The 9 Best Brain Teasers For Adults

This review has been updated 4 times since it was first published in January of 2019. You don’t have to be a kid to enjoy working on puzzles, riddles, and word games. Challenge yourself to a battle of wits with the selections in this adult-friendly assortment to give your neurons a good workout or develop your fine motor skills. You can even use them to drive other grownups crazy at your next office party. When users buy our independently chosen editorial picks, we may earn commissions to help fund the Review. Skip to the best brain teaser for adults on Amazon.

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9. Bits and Pieces EZ Atom

Getting the marble nucleus snugly secured back in the middle of the Bits and Pieces EZ Atom may look like an easy task, but you’ll soon find that it’s a bit trickier than you thought. This is a great trinket to keep on your desk or to give to a coworker as a gift.

8. Rokr 3D Wooden Building Set

With a lot of patience and meticulous attention to detail, you can turn the Rokr 3D Wooden Building Set from a pile of delicate components into an elaborate clockwork piece that makes an impressive showpiece for your home, or a charming present for a friend or relative.

7. The 125 Best Of All Time

If wordplay and riddles are your thing, you’ll find hours of entertainment within the pages of The 125 Best Of All Time, a prodigious assortment of mental exercises and intellectual challenges that gradually increase in difficulty to keep you at the top of your game.

6. Siam Mandalay Powder Keg

The Siam Mandalay Powder Keg is beautifully handcrafted of organic monkey pod wood into a cylindrical shape that will pique the interest of anyone who walks by. If any part breaks, you are guaranteed a replacement free of charge.

5. Hanayama BePuzzled

For a serious challenge, try out the Level 6 series of the Hanayama BePuzzled collection. Each intricate design involves a set of interlocking pieces that can only be separated by precise manipulations, and putting them back together is just as tricky.

4. Hanayama Puzzle Cake

If you like the challenge of putting things back together in the correct places after you’ve dismantled them, the Hanayama Puzzle Cake may be just what you are looking for. Its sturdy cast metal discs are precision-engineered to slide smoothly against each other.

3. Educational Insights Kanoodle Genius

With hundreds of combinations to choose from, the Educational Insights Kanoodle Genius will test the capacity of your mind and exercise your critical thinking skills. Stored in its own sturdy slim case, it can be taken anywhere and pulled out whenever boredom strikes.

2. Creative Crafthouse Calibron

Constructed of all natural wood pieces, the Creative Crafthouse Calibron looks simple, but is made to keep the smartest of users baffled. Each block is laser engraved with sizes to help identify them, if you want to take a more scientific approach to problem solving.

1. Ugears Mechanical Puzzle

The Ugears Mechanical Puzzle is a personal safe that you build yourself and then use to torture your friends or spouse as they try to decipher the correct moves to get treats and prizes out of the box. The plywood pieces join together easily and need no glue.

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