[jeremymims]

Not a board game… but highly recommend Magic Puzzle Company puzzles as gifts for family and friends who aren’t quite ready for intense games. A bonus is that Susan Kare (of Apple/Next fame) designed the logo and branding.

https://www.magicpuzzlecompany.com/

[well_actulily]

I bought a couple of these from the Kickstarter, and really enjoyed them. All this with the caveat that the founder, Max Temkin of Cards Against Humanity fame, is a bit of a shit: https://www.polygon.com/2020/6/23/21300435/cards-against-hum...

[abustamam]

Oh yay, more puzzles!

In the same vein, I really enjoyed Vizzles [0] which is a regular puzzle with themed "riddles/puns" (the ones we've done so far were plays on words of movies and books), and also Odd Pieces [1], in which you construct a puzzle that is _slightly_ different from what you see on the box (the "lore" is that the puzzle you construct is at a moment in the future of the scene played out in the box).

I found these to be refreshing twists on typical puzzles, which we enjoy a lot as well.

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samuelmilham/vizzles-vi... [1] https://oddpieces.com/

[tstack]

Yes, my wife and daughter really loved The Mystic Maze puzzle and the "secret" was a real treat.