Gift Ideas for Him: Games & Challenges

A virtual hypercar turned real, in a few hundred satisfying LEGO pieces.

The CATAN board game, a trade and civilization-building game rated 4.8 across 38,500+ reviews.

An award-winning tile-drafting board game for 2 to 4 players, ages 8 and up, about 30 to 45 minutes.

A gem-trading strategy board game for 2 to 4 players, rated 4.9 across 15,000+ reviews.

A major official Dungeons & Dragons rules expansion book.

A magnetic 3x3 speed cube from GAN, listed on Amazon as a puzzle for kids.

A fast word game for 1 to 8 players, with 144 letter tiles in a banana-shaped pouch.

A wooden escape-room puzzle box inspired by the legend of Davy Jones' locker.

A wooden escape-room puzzle box shaped like Sherlock Holmes' retro camera.

150 obstacles, 50 secret portals, and one maze you can't put down.

The Hasbro stacking game: 54 hardwood blocks, a stacking sleeve and a tube box with a carrying handle.

A bestselling book answering absurd hypothetical questions with real science.

The PS5 role-playing game Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, in an Amazon edition with a Cloud and Sephiroth controller skin.

A card game built around golf, rated 4.9 across more than 21,900 reviews.

A magnetic cube that transforms into over 100 shapes — endlessly fascinating, quietly calming.

A hardcover book of fascinating trivia facts, with nearly 24,500 reviews.

A woodland city-building board game for one to four players, rated 4.8 across 524 reviews on Amazon US.

A 1000-piece Ravensburger puzzle of a magical deer, 70 x 50 cm when complete.

A cinematic take on the Star Fox 64 story for Nintendo Switch 2, with a cockpit view and 4-on-4 online battles.

SEGA's Sonic X Shadow Generations for PlayStation 5, rated 4.8 across 1,886 reviews.

A fantasy-themed card game for group game nights.

A remake of the classic role-playing game with diorama visuals and Akira Toriyama's character designs.

A Pokémon TCG box with 8 booster packs, 2 foil promo cards and an oversize Snorlax ex card.

A rotating wooden puzzle table for jigsaws up to 1,500 pieces, with six sliding drawers and a cover.

A 1,000-piece puzzle of a toy store filled with Disney-Pixar characters, on glare-free linen-textured board.

A party game where one- or two-word clues lead the group to a color among 480 squares.

A cookbook of 75 recipes inspired by tabletop RPGs.

The latest Mario Tennis game for Nintendo Switch 2, with Fever Rackets, 38 characters and online matches.

A licensed Zelda Triforce metal disentanglement puzzle, level 5 difficulty.

A 24-day escape-game advent calendar: solve each day's riddle to find the missing Hollywood star.

A 1000-piece jigsaw split into 24 numbered boxes, one to open each day until Christmas Eve.

A 1,000-piece autumn landscape puzzle with a stone bridge, a cottage, mountains and A-to-F sorting letters on the back.

A 1,000-piece Christmas puzzle of Santa's reindeer sleigh under green and turquoise northern lights.

A fast, 15-minute LEGO-building party game for 2-8 players, ages 7 and up.

A 1,000-piece jigsaw of national park travel posters, with a double-sided poster to work from.

A book of 80 murder mystery logic puzzles that pairs sudoku-style deduction with illustrated crime scenes.

A hilarious game where you try to think exactly like your friends do.

Just when you think you've solved it, look again — the colors change.

A quiz book with over 600 history questions.

A 1000-piece adult jigsaw puzzle with a matte finish, a bonus poster and a resealable bag.

A 500-piece Haunted House puzzle by Michael Storrings with a glow-in-the-dark finish, from Galison.

A 500-chip poker set in a carrying case, with 11.5-gram clay-composite chips, dealer chips and dice.

A humorous survival-hacks book covering 128 scenarios.

A light-up chess board that coaches you in real time, then lets you play the world.

A wooden mechanical puzzle inspired by the ancient Antikythera Mechanism.

A mystery pack of DnD dice with no duplicates guaranteed.

A self-powered electronic puzzle box designed for adults.

A 1,000-piece Disney Dreams: Mickey jigsaw puzzle from Ceaco, with a full-size reference poster.

A Nintendo set of Japanese Hanafuda playing cards, 48 cards in black.

A USB-C rechargeable shuffler that mixes one or two decks in auto or manual mode for poker nights and family card games.

A Jeopardy!-branded puzzle and quiz book.

100 large-print word search puzzles written for adults and seniors.