My experiences with the sites listed here have been positive. This list is biased towards vendors who ship to the US and accept PayPal or credit cards via a secure site. High-quality specialty vendors with whom I have dealt include:
![]() Bits and Pieces |
![]() FatBrain Toys |
![]() Xump |
![]() Games Unlimited Bob Schwartz |
![]() Funagain Games |
Reliable foreign vendors with whom I've dealt include:
![]() Tucker Jones |
![]() Uncle's Puzzles |
![]() LiveWire Frank Gregory |
![]() Channel Craft |
![]() Puzzle Master |
![]() Fiddl' Widdit |
![]() BrainPuzzles Seth Anderson |
Check Clay Parker's website "A Puzzlebox Page" for more links.
Read an article by Jerry Slocum on Japanese Puzzle Boxes.
Here is a sorted listing of many puzzle vendors from around the world:
Albinegri - Albert Guebeli
Antique Toys and Games - Pierre Patau, Elisabeth Calley
Archimedes' Lab
Architest (nail puzzles)
AreYouGame
Atlantis - Dr. Karl Scherer
Avenue des Jeux
A.Z. Plerp - Cluster Puzzles - Kelvin Palmer
Barouke
Bart Buie
Bartl GMBH
also try Bartl GMBH dot com
Bathsheba Grossman - Moon Pi
John Berkeley (uk)
Beverly Enterprises
Boutique Strategie
BrainPuzzles.com (Seth Anderson)
BrainWright
Brandora (Logika / Uhl)
Brilliant Puzzles
Buffalo Games Inc.
Burl Puzzle Boxes
Cadeaux en Bois
Calendars.com
Channelcraft
Chapman Puzzles
Rocky Chiaro
Chronos (jp) - Edi Nagata
Cleverwood - Mike & Judy Richard, Charlie Malcolmson
Jean Claude Constantin
Cracker Barrel
Craftypuzzles.com - James Cole
Creative Crafthouse
Creative Whack Co.
Cubicdissection.com - Eric Fuller
Cubikon.de - Michael Layher
Bill Cutler
Robert Dalloz
DaMert (now Toysmith)
Wayne Daniel
DanLock by Dan Feldman
Denny Magic - Daryl's Enchanted Cube
Davans - Jose Diaz
Decorative Puzzles - Mike & Gill Hayduk
Dry Gulch Gifts (Old Time tangles - wholesale only)
East Sheen Cubes
Eleganter Australia
elogIQ
Elverson
Eureka (be - Belgium)
Eureka! - David Leschinsky
FAO Schwartz
Fiddl'Widdit
Flyping Games
Foxmind
Frust8tor.nl
Funagain Games
The Game Preserve
Games and Puzzles.co.uk
Games2Puzzles (eBay store - Emma Lee)
Games Unlimited - Bob Schwartz
Game Surplus
gamesweb.dk
Geduldspiele.ch
Gemani Games - Roger Mustoe
[also try puzzlepalace.co.uk]
Geo Australia
GepetoVillage
Dan Gilbert - Triazzle
Golovolomki.ru - Vladimir Krasnoukhov
The Grail, Inc. (on Toydirectory)
Grand Illusions
Kirill Grebnev
Kirill Grebnev - Cubature of the Ball
gummylump.com
Haba (de)
Hakone Maruyama
Hanayama
Hand Puzzles
Hasbro
Heartwood Creations
Hellraiser box
Hendrik Haak's Puzzle Shop
Hoberman
Honma (Japanese site - no orders)
Icarus (jp)
I Qubed
Izumiya (Hakone)
also try yosegi.jp
Jeruel Industrial - Kinato, Crystal puzzles
Jeux et Console (now Micromania)
Tom Jolly Games
Kadon - Kate Jones
Kagen Schaefer
K & J Magnetics
K & T Toys - Touchdown
Akio Kamei
The Karakuri Creation Group and Club
Kii-Peli
Kniffi
Knobelspiel
Knox (Roland Koch)
Kubi Games (Germany)
Lagoon Games / The Lagoon Group
Ledindon
Le Valet d'Coeur
Liberty Puzzles (fine jigsaws)
Tomas Linden
LiveCube
LiveWire - Frank Gregory
Logical Choice (au)
Logika (de)
Robert Longstaff Workshops (uk)
Lookina
Magicsale.com
Magnif
MathLove
GarE Maxton
Jerry McFarland Puzzles
me100fun (hk)
Meffert's
MGC Custom Jigsaws
Minds On Toys ( Digi-Comp I repro)
MindWare
Misdirection
Lenoid Mochalov
Mondenkind (de)
Mountain Stream Forge - Uncle's Puzzles
Mr. Puzzle Australia
MuseumTour
Naef Spiele AG
Nature's Tapestry
Nzanity.co.nz - Labyrinth Woodworks - Louis Toorenburg (NZ)
Office Playground - Magic Sand Wand, K-Dron
Okuno Karuta-ten (Game Shop Okuno)
Omega Studio
Optical Toys
Oriental Trading Co.
Pacific Puzzleworks - Lee Krasnow
Padilly - Chelona, Anchor
Pam City - Kumiki
Pandora's Puzzle Boxes
Parlor Puzzles
PaxPuzzle.com
Pentangle
Philos (de)
Potty Puzzles - Frank Potts
The Purple Pomegranate
Puzumi.co - tray packing puzzles
PuzzleAtomic aka General Symmetrics - Doug Engel
Puzzle Box World
The Puzzle & Craft Factory
Puzzlein - Haoyuki Iwase
Puzzle Me This
Puzzle Master
Puzzle Palace - George Miller
Puzzles and Games (wholesale)
Puzzlesdownunder
Puzzle This (uk)
Puzzlevision - Michael Toulouzas
Puzzlewood - Bernhard Schweitzer
Puzzling Place (uk)
PuzzlingPuzzles (au)
Pyramid Gallery - Le Marchand (Hellraiser Cube)
Rakuten
RecentToys (Planets)
Rombol.de
Official Rubik's site
Schachland (Chessland - German)
Science Enterprises
SeriousPuzzles.com
Shop New Zealand - Puzzles
Sloyd (Oy Sloyd Ab)
SMART (be)
Spilsbury
Springbok Puzzles
Star Magic
Stave Jigsaws
Stickman Puzzle Boxes
Stumpy Originals
Swissmad
Takara/Tomy
Tankenotter (Erik Johansson)
Technology of Wonders - Viktor Genel
Tenyo
Thinkfun (Binary Arts)
Torito (Japan)
Tour de Jeux - chain in Quebec
The ToyHouse - Chris Baldwin
toys-for-all.de
Toys From Times Past
ToysGamesPuzzles
Transposer Puzzles
Tucker Jones
Uhl GMBH
Uncle's Games
Uncle's Puzzles
Unique Box Shop
University Games
Vakkaraverstas
Variantes
Venta (cz)
VIA Spiele
Villa le Bosquet
Vin & Co. - Vaclav Obsivac (cz)
Wallingford Toy Works
William Waite - PuzzleMist
Winning Moves
Wirwar
Trevor Wood
Wood Wonders - Brian Menold
wooden.co.uk
Wooden Toys UK (cz)
Woodpecker (Hikimi)
World in Puzzle
Yamanaka Kumiki Works
also try Dento Nippon
The Yot
You might find it useful to find some vendors by their logos...
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![]() GarE Maxton |
![]() Atlantis Dr. Karl Scherer |
![]() Trevor Wood |
![]() Haba |
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![]() Albert Guebeli |
Pelikan |
![]() Vin & Co |
![]() Venta (Cz) |
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![]() Puzzlein Haoyuki Iwase |
![]() Thinkfun (Binary Arts) |
![]() Magnif |
![]() Spilsbury |
![]() Jerry McFarland Puzzles |
I wish there were more locations selling mechanical puzzles, but there seems to be a dearth of good retail stores. Here are a few I have found...
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Among the best have to be:
![]() PuzzleWorld John Rausch |
Puzzle will be played... Keiichiro Ishino |
Burr Tools |
![]() Twisty Puzzles Sandy Thompson |
![]() Jaap Scherphuis |
![]() Calormen.com Joshua Bell Puzzle Patents |
![]() The Poly Pages Andrew Clarke |
Mathematische Basteleien Jürgen Köller |
![]() Puzzles.com - Thinkfun |
![]() Handheld Games Museum |
![]() Boardgamegeek |
![]() Abstract Strategy Games Jose Diaz (Davans) |
![]() The Big Game Hunter Bruce Whitehill |