Games & Jigsaw Puzzles

This fidget toy doesn’t spin, and that’s the appeal. It’s a Magnetic Magic Cube that measures 2-1/2” on all sides, it being a cube and all. But it’s changeable since it’s made up of lots of angled pieces, and can be...

Please send her our best if you run into her. Meanwhile, check out this wooden Peg Hopper game/intelligence tester. Funny how it has the same name as our old friend. It’s a game designed to test the limits of your mind—kind of like our...

We bet you can, too, which is exactly why you’ll love this (100)-card set of Bizarre Facts Trivia. It’s a bonanza of random facts! Impress or annoy your friends and family with your ridiculous knowledge of useless information! We’ve...

Ten furlongs are condensed to (7) inches, with very small horses, in the Desktop Derby, a 6-horse straight track that lets you win money while you teach the children the evils of pari-mutuel betting. The electric track pulsates and moves the nags along...

This puzzle’s in our pocket, and yes, we’re excited to see it. You will be, too, because it will help you finally memorize the symbols for all of the lanthanides and actinides. Imagine a very detailed, full-color periodic table composed of...

Everybody loves those classic handheld steel-ball puzzle games that challenge you to get the balls in the groove or the hole. They’re impossible not to like. When you see one, you give it a go. And then you notice an hour just passed. Ours measure...

Want to prove how smart you are or go batty trying? We’re still going batty trying. Join us—it’s fun! We’ll send you (1) of our (4) wooden Mysterious Puzzle Boxes, 6" x 2" x 2-5/8," rated as either "challenging" or "impossible" to...

With the help of these (12) beautifully illustrated instructional cards from the 1859 bestselling book Hand Shadows by Henry Bursill, you’ll amuse and amaze your friends with your newfound hand-puppet artistry. The walls will come alive, we say!...

…to Super Plumber Brothers, Duplicate Dragon, and over (600) other classic video games with this Anniversary Edition Retro Mini Entertainment System. Nothing to download. All your 1980s faves are ready in this 5" x 4" x 2" console plus a pair of...

You love the classics, and Professor Puzzle brings them together in this handheld tabletop baseball pinball game. Measures 10" x 5" with a spring-loaded ball launcher and wheels that spin and bounce the (5) plastic balls around, sending them in the...

Still a dead-man's hand, but much flashier if you're holding these gold-foil playing cards. In a standard playing card size, they shuffle smoothly, have Ben Franklin's image from the hundred-dollar bill on the back, and look like a million bucks,...

Surpie sudokuers, rejoice and sudokufy! These (110) double-sided Sudoku puzzle cards measures 4-3/4” x 3-1/2” each and have difficulty ratings of mild, hot and spicy. Just don’t eat chicken wings while you’re solving puzzles...

No more manual shuffling! Take poker night to a whole new level with this fully automatic card shuffler. Shuffles up to 2 decks at time while keeping cards in perfect condition shuffle after shuffle. Take money from your kids faster than ever before!...

At last, something we can use our phone for! To play the Color Game from Kikkerland®, and teach kids valuable lessons about how colors work together, you too can use the flashlight on your phone to light up the cards and identify colors. Then, still...

We had something really clever to say about this Memory Maze electronic brain teaser, but in all the commotion, we forgot. To keep our memory sharp, we should probably do more brain teaser exercises, like this 2-1/2” x 2-1/2” Memory Maze,...

You know what that means? This game doesn’t stink! And that’s why it’s so great for traveling, along with the fact that the included instructions, deck of cards and folding wooden score board with metal pegs fit easily into your pocket...

Crack the code and get out of the museum in this quick-fire escape room game from Professor Puzzle. Perfect for solo play, there’s a range of different puzzles and brainteasers for you to solve in order to find the key and make your escape. Jarvis...

Drive yourself delightfully mad trying to figure out how this 6” long brain-teasing Freudian Slip Puzzle box works. Your job is to free the 3" long pencil out from under the clear plastic window to reveal the hidden quote from Siggy, which is what...

LEGO® is the premiere building toy, preferred by kids and adults (AFOLs) everywhere. We're no exception, we love them too. We happened across some brand new, sealed, retired, Master Builder Academy™ 20214 Adventure Designer sets and we couldn't...

While everyone seems to have lost a few, American Science & Surplus has a literal surplus of them! Whether you need new ones for a game, can't craft without them or just like something shiny, we've got an amazing deal for you. You'll receive a clear,...

This fun, fast-paced easy-to-learn (2)-player Tesla Vs. Edison Duel strategy card game is a “War of Currents” that comes down to AC vs. DC and takes less than 30 minutes to play! Choose an inventor to lead your company to victory. Draft...

Care for a king-sized king of hearts? A jack of huge? Try our 8-1/2" x 11" deck of playing cards. Fun to shuffle and great if you've lost your reading glasses. Just the ticket for teaching a whole class of kids to play blackjack before the annual school...

Whether you’ve completed the first book or not, we present to you The Kakuro Challenge 2. (Cue the gong here.) This paperback book includes “(201) brand-new number puzzles, from Delicious to Vicious” and damn we wish we would have come...

This is a travel-sized version of that classic wooden game of skill and lucky dice commonly known as Shut The Box. Measures 5-1/4" x 3-1/4" x 1"—perfect for road trips, airplanes and campers—with hinged wooden tiles numbered on the top and...

Think you’re good at getting out of stuff? Okay, Houdini, try escaping from Professor Puzzle’s Space Station in this one-person escape-room game. Escape from the Space Station includes (12) puzzle cards, a solar system map, spaceship...

Deuces, but they're approx. 5-3/4" tall x 3-3/4" wide. For folks with really big paws, or really bad eyes, these oversized playing cards, the standard (52) plus a pair of giant jokers, is the answer to a prayer - and nice decorations for a Las Vegas...

The Unemployed Philosophers Guild strikes again with this excellent (1000)-piece jigsaw puzzle featuring a brief history of art—you know, from 1500 BC to 2000? Completed puzzle measures approx 35-1/2” x 11-3/4”, and when it’s done...

This was a really fun & challenging puzzle. The colors are beautiful and pieces are neatly cut & fit together well with many different shapes. This would be a great puzzle to work on as a group because you can easily do this upside down,...

Puzzle pros, we’ve got (3) new (1000)-piece jigsaws for you because we know you’ve been looking for some. All will measure 26-3/4” x 19” when finished, and all are made in the USA. You pick. The Paris Metro...

Give the gift of puzzles. These are some of the slickest, highest-quality adult wooden jigsaw puzzles we’ve ever seen. Colors and details are mind-blowing, and the pieces are extra thick, a tad under 1/4” (5.65mm for Canadian Surpies). We...

Some kids are too young to know when and when not to draw to an inside straight, but at least you can introduce them important skills with this Little Astronauts (70)-card set. For 2-5 players, the game is designed to provide kids with experiences in...

Beyond Rubik's cube, this complex wooden puzzle is inspired by the Antikythera Mechanism, a mysterious astronomical device discovered off the coast of the eponymous Greek island in 1901 and sometimes called the first analog computer. The puzzle has (5)...

What if you crossed Boris Spassky with Han Solo? Checkmate with a beam of light. This is the former KHET 2.0, now updated to a space chess theme. Includes (26) game pieces, including kings, switches, defenders, deflectors and lasers, all on an 8 x 10...

Whatever you think about the French, they know their cheeses and their kissing, and maybe not coincidentally, they’re good with nature, too. French-made Nature Challenge card games have a deck of (36) cards, which players...

It’s kind of like a wedding cake with graduated layers, if your wedding cake is orange, yellow and green. Also, it’s not a cube, but we didn't name it. It's a wedding cake version of the Rubikian cube, and like the cubic one it’s fun...

There’s a reason these are called IQ Gears—because they put your brain in high gear. And no caffeine required! It’s an IQ logic game that challenges you to fit all the gears on the game board by connecting the side wheels so they spin...

Good news—our 3D Pixel Puzzle™ has just increased by (3)! Funny how that worked out. Each Level 2 difficulty puzzle is made of small mini bricks and comes in a box that’s 5-3/4” x 4” x 1-3/4”...

Not your amateurish gag boxes, but 4-color genuine-looking boxes like you find at all your Big-Box stores, with graphics, marketing copy, testimonials and instructions. You pick the amusingly disturbing Earwax Candle Kit, the mind bending 12,000 piece...

First made in 1930, these Roy Toy sets of hand-cut, interlocking pine logs with wooden gables and green roof planks have been around longer than American Science & Surplus! (But just barely.) All Roy Toy building sets are interchangeable, so this...

Like you, Will Shortz can’t get enough of puzzles. That’s why in addition to editing the New York Times crossword and doing many other prestigious puzzle things, he’s presenting this 9” x 6” paperback Crazy for KenKen book...