s term that means “let it stand”).

The Story of Pop Art: 1,000-Piece Puzzle

This puzzle traces the madcap world of Pop Art through the centuries, featuring fantastically detailed scenes ranging through time from the Dutch masters to Kusama's dots. As you build the puzzle, spot art-world darlings and a multitude of artistic details and references.

Adventure Storytime 2,000-Piece Puzzle

Famous vintage cover illustrations of classic adventure books, including "Treasure Island," "Don Quixote," "Swallows and Amazons," "Robin Hood," "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," "White Fang," and more are featured on this beautiful puzzle. Among the renowned illustrators featured are Arthur Rackham, N. C. Wyeth, and others.

The World of Frankenstein: 1,000-Piece Puzzle

Immerse yourself in key scenes in this classic book while working the puzzle, a fun way to introduce the story to children or refresh a reader’s familiarity. Each piece has enough visual interest to capture the imagination and makes the puzzle both challenging and richly rewarding; poster included.

Beginner’s Chess

Do you want your child to love chess as well as master it? This set includes two books that take beginners through the fundamentals in an original and engaging way. The author taught chess to a generation of children in Berkeley, California; this set incorporates her tried-and-true methods.

Shakespeare’s Britain: 1,000-Piece Puzzle

Decorated with symbols and icons of towns and abbeys, castles, battlefields, forests, and heaths, the image on the puzzle is a pictorial map of Britain as it was in 1583, with the geographical settings of Shakespeare’s history plays labeled.

The World of Sherlock Holmes: 1,000-Piece Puzzle

Enter into the world of Holmes in this detailed puzzle depicting the London of his day. Spot infamous villains, crime-solving clues, and historical figures.

Alice's Wonderland: 1,000-Piece Puzzle

Tumble down the rabbit hole and fall into your own adventures in Wonderland with this richly detailed jigsaw puzzle, a fun way to introduce a classic work to new readers or refresh one’s own familiarity with the book. A poster highlighting characters, settings, facts, and cultural references is included.

The World of Jane Austen: 1,000-Piece Puzzle

You’ll find 60 characters and great houses from the novels of Jane Austen, set against the landscapes in which they are featured. Also included is a fold-out poster of the image on the puzzle, along with a key to people, both real and fictional, featured on the puzzle.

The World of Shakespeare: 1,000-Piece Puzzle

The setting: As A Midsummer Night's Dream is being rehearsed at the Globe, actors wander the streets, along with an expansive cast of extras and local characters who may well have provided the Bard with inspiration.

The World of James Joyce: 1,000-Piece Puzzle

Travel back to 16 June 1904 and join Stephen Dedalus and Buck Mulligan on their odyssey through 'dear dirty Dublin', Blazes Boylan jingling along in his carriage, Molly Bloom in her chamber and a host of other iconic Dubliners.

Edward Gorey: 1,000-Piece Puzzle

Thoughtfully conceived and engagingly intricate, the puzzle features the image “Untitled” (1965) by the incomparable Edward Gorey, creator of the animated opening sequence of the PBS television series Mystery!

The Story of Impressionism: 1,000-Piece Puzzle

Piece together this beautifully detailed puzzle to create the Paris of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters and along the way discover the people and places that helped create a new way to see the world.

The Real Women of Greek Myths: 1,000-Piece Puzzle

In this beautifully detailed jigsaw puzzle, rediscover the lives and stories of the women of Greek myths, from Medusa and Medea to Helen, Euridice, Aphrodite, Phaedra, Artemis, and others.

Jane Austen Playing Cards

This deck can be used the same way as traditional playing cards… but if you’re game, the accompanying booklet provides instructions for five Regency-era card games featured in Austen’s novels. Hearts are Heroines and Heroes; spades are Fools and Bores; diamonds are Friends and Relations; clubs are Rogues and Mischief-makers.

Word 4 Word

Test your vocabulary skills with the Word 4 Word game. Create as many high scoring words as you can, building each word card by card. It’s a more portable/packable version of Scrabble™: letters are printed on cards, not tiles, and there’s no need for a board. Packaged in a tin.

Adventures in Wonderland: Alice's Tea Party + Cocktails

Throw an Alice celebration with themed menus and all the trimmings from this party-planner-in-a-box. Whether you plan to go full Mad Hatter or just pour a cocktail from a china teapot, you’ll find recipes for cocktails and food, ideas for invitations, favors, dress, décor, a playlist, and more.

ABC Spot Me Game

This is one of the few games we’ve seen that’s appropriate for early spellers. It’s simple, fun, and fast-paced and helps emerging readers match phonetic sounds to letters. It can be played several ways and has flexible rules, included in the instruction booklet.

Mythology Trivia

This dapper box is filled with 140 multiple-choice questions that cover myths and folklore—from gods and heroes to magical beasts and monsters—from cultures around the world, including Egyptian, Greek, Norse, Native American, Japanese, Senegalese, Chinese, Slavic, Haitian, and more.

Scrabble™ Vintage Bookshelf Edition

This luxurious bookshelf edition of Scrabble™ has been updated with stylish packaging, with game components stored in a fabric-bound “book” and slipcase, and typography and graphics inspired by the original 1948 game. Elegant storage and premium game components create a classic to be enjoyed for years to come.

Agatha Christie Bingo

Follow the trails of murder, blackmail, and mystery created by the Queen of Crime. Travel down the Nile, on the Orient Express, and into the drawing rooms of quaint English country cottages hot on the heels of Poirot, Miss Marple, and other famous characters while you play this traditional bingo game that features 64 characters and clues from Agatha Christie's novels.

The Shakespeare Game

The winner of the 2022 Independent Toy Awards Board Game Category, The Shakespeare Game is a labor of love and scholarship. The illustrations, text, game design have been carefully researched and the consultants have impeccable credentials.

Story Map of Ireland: 500-Piece Puzzle

This delightfully detailed pictorial map of Ireland was part of a series of “story maps” produced by Colortext Publications in the 1930s and 1940s.

The Moth: Presents a Game of Storytelling

PBS’s The Moth is all about true stories told live, and this game is designed to prompt a volley of sharing and listening between players. Created by the program’s storytelling experts, this interactive card game encourages lively conversations, sparks creativity, and improves public speaking abilities.

The World of the Harlem Renaissance: 1,000-Piece Puzzle

Step back in history to one of New York City’s most vibrant eras as you work this jigsaw puzzle picturing the artists and the thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance; includes a fold-out poster of the completed puzzle and a glossary of various scenes within the puzzle.

Decoder Jigsaw Puzzle with Eyeglasses Masks

This is a delightful 100-piece puzzle for ages 4+ that comes with a fun payoff: once it is completed, the puzzle workers don the special animal masks to discover hidden objects printed on the puzzle that are invisible to the naked eye.

Edward Gorey Dancing Cats: 300-Piece Puzzle

Originally appearing in Edward Gorey's book "Dancing Cats and Neglected Murderesses", these felines—knitting, skating, balancing, and juggling—are classic examples of the artist's quirky narratives that keep his devotees in gleeful anticipation of decorous mayhem.

The World of Charles Dickens: 1,000-Piece Puzzle

Find yourself in 19th-century London as the beautiful, intricate illustrations of famous fictional characters, writers, and historical figures reveal themselves. The image reimagines both Dickens' life and scenes from his novels in glorious detail.

Shakespeare Playing Cards

The deck features 54 Shakespearian characters, arranged in four suits: hearts = lovers; clubs = fools; diamonds = heroes and heroines; and spades = villains, with Romeo and Juliet the King and Queen of Hearts, Ariel the Joker, and more.

Peter Rabbit at Home: 60-Piece Puzzle

Toddlers and older children will be enchanted by Beatrix Potter's cozy illustration of Peter Rabbit at home under the big fir tree with his mama and siblings Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail. Sixty pieces are perfect for the 4+ year-old set—not too simple, yet not too complex.

Animals of the World 100-Piece Puzzle

This detailed puzzle for ages five and up comes with a poster of the image to use as a guide while working the puzzle and an educational booklet to use as a “seek and find” tool to learn about each animal. For ages 5 and up.

Beehive Mancala

This strategy game for ages six and up was developed by a beekeeper at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. The object of the game is to buzz bees to flowers to collect pollen and then back to the hive to make honey for the colony.