Best Sellers and Popular Puzzles and Games

These are the puzzles and games our customers buy most, reorder most, and give as gifts most often. A few patterns show up over and over in the reviews. People tell us the same games keep coming back to the kitchen table or the bar for years, and the Penny Drop family and Horse Race lead there. Adults who think they are too clever for a wooden puzzle get humbled by Safecracker 50, Calibron 12, and Martin's Menace. And the puzzle boxes, like Secret Stash Cherry and the Dragon Hurricane Box, get bought as a memorable way to hand someone a gift card or a little cash. The common thread in the praise is craftsmanship and replay value: solid wood, smooth pieces, and a challenge or a game night that holds up.

It depends on who it is for. For a family with kids, start with Penny Drop. It is a coin-dropping dice game easy enough for a six-year-old and fun enough for the grandparents, and it is the game we are best known for. For an adult who wants a real fight, Safecracker 50 is the one customers talk about most: five rotating rings, sixteen columns, and exactly one solution out of more than a million combinations. For a gift that surprises, the Secret Stash Cherry box hides cash or a gift card behind a sliding lid. For a serious puzzler who wants the hardest thing on the page, Calibron 12 (a faithful reproduction of Theodore Edison's 1933 design) and Martin's Menace (Stewart Coffin's design #217) are the deep end.

Yes. The Original Penny Drop and Penny Drop Medium are part of our Penny Drop family, the coin-dropping dice game invented by Dave Janelle. Penny Drop is a U.S. registered trademark owned by Dave Janelle and used exclusively by Creative Crafthouse. Martin's Menace is from our Stewart Coffin line, made with Coffin's permission and numbered #217 in his design catalog. The Best Sellers page is a curated mix from across the catalog, so it pulls a few standouts from those families alongside standalone puzzles and games. If you want a whole family, you can browse the Penny Drop collection or the Stewart Coffin collection directly.

Family and group play: Penny Drop (Original and Medium), Horse Race, Nine Men's Morris, and Four Field Kono. These are built for two or more players around a table. Solo brain teasers and challenges: Safecracker 50, Calibron 12, Martin's Menace, Dodecagon Dilemma, Most Perfect Square 64, Perfect 10, the 7 Pennies and 10 Penny coffee-table puzzles, and Peg Jump. A few, like Peg Jump and the penny coffee-table puzzles, work both as a quiet solo desk challenge and as a pass-it-around dare at a gathering.

It ranges by piece. The family games, Penny Drop and Horse Race, play well from about age six up through adults. Peg Jump and the penny coffee-table puzzles suit roughly ages eight and up. The harder brain teasers, Safecracker 50, Calibron 12, Martin's Menace, Dodecagon Dilemma, and Most Perfect Square 64, are aimed at teens and adults who enjoy a real fight with a puzzle. Each product page lists the recommended age and the player count, so check the specific item before buying for a young child.

Yes. Most items in our shop can be laser engraved, including most of the best sellers on this page. Add a name, a date, initials, or a short message, up to 45 characters. Placement depends on the piece: the lid on a Penny Drop or a Secret Stash box, the frame or base on a brain teaser. Add engraving on the product page before you add to cart. Engraved orders ship from our Florida workshop within two business days.

Stock orders ship from our Florida workshop in Hudson within one business day. Engraved or personalized orders ship within two business days, because we cut and finish the engraving here before the order leaves. Everything in the shop, whether it is one of these best sellers or any other item, ships from our Florida shop.

There is no single pre-built bundle that mirrors this exact page, but we do offer wooden puzzle gift sets in the catalog, and you can build your own by adding a few pieces to your cart. Standard shipping is free on US orders over $99 (continental US only), so pairing a game with a brain teaser or a puzzle box is an easy way to make a complete gift and clear the free-shipping line at the same time. If you want a custom set built around a theme or an occasion, email us at puzzles@creativecrafthouse.com and we will help put it together.

Two things: who designs them and who makes them. Creative Crafthouse is a family workshop in Hudson, Florida, and most of what we sell we cut and finish ourselves rather than order from a factory catalog. Many of these best sellers also carry a real design lineage. Penny Drop is the original, invented by Dave Janelle, and the name is a U.S. registered trademark owned by Dave and used exclusively by Creative Crafthouse, so the lookalikes you see on other sites are copies of our game. Safecracker 50 is a Dave Janelle design. Calibron 12 is a faithful reproduction of Theodore Edison's 1933 puzzle. Martin's Menace is made with Stewart Coffin's permission. You are buying from the source. If it isn't Creative Crafthouse, it isn't Penny Drop.

That is most of what we do. Tell us who it is for and the budget and we can point you to the right piece, and our puzzle and game gift center is a good place to browse by occasion and recipient. The quick version: for kids and family, Penny Drop or Horse Race; for a coworker or a desk, the 7 Pennies or 10 Penny coffee-table puzzles or Peg Jump; for a doctor or a graduate, a personalized themed puzzle like the Orthopedic Surgeon puzzle; for a serious puzzler, Safecracker 50, Calibron 12, or Martin's Menace.

Request a return within 30 days of receiving your order, and send it back in the same condition you received it; once your return is accepted, we send you a free return shipping label. Personalized and custom items cannot be returned. If we make a mistake on your order, we'll replace or refund it at no cost. If an engraving or address mistake comes from information you supplied, we do not refund the item or shipping costs. If a best seller turns out to be the wrong fit for the recipient, email sales@creativecrafthouse.com to start the return. Gift cards are not returnable. Full details are on our refund policy page.