Will Your Gift Card Fit? Wooden Puzzle Box Size Guide - Creative Crafthouse

Product information checked November 10, 2026.

A wooden gift-card puzzle box makes opening the gift part of the fun. Choose Cash Out to keep the prize in view, Secret Stash for a concealed opening, or Secret Lock Box for a sliding-key puzzle.

Once the card or money is spent, the recipient still has a puzzle to open again. Here is how our three boxes compare, with the size and gift-card details that help you choose.

Choose the opening they will enjoy

Box	Choose it for	Outside size, inches
Cash Out	A clear front that lets the recipient see the gift while working out the hidden lock.	4.6 x 3.6 x 1
Secret Stash	A concealed opening that makes the box itself the mystery.	4 x 4 x 4
Secret Lock Box	Ten sliding wooden keys to arrange before the lid opens.	5.2 x 3 x 3

Cash Out wooden puzzle box with a clear front and a play twenty-dollar bill — Cash Out keeps the gift in view behind its clear front. The photograph shows play money.

Secret Stash wooden puzzle box with a decorated lid and interlocking corner joints — Secret Stash conceals the opening. The photograph shows a decorated lid.

Secret Lock Box standing upright, with the ends of its sliding wooden rods visible — Secret Lock Box gives the recipient sliding rods to investigate.

See the current designs and personalization options in our Gift Card & Money Puzzle Boxes collection.

Gift-card fit and presentation

A standard gift card fits in Secret Stash, but does not lie flat. The table gives exterior dimensions so you can picture the size of the gift box; the opening and usable space inside are smaller.

Giving a card in a sleeve or envelope, stacking cards, or adding a note? For that extra packaging, ask us for help choosing a box with the length, width and thickness of the complete gift and whether it needs to lie flat. Leave card numbers and redemption codes out of your message.

A look inside

Hand holding a Cash Out wooden puzzle box with a folded two-dollar bill behind the clear front — Cash Out shown with a folded two-dollar bill behind its clear front.

Open Secret Stash box with a folded twenty-dollar bill protruding and its lid beside it — Secret Stash with folded money and its lid beside it.

Open Secret Lock box holding an angled gift card and folded money, with its outer cover beside it — Secret Lock with a gift card and folded money, with its outer cover beside it.

The photographs show examples of gifts inside the boxes, rather than a measurement or fit test. The product photographs above are not at a common scale.

Load the gift and keep the surprise

Use the included instructions to open your box privately, tuck in the gift and close it gently with the moving parts clear. Keep the solution separate from the wrapped gift, ready if the recipient wants a hint. A rigid card should never need bending or a forced lid.

Watch Cash Out loading and relocking (solution shown)

Our Cash Out demonstration starts at the cash-loading section. It shows the play bill being replaced with a folded real bill and the box being relocked, so it also reveals the opening method.