Games + Toys

Stickerbox

Stickerbox is a compact, kid-friendly creativity machine that transforms spoken ideas into instantly printable stickers. Using safe, thermal-print paper rolls, it turns imagination into tangible art kids can peel, color, trade and collect. Designed with thoughtful ergonomics, multilingual voice support and a mess-free workflow, it encourages open-ended play while keeping the experience refreshingly tactile. Equal parts toy, tool and tiny design studio, Stickerbox sparks experimentation and gives young creators a satisfying way to see their ideas come to life in seconds.

This product is sold by Stickerbox

The Montauk Beach Board Backgammon Towel Set

We’re huge backgammon fans. And beach day fans. And now can easily enjoy them in one thoughtfully designed product. G. McGee’s Beach Board is an oversized towel for the beach or lawn, with a game board woven into it. The board has texture and is much more elegant than a printed version. It’s 100% certified organic cotton jacquard-woven terrycloth woven in Portugal and has a matching canvas hook and a matching pouch with full-size beachwood game pieces. Measures 80cm x 100cm. Other styles, chess and checkers are also available.

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Tetra Puzzle

This attractive and challenging puzzle fits in the palm of your hand and is a lovely object for your desk or bookshelf. Comprised of four interlocking stainless steel pieces, it’s a challenge for most to solve and therefore an interesting conversation piece. Available in brushed stainless steel or PVD black coated stainless steel, measures 2.9″ x 2.9″ x 2.5″ and weighs 1.5lbs.

This product is sold by Craighill

Mahjong Attaché

Nobody needs this beautiful Rimowa Mahjong set in its custom attaché case, but for those enthusiasts who have it all it certainly will impress your table. Custom designed, hand painted tiles and matte aluminum dice are cosseted inside their custom case with microfiber cushions.

This product is sold by Rimowa

Box Two By Neil Patrick Harris

Neil Patrick Harris’s Box Two is a fun and challenging game to play—on your own or with a friend or several—and a great example of how good design creates better products and experiences. A multilayered and hybrid online / offline experience, game play beings by choosing one of two directions with the turn of a key. From there a series of different puzzles must be solved, requiring different problem-solving skills and challenges, props, activities and puzzle solving skills. Its clever online component helps share and develop the story. A taxing puzzle, multiple riddles and tasks, and solving a rebus all keep the game compelling and engaging as its layers are revealed.

This product is sold by theory11

Korean Mudle Crayons

These coloful crayons are made from beeswax and natural pigments and shaped like volcanic stones found in the fields of South Korea’s Jeju island. Made with beeswax and natural pigments, they are beautiful as objects and great to color with. Available in a set of five colorful crayons for $28 or four larger, earth colored crayons for $38.

This product is sold by Goldenheir

Upcycled Sail Kites

These colorful kites are handmade in India with upcycled spinnaker sails, spools made from recycled plastic and bamboo. Each comes with 50m of cotton string in a recycled cardboard package, a bag, replacement bamboo and instructions, Every kite is unique, and given the quantity the company sendsone at random instead of putting each one online.

This product is sold by The Play Group

Gradient Puzzle

This 500 piece puzzle will challenge you or the diehard puzzle lover in your life, a zen conquest in gradient black and white or yellow and orange. Designed by Bryce Wilner, it’s 500 pieces and 18″ x 24″ when finished. Also available as a 1,000 piece puzzle in 20″ x 28″.

This product is sold by Areaware

Rope Knot Toy

These sturdy, colorful rope toys come in two sizes and three color ways and provide a fun activity for your dog or cat on their own, with friend or with you. They’re made from 100% natural cotton and use vegetable dyes for coloring to keep your pet toxin-free.

This product is sold by Ware of the Dog

1967 Japan GP Winner Tetsu Ikuzawa Porsche Carrera 6 Model

This product is sold by Team Ikuzawa

Snoopy Plush Limited Edition

Bamford London may be one of Snoopy’s biggest fans, and it has a long history of making collectible watches featuring the infamous Beagle. Their newest ode to Snoopy, just in time for the holidays, is a plush toy in black corduroy with Bamford Aqua trim. Price is in £

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Eden Backgammon Set

Jonathan Adler’s love of games meets his penchant for high-glam with a touch of provocateur. This high-gloss lacquer set features two snakes weaving through the board’s red and black points, with darting tongues dueling mid-board. Of course it looks great when it’s closed too, with the snakes’ tails in a graphic twist on the set’s top.

This product is sold by Jonathan Adler

The World of the Brontës: A 1,000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

The work of the Brontë sisters comes to life in this 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle from Laurence King Publishing. From the Yorkshire moors to Mr Heathcliff and other characters from their novels, the puzzle—which is illustrated by Eleanor Taylor and features a pull-out poster—is suffused with allusions to the stories and figures that shaped the Brontës’ nineteenth century literature. Price is in Pounds.

This product is sold by Laurence King

Castle Block Set

From the heirloom-quality South German toy brand Gluckskafer, the Castle Block Set is a vertical puzzle produced with wood from the Linden tree. The bright primary colors (drawn from non-toxic, water-based paint) lend each block—and the non-traditional, but still fairytale-like castle as a whole—an even more imaginative presence.

This product is sold by Gluckskafer

Bauhaus Around You Card Deck

The Bauhaus Around You Card Deck is a creative exercise that uses the designs and ideas from the design movement to challenge users to find similar elements in real life. Illustrated by Klasja Habjan and published by Form Function Studio (a creative practice led by Alison Beshai to champion accessibility in design), the 36-card deck features different color-coded prompts in either the Think, Explore or Create category. Played individually or with others, it’s a thoughtful, fun game for students and design heads.

This product is sold by Form Function Studio

Scorpio Puzzle

Piecework’s 70-piece Scorpio puzzle embodies the astrological sign: it’s dark, alluring and romantic (as it depicts an altar of flowers, candles and fruit). The color palette is more than just an aesthetic choice; it lends the puzzle a higher level of difficulty. Made from recycled paper with randomized ribbon cut pieces, the mini Scorpio is both visually and functionally compelling.

This product is sold by Piecework

Official Disc

Design studio and book publisher Actual Source partnered with NYC-based graphic designer and illustrator Kurt Woerpel to create this bold blue frisbee. Manufactured by Wham-O, the 10.5-inch diameter disc features an illustration of a comic book with eyes, along with Actual Source’s logo in whimsical script and three words in classic lettering.

This product is sold by Actual Source

Hot Diggity Dog Pool Float

Third Drawer Down has transformed one of NYC-based artist Jon Burgerman’s playful, goofy characters into a fully functional pool float. Featuring wonky eyes, a gleeful smile and a squirt of mustard on the front (and a little derriere on the back), the hot dog-shaped float is based on Burgerman’s dream of having a float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. It’s available in two sizes: 63 inches or 118 inches.

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Acrylic Four in a Row Game

A contemporary look for a retro game, this minimal Four in a Row combines marbled black and white resin pieces with a clear acrylic stopper. Made in Taiwan and exclusive to CB2, this chic variation of Connect Four is just as entertaining as the original.

This product is sold by CB2

Houseplant Jungle Playing Card Set

Each playing card in this standard-sized deck features a vibrant image created by designer and photographer Troy Litten, who used plants from his own garden as inspiration for the artwork. The back of the cards portray a lush jungle while the front incorporates the common and scientific names of the specific leaf depicted. Each set includes two decks of 52 cards and two jokers.

This product is sold by Chronicle Books

Chess Set

Brooklyn-based ceramicist Eleni Kontos eschews traditional chess pieces for unconventional and otherworldly figures in her handmade chess set. Featuring dyed clay pieces and a board with hand-painted gradient details as well as ebru marbling, this set acts as both unique decor and a fun take on a classic game.

This product is sold by eekontos

Magic Mushroom Felt Playhouse

The Winding Road is a platform founded by Marla Showfer, who traverses the globe to partner with and present small fair trade artisans. For the Magic Mushroom Playhouse, Showfer worked with a family-owned workshop in Kathmandu, Nepal to create a pastoral felt world, replete with a mushroom-shaped cottage and mouse finger puppet. With a design evoking fairytale art, the playhouse inspires whimsy and imagination.

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Takenobu Igarashi Playing Cards

These playing cards by Takenobu Igarashi, which were first commissioned from the artist by MoMA in the late 1980s, have never lost their charm. Igarashi—a Japanese-born educator and graphic designer who founded and taught programs at Chiba University and Tama Art University in Japan and the University of California, LA—plays with negative space to create elegant and timeless designs. Piatnik produces these reproductions of Igarashi’s cards in red or black.

This product is sold by Piatnik

Frankenball

Made from 100% recycled fabrics and materials, Dog Ear’s pet toys are each entirely unique and crafted by hand. Founded by Lu Williams and Emma Edmondson during the beginning of the pandemic, the brand aims to not only encourage dog owners to enjoy being outside with their pooches, but also to combine “contemporary art publishing and sculptural dog toys.” Available in three sizes, every ball features different colors, patterns and textures to keep your dog entertained. Price is in Pounds.

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“The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles” Puzzle

Faith Ringgold’s 1996 work “The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles” depicts eight iconic Black American women (Madam CJ Walker, Sojourner Truth, Ida Wells, Fannie Lou Hamer, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Mary McLeod Bethune and Ella Baker) as well as Vincent van Gogh and a fictional character named Willia Marie Simone (a frequent heroine of Ringgold’s quilt works, and perhaps her alter-ego). This piece honors and celebrates Black women, their achievements and traditions with bright colors and glorious shapes and patterns. The significant work has been made into a puzzle for those who want to spend time admiring it piece by piece.

This product is sold by Galison