Challenge Library

The Puzzles! Mix & match your favorite Puzzles listed below. Print them off. Insert them into the game using your Challenge Card. The answer to each Puzzle reveals the next step you set along the trail.

Inserting Your Puzzles

In addition to all the Clue Cards available to the Host, there are hundreds of Word Puzzles listed right here for PDF download. Choose your favorites and insert them as steps into your game. Simply place a Challenge Card into the Sleeve along your trail. This will force your Hunter back to the kitchen table where you will have their puzzle waiting for them. Note that the answer to each puzzle here in the Challenge Library will reveal the next step along the trail.

Understanding how to use the Challenge Library

Your Puzzle Formats:

  • Snake Eyes

    Snake Eyes

    Fill in the names. Unscramble the shaded letters to reveal your next clue!

  • Rebus Puzzles

    Let the images help reveal the next clue along your trail!

  • Double Cross

    A combination crossword puzzle. Fill in the boxes and let the shaded letters spell your next clue along the trail!

  • Anagrams

    Unscramble the letters to reveal the next clue upon the trail!

  • Cryptoquips

    Decipher the code to discover the next clue along your trail!

  • Word Search

    Scratch off the letters from the list of words. Then unscramble the remaining letters to discover your next clue along your trail!

  • Unlock the Lock

    Math Four

    Solve the puzzle to reveal a 4 digit code that will unlock a combination lock. See the Locks video in our Video Library!

  • Stacks

    Unscramble the words. Then unscramble the shaded letters.

Challenge Cards

To insert any of these puzzles into your next GiftTrails hunt, take a Challenge Card in your card deck. #181-190. Insert into your sleeve and place along your trail. Your Hunter will be instructed to return to your kitchen table where you will have their puzzle waiting for them.

Note that the puzzles will intercept the pace of play. As the Host, you control that pace. We don’t recommend more then 2-3 Puzzles in a 10 step trail hunt. Choose wisely!

The Puzzles are listed below by their answers within each puzzle type. Click your target location and print the Puzzle off. Insert the puzzles into the game using your Challenge Cards. The puzzles are solved at the kitchen table.

What People Are Saying

“Mixing these puzzles into the game is a great idea. The kids wore themselves out racing through the house tracking down their clues, and were truly tested with their thinking skills on these puzzles!”

— Patrick O.

“The riddles are hilarious and fun to track down. The puzzles helped break the tempo of the game into parts. We were able to stay seated at the kitchen table and watch the kids work to solve them. Great idea.”

— Jenny J.

“I never knew our home would offer so much entertainment to our kids. We can’t wait to play this again. A new welcome family tradition. The riddles are great, the puzzles an equal match. Nicely done!

— Renita B

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