Christmas Puzzle Game Ideas

When holiday time rolls around, it's always fun to find great puzzle games for stockings, gift exchanges, and party prizes.  Christmas puzzle games provide brain puzzle fun in a small package, and aren't strictly holiday oriented, making for great diversion on a rainy day, or a road trip.  There are varying types of brain puzzles for young people, with some trending more toward game, while others trend more toward the manipulating of pieces, together, and apart.

Wire Brain Puzzle Games




Wire brain puzzle games involve figuring out how to separate, and re-connect wire shapes.  You can find individual wire brain puzzles, or sets.  Perfect as stocking stuffer gifts, or as an entertainment device for rainy days and road trips.

Brain Bogglers Sets
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Wood Brain Puzzle Gift Ideas

Interlocking wood puzzles make striking and interesting small gifts, but can be very challenging to re-assemble.  Great for the visual or kinesthetic learner.  Additional wood puzzles include those with gameboard style play, moving pieces about.






Maze Puzzles

Perplexus Puzzle Balls are interactive brain puzzles, which involve guiding a metal ball through a series of paths inside a clear plastic ball.


ThinkFun Brain Puzzle Games

Strategy and logic are challenged and stretched with popular ThinkFun Brain Games, including Rush Hour, River Crossing, and others.

Cards and Facts Brain Puzzle Games:  MindTrap

MindTrap is an interesting game, suited to older (upper elementary and above) children.  Interesting questions challenge thinking.  Mind Trap questions dare you to examine the question for the potential clues, and to think beyond those drill and kill facts that are memorized and forgotten in a traditional school setting.  My tweens and teens love MindTrap, and are endlessly catching me unable to answer.